the beneficial effects of these different medicines ending up to something wonderful and very often fix it up to something terrible. i just think i was and i was just scared i was a scared little girl i was 24 and like. didn't have to be so complicated. russia expels 20 czech diplomats in a retaliatory move after progress. at an ammunition dump. 7 years ago and threw 18 russian diplomats out of the country. meanwhile in a week of strained international diplomacy moscow slaps the u.s. with sanctions in retaliation for washington imposing restrictions on russia

earlier in the week which came at the same time as president biden for deescalation to look into the mixed messages coming from america also ahead. a week of unrest in the u.s. state of minnesota where anger over legal police shooting of dante wright continues to rage. and a c.n.n. director is secretly filmed admitting his channel spread propaganda somewhat at odds with the network's slogan of the most trusted name in news. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international and sean thomas glad to ted with us as we recap the week's top stories. now russia has declared 28 czech diplomats persona non-grata amid an f. . relating diplomatic spat between the 2 countries it is in response to prague

expelling 18 russian diplomats while accusing moscow of being behind a huge explosion at an ammunition depot back in 2014 russia firmly rejects the charges leveled. the accusations herb's surge especially as earlier the czech government laid the blame for the explosions at the door of the companies that post this hostile step is a continuation of a series of russian actions conducted over the last several years by the czech republic one cannot also fail to notice the american influence by trying to win washington's favor as the u.s. imposes sanctions against russia the czech authorities have even outdone their american masters so many diplomats were forced to start packing their suitcases in recent days because of expulsions and counter expulsions 1st of all america ordered 10 russian diplomats to head back to russia moscow's response was then almost identical then poland announced

a similar move but they're saying only targeted 3 people and then eventually we heard from the czech officials who announced that prague decided to expel 18 people working for the russian embassy that is even more than that then america originally chose to punish you understand that this is a very significant share of the embassy staff so you'd have to think that there must be a very serious reason for it well the czech authorities have accused this group of 8 thing of working as intelligence operatives and also blamed russia for being behind a manger explosion at an ammunitions military warehouse in the czech countryside that happened 7 years ago and killed 2 people no confirmation of the cause has ever been released by the czech authorities it coincides with the decisions on diplomat

expulsions by washington and warsaw that's not all by the czech republic either is it private is seeking some suspects in particular well you know and that is the interesting part because the people the suspects that the checked. police are now looking for actually people with faces that you may find familiar these 2 were once accused by the k. of trying to poison the script balls in the united kingdom in 2018 so now when the authorities said that these 2 could be linked to that explosion immediately their names and photos were back and international headlines but the russian foreign ministry though is saying that these announcements in these steps that are taken by the czech authorities could only be a deliberate attempt to somehow distract the attention of the media and the international community from another story which is now in the news here in eastern

europe it looks like when it's actually supported by facts that the west need it to cover up the importance of the information published by both russia and belarus about not just a conspiracy but an actual plan for a constitutional clue we need to speak about it so a coup was allegedly being planned against the leader of the roost what more do we actually know about this this is a story apparently that was happening more or less some real taney as the russian federal security service has announced lately that they have detained 2 men one with bell russian citizenship another one with dual citizenship bell roofs and the u.s. detention happened in moscow and these 2 are believed to have been plotting a coup by attempting to assassinate the ball russian president alexander lukashenko and possibly even members of his family during victory day celebrations that are

upcoming the bell russian president almost instantly blamed the u.s. for it for orchestrating this attempt but washington has denied any involvement now. you may wonder what does frog have to do with all this but we have to understand that the czech republic is a close u.s. ally in eastern europe it's a member of nato not for the central role but still and russian officials very often have blamed washington for using some eastern european countries the czech republic in particular asked puppets of the assumption by the russian foreign ministry is that washington can't be pressuring these countries into making political moves against russia to demonize it so that is the message coming out of moscow and the meantime the u.s. state department has already said that they are expressing full support for the

move that's been made by prague with the situation growing increasingly tense we got reaction from a number of experts starting with their thoughts on the depot blast in the czech republic in 2014 and why it is being spoken of now. 7 years ago and that's been brought up and then the attempted coup. that's been linked as well because the west sees. it was illegal and he's been talking about new elections and so i'm going to look for. this and all this. together. and there's a real gorilla. and bulgaria is a member of nato. the united states the americans you seem to. know i'm not saying that i can direct you to all these things but it's difficult to resist the conclusion that they haven't in view. this story in the czech republic

it's ludicrous i mean 767 years ago russian agents and by the way at venice beach aim spawns because so russian change sponsors because there were you know in seoul spring 2018 they were in prague in 2014002 to sow discord and you know make an explosion that this completely grew to cross its sentence thoughts that you know it will be a film very soon this story about the nation didn't go off to check army which is not the 1st in nato it's a small army and it's not clear or dead poles you know you know it's just your mission they exploded this sounds like demonizing russia you know as much as they can now. as requested by biden's white house that has expelled 10

russian diplomats one of the interesting aspects of this story is true alleged russian agents for who or what became public at the time the script hope always knows in britain where people who thought the church were doing were going to rush in 2000 so it's very all this information the subject we were sold was already moving we were. 2 years ago when you know come so there's an element. which is always ocean behind it this week the u.s. and russia unleashed sanctions on each other marking another low point in relations washington blacklisted russian companies expelled diplomats and barred u.s. banks from buying russian debt moscow in turn kicked out 10 u.s. diplomats and banned a number of officials from entering russia shortly after announcing the new sanctions u.s. president joe biden said he wanted to deescalate tensions with commentary on the mixed messaging coming from washington here's archies it was tough. big politics is

all about big p.r. political marketing of the trump era america transitioned from saucy nicknames for his opponents into the biden age which spearheads now shameless self promotion america is back america is back diplomacy is back biden diplomacy sounds like a classic personal brand to so what is it well for russia it apparently means a sanctions sledgehammer and i've been through several steps including the expulsion of several russian officials as a consequence of their actions i've also signed an executive order authorizing new measures including sanctions to address specific harmful actions that russia has taken against u.s. interests well the man seems to be abundantly clear at least for ones right well he would have been had he not led into these sanctions announcement with this. united

states is not looking to kick off a cycle of skule she in conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship these signals are not just mixed in terms of consistency they're on par with noises from space joe biden was able joe biden said he's interested in the normalization of russian u.s. relations but the actions of his administration show us the opposite the u.s. is not ready to deal with the reality of the multipolar world which shuts at the possibility of american has the money instead they can sanctions and interference in our internal affairs just this week biden and putin talked over the phone to join the conversation the us president and now a new batch of sanctions in putin's face only to express hope later for a stable and predictable way forward and the white house sees no problem here no

discrepancy forget proof for good reason forget who's president even biden strategy is to bully a country out of geopolitical relevance and it seems that's the only predictable thing about america left after all trumps anti russia sanctions galore that appears to his whole term didn't save the ex-president from being shamed for being soft on russia so maybe biden is resorting to nuclear options right away desperately trying to keep one foot in the door though the door leading to that positive trajectory while unveiling the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. also sided claims made last year of russia offering bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan the white house admits it has very little to back up those claims but that has not stopped officials demanding answers from the kremlin . we felt the reports were enough of a cause of concern they assessed with low to moderate confidence as you alluded to

that russian intelligence officers sought to encourage taliban attacks against u.s. and coalition personnel in afghanistan so while there's a lot of moderate assessment of these reports we felt it was important for our intelligence community to look into it this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here last june it was reported that russian intelligence offered taliban linked militants money to kill american soldiers in 2019 the allegations were never proven and the pentagon itself said it could not corroborate the reports but that did not stop the media from jumping on the unverified story vladimir putin is offering boaties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan and other european intelligence official quote this callous shocking and reprehensible overnight president trump dismissed the intelligence denied being briefed on it as new reports emerged saying those payments did in fact lead to the death of americans

russia has rejected the allegations with the foreign ministry branding them as speculations and phobias of the u.s. intelligence community we got the take of former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence look the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they wear big boy pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with a changing world a changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is

a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth in russia is. there has been a full week of angry unrest in the u.s. state of minnesota this follows last sunday's fatal shooting by police of dante right right officers have been resorting to tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters. there. you are. right that. brooklyn

center police claim dante wright died as a result of an accidental discharge after an officer mistook her gun for a taser mr wright had attempted to flee in his car after being stopped for a traffic violation subsequent protests soon descended into looting and violent clashes with police. protests were also seen in other cities as well including chicago dallas and portland where the police union building was set on fire the scenes are reminiscent of those in the wake of george floyd's death last year who died during an arrest when an officer knelt on his neck for several minutes radio host wayne dupree who served as a board member of the national diversity coalition for donald trump says it is vital to rebuild trust between police and minority communities. the tensions are so diode to the left and right the people that are getting hurt or in the middle

what's happening right now is not going to stop is going to get worse because the leadership around many places is weak there is a lack of trust on both sides of the aisle. and when i mean both sides of my own there's a lack of trust with within the police community about what's going on within the minority community in then there's a lack of trust within the minority community about what the police. are doing because of what they see projected on our media every day there has to be a concerted effort from both sides of leadership leadership of people there everybody can trust to sit down and work out proven solutions and and take it all types of suggestions and try to work out something and bring the trust back between law enforcement and the communities. twitter this week band of the founder of

investigative journalism group project a very tough for alleged violations of its policies this came right after the group published another undercover sting video involving a c.n.n. director. a strain of disease a term like the engine heat like good. people are getting attacked or is it just a picture that you meant to protect patients. and certainly what. we're trying to like health like a b.l. ever like a day like this i mean it's individuals it's not a you know. that's like they're the optics of that and i'll get it for you that we can speak to the fact that this technical director charlie chester he was certainly part of the culture he was speaking as if they were an advocacy group and this is a network that uses the tagline the most trusted name in news does the most trusted name in news you know colluded directly or indirectly with black lives matter that's a question for the american public to ask it seems that the rules that as

a society that we all thought were in place are no longer in place there is no more roebuck is the 3rd undercover scoop published by project a very toss this week with more on the revelations here's artie's done quarter. the most trusted name in news it's a title c.n.n. has long prided itself on maybe you buy it maybe you don't but what would you think if the network admin did to deliberately spreading propaganda well apparently they did i do. believe that it was. but again you are creating a story that we didn't know anything about. that's b.s. i think that he is the worst president we have ever seen but what president trump just said was undemocratic and false the president seems to think that dominating black people dominating peaceful protesters is law and order it's

not he calls them thugs who's the thug here this guy is should not be president cnn's charlie chester's spilled the beans over a tender date he was enticed into by an undercover project veritas journalist and he claimed the channel long had a pre-determined agenda to get trump out of office one that flows from the top down from none other than c.n.n. president jeff zucker himself naturally trying to make joe biden out to be a spring chicken was the other side of the anti trump propaganda calling yeah i mean like we did it right from the start was. shaking or whatever and he brought in like so many medical people so like all tell a story that i think is all speculation you know you're shocked to hear john. mccain. you know why. he made you savior she. hated him as a. young man. that sounds

a lot like election meddling something c.n.n. has pointed the finger at russia for time and time again blaming on unverifiable claims from u.s. intelligence and its reputation as evidence the. in last year's elections the network claimed that moscow was trying to hurt joe biden's chances by spreading conspiracy theories about the now u.s. president i'm talking about russia attacking our election russia once again interfered in the race for the white house russia is indeed interfering in the 2020 election with that kind of a double standard it should come as no surprise that people's trust for c.n.n. is on the decline but we don't think that this is all the personal attacks just. makes this worse when you're caught red handed hiding the way you do business from your viewers that's one thing but accusing someone else for breaking the very rules you yourself were caught breaking well that's another it's

a rinky dink toopid organization what do you want it c.n.n. that scared defense immunized from any responsibility because nobody takes them seriously and as far as project very callous and james o'keefe god bless him but how many exposé these must be produced before something's done things done nothing jeff zucker still there everybody still there but let me explain something their ratings are plummeting who wants to watch c.n.n. if there's no trunk what do you do talk about what a great job biden is knowing what a great job camelot harris story i don't think so now me we can't believe what we're seeing and our country is in complete collapse with our borders being destroyed and being invaded gaily with a sense of believe it will distrust with with vaccine in efficacy vaccine

malpractise with this anyway and years nothing for them to build up. a controversial security bill was passed on thursday by the french parliament it grants additional powers to law enforcement bodies but has faced widespread criticism for making it harder to call out police abuse here's a few strode to bins. there was rounded criticism of this bill when it was presented a year ago not just from the left from human rights organizations and also journalists who says well concerned about elements contained in this global security bill now one of the most controversial elements was oh it's a cool 24 we've discussed it many times and the feelings about this is that it would continue issues in the ability of the press to do their job when it came to distributing images of police offices as a result of that controversy and the widespread protests we saw here in france the

government said it was going to completely revise this particular article the sticker mind though over the protests against article 24. well the government said it was 3 writing that ought to cool completely but as it's been posted a there are elements that still are being criticized by many article $24.00 in the bill that was posted a bipolar man terrance still contains limits on who can and call and publish images

all of the police if they see images of publish with an intent to harm physically or mentally one of those offices on the cheek if somebody is found guilty of doing that they would then face a fine of $75000.00 euros or up to 5 years in jail so a pretty severe penalty for that but it wasn't just. article 24 that caused concern this no as it's being passed now gives police offices the right to film interventions that they make it is allows them to regulate the use of drones for the police to be able to monitor protests potentially and it allows offices to carry their weapons even when they are d.t. some have described this move as essentially making roads a dysfunctional democracy and what about in simple terms this law will significantly restrict freedoms the use of drones during protests and things like

that this is a disaster for democracy and freedom because security is as important as freedom it is true but there are people who abuse it the harm is not for freedom with self people and not freedom cause harm. you need to think if there are other tools that will be more consistent with the principle of human freedom the right to protest is a right we spy on people and it's not just about concern on the streets here in france a un panel of experts also raise concerns about this nor saying that it was incompatible with international human rights. the bill could lead to significant violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in particular the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression so just by those continuous calls to scrap this bill it has been imposed on thursday by parliamentarians 75 visiting for its

33 against it but human rights organizations say this isn't the end they say that they will continue to challenge this law when it now goes to france's constitutional court and it says that that last decision will be made as to whether this bill will become law oh no it's all right that does it for this i'll be back with another look at your weekly in about 33 minutes stay with us this is international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

i'm afshin rattansi and we're going on the ground of lockdown edition as the closing arguments in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer derek jovan begin over the killing of george floyd in part 2 bidens detention of nearly 20000 children with someone who fled us back death squads and salvador but 1st from minneapolis a leading voice in the twin cities black lives matter movement who's running for the minneapolis city council want to seat robin ones the robin thanks so much for coming on i mean the scenes from minnesota. they look like to me they look like apartheid south africa. just give us a background to what your 1st reaction was when you heard about the killing of dante right while this televised trial about george floyd is progressing. i think this show reaction was this can't be happening and i was actually at my home looking at the live strain of another action that was hosted by

a family tonight against police violence they held action to uplift another one of our community members who were murdered by the police and it was organized by its partner and what was that and quite ironic was one of the community leaders in their speech said i know based off of the response that our elected officials have led around police by this in our communities you know minnesota before the by the summer is going to murder another black man or another black person another black person is going to die at the hands of our police and you know that stuck with the crowd like wow like this is shroom and what folks didn't know was 2 to 3 hours prior to him making that test the man a black man had already been murdered by the brooklyn center police.