Using a visit by a russian delegation to spark the protests 240 people including any policeman were injured in the clashes. And facebook is under the spotlight again as a report claims for working conditions on the social media giant the disclosure comes why a group of employees who filter extreme content from the site. Always see every single day you see pain and suffering and for days in fact in my mind it just makes you angry. Because youre not doing anything. Youre watching or to International Coming to live from the russian capital where its just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. Iran has urged the International Community to stop washingtons destabilizing actions in the persian gulf it comes after tehran shot down an American Military surveillance drone over the strategic strait of hormuz on thursday the u. S. President has spoken out on the incident saying the Islamic Republic has made a major miscalculation. I made a big mistake and they made a very bad mistake ok got it now and then youll find out and maybe youll find out youll find the way you are obviously obviously you know were not going to be talking too much about it youre going to find out they made a very big mistake its the 1st direct confrontation between the 2 countries and the current tensions which began when washington quit the 2015 nuclear deal and has more. In terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid now iran is said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the United Nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point weve got the Iranian Foreign minister condemning the United States for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we dont seek war but was jealous lead to fend off sky land and water as well take this new aggression to the u. N. And show you that the u. S. Is lying about International Waters now the u. N. Secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. The situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure of confrontation with russian president Vladimir Putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which id like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u. S. And iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences its very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless in toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the United States has approached iran during the trumpet ministration of their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east its a rare. Major destabilize. Influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos what weve been trying to do is to get the wrong to be employed for globalization. Now the United States recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the Islamic Republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the United States blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u. N. Where International Bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as a response from the United States could be very possible after withdrawing from the nuclear deal the u. S. Imposed sanctions on iran and it wavers for countries that import its oil and response iran reneged on some of the deals commitments and tanker enjoin incidents happened in one of the worlds most Important Oil routes the strait of hormuz tehran has threatened to close it if sanctions prevented from selling oil a top Iranian National security official told us iran has never attacked anyone but is ready to repel any strike. All have rules. You can find out trump statements always different for example statements from yesterday and today he also contradicts white house officials such political memories devoid of logic and common sense we do not take seriously his threats and contradictory statements but in the end it must be noted that the Islamic Republic of iran is not iraq or afghanistan we are a big state and have strong Popular Support both during the present but also past hardships the Islamic Republic has been Standing Firm and never attacked anyone and will not do that but if we are attacked the aggressor will regret it at the same time we strive for peace and security in our region the policy of sanctions and the economic war launched by trump against the iranian people will not yield any results this is a hostile policy that will be defeated as a result well donald trump is flexing americas military muscles in front of iran it kind of on document shows the u. S. Military believes a nuclear war in the world is winnable and could be a good thing while more on that later in the program. The speaker of the Georgian Parliament has resigned after massive protests in the capital the Russian Foreign ministry has accused the georgian radical opposition of using the visit of a russian delegation to mount those protests 240 people were injured including 80 Police Officers the interior ministry it labeled the unrest a massive coup may find the following pictures of starving. Was. Just vocal critical the situation got very heated there was response and then the crowd get up for another storm study sticks in both holes with thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to a gas line as dawn broke police appear to be in full control of the city center but the opposition has announced a new round of protests tonight theres a sauna time to storm the Parliament Building and an estimated 5000. 00 demonstrators rallied against the participation of a russian delegation during a session and house during the event that ive been visiting deputies sat in the speakers chair further angering protesters georgian authorities have called on the demonstrators to refrain from illegal acts. The georgian president has accused russia over what happened saying the protests benefit no one but the kremlin shes now cut short a visit to belarus to return home russia at the same time has condemned the actions of georgian officials during the protests and the statement the Russian Foreign ministry accused of using the protests to so anti russian sentiment protests erupted after russian m. P. s her gig of real of opened a session to promote orthodox christianity tensions flared between russia and georgia following the conflict and the south side to and 2008. Protesters are now demanding the interior minister resigns he said hes ready to do so if needed but demanded the protests stop at the same time we spoke to a former acting president of georgia you know. She believes the government in the country has been fermenting anti russian sentiment. The rushing toward generalizations are really very difficult and sensitive for your us society and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m. P. In that year of door again. Is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is the just independence and sovereignty of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government. Excellently unbelievable how im competent and the government and its absolutely sure for me the government didnt fully implement or relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive direction. Political. Polling there. Is a pro western right now to use these. To say. That people in their Political Goals and to just strengthen the russian really exist. To only what could be blamed for as the east and shouldnt be absent and be irresponsible. Government and stupidity on this government. Facebook is under fire again after a Technology Website report through the spotlight on the way it treats staff the verge also details the death of one of facebooks moderators at his workstation the revelations were made by staff from a facebook contractor in florida called cognizant who were paid to filter extreme images that appear on the site they disclose poor working conditions among other issues warning you may find the following accounts disturbing. Always but every single day you see pain and suffering and for days it in fact in my mind it just makes me angry. Because theyre not doing anything an army of around 15000 contractors work for Facebook Worldwide they describe having to work through as many as 200 graphic videos a day including footage of animal cruelty and extreme violence stuff state they are forced to work in and unsanitary conditions which include bed bug infestations they also face bodily waste issues at work stations on a regular basis as well as numerous verbal and physical fights another allegation raised was sexual harassment. Facebook itself says it handles all challenges related to the working environment there will inevitably be employee challenges all dissatisfactions the cool our commitment to this work and our partners the employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens facebook is under pressure to clamp down on what it allows online one incident in particular was the circulation of extremist content after 51. 00 people were killed in the Christ Church massacre in new zealand earlier this year a social media giant and the contractor are now vowing to introduce changes including salary boost and health care for staff we put the debate up for issue. I think i think fans who take a need to take more responsibility for their contractors this is as much about the law around working conditions in a particular offices and around the responsibility that facebook takes for its supply chain the the issue here is actually treating them better giving them better working conditions paying them more and and possibly keeping on top of the supply chain and making sure the cognisant aunt cutting corners and giving them enough budget to run it smoothly so that they dont have to cut corners in terms of freezing it is a matter for the Internet Companies this case for. True. Sufficient resources for the race but the other. Is 1st we need greater cooperation between social Media Companies so for example google may have a much better if you shoot intelligence to read the video contained because its experience reduced you. To Share Technology we trace groups and the 2nd thing is to create Greater Transparency so to allow for an external body to go into facebook and all the ready. Its process in terms of moderation i dont think the technology is yet sophisticated enough to be the solution quite yet and the moderators themselves can identify the type of content that needs action to be taken and action has been taken in some cases it hasnt been taken in all instances and we need to understand what the level of investment is where the thing the things are pouring through the cracks whether that is the congress and then what its reported to facebook what its passed on to the authorities we need to have a password or a more effective means of doing this but were not going to get away intel or Technology Improves dramatically were not going to go away from the need for human moderators the moderators need to be able to work very very and with great really great reels. So i see that the solution now from now will be to this month much more. Money. Into the moderation process facebook needs to be investing far more in the technology to assist a some of these moderators and you could pixelate out faces you can do certain measures to make it more pleasant for all the employees are having to do this moderation your global news update continues after this short break. When else seemed wrong. But all wrong just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out just days after. It gets read because betrayal. When something is find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. What is going to coin is magic internet money the new type of Digital Currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor. Of 2nd for bankers call the genesis blog for reason civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny its just a new way of coming to consensus its a game changer in the Human History and this is columbus discovering the new world this Paradigm Shifting Technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing on to the max and stacey. Welcome back European Commission leaders have failed to agree on hold take up the reins of the blocks top posts summit for june 30th has now been announced in another attempt to break the deadlock the Commission PresidentCouncil President and 4 other top jobs were meant to have been chosen by now parties peter all over has more. The impasse put very simply by the irish Prime Minister leo varadkar is the process of electing people is tougher than putting a pulp empower that was according to the irish to shock. Top jobs are up for grabs these are serious positions theres a lot of thought has to go into whos going to fill these positions particularly Commission President and who will take over from john claudio and also the Council President current role the Foreign Affairs representative position which is currently filled by federico the reason its taking well so long in order to to try and put up with solutions to filling these places is that the system called spics and can do that in germany german it means basically top down that preferred candidates it goes in these type of stages basically whoever the parties the groups within a big part of the groups within the European Parliament each put forward their own preferred candidates whoever gets the most points the most seats have a pardon out of everybody standing in the european elections well they start from them so it was months of the European Peoples Party who got the most seats in the european elections that means they looked at him 1st and they work down from there however did nothing to impress on thursday evening we understand he was rejected outright so the stages are they have to select somebody who gets the majority overall amongst heads of state that they sent to the. To the European Parliament who then votes on it and if they get through well they become european Council President however if they dont the system starts over again and its coming in its a system thats come in for some real serious criticism. And its really been the most step prominent voice who spoken out against the spits and candidate system he has backed Michel Barnier the former i guess we can say former now chief of briggs that negotiations. Yes well hes back to him he said that the Current System doesnt allow candidates to come through from smaller parties interestingly enough of course mr representing and marche they are a much Smaller Party in the european the European Parliament. Merkel here in germany she bucked a man for it verba which is understandable the european peoples bodies linked to her christian democratic and social busy Christian Social Union here in germany so she supported them however what we heard from mr mccollum was this he would have actually supported im going to merkel if shed gone for the position of European Commission president i have nothing against a german candidacy i said it and wasnt a joke had the chancellor been a candidate i would have supported her because i think she has the qualities the skills to be a very good president of the commission it is not what she wants i respect that very deeply well im glad merkel has dismissed 80 chance of her running to be the European Commission president she was speaking on friday she also tried to calm down rumors that baena a serious rift between bolin and paris over who should get the European Commission top job. And i still say no and i want to add that im a little bit sad that my words which accent so often and apparently not respected at all respect each other i do not want to make a decision against france and i believe that france doesnt want to make a decision against germany of the very latest it does seem that money isnt getting the amount of votes it meets from heads of government to be put forward as the next president of the European Commission that hasnt stopped the german chancellor though for saying that she still bucks her mom. Repeat what i said and to avoid any unnecessary questions we stand by our lead candidate the p. P. Candidate Manfred Weber others stand by their lead candidate obviously those. Quite tired looking young who addressed the press after this meeting broke down hes searching for his own replacement however he did allow a joke at his own expense concert i noted with satisfaction mused and yes pleasure that it seems its not easy to replace me. Of office so with no decision from the heads of government of the states over who they want to see appointed as the next European Commission president theyre all going to have to come back again next week on the 30th of june for another round of talks in the go see asians to try and hammer out a solution. To the u. S. Military claims the use of Nuclear Weapons could create decisive results and restore strategic stability that comes from a document recently made public but was then classified artes and on one corner picks up the story. Bombers submarines and Ballistic Missiles the pentagons triad of Nuclear Warfare usually atomic weapons are considered a means of deterrence but now classified documents suggest the war hawks in washington may have other ideas using Nuclear Weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability specifically the use of a Nuclear Weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict the 60 page document came out in early june only to be classified a week later by the pentagon its a surprise it wasnt a secret to begin with the fundamental principles underpinning washingtons Nuclear Operations are laid out for the world to see and they dont exactly correspond to some of president Donald Trumps past talk of nonproliferation between russia and china and does. Busy make. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth busy of weapons including nuclear which is ridiculous i think with that leader i think were always going to be the leader we have to be that leader and i think its much better if we all got together and we didnt make these weapons so i think thats something that could be a phase 2 after this is done but then again trump himself hasnt been very consistent on Nuclear Posture either he called for talks with both the president s of russia and china just last year to put an end to a socalled uncontrollable arms race several months later trump accused russia of developing missiles prohibited by the 1987 i. N. F. Treaty although moscow denied violating the agreement signed to specifically prevent an arms race the u. S. Withdrew the United States will therefore suspend its obligations under the i. M. F. Treaty effective february 2nd and its no secret the pentagons long been on the anti russia bandwagon in 2018 its Nuclear Posture review accused russia of producing more nonstrategic and i n f banned weapons. But a recent article by the American Federation of scientists about d. O. D. Exaggerations pointed out Something Interesting that the Nuclear Posture review contradicts itself their own statistics indicate that russia had between 3 and 5000 nukes in 2009224000 in 20112000 are less than 2018 exaggerating the threat from russia only justify spending more money on weapons that can annihilate humanity and with the risk of nuclear war at its highest since world war 2 theres no time for war games seeming double standard is to present trump as someone who is reluctant to go to war the i believe was a message unit fear not only to probe the current belligerent rhetoric oh the trumpet ministration but it is a will to buttress his Foreign Policy which is aggressive aggressive. In south america aggressive in the middle east aggressive in. Asia. Thats a wrap up of the days top news for now but dont forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook drop the minute reports. Why a paradise with all year round turned into a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments good often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of Environmental Research going on in hawaii whether these Companies Feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. Just driving the trump administrations iran policy is confusing contradictory and even incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly inject themselves into the conversation with words to the contrary what is the world thing. Going. It is that the number of white supremacist hate groups is on the rise but my guest today is convinced that their message of hate can be decided with friendship. Darryl davis. Musician who convinced 100 klicks klan members to give up their robes he joins me today to share his story. Despite decades of victories for the Civil Rights Movement americas race problem is still permeating the fabric of society with new hardline and loud civil Rights Groups bringing racism to the spotlight again. With the parallel White Supremacists and right wing is this the aggressive protest tactic backfiring or provoking an extremist response can racism in the u. S. Only be confronted with militancy. The method of calm conversation and gradual away. Without provoking fun. Darrell davis musician and author of the book clan the same relationships welcome to the show its really great to have you with us so darryl you are quite famous for befriending k. K. K. Members and in many cases your friendship resulted in them living the klan you wrote a book about it so when you were starting to work on your book did you yourself have any preconceptions about clansmen on how many of those stages are eventually. Well yes i did have some up preconceptions about them because you know as a child we hear things like a tiger never change its stripes a leopard never changes the spots so why would i think that a klansman would change his robe and hood so i had no intentions or received ideas that these people that i change all i want to know from them was how can you hate me you dont even know me just tell me that and ill be happy but through the course of conversation and dialogue we began to humanize one another and we will find if you spend 5 minutes with your worst enemy you will find something in common if you spend 2 minutes i mean 10 minutes youll find even more so if you nurture those commonalities you are forging a relationship if you know which are the relationships you are then forging a friendship and so that friendship the things that you had in contrast so such as skin color or whether you go to a church a temple a senate or a mosque begin to matter less and less so they be ensuring that ideology so over time just over 200 members have left i dont want to say that i converted them but i was the impetus for their conversion they converted themselves you know as a result of the dialogue that we would have yeah but. When he said i want to sic i want to say converted well thats how it looks like that you sort of converted them but those that he did convert so to speak are not real racists from what i understood