News. Views. Hughes -May 20, 2019 (17:00 ET)

Losing hope for US-China trade deal

There is still no US-China trade deal in sight after 11 rounds of negotiation. President Trump continues to insist that China reneged on the eve of finalizing an agreement. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded by blaming the US “pursuit of unreasonable interests through maximum pressure” for the stalling trade talks. Meanwhile a new US-Canada-Mexico deal to remove steel and aluminum tariffs is on the horizon. RT America’s Sara Montes de Oca joins News.Views.Hughes with the details.

US needs to ‘back off’ of Iran – fmr US diplomat

RT America’s Dan Cohen reports on the escalation of violent rhetoric from the neocons in the Trump administration despite the President’s apparent reluctance to plunge the US into yet another Middle East quagmire. Then former US diplomat Jim Jatras joins RT America’s Scottie Nell Hughes to share his expertise. 

Forget about privacy: Facial recognition tech is everywhere

Legal and Media analyst Lionel of Lionel Media joins Scottie Nell Hughes to weigh in on the evolution of facial recognition technology and its troubling potential to be used in total loss of privacy and suppression of political dissent. He expects that the law as it pertains to privacy will be completely rewritten and that within ten years, “you won’t be able to recognize this place.”