china ready for war the country's getting its military ready. trade. relations with the united states. rights groups urged the french government. video

emerges appearing to show. it. to. people who don't believe that. a poll shows that people are oblivious to yemen is devastating despite the u.k. being the second biggest arms supplier to the. pain their. calls for black americans to ditch support for the democratic party with. among those encouraging a shift. for a third major party in the us political system according to a nationwide survey. live

from moscow every hour of the day this is r.t. international my name's union o'neill and you're welcome to the program our top story the president of china has instructed the country's military to be war ready for the raising the specter of a potential conflict over trade and beyond but what's rhetoric and what is real rutger's the of took 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 revenues for war the chinese are preparing for war out loud how over 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. kind of 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 and 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 seeing his warships right between the two china. as i said. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s.

how and he should ensure taiwan issue concerns china sovereignty and territorial integrity and is the most important on his hands to fish usually in china you ask relationally. 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. metallica let's be graves 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 national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out it 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 the world is really across rolled facing major threats to world peace and development between china and

the united states the tensions are getting more and more acute and the united states has been pushing china round him really china and imposing unilateral tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states china does not want to have a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things onto china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. the devastating conflict in yemen has long been regarded as the world's worst humanitarian crisis but it's a war that's buying past nearly half of people in britain according to a new poll what makes that more alarming is that the u.k. is the second biggest supplier of weapons to the country waging the bombing campaign. reports. 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 to see 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. my. afraid i. don't. know now sorry what's happening in yemen. there's a war soldier rabiya. has some middle east politics ok ok you're the

first person. who has our answer that question has been approached morning. do you know what's happening in yemen now you know. i have no idea do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen you. say the war you know about the war and something about truth i sue if you're asking something bad of saudi arabia we're talking here was what was happening in a 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 just i think we are you for a little bit. how you can you 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 keep troops is public knowledge and opinion so you

think it's under reported. the mother of jamal khashoggi has brought the you case closed the strategic partnership with the riyadh into the spotlight now an increasing number of politicians here in the u.k. are calling on the government to explain its unceasing support for the saudi led war in yemen perhaps if more of the public knew about it the government would be under more pressure to. the french human rights groups are calling for a probe to be reopened into the nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda in east africa it's to establish whether french troops had any role in the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to protect in the village of. a video from news website media parts appears to show a senior french military officer discussing an all knowing must occur there several days before the army decided to intervene. before you were the only two could push

you to do you but you took those only you don't equal you know you don't you tell me the one who makes somebody a devoted pollution of all three of them. in the genocide in rwanda lasted just over three months leaving nearly a million people dead or france the nice any culpability in the poseur must secure human rights groups are now saying the case was closed private surely artie's double quarter has more from partisan. 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 open 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've made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

well we spoke with a survivor of the massacre who say the french people must be told what occurred. no we have no the video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media. the truth that we the survivors have known this was a long time it's important that the french people know what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there so you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives if they didn't work out it's everything he was already known the only things i have to add is that the french people has want to know the truth the context of the one genocide was the four year war this argument between france and rwanda has been going on since one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate to differentiate have a mandate to entrench have

a mandate to intervene if french officers observe this and they had a mandate to intervene when they did something wrong. soldiers typically double the . night do not. take action now demanded. with midterm elections looming in the us a poll suggests that a majority of voters view the two party system dated unflawed many are now seeking a third substantial option to throw their support behind kill up and followed 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 oh my god 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 is kind of holding them back when you talk to them is they would say oh i don't want to waste my vote like a one of their vote to count i grabbed vote republican because i want i'm not going to waste my go as an independent in ohio earlier that. 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. to the green party can you please wait to make you a symbolic votes and a time when our government isn't being overrun by white supremacists. you know what sucks i mean diddly think the green party tonight on russian mentally. green party voters don't tell me you cure by 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 u.s. 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 maine the state legislature overturned 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 what i hear is that people do want to have it depended and other parties come to the freighters 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 skews 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 that

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 our. dated 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 mop and r.t. new york on the way how a must occur on a sinister meal bolam come pain us got americans increasingly worried over politically motivated hate speach. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president and you. want to be. actually going to be pros that's what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. course. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. start to bomb a really was very european in his approach would be very well suited is. brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see what we're all here.

to look at in the united states the mom accused of gunning down eleven jewish worshipers in a synagogue on a separate suspect accused of sending male. courts off to present his pontiff is it the scene of a synagogue. sparked across u.s. media outlets the coverage focused on whether the crimes were politically motivated the result of a spike in hate speech and it wasn't only the media that was against the president's visit personally i would like him to stay away if he could come and not make it about himself and not make a political so and certainly. why not is fueling those people who are extremists and i'm very very sad for this country if this could be the start of getting along and so be it. and i think that would be a good thing we need to start working together well in the wake of those incidents

social media sites have come under increased scrutiny in both cases the suspects have expressed their hostility online the alleged pittsburgh gunman robert gregory bombers wrote a series of ugly semitic posts on the social network dot com he described jewish people as an infestation and claim the holocaust never happened in the wake of the mosque or the site which is popular with the so-called alter right on free speech advocates was taken down and says are all teary seok the man reported to have sent a series of mail bombs was active on twitter he's believed to have sent death threats to politicians including former vice president joe biden via the platform we put the subject of social media links to hate speech up for debate. 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 err put 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 on 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 who ever post 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 and 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 the 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 persons 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. in public does need to grow up and said not only accept responsibility but not engage in these things and then we can put proper public pressure to reclaim tin's facing a buck jibing that african americans look like she was correcting an interviewer

who mixed up two democrat politicians do 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 pull it was eric holder air cargo aircraft holding a star i know they all look alike no they don't. well many firebug out there in twitter dubbing her racist while at the same time taking a closer look at the reaction some say that if it had been donald trump uttering the same joke at the outrage would have been much more vocal. when it comes as many high profile african-americans are calling on others in the black community to ditch support for the democratic party.

the plex it movement will spend twenty thousand nine hundred rallies in every major city in america that the democrats have to short. to keep doing better and the trump presidency.

this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west. it's the beginning of the end for long running leadership of germany after suffering another dismal state election results america has confirmed she will be seeking reelection chancellor in twenty twenty one the german leader well to relinquish leadership of her christian democratic union party after nearly two decades throwing open the race to succeed or is perhaps europe's. powerful figure but to me someone is part of the next city you party congress in december and hamburg 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. well voters delphic oracle the latest blow on sunday and regional elections in the state of tests her party retain control but suffered a double digit loss the chancellor concluded the results were hard to overcome for some germans though change is overdue. and give america has been in power for a long time maybe it's time for someone new to even use. i don't think the. politicians of course trust little people believe the many more. seriously considered voting for the there is also no real alternative the would be. well and good marco has enjoyed high approval ratings for most of her leadership she's also been regarded as europe the facto leader after bringing long term stability to the

e.u. but the chancellor's open door refugee policy calls the major shift in german politics turn the tide of public opinion against her. those who flee in misery war oppression political oppression we have a responsibility to the geneva convention and refugees based on our solemn forcing and article one of our constitutional law whether we want it or not.

measure along political russian ality this move i'm 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 happens you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why the rule is really surprising that angular merkel is so quickly and has drawn the consequences out of the disaster still a electorate defeats during the last eight elections in bavaria and in hissing. well tuesday's news stories keep coming in just a or half an hour's time after some great programs to delve into here on r.t.e. international hope to see you.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race all sounds very dramatic development only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

greetings and salutation so the world can be a very very scary place hawk watchers but it's in these times of uncertainty that we must remain diligent in our fight for peace and not get distracted and subdue supply the constant headlines of fear and terror because it's buried behind and beneath these headlines of fear the vital information about the future stability of peace can often get lost take this headline for example recently seen in the united states air force is very own web site armed and ready ramstein receives largest ammo shipment in years the article goes on to quote the eighty six the new missions operation sex and she section chief one master sergeant david head excitedly lamenting that this is the largest shipment of its kind since operation allied.