please. i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite. i've done nothing wrong president defends his policies in the televised address although his attempts to diffuse the best protests didn't go down too well with his target audience was the reason i heard a speech which didn't talk about the amounts. stupid measures he couldn't prove. the people he takes this is the. u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after a report reveals washington has been running dozens of military missions on the

continent and hailing unprecedented levels of cooperation between their countries the presence of china and russia plan for an even brighter future their remarks came at a major economic gathering known as the belt road forum in beijing. hello there you watching r.t. international this morning we're going eleven o'clock here in moscow at the french president of monument crown 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 do to be a complete movie q 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 for it and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that would always be fleeting well claiming that the reforms were right to my new macron revealed his new plan which included significant cuts in taxes and the boost to pensions he also said french democracy needs more decentralized government and they cared an easing of the rules for organizing public referendums challenge as more details. 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 like to him 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 says and what have i taken away from this grand debate first of all we all heard this feeling of injustice fiscal injustice territory injustice social injustice the feeling is here it's invaded and 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 lower taxes. going to see music and all these stupid measures he can roll them oh 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. now cool says the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is blowing. well to gain more support president macron also decided to scrap what he called a symbol of inequality the french leader said he would abolish an elite school famed for its prominent graduates your boss could put fellow i phone critical key i think to carry out reforms the a needs to be abolished not to take pleasure in

abolishing 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 or a bit of a reform or the national school of administration known as the d.n.a. is a top institution in the country it was established back in one hundred forty five and undertook the initial training of senior french officials and across to the step as a response to months of protests against the elitism 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. this is undoubtedly a distraction it's not a critical question who will ripley's the day with another school because we will have to continue to produce senior officials however the political commentators schonberg mom believes the president's move there will only have

a limited impact. but i'm happy with this policy but what is tool 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 bullets loans 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 i mean 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 was a lot to balance a budget so you seem to read it is grossly a discourse of a tiger discourse he's trying to satisfy complicity sounding these at least i do believe that the discontent is too deep. that the u.s. africa command has had to defend itself after being accused of military imperialism comes after a report shows since twenty ten the u.s.

has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more than it previously been revealed but the government organization does say its military activity has brought stability with more his color. 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 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 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 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 afrikaans activities perhaps they have some information that top government officials don't have jukebox 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 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 if you point to africa has questioned whether u.s. military activity has in fact contributed to regional stability. the bottom 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 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 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. now are talking shop centered around china's plans for a massive global trading network known as the belt of rage initiative is underway in beijing leaders from your asian countries and further afield to have gathered to share their views on how to develop economic cooperation the presidents of russia and china once again stress their friendship during a formal dinner on the sidelines of the summit there they also voiced their feelings about the importance of the event. we work together to promote the

high quality and to collaborate on screen maybe holt 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. it's important to create an effective all in search of the risks of global economic political and technological space fragmentation and on search for 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. 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 un or 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 talks 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 eighty billion dollars and this

fund would streamline the process of investing over joint investment rushes in china's joint investment into projects within the frameworks of the belt and 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 still. grow old and from now of course in our days it doesn't really matter you've traders 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 important yesterday's meeting with the supreme leader of north korea kim jong on 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. 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 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 boat says she from information signs although 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 does say their organization will continue the centuries long tradition where referring to does date back to at least the fourteenth century some historians do

believe sailors 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 for reaction. i think. quite important to keep our history so. i think. historically the bridge. don't see any particular need to train you. because we have a queen and if we have a king then the ships would be a he. kept

ryan. will be on good. 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. a man or a woman but actually some of the ships name the seas they're named after everything but it's actually what the ship people i guess for the saddest of events speciation for a long long time for the origin of it comes from that loss and now a switch from any. sort of scholarship probably to crow so for me it's a capsule of the media summary and we also sort of this is so awesome reshape and the west has it right this is this is 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 second one is a tradition we use something we lose on history and tradition it's actually really really important in the military. and while the u.k. pays no closer to heading out of the exit door at the moment it seems one french diplomat is still looking to the future predicting the country will be left out in the cold with its supposedly closest ally once it leaves the one observation though that hasn't gone band too well in westminster. buchanan has vanished every time the british military is meeting with the american military the americans are talking about the french. emotional me. until there's a french president's bust in the oval office we will not take an unisons in having good relations with washington.

the white house is still in lafayette square is new it's not sure if you know these germy but i hear there is a bigger fridge that you in up in new york. you're watching at a we're back with more and. a mountain that you run a blood bank and you know 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. society generali just these say except and in the other room you have a living middle class people and the point of blood bank is to take blood from the living middle class people and to transfuse that blood to the dead banks next door

that they've been dead now for more than ten years old actually 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 but. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world public. fix small business i'm show business i'll see you then. green sources of energy and show that potential in germany this week went inside

a power that generated more than seventy percent of the country's electrical needs thanks to strong winds and also plenty of sunshine but while the industry does continue to develop there are face it could cause big problems to for example the impact it could have on the country's coal production many local communities do depend on their minds as a major source of employment peter all of us has been finding. 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 not both here in germany and also in the wider world. the problem farias like this is that it's upwards of sixteen thousand jobs in the

local area either depending directly or in directly all miss 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 miners spending their wages here and we hope coal production will still continue and when an event that is without coal mining on the region will die. it can't happen coal must not. look only industry disappears then even more young people will leave this place will be like a retirement only 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 are looking to pick up votes also happening here in the state of brandenburg in september are 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 energy needs as the country as a whole or germany takes almost forty percent of its power from coal plants 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 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. 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 we're up. face 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. another nice three miners have been killed while the fate of fourteen others remains unknown after an explosion at

a coal mine in eastern ukraine it happened in the self-proclaimed people's republic of lugansk a major rescue operation is now underway in the russian emergency services are working in close cooperation with local authorities there it's believed the blast was caused by me thane gas leak growing cost that it has more. urgency signals from the sick but outside the gods keep their estate that's about seventy people were trapped in peter's below the. rescue efforts are on the way right now to help local services are also waiting for help their colleagues in russia. rushed urgent services are to help so the way to help get back you. are still up to their feet is yes i know ron paul for more to look. elsewhere a demonstration by students in the colombian city of bogota has turned violent

fourteen people were said to have been injured including eight police and three journalists. for six days showing police using mortar cannon while some protesters threw smoke bombs at least thirty five arrests were made and the students have been demonstrating against the failure of the government to implement education reforms promised last year. so that brings upside here not a thank you company today we're back with more news for you in about half an hour's time don't forget by plenty of stories at our website at r.t. don't.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trumping ministration is on an offensive around the globe as a candidate trump called out news columns for supporting american military adventures now many of them work for the president in this administration the very idea of diplomacy is absent it relies upon threats and sanctions. cross talking whether we're going to war i'm joined by my guest peter cuz nick in washington he's a professor of history at american university as well as co-author with all of our

stone the untold history of the united states in burbank we have rough is a day he is president of the international american council and a harvard educated iranian american political scientist and in person bill we cross to philip giraldi he's a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to philip first i'm calling this program go moving toward war question mark as it happens so very often philip an article you wrote a few days ago inspired me to do this program and to invite our guests here so philip and percival are we in this situation because we can look at iran we can look what's going on in venezuela the bipartisan support to get out of the conflict that's supporting the saudi arabia and yemen moving the capital recognizing the capital of israel's jerusalem the trumpet ministration giving away the golden

heights the golan heights it's not even theirs to give away and also the possibility of an oil shock by this unilateral global blockade and sanctioning of iranian oil i mean there's a whole lot of things going on at the same time here and it gets senator around to people in the administration then you know who i'm talking about go ahead philip. yeah i rather suspect you're talking about john bolton and mike pompei oh yeah. you know i think the issue is here yeah i think the issue is here that that they've managed to get the president's year in a very real way the president has a business head he doesn't know anything about diplomacy he doesn't know anything about foreign policy doesn't know anything about iran or russia as the fact is i think that these people have convinced the president using his business head that if you pull.