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thank you thank you. thank. you. thank you. decision to quit treating takes the world a step closer to a nuclear holocaust from twenty twenty u.s. presidential. french air force jets. in the central african country of chad using their firepower to help. and fourteen children with hiv aids
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are expelled from school in indonesia at the insistence of outraged parents speak to some of the kids who were forced out. of this is are to international. to have you with us. twenty twenty u.s. presidential candidate congresswoman tulsi gabbard has introduced a bill that could stop president pull out from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the. right. right right right now. are our stories to be right.
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pretty much every. year. or two american correspondents month is more the landmark treaty was signed in one nine hundred eighty seven by then leaders ronald reagan and michelle 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 valley into 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 china and others. or perhaps we can't in which case we will outspend and out innovate all of those by far
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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 told 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 terrorists act this prohibited funding or support for any militant group with links to eisele 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 candidate tells he gathered are that one thing in common both have been accused of being candidates flecked of by russia shortly after she announced that she's running with an anti-war platform and b c news claimed that
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russia's propaganda machine has been working in her favor citing a discredit at 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 it is gabbert 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 a russian agent apparently it's silliness and but it's dangerous because this is an
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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 widely viewed as a complex issue and however during the opening day of the annual munich security conference the u.k.'s defense secretary made it clear where he thinks of the world's evil is centered on his peter oliver has more. 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
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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 whispered voices as a potential future leader of his party potentially a few chip 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 a full fighter bomber contingent to the south china sea it does come back to russia
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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 your. into nato the relevance of nato because of course britain is leaving the e.u. and britain having leaving in leaving the e.u. 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 de eyes of people transit lancets like gavin williamson they threaten nato as the 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 you have peace
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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 increased importance of nato which is called message security analyst charles troubridge speaking there and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov who is attending the conference had a packed schedule on friday russia's top diplomat met the met with the sick secretary general of nato young stoltenberg focusing on european security in light of washington's withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty later that day also discussed the gas pipeline project nordstrom to with his counterpart from germany heikal mass pipeline has been the target of american pressure with washington going so far as to threaten sanctions against german companies involved trial sure bridge again says the u.s. and europe are increasingly not seeing eye to eye. of course the pipeline project is one of those areas where european and united states interests divert you've got
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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 than 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. we spoke to russian direct investment fund c.e.o. . dmitri of who is attending the munich conference he told us. have backfired on the nations imposing them. we believes it's a coastal sanctions is very significant. so much because russia just it do sanctions and shows two percent economic growth but there's one hundred sixty billion dollar losses killed by european companies and we believe there is also
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a significant cost to the u.s. because meanie investors are moving in very from transaction and dollar and then we move a from holding u.s. treasuries and i'll give you two figures. holding off the debt by international investors decrease from forty seven percent to forty percent so that means if you international investors hold u.s. debt old souls the percentage of transaction and dollar decrease from forty four percent to thirty nine point five percent in the last three years so if you have people transact in dollars so this is a very specific cost to really undermine the u.s. polish systems that it installed so we believe that this saying sions negative for the world economy and also for the u.s. i think sanctions will probably stay in and be for a long pipe in not only for russia because u.s. is using saying it's quite to bid against other nations and it's possible that china may be affected and other nations and we believe sanctions to productive
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because they do not reach their goals and have very significant economic cost for the world economy and may need other countries in asia and in other parts of the world start to understand this definitely rush adjusted to the sanctions and the economy is continuing to do well we're building new partnerships with investing quite to be it was all partners from china japan european nations and lots of foreign investment i mean russia. france has conducted air strikes in the central african country of chad in a bid to avert a coup de ta attack helped the chaldean army capture two hundred fifty fighters but french support for the current leadership in chad is drawing criticism as aren't criticism as are teasingly 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
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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 friends. the french jets nipped the rebels' coup plan in the but by the way guess how interested 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 so he took the fiqh with our intervention was totally in line
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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 like 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 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 you know it needs. many because of the country it needs humanitarian help the very. mountain trip should basically the country needs and wants needed i think is a really sustained sight against in particular against government which is becoming very widespread and very very serious problem in the country and casey didn't know
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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. on behalf of not go out on one side support the rebels in venezuela and attack them in chad is there is no logic chat is one of the poorest countries in the world so why is france intervening to defend such a reach in. the chat rooms the people of chad was decide what what is their future and what political system they want to install in suffolk america. we see less french interest but enough raquel and invidious who are 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
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course geopolitical interests are always more important than the order to go ideologies and this is why you can find some 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. 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 to 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 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. leah george w.
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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 it 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 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 announced it would launch an investigation in a letter to trumpet they asked him to make white house and justice department officials involved available for questioning. protestors in india have taking their anger to the streets of cities across the country following thursday suicide bombing that took the lives of more than forty people in pakistan both inter-group has taken responsibility for that. was. protesters.
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shouted anti pakistan slogans and burned in effigy of the country's prime minister the bombing has escalated tensions between india and pakistan as both countries claim the region of kashmir where the attack happened as their own area has been split between two nations for more than seventy years. a larger police convoy of about seventy vehicles was underway when a region 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 hit in his prime minister promised that the perpetrators would be punished. 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 dagestan is being extremely extremely provocative and distended may have just gone one step too much so yes i mean people in india are extremely
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upset and i am not somebody who is saying you know wolf but i think any 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 a moment is in any any bend of mind to. have a dialogue because you did do not plenty plenty to be quick in the middle of you know i shut it down. so don't come to the municipality community contribution talk about peace is to is to really make foolish i think anybody has you know what pakistan's government has denied allegations of any connection to the attack saying that there should be an investigation first a political expert john believes pakistan would be willing to negotiate with india to resolve the incident although you might recall that in similar incidents in the india has been quick to blame pakistan for the. mess we have been this is over
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the phone in. a region where the games there 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 fall to solve what we are certainly cooperating with india number one comes up with hard evidence of both involvement of any but is a useful citizen or any hope in this data which i think is unlikely because gesture mom of the group which has been in this possibility the read this inside bomb unless conducted this. is a big indian controlled kashmir so pakistan has apparently not only linkages with this new site or dark and the second possibility i think which is that in the broader picture the national debt congress situation extremists and that is in the bush and between india and pakistan. in number of children with hiv and
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aids have been expelled from school in indonesia that is after some of the parents of their classmates expressed outrage that in fact the children were attending classes we heard from some of the kids who were kicked out. parents strongly objected to the fourteen children to town it's 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. if. the
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soul if. that's. russian trolls are being called out for their nefarious antics yet again this time
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they're being blamed for a missiles outbreak in europe this according to us 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 were used to distribute medical misinformation promote distrust in pharmaceutical companies and spread the arguments of vaccine skeptics. the 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 that 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 in there 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
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care services is limited. there may be total reasons and people may also be getting incorrect information about where the facts. might not necessarily be correct to lead to any conclusions as to whether it's trolls 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 see to grasp really to have said health care system which is based on a 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 action you take that countries have rocks and seeking to actually blame elsewhere. criticism in occupations does appear to be gaining ground with the general public
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and several countries hundreds of anti vaccine 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 measles and over the years people in germany poland and italy have protested against compulsory immunizations. bill who is the chair of the northern california health care thorley was blaming foreign countries for failing vaccination rates or falling back rather is irresponsible. for a long time certainly in the united states there has been a subculture that has resisted conventional medicine and this has its greatest. and if a station has been resistance to vaccines it's all part of a popular movement which is to resist authority and it has appeal for people who may feel left out of the political process or disenfranchised from the economic
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system 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 an error sponsible to accuse russia or the kremlin of promoting this kind of misinformation. and it doesn't from a i'll be back of headlines in thirty two minutes stay with us. because the swarm see the blue of them so moving. to the sea bed you those who are local
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