goodall's the one who's doing. the. petrol bombs and brakes at rioters attacked police in northern ireland the post breaks it border checks. points activists ring the alarm as a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces jail for exposing america's drone assassination program . he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to see that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. for his prime minister back so covert passport system for people to prove their virus statists but even as our lawmakers slam the move us divisive. and multinationals including coca-cola condemned the us state of georgia over

a new voting law but now face the boycotts themselves with supporters of the changes switching to rival pepsi. welcome to you on a very good morning good for 80 m. here in the russian capital and you're watching our international with medicare. and we start in northern ireland which is seeing 3 nights of unrest over post break that disputes. protesters held petrol bombs and bricks and police vehicles lighting fires and setting up roadblocks officers were attacks on the outskirts of the capital. well

fast on saturday the disturbances began on friday yeah but host breaks it tradable this imposing border checks on goods moving between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. it was meant to prevent checks between northern ireland and the republic of ireland which remains part of the e.u. officials say that most of the people involved in the township where you are going to be the world view joining in the fire that. human rights activists are crying foul over the case of a former u.s. intelligence analyst who faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program last week daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting and were taining national defense information using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources and spies chills newsgathering and discourages sources from coming forward with information in the public interest particularly when it relates to national security where government

secrecy is at its height these documents detail the secret unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes there are vital public importance and the d.v.d. related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment. well hill was an intelligence analyst during the a bomb the administration and identified targets for kill and capture the us government went after him when he disclosed documents to the intercepts for its dirty wars project in 2004 seed 2 years ago hale was arrested and charged with violating the espionage acts and other related offenses he pleaded guilty to one count of leaking classified information for others are pending. well john kerry ocular a full my cia analyst on the whistleblower told as hale has little hope for justice this is the really the worst part of the of the espionage act this is the reason

why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel as it was for me as it was for so many others here charged under the espionage act is to take a deal and to hope for the lightest possible sentence the decision that was made early on even before joe biden was inaugurated to pursue the appeal against julian his son it was that decision that made it clear that joe biden was going to pursue national security leaks just like barack obama did and just like donald trump did

after him on his 1st day in office joe biden temporarily lit a limited drone strikes outside the battle zones of afghanistan syria and iraq however he reportedly wants to boost drone exports to countries including those with controversial human rights record with it comes as there is growing public concern over the civilian death toll from drone strikes.

i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he's likely going to go to prison it was worth it the u.s. is flying these drones or at least it was until recently that were used ostensibly to kill terrorists or would be terrorists but in reality to kill anybody who might resemble a terrorist and that included women children the elderly and anybody else who happened to be on the ground i believe that we're we're a nation of laws and we have to abide by those laws whether we like them or not if we don't like them we should change them go through the process and change them if

congress has not declared war on a country we don't have a right to attack it we just can't decide that we don't like the politics of whoever happens to be in charge in a place like yemen or pakistan or afghanistan and then launch drone strikes against them it's a violation of international law. and you can watch the full version of our interview with john kiriakou on watching the hawks throughout the day here on r.t. . disagreements between at the u.s. state of georgia and major corporations over disputed new voting laws escalated into a tit for tat series of threats and even boycotts artie's kellett more pin story. coca-cola has long marketed itself around the world as uniquely american something that unites the entire united states but not anymore now coke is boycotting the state of georgia over their proposal lection laws given google's shoes to cave to

the. odds of control can still go through the roof this huge immediately just because you run a soft drink company doesn't mean you get to control our democracy georgia has put forward a new voting laws requiring photo id to vote utility bills and matching signature is no longer accepted the proposed voting legislation also would outlaw the giving out of drinking water to people waiting in line to vote and other regulations which democrats say are intended to stifle the voter turnout among african-americans and low income people coca-cola is not the only corporation boycotting ga over new proposed voter reforms you've also got delta airlines viacom c.b.s. citi group j.p. morgan chase cisco and other corporations that are placing economic pressure on the state former president donald trump says that republicans are now going to boycott the boycotters in support of georgia's election laws for years the radical left

democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company has done or stated in any way that offends them now they are going big time with woke cancel culture and our sacred elections it is finally time for republicans and conservatives to fight back don't go back to their products and till they relent so now we've got republicans targeting the corporations that are targeting georgia but it gets more interesting before these corporations started boycotting georgia you had liberal activists threatening to boycott them if they didn't liberal activists said that they would boycott coke and other corporations if they refused to stick it to georgia will speak with well it's dispersed some coke another quick break. said they needed to speak out against racism but they've been mighty quiet about this position is they've not believed so they open the boards by a silence you're actually being complicit so we're going to say to them if you want our money then you ought to have

a while back i think we all have to use our voices of seeing these corporations falling over themselves every year around the time of the king holiday celebrating the king and yes i think that the way to celebrate the king is to stand up for what he represented the voting rights it's not just corporations that are being affected by this rapid polarization of america now you've got major league baseball being boycotted by republicans because it has pulled out of atlanta and that comes after obama biden and many democratic party voices and liberals called on the league to pull out of the biggest city in georgia whether you're a bank a soda supplier or america's favorite sport you can't get out of it don't boycott georgia and you get boycotted by the democrats do it and you get boycotted by republicans america is rapidly polarizing and some of the biggest economic players are now stuck in the middle. artsy new york. political analyst and radio host

dave perkins faced companies that only have themselves to blame for bowing to partisan pressure. nothing more divisive then the company that sells me my favorite soft drink telling me i'm a racist and that's essentially what's happening with all these corporations taking these wolk positions in advance of even being accused of anything and that is to me the divisiveness not republican responses to it not what trump has to say as a result of it but the actual corporate positions themselves in advance of any argument against the corporation being taken by them to head off the potential trouble of leftwing activism they don't know what trouble is till they drive all their customers away this is not new the level of it is new their concern over the number of companies and the pressure they're feeling is new but the tactic is not new it's something the left wing has done for many years they have no idea how much damage it's going to do to their sales and their company's future i think it's

going to be a lot and i think so whether trump calls for it or not. is occurring backlash against u.k. plans for a covert puffball system off the prime minister bars to listen back to the may. there are. complicated ethical and practical issues as i think i said last time raised by the idea of status a difficult you've got to be very careful in how you handle this and don't start a system that's that discriminatory what is certainly true is that the idea of. vaccination status being useful for international travel is something that all countries are looking at i do think that's going to be part of our of the way people deal with it we need to think about that and a national health service apple or paper certificates would help ease lock down

restrictions and open up the country to international travel but there is widespread opposition to the measures. covert status certification would be divisive and discriminatory with high levels of vaccination protecting the vulnerable and making transmission less likely we should aim to return to normal life not to put permanent restrictions in place as we start to get this virus properly under control we should start getting our freedoms back vaccine passports essentially covert id cards takers in the other direction it would be divisive effectively creating an underclass of people who are not vaccinated many of whom will be vaccinated for medical reasons it's a major infringement on civil liberties. the e.u. parliament approved a similar system last week with these so-called digital green certificates expected to simplify travel within the european union that's despite a poll finding that 7 in 10 french people see the past as a threat to privacy and there's also skepticism as to whether it will even work my

colleague colleen bray discussed the issue with guest. the reality is that's not where you can say these things what are they discriminatory in one way or not the lot of. the codeine see a vaccine can be credited but also the realities the vast majority of people don't even need to be because it's only a risk suit. basically on the one percent of the population that is better saved and stories of this big i think that people perhaps because of psychological reasons is for get into cedar dog years which is the difference between. sick and became infected even people those in need did may have the possibility to do to carry to be contentious and the spread did dividers i think you should all be very alone and asking more questions about

what's actually happening so why we're allowing code of it to work to take what's going on closely and so the government what they do is really grab all our civil liberties it's unnecessary is unjust and international law is unlawful until. the problem is all this issue it's such a case about cheating passports and so on it's all. so who were happy it's complete overreaction there is an extra layer unnecessary layer of bureaucracy something else to police given that half the country has a dose of vaccine we can. get for interns that every time bed it looked down misters and. in all working. in eternity and other countries and then if we have been preparing did reemerging all these some fiction so these fighters could if if ever a decent measures are going to be taken into into place there which you know to their

disregard of measures for intense a way to mask that. i mean that there should louie would not get the infection even though we've been getting vaccinated for things like malaria and yellow fever needed certificates to travel for years now in normal circumstances most people would say they don't want the government to track and trace them and have more data on them these are normal times do not think that most people in britain would happily surrender some of that in order to get some sort of normality back into their lives where you get into that a lot means taking people's medical records in particular who will control work and it is a slippery slope and most of us have a very uncomfortable with seeing progress in a way that we do not see because a need or just variation. scandalize erupted in france over ministers secretly attending cafes and restaurants in violation of covert restrictions and undercover report found luxury restaurants privately opening their

doors to v.i.p. guests one interviewer even claimed he himself had illegally dined with the ministers guests apparently knocks back bottles of champagne and did not wear protective masks but members of the french government have denied their claims if ministers have broken the rules they must be punished like anyone else if this was to be so well informed let him name names the 2 types of citizens those who have the right to party and those who don't are restaurants are supposed to have been closed in france since october in order to slow the spread of coronavirus we gauge reaction to the claims on the streets of paris. special it was because of course we all need to relax but such a different attitude to people is simply shocking most french people like streamlet attentive we are asked to be on our guard and so we just prizing that people are treated differently it seems that everything is allowed for them and they have the

right to do what others do not have the right to do i think these ministers need to go to everyone to the restaurants because people have not been to restaurants for a long time you think the invited does it would be nice but. on the one hand they tell us stay at home do not go to restaurants close the restaurants and so on and they spend money there and do not worry about the coronavirus and we the people have no right to go there it's not fair this is an injustice and for going to a restaurant these people men and women are not waiting for the same consequences that would await for us if we were caught doing this for months we're not going to if it's true then i think that they're the embodiment of the embodiment of decisions taken at the state level therefore they should be a role model and if they do not adhere to the rules that they demand from this it isn't then their power loses it's so i think it's very bad if it turns out to be true since the ministers they need to watch their behavior. take a look at some nice way around the world shall we say no on easter monday has not

stopped covert skeptics in the german city of nuremberg from rallying against the lockdown hundreds of protesters were monitored by police. broken out in jerusalem as all for dogs jews protested a controversial police case demonstrators blocks roads and clashed with officers. 2 iceland has evacuated hikers from a volcano sites near the capital volcano started developing last month and tourists have flooded to the area office. thank you for joining us here on r.t. international this morning we'll be back in 30 minutes with the latest.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical garm time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

for. welcome back now still it sees how flat in eastern ukraine with reports of daily exchanges of fire and shelling on the front lines rebels in the dawn yet screeching claim to ukrainian drone strike killed a 4 year old boy kiev denies the claims on his demanding evidence that the strike did not did not take place and so far it has not been possible to corroborate the claims but a team from marty's ruptly video agency attended the boy's funeral and spoke to his grandmother about the incident. i do understand this grief you have to go through it it's really hard his parents are beside themselves with grief especially his

mother i don't care that the house was damaged but why did this child have to suffer does he shoot someone dad of something or did he say a bad thing to someone he was just a child only who years old and mention in god's eyes. as tension store in eastern ukraine officials and military staff in kiev have blames russia our senior correspondent wired ghastly after a pause this is far or what there was of it is crashing and burning under a sustained carriage from both sides the only see has the numbers more than a 1000 violations most of them artillery exchanges were detected on april 3rd ukraine's propaganda machine is also churning it is now officially calling thousands of its own citizens russian militias who are to blame the party line says

for everything. ukraine and its partners are taking note of russia's systemic escalation of the security situation and the nats going lugansk regions and in the republic of crimea this is happening against the background of the russian federation and willingness to reaffirm its commitment to the cease fire or the current escalation by the russian federation the systemic and the largest in recent years a common goal is victory in the war against the aggressors and to ensure a stable peace to restore the territorial integrity of ukraine we will need to consolidate efforts of all the ukrainian people all ukrainian people apart from the ones they now call russian militias in a bid to discredit them their beliefs and their grievances probably not the best idea if you want stable peace but there are 2 major takeaways from. their recent statements 1st after years of stalling delaying and torpedoing negotiations here

that seems to be entertaining the idea of a military solution to this civil war victory by brute force the other takeaway is that ukraine has virtually bickley war and russia officially naming it the russian ukrainian conflict russia isn't even a party in this civil war if its military was involved it would be over very very quickly that much is obvious to me if you did get the russian army is moving within russian territory in the directions it deems necessary in the shape and form it sees fit to ensure the security of our country this shouldn't concern anyone in the slightest russia poses no threat to any country in the world and that of course includes ukraine russia always pays very close attention to its own security clearance to ukrainian president probably not helped by dismal ratings his seemingly bet on calm for a day ship his military has issued a statement warning moscow that the u.s.

promised it won't leave ukraine alone and it won't let russia's aggressive plans materialize the state department has confirmed this ukraine zoon aggressive plans it seems get a pass the americans should not be concerned by what russia is doing but rather look at kiev's unacceptable behavior which not only fails to implement them and set of measures but even denies degree mous in a manner that is becoming ever more provocative if our us colleagues were to focus and it would really facilitate stability lot all hope is yet lost there is still a chance that cooler heads will speak out that they'll stop this escalation and will cause countless lives and achieve nothing but that's going to take an international effort rather than egging ukraine on with promises of support and righteousness as has been washington's policy so far. from u.n. weapons inspector and u.s. marines intelligence officer scott ritter explained how can have got american and

nato support for it stuns the support comes and 3 things one is the ongoing material support the united states continues to provide big holes arms munitions another military equipment to the ukrainian military much of this is lethal in nature meaning used to combat then there's the the the training that's taking place across training between nato forces in americans and ukraine and ukraine believes that this training shows that they're somehow you know brothers in arms and then there's the political rhetoric of the phone call for instance from the secretary of defense to his ukrainian counterpart yes ukraine is being led to believe that there will be support and there will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic political you know they they support the right of the ukrainian objectives and they also view the ukrainian russian. tension as

supporting an overall western strategy of containing and destabilizing russia so everything bad that you have in ukraine today you know props up a in american and nato policy of containing and destabilizing russia. the post as off only u.s. president donald trump have accuse you chip of political bias they point to allegations that the video sharing site deleted $2500000.00 dislikes from videos on the white house's official channel website was set up to track a dislikes any of this yet make claims that the 300 videos posted by the white house that were nearly 3700000 dislikes of which more than 60 percent with deleted by you chave their video sharing site says its policy is to remove reactions that it considers to be spam. with poses and systems in place to ensure the gauge went

on you tube is authentic and remove any fraudulent metrics its claims that you tube deleted around 8000 dislikes power white house video but did not do the same for other popular channels. when we got reaction to the scandal from journalist and commentator chadwick moore. even with the 2 and a half 2700000 dislikes removed the white house says the biden white house is video still of a ratio about 6 to 16 dislike to everyone like 17 to one but what it remains unclear is firstly they're not moving any light ok they're only moving the dislikes so it's very difficult to tell whether or not they're being honest here but we also don't know how do they determine what is a legitimate dislike and what is not a legitimate dislike and how do they determine if a video is being brigaded or mobbed by dislikes and our actual users are he's boxed you both say they won't tell us so that raises questions and it does many americans

maybe the majority of americans do believe these companies are biased in favor of the democrats they're biased in favor of joe biden so it certainly raises eyebrows and looks suspicious if the allegedly the most popular president in american history joe biden who got 80000000 votes write the most votes of any president in american history is having such a problem with dislikes on you tube it doesn't really match up most such a popular guy would be having such a problem keeping that ratio down but big tech has a big problem because nobody trusts that they aren't politically biased and in fact studies have shown that google which of course owns you tube is very publicly biased in their search google in their search results that they have been accused of unlike the election interference in the last election by all trading search results in favor of the democrats in favor of joe biden people to be putting their faith in new platforms new ways of communicating a lot of people are moving to smaller messaging platforms like telegram is one of

them. and sort of maybe the cultures are shifting away from these vast open plain platforms such as you tube and twitter. thanks for keeping his company here an aussie international we can find plenty most stories on our website dot com for now we'll be back in betty minute. elmwood forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obesity is to create trust ever other than fear. laid on theories jumps in with artificial intelligence risk.