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and the trump protesters accuse the president of supporting far right extremism after his delayed condemnation of hate groups two days after the deadly violence and charlotte. also to come google's accused of censorship after its automated tracking system. delete videos from journalists and groups on you tube plus germany's lead key campaign is election fever fails to ignite parties and voters in the most powerful country.
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follow the welcome just turn to you in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour two days after bloody clashes in the u.s. town of charlottesville donald trump has bowed to overwhelming pressure and made a second statement denouncing racism and hate groups he has been under fire for failing to single out the role of white supremacists in saturday's brawls which culminated in a car being driven into a crowd of counter protesters killing a woman we condemn in the strongest possible terms. this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many shots on many shows. racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thoughts
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including the k.k.k. neo nazis white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans however much the media still criticize the president for his delayed response leading him to tweet that the fake news media will never be satisfied he then headed to new york where he was met by crowds of protesters outside trump tower accusing him of racism kind of more pain that's next and how america's political debate is now one about labeling this report does contain scenes of violence and one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trump no k.k.k. hell fascist usa essentially trump and his supporters are being tarred with the same brush as white supremacy. the. law.
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now the suspect in the horrific charlottesville car ramming was himself a member of the far right but the mayor of this city was very quick to put his blame on the white house and president and he wasn't a law he should look in the mirror but he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with them to you know go right to the gutter to play our worst prejudices and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices trump has made it clear with bannan gorka in the white house and the klan in the streets it is now the white supremacists house. the inside mental of hatred to that got us here is as real and condemn the bill as the white supremacists you know was tweets the democratic response to the car ramming mirrors the way republicans responded to the shooting at the congressional baseball practice they blame democrats for stoking up the atmosphere while reality the attack was carried out by a was public and you had been increasing intensity of hostility on the left
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sleepless intensity has been building. since election night. that vitriol from the left has spurred threats and now action without historical parallel events like today are exactly why we took issue with and why elites glorifying the assassination of a president bell most americans liberal conservative or otherwise are not violent however it seems like the leaders of the two major political parties try to make the other half of the electorate look like they are and that seems to be mobilizing people in both camps if you want to start something. and demonize me and i don't you. think. that it.
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was the united states has created a political system in a way to demonizing one side means supporting the other side for many voters those who haven't really learned that much about third parties yet the the solution to this is to reduce some of these impediments to we need a system in which political parties have to fight for their own ideas they have to show why what they believe is good and why it's right and what's an excellent idea . not just focus on demonizing the other side so no matter what your political outlook is the best strategy seems to be the same generalizing it's been hard to see your. all that rightwing protest in charlottesville centered around the removal of a civil war monument which had latterly been regarded as symbolizing racism similar confederate statues elsewhere have been targeted by campaign is in recent months
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and or monday protesters destroyed one in north carolina. was demonstrators gathered outside the county courthouse to topple the statue some could be seen climbing it while others pulled on a rope to bring it down the crowd also chanted slogans such as we are the revolution no k.k.k. no fascist usa that we can violence in charlottesville has accelerated similar initiatives in other southern states the mayor of lexington kentucky said on saturday that he will push for the relocation of two confederate statues to the to the city the next day the mayor of baltimore revealed similar plans but added she'd like to keep the exact date secret to prevent the unrest also on monday construction workers removed a monument of the civil war soldier in florida after a two year long effort. well we've sounded that several experts on why the
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confrontation in charlottesville the weekend led to deadly thought. as a conservative you have to lay blame exactly where it lies you know lies with this white nationalist group k.k.k. and any any of their ilk and what they did was they went specifically to you know liberal college towns like charlottesville virginia where the university of virginia is located to stoke claims the stoking the flames of hate and i harbor nonsuch that the president clearly renounced it the trump administration has white supremacists in the white house like steve bannon and sebastian gorka and that if he is really going to make his words mean anything he should fire them i also want to lay blame on the local authorities for allowing these white supremacist groups not their free speech i am all for free speech but to come in
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with their weapons their shields their ready for combat their pepper spray everybody who was there no matter what was. asked at the non-reaction you know this is normally this is a country where we told the police back off the hyper militarization of the police not in charlottesville they do so while we're out here a.t.o.s. these people that are riding down in charlottesville are such are fringe percentage of the population is so small we have such strong community and civil society groups there would hate crimes have similar incidence donald trump has been in office the southern poverty law center keeps track of those very specifically and the number of hate crimes has absolutely soared we see it is rarely seen.
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any apple s minnesota and. president saying nothing about the bombing of a mosque it's called a eight day fractionalized the stabilizer pitting white people i guess black people and creating the illusion that diebold trump because he did not list your particular phraseology wrong because he left somewhat out even though he our lives daughter and jeff sessions said they hated everything that was hate for that wasn't good enough you know now it ad i you know it this mainstream media are here to do one thing or one thing only to get rid of this president. now you tube and its parent company google are being accused of stifling alternative points they are cracking down on extremist content but have also removed just move files from journalists and opposition groups which i think has the story. internet regulation is becoming ever more automated meaning the machines are now in charge of
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monitoring what you write and post so when you have your video taken down it's nothing personal it's just the algorithm you tube now has computers largely responsible for blocking the stream of content and the company is head over heels with the cutting edge technology that makes this all possible over seventy five percent of the videos we've removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag and that all sounds well and good given that in theory machines should be objective but it turns out they're not recently we've seen a number of journalists monitors and syrian opposition groups have their content blocked despite the fact that very similar videos went untouched on mainstream news channels you two pages those who are targeted say the site is purposely trying to erase certain documentation of the war i think what's so troubling about this if we look at the syrian accounts this is video chronicling a six or seven year war and some of the most important parts of that war from the
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perspective of syrians you tube though still has faith that its machines know best . well these tools are imperfect and untried to every setting in many cases our systems have proven more accurate than humans and videos that need to be removed and the video sharing website isn't alone in being found at fault google has also come under fire for showing bias that was after a number of left wing and progressive news outlets were removed from search results after new protocols were enacted by google those alternative sides claim they've seen a drastic drop and i to be on their pages sense then yet the search engine giant says the newly adopted policies or applied simply to help improve the quality of results we updated our research quality reader guidelines to flag upsetting user experiences including pages that present conspiracy theories unless the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint and that last little bit is a very important to take note of unless
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a user specifically indicates they are interested in a quote alternative view point they will be getting that when you look at the actual application of the artificial intelligence programs what you actually see is the. common and very natural organic stupidity of silicon valley elites who are since sorious in nature and actually seek to scrub the internet of divergent opinions the journalist yasha levine actually tested google's artificial intelligence which rates certain phrases as toxic so yasha levine put in phrases for example like america is corrupt and that was rate is ninety two percent toxic meanwhile one yasha levine and third the phrase hitler was right in everything he did it was only thirty four percent toxic so censorship continues to rear its ugly head online but where a group of experts could have been made to answer for this before there are now only machines which as we've seen aren't as unbiased as we first thought.
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washington d.c. . now elections are looming for europe's powerhouse germany but despite the potential far reaching consequences of the vote things do seem to be a bit lackluster that is in contrast to how the french campaign is running at this stage. for some of them have been saying that he thought of playing. some making sure. it was you like.
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thank you. let me say checks out where the gym and election rice is heading. thank you america has not only one of the world's most powerful leaders she may well be one of the world's most laid back politicians so much so that she decided to take three weeks off and then telling else right before the german voters determine whether or not she can run for a fourth term next month the fact that she chose to wear the very same outfit for the last five trips she took to the same location just goes to show how well she understands her people that they prefer the status quo and change isn't necessarily good don't take my word for it just take a look at the polls support for merkel drop ten points while she's breathing in that italian
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a mountain air but she's still way ahead of her mean rival as speedy leader marches scholtz couldn't get any hiking sessions in his schedule because he's busy campaigning like any other politician would march in shorts even try to provoke a reaction from the chancellor by claiming germany is not prepared for the future influx of refugees but not only that merkel ignore all of this propagations just pepper sprayed him a nickname of the chancellor shadowboxer courtesy of the local media the feeling of solidarity between states has been lost how do they get to this when did it start did it begin with a man whose decision to open borders and you agree with our partners in a moment when those partners were overloaded. on the horizon is quite easy to describe it's an s.p. the led government in september. i came to the streets of berlin to ask german voters not campaigning is a more subtle and effective form of electioneering when i ask you what you think about the election of his so far. it's right. there
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campaigning. yeah i'm not so into. his politics and. actually i can tell you right now because. i think like i'm working so moderate now i'm not. i don't know anything about it right now i'm not into the election right now so far but the election campaign. in germany will be questioned and it's like it's not there enjoy the summer and cast the right vote come autumn says this poster of america party which aptly symbolizes her laid back campaign style and they stoop r.t. . meanwhile back from holiday and fresh from the election triangle frosty reception one rally. right i was.
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thinking whistled while speaking about the country's refugee policy supporters and the right leaning alternative for germany party staged a protest against the policy holders correctly jean they were holding banners reading merkel must go on the borders instead of seeing the reference to nicolas pacifist calling for the chancellor to resign here and she had political analyst and consultant runner office says the germans generally they don't take political risks well the german is different and if you compare him to the american or to french people germans usually are rather conservative they do not like experiments and they do not tend to support political movements that are under heavy criticism so if something like this turning to for germany or also
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deutschen with. them you will immediately see that the political players with the help of the media will attack those movements and people will just be scared away from supporting such parties and therefore the germans they are specifically conservative they are fiercely even also supporting movements that are under criticism and therefore i think you cannot expect from germany leadership in the real big challenges of our times. meanwhile the honeymoon is already over for president macron as the french public force acts of love with their leader after just one hundred days in the job will have a story of his take just after the break. what
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politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to try to be for us this is what the before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the. first city. it's called the feeling of freedom to. everyone in the world should experience for me and you'll get it on the open will. the old according to
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just. come along for the. hello again you with us a now an elderly palestinian couple who have lived in the same hands in east jerusalem for more than fifty years are about to be evicted by israeli authorities . we lived for fifty three years in this house it is a great injustice israel should give us back our land they take our homes and claim there's the take all of trees. or is seventy six while her husband is eighty four they moved into their house in one nine hundred sixty four which is three years before israel took over eastern jerusalem she says the threat of eviction has left them in despair. they let them at last the police are threatening us we don't
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know what to do we are sitting here like fools we don't know whether to stay or leave we have nowhere to go to maybe if we were to find at least a room we could leave but even if you were to drag out my husband and kick him through it refused to go. but israeli law does stipulate that jewish residents can claim the rights to a property if they have proof their families live there prior to the nine hundred forty eight war a right leaning circular group called the israel land fund one a court battle to claim the elderly couples hives the group's director insists it's not about discrimination but rights. i was the only expect to be alone in the middle of. the window from dawn to tell your payment to go out and leave telling you no i don't want to go out and this is what you must get good now after all they did this they told that they not they don't want to give to let you go out from our apartment so very we told them we took them to court. the decision
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sparked anger among each jerusalem's arab population where people have held prayers outside the couple's homes the same fate awaits other arab residents to the east jerusalem and it's a practice that's been going on for decades to according to human rights watch fifteen thousand palestinians have been stripped of their residency status over the last fifty years activity ag non-beliefs the strong presence of the israeli lobby abroad prevents condemnation turning to reelection. situation now. is truly awful idea that these seven people may be evicted from their homes any day now is something that should trouble each and every person in jerusalem and not only end it there are forty four other families who might face of fiction if this eviction takes place and there is the chance for peace for all the people in jerusalem and in this region that is in jeopardy every time new hatreds
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goes into our homes into people's houses throws people out and put. those instead of them sins are being talked about a lot and the issue of the occupation is being brought up again and again in different places around the world but that actual action is not really been taken i think that israel has a very strong lobby around the world. now after just one hundred days as the president of france the shine seems to have gone from the man you heard it is the champion of democratic values he's now even more unpopular than his predecessor breaks down what's behind the fall from grace. on may the seven for emanuel macross went to power as president of france. his share of the vote was sixty six percent is thirty nine years promised a fresh new era these i am totally for the construction of
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a new model of governance people do saying that we need reform we want to do reform so we with the reform we are a movement of profound renovation fast forward one hundred days and mccoys popularity has fallen faster than any french president even his predecessor francois a long known as mr unpopular by the end of his presidency because of his record low ratings was doing better one hundred days in the nosedive in my current popularity came after he said he wanted to reign like the mystical jupiter father of the gods while his first divine intervention was to force his military chief to resign after telling him in public that he macro knows better because he is in charge as you would wish if your near city didn't place you in it a new government there. in another high handed move macro cancelled the traditional
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bastille day media conference apparently because he regards his views as too deep for the shallow press and when micro wanted to make his wife the first lady with a public salary over three hundred thousand signed a petition against the plan saying they didn't want a queen bridgette so in just one hundred days the darling of french voters and the new face of french politics has lost the love of his people experts suggest voters fail to notice he was really offering them anything new in the first place he claimed to be and their turn a diva to the old way of doing politics but she was born and raised in this system his education his you know forest of jobs to do with being good over him with all his career and oprah's fears of all for elites the only difference between him and he would mark all of the vicious or the system is his age or in his mother's in his way of governing arkell pretty can the same after three months the president has
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already fallen from grace or as one commentator put it the comments macro or indeed jupiter has come back down into the atmosphere a partridge party paris where microns ratings are also believed to be influenced by his apparent obsession with public image he wanted a bigger office photo than any other president for instance and looks like he tried to copy other leaders hearts winning photos to he seizing in fact every photo opportunity to show that he hasn't lost touch with the people he's a big football fan to like barack obama and also seems to be taking some cues from former french president charles de gaulle publisher and journalist in madrid when real believes image is the only thing mccrone can control with his party. he's compelled to enter the fray because the m.p.'s he has with. his posse has been created it out of the blue and because they have eighty percent of the similar
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seats they have hired people like in business firm but without any experience of the political world you have for instance m.p.'s who said that there will be late at a trench assembly because they had their tennis lessons you can find m.p.'s well completely unable to answer two simple questions to journalists mr macro doesn't have any party that's why he pay so much attention to his image that's the only thing he can control in fact. so that's how things look so fast that i hear a nod say i'll be back with more news than half of. the city of minima so moch was hit the hardest by the twenty eleventh's or nami but it was damaged mostly by the radiation after the nuclear disaster the little not even enough to let you know the real. mom also a lot of what i. am
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