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i. was. like no. problem trumps decision to quit the i.n.f. treaty takes the world a step closer to a nuclear goal of course that's the warning from twenty twenty us presidential candidate who has introduced the bill to try torpedo the move. elsewhere french air force jets turn of the heat on rebel fighters in the central african country of chad using their firepower to help. and fourteen children with h.i.v. and aids are expelled from
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a school in indonesia and these systems of outraged parents can speak to some of the kids who were forced down. to. look cool. cool. great to have you with us this is r.t. international. twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate has announced the bill that could stop president withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear missile treaty known as the i n f discussed live to washington and r.t. america correspondent said i'm on to sara what can you tell us about the proposal. well see gabbert actually proposed a bill that could remove the have the u.s.
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pullout of the landmark treaty that was signed in one nine hundred eighty seven by then leaders ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev now it's been one of the pillars of international security since it banned nuclear capable missiles of intermediate range however thirty years later president trump is facing constant accusations of collusion and not being tough enough on russia decided to withdraw from that treaty he cited alleged violations by moscow now with the two countries vowing to quit the deal fears are growing over a new arms race and research marked by trump aren't helping to quash those concerns . let's. take this threat right now. our our series you write these. are several. there are apps we. negotiated different agreement
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it being china and others. or perhaps we can't in which case we will outspend and out innovate all of those by far. russia has denied any violations and said that it's been open to washington for any necessary checks that didn't help and for now that treaty has been suspended by both sides pave the way for a potential arms race if not worse now told see gabbert is trying to impede trump's move but it's not the first time she's taking action against a foreign policy that she considers controversial during the obama administration she proposed the stop arming terrorists now this prohibited funding or support for any militant group with links to isobel or al qaeda after it turned out that some of the weapons provided to the so-called moderate rebels in syria surfaced into terrorist hands but despite how different republican president donald trump and democratic presidential candidate told he gathered are they have one thing in
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common now they both have been accused of being candidates biased or selected by russia but shortly after she announced she's running with an anti-war platform and b c news claimed that russia's propaganda machine has been working in her favor these cited a discredited source as a company that was caught fabricating russian bots so we're now in the situation where two american politicians accused of being actually russian have drastically different views on the russia related issue that concerns the whole world salty records from that sort of month is that ok with the ladies thank you. so listen humanoids done kovalchuk believes the u.s. withdrawal from the on the treaty is a destabilizing move. 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.
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might be willing to use on a limited basis so i hope that ms gabbers bill works i have doubts though because it seems like there's bipartisan support in the united states for war and for confrontation with russia now if if someone drinks russian vodka they're russian agent apparently it's silliness and but it's dangerous because this is an attempt to mark any peace activists any activists 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 that with moscow. is just one of a growing army of prominent political figures accused of being under the kremlin's thumb in case you missed it as police by cop. and gets you misstate russian stooges only call the word rape claims there are none for ages and then turns out not all at once. russia. is making want to take the easy fin
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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 russians but we've heard so much about they don't actually have to be real to walk sure having your own stooge in a position of power would have its advantages but even better is being able to accuse your enemies of being one a career in russians do jury is one of the most diverse in politics just look at the select members of. the newest recruit is democratic presidential hopeful tulsi gabbard who suggested that bad relations with the biggest nuclear power in the world may not be in everyone's best interests she says simone american hindu female socialist following in the prestigious footsteps of but the song is an old white
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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. 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. analysts 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
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fell into the job without noticing experience or knowledge of russia or russians is not essential the only qualification required is that you question the status quo publicly at least one 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. global security is widely viewed as being 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 centered on the speech of all of us was following the speech well the speech by governor williamson was a well certainly something that drew attention of the day that didn't really have its flaming moment 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
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wants to see which is a nation who holds 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 about sometimes in with 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 he address not by announcing
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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 all russia very much in focus when it came to the british defense secretary speech we need to bring all pressure to bear to bring them back into line when you look at the speech in its entirety what he's doing again and again is referring to nato the relevance of nato because of course britain is leaving the e.u. and britain having leave in leaving the euro if indeed it does do so because it's still not clear only weeks away of course that gives the green light to france germany and others to form european alliances which indeed a ice of people transatlantic says like gavin williamson they threaten nato as
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a predominant military force of the west so again and again he was keen to suggest that russia is the enemy that is at the gates of europe and europe is desperately in need of support of america and nato that's what it came back to to diminish the importance of the e.u. and increase importance of nato which is called message. security analyst charles shubert speaking there and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is attending the conference and said the pact. russia's top diplomat met with the secretary general of nato un stoltenberg focusing on european security in light of washington's withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty later in the day that lavrov also discussed the gas pipeline project north stream to with his german counterpart i call must the part that has been the target of american pressure with washington going so far as to threaten sanctions against german companies involved so all schubert's again says the u.s. and europe are increasingly not seeing eye to eye. of course the pipeline project
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is one of those areas where european and united states interests divert you've got a situation where i think european leaders and i exclude the united kingdom from this because united kingdom of course is planning to leave the e.u. and very much sees itself in partnership with united states rather i think with its european allies in these issues and so where you've got united states applying pressure on for example germany in respect of the pipeline project that comes along with a lot is consistent with a number of other areas. france has conducted airstrikes in the central african country of chad in a bid to avert a coup d'etat the aerial attack help the charity an army capture two hundred fifty fighters the french support for the current leadership in chad is drawing criticism and the potential explains 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
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france and you know what it's become even more stable after that. 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 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. our intervention was totally in line with international law
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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 is doing very bad when it comes to the economy problems and said i have more to do with the undemocratic character of the government it is in a crisis because there is a lot of inefficiency and of course a lot of corruption that goes on inside of the government there needs to be our investment in the overall infrastructure of the country with the expenditures for military operations it is draining the economy. 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 he's
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going in to defend chad's current president that was going to blacklist of thirty many human rights watch groups it's totally hypercritical on the behalf of knockoff how can you on one side support the rebels in venezuela and attack them in chad there's no logic show that is one of the poorest countries in the world so why is france intervening to defend such a reach in. chad and the people of chad was decide what what is their future and what political system they want to install in suffer america. we see less french interest but enough raquel and in venezuela the french government to seize 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
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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. number of children with h.i.v. in aids have been expelled from school in indonesia and have to some of the parents of classmates expressed outrage that in fact the children were attending class we heard from some of the kids who were kicked out.
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baron strongly objected to the fourteen children so tandems because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. follow in their protests we took the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them my if i think i think of the soul i think i. am.
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it's my classic. we also spoke to the head of an ngo helping children with hiv in indonesia. well for almost 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 big 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 these children have faced so many obstacles since entering school after kindergarten it's become the norm but we will stay strong and 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
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pounds declared a national emergency to secure funds for his proposed border war correspondent caleb maupin have that story after the short break. there's incontrovertibly evidence that we're being visited and frankly everyone in very high ranking classified projects knows this the public hasn't been told because they've been wanting to keep the secret for reasons of technology and the macroeconomic petrodollar system. but the fact that the white bag g.s.c. global financial crisis part is underway it's all happening it's all white multi-trillions of dollars gone in a heartbeat look like phantasmagoria right here on planet. crazy.
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join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back mr turn to a developing story this hour a shooting has taken place at an industrial park in a rural in the u.s. state of illinois aurora police say the scene is secure now and that the suspect has been taken into custody a worker at the warehouse where the incident occurred reportedly sort of holding a pistol with a laser scope and recognized him as a colleague
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a witness. they say there were approximately thirty people inside the building when the shooting occurred at least one person was reported to have been killed with multiple people injured including four police officers city officials say the injured offices are stable the exact number of victims that's not yet known the wounded have already been taken to local hospitals. donald trump has announced a national emergency on friday in order to bypass congress and get funding for a war on the border with mexico we would make up for the cost of the war 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 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
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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 is 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 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
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a review of what nancy pelosi said when you 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 the 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 committee president can declare emergencies as well and now it's important to note 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 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 somalia george w. bush declared eleven national emergencies one on bell roofs one on zimbabwe and
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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 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
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expects that this will be challenged in court he expects to not only have this challenge in course. but you have to appeal it all the way to the us 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. the u.s. is waging a geopolitical war against chinese tech giant war way that's according to the firm's deputy chief who believes washington's cyber security worries the ruse avenge of success has details. well it seems that while his officials are getting furious and tire with all this and rhetoric in a press conference in the southern chinese city 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
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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 and senseless and phil chalk the news on how the us government has been lobbying here pm governments against a telecom firm now few statements come after us secretary of state mike bump ill media tour in eastern 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 is delivered via way you mentioned huawei in china we done here in poland what we've done all across the world their test is to make it aware of the concerns it risks and show them the data we've made you know the
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risks that are associated with that we share the things we know about the risks of the waterways presence with all this negative talk around the quad who 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 what it would want 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 stealing trade secrets. from telecom companies in the united states and thirteen counts of fraud and conspiracy to bypass sanctions on iran. has been better only with accuses from western governments calling in because 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.
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keeps inventing crimes and china out different threats theories it's using state power to suppress the legitimate development of the rights and interests of chinese and prises that is using political means to intervene in the economy we believe that this is hypocritical and unfair and immoral wall 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 oh you caught me in flagrante then it's because i'm already thinking of leaving because that's me done for today do stick around though here on r.t. international show in thomas love the latest in half an hour. from
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the plus lead you still school fires no keep the slime here or smear the political to the statistics. of. what the. p.c. into just the most of us because the good nobody. really believes. that. deal or no deal is down to the wire on whether the us avoids yet another government
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shutdown details on this edition of politics. or a spending bill to avoid another government shutdown nuss far only a lukewarm response from republicans on the hill outrage from conservative media displeasure from dong trombone the bills for a vision for his border wall but with little bargaining power for a better deal is the battle of the spending bill and questions about another government shutdown finally over let's start there with our political panel in new york amy holmes co-host.

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