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it's still public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean the real news is really. decision to quit the i.m.f. treaty takes the world a step closer to a new clear goal of course that's the warning from twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate who's introduced a bill to try to paedo the move. french air force jets turn up the hangs on rebel fighters in the central african country of chad using their firepower to help the.
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fourteen children with h.l.v. in aids or expelled from school in indonesia here at the insistence of outraged parents we speak to some of the kids who were forced out. of the. the school and. thanks for joining us maybe not head of moscow this is international. ok let's start with the news that has just come in a few moments ago there been reports of an active shooter at an industrial park in a roar in the u.s. state of illinois and these are live pictures for you from the scene reportedly there are dozens of first responder vehicles outside the building police are said
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to be on the scene now however there is still no information about possible victims at this stage the f.b.i. has also said that they are responding to this reported shooting. twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate tilsa gabbers announced the bill that could stop donald trump withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear missile treaty known as the i n f. i'm ready. to. take this threat down. our arms reach the united. ever. did here. earlier this month washington said it was suspending its obligations under the treaty signed back in one thousand nine hundred seven and said that it would fully withdraw in six months time russia responded in kind their own if treaty bans land based missiles with ranges between five hundred and five
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thousand five hundred kilometers in the two countries vying to quit the deal feels fears are growing over a new arms race and recent remarks by trump are helping to quash those concerns. perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement hearing china and others. or perhaps we can't in which case we will outspend and out innovate all others by far congresswoman gabby out as already faced accusations in the media being the kremlin's favorite n.b.c. news for instance branded her a subject of russia's propaganda machine after sputnik published articles about her she's also refused to call the syrian president an enemy of the united states and even personally met with him two years ago. and i'm pleased to speak now it's a journalist and human rights lawyer vali good to have you on down what do you
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think the chances that this bill could be effective in and stop the pullout from the on f. well i certainly hope it will be effective i mean i agree with ms gabbert that this is pushing this move by trump is pushing the world closer to the possibility of nuclear war these are the type of missiles these intermediate range missiles that a country like the u.s. might be willing to use on a limited basis so i hope it is gabbert bill works i have doubts though because it seems like there's bipartisan support. in the united states for war in for a confrontation with russia settling. yes speaking of russia and b.c. has linked to russia it seems to be based on the fact that stories about who were carried in russian media outlets i mean it's a bit of a tenuous connection in. well again we've entered a new mccarthy period it is very tenuous now if if someone drinks russian
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vodka they're a russian agent apparently. it's silliness and but it's dangerous because this is an attempt to mark any peace activist any activist for social justice is some type of a pawn of the kremlin again very much like the old mccarthy period which links similar people with with moscow. i mean i don't want to over stress it but i think it's worth pointing out that her position on the on if treaty is completely the opposite of president trumps you have both of them up rounded russian agents by the u.s. media is there going to come a point at which people will say you know this is kind of getting it not only is it ridiculous but it just doesn't make sense anymore i can only hope so your exact the right and again the idea trump is upon a pollutant did putin want him to back out of the i.n.f. treaty of course not i mean it's all silly and as you say to claim that gabbert and
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trump who are the opposite sides of this oppose pons of the kremlin shows that this entire line of argument is is specious an absurd to think about as announced of course she's running for the presidency in twenty twenty she's against interventions in foreign states against regime change she's she's pretty much anti war thing is fair to say will that resonate with the voters in your opinion. i think it will it resonates with me i'll probably be supporting her for president. but at the same time you know the knives have already come out against her i mean for it to argue for peace to advocate for peace in the united states is a very risky thing you know we have an economy largely based on war and you know there's already huge attacks against telsey aberg which i believe will intensify it's the same time i think there's a huge base of popular support for the idea that we should be spending money at
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home instead of spending trillions of dollars on wars that only make us less safe than greatly appreciate tom pleasure to speak to my guests thank of all a journalist human rights lawyer thank you for talking i was just one of a growing on me of prominent political figures accused of being under the thumb of the kremlin in case you missed it is public. can get it to misstate russian stooges only clearly want to wait claims there are none for ages and then turns out not all at once. russia. is making want to take the easy since twenty sixty politicians no longer need compelling arguments or persuasive policies to all that if you're up against a tough opponent the kind that popular with votes is just cool of the russians these stooges are just human versions of those russian books we've heard so much about they don't actually have to be real to walk sure having your own stooge in
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a position of power would have its advantages but even better is being able to accuse your enemies of being one a career and russians do jury is one of the most diverse in politics just look at the members of. the newest recruit is democratic presidential hopeful tell see who suggested that bad relations with the biggest nuclear power in the world may not be in everyone's best interests she's a simone american hindu female socialist following in the prestigious footsteps of but the song is an old white american male socialist jeremy corbin an old white british male socialist and don't trump an old orange american male republican opportunist so literally anybody can be a russian stooge and those are just the anti hillary and anti war ones and here are the pro-war pro hillary clinton ones.
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so how do you even become a russian stooge. herath the russians stooge recruitment academy we have positions available from entry level all the way up to executive level don't worry about applying for the job mainstream media. and the list and establishment want to titian's will forward it to you whether you want to or not the majority of our most successful employees simply fell into the job without noticing experience or knowledge of rochelle or russians is not essential the only qualification required is that you question the status quo publicly at least once if you are successful in your application we will inform you via m s n b c or fox news good luck to you does.
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global security is widely viewed as a complex issue but during the opening day of the annual munich security conference the u.k.'s defense secretary made it clear he knows where the world's evil is said that piece of all of those following the speech. well the speech by governor williamson was a well certainly something that drew attention on a day that didn't really have its flaming moments but what we heard from the british defense secretary was how he saw the world at the moment and how we saw the better protection of the world he wants to see which is a nation who holds dear the values of democracy tolerance and justice we must not be cowed or intimidated. that's why our military continues asserting its legitimate freedom of access in action across the globe it does sound a little bit like what we've heard before from the in one thousand states basically do what we say or we're going to send in our troops williamson is being talked
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about sometimes in the voices as a potential future leader of his party potentially a few chips prime minister of great britain the former fireplace salesman though has made himself somewhat notorious when it comes to statements that he's made he has said in the past where he wants to see britain become a global brand you want to see great britain go global the address not by announcing that it would be sending a aircraft carrier with a full fighter bomber contingent to the south china sea it does though come back to russia when it comes to govern williamson and we certainly heard from him when he spoke today in munich russia's breach russian adventurism remains a threat russia's illegal activity russian recklessness russian governmental subversion we heard russia quite a bit their government williamson went russia very much in focus when it came to
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the british defense secretary speech we need to bring all pressure to bear to bring them back into line the united states britain and others are all siding with the. one guy who's announced himself as the interim president of venezuela we're expecting more statements when it comes to venezuela and what to expect with the international reaction to venezuela coming from the security conference i'll be here throughout this of course bring you all of the latest here on r.t. . security analysts. speaking there and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov who's attending the conference at a packed show today russia's top diplomat met with the secretary general of nato against them from both focusing on european security in light of washington's withdrawal from the i.m.f. treaty in the day lavrov also discussed the gas pipeline project north stream two with his german counterpart. the pipeline has been the target of american pressure
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with washington going so far as to threaten sanctions against the german companies involved. france has conducted and strikes in the central african country of chad in a bid to avert a coup d'etat they will attack help the child in army capture two hundred fifty five friends support for the current leadership in chad is drawing criticism it to trying to explain it's just to the south of libya in between countries like nigeria and sudan there is a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that because you've gone president deby asked us in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so they saved the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from libya thinking they could take the capital but chad's president deby is lucky enough to have such good
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friends. the french jets nipped the rebels' coup plan in the but by the way guess how it became to power almost thirty years ago and it crew ever since then has been an ally for the west and dealing with all kinds of islamist thugs in the area so his government's legitimacy deserves to be protected the former french colony is not a regime by any means the fiqh with our intervention was totally in line with international law and the prime minister has informed the president of the senate and the national assembly a few more facts about mr dombey has just tweaked part of the constitution to be able to stay in power till twenty thirty three he's election victories have been questioned by international observers he's even been accused of war crimes and his country's doing very bad when it comes to the economy job is
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a very poor country and with or without petrol with or without the oil money it's going to remain a very good country and it needs it needs. many of the country it needs humanitarian help those very. mounted troops should basic the country needs and wants needed i think it's a really sustained slight against in particular against kuzma groups which is becoming very widespread and very very serious problem in the country in case you didn't know the french army however has a history of standing by president deby oh we have got french taxpayers' money is going in. to defend the shots current president that was going to productive many human rights watch groups it's totally hype. well on the behalf of marco how can you on one side support the rebels in venezuela and attack them in chad there's no logic chad is one of the poorest countries in the world so why is france
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intervening to defend such a reach in. chad into the people of chad was decide what what is their future and what political system they want to install in suffer america. b.c. we are less french interests but enough for a car and in venezuela the french government sees these crises as an opportunity to show some understanding of the united states to side with the americans to show some solidarity be armored car but of course a job order to go to interest are always more important than the border to go to ideologies and this is why you can find some different attitudes in different countries if things stay the way they are don't mess with those in charge of chad for what was it. another fourteen years.
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the number of children with a child v. and they have been expelled from school in indonesia and south to some of the parents of their classmates expressed outrage that infected children were attending classes we heard from some of the children who were kicked out. parents strongly objected to the fourteen children so tandems because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to proceed but following their protest we took the children out of the school and now we are helping to find a new school for them my if i think i think of the soul i think i
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a week these children have been staying home and not going to school they are very upset about it and really want to play with other kids again they keep asking me when they'll be allowed to go back i think children should be treated equally they should all have the right to go to school and these children have faced so many obstacles since entering school after kindergarten it's become the norm but we will stay strong i think there is no need to hide the location of the next school for these children if we are open it will be easier to explain to the public that their disease is in their body and will not easily spread to others. donald trump has confirmed that he is announcing a national emergency on friday to bypass congress and get funding for a war on the border with mexico we would make up for the cost of the wall just at the cost of the fact that i would be able to have fewer people we would need all of this incredible talent and when i asked president xi i said you have
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a drug problem no no no i said why death penalty if you're going to have drugs pouring across the border then. very hard to make america great again well folks will recall that we just had the longest government shutdown federal government shutdown in the history of the united states as congress and the president could not agree on the issue of funding for the border wall that trump has been talking about building ever since his campaign for president so as there was a deal reached recent signing of an agreement for funding that did not include the border wall we now see donald trump coming out and announcing a national emergency and this national emergency will enable him to build his border wall and secure funding for it without the approval of congress is invoking the national emergency act of one nine hundred seventy six now there is a huge amount of outrage coming from the democratic party they argue that this is
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creating a constitutional crisis and we've now seen nancy pelosi the speaker of the house a democratic party leader in congress talking about the possibility that perhaps a democratic president could take similar moves in the future let's take a review of what nancy pelosi said we want to talk about a national emergency let's talk about today the one year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in america that's a national emergency why don't you declare that emergency mr president i wish you would but a democratic president can do that and what kind of commit president can declare emergencies as well and now it's important to know that sense in one nine hundred seventy six when the law was created enabling the president to declare a national emergency is that this law has been invoked fifty eight times fifty eight different national emergencies have been declared and thirty one of them are still in place the longest national emergency it was ever declared was when jimmy carter declared
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a national emergency in response to iran's islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine now let's review barack obama for example he had ten national emergencies that he declared one on ukraine one on. george w. bush declared eleven national emergencies one on bell roofs one on zimbabwe and then one after the nine eleven attacks bill clinton declared six including one on sudan normally national emergencies are used and declared in order to put sanctions on countries that gives the us president the ability to declare sanctions against countries that they deem to be violating the law are somehow somehow in conflict with the united states however this is donald trump declaring a national emergency in response to what he says is a dangerous humanitarian situation on the u.s. border he's arguing that the op activities of human traffickers and drug gangs have made a necessity that is border wall which he has been talking about ever since he campaigned for president be constructed he's arguing that it is
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a national emergency on the us mexico border and that that gives him the authority to declare a national emergency and begin building his wall so trump is invoking the one nine hundred seventy six law he expects it as he declared in his statement today he expects that this will be challenged in court he expects to not only have this this challenge in court but to have to appeal it all the way to the u.s. supreme court so we're waiting to see what will happen next but at the moment we have donald trump declaring a national emergency so that he can then proceed to build his border wall going to impose fines off an angry tweet the revelations that was high level talk to happen removed from office in a t. quotes the views of harvard law professor emeritus dershowitz who just happens to be the latest guest on monte's wills the pollen show host of which acts on the boy could join my colleague to discuss that interview. this whole discussion was triggered by the latest revelations by a former f.b.i.
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deputy chief and to my cape who on the record admitted that the justice department officials indeed considered back in two thousand and seventeen invoking the twenty fifth amendment to remove donald trump from office now that amendment provides for a process of discharging a sitting president if he is mentally or physically incapacitated but according to alan dershowitz this by no means applies to trump because he's physically fit he may disagree with his policies and a lot of people do but that is not the grounds for invoking this amendment and according to some people on the tram side that was as close as the united states has ever come to an administrative who when a group of unelected security officials get together and discuss removing democratically elected president from office was a terrible terrible abuse of the constitution the constitution provides for
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impeachment that's a political legal remedy but the twenty fifth amendment was designed for people who had a stroke or president reagan when he was shot when you're incapacitated when you are unconscious when you're only able to be the president it provides a mechanism for replacing the president with the vice president it was never intended to be used to rid the country of a president who people don't agree with may have committed obstruction of justice your collaboration with russia but we know trump faces more pressure in the form of the ongoing miller investigation into alleged russian clue ssion so what it issue it say about this he was very critical of the way the miller investigation is being carried out because remember almost two years into this probe we still don't have a single indictment that relates to the original crime that it was supposed to. investigate which is the collusion that's been the trump campaign and the russians we have
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a number of and died minutes based on this so-called process crimes when you arrest the person when you interrogate him when you sum to or her when he essentially set up a moral trap to see if he would lie to the prosecutors and then did a couple of people did but none of them was or has been charged with. being directly involved with the russians and one one interesting point that they're sure it's made makes is that even if administration officials had some contacts with the russians having a contact in and of itself is not enough to support the collusion charge well first of all even if there were. between the trump campaign and some russians that would not be a crime it's not a crime to. it would be a crime only if members of the trump campaign or any campaign urged people in another country to commit a crime like hacking the emails of their opponents the democratic national committee but there's no evidence of that at all and i suspect in the end what
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they'll find is there was some people in the campaign who had contacts with some people in russian intelligence perhaps some contact with wiki leaks and contact with others but they're not going to be able to make a case for the government of russia. being illegally we. presidential candidate donald trump we are running this interview in the fall this coming sunday and i think it raises a number of very interesting points about the lengths to which some americans are willing to go to remove tran from office and what they're willing to sacrifice in the process of doing that which according to dershowitz is the constitution and the rule of law. the u.s. is waging a geo political war against chinese tech giant war way that's according to the firm's deputy chief he believes that washington cyber security worries a ruse evangelise obsess as more. well it seems that while these officials are
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getting furious and tire with all this and rhetoric in a press conference in the southern chinese cd of change in one of chairman eric who accuse washington of carrying out a quote coordinated tactical jule political campaign against the chinese telecom firm the us government is undertaking a well coordinated jew political campaign against whoever way it's essentially using a national machine against a small company so we've been wondering is the recent fixation on who our way truly about cyber security could there be other motivations this is not the first time that we see why it was officials calling at the united states last week the company use words such as uncrowded in senseless and phil chalk the news on how the us government has been lobbying here pm governments against the telecom firm now few statements come after us secretary of state mike on pill media tour in eastern
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europe and has been warning its allies that if they use any of the chinese teleconference equipment in any of their major infrastructure projects they will face consequences when dealing with the united states chinese infrastructure. delivered the away you mentioned huawei in china we've done here in poland what we've done all across the world test is to make them aware of the concerns it risks and show them the data we've made known the risks that are associated with that we share the things we know about the risks to the waterways presence with all this negative talk around a coocoo is not actually only talk it seems to be paying off fringe carrier orange which operates in twenty seven markets has been using quad as its top equipment supplier but it would one run its first french five g. network with samsung but the pressure does not stop there just last month the us filed two criminal charges against the chinese telecom firm accusing them of
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stealing trade secrets. from telecom companies in the united states and thirteen counts of fraud and conspiracy to bypass sanctions on iran. has been battling with a cusins from western governments calling them become pany of spoiling for the chinese state with of course triggering reactions from not only from quark way over the chinese government as well and now children without any solid evidence the u.s. keeps inventing crimes and china out different threat theories it's using state power to suppress the legitimate development of the rights and interests of chinese and prizes that is using political means to intervene in the economy we believe that this is hypocritical unfair and immoral war faces war and more pressure from the u.s. and its allies the future not only of the two countries is uncertain but the international trade as well. as bring you more on.
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