welcome you watching our international first this hour the french president has just completed a news conference addressing months of nationwide protests which has seen the most violent riots in paris for half a century and i knew my double down on some of his most unpopular moves which sparked the rallies including slashing the wealth tax artie shaw skis in paris with details. thursday night saw president mcallen's very first press conference at the elise a palace he was due to speak for twenty minutes he spoke for almost an hour with his vision of what his mandate for the next three years of his presidency should be he talked about external things other than france particularly about borders saying

that the schengen area in europe doesn't work he said that europe needs to be stronger and it needs to have stronger borders and so they remove the notes of the fragment things ongoing as well as they should be on the european level we have decided to have common borders the much talked about sharing an area with the rules of the dublin accords they do not work anymore now in terms of more internal issues which have a reason from the last few months of the grand debates here in france he said that in future they will be lower taxes he also said that pensions with less than two thousand euros a month will be reindexed from the first. policies for interrupting that report we're going to head back to the u.n. security council where the russian envoy eva selena been speaking let's listen in. hearing about russia turns a block to the east or a cease fire and don't bust. mr sidekick who participated in the me to come to

contact group knows more about this i'm not going to ask him today. how many russian troops has he seen it since we met last time i'm not going to put that question to him the question i have is why is the easter truce between the size did not take place i would put that question to now. in the wake of the discussion today and those who are listening to this discussion could be left with the impression that nothing has changed of muddled. in the meantime and over the past month a lot has changed. simply remind you of that the human brain human he told rejected resoundingly everything that has been done by president bush and over the past five years in ukraine and in relationship with russia and any attempt to change this situation using the usual anti russian rhetoric did not change that and this is an

illustration of the fact that the ukrainian people has spoken out very clearly they do want change they do want a normal relationship with russia they want to dignified exist in the peaceful future for their children and they are tired to all the temps of writing off all of the woes of ukraine on russia which is something that president poroshenko has been doing all throughout his stay in power the ukrainian people need real acts real steps towards peace which imply a real dialogue with the people in donetsk can do not look this is the essence of settling any conflict a direct dialogue dialogue between conflicting parties and this is something that the ukrainian side has consistently been rejecting recently the key to resolving the ukrainian issue is to be found in kiev not in moscow. and in western capitals which allow theater sabotage minsk as regards the rhetorical flowers that you

suggested that was sent to the newly elected president elect's zelinsky mr president. well it's too early for flowers the signals we're getting from the president elect's zelinsky are at this point contradictory we sincerely interested in making sure that he undertakes real steps to settle you know this situation but there will be see that all his actions we can say this beforehand we will see how he implements the declared intention to change the situation by us we'll see whether or not he'll go bike by the minsk agreements or try and come up with new formats and time will tell. as regards the question that would put viability material which to me he i am certain knows that hundreds of thousands of people in russia no second citizen a second citizenship by the way you probably probably also know that some neighbors over ukraine do issue to ukrainian citizens of non ukrainian it's this city their

passports on the us there are thousands of people like that well in the in russia hundred thousand people in my country have a second citizenship this a well known fact and we're not going to deprive them of the right if they are offered to citizenship of another country but when i go to deprive them of the right of to use that right once again no let me underscore no one is going to force these people to take in russian passport no one is going to drag them into ministry of foreign affairs and hand them their passport by force they have the right to keep their ukrainian city ship once again this is a human if this was a humanitarian measure please try to understand that we in russia really want peace we're interested in a prosperous and stable ukraine and upload and that is what the decrees aiming at to ensure that those the citizen will happen to be in abject conditions to ensure

that they have some social protection for their development or for make sure that their children can receive education. in russia together with russian citizens just citizens as nothing to do with minsk agreements and is in no way preventing ukraine from implementing the minsk agreements and this is very possible provided there's political will to do that thank you. thank the russian ambassador for his statement and there have been questions been. one for these now international human rights groups have been through. gating of a saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men reportedly mostly from the shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even stronger up in public following the execution human rights watch states it marks an alarming escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country. the

punishment as grotesque against dia has more. few things so was much fear into the hearts of your own people as mass executions the men were executed for adopting terrorists and extremists thinking and performing terrorists else to corrupt and destabilize security allegedly among their crimes was this respect towards authority some of them can you believe that like the king protested against him so serious with their crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified in two thousand and nineteen his body strung up for all to see for all to fear. today's mass execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia no authority and callous disregard for human life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is

being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country's shia minority in fact almost half of those killed were executed after taking part in pro-democracy protests see the arab spring didn't skirt saudi arabia the shia minority rose up they wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought they wanted too much. one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest attending a protest apparently still

a kid now is an example you wouldn't believe how creative the saudis are when it comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people behaved it shot for crimes that included disobey and saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve and five people were strung up paralysis reportedly is also in a judge's arsenal seriously they can sentence a person to be paralyzed as punishment roots back to a four thousand year old law or that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw a tooth. and literally in this case a knife or an eye saudis took that stone very seriously in two thousand and five a court in saudi arabia ordered

a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and beautician also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world. has defended its decision to execute individuals it will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom the spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights to me has back the society justice system cracks down on those whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which so gary b. with the death penalty took clannish prisoners of conscience who whole dared to talk about the human rights violations in the country we've not just dared there

and i think around five of their of their executive people who where really charged by terrorists didn't read them tried it we don't trust. the end issue system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the imagine especially against the british there's a whole talk to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the country. as most of the gulf kingdom saudi arabia uses is to do dishes just dead to fabricate the charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out or who lose their source in media outlets or rules participated in demonstrations there is a taboo in the gulf kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is a low just about what's happening in the country. in afghanistan local government

u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths than the militant forces they've been fighting according to a new u.n. report findings reveal in the first three months of this year almost six hundred civilian deaths were documented most of the deaths came from strikes conducted by international forces led by the u.s. and nato the number of victims is up almost forty percent on the same period last year we asked locals for their reaction. my grandmother you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you want to bombard any areas please take care of the civilians there don't target civilians for any child or woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to watch we have concerns. of our people have been killed or injured women have become widows children have lost their fathers people have lost eyes we want the americans in isis to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s.

and nato here we will work with each other. that we that we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban that if you are fighting with each other do not use residential areas as a position if the american forces do not take into consideration the civilian casualties in afghanistan and they continue killing civilians by name in them insurgents the future will be very bad for them. u.s. military forces have launched investigations after previous u.n. reports washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan most of them involved in non-operational nato led training missions december it was reported president trump would reduce u.s. forces in the country there's been no sign of that happening the white house has been seeking the peaceful resolution of america's longest ever war but there are concerns any deal could lead to a new wave of instability. we've spent close to one trillion in of ghana system all of that is a truce if you screw up on the day after a peace agreement

a dramatic decrease in not only troops but financial support for the afghan government will mean the collapse of the government you have five hundred thousand some troops and police who are trained and have weapons you have sixty thousand taliban who are trained killers they want to be reintegrated plan for that. meanwhile just a day after the u.n. report on afghanistan was published i'm staying to national and i was released a report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of raka in twenty seventy one finds the u.s. led coalition responsible for the deaths of more than sixteen hundred civilians ten times the number admitted by the us government writes body and one thinks the us must stop such practices. people are killed that there. will be bought these they're out of me you know civilian areas they are bombing schools so i think this kind of bombardment should be stopped because the civilian people are paying the price for this american actress does and that prompted the words i believe american

troops american administration is fully responsible for this difference among the civilian of particular you know more than a thousand people were killed that many kind of mystery still is a responsible because they supposed to be in control of they actually should be taken responsible will be standard and be no international community should actually take action against the. nineteen people have reportedly lost their lives in a coal mine explosion in the self declared you can skip peoples republic in eastern ukraine auntie's around cost of his meal. at the moment we don't know exactly how many there are as the result of a coal mine blast some sources up with anywhere from seventeen to nineteen miners who could have lost their life the incident happened earlier in the day at the moment the rescue services are working on the scene to try to determine

whether there are any survivors or if there are any more people trapped in the mine according to local authorities they have requested the help of russian emergency services who are on the way to the sites of the instance or. now. former us vice president joe biden has announced that he's entering the twenty twenty race for the presidency although it didn't come as much of a surprise in fact his plans have been an open secret for a while now the polls show he's the current favorite to become candidate for the democrats but the road to the white house biden could be littered with potholes from the past in the. now joe biden is a long time democratic party superstar he has a long career representing delaware in the u.s. senate however growing numbers are concerned about his record let's not forget that he supported george w. bush's invasion of iraq and pushed the lie about weapons of mass destruction saddam

is dangerous the world would be a better place without him but the reason he poses a growing danger to you know of states and its allies is that he possesses chemical and biological weapons and he's not the me too candidate by a long shot not only does joe have his own touchy feely proclivities but he jumped over the need to hill way back in one nine hundred ninety one when she was accusing them supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual harassment it is appropriate to ask professor you anything any member wishes to ask her. the depths of her credibility and joe's also a lock him up guy he was one of the most outspoken supporters of bill clinton's one thousand nine hundred ninety four bile and crime control act which led to an explosion in the u.s. prison population which critics now see as a big problem joe is also a big supporter of the death penalty even calling for its expansion biden

credibility before us calls for the death penalty for forty fifty one offense is. why the newspaper recently wrote that something to the effect that biden has made it a death penalty offense for everything would jaywalk back when bill clinton's crime bill passed joe biden was such an outspoken supporter he said quote i'd like to be running and have someone use the crime bill against me welcome to twenty nine thousand joe at this point your biggest opponent bernie sanders actually wants prisoners to be able to vote socialism is now a favorite word among young people and your tough on crime talking points might come back to haunt you now the twenty twenty democratic primary is still a fair way off but if joe biden things it's going to be just a typical action you may be in for a big surprise caleb mop and artsy new york. the raft of democrat news

appears to confirm a shift to a progressive agenda democrats blocked a republican proposal last month to prevent illegal immigrants voting the research finds that may be more because unauthorized migrants overwhelmingly vote democrat democrats also push to lower the voting age to sixteen that was rejected by the house. gina loudon says that winning the election is over that matters to the party . most americans think once you kill people and you take away their right to be alive your rights are pretty much negated at least until you've served out your term in prison and in some cases even as you know in the united states we can do the death penalty regarding murder because we believe you relinquish your rights when you take another life they realize now that the basic americans out here are the people that we call him joe sixpack in america the guy this just working his job trying to provide first family he's not going to vote democrat it is more because the democrats have gone so far regressive left that they've lost their rank

and file old school democrats that used to vote for them and in fact not only have they lost i'm president trump has reigned them then and has become the president really of the average american so the democrats realize they have to go someplace else they're quite desperate and they're willing to let criminals and children vote . the head of russia's military intelligence agency that you know you made an extremely rare public statement you could cost you could have told the conference on international security twenty nineteen of the destabilizing steps being planned by the us in latin america. despite the lack of any military threats to u.s. security in latin america washington has a large military presence u.s. central command has deployed twenty thousand soldiers in central and south america and may increase to forty thousand. on the eighteenth of february u.s.

president donald trump's it's a short term goal of overthrowing left wing governments in venezuela. and cuba washington thinks that that will help to turn latin america into a territory under full u.s. control. concrete steps taken against venezuela to destabilize it from the inside through consolidation of the opposition organization of protests and launching a hybrid aggression against the country comes as the white house insists that venezuela does not have a professional military institution u.s. special representative for venezuela elliott abrams claims that the country relies on armed gangs. venezuelans deserve to be protected by a professional military institution and not have their leaders rely on armed gangs or off or on foreign powers who sent thousands of soldiers or intelligence

agents. from a british intelligence agent any muschamp thinks that such an unprecedented public step in the g.r.u. yes venezuela is in critical danger. they realize that there is a strong effort stronger and growing efforts by the americans to subvert the government in venezuela and they need to take a stand so i think this is very unusual step as you say i mean most countries intelligence agencies never go on the record publicly so for them to do this they must be absolutely certain of what they're doing and they probably see a key threat looming very close to what is going on in america in venezuela and what could happen to the venezuelan government so i think this is really a sort of firing a shot across the bows of the american juggernaut one of the interesting things from my perspective is that i think venezuela and the people of venezuela a very lived the classic playbook rules that america has used in previous coots across latin america and that is why they're not falling for it this time and america is trying to ramp up the game and get rid of material by any means

necessary. microsoft fake news watchdog news guard is facing heavy criticism in the u.k. labeled as trustworthy three controversial tabloid newspapers the sun daily daily star and it's not the only issue that the new black listing program is raising auntie's don't quarter. remember news guard that handy dandy microsoft programmer tells you what is and isn't fake news while they're still hard at work putting little green checkmarks next to information they like in search engines use guards' co-founder calls it applying a little common sense to searching information we're going to apply common sense to read problem that the algorithms haven't been able to solve we're going to dozens of journalists to read and review the seventy five hundred news information common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock that robert muller's report is out and many liberal tall tales about trump

russia collusion have been debunked still a lot of stories are marked. the big friendly checkmark trump sharing polling data with the russians check except it's not true muller subpoenaing bank records check but same thing not true trumps lawyer secretly meeting with a kremlin official in prague well at least they change the article a bit still a big check even though the title isn't exactly true in fact the checkmarks don't even have to do with how wrong the story is if news card trusts the outlet they're good to go. are green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right where instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda so i guess the takeaway from that is that outlets like the new york times and buzz feed's don't really have hidden agendas and if that sounds ridiculous to you don't worry news guard will make sure you know right from wrong soon enough what's interesting to

note is their reaction to this they're saying we are not necessarily acknowledging or passing judgment on the veracity and accuracy of the information we're just passing judgment on these source of it these people this source this group this website this newspaper this whatever we give them our check mark we approve of them what they say wow we don't really necessarily pass judgment on that if you go down the list of all of those items which have passed editorial muster it's the same it's breathtakingly obvious to anybody that if your story or if you are source repeats this mean this

trope that there was russian collusion. obstruction of justice anything negative to trump it will be chat and proved without a problem not misleading trustworthy verifiable job well done. runs foreign ministers want of consequences if the us prevent terrorism from selling its oil just days ago iran also threatened to block the hormuz strait the world trade artery in response to washington's moves auntie's worlds apart spoke to the iranian defense minister about the country's growing anger the muslim calmly call you in exactly the same time the us made this illegal and wrong decision to call the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist group the iranian security council has decided to recognize centcom as a terrorist organization and a supporter of terrorists we will not stand any sort of threats we will take

measures we're facing lots of sanctions from the americans and today we can defeat them. the home of straights is critically important for us and many other countries and we can safeguard our critical interest to make a proper decision at a proper time. thanks for joining us this evening on r.t. international i'll be back with updates at the top of their.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. salt or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football nazi or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways and such like here. in. the united states relations with russia or iran have never been particularly cordial but under the presidency of donald trump both took a downward spiral there have been sanctions attempts at isolation and

a badge of evil from both moscow and to iran how are the two leveraging american and the. lou because are hosed because report here are to so they will be discussing many things let's bring in stacy well i want to look at the fact that no good deed goes unpunished and i'm going to use this as an analogy for the tax cuts that happened last year and see the consequences of that but the phrase according to wikipedia no good deed goes unpunished is a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them and other words those who help others are doomed to suffer as

a result of their being helpful now i really thought of this as a great way to explain you know politics in general because based on this headline here that happened a few weeks ago in florida of course florida a good samaritan shot dead after picking up tabs at waffle house this was at waffle house at like three in the morning and some guy forty one year old guy came in and he bought a bunch of people's meals and was handing out twenty dollar bills and one woman got upset because he hadn't bought her meal and so her boyfriend shot the guy dead and classic no good deed goes unpunished it's basically the bucket of crabs syndrome when any crab tries to get out of the bucket the other crabs pull it back in people want to be sharing in their misery and destroy their misery they get violent in this case i'm going to compare this to the tax cuts because when i saw the.