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in the future. protesters in central ukraine attack a convoy carrying 72 people evacuated from china over the corona virus outbreak in quarantine. for call for notorious shock artist to be sent home to rush hour after you've watched the electoral ambitions of a key. publishing images online. faces a growing health crisis caused by vast quantities of electronic waste from western countries dumped in landfill sites. in the u.s.
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house speaker warms you up against working with the telecoms joint but does china pose a bigger spying threat than the united states we ask people in london new york. probably the us probably us anybody having. access to. live from moscow thanks for joining us here at the international tonight i'm daniel who welcomes. the president of ukraine has reacted angrily to the far from friendly welcome received returning evacuees from china riots broke out over fears the quarantine passengers may spread the potentially deadly coronavirus even though none had tested positive for just this set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying the patients to a hospital. said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9
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police officers and one civilian injured. was. i did. was. 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. or the flight from the chinese city of what hardware tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the 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 on all quarter as the story. 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 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 their unwelcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected with the movie just think 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. russian shock authors. he was granted asylum in france is now under investigation in the country itself lawmakers are demanding that a pawlenty ski be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of a political scandal alinsky was arrested for posting explicit videos and messages that brought down president micron's preferred pick to be the mayor of paris
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charlotte reports. your dad probably 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 matt go 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 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 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 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 where the pov linsky will be sent back to russia
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trucked 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 by what's become one of the worst biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste the african country have gone to everything from old mobile phones to computers are sent for incineration releasing highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you fall would. do anything. noble from these live
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such as you said today to be so i've come from the margins for the car seat it was 17 was with a small one in my head my head because he did end up in a page. of the writing from the european union. or for the reader a. few 100 of them. for like 20 quid if. it can be trying generation now transfer i can say to my child and my.
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i read it 3 did before you my pledge will be proven standard these are in the cards and making our crowd the cream of the city you know in africa. we contacted both the ghonim president's office on the environment ministry for comment. has responded to all requests. u.s. house speaker has been turning the screw in brussels warning europe to ditch while we technology democrat nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecoms jaunt is a major security threat and should be barred from developing the fives you know what's in that could be used for spying she failed to mention though what makes america's own fall global simonas network a better alternative. explains now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up
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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 for leasing 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 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. well he will be able to continue in crohn's and will not be excluded from flying but we will send such numbers restrictions to protect themselves and 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 the us and i'm not so
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much worried about china i'm worried about anybody who had to having access to our data day be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world probably us. can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interest for the us probably you know what the us as far as i'm concerned. can go to hell donald trump along with 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 nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves. r.t. new york. is ready for shoes short and killed a palestinian man near the gaza perimeter fence on sunday before sending an armored bulldozer into the besieged enclave to retrieve his body a video of the incident has provoked an outpouring of anger warning you might find
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the following images distressing oh. come on. oh. yeah. oh. yeah according to local media reports 2 other palestinians were also wounded by israeli life fire is their attempt to recover the body the idea of playing the slain individual along with another alleged terrorist had been planting a bomb by the separation barrier. which governs in the occupied territories said he was a spokesperson for the group described israel's actions as inhuman tell of eve's defense minister however it 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 would will be done. that israel retrieves 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 human rights advocate how many should cool or about the latest incident in gaza you told us it shows extreme cruelty on israel's part it's yet another proof of how israel in general treats palestinians including treating their bodies they always look to palestinians as inhuman and this is evident not only in this is in the in this case in thousands of cases what we have seen on t.v. suggests that they consider us like animals israel is not free to use whatever force they have even in the case of military operation but rather according to international law there are. 2 to use the level of force that is the proportionate to the attack there was no eminent threat just this level of force to use cannons
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to use bomb being they could have used lists legal force against the. palestinians this 2nd issue the hardship the treatment the cruel treatment how they used bulldozers to grab the body and they held the shaw t.v. on camera as that we in general how they treated us that yes this is any human illegal and immoral. there's been a standoff in the french city of yellow vest activists continue their long running campaign that story and more after the break. freedom of speech is one of the pillars of democracy and also one that in the. wist
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is perceived as being in greatest peril with the left claiming that it's become a vehicle co-opted by the right to spread hate and the right to riding the sinister snowflake sense that it's just what the founder of free speech. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so you want to present. it to the right to be close to what the korean people are. interested in the why. they should.
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be back with us with tensions running high and serious was wanted province the leaders of turkey russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month the announcement comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. turkey which supports so-called moderates armed groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment it was in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region. is 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 president
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spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to up. hold previously agreed deescalation deals meanwhile the un want all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation gets worse. or the flashpoint of 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 the american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation in libya 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 rev wright 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 one of takes a closer look now at how this latest chapter of the conflict and drawing in the competing international powers along the way. it's coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the
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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. we will not leave it to the regime which is not yet understood our country's determination 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 and 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
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prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into route $24.00 the russian force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the dancing on terror 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 betting 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 his lead 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 led deescalation zone in a cheap 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 has its eye on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oiled we did
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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 legitimate government in syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to
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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 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 it's 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 its control in the greater aleppo countryside and buses were seen back out on the road which syria which connects syria's north and south. france has witnessed a 67th weekend of angry yellow vest protests with crowds turning out in several
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cities nationwide to voice their grievances against the macron of ministration illegal 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 of them close to a 1000 people were involved in the protest the number 22 in the yellow vest movement has been holding weekly demonstrations over fall in living standards is a look back at some of the footage from little on saturday.
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i think. at the same time at all mark warner 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. it was. eric drew a one of the social movements most prominent figures was among the protesters he tried to approach mark on the floor he was forcibly removed by security and subsequently taken into police custody. i wanted to express my dissatisfaction to emanuel macro and 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 his 5 year term and we are not even able to approach
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him. the president later promised to meet with representatives of the yellow vests 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 authoritarianism of this government i mean eric dreher like any normal citizen had bought 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 prosecuted 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 he's not right and then eric 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. to russia's far east where honest around the world have been
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