so the t.v. beauty please. i asked myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite. present micron the fences and they tell lies addressed but his attempts to diffuse the best protest does not go down well with the target audience. what. i heard a speech which didn't talk about the yellow vest amounts and stupid measures he couldn't ruthless talk to people he takes this easy. also this hour u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after a report reveals washington has been running dozens of unexplained military missions on the continent. and

a project of truly epic ambition britain and germany held china's belt and rode trading network initiative of the country to take part in a major economic forum on beijing's plans. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow for joining us this hour. the french president has gone on the defensive claiming he has done nothing wrong in dealing with the country's issues and they televise address on thursday night emmanuel micron made an impassioned plea protesters who've been demonstrating across the country for almost six months. please many of e.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. and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such

a way that would always be fleeting. one can also reveal the big tax cuts and their pensions he added that french democracy needs more decentralized government and its rules for organizing public referendums artists has the details. 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 will 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 territory injustice social injustice the feeling is here it's invaded 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 no evolution in purchasing power no lower taxes. good to see all these stupid measures he can roll on to talk to 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 most violent in france for more than half a century. now the course. it's the

right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is politely. and the populist movement around is also scrapping an elite school famed for high profile graduates as he dubbed the institution a symbol of inequality. fellow i phone because of ok i think to carry out reforms the 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 so yes i do not think that in this case they can be any patching up a bit if it was able to get in the national school of an ministration 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 across and took the step as a response to months of protests against it lead to some of us some have labeled it an attempt to shift attention from real problems. efforts are being made to put up a smokescreen so that we forget what the real problems are in. this is undoubtedly a distraction it's not a critical question who will replace the way with another school because we will have to continue to produce senior officials. political commentators on bricmont bilious micron's most well have a pretty 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 deans idea opinion there's nothing as you can do because you have been one to force these sorts of nearly belief loans and my call of course i gaze with that but even

if you didn't you can do anything about it 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 dirty i don't know i was going to balance the budget was a want to balance a budget so he seems to me that is grossly in the discourse of the discourse he's trying to satisfy people that he's angling to use at least i do believe that the discontent the speed. 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 u.s. 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 with more details has been. 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 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 it make you think oh literally nothing echo case 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 cmon yeah. yeah i don't know. an actor that's what you think kodiak contre 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 and not of the chief 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 viewpoint 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 then 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. u.k. and germany have praised china's plan for a massive global trading network and as the belt and road initiative a forum 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 here's either stuff. well i have to say it is more than just a forum more than just a place for people to meet to walk 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 the cautiously praised by the european union have a listen to both the mode 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 here'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 rush. in 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 advocate multilateralism know what is important to create an effective onset 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 russian 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.

kill innocent as right to privacy may have been violated while he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london and you are present to divest now investigating whether or not that's the case. cases reported because it concerns a very special set of circumstances where a person who was not formally on the situation. was subjected to. the. and assessing whether ecuador's decision to place the wiki leaks co-founder under strict surveillance violated the universal declaration of human rights a song that was arrested earlier this month when he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy where he had been claiming asylum for almost seven years he may now face extradition to the united states assuring tarts there was a conspiracy to hack a government computer doing the song gained international attention through its clearly project publishes documents that are working to make governments all around the world his organization that is behind some of the biggest disclosures apos hide information ever.

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wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence or talks like a hawk because. we earlier interviewed a friend of julian assange a swedish journalist johan's wall strong who assured the rights of the wiki leaks front men or violated numerous times. who particularly you know who was just on his routes my releases on a daily basis that goes basically without seeing us he is currently detained for no other reason that the media journalists and soon and this is think is probably one of the most important developments and has happened recently and that is after roughly nine years of returns weary of discussions and concerning it will usually be a new. person and replaced resistance towards just not going

to the t.v. receipt for the sole reason of. the charges as far as you know we don't have any substantial evidence of any sort to start with and the second issue is that even way we're in the early described years as the classical. relationship between a journalist and the source where according to the arguments of the court as far as i understand it at least he was just asked his source to provide him with material if that is illegal then are you seriously journalism is as such you go. still to come on the program the winds of change are blowing over germany's energy industry raising fears about the future of the whole mining community and that story more after this break.

imagine that you run a blood bank and 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. society generali just be say except for a and the other only out 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 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 salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

come back green sources of energy showed their potential and germany this week went 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 for example the impact it could have on the country's production many local communities depend on their minds as a major source of employment as our teams are all over has been finding out. opencast coal mine in the east of too many into the border with poland casts a black. into the horizon unglue 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 i 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 we hope coal production will still continue. without coal mine in our region will die it can't happen coal must not.

be in 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 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 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. 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 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. and says he won't reject weiwei purely because it comes from china. as far as. the five g. . is concerned i can simply say what will rogers that. would be news and go into a market open markets and all due respect and of an interest in some markets i welcome we are not. someone because he's coming from because he's tried need to respect. a u.k. government leak reveals why it will also help build britain's new five g. telecoms network despite the us putting intense pressure on allies to stop working

with the company washington accuses weiwei of stealing intellectual property investment fraud and potentially spying for china through its equipment categorically denies the claims but australia and new zealand have already adopted america's hard line against the firm called ask cavill associate professor of political science at bluefield college in the us says britain's government is split on whether to follow washington's demand and ban war way. the leak from the national security. britain planning to you know what. indicates that there is a. woman in the british ruling class there or both the british government and the clue want to side with europe and go with what's best what's juba's what's best performance regardless of the threads.

and there are of those who want to do so with the united states and donald trump in his. calling for a prohibition against any other free market yours that it is for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. forget only if you don't sort the book. so i'll sell some properties to me if you go back to. the you're among the group was. to build

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can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be seeing if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist for the more we give them the sooner we are all. a low in welcome across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trump an administration 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 in this administration the very idea of diplomacy is absent it relies upon threats and sanctions. cross-linking 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 the 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 originally cross-like 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 that they 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 ear and it gets senator around to people in the administration and you know who i'm talking about go ahead philip.