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your chiming in from today welcome to. my names you know good. it will get to headline stories in just a moment but 1st iran has issued an arrest warrant for u.s. president donald trump over the drone killing of the country's powerful top general in january to iran's prosecutor is quoted by a state run news agency saying trump and others face murder and terrorism charges over the death of kassam sala money who was in charge of the revolutionary guards
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elite force around is asking interpol for help in detaining trump to issue a so-called red notice which is interpol its highest level request for making an arrest following a solemn ollie's killing they are really in parliament unanimously voted to designate the us army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations. the new york times is facing widespread criticism after publishing an article claiming that russia offered to taliban militants in afghanistan to kill u.s. troops it also claimed donald trump was briefed on the matter and are for the director of national intelligence the nie is that either the president or the vice president wherever briefed on the claim mr trump said that was because it clearly wasn't deemed to be true. the news new york times must release anonymous source but they can do it this person probably does not even exist with the
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articles being slammed by the russian foreign ministry which called the peace deliberate decision for me saturday also saw the taliban denying the new york times article to either shutdown or spin taking a closer look at the piece in question and asks who could benefit from its publication. it's time to blow off the dust that circled around any smear tactics guide book since the last us election but as democrats are looking to wash away the humiliation of 2016 by trying to bring down trump this time they are resorting to the same all narrative that failed them in the 1st place russia gate american intelligence officials have concluded that the russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to taliban linked militants for killing coalition forces in afghanistan the peace rests on the familiar pillars of pulitzer winning journalism anonymous sources that believed concluded and desist the claims are
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said to be based on interrogations of captured afghan militants at least in part the article says well because less than in part well would be nothing at all really the alleged culprits is the same russian intelligence unit that is accused of this elsberry poisoning western intelligence official say the unit which has operated for more than a decade has been charged by the kremlin with care in the complaint to destabilize the west through subversion sabotage and the source of nation. the west by bribing the taliban into something they are doing anyway comic book villains have more logic and motivation than russia in this article but as evil and sleazy as russia may be portrayed in this story it's still just collateral damage and not the actual target president trying to get briefed in march that russia is paying bounty money
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for dead american soldiers right now and his response to that is nothing his entire presidency has been a gift. but this is beyond the pale it's a betrayal of most sacred duty we bear as a nation to protect and equip our troops and restrain them in the harms way. if trump refuses to hold putin accountable for funding terrorism against u.s. troops in afghanistan then congress must again step up i expect the trumpet ministration to take such allegations seriously and inform congress immediately as to the reliability of these news reports the stories taking jabs at trump amid reports he's about to take another step towards ending the catastrophic 2 decades long invasion russia's foreign ministry has dismissed the allegations as fake pointing out that more school has all along been trying to mediate the conflict and have the united states and the taliban in fact sign a peace deal the simple this information clearly illustrates the low intellectual
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abilities propagandists among american intelligence who have to come up with such nonsense instead of inventing something more reliable however what else can we expect from intelligence which miserably failed in the 20 year war in afghanistan it's russia collusion 2.0 as if that has ever been worth anything more but a house impeachment but left trump unfazed by hey maybe at least robert mueller will have a 2nd shot around 2021. igor she fell off well the allegation is triggered another wave of anti russian history with democrat senator chuck schumer instantly demanding new sanctions against law school from the quincy institute for responsible stake in the u.s. so he's anonymous intelligence data is always questionable. when i 1st read this story in the new york times i pointed out on twitter that it was weekly source
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a number of people replied to me said yeah but you know it's been corroborated by you know the wall street journal what section on c.n.n. and so the more mainstream media piles up on a story like this the more it takes on the impression of being true but again we can't really know that well without knowing more about this how is the intel general who is providing this hope and is it pure or is it largely partisan driven begin telling each and sees how very largely trouble and so it's not hard for mainstream media to get in touch with sort of not we're not going to tell the person to verify the veracity of these stories even if they're not necessarily true where even if we're hearing you know a hard truth about it it's certainly trying to be spun in the way in a way that implicates truong in the worst manner to help push by going across the
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finish line and. get to another of a headline stories the number of women and girls in germany who have undergone the dangerous circumcision procedure female genital mutilation has risen significantly over the past 3 years one f.p.m. victim told us of her harling experience. i probably was there on for 5 years all in the go s.g.m. because there when i called from i can say 100 percent of the girls and they go after a member of how my mom asked. me i remember that ladies one was holding my hand and the other one my leg and there was a virtue on were did something. i do not know what she did to me but when i went into college and i started learning about this woman it was when i discovered that it was that day that they met did it my about your pretty startling figures here
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a new report suggests the number of f g m victims has increased the 68000 that is a 44 percent rise since the last estimate in 2017 it's been attributed to greater immigration from countries where f g.m. is widely practiced on to 15000 girls in germany are thought to be a risk. the un children's agency unicef says it is practiced in 30 countries it's estimated that some 200000000 girls and women have undergone f.g. and mostly in africa but also in some middle east countries too in most cases it's carried out on girls who are under 15 some while they're still babies for 2 again says it's a problem countries like germany also needs to tackle. it was thinking this is african issue but it's not kids watch it men was that they press one here in germany they are also in the risks and most of the got that is when you don't know
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what's happened to them that i didn't know that mothers will bring them explained that this is a part of our culture a lot of people living in germany in the past but are living in germany those big old the language of the know what is forbidden and what is not the thing is for me it's have something to do and so was integration we have a different project where we can really get to communities involved in the demo about the consequences of f g m i think in germany they should not say like all yeah the scots who on the resistance just was that if you're just a we're just like was that as we are and how the german community and i think if that is something issue like it's going on in 2020 in germany i think a big action. live from the russian capital this is artsy on the way the russian foreign minister talks to us exclusively at length about helping fellow zones of stranded russians get back home from abroad but border restrictions
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no. points your thirst for action. hello again the number of corona virus infections are running the world top 10000000 led to more than half a 1000000 deaths although travel restrictions are slowly easing there are still plenty of people stuck in other countries on able to get home thousands of russians are in the predicament and foreign minister sergei lavrov has been talking to us about the complex to help them return home here is not full exclusive interview.
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what i was going we'll be talking today about the role of the russian foreign ministry has been playing in bringing russian citizens back to russia during a pandemic how did all this happen our constitution stipulates clearly that the state has to ensure that the rights of russian citizens be upheld at all times including when they were abroad is that really so did the foreign ministry have to get involved and to what extent but in spain general ensuring safety end up holding the rights of your citizens by all legal means globally is what any state's foreign office does and that mandates is usually set forth in legislation russia is no exception however the options to facilitate our citizens' return home can vary depending on the country and the circumstances. when they become clear the number of russian stock abroad is large enough and you
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have to step in and you put in the decision was made by the emergency response center that was set up to coordinate the activities of a number of ministries including the foreign ministry the ministry of digital development communications and mass media provided digital platforms and tools for the program the ministry of internal affairs was in charge of all migration issues the ministry of transport and the federal consumer rights protection agency was also a part of the effort he was in charge of its own mission all the key decisions on restrictive measures and then the reopening plans were made with the key input from the health ministry the federal consumer rights protection agency and the emergency response center team not what they when they become clear the russia has about 250000 people who need help to get home out of people who have purchased international took packages were quite easy to bring home and the bulk of work we had to do was for our citizens who were brought for other reasons that must be pointed out that the majority of these people were tourists too i'm sorry there
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were 2 types of tourists which were different as you're saying could you possibly clarify what you mean was ousted. isms enjoy freedom of travel in and outside our country and when a person purchases a holiday tour that means they will have a return ticket back by the guarantees of the top company running the tour nonetheless any person is free to go abroad without a thought or return ticket because they might want to decide later on their return plans there are quite a lot of people who do that believe me also in addition to tourists of both kinds quite a lot of russian citizens go abroad for studies of war for treatments many who are permanent residents of foreign states decided they wanted to go home now that they got concerns over the pandemic this includes residents of the united states for instance and of new york city in particular many decided it was time to go home and apply for help while our a government service website course will give what we do is ensure the implementation of the decisions made by the emergency response center based on the epidemiological situation in essence we identify and organize people into groups
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keep them informed and put them on the flights home from or wherever they were it is basically everything that needs to be done gathering people communicating with him and put him on a flight right 1st of all the flight itself has to be arranged initially a decision was made to bring back no more than $500.00 people a day using special return flights to moscow and the moscow region and no more than $200.00 people on flights to other russian regions most travelers have already come back but there are still at least a couple of dozens of 1000 from aning abroad we have not been able to bring them back for various reasons it could be small groups scattered throughout different hard to reach areas for example oceania or some other islands in the philippines and latin america too because there are some exotic places that are quite far from civilization so you have to bring them all together we have to set up special hubs to take them to russia and then similar hubs in russia to take them to different russian regions it's the responsibility of the north origins of those russian regions where these people are from to take them home and place them under quarantine this is the most labor intensive work right now at the ministry
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a number of teams have taken up that task such as the coordinates. center which literally works 247 crisis management since the department and the corresponding territorial departments this effort is spearheaded by the information and press department i.p.a.d. why the i.p.t. on the one hand it's aki communications tool on the other is that part of the foreign ministry that any person in the world not only russia's nationals can send the suggestions requests and complaints to the feedback can be different sometimes it's a pat on the back sometimes criticisms outcry was the work of all these coordination teams organizing the ministry or did it happen naturally on its own no i gave the instruction i did it quite a long time ago actually in early march 1 of my deputies is in charge of all departments that i've mentioned are working together here another deputy is part of the emergency response center led by deputy prime minister john and besides we are part of the coordination team of the state council led by moscow massive gets.
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did you expect to see so many people apply you know you frankly i wasn't surprised i can even tell you that there could have been even more there was some confusion with those who have long left russia to reside permanently elsewhere and then suddenly thought it would be safer to come back they started applying so we would bring home some 5000 people and then another 10000 would pop up on the waiting list or definition you pass something i really don't understand these people decided to live permanently abroad and i can the u.s. for example and yet the foreign ministry the state is helping them to come back russians are an expense why it's not really like that these people still have to buy tickets and the prices are set by the russian airline aeroflot and the federal air transport agency which is government pays each and every person who is registered with the state services platform or meets the designated criteria a daily allowance of 2400 roubles per day these people are free to make their own choice it's their life after all we won't double check here for russian national
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wants to return that's their right of them set up so we don't really. no we do care we want to make it as comfortable for everyone as possible again it doesn't matter what choice a person made but if they think they now need to come back home and how can anyone stand in the way i think it would be wrong to do that if we should it means that we treat all people who this way or another russian nationals as equals there's only one way to be a russian citizen and that's having a russian passport and their approach is the same to everyone even if they also have other passports like us citizenship there is one higher minded saying we leave no one behind it's time to prove that of course there were some shortcomings but no plan is without a flaw when you have so much on your hands it's only natural to make mistakes i was pleasantly surprised actually i wasn't surprised i knew that most of the ministry staff were generous people and some embassies turned out to be quite creative in the poorer team led by the ambassador set up a tent camp for those who didn't have a place to stay because they were hiking in the mountains in the himalayas and those who simply couldn't afford
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a hotel. porter and they were given tents yes they lived in the tents and other diplomats would buy them food at their own expense you mean the staff would chip in yes but not the state well this work is all well organized now but at 1st we had to do some micro management no one actually knew how big that crisis would be no one ever had to bring back so many people there were some previous examples like after a tsunami hit thailand we had to evacuate all russians but that's only one country with a handful of resorts interesting the charter flights with russian tourists on board with them still going to thailand some were fleeing another coming because they had already bought a holiday package these 2 cases are worlds apart but they are thailand is only one of the many destinations where we have to bring our people from several thousands are still in thailand and some of them decided against trying their luck you mean they're staying yes they want to wait it out there at least until the pandemic is over i mean it really depends on whether you can afford waiting abroad or not anything absolutely real national would apparently we live in
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a country where the majority cannot afford it. a couple true most people buy an all inclusive package that has a specific number of days and services included usually it's a modest price but for most of the people it's a significant purchase and staying beyond the end date of their prepaid vacation is a major issue this is why assistance by the government comes in very handy i would ask because the governments including the foreign ministry pass any judgment these russians acted recklessly when they went on vacation abroad didn't they as russia's foreign minister my job is not to pass more judgment but to act in line with the russian constitution the constitution does not apply to and if those russians back home at the government's expense again it is the realm of moral judgments as a private individual i could have an opinion on whether it is reckless or not to go to see results in the 2nd half of march despite multiple media reports on the pandemic and those i have my own attitude to those who help the penalises tourists out of mercy rather than by the force of the constitution.
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we also mentioned several times that more than 60 russian schoolchildren were stranded in the u.s. and russian government agencies were not told about it and there's an injury here that works for the us education fund they pay for some expenses put children on the plane accommodate them with rule u.s. families in different states where they study in colleges and schools where more than 60 students from what i know there are only 6 left in the u.s. russian diplomats help many of them to reach new york but buying tickets for a plane or train 3 children the russian embassy staff board and take it for their own expenses the whole cause i guess without any orders or instructions doesn't show why it was important to resolve the issue what are other options when the pandemic broke out these us family told russian andre students thank you and goodbye they provided accommodation as long as everything was fine but under the new circumstances they simply refused to work further under the program i think it's not about why it's about sincere willingness to help this is what deserves
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encouragement to keep in mind our diplomats committee. during this challenging time . did you expect such person involvement by our embassy and consulate staff yes i have some experience working abroad i know all people are different but as a rule of thumb an average diplomat with an open heart would be willing to help people who ended up in a challenging situation. washtub no one could have predicted the scale of the disaster and it was impossible to set up government agencies to address such issues now there will be lessons learnt obviously what lessons i can to give us specifically is to 1st we need to improve our preparedness if such a pandemic ever comes back particularly because more and more experts have been warning of a 2nd wave epidemiologists need to have a say here in terms of the capacity of medical institutions in russia i'm positive that russia will continue to operate the new hospitals that were built during this time and they are not a makeshift affair busting state of the art medical equipment facilities and
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a sufficient stock of personal protective equipment they might be repurposed between outbreaks if there is a 2nd wave that is key to the government will probably take a decision on rail and car travel to other countries soon it will definitely depend on the outcomes of these couple of weeks what is the foreign ministry going to do look at me to do my best performance or will provide information about the epidemiological situation in other countries to the relevant russian government agencies who then assess whether it's dangerous or not if for example europe is starting to open its borders but considering the number of cases russia as well as the u.s. and brazil are at this point unlikely to open up brazil's case unbelievable if we take the number of cases we also have many of those question cd and we have a 1000 new cases a day now it's fewer than 8000 and it keeps going down but the total number of infected people is hundreds of thousands that's a lot fewer deaths yes it's important for the statistical data to be based on the same criteria so professionals should work this out between themselves today
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everyone has their own approach somewhat more liberal in their lives. every death as coronavirus related some differentiate between cause of death i'm not an expert on that we will provide the russian government was real time updates on the epidemiological situation in other countries and the decisions foreign governments make regarding opening their borders when do you think the borders were open. i don't know we're slowly going back to normal after this period of video conferences we've had more than 15 of them including for such large scale events as foreign minister meetings for the c.s.d. c.i.s. russian se and members recently i've held meetings with my counterparts in person last week i met with foreign minister of iran mohammad javad zarif and this week i met with foreign minister of venezuela. also went abroad for the 1st time in 3 months to serbia and belarus both of those visits from march places the fishes he said she has are you aware that people are going abroad through better rhys now turkey has opened its borders and behavior flies there we can't forbid people to
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use this option but of course the decision should be taken based on common sense and caution. many leading countries are bringing their nationals home from the outbreak areas how is russia's approach different from say germany or the us no one did it for free it's either alone or britain knows that the person in question will pay the necessary amount on their return we also had to take into account the available accommodation options to quarantine the travelers. a great option you said there for 3 months you'd work via xoom everyone in the world started communicating remotely russian president vladimir putin has been holding meetings online how has that changed the way the government including foreign ministry operates if a pandemic like that had happened 10 years ago it would have probably been much more challenging for the foreign ministry to function normally but this happened after the russian foreign ministry as well as other federal and regional agencies started actually using modern day communication technology it wasn't very hard for
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us to get our work up and run. online we haven't faced any particularly big challenges president but i want to put india when there were meetings with the president did he feel somewhat weird previously used to come to the kremlin to run a small thing was that it wasn't face to face but virus screen but the whole affair has worked out well enough of course there's no substitute for talking face to face especially when a summit with a foreign partner is held and it's not a mere formality there are some visits let's call them courtesy visits when one party states things are great then the other party also praises the relationship and then they agree to meet again i exaggerate a little but some visits are easy they are not intended to resolve a burning issue at that given moment when such difficult issues are on their gender it's hard to settle them online you need to see the eyes and not on an l.c.d. screen but in person some things can hardly be intrusted to even the most secure video conference system it has to be understood i think after it all comes down hopefully it'll happen soon we'll continue using some of these arrangements
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especially when it concerns partners that might face some logistical challenges for example those from south america they have to put a lot of work into planning their foreign trips they need to design an itinerary with 345 countries on the list not to spend 15 to 16 hours on every trip you have been active in 1000 yourself i haven't why do girls mercy i'm not go over to have a lot of the ministry staff members carsick mass and usually have some cases a few dozen and it's all representative offices in the key russian regions with a lot of foreign consular missions about 40 cases the vast majority had a mild form one person died i know man. 62 years of age his wife is a health care worker it's no big secret and ambulance doctor she was just a carrier was no symptoms when strictly abiding by all the federal consumer rights protection agencies and mosco health department guidelines including the ones concerning remote was about half of all stuff continue working remotely workable almost by you. have to come in and see as
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a matter of fact i work at my office like everyone else so you have to be working remotely you know i'm also monitored i don't come into contact with a lot of people were regularly checked several times a week we have all kinds of personal protective equipment for our visits as we live in fewer of them we try to deal with matters by phone mostly thank you for your interest anyway at least thank you. we go to work so you stay home.
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