please. i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite. done nothing wrong president defends his policies in the televised address although his attempts the fuse best protest didn't go down too well with his target audience. what. i heard a speech which didn't talk about the oldest amount. stupid measures he could rule for. the people he takes just for idiots. also to come the u.s.

africa command is forced defend itself to report reveals washington has been running dozens of military missions on the continent and globally just descend on china for a major economic gathering the belt road for him to boost economic and political cooperation will be on the table. for the welcome just gone ten o'clock in the morning here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. 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 in a televised address on thursday night he made an impassioned plea to the public and the yellow vests protesters who've been rocking the country for almost six months. as i please. i ask myself the question did 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 only president michael may have spoken for almost an hour with the wind to 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 and so what has this movement and what have i taken

away from this grand debate first of all we all heard this feeling of injustice fiscal injustice territorial injustice social injustice the feeling is here it's in bedded and we must provide an answer well the yellow vest protest is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely war jumped 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 lower taxes good 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 these protests have been some of the most violent in france for more than half a century. alcool says is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is poor we.

well to gain more support president macron also decided to scrap what he called a symbol of inequality the french later said he would abolish an elite school famed for its prominent graduates. poor fellow i from critical care i think to carry out reforms the a needs to be abolished not to take pleasure in a bullish in the e n a but you create something that works better as i described yes i do not think that in this case there can be any patching up a bit of reform in people from the national school of administration known as the

a's a top institution in the country it was established in one nine hundred forty five and undertook the initial training of senior french officials mccrum to the step is a response to months of protests against the late isn't in the political establishment although some have labelled it an attempt to shift attention away from the real problems. efforts are being made to put up a smokescreen so that we forget what the real problems are in trance this is undoubtedly a distraction it's not a critical question who will replace the a with another school because we will have to continue to produce senior officials well the political commentator is young but it mom believes the president's move there will have only a limited impact. people are unhappy with this policy but what is true is that there is no united demand about what to do with this but this is that school i didn't say the european union there is nothing as you can do because you have been

one to force these sort of nearly bald reforms and of course i gaze with that but even if we didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma nics measure is more social spending and more. or less taxes but the incentive is this gore says it is going to get dirty i don't know i was going to balance the budget there was a lot of well as a budget so he seemed to read it is grossly you know all the discourse of a total discourse he's trying to satisfy people that isn't going to be satisfied people because the discontent is too deep. that the u.s. africa command has had to defend itself after being accused of military imperialism it comes after reports show since twenty ten the u.s. has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more and previously been revealed but the government organization says its military activity has brought stability with more his. u.s.

africa command. strengthen security forces councils transnational threats and conducts crisis response in order to advance u.s. national interests and promote regional security stability and prosperity major carl weiss a 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 you 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 top aleck 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 africa activities perhaps they have some information the top government officials don't have jukebox lotus what does that make you think oh literally nothing echo case me what do you think a. drum music from africa junction serpent what do you think that is i think nothing comes to mind how about maybe an alcoholic drink definitely and a justified cmon yeah. yeah i don't know. an actor that's what you think oh yeah country 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 the good and not of the team much good their. 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 the founder of the organization viewpoint africa some questions where the u.s. military activity has in fact contributed to regional stability. what i'm line is that the u.s. military does do things knesset leaders do things undercover 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 us and 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 whether the u.s.

operation its influence 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. are talking shop centered around china's plans for a massive global trading network known as the belt around initiative is underway in beijing today leaders from your asian countries and further afield to have gathered there to share their teams and develop economic cooperation by the chinese and russian leaders have already voiced their feelings about the importance of the event. we work together to promote the high quality development of one belt and one road we are told the principle of extensive consultation joint contribution and shared benefits and advocate multilateralism we must consult each other about fairness we encourage other parties to do their best with their

abilities through various forms such as bilateral cooperation tripartite cooperation and on anti lateral cooperation we will give full play to our strengths and potential. know what is important to create an effective answer to the risks of global economic political and technological space fragmentation and onset to the rise of protectionism the most dangerous form of which is the illegitimate one sided measures taken without any account. from the u.n. or even worse trade was. ok let's get the latest now in beijing from our correspondent there you go to dan office following events for us hello see ego it's clear just listening isn't it to the russian and chinese leaders this project is about multilateralism or not protectionism. well indeed absolutely and the and in fact what beijing is doing here is sort of

attempting to pull the geo political blanket on its side and by doing so it creates alternative ways to do business to invest to develop the global economy i should say and really look at the scale i mean it's presidents ministers heads of cornerstone international bodies like the u.n. all of the international monetary fund all of them have flocked to beijing for this second day should say by any belt and road forum now that i'm a putin as you've rightly mentioned is also here and he talked about well quite expected me i should say about the importance of developing the russia china relations but there were actions to his words as world for instance the two countries have announced the joint military drills that are set to come sometime in the near future i should say also they established a special fund. operates in new ones and it has a capital total worth of the net worth of around a billion dollars and this fund would streamline the process of investing of the

joint investment russia and china's joint investment into projects within the frameworks of the belton road initiative now this initiative and it is what the forum was part of a small part of this initiative is a grander strategy that was unveiled by china back in twenty thirteen and in its core it has investment into global infrastructure and development of new major trade routes across the. world sort of inspired by the once prosperous silk road and now of course in our days it doesn't really matter you've done by sea or by a land in fact here's a map showing two key major to two major trade routes developed within the frameworks developed already within the framework of this belt and road initiative now all of this comes against the backdrop of lot of yesterday's meeting with the supreme leader of north korea kim jong un the first meeting over its kind between

the two and certainly an important milestone as the two leaders search for common ground so all of this taken together i guess allows me to say that this april the focus of russia's diplomacy is on asia. ok thank you hugo that was at you goes down off air force in beijing. 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 because it's begun referring to ships as it to appear more gender neutral the move comes after it was found people have been scratching off references to boats is she from information signs or the museum's director says the vandalism wasn't the reason for the swap but instead to recognize changes in society despite this the british marine industries federation says their organization will continue the centuries long tradition or referring to boats as

she does date back to at least the fourteenth century some historians believe sale is associated femininity with motherhood and also protection but the struggle to keep up with modern times is sparking heated debate in society we took to the harbor city of portsmouth to gauge reaction. by 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. to a boat so beautiful for. although you want to be friends there for sure. and i think should change your committee just even change for the sake of change i mean if it's historically the bridge. between marriage and fishers and already don't see any particular meter to train you both personally we thought it was called because we have a queen and if we had a king then the ship would be a he was. going to be angry. we also spoke with

a former submarine captain to the ryan ramsey believes that generations of sailors will be angered by such a. ship is a safe haven for so many scientists and actually they see that they see that capability that ship thing that's where the focus is not so much whether it's new york 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 sighted so that's speciation for a long long time for the origin of it comes from now which is a funny. sort of scholarship. 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 this is this almost some of the sources we as we want to get on missions nationally there are way more important things to focus on the names of

ships in the ceremonies a tradition something we lose our history and tradition it's actually really really important in the military. while the u.k. pays no closer to heading out of the exit door it does seem one french diplomat is still looking to the future predicting that the country will be left out in the cold with it's supposedly closest ally once it leaves an observation that hasn't gone down too well in westminster. 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. so it's come this hour the winds of change. energy industry rising think about the future of coal mining communities we'll have a look at that in more detail just after the break. imagine that you run a blood bank. in one room are dead patients they've been dead since two thousand and eight that would be j.p. morgan goldman sachs deutsche bank b.n.p. societies generali just b. c.

etc and in the other room you have living middle class people and the point of blood bank is to take blood from the living middle class people and to transfuse blood to the dead banks next door that they've been dead now for more than ten years the people that are in the middle class are going to start to suffer and suffer horribly and many of them will die and by the way they won't be getting any of the blood from the other middle class people to keep them alive all the blood all the plasma goes to the dead. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you.

again there are new and he showed his potential in germany this week because wind and solar power generated more than seventy percent of the country's electrical needs thanks to strong winds and also plenty of sunshine according to a local think tank but while green power discontinued to develop their rafi's it could cause big. for example the impact it could have on the country's coal production many local communities depend on their minds as a source of employment as artist peter oliver has been finding it. this open cast coal mine in the east of germany near to the border with poland casts a black out into the horizon 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.

the problem for areas like this is that 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 and we hope coal production will still continue. without coal mining on the region will die it can't happen coal must not. think it is if the coal 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 chimneys are looking to pick up votes also coming here in the state of brandenburg in september all important local elections and that's why they have to candidates campaigning gods of 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 from. in 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 or germany takes almost forty percent of its power from coal the plan as it stands is to eliminate all 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 reuse 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 are convinced that throwing money at the problem is going to help. 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 field germany. now the news three miners have been killed while the fate of fourteen others remains remain unknown after an explosion at a coal mine in the self-proclaimed against people's republic in eastern ukraine a major rescue operation there is under way the russian emergency services are working in close cooperation with local authorities as. believe the blast was caused by me thing ghastly roman cost that has more details. emerge as a signal from the state of the gods thursday that's about seventy people were trapped. meters below. the rescue efforts are under way right. local church services are also waiting for help their colleagues in the rush. rush services are now being sold on the way.

back you. are still there. ron paul. looks. demonstration by students in the colombian city of bogota has turned violent fourteen people were said to have been injured including to police and three journalists. footage showed police using morse a cannon some students student protesters had been throwing smoke bombs at least thirty five arrests were made the students have been demonstrating against the failure of the government to implement education reforms promised last year. so that brings up today thanks for watching this morning we're back again as usual with more stories we and the headlines at the top of the.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the pope different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people by salt or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of that sliding here. for good only if you don't sort the ball. go to sit for the fall to do. so.

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so i stopped at. the trump and ministration is on an offensive around the globe as a candidate trump called out neo cons for supporting american military adventures now many of them work for the president and this administration the very idea of diplomacy is absent it relies upon threats and saying.

a stance would break away. kosovo remain frozen government finds itself facing of protests sweeping across. europe. set for a shake up. the streets of capital the president remains defiant. between east and west. to maintain its old friendship with russia will the question of. integration. people. is said that it's such a great pleasure to have you once again on our show we missed you it's been probably. so once a year it's a must and since lot of things have been happening especially in serbia kind of turbulent times protests are raging in your country since december your president is saying that he's not going to bow down to any of the demands do you think it's

a good approach to actually be so hard on the protesters could it be that they will get even angrier. well you know what they want to resign not crazy to do that. therefore there is no need to get excited about the protests at this proposed i'm not sure if you understand but here we do not have a situation where the parties in power and the opposition are equal in terms of the number of m.p.'s or by the number of votes we have a situation with which is party my party both the and the collison have more than sixty percent of the votes while all the protests have around ten percent. the difference is quite large protests all these protests can last for who knows

how long but no one should thing that you can just come to the des moines.