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 mccrum defends his policies in a televised address although his attempts to fuse yellow best didn't go down too well with his target audience was. part heard a speech which didn't talk about the amount. stupid measures he couldn't rule. talk to people. and also to come the u.s. africa command this force 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 the remarks came at a major economic gathering known as the belt road for him. here in moscow with our international the french president a man you're macron 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 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 while claiming that the reforms were right when you macron revealed his new plan which included significant cuts in taxes and also a boost to pensions he also said french democracy needs to be more decentralized in government and the clegg and easing of the rules for organizing public referendums shouted the now reports president mccall may have spoken for almost an hour with the wind two ranging discussion of the things he'd like to do you over the next three years but what he would lacked on quite a lot was the detail 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 invaded and we must provide an answer well the yellow vest protest is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely jumped on me i heard a speech which didn't talk about the you know of those demands no consideration about anything not evolution in pushes in power no lower taxes are going to see least stupid measures. we can roll them all talk to the people he can rosen and sit on them because all of this is useless it's only lies he takes

a screw idiots these protests have been some of the base violent in france for more than half a century. now the cool says the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is poor weak. or to gain more support president macron also decided to scrap or he called a symbol of inequality the french leader said he would abolish an elite school fainter its prominent graduates. could put fellow i phone because of ok i think to

carry out reforms the end he needs to be abolished for the not to take pleasure in a bullish in the n.h.s. but you create something that works better at it as i described so yes i do not think that in this case there can be any patching up a bit of a critical to getting the national school of administration known as the d.n.a. is a top institution in the country it was established back in one thousand nine hundred five and undertook the initial training of senior french officials mccrum though took the step as a response to months of protests against the need to zoom though some have labeled 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 france this is undoubtedly a distraction it's not a critical question. reprise the with another school because we will have to continue to produce senior officials political commentators on bricmont believes

the president's move will only have a limited impact. people are unhappy with this policy but what these two is that there is no united demand about what to do with this but this is not school i didn't say the european union is not in years you can do because you have been one to force these sort of nearly bullish loans and of course i gaze with that but even if we didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma. is more social spending and more i mean less taxes but even so if it is this causes it is going to get delhi i don't know i was going to balance the budget it was a lot of well as a budget he seems to me that is grossly you know a discourse of a tiger discourse is trying to satisfy people it is only to be satisfied with the content the speed with. now 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 us has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more than it previously been revealed although the government organization does say its military activities actually bring stability to the region 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 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 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 four 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. lotus what does that make you think oh literally nothing case made 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 cmon 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 oh wow that's cool wow i mean it doesn't sound good probably not up to a good. out of the chain much good their. operation junction serpent yeah that makes a felt terrible you don't like the way that sound how it 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 hugging little orphaned children and feeding the hungry but we don't know that we have no information and r.t. new york well the founder of the organization viewpoint africa has questioned whether u.s. military activity has in fact contributed to regional stability the bottom line is that the u.s. military daws 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 where the 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. talking shop centered around china's plans for a massive global trading network known as the belt and road initiative is underway in beijing leaders from your asian countries and further afield 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 because in some of the pictures here

they also there they also 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 all parties to do their best with their abilities through various forms such as bilateral cooperation tripartite cooperation and multilateral cooperation we will give full prairie to our strengths and potential. there is no way to work that it's important to create an effective all in search of the risks of global economic political and technological space fragmentation and answer to 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 geopolitical 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 to the 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 of the total worth of the net worth of around a billion dollars and this fund would streamline the process of investing over joint investment russia's and china's joint investment into projects within the framework of the belton road initiative now this initiative is and it is what the forum was part of a small part of this initiative is a grander a 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 nowadays it doesn't really matter you've trade is 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 build 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 it's kind between the two and certainly an important milestone as the two leaders search for common ground all of this taken together i guess allows me to say that this april the focus of russia's diplomacy is on asia. meanwhile while the u.k. does appear no closer to heading out of the u.s. exit door it does seem one french diplomat is still looking to the future because he is predicting the country will be left out in the cold once it leaves the an observation that hasn't gone down too well in westminster. do you can has vanished every time the british military's 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 is new it's not sure if you know these jeremy but i hear there is a big old fridge that you in up in new york base. still to come the sad winds of change are blowing over germany's energy industry raising fears though about the future of coal mining communities we'll have a look at this just stuff the brain.

of the government has created a platform against this dialogue because that does not allow any compromise. platform talks about serving crimes how serbia should play war iterations of being an artificial states cos of a simply things that everything is already over when they wake up from the

illusions that they will have to face it several reality. again that green sources of energy that 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 but while the industry does continue to develop the could also be a big problems ahead say for example the impact it could have on the country's coal production many communities do depend on their minds as a source of employment peter all of has been finding at. this open cast

coal mine in the east of germany near to the border with poland casts a black outs 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. that. the problem farias like this is that it's upwards of sixteen thousand jobs in the local area either dependent 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 the miners spending their wages here we hope coal production will still continue. without coal mine in our region will die it can't

happen coal must not go away. if 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 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 i knew

what energy needs as the country as a whole will germany takes almost forty percent of its power from coal plant 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. unities with the transition however people in this part of the country aren't 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 how. 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. this week the race for the u.s. presidency in twenty twenty stepped up a gear for the former vice president joe biden threw his hat into the ring democrats are hopeful they can pick a candidate to topple trump but they'll need plenty of support and to get there they're considering extending voting rights to prisoners i believe in jail can vote no here is my view but i think the right vote is inherent to our democracy yes

even for terrible people but people who are in convicted in prison like the boston marathon bomber they should be able to vote i think we should have that conversation but it's not just prisoners that democrats want to get to the polling booths and one of the twenty democratic presidential candidates has also suggested lowering the voting age to sixteen republicans in particular though have come out against this move saying it would give the democrats an unfair advantage however many say it is the economy that will determine the outcome of the twenty twenty elections and which could potentially be the key to a trump victory a recent c.n.n. poll shows more than seventy percent of americans are positive about the u.s. economy a record number since two thousand and. one in particular more than fifty percent are pleased with the drums and bling of the economy analysts predict a healthy economy coupled with low employment and low unemployment rising wages might lead to

a second term for trump political expert and author gina loudon believes the democrats have lost touch with the average voter. 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 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 the people of the recall and joe sixpack in america the guy this just working his job trying to provide first family he's not going to vote democratic or 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. in other news 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. i put it here showed police using more and more some protesters who 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. finally 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 had been scratching off references to boats as she from information signs the museum's

director says that the vandalism wasn't the reason for the swap but instead to recognize changes in society despite this the british maritime story the british marine industries federation says their organization will continue this centuries long tradition we're referring to as she does date back to at least the fourteenth century some historians belief sale is associated femininity and motherhood and protection but the struggle to keep up with the modern times is sparking heated debate in society we took to the harbor city of portsmouth for reaction. i disagree trey i think nation day is a lot to do if history and things like that i think that's quite important to keep our history say to square i think the change i think that so beautiful feigns and therefore they want to be friends. and i think we should change your.

change for the sake of change i mean if it's historically the bridge. pre-marriage and fissures and already i don't see any particular meter to train you personally. 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 with the former submarine kept in tehran ramsey believes generations of sailors will be angered by such make sure it is a safe haven for many scientists and actually see that. capability . is not so much with new york man or woman but actually some of the ship's name to seize on and off the everything but especially what this ship. for the site is for that's speciation for a long long. history and tradition it's. also in the military. and.

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