as i do the beauty please may. i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite i've done nothing wrong president matter on the fens his policies in a televised address although his attempts to fuse the yellow vests process didn't go down well with his target audience. was shot on reason i heard a speech which didn't talk about the old versus the amount of police stupid measures he couldn't root for both talk the people. idiots. also take on the u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after report reveals washington has been

running dozens of military missions on the continent something many americans hadn't been aware of. and world leaders descend on china for a major economic gathering the beltran road for him efforts to boost economic and political cooperation will all be on the table. hello good morning just gone nine o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the french president has gone on the defensive claiming he's done nothing wrong in the way he's been dealing with the country's issues he took to national television on thursday night to make an impassioned address to the public . as i please. i ask myself the question that we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite i believe that to lead

a democracy today no matter the country has to accept not to be popular and i'd rather be responsible and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that would always be fleeting president michael may have spoken for almost an hour with the wind two ranging discussion of the things he'd like to do over the next three years but what he would lacked on quite a lot was the details so yes he talked about lower taxes but he didn't specifically say what that meant in terms of a figure it's my duty to defend a pragmatic reform will review eight hundred twenty twenty and if it's not effective or too large we will correct it one of the more controversial issues that michael also touched on was the reforms that he introduced last year in two thousand and eighteen and this was the reform to the wealth tax which for many yellow vests has been a very big bone of contention so what has this movement says is and what have i taken away from this grand the weight first of all we all heard this feeling of

injustice fiscal injustice territory injustice the only social injustice the feeling is here it's invaded we must provide an answer well the yellow vest protest is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely jump on me i heard a speech which didn't talk about the you know of those demands no consideration about anything no evolution in purchasing power no lowered taxes going to see all these stupid measures he can roll them all talk to people he can rosen and sit on them because all of this is useless it's only lies he takes a swipe idiots. course is the right one and we're not going to change it just. because wind is poor weak.

or to gain more support president macron also decided to get rid of what he calls a symbol of inequality the french leader said he would abolish an elite school which is famous for its prominent graduates however some have labeled this an attempt to shift attention from real problems efforts are being made to put up a smokescreen so that we forget what the real problems are in. this is undoubtedly a distraction it's not a critical question who will ripley's the with another school because we will have to continue to produce senior officials what we heard from analysts who do believe

the president's move is unlikely to widespread public discontent. the french population is in favor of what he's suggesting so this was kind of playing catch up with us almost certainly though we know there are going to be protests at the universe don't really seem to have very very much to do to offer apart from turning up in france in city centers and and causing disruption but it's the broader movement of the yellow vests those who we don't hear very much from who are kind of being pushed to the edges that may well be more open to. suggesting people are unhappy with this policy but what is true is that there is no united demand about what to do with this is that school i didn't say the european union there's nothing he can do because you know i've been one to force these sort of nearly bullish loans and of course and he's with that but even he didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma nics measure is more social spending more.

or less taxes that means this course is it is going to take to really i don't know how it's going to balance the budget there's a lot of runs a budget so it seems at least it is mostly a discourse of discourse he's trying to satisfy people that isn't going to leave that israeli leaders there does content is too deep. now the u.s. africa command has had to defend itself to you after being accused of military imperialism it comes after reports show since twenty ten the us has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more than previously been revealed but the government organization does say its military activity there has brought stability with more his. u.s. africa command. strengthen security forces counters transnational threats and

conducts crisis response in order to advance u.s. national interests and promote regional security stability and prosperity major car weiss spokesperson for the u.s. military's african command has come forward and stated the purpose of the pentagon's operations on the continent now he was responding to a tweet by the young gun control activist david hawkins now hawgs tweet was reacting to the fact that currently there are u.s. military operations underway on the african continent is not a small number the official reason given is to promote stability but it's hard to measure success when so little information is available to the public about what's actually going on for example for u.s. military personnel were killed in the african country of niger when this came to light members of the u.s. armed services committee those are u.s. senators had no idea what they were even doing there but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger and you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in these air did you know i didn't know and for something that

topple like that officials don't even know about it's rather extensive so we decided to go out and talk to members of the u.s. public about afrikaans activities perhaps they have some information that top government officials don't have box lotus what does that make you think oh literally nothing back ok so me what do you think of. drug music from africa junction serpents what do you think that is i think nothing comes to mind how about maybe an alcoholic drink definitely and a justified seimone yeah. yeah i don't know. an actor that's what you think kodiak contra might be having a clue you think it might be like a drink possibly cocktail possibly actually the name of the u.s. military operation in africa last that's why i mean doesn't sound good probably not up to a good not a. the chick much good better. operation junction serpent yeah that makes me feel terrible you don't like the way that sound sounds like we're doing something sneaky

now as far as we know the u.s. military in africa could be doing nothing but noble deeds they could be holding little orphan children and feeding the hungry but we don't know that we have no information. r.t. new york while the founder a few points africa some questions whether u.s. military activity has in fact contributed to regional stability. the bottom line is that the u.s. military does do thing scholastically don't do things on the cover of sometimes it does things on the disguise the u.s. operation on the ground in the after is quite extensive in many cases it goes beyond what the the senate in the u.s. and it very much so what the american people would expect in the case of africa which as we do know islamic terrorism has a foothold it's questionable as to where the the u.s. operation eighteen through ends on the ground whether that in itself has caused or has extended the terrorists to be able to recall or actually extend their stay

in the areas which they claim. i knew were new vote energy record were set in chimney this week because wind and solar plants generated more than seventy percent of the country's electrical needs thanks to strong winds and abundant sunshine that's according to a local think tank but green energy powers for phase are growing over what this could actually mean for the production methods of the past for example one of the most controversial in the country's coal production many regions depend hugely on their minds which provide thousands of jobs for local communities peter all of travel to one such region and sent. this open cast coal mine in the east of germany near to the border with poland casts a black out into the horizon angle of merkel's government want to see coal phased out of use by twenty thirty eight and recently there's been loud voices of support

from both here in germany and also in the wider world lad. the problem for areas like this is that it's upwards of sixteen thousand jobs in the local area either. depend directly or in directly on this coal mine being operational i spoke to local residents and asked them where they sit when it comes to environment versus economy. all of the businesses in this area depend in some way on minus earning their wages here we hope coal production will still continue. without coal mining on the region will die it can't happen coal must not. believe the call industry disappears then even more young people will leave this

place will be like a retirement community in just a few weeks the european parliamentary elections will be taking place and it's in areas like this that conservative opposition party alternative the germany is looking to pick up verbs also happening here in the state of brandenburg in september all important local elections and that's why you have to candidates are campaigning hard with the local coal mining communities. we need a stable power supply which we won't have if we shut down coal we have coal in this region for many years to come and we intend to use it wind water and solar are not enough in this area known as the louds it's there are seven mines that feed three power stations all in all they provide around seven percent of germany's annual energy needs as the country as a whole will germany takes almost forty percent of its power from coal plants as it stands is to eliminate all that nuclear power by twenty twenty two and phase out

all coal energy by the end of the next two decades the implementation of the climate change plan will accelerate structural change in many regions and sectors especially in the energy sector the goal of the federal government is to preserve the regions as energy regions of the future to create jobs and to avoid structural breaks and restrictions. on international competitiveness the government promised a forty billion euro earlier this year to help mining communities with the transition however people in this part of the country on convinced that throwing money at the problem is going to help us with our money is not enough we need a clear plan before we go ahead and publish an end date for the coal industry we need to have a plan of what will replace it and. all reputable science points to a need for us to change the way we impact upon the environment one of the biggest

challenges though may be how to change generations of industry and life without turning these communities into ghost towns peter all over r.t. in the laos it's called feel germany. now britain's queen may be happy with the saying god bless her and all who sail in her but it seems a maritime museum in scotland isn't it's begun referring to ships as it to appear more gender neutral the move does come after is found people have been scratching off references to boats as she from information signs although me museum's director says the man listen wasn't the reason for the swap but instead to recognize changes in society despite this is spokes person for the british marine industries federation said their organization would actually continue the centuries long tradition referring to both says she dates back to at least the fourteenth century some historians believe sailors associated femininity with motherhood and also

protection the struggle to keep up with modern times though is sparking heated debate in society we took to the heart of city of portsmouth for reaction. i disagree actually i think nation doing it all to do it history and things like that i think quite important to keep our history so i think would be a shame. i think that boats are beautiful feigns and therefore they ought to be friendly therefore she slowly roy and i think should change you can major cities change for the sake of change i mean if it's historically the bridge bridge pre-marriage and. already don't see any particular meter to change you personally we thought that it was called because we have a queen and if we had a king then the ship would be a he was. very angry but we also spoke to a former submarine captain ryan ramsey he believes generations of sailors will be

angered by such and make. sure it is a safe haven for so many scientists and actually they see that they see that capability that ship thing about where the focus is not so much whether it's named after a man or woman but actually some of the ship's name the seas they're named after everything but it's actually what the ship people i guess for the saddest of it that's speciation for a long long time for the origin of it comes from the last nice which. sort of scholarship from us probably worse for or so for me it's a capsule of the new year so we also sort of this is so awesome reshape and the west has it right. almost some of the sources we as we want to get on which is nationally there are way more important things to focus on the names of ships in

the ceremonies that tradition really something we lose our history and tradition it's actually really really important within the military now still to come this hour a meeting of economic minds is underway in beijing at the moment china's annual belt and road forum will be crossing live to our correspondent there just after the break. also the government has created a platform against this dialogue because that does not allow any compromise on van platform talks a bad served in crimes how serbia should play war iterations of being an artificial state cos it was simply things that everything is already over when they wake up from their delusions that they will have to face it several reality.

shows seem wrong. when all roles just don't call. me. yet to stamp out disdain become the attitude and gain from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back now a talking shop centered around china's plans for a massive global trading network known as the belt road initiative is underway in beijing leaders from your asian countries and further afield so you have gathered

so you share their views on how to develop economic cooperation so let's get more now from our correspondent in beijing for a she goes down of eagle plenty to talk about. well and indeed presidents ministers heads of international cornerstone international bodies like the u.n. or the international monetary fund all of them have flocked here to beijing for the second by any old belt and road forum the russian leader vladimir putin is also here he has already made a number of statements in which he among other things talked about the key challenges he outlined the key challenges faced by the participants of this forum one of them being you know actual sanctions. but it's important to create an effective on search for the risks of global economic political and technological space fragmentation and on the rise of protectionism the most dangerous form of which is the illegitimate one sided measures taken without any account from the un

or even worse trade was. now quite expected lee i should say for a meeting of this type of at least in among other things talked about the need to expand and broaden corporation between russia and china and he also praised the bold initiative which this forum is only a small part of this initiative has in its core investment into good. infrastructure and development of new major trading routes you know along the lines and inspired by the once prosperous silk road nowadays of course it doesn't matter if traders are done by the sea or by a land and hopefully right now we're showing you a map outlining two key trading routes trading you know highways that are being developed within the framework of this initiative now it has as its key opponent the united states who see it as sort of

a threat to their global dominance but according to the russian president this is the exactly type of international relations the world need right now now also all of this is happening against the backdrop of latin of putin's yesterday's meeting with the supreme leader of north korea kim jong un i should say it was the first meeting of its kind between the two and an important milestone as the two leaders were seeking for common ground now to take in all of this taken all together i guess allows me to say that this april russia's geopolitics has asia and it's spotlight. ok thanks for that she goes down off there with the latest from beijing . presidential hopefuls for support ahead of the twenty twenty presidential elections in the u.s. democrats have been looking at extending voting rights. people in jail can vote now

here is why view but i think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy yes even for terrible people lower the voting age to sixty mm getting young people voting early makes them voters for life our politics will affect young people for decades to come they should have a say in their own future. well a raft of democrat moves do appear to confirm a shift to a progressive agenda democrats blocked a republican proposal last month to prevent illegal immigrants from voting. jess that may be because overwhelmingly democrat the democrats also pushed to lower the voting age to sixteen that was rejected by the house political experts north you know loudon believes the party's thinking of anything it can do to turn things around. 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 in some cases even as you know in the united states we are going to the death penalty regarding murder because we believe you relinquish your rights when you take another life and they realize now that the basic americans out here are the people that we call them joe six pack 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. now three miners are known to have been killed while the fate of forty no this remains on no nothing explosion at a coal mine in the self-proclaimed against people's republic at least in ukraine

a major rescue operation is now under way the russian emergency services are working in close cooperation with local authorities believe the blast was caused by me thing gas leak cost of more details. the sick. the. people. are so we. are. nothing news a demonstration by students in the colombian city of bogota has turned violent fourteen people were said to have been injured there including eight police and

three journalists. people police are using morsi cannon some student protesters have been throwing smoke bombs at least thirty five arrests were made the students have been demonstrating against the government's failure to implement education reforms promised last year. now while the u.k.'s pays no closer to having acts of the us exit door to same one french diplomat is still looking sorry to the future predicting the country will be left out in the cold with its supposedly closest ally once it leaves the e.u. an observation that hasn't gone down too well at westminster.

u.k. has vanished every time the british military is meeting with the american military the americans are talking about the french. until there's a french president's bust in the oval office we will not take any lessons in having good relations with washington. the white house is still in lafayette square and it's not sure if you know these jeremy but i hear there is a big ole fresh that you in up in new york bay. watching at a fancy company this morning more news from us in just over half. montes

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ohen exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse off than the people who destroyed the world trade centers of those pro white. hate speech is it worse now than before or does it only seem that way because of our growing connectivity to digital news feeds and social media outrage and if it's worse what if anything should be done to protect you from it it's a weighty subject and we're delving into it on this edition of politic. welcome to politicking on matthew cook in for larry king you've seen the headlines warnings of white nationalism on the rise in the u.s.

protests and sometimes violence or greeting controversial speakers appearing. on college campuses and governments attempting crackdowns on certain types of speech on social media platforms so is hate speech worse now than before and if so what can be done about it especially here in the land of free speech it's a tough topic but in need of discussion so let's begin there with nagin strawson a new york law professor and former president of the american civil liberties union she's also the author of the book hate why we should resist it with free speech and not censorship she joins me from new york and to be here and david katz criminal defense attorney and a former assistant u.s. attorney in los angeles which is where he joins us now great to be here great to have you both so let me start with this question is there more hate being expressed in the u.s.

now than say twenty years ago and if so what's driving it needing it's impossible to answer that question because we simply don't have adequate statistics even about hate crimes let let alone about hate speech there is no doubt that there is so much of it and so what if there it is more or less than it's been in the past we are hearing it every day and moreover we are hearing accusations every day that even serious speech about important political issues is being denounced as hate speech and there are calls to censor it david well i think we are certainly perceiving it more because there's so much of it on the internet and it's very hard to control the internet and you know what gets cast on there and you know we do have the first amendment and you know our framers decided that what we need in this country is more speech that we counter hate speech with less hateful speech

pointing out that there's no basis for the hate.