as i did please. i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite. president on the fence his policies in a televised address although his attempts to defused the best protests didn't go down too well with his target audience. was shot down i heard a speech which didn't talk about your verse demands. stupid measures he couldn't rule for. the people he takes a square idiots also to come 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 paving unprecedented levels of cooperation between the countries the presidents of china and russia plan for an even brighter future their remarks came at a major economic gathering known as the belgium road forum in beijing. good afternoon welcome you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone one o'clock here in moscow 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 vest 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 and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that would always be fleeting claiming that the reforms were right a menu macron revealed his new plan which included significant cuts in taxes and also a boost to pensions he also said to me that french democracy needs more decentralized government and declared an easing of the rules for organizing public referendums so that the pinsky as morning turds. 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 and so what has this movement said 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 imbedded and we must provide an answer well the yellow vest protest is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely jumped on to 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 least stupid measures he can roll them on 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 the 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. fellow i from critical care 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 reform in the well the national school of ministration known as the year nay is a top institution in the country it was established back in one thousand forty five and undertook the initial training of senior french officials and i took a step as a response to months of protests against the leaders and 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 the political commentators young bricmont believes the president's move will only have

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 and in saudi opinion 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 i mean less taxes but you said he does this causes 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 he seems to me that this is grossly a discourse of a total discourse he's trying to satisfy people that he's i'm going to lose at least i'll be the leader of the discontent he steve. now 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 than it previously been revealed but the government organization does say its military activity has brought stability with more his. u.s. africa with its 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 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 smi 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 of the team much good their. operation junction serpent yeah that makes it 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 orphan children and feeding the hungry but we don't know that we have no information. 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 does do you think scholastically does 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 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. now a summit focused on china's plans for a massive global trading network known as the belt and road initiative is underway in beijing and it is from your asian countries and further afield have gathered to share their views on how to develop economic cooperation the presence of russia and china once again stressed their friendship during a formal dinner on the sidelines of the summit and see the pictures and 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 affairs we encourage all parties to do their best with their abilities through various forms such as bilateral cooperation tripartite cooperation and altie 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 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. what 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 over cornerstone international bodies like the u.n. or the international monetary fund all of them have flocked to beijing for this second i 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 that 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 rushes in china's joint investment into projects within the frameworks 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. growed and will now of course in our days it doesn't really matter you've traitors 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. songes rights to privacy were violated while he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london that's according to a u.n. representative. supported because it is a very special set of circumstances where a person who was not formally over to assure us who was subjected to so. well the u.n. is now investigating whether ecuador's decision to place the wiki leaks co-founder under strict surveillance violated the universal declaration of human rights songe was arrested early this month when he was dragged back to the ecuadorian embassy where he had been claiming asylum for almost seven years he may now face

extradition to be us after being charged there with a conspiracy to hack a government computer. going international attention through his we can now project which publishes leaked documents that incriminate governments around the world service organization is behind some of the biggest pledges of classified information ever. i. i. i i. i. i i i i.

oh my god what are you going to. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of talks like a hostile a cold turkey. ok i want to talk more about the story when i joined by a friend of julian assange she's also a swedish journalist is your hand will stare him and he joins us this afternoon and a very welcome thanks for your time just let's start with what this u.n. representative is saying in your own opinion i know you know julian pretty well gee

think his rights were violated so quite clearly you. violate it on a daily basis but that goes basically without saying he is currently it ain't for no other reason being a journalist and this is it is probably one of the most. developments and recently and that is our roughly nine years of tense discussions and and certainly. it was only. released its course now look at least. of which. you say that do you think it changes at all the fact that he's been charged with conspiring to hack into a government computer this does that change the argument that he's a journalist. well the charges as far as we know are those have any substantial

evidence of any sort to start with and the second issue is that even rape where they are described they are described as the classic. relationship between a journalist and a source where according to the arguments of of the court as far as i understand it at least history has asked his source to provide him with material and that would be. if that is illegal then i seriously the journalism is as such you don't show ok not generally speaking over the years have he saying a change in tone on how his case is being covered and how it's being reported. well this is i think probably the most important issue that we need to now ponder on what it means because over the period of these nine years the mistress under has been. kept incarcerated and different aspects of the conversation has

gone strong being an issue of morals through already where. the various sort of. how quickly it is not to offend anybody the various american media institutions that wants to propagate their our system into that we really have really tried to denigrate mistress and based on moral grounds. this conversation has now moralists died out and now everybody is more or less agreed on the fact that it is charged and is imprisoned because of his journalism and that does change everything changes the entire discourse and it actually means that there's no reason to pretend anymore and what does not mean for not only american but also western journalism such as christian

that we ourselves ok and from your experience i mean you say you've seen this firsthand tape because i think you were trying to get on to a swedish networks when this story is breaking about his arrest but you found difficulty in doing so is that right. well. you know this is when i have we're for public service over a fifteen years. even though the most prestigious prizes that you can get. for a marriage are in. this story with us and. without being arrested a number of voters who are not well they contacted me asking if i read the. discussions and interviews in regards to what happened and they read. these various editors one after another called me back after having been told that they

were forbidden from somewhere hierarchy east. from. their religion usually. it's quite clearly not an issue of incidence when it happens in very speedy institutions in the same day same time ok we're going to have to leave it there we've run at a time but very nice to talk to you this afternoon that was your handle from he's a friend of junior science but also a journalist there based in sweden thank you. knackering sauces of energy showed their 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 continues develop there are fees it could cause big problems take for example the impact it could have on the country's coal production many local communities still depend on their minds as

a major source of employment as are things peter oliver has been finding at. this open cast coal mine in the east of germany near to the border with poland casts a black scar out into the horizon angola 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 farias 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 miners

spending 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 to germany's looking to pick up votes also coming here in the states of brandenburg in september all important local elections and that's why they have to candidates campaigning hard with 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 and 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 and you will energy needs as the country as a whole will germany takes almost forty percent of its power from coal the plan as it stands is to. all that nuclear powered 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 in berlin 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 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 feel germany. now while the u.k. appears no closer to heading out of the exit door it seems that one french diplomat is still looking to the future because he is predicting the country will be left out in the cold when it does eventually leave the e.u. nobs of asian though that didn't go down too well in westminster.

his vanished every time the british military is meeting with the american military the americans are talking about the french. and. 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 old fridge that you in up in new york. so that's how things are looking so far today don't forget that you can or to keep yourself updated on a social media pages and you chad. would

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a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering the new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news sure eaters face. a bunch of us to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too

conservative and now and then we inject a story that we thought was really cool. the facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its billion users if the story originated from a conservative news source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook costly manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think

a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it on how to watch why your facebook friends post can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they wanted to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space the pioneer connections based upon where you're going and what they want to do is take that information and then use it.