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that. just twelve euros fifty a month. at three pm moscow time china ready for war the country's getting its military battle ready. to try to territory worsening relations with the united states. like the french government to relaunch a probe into the one nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide is. more about the
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slaughter than it previously admitted. before you know me too you can. give it to you but you close all the community. and. elsewhere in the headlines a poll shows that half of people in britain are oblivious to get this devastating war despite the fact the u.k. is the second biggest supplier to the saudi led bombing campaign. and calls for black americans to ditch support for the democratic party kanye west among those encouraging the shift also massive demand for a third major policy in the us political system according to a nationwide survey. i get to to talk. for the next half hour the my name's kevin owen thanks for joining
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us live from moscow this first than 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 what's going on here what's rhetoric and what's real our senior correspondent were against it takes a closer look to try and work it out. 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
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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. of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests that beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture ethnicity 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 floating his warships right between the two china's. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is
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the most important and sensitive issue in china u.s. relations. for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that interim. we worry about. work. i don't worry about things. let's be grateful never worrying about anything unfortunately others are and 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
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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 after rule that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think 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
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the united states the tensions are getting more and more acute and the united states has been pushing china rounds he merely 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 research says yemen's devastating war has claimed fifty six thousand lives over the past two years some five times higher than previously thought despite it being considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis british charities found that almost half of people in the u.k. are unaware that there's a war there at all even though their country is the second biggest supplier of weapons to the country waging a bombing campaign has more the findings in a moment but first here's a look at just how much of
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what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen. is taking 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 there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign event strikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels hold bukhari don't know about most things happening in russia but if i can imagine china's terrible why do you think that is not enough has been said about it depends on what the media seem to starting at a particular point in time with you through into public knowledge and opinion so you think it's under-reported good the war in yemen isn't just another humanitarian crisis in a far flung part of the world the saudi led campaign is being waged partly thanks
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to a hefty supply of british made weapons the u.k. government happens to be the second biggest supplier of alms 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 the mother of jamal khashoggi has brought the u. case closed to strategic. on the ship 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. french human rights groups are calling for a probe to be reopened into the nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda in east africa is to establish whether or not french troops had any blame for the deaths of hundreds of people they promised to protect in the village of business arrow
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a video from news website media part appears to show a senior french military officer discussing the ongoing massacre of the several days before the army decided to intervene. before you were the only two you could put your clothes on the don't equal you know the one. the genocide in rwanda lost to just over three months and left nearly a million people dead while paris tonight any culpability in the business or a massacre rights groups led by the french and geo are now saying the case was closed prematurely. lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military out for its use were aware that from the afternoon off 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
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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 enter. i mean 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.
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we spoke with a survivor of the massacre and i asked her if the revelations no or a shock nor as i do not know the video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media part published the truth we deserve libraries have known this for 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 you know because i only know that cause fallen promise to declassify the archives they didn't work out it's everything he published was already known and the only thing i have to add is that the french people have to know the truth the context of the one genocide was a four year war it is argument between france and rwanda has been going on since
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one thousand nine hundred four did the french have a mandate to french have a mandate to intervene if the french are to sears observe this and they had a mandate to intervene when they did something wrong. soldiers typically. do not do not. he can. now demanded. those mid-term elections looming in the us a poll suggests that a majority of voters view the two party current system as outdated i'm flawed many know seeking a third substantial option to throw their support behind that is kind of maupin's been phoning it in 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 mantra 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
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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 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 of 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 a time when our government isn't being overrun by white supremacists. you know what so i immediately think the green party tonight on russian mentally. green party voter don't tell me you kiribati environment if you know your vote will
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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 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
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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 mop and r.t. new york thanks be with us today coming up among the stories ahead how a most secure of the company has got americans increasingly worried over a politically motivated hate speech just one of the stories ahead.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic developments only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong. but i. just don't. get to see power to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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again in the us the man accused of gunning down eleven jewish worshipers in the synagogue last weekend and also a separate suspect accused of sending mail bombs are both played in court separately donald trump announced his plan to visit the scene of a synagogue massacre me but it was sparked across u.s. media outlets over it the coverage focused on whether the crimes were politically motivated and the result of a spike in hate speech and whether indeed the president's contributed to that it was known to the media against his visit. personally i would like him to stay away if he can come and not make it about himself and not make it political and certainly why not he is fueling those people who are extremists and i am very very sad for this country if this could be the start of getting along than so
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be it and i think that would be a good thing we need to start working together in the wake of those incidents social media sites have come under increased scrutiny in both cases we're talking about here the suspects that express their hostility online the alleged pittsburgh gunman robert gregory boas wrote a series of anti semitic posts on the social network dot com in the wake of the massacre the website which is popular with the so-called all right and free speech advocates was taken down and then there was caesar of cherry say out the man reported to have sent a series of mail bombs it was active on twitter he's believed to have written death threats to politicians including the former vice president joe biden on the platform you put the links between the social media and hate speech up for debate them. 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 put you know having said that. the companies themselves have
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a moral obligation i think an ethical obligation you know like like facebook or twitter to prevent. incitement in 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 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 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
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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 in. and 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 being top of it america's civil toxic political atmosphere hillary clinton is facing
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a backlash of the judge being that african-americans quote all look alike and quote she was correcting an interviewer at the time mixed up two democrat politicians using of cory booker's and using 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 airco airco here sorry i know they all look alike no they don't. really ford but he clinton on two it's a doubling of races for joke it is such a way to suggest that if it had been donald trump in the same law the outrage would have been much more vocal it comes as many high profile african-americans are calling on others in the black community to ditch their support for the democratic party who've been a pillar of the democrats base. i. i. i. i.
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just slow down. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west i. in a general movement is to get more people open minded to think differently you have to necessarily vote different maybe you have been doing but be open minded and maybe you come to the realization the best way for you to be so that is the main thing trying to encourage people to think differently. rather than being attached to the democratic ideology no matter what. authorities of the russian public kind of stranded arrested eighteen suspected members of an islamic state one of the suspects was helpful to underage and weapons from a hidden store according to the security services the cell was planning several
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terror attacks here in russia before then traveling to join ice on militants in syria firearms swedish ins along with extremist literature and symbols of coverage of the operation. wiki leaks founder julian assange says ecuador is looking to end his political asylum and hand him over to the united states the claim emerged while he challenged new rules being imposed on him while he's still living in the country's embassy in london those regulations were handed to his son julie this month they include restrictions on personal visits ban on communications which might cause diplomatic harm to ecuador the wiki leaks published sought refuge inside the embassy six years ago now but relations with quito have soured under the current government leading to a standoff now with his lawyers it's clear this protocol was issued with strict respect for international law the ecuadorian state has an international responsibility to protect mr sunshine you rights activist peter tatchell told us he
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believes that god was trying to wear a sandwich down here with a view of getting him out of that embassy was 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 the 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 mr assad and 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. they're just a few of the very very stories we're tracking for you today you can follow it all on our main site out home for now though from a studio here it out c h q kevin i would say have a great day. when
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lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the sun with the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. from the real news is really. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. or somehow want to.
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have to like to be close it's like them before they scream or can people get. interested always in the waters of our. question. because or this is the kaiser report on doma baby. baby oh you know take baby steps got a kid. they got into your shot there. you know we're heading off across america we are beginning our journey for gonzo and we will
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this is our last episode before you and i will go on the road and so you the audience will be now watching us as part of our journey the kaiser report will be doing our journey from the road as well while we're on the road for three weeks with gonzo which is a new series coming to you soon from december so get ready for that part of the reason of course why we wanted to set out on this journey across america and find out what's going on is we want to look at the economic and cultural landscape and find out what not only did the mainstream media miss in trump winning but remarkably what they continue to miss because if you look at this first headline it looks like twenty twenty is looking good again for trump trump has raised more than one hundred million dollars for two thousand and twenty a reelection effort president trump is raise more than one hundred million dollars for his reelection effort in two thousand and twenty less than two years after he
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took office according to campaign finance disclosures filed earlier this month now the remarkable thing about this is he's the first president to ever raise any money this early let alone one hundred million dollars this figure is remarkable that trump is the first president in modern history to begin fund raising so early in his first term he technically launched just twenty twenty campaign the day of his inauguration and officially said he'd run once more this february nine hundred eighty days before the next presidential election he has been holding camp. i mean style rallies and soliciting donations ever since yeah right yeah our new series that will start airing in december and we start shooting it very soon and we're going to take a good look at the american cultural landscape from sea to shining swamp and figure out what makes this country tick and as i've said since the beginning of the charm campaign at the.
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