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no. the week's top stories on r.t. a million people march in london demanding another referendum on breaks it that is europe u.k. two week extension to the brics deadline after its prime minister fails to get support for her divorce plan also to come aboard the show all claims a group of american mercenaries illegally travel eighty to help the caribbean countries president consolidate power a move eighty million dollars to speak to its all for. many of them without. support without going through immigration with. an amount of priority was facebook to slow to stop the spread of shooting losing
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the debate the issue. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i can shout all bad so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things could they end this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadow. follow the welcome has just gone six pm here in moscow he watched the weekly here on r.t. international. million people marched across london on saturday calling for a second breaks it referendum along with the public members of parliament also attend the protest rally comes after leaders agreed to give the u.k. a short extension to the deadline with parliament having twice rejected the prime minister. that stuff just so fast got us nowhere it's got the nothing stop the
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international laughing stock i was actually soliciting what makes you say i feel really passionately that we've been really really let down our friends here in the e.u. we need state that i believe the majority nowadays it's. been you people put this up for this great didn't even have a plan and never had a plan it's a shame that we're in this mess but. i don't think there's anyone in the labor party at the top of the labor party who's really taking control of. the press it fires up well the prime minister has now been given a short extension of to what she does however the pm has warned she will put off the vote until she can be guaranteed enough support in westminster and that's throwing bricks it into further disarray.
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they would be able to agree still an extension until the. twentieth of april. to. give the yes. on to the very. thing to do our poll. and there's still empty in the end it means to get a lot of space. it was certainly a long nights of discussion the decision making and chopping and changing plans multiple times at the e.u. council summit and finally a decision that was reached officially and that was an extension of article fifty
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until the twenty second of may conditional of course of to resume a passing up plan through the house of commons should that fail if the e.u. council has provided for a further extension of the twelfth of april for the u.k. to come forward and come up with a plan and a process of what exactly to do next that also the sort of course if they do intend to participate in the european parliamentary election something which a would be rather pointless given their leaving the european union and be something that's the reason why he has said that would be almost a red line for something that she would not consider now to say that this decision was an easy one or a unanimous one at least from the very start would be misleading and there were quite different positions on the e.u. council countries such as belgium and france president micron for one playing hardball stating that a no deal bro. was still on the table others such as angular merkel playing
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a more conciliatory tone calling for more understanding of the u.k. hawkins with that report will be discuss the issue with the political consultant least member r.t. he says that every step in the process is making the situation more complicated when briggs it was first announced as an idea as a concept and there was no meat on the ball as to what the concept of what the process actually would mean and we start off in a place with such uncertainty there's no surprise us to the situation room so unless the identity of briggs it is made clear the disruptions and stalling methods will only continue i think the sentiment right now in parliament is that. it's almost an impossibility of this deal going through and if it does go through it will go through under very pressured measures which means peace in parliament who won't vote with what they believe is to be the best way for forward
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but will do it because the time pressures are so tight which almost holds parliament to run saying this is the only deal we have and you better put it through because you're certainties are too big and too widespread to even imagine. that's been playing that seven american mercenaries try to help haiti's president consolidate power by a scorching a presidential aide carrying eighteen million dollars allegedly arrived in the caribbean country made antigovernment protests they were arrested a day later but then released without charge. just with mr mehlis one of the. most an aries uses if he were here to attack part. the executive branch of the government's.
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seen those reports that due to privacy considerations were unable to comment further. as was the journalist who broke the story for the news website we need to say they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joe from elmo we see the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from modi's his then prime minister. and the bank president.
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dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going through customs they had come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had been released in a completely illegal manner i spent a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation secure disclose or source the. requested anonymity. so we have to protect our source. well one of the mercenaries a retired navy seal doesn't speak that version of events because chris holtzmann says they were hired as security for
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a businessman and never actually met the president at all and deleted instagram posts he also said they were poles in a public fight between the haitian president and also the prime minister of the us senator marco rubio has met with the haitian president said the situation the country demonstrated sharp political divisions protests in haiti continue over soaring inflation and also claims of government corruption they blame the current president who was sworn in on a pledge to increase employment and improve living conditions. certain irritant or certain combustibility to the situation. really all right. the latest spasm of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what
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happened with these mercenaries so i think yes the whole mercenaries story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it. but our story has come out basically. torn off or pulled back the curtain on this story i think. this is going to create even more and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. have a nice today thousands gathered in the city of christchurch new zealand for a vigil to commemorate the fifty people killed in the shooting massacre of this month following the attacks on two mosques the government has now brought in tough new gun laws. ban all types of assault rifles and semi automatic weapons the new legislation is set to take effect from
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a previous level ban also extends to attachments attachments to as used by the christchurch shooter such as high capacity magazines some immediate changes have already come into force with gun shops now banned from selling these types of weapons gun owners will be offered a buy back scheme though as part of an amnesty period those in possession of a banned weapon after this time move could face prosecution prime minister. says the cost of the buyback scheme is the price that must be paid of the suspected attacker did publish a manifesto a few hours before the shooting describing his motives and also his plants. this is one of new zealand's darkest days.
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the shooter stream the attack via facebook the video then quickly spread something facebook was criticised for especially given how quickly it can crack down on certain types of political content using as prime minister demanded answers from social media platforms over the streaming and sharing of the terror attack. i would call on stability that both leads to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be done. or facebook has responded saying the video didn't trigger its warning systems it's now introduce those steps to improve the way it combat hate speech we put the issue up for debate. i respectfully submit that when you show violence a good human being it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it would inspire the next
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shooting which is very well good because these losers need some form of acclimation out of just human decency without bringing in the government as laws and penalties and we're hearing from officials government officials from the prime minister in new zealand talking about preventing future attacks like this and then going on to censoring when this attack happens how in the world does that prevent this attack we're spending so much time talking about we can have videos like this with as or so or think it might lead to more rather than answering questions that need to be asked i mean one of the main problems i'm seeing here is that we continue to put band-aids on gunshot wounds and we need to stop that we need to stop putting band-aids on we need to stop saying let's just stop everybody from there that he doesn't you know we can get rid of x. rated movies should it come down immediately yes should this be kept from the public yes take it down i want facebook and others abroad to have a second you know whatever attitude allowing your world or not they have we're
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talking to you now and you're telling me about t.v. do you know they're talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow lying dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent it nobody's talking about provide to the question or should be banned them say yes to what i want facebook to do is if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad so no fast and i want them to use that technology in their genius to figure out wait a minute we're having somebody right now people are being killed this is going to come down from our platform what my concern is when we continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadel ban and that's something i agree should never happen but we're giving sub. and our and authority to social media platforms to tent that is allowed so when to hurt us later we don't know who they're going to not like it's all subjective no matter what kind of computer algorithm at the end of the day it will be subjective now
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listen dr burke do me a favor if you see somebody shooting and killing people shut it down or talk about it later don't have a debate do you think that maybe we're giving one person die die die die die die the right to automatically and who's to say whether this could one day be done to people being shot dead whether this might include war coverage. how many people would support mean that while as we're debating this there's some kid somewhere which you ever talk about watching this seeing real time slaughter or the families of these people or whatever of this is violent pornography yes this is horrible that i never want to see the whole obscene material these publications but this is what i have seen governments cannot stop this these companies cannot stop this people who post something positive about donald trump are being taken off of social media because of social media heads and managers and so we want them to ban other
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things instead of us and that is my main thing is that they can't they will not be had here not so you watch in the weekly with more stories just off the break. i think the. last. possible because there is a still more opportunity to. say. the same the position of serbia in the context. of the international law on our own are more more on the serbian side i think not on noticing. just fine though we've gotten peace i'm going to move in the nobility of all orders.
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join me every thursday on the all excitement chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again my german politicians have called for the expulsion of the us ambassador richard grinnell it came after he openly criticized the plan to reduce defense spending. nato members clearly pledged to move towards not away from two percent by twenty twenty four that the german government would even be considering
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reducing its already on acceptable commitments to military readiness is it worrisome signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mistake or not is a total failure of the diplomats all of this behavior is rather borish with his repeated clumsy provocations mystical now is harming transatlantic relations since mr grinnell to cup his post as ambassador in berlin he has and several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the internal affairs of the federal republic of germany his behavior in the host country is anything but diplomatic and brother reminiscent of the governor of an empire well this does come despite german military spending increasing last year by five billion dollars it's not the first time cornell has hit out of the country's policies slamming everything from his relations with iran to the use of equipment from chinese tech giant huawei donald trump has also been a vocal critic of berlin spending accusing it of freeloading off the u.s. military.
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and german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately . never tell a host country what to do. where not a banana republic. on except one side tightening the tone. a full u.s. diplomatic team to trust us think that the name is nice starting to question its alliance with washington mr grinnell does have president trump personal support now there was talk that mr grinnell might be moved to the united nations where nikki
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haley left but that didn't happen so i think it would be a very embarrassing for the administration to withdraw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is fro on polish about it especially with demands about spending more money on nato and you can't have five g. from what way and you must not be buying. russian gas and complete the north stream to pipeline that it's starting to get on their nerves and maybe beginning to dawn on some people in germany that maybe this american relationship is not all it's cracked up to be now some people want to say this is all a question of style but i think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of substance. on tuesday is apparently being delayed because some fact checking by news agency has exposed fools in claims made by us democrats there is just over a decade left to save the earth from global warming with more ways. even back
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when t.v.'s look like that kid's cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as superheroes i am. coming to. see today you just can't be a successful democrat and presidential hopeful thank god there's climate change the scientists are absolutely you know miss on this we have no more than twelve years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis what the intergovernmental panel on climate change say is that we have twelve years twelve years and we're like the world is going to end in twelve years if we don't address climate change why this scary deadline of twelve years a few months ago u.n. environmental experts put together yet another alarming report showing the earth is continuing to heat up it's bad for the planet and everyone who lives on it some
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interpret it the following way experts say that we have until twenty thirty to avoid catastrophe the world has little more than a decade time is running out to prevent global warming and he says the time's up andrea that the world has to do something we're reaching the cliff edge a little faster quite a bit faster and so it snowballed into a big trendy protest children have the impression their generation could be doomed . that we have twelve years to turn this around but suddenly there's that hoops moment the associated press checks what those who want to run for the white house now. to say for facts what was it that mr o'rourke said again the scientists are absolutely unanimous on this that we have no more than twelve years so a.p. actually got in touch with the scientists the panel did not say we have twelve
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years left to save the world this has been a persistent source of confusion the report never said we only have twelve years left well have a look at what they wrote on some liberal websites after the a.p. piece came out better is right on climate and the a.p. fact check is wrong it's the a.p. this is incorrect about climate change not by two overall oh sure how can a democrat candidate get something wrong especially when his party essentially chose to rely on the so-called green new deal ahead of the election it's a set of proposals to address climate change it just can't lead down your next generation of voters does a matter of faith and believe going to end is twelve years and not receive any pushback and there's no laughter there's no one going well you've got to be kidding me there's no one standing up to them and say you've clearly lost your mind what you have are a bunch of pro religious to not even going yes it's terrible it must do something
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elections and in this country anyway are are not about this a little they're about turning out your base and keeping the other guy's votes home and if you want to turn out your base if you're a leftist candidate preaching about climate change how the other side is determined to see us all die horribly that's going to do get the job done for you. and that's how the week is looking so far today we're back again though with the headlines and most stories in just over half and. what hope to do you suppose. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be rich. but you're going to be close this is what the four three of the more than people that i'm interested always in the lawyers are out. there sitting.
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through all of the to go oh oh it gets crazy you know. we've been a real gunshots to begin murders controls all life. becomes i'm sorry the last community young people are deciding this they want to be not like their parents not like them liberals. are always drug school again you always have problems but your level of focus and walk is the most ubiquitous thrown out there most police departments use it almost every stores in the school that they could get their hands on and god knows i'm twenty four hours. really teaching these kids of both racism both police brutality taking cried of them being all these kids are all a part of all history.
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all. part of. mona welcome to worlds apart twenty years ago nato launched its price military operation with the approval of the un security council the town of weak bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a. turning point in the history of warfare proving that a conflict can be won by air power alone to take it on does it still seem like a victory well to discuss that i'm now joined by done some are professor of
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political sciences at the university of belgrade professor some good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth nineteen ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started. for march. expected because. we have a process was finished with. the preparation for war. by the government and i made yes we did expect. to see what you said a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the
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tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to boeing or that it would be as massive as it was most of the people hold that a diplomatic deal with be made was it perhaps because you were a part of the government that you were better informed people at large. as a matter of fact it is a difference between. being unbelievable. bomb being. public because i mean rationally speaking nobody expected to the bombing by the end of the twentieth century but for everybody now her. objections are best in countries particularly neat and usa and good you spend expect this scenario those aries did bring flood but on the loss of each into
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compliance he did what the west wanted and withdrew all the forces from costa but obviously at a very huge cost around five hundred people killed many thousands injured and norma's damage to the infrastructure looking back at it do you think the west could have achieved its objective without such some would argue disproportionate show of force. in terms of military action the west and. is the not. objective because. x. you muslim army was not actually removed from across all you know orders to the. agreement but it was not so not so damaged as nato forces expected in terms of political. serbia should accept her as an interim
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