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people evacuated from chinese coronavirus. especially. the. president. should be sent home to russia after. publishing the. real cost of dumping devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations the people of. food. the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi warns europe that it risks on the morning it
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security by working with the telecoms giant but does china pose a big 3rd of the continent. people in new york. probably the us. anybody having. to. live from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly. welcome to the program. and the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out over fears the quarantine passengers might spread the potentially deadly coronavirus even through even a. positive protest this set up roadblocks clashed with police buses carrying the patients to a hospital. he said his. nation and falling back into the middle ages the clashes
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left 9 police officers and one civilian injured. was i did. was. to move was. you know we always said that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we are all human beings all the flight from the chinese city of what hardware tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of kharkiv on thursday before that roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up all quarter as the details. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it would be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation was.
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for the past several days ukraine has seen violent clashes across the country scores of policemen have been injured by locals throwing bricks riot police have been called in to disperse angry mobs and it's all because the ukrainian authorities tried to do a good deed for the international community they accepted with open arms a number of their countrymen and foreigners trying to flee by plane assuring the public the passengers were 100 percent coronavirus clean an important detail when ukraine itself has yet to see a case of the disease a quarantine zone was even set up at a health center in poltava just to be sure but the protesters did all they could to stop that plane from landing and when that failed they started blocking roads until riot police removed them by force.
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the buses made it to their destination in the end but there on welcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected. this is one of the greatest disappointments i'm disappointed in the moral. of this this is a disgrace for the whole world to see i'm truly ashamed ukraine's protesters don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. russian shall cause as the. granted asylum in france is now under investigation their lawmakers are demanding that of public be sent back to russia or after he found himself at the center of political scandal linsky was arrested for posting explicit videos and messages that brought down president micron's preferred pick to the mayor of paris charlotte
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simmons he's got the details. you know at the pub lenski is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out he's a political refugee he behaves like the 1st thing to do would be to put him on a plane streets of russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty ski this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin a key ally of the president back on his former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken in by the police and they were questioned in regards to those videos questioned into invasion of privacy and broadcasting videos of
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a sexual nature without the permission of the person who is in those videos the interior minister here in france has said he should face the full weight of the law if it did you feel casting certain videos without the consent of the author or subject to criminal sanctions in our country resulting in a substantial fine and 2 years imprisonment and these offenses must obviously be prosecuted it is a matter of respect for democratic rules and this is not the 1st time that pawlenty ski has been headline news here in france he was recently accused of brandishing a weapon a knife or to a new year's eve party and of injuring 2 of the party goers at that event further back he was also found guilty of setting light to the doors of the bank of france in the basti area in fact he is currently serving a suspended sentence for that criminal act in france and that comes after
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a series of stunts that he pulled in russia of a similar. criminal nature. russia it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case of that poverty and we already know and he's just been arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear whether pov linsky will be sent back to russia
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chucked out of france or whether he will face the music here and those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities the radical artist and activist told the sputnik france news agency that its case showing a lot of freedom of expression in the country every month for months door to door it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was a country that upholds freedom of expression it's not freedom of expression for cannot say or do anything against big lies and hypocrisy. and major health fears are being raised by what's become one of the worst biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste african country of ghana everything from all bubble phones to computers ascent for incineration they're releasing highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer.
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don't you fall would. do anything. noble from deep with such as you said today to be so i've gone from the margins before they got sick it will simply was through the small one in my head my head beat. that he did end up in debate. that's been running from the european union. for
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a reader. 300 of them. for like 20 quid. it's condi trying generation no transfer. to my child and my boss it. i read it 3 did before you my pledge will be proven standard these are in the cards and make your proud the cream of the city you know in africa. we contacted both the president's office and environment ministry for comment neither have responded to our request. tens of thousands have been
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taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week that followed wednesday's terror attack in high now there which killed 9 people from the town where the tragedy happened to hamburg in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism the attack on 2 she should boss was described by police as motivated.
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in the wake of the shootings the establishment in was quick to point the finger at and t. margaret rivals alternative for germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies ject of the claims and said the shooter was mentally ill. in christian democratic union from calling the to cut all ties with their rival. the 1000000 theater i insured if you look at their taxes profile it seems like he had racist xenophobic as well as far right motives and this strengthens mean my believe therefore the c.d.u. should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade nuts is a monitoring so we are resolved to have no cooperation with the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spirals we have a level in the public debate that is more of a child and
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a rational political debate and when i hear yesterday night about it shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money fest of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against it fake news. the u.s. house speaker has been turning the screw on brussels warning europe to ditch while the technology is a democrat nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecoms drive is a major security threat and should be barred from developing 5 you know works in the e.u. which could be used for spying she failed to mention though what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative as caleb maupin explains. now that the impeachment debacle is
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all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down the river as i said before it's like having the state police write the chinese state police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the united states is far and snowden he did there on the in a disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of releasing those documents we don't know i understand and i understand odd timing as well it's just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of
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a swiss company that was offering people encrypt people's privacy was compromised because the cia had a backdoor what the u.s. government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e.u. might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still aren't buying nancy's song and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. while he will be able to. exclude like she believes in such numbers district of texas or c. so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american probably us and i'm not so much worried about. china i'm worried about anybody having access to
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our data. be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world probably u.s. . you can you would if i guess just the u.s. given say the alignment of interests that program for the u.s. probably you know well the u.s. as far as i'm concerned. you can't have don't know trump along with them it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it projection nothing drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that naughty thing that we know we are doing ourselves. r.t. new york. tensions running high in syria's war torn province the leaders of turkey russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month and else when it comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensive between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants.
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thank you turkey which supports so-called moderate armed groups as recently flooded the region with troops and equipment was in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region ankara considers the province strategically important for its security there are reported fears that syria's forces could advance further towards turkish held safe zones the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals meanwhile the un warned all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. or flashpoint to the syria conflict is also seeing lawmakers in the united states push for a diplomatic response against russia and syria with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence the same time the american military officials acknowledged the complexity of the situation in libya and missing the province has
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become a haven for extremist factions. seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the raw variety of groups there all of them are a nuisance a menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter it was a lot of takes a closer look now at how this latest chapter of the conflict in libya is drawing in competing international powers along the way. pushes coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring fading into oblivion. it's time for assad to get out of the way.
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we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting an adlib is a mere accessory to the geo political connotation is global and regional superpowers sparring with each other for dominance ideological and moral borders are blurred with turkey a nato country teaming up with terrorists to push syrians out of their own province. the operation is imminent in particular we will not leave it to the regime which is not yet understood our country's determination on this issue
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and those who are encouraging it for a few minutes and making it live a safe place for both turkey and the people of the region at all costs militants shamelessly boasting turkey provided a.p.c.'s coming on mosques covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with syrians repairing the onslaught as. moscow officially asks ankara to hold its fire and so it does to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into su 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the to or groups this allowed the syrian troops to successful the ripple all attacks but turkey is not alone in this fight while jihadi groups are doing the bloody bidding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that
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a very good job or say shit with president hurdle was the fact is that he's fighting on it led he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands the united states will continue to coordinate with turkey on diplomatic approach is to restore a cease fire to the it live deescalation zone and achieve a pullback of assad regime forces to the 2018 so she ceasefire lines the us has its own stake in the syria war and it hasn't signed on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oiled we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the us that's ok i like the oil yet a nother act in this conflict israeli jets routinely hit targets on syrian soil it's clear what israel wants to to weaken iran's influence yet another power playing its hand and this massive and messy political gamble unfortunately for the
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people of syria since 2011 their country has been used as as a chessboard on which the syrians appear as pawns and it's somebody else's geo strategic chess board in particular the united states and its allies basically tore syria apart partly designed to topple the. secular but legitimate government in syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to topple their government and partly to claim different parts of syria for themselves syria has an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in the resource rich region of the middle east it also has oriel so yes what we've seen the tragedy of syria the tragedy of the so-called civil war it's actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian
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battlefield as a proxy battlefield or with the focus of the conflict in other parts of syria are beginning to get back on their feet a vital highway between the capital damascus and aleppo officially reopened in the past 24 hours for the 1st time in 8 years this follows a successful syrian operation to exert its dominance in the greater aleppo countryside cars and buses were seen back out on the road which connects syria's north and south. and other headlines france has witnessed a 67th weekend of angry yellow vest protests with crowds turning out in several cities nationwide to voice their grievances against the much one of ministration in lieu of the demonstrations the sended and resulted in violent clashes with police. thank you. i. will abroad office inspired tear gas at demonstrators who blocked roads and were throwing rocks smoke bombs and other objects at them close to a 1000 people or of all going to protest against the number 28 and yellow best
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movements in holding weekly demonstrations over for living standards here's a look at some of the footage from on saturday. at the same time at all mark owen was in paris attending the ongoing the opening of the international agricultural show where he was meeting with industry representatives the event though took an oddly turn when a group of guillot best activists turned up and began heckling the president accusing him of being a dictator. was. was
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was there a group where one of the social movements most prominent figures was among those protesters who tried to approach from before you was forcibly removed by security and subsequently taken into police. i wanted to express my dissatisfaction to emanuel macron we've been trying to talk to him for months but it's difficult he only talks to people who are happy with him not the other way round and here we are people who are unhappy with these 5 years and we are not even able to approach him or president micron later promised to meet with representatives of the goal of s. after many months of refusing to do so r.t. france spoke to one of the group's coordinators about the incident. well this is yet another manifestation of the authoritarian isn't of this government i mean eric dreher like any normal citizen had bought
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a ticket and gone to the international agricultural show it's fine that their mood and went around the crown i would even say this was a rather mild reaction given what we have been facing for the last 15 months we've been persecuted in a way that no other previous social movement has been the yellow vests are the 1st to become an object of such persecution obviously bothers people and they want to show that is not right and then address was detained and taking out of the whole list was part of the democratic debate in our country but with mccrone it's all come to an end up next a person as extraordinary struggle for freedom justice and love against the odds free men are not a documentary next then for u.k. viewers it's diving into the arctic abbess in free to freeze davus. thank.
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