r.t. . france is much anticipated coke tracing app is used to send just 14 alerts in 3 weeks there's half a 1000000 people deleted from their phones we searched the streets of paris to find somebody using it. no no no no no no we don't think. america's reputation in europe still to big blow by its handling of coronavirus a new poll suggests that the u.s. hits an all time high of copa cases $40000.00 on thursday alone. for more companies join a boycott of facebook for its failure to remove hate speech and its reluctance to take down some of donald trump's more controversial posts but

a new undercover reporter says the social media giant has censored the president's supporters for some time. meanwhile the e.u. russia and palestine call on israel to scrap its plan backed by the u.s. and it fears that it will have a huge impact on hopes for peace. thanks for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. coronavirus tracing that was rolled out in france has alerted just 14 users about their potential exposure over the course of the last 3 weeks despite the country recording many new cases of the virus every day dubin ski takes a closer look. stop covariates. priest to be

a bright idea that could help prevent a 2nd wave of infections and on your smartphone that uses bluetooth signals to keep track of the devices and therefore the people that you come into contact with when it was more a few weeks ago the french digital minister said it could also to a flying start as of this morning 600000 people managed to download the app so it's a very very good start. well after a few hiccups perhaps including a delayed release that so many people in france accidentally downloading tracing up one for catalonia. ok after a full start some 2000000 people actually did download it corowa you might think but given that there are an estimated 47000000 people in france with small phones that's barely a day in the ocean ok some 2000000 people die. but

almost immediately 460000 men decided that it wasn't a great idea and deleted it so we've got much on to the streets of paris to find out who took the plot. and the budget for you tube no no no no no no we do the thing. yes somebody who is actually down loaded it but then she said this as if yes i don't looted it but i didn't really understand how it worked every time i tried to use it nothing so wrong i was there is a true resistance to an up that was only supposed to keep you safe from the biggest threat the more world has ever apparently seen. i take precautionary measures like a mosque but so i have a problem with giving my personal data if this application is for that reason i

didn't download it mish fosco need to have for the younger generation i wasn't interested and like younger people who move around a lot for their work usually. didn't take the time to download it oh did you leave in a safe way for example i did bike and stop taking the metro a see my friends but i don't need a lot of people i don't have the need to download it because it's centralized i plainly and the truth quite wary of what would be done with may data though and i'm not fond of the principle behind the that issue of the personal data really had the french in much more civil rights activists were concerned about that right to the right to privacy while hundreds of academics voiced fears that they take out those could be repurposed for us surveillance but perhaps they had nothing to worry

about often or was it since emerged that only iran $68.00 people informed the platform that they had been infected with covert and only 14 uses were alerted that they were at risk that's not going down well with those we spoke with we serve it's a bit of a food live where you yes i think that 14 is not many it was only 14 people who are informed. by shows it's not as successful as hosts by the authorities i think that people were a bit wary about this exchange on the mobo would you continue to pay for something you don't use no i don't think so paying for something which is not used one should ask question. clearly delete is the other thing that nobody was thinking the up would work anyway france is digital minister has been trying to save face saying the numbers reflect a decrease in the. virus is prevalent and this is true the numbers of infections haven't been steadily declining in france centric oh says he will be useful if

there's a new spike in cases until then the french state looks set to pick up a bill of up to $120000.00 euros a month for and that we are using jollity will ski r.t. . meanwhile the us has seen a record daily increase in co 1000 cases reaching 40000 new infections on thursday those figures revealed by johns hopkins university the previous high was back in april with more than 36000 cases america still holds the record of the most global infections in total with almost 2 and a half 1000000 cases this latest surge is for several states including texas and florida to suspend their plans to reopen despite the president trump says the country is coping well with the pandemic. we have the greatest testing program in the world we've developed it over

a period. and we're up to almost 30000000 terrorists that means we can have more cases if we do want to test or if we didn't just we wouldn't have cases but we have cases because we test deaths. we have one of the lowest mortality rates we've done an incredible historic. well indeed the u.s. has a lower mortality rate then for example the likes of the u.k. spain ecuador around $38.00 deaths for every 100000 people in america however that is still the 9th highest death rate globally meanwhile the spike in new infections is considerable and has been put down to young people testing positive especially in states in the south and west of the country now the way that the crisis has been handled in the u.s. is dealt a blow to the country's reputation it seems in europe at least a new survey there in 9 countries shows 59 percent believe america's image has suffered during the pandemic of 6 percent believe it has improved we asked europeans for their views. they don't have such an effective medical system as

others do plus the social security system in america differs from ours for the moment europe does better but it isn't united. for now i would i prefer to be french sorry then american the good health system and health care system so it makes it better and makes us happy to be in france right now but at the same time i can't really judge them like it's that you can see french people partying and doing . music festival and stuff so it's we're not better actually we cannot really compare. the new era everybody mostly reacted in the common way and with germany maybe suffer through a let's let's comparing casual just in france italy england with america i think that they have little mortality rate per 1000000 than we have so it's difficult to say. because in the united states they have managed coverage

9000 poorly in fact it is enough to count the deaths i believe that we have controlled and manage the epidemic better. eat up this is a funny look and demick in america has not taken seriously a person like truong has done nothing he was able to build the separation wall of mexico i suppose he loves to capable fighting this virus he could have done knew about instead underestimated the situation when you want to argue that every so i believe that we can all judge the work done in the usa this is a large country that has a different door from us has different economic resources and a different population we too have made all mistakes. and speaking of europeans perception of america german chancellor angela merkel has called for a more independent and self-sufficient europe when it comes to defense questioning the us role in today's world. we grew up in the certain knowledge that the united states wanted to be a world power should the us no wish to withdraw from that role of its own free will

we would have to reflect on that very deeply michael stamen comes in the wake of donald trump's decision to drastically scale down the number of u.s. troops in germany the us president accused in the failing to pay up and ordered to relocate some military personnel to poland and bring others. so germany's delinquent they've been delinquent for years and they only nato billions of dollars and they have to pay it so we're protecting germany india delinquent that doesn't make serbs so i said we're going to bring down the soldier character 25000 soldiers . and there's another bone of contention between the 2 nato allies namely the north stream to pipeline project which if completed would pump new levels of russian gas through the baltic sea to germany bypassing all transit countries at the start of the month u.s. senators put forward a bill for tougher sanctions against those involved in the project claiming that it poses a threat to u.s.

interests and europe's security and now reports suggest germany spurring to strike back should any such sanctions take effect. martindale's the now he's a politician from germany the left party could have you to martin 1st of all what you make of anglo battles latest statement questioning america's role in europe. yes if you think off 100 america merkel what she had been seeing clearly is that europe should be. some kind of super power in the touristic really i don't like that i think it's go to europe it's from. the us a but it's not who. gets the next superpower in the most interesting there should be a democratization of the united nations be her some kind of peaceful and friendly relationships in between all. or all countries in europe and in all wars but we shouldn't struggle to be the next than that 'd interested only to

turn research. so the intention of seeing to get. schooled by the intention of who in the role of being an aggressive wide eyed old knights and i think it's good if i'm going to. earn their illusion to shine now we have to see that china has an economic power and respect that but we as well have to respect all our neighbors we shouldn't do monday. 2020. but we should strengthen as well the personnel the international know and economic ties for example to russia china and not trying to get more strains and with a terroristic in the peace who. do you think that maclin term perhaps trying to intimidate each other they had a withdrawals u.s. troops from germany and the battle gives a suggestion that you know perhaps we don't need the. sorry i

didn't get the question do you think that the almost trying to bluff each other donald trump's pulled some troops out of germany in order to try and intimidate germany into paying more money and anglo american suggesting maybe we don't need u.s. troops is it a game of bluff. yes yes well part of this is a game of bluff the others there is a new situation worldwide after 9809 that was. the u.s. try to put this stick don't work right but that didn't work out and now we have a new situation where china as well as russia are. the european union other countries like india like you who have the steeple and stronger economy whatever you think for example it's not just press you have a stronger economy so will the u.s.

as a norm want to put this in more. new kind of salting. and so all there is of a laugh on the concrete level a little bit but it has a real background and the background is that in the moment the world as well as an economy crisis and so we should all all governments and all the people shout for peace and for frankly relationship we should really try to stress. on international regulations in a democratic way and not up playing polo games all bluffs on military. amount of money spent in the military. do you think anglo america will boost germany's military might and if so against what threat. she says she's on her way to do. just that in the last especially the new.

foreign. minister or in this current column or she has a very aggressive politics or formal pence minister missed from the line in the european commission as the president of the naacp and they are all bringing forward . larry. aggressive foreign policy which i don't like they want to or larger. military. system. i don't know how it's not necessary to put up well more. keep the only look we are rockets. in in germany we don't need what we knew to this day or what we. were in. 20 your probation you're going to do that in the title or lower prices and of course

you see more of us we don't buy and we don't each like that as human as we like more to bring forward dialogue. traces necessary and quit. it's not good to do any pictures when we look at the back row for example in the german mainstream media in any picture against china was the largest. miss america. cannot be good timing toast with china so this is a contradiction and i think there's a struggle between different actors and different foreign policy. left. to have strong pressure shows and the democratic international coalition yes well we really appreciate or do apologize martin i'm afraid we're running slightly late here after that many thanks retired political martindale's of from

germany to the left party my guest. thank you very much. the wealth of facebook founder mark zuckerberg has fallen by $7000000000.00 as its share price tumbles after lucrative advertisers boycotted the network claiming it isn't doing enough to filter hate speech donald trump has a lot to do with the for. but a new undercover report by project veritas system social media johnson censoring supporters of the president for some time checking the reports. oh how the mighty have fallen ok maybe not fallen but facebook and other platforms that owns like instagram are getting hit where it hurts by an advertising boycott led by civil rights groups in the u.s. every day we see ads from companies place to jason's to hateful content occupying the same space as extremist recruitment groups and harmful disinclination campaigns you add buying dollars being used by the kind from to increase its dominance in the industry at the expense of vulnerable and marginalized communities who are often

targets of hate groups on facebook that started out small but as the days go by bigger and more powerful companies like ne and viber are dropping their ads and things really got kicked up a notch when verizon joined the fray a company that reportedly spent almost $2000000.00 on advertising on the 2 platforms just last month now this is all a push in order to get the social media giant to increase moderation on its site could protect and support black users could they called out holocaust denial as hate could they help gets out the vote but absolutely could but they're actively choosing not to do so let's send facebook a powerful message your profits will never be worth promoting hate bigotry racism anti-semitism and violence and a large number of facebook employees seem to agree with that just a couple weeks ago they conducted a virtual walkout after the us president wrote a post that was deemed by many to be inciting violence after the incidents occurred

said that the company would be reviewing its policies but also cautioned against new forms of moderation in general i worry that this approach has a risk of leading us to editorialize on content we don't like even if it doesn't violate our policies so i think we need to proceed very carefully and yet that's just the problem the company seems to have a new undercover report has once again revealed in. anti trump left leaning bias at the company i worked as a subcontractor for facebook i was seeing them interfering on a global level in elections and then i saw a play an exception that just targeting conservatives or favored liberals we really have to take the word from. the left side yes good for ourselves really it's that maybe want to select the wrong political ads so now they can get more exposure to the left there is the right but facebook obviously had to give up one percent they believe to sidelining conservative opinions and meddling and

elections crazy right so if you come as no surprise that the right isn't happy with social media giants either twitter royally ticked off trump when they put a label on a couple of us post warning that they could be potentially misleading he responded with executive order to $33.00 choices the twitter makes one it uses to suppress that blacklist shadow and our editorial decisions pure and simple their editorial decisions in those moments twitter ceases to be a neutral public platform and they become and they're with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about other source and whether you're looking to google whether you're looking in facebook social media companies that engage in censoring or any political content will not be able to keep their liability shield and now a number of users are calling it quits and link the platforms that call themselves on bias that remains to be seen but in light of all this something tells me that dr burke is ruing the day he ever even enter the thought of regulating content on

a site all my name a fighting russian metal one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016 we were slow to identifying the type of new information operations ever since then the debate over what's moderation and what censorship has gotten more and more. new ones and guess what that's not going away though users just might. extinction rebellion activists are back this time promoting shoplifting to fight poverty in the u.k. that story and more after the break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is scary dramatic developments only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

environmental action group extinction rebellion staged a dramatic comeback this week carrying out a number of new protests around the world including a shoplifting stunt against poverty in the u.k. shadi a. it's been awhile since climate change activists extinction rebellion have been well making any headlines but on thursday they were back in the news after a seemingly provocative stunt that seems to be based on the old robin hood tale robbing from the rich to give to the poor in london 5 activists went shoplifting in a food shop although they targeted a major corporate chain rather than a smaller private business running out of the supermarket they then proceeded to give all of their bounty away in a protest against poverty they also slap stickers around the shops which have proclaimed things like new lower price free because poverty sucks news the infamous

marie antoinette slogan let them eat cake with the word cake crosstown their bonus i'm not stealing food i'm a gift aiding it we're changing the rules because the rules. this is not against sainsbury's but the profiteering of a basic human need the stunt also proclaimed the appearance of a new political party called u.k. beyond politics and is aiming big fs talk it next is mayor of actions in london and they promise it's just the start we're seeing complete incompetence of the last. there have been 20000 to know. that the crowning glory is the inability of the political class to respond to the extinction of the human race this move into the world of democratic politics has surprised many people because extinction rebellion has always prided itself on being a direct action through pretty movement all about staging numerous acts of civil disobedience all across the world never the less they all widely accused of

vandalism and promoting a populist agenda and all the while police in the u.k. particularly have been quite cautious and worried about taking any action against them amid fear of violating their human rights to protest so what do the people in the streets of london make of this extraction rebellion moving up in the world into a different category. if you're stealing from a shop and given our very dropping food desk but i don't think that's how they should be processed it's not by stealing doesn't set a good example i wouldn't talk to them. just to keep it away at the same time. you don't really need to pay because it's. all the time to good what they've done. but at the end of the day no not they didn't pay for it and i think the concept is a good idea i'm all for taxing the rich or more in order to redistribute up funds

you know more efficiently and fairly but to display that isn't the right way to go back to my. ex are clearly have some big plans but they might have a way to go from sitting on the streets to sitting in parliament. more than a 1000 politicians in europe has signed a letter that asks israel to drop its annexation peace plan approved by the us president trump believes it will benefit everybody involved to the physical actually and hopes for peace in the middle east. this move will be fatal to the prospects of israeli palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations including the un charter acquisition of territory by force has no place in 2020 and must have commensurate consequences i call on the israeli government. is an extension. of my vision presents a win win opportunity for both. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk

of palestinian statehood to israel's security today israel has taken a giant step toward peace it's a great plan proves wrong it's a great plan for peace frankly mr president. given all that you've already done fruitful. i'm not surprised so-called peace plan would keep jerusalem as israel's undivided capital leaving palestine with a capital on the outskirts of the city palestine would also be demilitarized to remove any potential threat to israel the west bank and gaza would remain part of palestine and be connected by roads and tunnels president trump offered $50000000000.00 of investment to the palestinian authorities or that would come in exchange for israel getting control of security resources and the diplomatic and security arrangements of palestine. palestinian authorities rejected all notions of the plan from the moment it was 1st presented and they have not changed their minds

is the only testing that is all of the international community thinking its call on yet another but i will put it very well all of that will lead to international will to advance regional peace and security and to preserve the rule based molecular goal. we must prove it wrong. it's not a view though shared by the u.s. in israel peace the prosperity prosperity is how washington calls the plan and claims that it will end hostility by promoting security trump says it's a great opportunity is no palestinians will have to leave their homes israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has set a date of july 1st for his cabinet to begin discussions on moving forward with the plans we spoke with some of the european lawmakers who signed that joint letter on the issue. 1st of all it is illegal under international law because these are a listing in territories there are plenty of united nations resolutions calling for

israel not to build or to encroach on the mainland israel has miley quite a number of un laws over the years and it has done so with impunity i hope international community which is very weak on this conflict for years this time will take on sions of the danger behind this and action i hope with all my heart that we can prevent this dangerous move that israel government is doing now this is time now that we can he lead to international rules and norms sadly there is only one country that can persuade israel not to build on this land so united states of america and donald trump as you know really

disregards united nations and international law by saying yes to anything is what wanted to do donald trump i think is marginal nice him self and this conflict and this is about credibility and i think with trungpa new session united as lost a lot of credibility to to bring. in this conflict really we need to look at europe and i'm hoping that european governments will rise to the occasion and tell israel. should not do this and if they do all then they should be a sanctions imply. implied on them if this an exception is coming for real. real sanctions one of the most profound aspect of this letter is because it's crossed party because it's crossed you know sort of you know the across europe.