so you see the movie cute i also myself the question that we take a wrong time i think it's quite the opposite present micron the funds his policies in a televised address although his attempts to diffuse the protest didn't go down well with his target audience. i heard a speech which didn't talk about the oldest amounts of. stupid measures he couldn't . talk to people he takes to school. also this hour 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. a project of truly epic ambition britain and germany

held china's belt and rode trading network initiative of the countries take part in a major economic forum on beijing's plan. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the french president emmanuel mccrone has gone on the defensive claiming he's done nothing wrong and the way he's been dealing with the country's issues they tell me televised address on thursday night he made an impassioned plea to the public and the protesters who've been rocking the country for almost six months now. you can please many of the q i asked 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 only claiming that the reforms were right emmanuel mccrone revealed his new plan which included significant cuts in taxes and a boost to pensions he also said french democracy needs more decentralized government and the clarity easing of the rules for organizing public referendums charlotte minsky has more. president michael may have spoken for almost an hour with the wind to aging 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 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 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 on talk of the 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 so is the

right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is blowing. today more support president like on also decided to scrap what he called a symbol of inequality the french leader said he would abolish school famed for its prominent graduates. fellow i phone because of ok 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

they can be any patching up a bit of it with all people from the national school of administration or the as a top institution in the country it was established in one thousand forty five and undertook the initial training of senior french officials upon took the step as a response to months of protests against. a bus some have labelled it an attempt to shift attention from the real problems and puts a 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 political commentators on bricmont believes the president's move will have only 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 that school deans idea opinion there is nothing as you can do because you have been one to force

these sorts of nearly budget problems and my call of course i gaze with that but even if we didn't can do anything about so least the dilemma nics measure is more social spending and more i mean less taxes but you said he does these courses it is going to get to him i don't know how he's going to balance the budget will want to balance a budget so he seems to lead it is mostly in the discourse of the discourse he's trying to satisfy people that he's sounding to these at least i do believe that the discontent is too deep. the u.s. africa command has had to defend itself after being accused of military imperialism it comes after reports show since two thousand and ten the us has been running thirty six operations all across the african continent far more than had been previously revealed but the government organization says its military activity has brought stability as more details has come up. us.

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 karo weiss spokesperson for the u.s. military's african command has come forward and stated the purpose of the pentagon's operations on the continent now he was responding to a tweet by the young gun control activist david hawkins now hawgs tweet was reacting to the fact that currently there are u.s. military operations underway on the african continent is not a small number the official reason given is to promote stability but it's hard to measure success when so little information is available to the public about what's actually going on for example for u.s. military personnel were killed in the african country of niger and 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 oh. 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 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 the press doesn't sound good probably not up to too 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 hugging 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 you point africa has question 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 lead does do things on the cover 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. but the u.k. and germany have praise china's plan for a massive global trading network as the belt and road initiative a form for which is currently underway in beijing their leaders from your asian countries and further afield have gathered to share their views on how to develop economic cooperation reporting from beijing cares. well i have to say it is more than just a forum more than just a place for people to meet to talk and sign documents no it is a statement by beijing and those countries and representatives of international bodies and leaders who have come here today who have come to beijing it is a statement that this is a new way to boost global prosperity and also it is far from being just a regional event for instance the boat and road initiative and this forum have been

cautiously praised by the european union have a listen to both a road initiative has tremendous potential to spread prosperity and sustainable development to ching as it does potentially seventy percent of the world's population a project of truly epic ambition the u.k. is committed to helping to realize the potential of the belgian road and to doing so in a way which works for all of those whose lives are touched by the project in the big used seats we have agreed that we don't want to sign any by a literal memorandums but together make necessary arrangements between the greater european economic area and the economic area of greater china we will take this promise seriously this tone goes into a bit of a contrast with what the united states have been saying in fact washington has been one of the most stark opponents to the whole belt and road initiative because they see it as a threat to their dominance and here's why because thing is this forum is merely a tiny part of a much larger scheme

a much grander vision of beijing outlined its concept for the first time in twenty thirteen and since then it's been all about well investing into global infrastructure into building new major trade routes somewhat inspired by the you once prosperous silk road in fact he's a map showing you two key projects two key trade highways if i may say so that are being developed within the frameworks over this belton road initiative as for the rushed. leader vladimir putin he's of course here in beijing and when it comes to relations between moscow and china the two haven't really pulled any complements i should say when it comes to that and also both lattimer potentiating ping they shared their thoughts on why they think the belton road initiative is so important . we work together to promote the high quality development of one belt and

one route we are told the principle of extensive consultation joint contribution and shared benefits and have to create multilateralism 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 well when it comes to action the sides are russia and china have already agreed to conduct joint military drills sometime in the near future they also announced the establishment of a new fund of a new investment fund and it is now it is said to gain of the net capital totally worth around one billion dollars and its key purpose is to streamline the process of investments of russia and china investments into projects within the framework of the bridge of the belt and road initiative and somewhat beyond that as well so i

guess it is fair to say that russia for now has asia and its spotlight. to innocence as right to privacy may have been violated while he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy and london a un representative is now investigating whether that's the case. cases reported because it concerns a very special sort of circumstances where a person who was not formally on the detention. was subjected to. so the un's assessing whether ecuador's decision to place the wiki leaks co-founder under strict surveillance violated the universal declaration of human rights was arrested earlier this month and he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy or he had been claiming asylum for almost seven years he may now face extradition to the united states after being charged with conspiracy to hack a government computer. dealing with international attention through his wiki leaks project which publishes leaked documents that incriminate governments all around

the world his organization is behind some of the biggest disclosures of cost find information ever. how much i. owe. cut. oh we're going to kill.

kill. kill wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service talks like a hostile takeover of. we spoke to a friend of julian assange a swedish journalist johanns wall street who is sure the rights of the wiki leaks front are violated numerous times. who quite clearly you know who was just on his rights violations on a daily basis that goes basically without saying he is currently detained for no other reason than being a journalist and syria and this i think is probably one of the most important developments that has happened recently and that is after roughly nine years of returns where discussions and have been concerning it with usually

a new. person or a rapist or recent storms are just not going to look at least a receipt for the sole reason of even the charges as far as you know we don't have only substantial evidence the only source to start with and the second issue is that even the way we're in the early described here is framed as the classical. relationship between a journalist and a source where according to the arguments of the court as far as i understand it at least mr assad has asked his source to provide him with material if that is illegal then i seriously journalism is as such you don't. still to come the winds of change are blowing over germany's energy industry as n.p.r.'s about the future of coal mining community it's a story more after this break. join

me every first day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. i mentioned that you run a blood bank and a one room are dead patients they've been dead since two thousand and eight that'll be j.p. morgan goldman sachs die japan. b.n.p. society generali h.s.b.c. except for it in the other room 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 as if 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 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. welcome back green sources of energy showed their potential in germany this week wind and solar power generated more than seventy percent of the country's electrical needs thanks to strong winds and plenty of sunshine but while the industry continues to develop there are fears it could cause big problems as well for example the impact it could have on the country's coal production many local communities depend on their minds as a major source of employment as has been finding out. this open cast coal mine in the east of germany near to the border with poland casts a black sky 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 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 either calmly 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 that germany's 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 for many years to come and we intend to use it when water and solar are not enough in this area known as the louts it's there are seven mines that feed three power stations all in all they provide around. and seven percent of germany's 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 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 region's 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. 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 and twenty twenty stepped up a gear after the former vice president joe biden officially threw his hat into the ring democrats are hopeful they can pick a candidate trump but only plenty of support and to get that they're considering extending voting rights to prisoners. people in jail can vote now here is my view but i think the right to 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 democrats want to get to the polling booth and our gang one of the twenty democratic presidential candidates has also suggested lowering the voting age to sixteen republicans and particular have come out against the move saying it would get give democrats an unfair advantage. however many say it is the economy that will determine the outcome of the twenty twentieth's 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 right now a record number since two thousand and one in particular more than fifty percent are police would trump him ling of the economy analysts predict a healthy economy coupled with low unemployment and brings in wages might lead to a second term for donald trump political expert and author jeannette lawman 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 can do the death penalty regarding murder because we believe you relinquish your rights when you take another life they realize now that the basic americans out here are the people that we call them joe six-pack in america the guy that's just working his job trying to provide for his family he's not going to vote democrat anymore 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 in 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 that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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told by their troop commander and his senior enlisted aide both long time comrades of the accused platoon leader that speaking out could cost them and others their careers. not to mention the fact that cheap gallagher was also allegedly threatening harm to any teammates that spoke to authorities about his alleged actions warns brown and the retired navy captain military lawyer told the new york times quote the willingness of an institution to turn a blind eye is common it's especially true in warfare communities and in the seals you don't just keep it in the family you keep it in the immediate family. my friends if war is hell than peace is heaven and silence is purgatory so let's break down the military industrial walls of silence and start watching the hawks. to. get the.