facebook because the social media giant introduces this new general counsel a legal adviser at the us state department. for the use and. the courts if they have a they're ready to shoot you a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making hot bed of ethnic pride. have you with us this evening this is r.t. . to suppression is growing over the upcoming talks between putin and kim jong il and the kremlin has confirmed they'll take place in the city of light of all stock in russia's far east. moscow yang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders secret. areas in blood of our stock following preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of vladivostok is covered in fog which is i guess a perfect display a perfect reflection of all the secrecy surrounding the summit of vladimir putin and cam john whom until pretty much the very last day neither the location nor the date were confirmed every little detail w

there are plenty of other donors bestowing their wealth upon point and co not excluding the us state department i expect to be there will be a very close interplay between the facebook checkers and the state department and that they will be really very respectful of the state department's point of view after all they're one of their paymasters so i think they will go out of their way not to contradict anything the state department says and to basically try to then discredit anybody who might be criticizing them so fortunately this is the antithesis of what most people think of when they think of freedom of media or freedom freedom of information now point and it's platoon or fact checkers say that one of their binding values is impartiality but sometimes that veil is quite easy to see through and i mean let me bring up one chart for you it was showcased at a separating fire. from fake news panel by point i mean by different nisshin here the mainstream media and mainstream nubes are presented here as a victim and it is presented as an inherently one hundred percent truthful entity just cannot be

that was kyron skinner of the us state department speaking to w.'s alexandra from on naaman now as nato marks it seventieth anniversary an overwhelming majority of germans think it's as vital as a nationwide poll off whether nato is important in order to secure peace in europe eighty two percent that's four out of five said they agree only fifteen percent of respondents disagree. it's a strong backing for nato here in germany and for some analysis i'm joined by w.'s political correspondent kate brady kate it appears the alliance is as relevant as ever on both sides of the atlantic and certainly is very relevant and something that's been occupying politicians on the public area in germany quite extensively for the past few months now and if you look at those stats that we saw there and take them at face value you think that you know that can't be much more of a loyal nato member than germany but actually has a very germany has a very interesting relationship with nato of course there's the issue over of the spending its military spending but germans

us. rush limbaugh said, we're going to play this in a minute, gregg, by every standard, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible. he even sent out hillary clinton as secretary of state, the state department employees, don't use your private devices or state department materials. she signs it. private server, classified, top-secret, information marked as such on her, on that secret server, we believe hacked by at least a six foreign intelligence agencies. that is the underlying crime. why did she delete 33,000 subpoenaed emails, bleach pit, and beat up the devices, pull out sim cards? that would be an intent of obstruction. meeting all of the criteria and

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investigates the links between the us government and facebook as a social media giant introduces its general counsel a legal advisor at the u.s. state department. is using its. culture and if they have it they're ready to shoot you a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making berlin a hotbed of ethnic crime. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h two in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. anticipation is growing over the upcoming talks between bottom of putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed they will take place in the city of let us talk in russia's forty s. this thursday moscow n.p.n. yang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders secret. lot of us talk following the preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of vladivostok is covered in fog which is i guess a perfect display a perfect reflection of all the secrecy surrounding the summit of vladimir putin and cam john until pretty much the very l

for more on this, i spoke to the bbc‘s barbara plett—usher at the us state department.iran, iran's revenue mostly comes from oil, about 40% of state revenue, and if we can cut that down to zero, which is their goal, that is going to be effective, they say, in trying to be effective, they say, in trying to change iran's behaviour. when they brought the sanctions and in november, they issued these waivers partly because they were afraid of what impact it might have on the oil market, they thought it would become unstable, especially because some of these countries like india and china are some of the biggest customers. now they feel comfortable that after six months, the market will be able to fair —— bear the sanctions and they have said these exemptions will not be extended to anyone who conducts business and import iranian oil will be facing us penalties. let's just get the president's point of view on this, this is donald trump tweeting. investors, though, in the short term at least, certainly have concerns. this is what happened to the pace of the global oil benchmar

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crimes yeah join a songes for revealing them wiki leaks also unveil the hundreds of thousands of us state department cables that chilled more clearly than ever how our secretive government rules their empire with little or no input from the american people the cables revealed secretary of state hillary clinton ordering diplomats to spy on french british russian and chinese delegations at the u.n. security council it also showed arab nations urging the u.s. to strike iran and much more the ruling elite of course view this is a massive breach of national security that's understandable but that world view only comes into play if you think the elites or the only ones who should know how our nation is run look at the exact right we're going to take. a look a look at it take the m.k. and look at it now tell me you want the ruling elite to be the only ones to know what is going on or look at. the concept of hard cover meant was that those. goals would be accountable to tell you and to me to the workers and the number crunchers to the single moms in the fluffers at the porn said we're still vote based on ou

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i mean, you say that but i told you what the us state department said. i was there, too.it says his change agenda focused on fighting corruption and attracting american investment and so on, it sounds like a pretty strong endorsement. yes, let us see if the americans will go and invest there. i told you that commitment to something. what i want is this — i want us to have this truth of the polls now. do you want a new elections? exactly, exactly. or do you want the election result that you say gave you 62%? no, no, what i'm... because the constitutional court did a bad thing. they didn't recount the paper. what we have to do, because we are seeing now they have lost everything, we have to redo the election. what we're saying in 12 months we have to sit down, prior to those 12 months, to put in place an institution that will make reforms for the electoral commission, reform on the constitutional court, reform on, you know, how to conduct the country about corruption and so on, reform on security services, and reform on... so have a reform commission to be set up now. exact

it is a unique book because the war inside laos was by interagency state department and controlled by the ambassadors. and they used state department counterinsurgency model. it is the first use of soft graduating to geographic commanders to where we are going in large units and achieving strategic utilities. colin gray, the famous strategist and explorations of strategy identified soft strategic utilities and three i think you can find throughout this book, the first is time for diplomacy to work, number 2, reassure allies, number 3 prevent or stave off defeat. next slide. we went to southeast asia in light of the theory of fallen, knows. of one country falls, the next one does. a strategy to start military aid and financial aid to thailand, south vietnam, laos, we established an embassy there in 1955 and that began the military assistance program. next slide. laos is a landlocked country, very poor, no major industry or export. notice on the eastern edge of the adirondack mountains and the river, up in the north in a circular area in the middle, plateau, and in the south under the large circle, the plateau, major

to last year thanks to reduce political tensions over there were no americans because of a us state department ban on traveling to the country event as part of the celebrations of the birthday anniversary of north korea's founder kim il sung and it allows running tourists a rare opportunity to jog through the streets of the tightly controlled city when a malaysia's top golfers has died in his hotel room midway through a tournament in china ari iran was twenty eight and died of apparent natural causes he's been competing in the sun yet championship on the p.g.a. china told series and organizers have cancelled sunday's final round out of respect american jennifer cup choked dominated the first ever competitive round of women's golf at the home of the masters it was the inaugural gusto national women's amateur championship and cup show played the last six holes five under par to win by four strokes now a gust of begins preparations for the masters which starts on thursday just to get to walk the fairways and walk up eighteen with as many fans as there were it's an experience like none other just

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from washington we can now speak to jonathan winer, who was previously the us state department's specialso much for your time, jonathan. first of all, how unusual is it for a us president to have a phone conversation, essentially with a militia leader, separate to a un backed government? it is not something i recollect ever happening before. the full phrase was a shared vision of a democratic libya. so i have to hope that the phone call was intended to be a preface to some kind of discussion about a halt to the offensive, secretary of state mike pompeo has said we oppose that, less tha n mike pompeo has said we oppose that, less than two weeks ago. so i am hoping it was a prelude to that. because that is what libya needs, a halt to the military conflict. general haftar‘s forces are essentially trying to seize tripoli. do we know whether donald trump has perhaps offered support or backing, should general haftar succeed in taking libya ? should general haftar succeed in taking libya? well, the state department and the defence department and the defence department have made clear that they

our count we don't you're doing your accounting then your accounting is wrong this is this us state department figures on this is the number that our military experts have told us this is the number that doesn't always necessarily leaves united states because they usually support their allies by basically buying their own military equipment from their own military complex and then giving it to their allies or even more so by buying new military equipment to the united states army and giving the old one to the allies one show one surely doesn't have to leave united states why why should the us give you money when black american troops in the. back in twenty fifteen were racially abused on the streets of york not true not go back to your ground parents and nigeria not this was the comment that was a child to the and this was a fake news this has been proven to be a fake. total fake news yes so it was a fake news and it was fake news when madison one of your people said oh if they're worried about being. harassed on the streets they should wear their uniforms so this is not an mass about that bec

people that the owner of that platform british petroleum had covered up in connivance with the us state department and identical blowout in the caspian sea off baku and they covered it up was b.p. denied any wrongdoing all through that period people i think you're joking about it says explicitly in the indictment that it's the afghan war logs the iraq war logs surprise that they're that clear and that they they say that he shouldn't have leaked documents that obviously revealed war crimes well that's the point it is the crime was committed by the us military in covering up war crimes this was a tremendous service by a songe and manning and he deserves the congressional medal of honor not prison time of course trump said he loved wiki leaks now is secular state bump a o. course he said that it was all style intelligence agency but your media over there and our media over here arguably they seem to be obsessing about cambridge analytic or and the idea of advertising on facebook i understand that you identified something a little bit more perhaps believable of the koch brothers not even russia what h

the us state department is warning american citizens that there may be more terror attacks so they arenews... eight britons are among the 290 people known to have died after a series of suicide bomb attacks across sri lanka. british aid worker, faye mooney, has been killed by gunmen who stormed the holiday resort where she was staying in nigeria. a comedian who played the president of ukraine in a television satire has been elected to run the country. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's 0lly. good morning. jurgen klopp says his team is motivated by their supporters not the "holy grail" of a first league title since 1990. liverpool are back on top of the table but were kept out by cardiff for the best part of an hour before georginio wijnaldum gave them the lead. it finished 2—0 afterjames milner scored from the spot. cardiff remain in the relegation zone three points adrift of safety. they looked doomed pretty much. liverpool are two points ahead of manchester city, but have played a game more. if you are only motivated if you win the holy grail then someth

prime minister he said aletta identified a suspected group of planning a series of assaults the us state department meanwhile is warning of groups continuing to plot attacks in sri lanka at least two hundred ninety people were killed on easter sunday and around five hundred injured the attacks happened in churches and hotels in and around the capital colombo. and the city of thirty two foreigners are among those killed around twenty four people have been arrested but no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings the streets of colombo on easter monday are largely deserted with most shops closed and a big security presence that's going out to our correspondent charles stratford he's joining us live from the capital colombo it was a scathing child from the health minister of the presidency and the information that they had that attacks could take place on sunday and that it wasn't pasta on. yeah shocking news from the health minister building on what was said yesterday by the prime minister who said that there seemed to be some sort of information given according to the health minister letters

what the us state department has also released a report detailing these abuses any chance also highlighting the issue of forced disappearances given this given these numbers that we can't see why are we not seeing more international condemnation for these for these alleged abuses. it's a very good question but unfortunately the answer is simply politics. and government have been very successful in playing its hand on the international stage so when c. talk whenever you go to europe we see president of the city talking about a potential five million migrants and asylum seekers if he's regime and gold is destabilized in egypt we see that we see houses from source airplanes that hand very well when presenting themselves as predicting minorities in particular christian minority in egypt despite the fact that they are suffering severe abuses sousa riots particularly the right to prayer in egypt we are seeing how it is of some government plays its hand when he talk about counterterrorism wenzhou label zero zero crackdown as if words to counter terrorism also we are seeing for example through this

hello the us state department has designated iran's revolutionary guards as a foreign terrorist organization it's the first time the us has formally labeled part of another country's armed forces as a terrorist group iran says it will now take similar action against the u.s. military the trumpet ministration says iran's elite force actively participates in finances and promotes terrorism as a tool of state crofts today the united states has continued to build its maximum pressure campaign against the iranian regime. i am announcing our intent to designate the islamic revolutionary guard corps including its good force as a foreign terrorist organization in accordance with section two nineteen of the immigration and nationality act just as a nation will take effect one week from today this is the first time that the united states is judged needed a part of another government as an f.t.l. we're doing it because the iranian regime use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft makes it fundamentally different from any other government this is stored step of read the world's leading state sponsor of te

well these attacks did the us state department issued a travel advisory that's out right now. the state department warning americans to exercise caution in the wake of these terror attacks. >>now the pacifica were a hang glider died after crashing into the water just off devil's slide. these are photos of crews on the scene the sheriff's office says that 45 year-old hang glider took off from fort fun stunned before going down in the water. he was pronounced dead at the scene the sheriff's office hasn't released. the victim's identity yet. time now is 9. >>2 and in the east bay oakland police are taking a 0 tolerance approach to sideshows yesterday dozens of officers accompanied by air support took to the streets to miss send a message basically that you can't had the sideshows continuing because they've been getting worse and worse. they're using east oakland as ground 0 saying that that's the place they're really going to be focusing on the little devil last sunday. more than a 1000 people were at the sideshow the intersection of 42th and italy international boulevard and the

the us state department has issued a travel advisory now telling americans exercise caution in the wake of these terror attacks. >>back to the bay area and the peninsula to hang glider has died after crashing into the pacific ocean near devil's slide. you can see photos here of crews on the scene coast guard bring in the helicopter out sheriff's office says the 45 year-old hang glider took off from fort fun stunned before going down in the water. he was pronounced dead at the scene the sheriff's office has not yet released that person's name. >>it's 6 oh 3 in the east bay oakland police are taking a 0 tolerance approach now to sideshows yesterday dozens of officers, a company by air support took to the streets to show that the destructive sideshows are not going to be tolerated they're just too dangerous for the participants and for those who are watching east oakland has become ground 0 for the sideshows and police say they are getting increasingly violent as we saw last sunday more than a 1000 people the intersection of 42th avenue in international boulevard and look at ac transit bus

last year thanks to reduce political tensions although there were no americans because for us state department ban on traveling to the country the event is part of the celebrations of the birthday anniversary of north korea's founder kim il sung. but i think it's very well i mean obviously last year we had very large numbers compared to previous seasons. here we go to nine five hundred years let's just play too. long so that's a very good result and it's just over two hundred thirty five. pointed for the half marathon and i really enjoyed it it was a great atmosphere as you can see there were many people in the stadium as well as some of the streets from young to old the citizens why. i managed to take a lot of photos i was more than running. the headlines on al-jazeera fighting has escalated in libya despite a call for a truce by the united nations which was largely ignored forces allied to the u.n. back elements have come under heavy fire from troops loyal to warlords. after its forces are reportedly preparing to open up new fronts as they push towards the capital tripoli sudan's president o

carnegie endowment for international peace she also served as a middle east specialist at the us state department between two thousand and six and twenty eleven thanks very much indeed for being with us so the result perhaps not much of a surprise for anyone no absolutely i mean these constitutional amendments were rushed through very very quickly i'm not sure egyptians even knew what exactly they were voting on in fact the text wasn't even finalized until four days before the referendum was held one of the last minute surprises was that ccs current term was extended by two years so now he doesn't have to stand for elections until twenty twenty four and what about that i mean that given out figure is broadly people have suggested or many national notations are just that. it was hardly a free and fair referendum so why give up the figures do you think. well you know there's a long history of this in egypt that gyptian officials feel they have to show they have to show that things are legitimate and they announced these very precise numbers but they're not credible numbers lauren i mean the they we

. >> fox news alert the state department confirming several us citizens are among the dead after those bombings in sri lanka. this is an international search well under way at least 207 people have lost their lives and 150 others are wounded. welcome to america's news headquarters here in washington. >> on this easter afternoon this morning's bombings now that we are 18 hours into this three churches and three

use the victim's phone to demand a $500,000 ransom. kyra skinner is the director of policy planning at the state department. owing this story with a considerable amount of interest. is there any more you could tell us about the american that was kidnapped and how the state department is helping with this? >> out of respect for the family, we aren't saying very much about this evolving crisis. but there are a few things i can share with your viewers. one, we would like those who are traveling or have loved ones in uganda to go on travel.state.gov for information about the travel status in uganda and we also suggest that you could keep up with the developments there through that website and always enroll when you are traveling abroad with the state department using that site. we do know that security forces are on the case in this unfortunate situation and we will be talking about it as we learn more. but this is an active investigation. >> the state department is involved and/or monitoring this? >> say that again? >> the state department is involved? is the state department monitoring this? how would you char

>> i would, but what i got from border and custom protection folks using state department data, money salvador, homicides went down by 50% and fewer migrants were coming from el salvador. i take your point that not all the governments of the northern triangle countries are doing everything you want them to do, but it seems to me based on your agency's data that you giving money to el salvador was helping to reduce violence in that country and helping to reduce migrants coming from el salvador to the united states. >> jake, the american taxpayers have been enormously generous to each of those three countries for an awfully long time. we're prepared to continue to do that, but we've got to see things change. we've got to see reality, real outcomes on the ground. jake, when we see that, i promise you, americans will continue to be generous. will continue to make sense with how we spend our dollars and we'll get good outcomes. it's not enough to spend money and having wishful thinking. president trump understands that we need to see actual change, actual good outcome. when we see those, w

and money laundering it announced a new initiative to further isolate hezbollah today the us department states rewards for justice program is offering a new reward offer up to ten million u.s. dollars for the information leading to the disruption of financial activities that support the global terrorist organization lebanese hizbollah. the us administration has been pushing a hard iran agenda secretary of state might pump ale was in beirut last month where he told the lebanese to stand up to hezbollah but has blind its allies control parliament and government making it harder for the u.s. to target the group without targeting the country. the u.s. officials always be clear that they want to this year between lebanon and hezbollah between those sections and the economy and i think this is that of course but this is possible we cannot say we are safe but we are taking a lot of measures here internally and we are trying to keep safe the economy and the banking sector. the u.s. has offered military and economic support to lebanon despite hezbollah's growing political influence that may change with

he doesn't want to a new cold war but he did the us not to be complacent and joins us live now from the state department in washington hi there oh so clearly a note of caution here from mr stoltenberg that's right even though mr stoltenberg is keen to mark the accomplishments of nato throughout its seventy year history he did use his address before a joint meeting of congress both senators and representatives in the house chamber for this speech she was say that nato does face serious challenges schieffer among them the security threat from the government in russia here's more of what young stoltenberg told members of congress on wednesday nato is position is united and clear russia is in violation of the on this treaty. there are no new american we saw in europe but there are new russian sites i'll continue to call on our show to turn to compliance with the on the treaty. but so far russia taken no steps to do so time is running out. he's also calling on the members of nato to work to try to push for the end of russian supported forces in eastern ukraine as well as regain ukrainian control of the crime

state department, thank you. let's get some additional insight into the situation. mike pompeo joins me laugh tonight from the state department. thank you for joining us. >> it's great to be with you. >> bret: you are the set up, we know what you said today about how important this moment is that no one should be surprised by it. however there are some people inside the pentagon we are told, senior military officials who are surprised by th it. they fear could mean harm by u.s. troops by a rock. your to that? >> we just call the reality of what it is, they are a terrorist organization we have not designated them. we are always doing everything we can to protect every american soldier. effect of the irg c, they have killed over hundred american soldiers, so you can have peace and you can't have stability and security in the middle east without weakening the islamic revolutionary guard corps and that is what our sanctions are aimed at doing. we are confident, this increased pressure will save american lives and create more stability, more peace and security throughout the middle east. >> bret: you know the iraqi forces, the militias are tight with the i

you mentioned refugees earlier, max, but he is using the state department to drastically reduce the number into this country. they're not coming here illegally. we're at a ceiling of 30,000 refugees that will be let in this fiscal year if he allows their applications to be processed. if he is elected in 2020 we can expect illegal immigration to continue going up because his border security policies are so poor while he continues to reduce all legal immigration that he can from muslim majority countries, by refugees and other minority groups. he's a president, and there's a secretary of state that talk about championing religious -- the rights of those that are persecuted for their religious beliefs while they cut refugee numbers coming into this country. that's what a reelection for donald trump will look like in 2020, more of the same on legal and illegal immigration. >> but yet tonight you had senator chuck grassley warning the white house not to fire another immigration official. he specifically is talking about director of u.s. citizenship and -- he also had leader mitch mcconnell prai

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us. rush limbaugh said, we're going to play this in a minute, gregg, by every standard, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible. he even sent out hillary clinton as secretary of state, the state departmentes, don't use your private devices or state department materials. she signs it. private server, classified, top-secret, information marked as such on her, on that secret server, we believe hacked by at least a six foreign intelligence agencies. that is the underlying crime. why did she delete 33,000 subpoenaed emails, bleach pit, and beat up the devices, pull out sim cards? that would be an intent of obstruction. meeting all of the criteria and standards, donald trump wishing he wants to fire mueller or rosenstein, doesn't rise to the level. >> we always knew harry hillary clinton was a lousy candidate, now we know she is a lousy lawyer, no basis for obstruction of justice. her hypocrisy, as you point out, is really breathtaking. she is the queen of obstruction of justice, destroying 33,000 emails and devices under subpoena. honestly, if you were smart, and she is not, to be sure, she would put a sock in it. because criticizing the attorney general, who holds potentially your fate in h

secretary of state mike pompeo is joining us now from the state department. mr. etary, thank you so much for joining us. >> you bet, wolf. great to be with you, sir. >> thank you. did you know, did the united states government know that uprising was coming? >> i don't want to get into precisely what we knew, but we've had good information all along as we've been working with the venezuelan people and juan guaido and the national assembly to restore democracy inside of venezuela. we've been on that mission for a while. we're still on that mission. we've watched events unfold today. we were urging there to be a non-violent solution. maduro simply should leave. it's his time. he has no answers for the venezuelan people and the united states are determined to restoring democracy and beginning to build back their economy. >> did the united states back this push by juan guaido or give any assurances to guaido that the united states would support him? >> oh, we have made clear assurances, wolf, all lunge that we would support juan guaido and the national assembly. they a

. >> fox news alert the state department confirming several us citizens are among the dead after those bombings in sri lanka. this is an international search well under way at least 207 people have lost their lives and 150 others are wounded. welcome to america's news headquarters here in washington. >> on this easter afternoon this morning's bombings now that we are 18 hours into this three churches and three hotels going after the tourist industry officials are still sorting through the aftermath looking for survivors the issue - - the white house issued a statement of support we condemned those terrorist attacks that have claimed so many precious lives on this easter sunday. we stand with the sri lankan government to bring to justice these despicable acts. standing by from the middle east newsroom with the beginning of the story. >> authorities do say 207 people were killed this morning and the bombings in sri lanka and unfortunately the death toll is expected to rise. during the first round three churches and three luxury hotels were targeted but another two occurred later in the d