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72 people evacuated from china's coronavirus stricken with a special facility. for president selenski. school for the notorious to be sent home to russia so after you. have a. publishing. real cost of dumping devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations that's blighting the people of god with toxic food. the speaker
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of the u.s. house of representatives. risks undermining its security working with the telecoms giant but does china pose a bigger threat to the continent the united states itself people in new york. probably us anybody having. access. live from moscow thanks for joining us here on our teams a national. wealth program. the president of ukraine has reacted to the fall 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 though none tested positive for just this set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying the patients to
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a hospital let me say lenski said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left police officers and one civilian injured. was i did. was. you know we always say 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. of flight from the chinese city of war hardware tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of kharkiv on thursday before the roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up on all quarter hours that he tells. 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
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situation was. 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 number of. 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 in mongolia and i'm disappointed in the moral. of this this is a disgrace for the whole world to see i'm truly ashamed but ukraine's protesters don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. a russian shall call to their was good. that asylum in france is now under investigation there is a demonic gold at a pub linsky be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of political scandal of lewinsky was arrested for posting explicit video and messages
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that brought down president micron's preferred pick to be the mayor of paris charlotte lewinsky reports. your 3rd 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 macaroons 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 straight to russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty skee this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin cleaver a key ally of president mack 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 in 2 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 you did you feel casting a certain videos without the consent of the author is 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 at 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 for the 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 where the pov linsky will be sent back to
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russia chucked out of france or whether he will face the music here on those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities. major health fears are being raised of what's become one of the worst biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste african country of gone on everything from old mobile phones to computers the same for incineration the releasing highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you fall would. get into you. know will feed these with
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i regret drake did before you my pledge will be improving standard in the cards and making our proud the prima city in the in not for. we have contacted both the president's office of our own history for comment have responded to our request. u.s. house speaker has been talking to screw in brussels warning europe to ditch technologies that accredit not see pelosi and says the chinese telecoms joint is a major security threat and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in the e.u. which could be used for spying she failed though to mention what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative scalable and explains now that the impeachment debacle is all
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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 for snowden he did meet with you he did violate the law in terms. of releasing those documents we don't know. any. odd timing as well it's just been
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revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a swiss company that was offering people in klipsch and 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. well he will be able to continue in france and will not be excluded from flying but we will send such numbers destructions to texas to see 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
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worried about china i'm worried about anybody having access to our data. to be more ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world u.s. . you can you would guess just in the u.s. given say the alignment of interests that program for the u.s. probably you know well the u.s. is 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. is where the forces shot and killed a palestinian man near the gaza perimeter fence on sunday before sending an almost bulldozer into the besieged enclave to retrieve his body
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a video of the incident has provoked an outpouring of anger one interview was you may find the images distressing. yeah. well according to local media reports 2 other palestinians were also wounded by israeli live fire is that handed to recover the body the i.d.f. claimed the slain individual along with another alleged terrorist had been planting a bomb by the separation barrier. which governs in the occupied territories says he was unarmed a spokesperson for the group described israel's actions as inhuman tel aviv's the fence minister however was full of praise for his country's military. backed the i.d.f. which killed the terrorist and collected the body this is how it should be done and
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this is how we will be done israel vertrees the bodies of suspected palestinian militants as a matter of policy using them to gain political leverage the practice violates both israeli and international law we spoke to a human rights advocate or about the latest incident in gaza he told us it shows extreme cruelty on israel's part. it's yet another proof of how israel in general treats palestinians including treating the bodies they always look to palestinians as inhuman and this is evident not only in this is in the in this case and thousands of cases what we have seen on t.v. suggests that they can see that us like animals in israel is not free to use whatever force they have even in the case of a military operation but rather according to international law they are open lodge to to use and the level of force that is the proportionate to the attack there was
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no eminent threat to suggest this level of force to use cannons to use bombs being they could have used at least leave that in force against the. palestinians the 2nd issue the the hard shit treatment the cruel treatment how they use bulldozers. grab the body and they how will they sure. on cameras that we in general how they treat us to us this is any human illegal and more on. the standoff in a french city of leila's you know best actor is continue the long running campaign that story and more coming up after the break.
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the chrono virus now proven this point because even though the. supply lines are choked and deliveries of critical parts are not happening stocks are still stable or going higher because it's. cheap money writers all keep money that cheap money is is created out of nothing to create the simulation going.
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back to the program of 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 when it comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. in turkey which support so-called moderate armed groups recently flooded the region with troops and equipment it was in response to the syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region considers the province strategically important for its security the reported fears syria's forces could advance further towards turkish held save zones the russian turkish president spoke on the phone on friday an attempt to uphold previously agreed. meanwhile the un warned all parties to
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reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. on the flashpoints to the syria conflict is also seeing lawmakers in the u.s. push for a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an estimated $900000.00 people displaced by the violence at the same time though american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation in admitting the province has become a haven for extremist factions. it seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the reverence of groups there all of them are a nuisance a menace and the threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter it was that after closer look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in libya is drawing a 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.
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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 countries the time and nation on this issue and those who are encouraging it committed to making it live a safe place 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 until $22.00 of the russian force
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at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the. 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 a very good job or say shit with president carter 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 $2800.00 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
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did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil 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 people of syria since 2011 their country has been used 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 that government and partly to claim different parts of syria for
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themselves syria has in it an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in this resource rich region of the middle east it also has. so yes what we've seen the tragedy of syria the tragedy of the so-called civil war is actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield. with the focus of the conflict 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 last 24 hours for the 1st time in 8 years this follows a successful syrian operation to exert control in the greater aleppo countryside cars and buses were seen back out on the road which connects syria's north and south. 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 one of ministration in the
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demonstrations descended into violent clashes with police. riot officers fired tear gas at demonstrators who blocked roads and were throwing rocks smoke bombs and other objects at them close to a 1000 people were involved in the protest since the number 22 in the yellow vest movement's been holding weekly demonstrations over fall in living standards here's a look back at some of the footage from on saturday.
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at the same time a model mark one was in paris attending the opening of the international agricultural show where he was meeting with industry representatives a group of yellow vest activists turned up at the event and began heckling the president accusing him of being a dictator. what they call the eric drew a one of the social movements most prominent figures was among those protesters who tried to approach my crown before he was forcibly removed by security and subsequently taken into police custody. 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
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president macron later promised to meet with representatives of the get over it so after many months of refusing to do so r.t. france spoke to one of the group's coordinators about the incident the government well this is yet another manifestation of the authoritarianism of this government i mean eric dreher like any normal citizen had bought a ticket and gone to the international agricultural show its find 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 dreher 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. now to russia's far east where runners from around the world have
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been braving subzero temperatures and biting winds and a half marathon with usual twist. the other d.c. market for it doesn't matter who you are how old you are what interests you have running in the office and brings you together the. public's thought he will commend for gives a portrait of songs and for u.k. viewers freemen continues on the documentary channel back in 30 minutes with the latest.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only place really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. we're still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk and the one big thing that could really inhibit the kind of electric vehicle revolution that a lot of us want to see is if we can't resource the battery components in a sustainable ethical way then it's not going to be a successful revolution. the
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