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thank you thank you thief. who was the. thief. thanks. for your time. trump's decision to quit the i.n.f. treaty takes the world a step closer to a nuclear holocaust that is the warning from a twenty twenty us presidential candidate who has introduced a bill to torpedo the move. french air force jets turn up the heat on the rebel fighters in the central african country of chad using their firepower to help oil
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a coup. and fourteen children with hiv and aids are expelled from a school in the insistence of outraged parents who speak to some the kids who were forced out. to. be. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. and twenty twenty u.s. a presidential candidate congresswoman tulsi gabbert has introduced a bill that could stop president pullout from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i.n.f. . trying to. make it
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right south. park are three sixteen united states. never. to be here. or to america correspondents are among ten. more. the landmark treaty was signed in one nine hundred eighty seven by then leaders ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev and it's been one of the pillars of international security since that ban nuclear capable missiles of intermediate range however thirty years later president trump facing constant accusations of collusion and not being tough enough on russia decided to withdraw from the treaty citing alleged violations by moscow now with the two countries to quit the deal fears are growing over a new arms race and research by trump aren't helping to quash those concerns perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement it being shown and others. or perhaps we can't in which
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case we will spin and out innovate or. buy for russia has denied any violations and said that it's been open to washington for any necessary checks but that didn't help and for now the treaty has been suspended by both sides paving way for a potential arms race if not worse and now to see gabbert is trying to impede trump's move and it's not the first time she's taking action against a foreign policy that she considers controversial back when obama was in office she proposed the stop arming terrorist sucked this prohibited funding or support for any militant group with links to i saw 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 democrat presidential candidates will see gabbert are they have one thing in common now both have been accused of being candidates selected by russia shortly after she
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announced that she's running with an anti-war platform and b c news claims that russia's propaganda machine has been working in her favor citing a discredited source a company that was caught fabricating russian bots so we're now in the situation where to american politicians accused of being actually russian have drastically different views on a russia related issue that concerns the whole world. 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 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 there are russian
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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. global security is it widely viewed as a complex issue however during the opening day of the annual munich security conference u.k.'s defense secretary made it clear where he thinks the world's evil is centered around his petrov or has more. will be speech by govern williamson was a well certainly something to drew attention line day that didn't really have its flaming moments but what we heard from the british defense secretary was how he sold the wilt at the moment and how we saw the better protection of the world he wants to see but as
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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 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 he address not by announcing that it would be sending a aircraft carrier with
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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 leaving 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 in day eyes of people are transatlantic flight governed williamson they threaten nato to predominate military
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force of the west so again and again he was keen to suggest that russia is the enemies that is at the gates of europe and europe is desperately in need of support of america and. no that's what it came back to to diminish the importance of the e.u. and increased importance of nights it was the cold message. shooting is taking place at an industrial park in aurora in the u.s. state of illinois the suspected shooter named as forty five year old gary martin has been killed by police he was believed to be a worker and the warehouse where the incident took place i witness is say there were approximately thirty people inside the building when the shooting started at least five victims are reported dead multiple people injured including five police officers city officials say that the injured officers are stable exact number of victims is still unknown at the time the wounded have been taken to local hospitals . france has conducted air strikes in the central african country
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of chad in a bid to avert a coup tom the aerial attack helped to chaddy an army capture two hundred fifty five put french support for the current leadership in chad is drawing criticism. comments just to the south of libya and between countries like nigeria and sudan there's 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 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 bud by the way
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guess how it came 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 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 til twenty thirty three he's like in victories have been questioned by international observers he's even been accused of war crimes and has countries do one very bad when it comes to the economy job is a very poor country and with or without petrol with or without the oil money it's
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going to remain a very poor country and it needs it needs in many parts of the country it needs humanitarian help this is very bad now nutrition basic help that the country needs and what's needed i think is a really sustained sight against in particular against government action 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 he's 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 not go how can you on one side support the rebels in venezuela and attack them in chad there's no logic chat is one of the poorest countries in the world so why is france intervening to defend such a reach in. chad into the people of chad was decide what what is their future and
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what political system they want to install in suffolk america. we see less french interest but enough raquel and invent is you and the french government to seize these crises as an opportunity to show some understanding of the united states and to side with the americans to show us some solidarity armorica but of course geopolitical interests are always more important than the order to go to ideologies on this. why you find so different altitudes to 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 we'll be back with more news after a short break this is art international.
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back this is our t. international so donald trump has announced a national emergency in order to bypass congress and get funding for a wall 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 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 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 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 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 committee 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 a national emerge. and see 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 reuss 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 us border he is 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 he expects
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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. following president trumps decision a key committee of the u.s. house of representatives controlled by democrats announce it would launch an investigation in a letter to trump they asked him to make white house and the justice department officials involved available for questioning. protesters in india have taken their anger to the streets of cities across the country following thursday suicide bombing it led to the lives of over forty. i took responsibility for the attack. i was. protesters shouted anti pakistan slogans and burned
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an effigy of the country's a prime minister the bombing has escalated tensions between india and pakistan as both countries claim the region of kashmir where the attack happened as the area has been split between the two nations for more than seventy years. in large a police convoy of about seventy eight vehicles was underway in the region when a car bomb reportedly carrying more than three hundred kilograms of explosives detonated one bus was heavily damaged while at least five other vehicles were ahead india's prime minister promised that the perpetrators would be published. but i want to tell the terrorist organizations and those who patronize them that they have made a huge mistake they will have to pay a huge price and about this time is being extremely extremely provocative and distended may have just gone one step too much so yes i mean people in india are extremely upset i am not somebody who is saying you know wolf back to i think any
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anger in the country is extremely high so it's a constant fight and it's just a question of escalation you see an escalation then you see it is in relation it goes back and forth i don't think that anybody in india at the moment is in any any bend of mind to have a dialogue because you just blown up forty forty to be equal in the middle of you know of a down. so don't come to the municipality come on munich conference and talk about peace is to is to really make foolish i think anybody has you know what. pakistan's a government has denied allegations of any connection to the attack saying there should be an investigation first political expert java rama police pakistan it would be willing to negotiate with india to resolve the incident although you might recall that in similar incidents in the past india has been quick to blame pakistan
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for the. mess which we have been dismissive of the from the fans in. the region what again they have been exchanged off a lot of harsh words between the two countries to start with on it appears that there may be a similar situation and then we will find a solution and solving solve would be a certainly properties with india number one comes up with hard evidence of voting volumes of any but is a useful citizen of all and not in this data good which i think is unlikely because gesture mom of the group which has been in this possibility the rare distance cyberman last conducted this. week is that these are being asked in indian controlled kashmir so pakistan has apparently not only linkages with this one side attack and the second possibility i think which is that in the broader picture national deccan got situation x. missed and that isn't a bush action between india and pakistan. a number of children with hiv and
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aids have been expelled from school in indonesia and this after some of the parents of their classmates expressed outrage that infected children were attending classes we heard from some of the kids who were kicked out. there and strongly objected to the fourteen children so tandems because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. but follow in their protest we took the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them if. the fourth fifth. sixth
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government funded radio free europe radio liberty. according to their article russian trolls and bots are now fueling fear of vaccines among the public it is claimed that cyber campaigns are used to distribute medical misinformation promote distrust in pharmaceutical companies and spread the arguments of vaccine this skeptics. piece then goes on to quote the world health organization vaccine specialist. who seems quite dubious about the link between trolls and the measles outbreak she says there are a variety of factors at play in the increased incidence of the disease. we actually don't know enough about the influence of misinformation if a little on line up on the nation intentions and behavior what they do now is that there is an element of echo chambers in this there might be lots of reasons why people don't take up that seems it may simply be that their access to health care
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services is limited. they may be total reasons and it may also be getting incorrect information about where the facts seem to say it might not necessarily be correct to lead to any conclusions as to whether it's trolls or or or or any other cause what's really important is that people have access to information that can help them to make the right choice for them and their loved ones as to whether they proceed with a vaccination i think that's the opportunity little nations should seek to grasp really to have a health care system which is based on good empirical data about vaccine take out the surveillance of the disease because ultimately what we want to do is save people's lives and that's the opportunity that countries have rocks and seeking to actually playing elsewhere. criticism of inoculations does appear to be gaining ground with the general public in several countries hundreds of and have vaccine
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activists demonstrated against a bill that would make it harder to opt out of measles vaccination in the u.s. state of washington which is suffering its own outbreak of the disease and over the years people in germany poland and italy have protested against compulsory immunizations as well. bill borum chair of the northern california health care authority says blaming foreign countries for failing vaccination rates is not productive. i think it's better for the authorities to concentrate on getting the proper messaging out to the general population and also to more specific. then trying to pin something on troll. from any one particular country but i have seen in a conference i attended that if anything the agenda of the ministry of health of the russian federation is to improve and enhance the health care of the population throughout the country it's very scurrilous and heiress possible to accuse russia
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