i. i. i. i i. i i. was past 11 am saturday morning moscow time headlining right now months of talks appear to have paid off seems a major prisoner swap on the way right now between russia and ukraine claims of being sent from moscow and kiev we can report to collect the detainee's more details to follow. also making news today the u.s. state department confirms it attempted to bribe the captain of the iranian old tanker at the center of a diplomatic row so they could seize the vessel. right continue

with foreign owned businesses are being looted in the capital johannesburg our correspondents there. they say to stay raids to. cause the people. maybe 5000000 little. around the world live from moscow and i will use h.q. years kevin i with you and this is r.t. international as you see in the red to screen to the breaking news to tell you about speculation the back story has been right for weeks surrounding a potential prisoner swap described as a major one between russia and ukraine that appears to be happening as we speak unconfirmed reports say 35 detainees from each side could be exchanged so far no official statement on it those who can jump the gun and it would. what's that

officially and who might be part of this prisoner swap don't call it is across the valley details of a come in so we don't an awful lot speculating too much but it does look like we saw a police convoy rolling leaving prison here we're hearing the planes left ukraine what have you got while kevin according to some unconfirmed reports there are up to 35 prisoners on both sides the russian and ukrainian side that will be exchanged under this agreement it's expected that this plane that is currently taking russian detainees from ukraine to moscow will be expected to land in the airport and it's going to go from an airport near. yeah absolutely correct and that's actually where a number of ukrainian detainees are preparing for their own flight home actually in moscow airport now it's not exactly known who these detainees are but there is some speculation as to who might be onboard those this plane and who might be going back to ukraine specifically some of the sailors that might might have been involved

with the oil tanker. seizures that went on earlier this year and perhaps even ukrainian filmmaker or sense of who is serving a 20 year jail sentence on terrorism charges but as for now none of this is confirmed so we're have to continue getting down to the floor a little while we'll let you get back to the pictures coming in children will become much clearer but don't call it thanks very much. next day the u.s. state department confirms it attempted to broad the captain of the iranian old. one you may recall is at the center of a diplomatic row in order to get at a different name before the the agent area one previously known as grace one was held by the u.k. in july in gibraltar then released in august despite protests from the united states which is increasing its pressure on iran this ship had been heading east since that was pinpointed in the eastern mediterranean region last but that is tracking device was switched off doesn't balkans is gold. if at 1st you don't

succeed try and try again so keen with u.s. authorities to get their hands on a rainy and. they used everything at their disposal 1st came the stick accusing the tiger of moving the world to syria in breach of sanctions they went to the u.k. for help the british marines impounded the ship while it was passing through the strait of gibraltar the spanish foreign minister said the arrest came after a demand from the u.s. to the u.k. . but on 15th of august gibraltar released the vessel its sail into the mediterranean a few days later after being renamed from grace one to adrian daria one then came the carrot we've all had one of those emails i'm writing to you with good news what

might you expect a surprise lottery win perhaps a huge inheritance from a long lost royal family member in africa well that's exactly the email that the ship's captain received but this wasn't the regular spam for the junk folder this came direct from the state department. this is bryan hook i work for secretary of state mike pompei oh and serve as the u.s. representative for iran the offer millions of dollars for captain kumar to dock his own tanker in a us friendly port that would allow it seizure by washington after the possibly confused captain failed to reply a 2nd e-mail hit his inbox the tone now less friendly with this money you can have any life you wish and be well off in old age if you choose not to take this easy path life would be much harder for you what lay behind this thinly veiled threat

was left to his imagination to ron was understandably roiled having failed at piracy the us resource to outright blackmail deliver us iran's oil and receive several $1000000.00 or be sanctioned yourself sounds very similar to the oval office invitation i received a few weeks back it is becoming a pattern incredibly the state department confirmed to this unusual strategy even adding this was no one off we have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well as shipping companies that some crew more meanwhile is on the us naughty list how differently this story would have ended if only captain kumar had cashed in and just aren't that good news email. indeed had an organ is reporting there will mean time u.s. national security adviser to john bolton has tweeted that the tanker has now been seen entering a syrian port surrounded previously denied that would make any promises about the ship's final destination anyone who said the a.g.m.

daria one wasn't headed to syria is in denial terror and thinks it's more important to fund the murderous assad regime than provide for its own people we can talk pretty iran's not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror. fact that they try to bribe a captain of the tanker and then subsequently threaten him is extraordinary and it should be something that people in the united states. will be kept talking about day and night but there are also out there issues as well bolton wants to intimidate iran and the very fact that he has failed and the supertanker is alongside the syrian shore reveals that failure so he's outraged at another level he wants to make that syrian people suffer as much as possible because that's been u.s.

policy for many years now and on their hand he wants to. prevent iran from carrying out trade with other countries to bullying and threats and illegal behavior so there are multiple reasons for the u.s. behavior towards iran towards syria and. all independent countries but i think it's only harming the united states in the long run because the united states is increasingly seen as a rogue regime. and checkers have a south african now as xenophobia riots the show no sign of abating a real mess left afterwards in the capital johannesburg foreign owned businesses are being looted as tensions there escalate or monday the country's minister of police describe the situation in the city no less as a national emergency fall asleep it is in the middle of the mess and the aftermath . you mean shifty in johannesburg which. has seen some of the worst violence

against foreigners south africa as you can see yet i'll take kids what they can to stop that was ok i'm not some chickens where are you that it could be any moment now the entire building can come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure now the mood on the ground is better but agee we don't feel 100 percent comfortable filming we've been told the photo is nowhere to be seen and no doubt he is trying to stay as far away from these kind of scenes as possible because one still gets to state that b. situation has not returned to complete calm i know it's hard to believe but this was a bottle store one of the questionnaires working there was who comes from zimbabwe what actually happens make up one family and made to around a cold world when the great vision of the day both up was that it was a monday night the big gone by then the been. implementing a lot from

a global moment the big dig deeply returns to strewn. across the road here is alan who owns a hardware store and when did you ever think that you would see these kind of scenes happening so close to a business own for you on green fluid before the truth of them going through the summer moves through the instant chemistry becoming anything remotely. or most of last you wonder of filming the movie what do we do with it you know a lot of ludo work for families with we've read from. do you think showing your south african identity projects to you is going to give you this week will be why what happened are you going to go look close the emotional gun law deal little are the police and the government doing enough more good given that we're not doing enough or don't know we've been growing would be lonely government would go on a more global good morning once both of whom was on board you could probably it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted to hear you. see a 2nd hand car dealership that was broken into and the cars satellite now the

result has been an offer by the nigerian foreign ministry for any nigerians living in this country who feel unsafe to be able to fly back home for free this is the worst spate of the violence that south africa has witnessed since 2008 police is to most adjacent some 8 people have been killed and more than 300 have been detained as we say the violence a sad reflection on what where he is and tenable situation. where you from the world you place to be in south africa the flow you of girls the girls the people thought the good will last until no good news of middle literals you're given to be given the list and how many years even some of the years to say you south africa your school. and now you have no business no move this finish it is true if you compare the cost of families all the more over now this shop here which

has been completely boarded up was owned by nigerians and there is no way here to be seen of course they are very afraid the shop is completely solid but this shop too has been looted also owned by nigerians lock on the door completely sealed up so people hear differently afraid that the violence will continue you welded up the shops why they mean the hollywood and did they take everything we've got. and where all the nigerian owners in the foreign owners all got on the world are they thinking to leave the country they wrote your book or do you talk to a great group who. ever quest went out today for nigerians in the country who want to be free of charge i able to do so and there is at least one flight today leaving at this stage the situation is extremely tenable unstable and i continue being on the streets there's a lot of uncertainty. so we need one what will happen remains to be seen in our

team johannesburg. next unable over a wall residents of a jerusalem neighborhood are enraged by an almost 6 metre tall barrier that's being built around the new us embassy there they say it's going to block their view of the area familiar well originally the american embassy received a permit it seems to build a wall 3.2 meters high but they are also recently authorized then to nearly double that height hence problem started locals are urging they halt construction i'm. very upset i come out my house and i want to be able to see the view over the desert i don't want to look at the big stone here i am already the image i go to one morning and saw them doing demolition and construction work so i asked what was happening and they said they were making the wall higher why would they do that doesn't exist seymour high enough what was the problem the wall now froze entire view from my house. were very upset we were part of

a group of neighbors we're trying to see what can be done to stop this i. like consulting with the us it's going to block our view it's going to block i don't know if. i'm comfortable cory door and we don't want to live with that. may last year the united states embassy was relocated to jerusalem you may recall after the trumpet ministrations stray should recognize the city as the capital of israel the owner of one jewish based construction company says this new wall is a blight on the city. i understand that the american embassy is requested to build a wall 5.8 meters high but the maximum height of a wall in jerusalem according to the authorities is 3.2 meters 5.8 meters is too much and it disregarding the neighbors there are many beautiful houses here in the center of jerusalem and the wall like that would be an eyesore. footnote to this we

reached out to the israeli authorities in the planning there for comment on the story if they get back to us it is the weekend of course we will get you a response. italy italian prosecutors are investigating former interior minister matteo salvini for inciting violence against a german rescue ship captain charlotte has got the story. well salvini is facing this libel case where he's being accused of inciting violence against a cap in this is a captain of a charity rescue ship in the mediterranean karolyn a racket a german citizen now back in july she had rescued 53 migrants in the mediterranean and tried to dock ship this was the sea what 3 on a tally in soil she was told no you can't do that that was one of the policies that any had when he was interior minister of italy and she then continued to try and dock that boat in doing so she actually rammed into

a buddha control vessel and she was later arrested for that no salvini at the time accused captain rocket of trying to sink that patrol boat and actually accused her of an act of war she was later released then put on the house arrest and later court said that she hadn't done anything illegal or though she does still face charges of helping illegal immigration now salvini during that whole incident discussed it on twitter he said things that the captain was a criminal that she was a delinquent that the poor woman had tried to kill 5 italian soldiers and this is why he is now facing this prosecution but salvini says he stands by everything that he said denounced by the german communist drop the good immigrants rounds of one man's gods but. it's a muddle for me i'll never give up. well italy's former interior minister former

deputy prime minister. is one of the country's most popular politicians riding high in the polls and mainly due to his anti immigration stance and the fact that he closed ports to illegal immigrants while he was in that position now the current coalition which is the make up of the 5 star movement and the left wing democratic party is said to be a coalition that's kind of come together to form something out of nothing and as a result many people on tenterhooks that that government itself could collapse in the coming months if not the coming years but certainly many people expecting that before italy's next scheduled election as a result of that the popularity of materials salvini is seen as being a thorn in the side of the current administration so you can imagine that they're certainly rubbing their hands in glee at any attempts to neutralize matea salvini and neutralize the popularity. of his choices for

a good morning 17 past 11 architecture going to go follow because there's breaking news story we don't know missing the pictures as when they come through to us this is the story of the road to a major prisoner swap under way now between russia and ukraine the exchange follows months of negotiations a plane with ukrainian detainees has landed in kiev as one part of this we know while an aircraft with russian prisoners is on its way to moscow is the latest we know details still a bit sketchy but the background to this we know full well ukraine's president selenski earlier pardoned several russian nationals accused of involvement in the conflict in eastern ukraine in 2014 while for its part moscow busy is said to be freeing $24.00 ukrainian sailors arrested for entering russian turtle waters in the curch strait that was november 28th. ok 1st come we're going to follow as a so let's look at also we've got coming up changes to a british school uniform. protests after the break we'll tell you what's got them

under the color of. the gemini that's. been 2016. the idea of monitoring the. banks cooperating to put out a currency unit of accounts that was better than gold. 6070 year experiment that is now collapsing. dollars a country like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold and globalization simultaneously. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to be deeper

to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. and 20 the morning on this saturday hi there thanks for joining us so next the u.s. military has joined the ranks of fake news fighters we can report the pentagon's research agency darpa says it's seeking to develop automated algorithms that will detect falsified text or do you know and video the program will be able to identify the source of news the alleged intent behind it on the impact if it spread senior correspondent were gassed you have covered this in the wake of the potential

pitfalls. it's no secret our farm machinery artificial intelligence have come recently face recognition cameras worldwide battlefields filled with remote control drones i even have a good authority that siri will soon be able to differentiate between lunch and launch that the forefront of this technological revolution is darpa the pentagon's super secret research arm best known for being mentioned in farfetched headlines they're working on a new program that will be able to differentiate between fake news and real news so long as there is no mention of the word lunch in it the semantic forensic program will develop technologies to automatically detect actual buttes and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets to defending its large scale automated descent from a show attacks. now i know what you're thinking and i agree that it can be difficult

to think up new ways to drain the u.s. military's 600000000000 dollar budget but points for creativity on the other hand this may be an honest effort the pentagon out of the goodness of its heart protecting people from this information that is when it isn't spreading fake news itself like when the secretary of defense had to shut down an entire department dedicated to dis information and then there was the office of strategic influence you may recall that i went down the next day and said fine if you want to salvage this thing fine i'll give you the corpse there's the name you can have the name but i'm going to keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and i have i also know your next question yes a computer which can shed tell apart by the that's a smile on your face or whether your crying in agony will now tell you what's real and what's fake scary and probably impossible stanford university recently created

an algorithm that tried to separate lies from the truth they said it worked 82 percent of the time and that's putting it kindly very possibility of actually detecting fake news from the written word it is possible it is the spoken word it is the prince's words it will be very very difficult because if you do not have. the ability to write grammatically correctly. i imagine this system will then detecting consistencies and resume it is machine written. and this machine algorithms would they would take years to develop you would have to study the. individual area and program every thing in to these algorithms the difference between the northeast of

the united states and the scientists the united states. there are almost different languages and let's be honest this is darpa we're talking about the people who wrote off billions trying to create such wonders as an army a virus spreading insects weaponized be robotic elephants and a live polio virus just for the heck of it apparently never cease to amaze when it comes to creative ways to get to the bottom of another multi $1000000000.00 budget and who need stream the unlikely off chance that they succeed well our future could climb this sock and true you can't handle the truth. well the fight against this information is at the core of an upcoming book too by a former state department official in the a bomb of ministration richest angle's messages that america is losing the information war against russia that is struggling to control he says and counteract the false sense. it's not enough to

pass or falsehood because truth the truth does not always win but the scale of russian disinfo mation was beyond what we were capable of responding to or thora terry and governments have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting it they understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer its undoing let's face it democracies are not very good at combating this information richard stengel was managing editor at the time of time magazine between 2006 and 13 then he moved on to government working 24 teams serving as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. for 2 years and singles whose own propaganda of change last year e only back to describing him as chief propagandist basically every country creates their own narrative story i'm not against propaganda every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and i don't necessarily think it's that awful. i would say there's

a difference between propaganda and us telling people what our policy is so i don't think it was propaganda. you know my old job at the state department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job janice north of journalism thinks that the u.s. has got a selective approach to dealing with the truth. americans never a lie and even one they lie a start alive because somehow it's a it's a in pursuit of a higher truth and so are so stangl would never admit to admit to deceit to to to painting a fire false portrait remember though the worse the u.s. does terms of fall at foreign policy the greater the dissent from ation that a that that the emanates out of washington the us the never changes the us as always consistent always oddest always 4th right and that anybody who says anything to the contrary must sat have it must be spreading disinformation in be

half of russia and one hand yes the us as fears being more openly propagandise tick are the think other hand when the u.s. does it it's not propaganda it's simply the truth and anything to the contrary is fake information suitors a school in england a protesting with production of gender neutral uniforms but i was great thanks i was the dated outfit a prayer is school of east sussex band skirt some acquires all students to a tribes is than people's or refused to for of the new rules they will be sent home please who called to calm protests of a 150 pupils on the parents the school fritz bug defend of the new uniform saying simply is practical oh uniform is designed to be a practical ian foam which encourages students to be ready to focus and their

schoolwork and activities is photo one of the parents are took part in the protest i think the reason we're protesting against the uniform change is because the school is being quite disingenuous about the reasons for changing the form is gone from one reason to another. the issue isn't necessarily about gently to eat it for me it's discriminating against one section of the sheet is being the coast because they can no longer wear skirts it would be like saying all the boys need to wear skirts it's a big financial pressure on a lot of parents to provide another school uniform we are in a climate austerity parents don't have the money to fund another are necessary uniform but i think there needs to be better process in dealing with their states to the students who the parents can come up with a reasonable way to implement the reforms not just pay back on their initial word and now say everybody has to wait. if you're just joining us from international 28 minutes past the hour you'll see the red take on the screen breaking news happening

right now this we're going to follow to bring you the latest as we get it pictures starting to come in a major prisoner swap between russia and ukraine right now unconfirmed reports say $35.00 detainees from each side said to be exchangeable so far no official statement on this but we do know behind the scenes don't cool so high they wrote your across this we hear the planes have variously taken off from both sides from the creative side. from vnukovo we think on the on the russian side you know let's rewind all the people who are joining us what's happened this morning well to start at the very beginning there's a been a lot of delays rumors false reports surrounding this much awaited prisoner exchange and but we're actually at the point where we may be seeing its final conclusion that's been confirmed like you said that there may be up to $35.00 russian detainees already flying from ukraine to russia are expected to land in moscow airport now just a bit earlier there were ukrainian detainees in this airport that were bussed from the outskirts of moscow to come to new new career port and they already boarded

a plane and have arrived at bordeaux spall airport. as of now it's unknown who exactly these detainees are actually we see those pictures you talking of you shoulder there that was earlier on a surprise not too far from where our studios are up in the northeast of moscow a 4th of the prison there was a couple of blocked. buses a lot of security that there the pictures again of yours can see a couple of police cars there as was a quite high security around it but crucially still we don't know who's on board either bus but we've got a good idea who was coming maybe from the ukrainian side again none of this confirmed this one particular person is in there yeah actually that one particular person is. mark and he was actually in charge of much of east ukraine air defense systems one m.h. 17 came down over the region and the dutch government is leading in vest a geisha and is really looking to interview him he's been described as

a person of interest to them is neither now good investigator absolutely and then.