it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. that. you. are ready for a war the country's getting its military ready made. territory worsening relations with the united states. coming up on the program

this hour rights groups a purge the french government to relaunch a probe into the night before. appearing to show you more about the. previously admitted. before you. could put it to you but. the poll shows how people in britain are oblivious to the devastating war in yemen the u.k. being the second biggest arms supplier to the. twenty

four hour news live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know me a welcome to the program our top story. the president of china has instructed the country's military to be combat ready further raising the specter of a potential conflict over trade and beyond but what is rhetoric and what's real rutger's the of now takes a closer look. so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their give me their incredibly careful reserved at least with their tongues so when the chinese president orders his military to prepare for war serious indeed. the military to concentrate on the bouncy red in these war the chinese preparing for war out loud how oh how did we get to this well trump for one aside from land

blasting the chinese at every opportunity is tariffs is sanctions his trade war he's also being very heavy handed congress has just approved a second arms deal with taiwan in eighteen months. and untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests for beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture this is the same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state there are differences of course currently preventing that and about one hundred kilometers of c. that separate the two and trump always a fan of sticking it to the chinese he's been through thing his warships right.

between the two china's eyes in one thousand you'll see show me the taiwan issues is the most important and sensitive issues in china u.s. relations well for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that in trump we worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be great never worrying about anything unfortunately others are there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily. as your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan

independence in any form. thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back to the theme national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out at likely be the people's republic of china slugging it out with the united states rather than taiwan and that is a war that trump really really ought to be worried about. another headline stories this hour friendship men rights groups are calling for approval to

being reopened into the nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda in the stuff like it's to establish whether french troops had any role in the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to rescue a video from news website media part appears to show a senior french military officer discussing an ongoing massacre several days before the army decided to intervene just to note france denies any culpability. if war you were the only two you could push you to do you but you took those on the only quote from it but we. didn't accuse me of. a legend aside in rwanda lasted just over three months but it left nearly a million people dead artie's double quarter reports now on the case from paris. leading french human rights groups called for a reopening of the case on friday trying to get answers from top french military officials about the government's involvement in the one nine hundred ninety four

the sesar zero massacre in the east african country of rwanda now human rights activists are demanding answers one leader of the organization survey is a plaintiff in the case she says it was too premature to close the case while other lawyers are accusing france were in direct complicity in the genocide lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed the survivors opened the case thirteen years ago although back in july it was scrapped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now

is that the french government actually knew what was going on and specifically decided not to intervene the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe and allegations of the french government supports for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

well we just speak with the survivor of the mussar who say yes the french people simply must be told the truth nor out here it didn't surprise me i was very healthy it is to me they have a large population picture of we is this virus have known this for a long time but it's important that the french people know what happened back and nine hundred ninety four when the meltdown was there and they know that transcend all and promised to declassify that markets but it didn't work out everything it published most of the writing now on the only thing i have to add is that the death ranks people have to know the truth. the context of the one genocide was a poor year war is argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate to french have a mandate to intervene if the french are to serious observe this and they had

a mandate to intervene when they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not. take action now demanded. it's the beginning of the end for the love merkel's long running leadership of germany after suffering another dismal state election result merkel has confirmed she won't seek reelection as chancellor in twenty twenty one but german leader will alter relinquish leadership of her christian democratic union party after nearly two decades throwing open the race to succeed her as perhaps europe's most powerful figure. to miss him when his father at the next city you party congress in december and however i will not transfer the office of chair this fourth term is my last term as german chancellor and the twenty twenty one parliamentary elections i want

to run in as a candidate for the chancellery. or any other political office i don't want to participate in or influence and discussions about possible successors i see transit as the start of a new chapter in all voters that dealt merkel latest blow on sunday in regional elections in the state of say her party retain control but suffered a double digit loss the chancellor conceded the results were hard to overcome for some germans though change is over. and get america has been in power for a long time maybe it's time for someone to finish. i don't think the. politicians of course across the political people believe that was the moment. because i have seriously considered. the there is also no other real alternative you bought up all kind local. america jose enjoyed her approval ratings throughout

most of her leadership she's also been regarded really as europe the fact a leader for bringing long term stability to the european union but the chancellor's open door refugee policy caused a major shift in german politics and turn the tide of public opinion against her. for those who flee misery war oppression political oppression we have a responsibility to have these things need the convention and refugees based on our solemn forcing and article one of our constitutional rule whether we want it are not.

measured along political or russian ality this move by going to merkel is not surprising at all because her party was losing confidence among the electorate and the reason and so to speak the burden of this party was on herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happened you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why the rule is really surprising that angular merkel is so quickly there strong the consequences out of the disaster still a electoral defeat during the last eight elections in bavaria and in history.

ok moving on now wiki leaks founder julian assange ecuador is looking to end his political asylum and hundred mover to the united states became a murder while he challenged new rules being imposed on him while he's living at the country's embassy in london where crew is. embassy handed us a list of house rules earlier this month include restrictions on personal visits and communications which might cause diplomatic harm to ecuador essentially stopping its internet well the wiki leaks publisher sought refuge inside the embassy six years ago but relations with quito have. under the current government leading to a standoff with his lawyers. it's clear this protocol was issued with strict respect for international law the ecuadorian state hasn't national responsibility to protect mr songe human rights activist peter tatchell believes ecuador is trying to work done with

a view of getting him out of the embassy well let's be clear the conditions imposed on during a songe by the ecuadorian authorities are extremely draconian they are in some respects similar to the kinds of restrictions that a prisoner would face in a maximum security jail now of course in some respects some aspects of these conditions are reasonable but the way they're being imposed very clearly with the intention of making life on bearable for mistress on does appear to be part of a deliberate strategy to make life so bad for him that he voluntarily leaves even though ecuador is saying that he's welcome to stay. with midterm elections looming in the u.s. a poll suggests a majority of voters few the two party system as i've dated unflawed many are now seeking a third substantial option on the ballot papers your skill up and. the united

states we have a first past the post electoral system where essentially voting for a third party is throwing your vote into the garbage or at least that's the montra coming from the media really people who say oh yeah you know i don't know about hillary and so i voted for jill stein i think you wasted a vote in north carolina for jill's my guess the hardest thing for an independent is to convince the voters that you're for real and that it's a viable choice and they're not wasting their vote the only thing that was kind of holding them back when you talk to them is they would say oh i don't want to waste my vote like the one of their vote to count i grabbed vote republican because i want i'm not going to waste my will is an independent in ohio earlier this year there was a special election in which a democrat was narrowly defeated by a republican twitter lit up with outrage not at the democrats for perhaps running a less than effective campaign but rather at the green party for daring to participate in the political process and win

a few votes. de green party can you please wait to make you a symbolic votes and the time when a government isn't being overrun by white supremacists. you know what so i immediately think the green party tonight on russian medley. green party voters don't tell me you kiribati environment if you know your vote to make the difference between a damn winning over rap and used to choose to vote for a candidate who has no chance of winning now the us state of maine tried to correct this with a new voting system essentially voters get to rank the candidates from best to worst and if no solid majority can be established by their first pick then the second votes are calculated in order to pick a winner the idea is that one can still vote against one of the major parties and have their voice heard in the final results but in the main the state legislature overturn this new voting system and it was a big legal battle to get it going now there's other states eyeing something

similar but there's a lot of pushback but i. here is that people do want to have depended on their parties to come to the freighter so they're so tired and sick of the political dysfunction because the democrats are the publicans and i think americans are really looking for a choice i think the united states to use it like that so there are only two parties and they don't want to let anybody else come into existence because. i think they both secretly know that other parties are not sort of corporatist parties but actually there are parties out there and independents out there that actually do want to advocate for the people but of course they don't want us to get in there because then we would win and they would most americans view the two party political system as outdated but the mainstream media continues to play the you're either with us or against us card so the voices of the majority of americans remain silenced in the political process caleb mopp and r.t. new york. well staying stateside the mom accused of gunning donald levin jewish

worse a person in a synagogue on a separate suspect accused of sending mail bombs have appeared in court although the two cases are not connected much of the news coverage has focused on whether the crimes were politically motivated blaming them on the rise of hate speech. we live now in a very very toxic environment that includes incivility in our political discourse among our leaders the attack yesterday and the attempted pipe bombings over the course of last week should be a wake up call to all americans to demand change. well in both cases the suspects rocked yvonne line the alleged pittsburgh gunman robert gregory borrower's wrote a series of anti semitic posts on the social network galba dot com he described jewish people in infestation claim the holocaust never happened in the wake of the mosque or the site which is popular with the so-called alter right free speech

advocates was taken. c.s.r. . say och the man reported to have sent a series of mail bombs was active on twitter he's believed to send death threats to politicians including former u.s. vice president joe biden on the platform. we don't want people telling us what we can and can't post and you don't also want to have the government telling companies what they can and can't air but you know having said that. the companies themselves have a moral obligation i think an ethical obligation you know like like facebook or twitter to prevent. incitement their sites but that's for them to do and it ought to be something that the public pressures them to do not the government requires them to do but it should be naturally what you would do with social media platforms that these social media whether it's facebook twitter you tube they can't be held

responsible for whoever posts anything on their on their websites and that was so that you know we can continue to thrive in tech expansion now of course hate speech speech is protected in america even though hate speech is horrible and abysmal that is a protected right of speech we can't arrest somebody for for an opinion that they might have no matter how egregious or or ugly that opinion seems there are solutions to the problem of the power of google or the power of facebook or the power of twitter and those are to break the damn things up it's the same problem we have with newspapers and with in broadcasting you know we have these giant conglomerates that control all our media and they determine what gets in and what doesn't get in those all these organizations should be broken up shouldn't be allowed to have the monopolies that they have we don't want the government coming down and telling us what we can and can't do especially when it comes to social media but i think if we put the power within social media company executives then we're just saying we don't want government to regulate it but we want these powerful business to

regulate it and so we're just putting the power into one of the person's hand we're looking at three of four major social media platforms and much of the speech comes down and so we have to we have to consider the fact that it would be a lot more beneficial to have twenty thirty forty social media platforms i think the main thing is to accept personal responsibility and really to grow up i mean the american public does need to grow up and only accept responsibility but not engage in these things and then we can put proper public pressure. hillary clinton's facing a buck plush job being that african-americans look like she was correcting an interviewer who mixed up two democrat politicians you think of cory booker's and you can comment to him in your kill file i don't know anything about him saying kick them in the shins essentially start to get to that kind of political i was eric holder eric holder sorry i know they all look alike now they don't. allow that. many fired back out hillary on twitter for the dumping

a racist while at the same time taking your closer look at the reaction many claim if it had been donald trump saying that the outrage would have been much more vocal. well this come as many in the african american community are calling to ditch support for the democratic party. the black said movement will spend twenty nineteen holding rallies in every major city in america that the democrats have destroyed.

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the devastating conflict in yemen has long been regarded as the world's worst humanitarian crisis but it's a war that's bypassed nearly the amount of people in britain according to a new poll what makes more alarming is that the u.k. is the second biggest supplier of weapons to the country waging the bombing campaign. take a closer look. it's taken the lives of thousands of civilians and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and yet according to a new poll almost a conference the people in the u.k. have no i did that there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign of strikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels.

the war in yemen isn't just another humanitarian crisis in a far flung parts of the world the saudi led campaign is being waged partly thanks to a hefty supply of british made weapons the u.k. government happens to be the second biggest supplier of arms to the saudi kingdom after the us according to the latest figures u.k. military sales to riyadh increased by two thirds in twenty seventeen from the previous year i want to find out how much people in london know about it hi do you

know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i. don't. know now sorry what's happening in yemen. there's a war soldier rubia. has some middle east politics say ok you're. the first person safe who has the answer that question has been approached monday do you know what's happening in yemen. i have no idea do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen you need a said before you know about the war and something about truth i assume if you're asking that something bad is saudi arabia attacking your was what was happening you know very good things that you do you know that there's

a war taking place there yeah yeah you know that almost half of the u.k. have no idea what's happening in yemen but we should take this i think we pay for it over to the. u.k. we don't know about most things happening in russia but if i can imagine china's terrible why do you think that is no enough has been said about it it depends what the media seem to sizing at a particular point in time we came through it says public knowledge and opinion so you think it's under-reported. the mother of jamal khashoggi has brought the new case close strategic partnership with the riyadh into the spotlight now an increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. a call on the government to explain its unceasing support for the saudi led war in yemen perhaps if more of the public knew about says the government would be under more pressure to act. the rise of the far right in one of europe's least populated countries next it's our documentary rooney assaults.

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