cells and of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption only. from my own group. to this day mothers still search for grown children well look you know hope for the best parents. in the headlines this hour the road map of development president putin is expected to deliver his key state of the nation address to parliament in an hour's time. mass rape child murders and ongoing trauma a damning new report sheds more light on how france quote enabled the forseeable genocide of hundreds of thousands of in rwanda in 1994. and form officer derek show evidence found guilty on all charges in the killing of

george floyd but despite the verdicts the fury continues with anger at lawmakers for allegedly influencing the trial and using floyd's death for political gain. new york governor andrew cuomo faces a fresh probe on top of sexual assaults and coded a death toll claims by reportedly misusing state resources to write his own book. a very warm welcome to you and a very good morning you're watching r.t. international with me. well today a lot of putin is expected to deliver his key state of the union address to parliament the head of state will outline of russia's progress and to give his vision for the future our correspond. that is on standby and we'll be going to him

later in the program for all the latest details. moving on. sex assaults and destruction of life on an appalling scale including of children the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans in 1994 the documents commissioned by the african states government says paris quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsi the latest witness accounts paint a terrifying portrait. even today that sadness to not end the thought that someone came raped you destroyed you and killed your child it is an extreme strain on my heart that will never end i only have survived.

one woman died after hutus hacked off her arms and forced them into her mouth her 2 small children aged $1.00 and $5.00 for them slaughtered. they came in a great crowd shouting like crazy people the whole place was littered with bodies. the report alleges france continued its military support to the country even after confirmation of widespread length abuses more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale and brutality of the killings were verbal rated world wide however front still insists it doesn't bear responsibility for inaction as artie shaw the defense can report. morning close to 600 pages and based on interviews with hundreds of witnesses this damning report adds fuel to the

recent findings by a french commission that said paris was on quote lying to the hutu resume genocidal agenda. to not have acted to prevent the genocide that was a fact but another fact is that the government of france accompanied the rwandan government that was committing massacres preparing a genocide the french government at the time was close to that rwandan government and supported them in various ways training that. diplomatic and political support that's what we called the responsibility of france in 1904 france led operation turquoise a military humanitarian stalled intervention in rwanda it went under u.n. mandate but is moving it seems to being a front for collaboration with extremist. allegation of people too close to the hutu regime was also on that route in the report into the genocide commissioned by

from the list this. is the french authorities who in this case responsibility because every 3 years instead of supporting 2 more chrissy in peace in rwanda they supported the rwandan government's policy of radical action to vision under the leadership of a dictator who was very close to the extremists however senior officials from the french government. at the time of. still refuse to accept the blame i disagree because i did my utmost to ensure that france would not be blamed for being passive and indifferent my concern was not to commit our army in a civil war where it would necessarily have appeared as supporting the hutu government that was being criticized for the genocide france need not apologize although knowing the reports say that they found any evidence that french officials

all personnel directly participated in the killing of this latest investigation shed some horrifying light. in rwanda relations between the 2 countries have been strained for many years and it's uncertain that with these new reports that this term can finally. so much even speed r.t. . well minneapolis police officer derek shaven has been found guilty of the murder. jules floyd frowned celebrated the verdicts near the court. this is a. fight that broke. the. but while some celebrated others took to the streets to warn police killings of african-americans

will continue protesters demanded the new york police department be disbanded arguing the system itself is racist demonstrators also held a so-called teach in to outdoor diners demanding they pay a 30 percent tax on the white owners shut of their restaurants down. for the minneapolis police officer was convicted on 3 charges 2nd degree and 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter he faces up to 40 years in prison with the official sentence to be decided in 8 weeks america was swarmed by protests off the george floyd's death in may last year.

our. thanks. well the child generated so much attention and opinion it could have gone to retrial one such event was congresswoman maxine waters encouraging crowds to get more confrontational the show if it were acquitted the judge has warned that such

incendiary rhetoric could prejudice the outcome yet mainstream media maintain the comments were harmless. enough now to. know. that i am telling. you. that i don't think what she said in in any way should we should criticize her for of course we should be more confrontational do you really think she is calling for violence and most people know that that's not true. and the people who are speaking out against her or using it politically i don't think that maxine meant anything by that except to say you have to stick with it you know you have to be there. she's fine as far as i'm concerned well 1st off they've got the mainstream american media in their back pocket but this is by any means necessary you know this is rules for radicals this is whatever it takes to get the job done what maxine waters did is tantamount

to a mafia intimidation during the trial i mean it really is you know now these jurors if they catch wind of this in any way shape or form are going to think that hey you know we brought dozens of people god last year is the blood of those people are going to be in our hands if we don't return a guilty verdict against child and you know who wants to live with that on their conscience it's completely thrown the legal process in the due process and the constitutional rights of this police officer into question. house speaker pelosi applauded the verdict and found floyd for sacrificing his life but there's been scathing reaction to her words with some thinking they actually belittled the victim. we saw it happen and thank god the jury that dated what we saw what we saw so again thank you cure. for sacrificing your life for justice thank you murdered person for without your

horrific killing we would have never known that it's not ok to kill people for no reason nancy pelosi in a nutshell the word 2nd 5 simple eyes it was necessary this is how liberals will read produced a larger labeled his life expendable in the 1st place no no no no what the 2nd feis in your life is something people have to do on their own floyd was murders we just had the whole trial. those things off a differing reaction to the case from our guests well some full please change their tactics this time i say the only thing this changed is that offices are now getting court but i thought was most unusual about this cases the character of obama was pretty much thrown under the bus by the police department is on police chief justified against them normally emmy's trials in these cases were police officers are accused of misconduct and go on trial policeman fill the room to intimidate the

witnesses to intimidate the system itself correct and we don't see any of that in this case we didn't see the police department supporting chauvin we didn't see the the cops in the or room we also didn't see a lot of his family members that look or threw me there so that was kind of unusual probably because very much because of the both local national and international the case got there was some pressure on the state to prosecute vonne and i think this is the result of i don't see this as a race issue. i know a lot of people do but foot on the ground finger on the poles of the community trying cases day in and day out there is no longer me and very frustrating lee a not so obvious presence of police officers who have abused their authority against black white indian asian american or whatever it may be that they're dealing with and you know it shouldn't be that way we should trust law enforcement officers many people including myself support good law enforcement officers but

it's the bad apples that contaminate the entire bowl of minestrone soup as justice oliver wendell holmes would say and let's hope there's an extraordinary amount of change that's going to be weaved in the community and to the nation for real use of force implementation not just showing up to a class and signing off to say hey i let you do this for half an hour we need real change. around the time of the show in trial verdict an african-american teen was fatally shot by police in columbus ohio the officers were responding to reports of a stabbing with the girl allegedly attacking 2 people with a knife angry protests spilled out onto the streets following the deadly shooting. in a new pinnacle firing a notoriously censor happy you tube power sponsored a freedom of expression award and doled out the prize to its own boss but with 99 percent dislikes on the video of the event it seems the ridiculousness of the

situation's not lost on its users artie's dimitry powerful pause. you know how it's becoming harder and harder to tell reality from satire these days well it's because of stuff like this since and i'm so honored to be able to present you tonight with a free expression award for your incredible leadership with u 2 and i just want to say thank you for all the work that you've done to empower people around the world congrats on your very well deserved award thank you so much for the freedom farm for having me here today and for this award this is real in award show on you tube sponsored by you tube giving you tube c.e.o. of all things in award for freedom of expression means are literally coming to life . and you need a lightsaber to cut through the irony in this case which might explain the whole area is this like ratio on the video. over the

last few years you tube has practically become synonymous with censorship and anything is there not really even denying it c they just call it responsibility work in her post award interview susan widgets you tube c.e.o. took the time to explain the fundamentals of youtube's work the 4 r's of responsibility the 1st are i kid you not is removed you can't make this up after receiving an award for free expression the 1st thing she brags about is how they removed $9000000.00 videos in the last quarter that's $3000000.00 videos a month and all of that or most of it was done with fabulous machines these are videos that allegedly broke you tube's ever changing terms of service which at this point is so vague and open so interpretation that literally any video can be suddenly deemed unacceptably dangerous have an opinion on coded don't like the w.h.o. don't like the election results banned for free speech the 2nd r.

is rise which basically. it means boosting or recommending videos that have the right opinion according to you tube so basically videos by mainstream media corporations their partners but you know those guys that always tell the truth and never run a fake story. 3rd are is reduce this one is the best this means ghosting or shadow banning or hiding videos that have not broken any rules that are completely fair game you tube just doesn't like them so they make them impossible to find so even if you're really careful about getting your thoughts out there and here to all of you tube's ridiculous rules avoid all the no no words you still might get shadow banned or censored if youtube doesn't like your opinion and then there's a lot of content that technically meets the spirit of what we're trying to do by it . it's borderline and so for that content we will just reduce meaning we're not

going to recommend it to our users and this has been happening to countless creators over the past few years subscribers magically disappear videos don't show up in feeds of people who are subscribed and so on a platform that prides itself on allowing diverse voices there doesn't seem to be a lot of permissible variety when it comes to actual speech the final r. is reward which is basically all about that ad money making sure that people with the right opinions get it and the people with the wrong ones don't explain to me again how any of these principles have anything to do with free speech the freedom forum institute which gave out this award claims its mission is to foster 1st amendment freedoms for all but apparently they haven't actually read the text of the 1st amendment it literally says congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech but i guess you tube isn't congress so they can make all the laws

they want right well then maybe they shouldn't pretend like they actually care. about the 1st amendment or free speech and definitely not get awards for it. still to come this hour india goes back into lockdown after oh right cool number of new covert cases would have the details for you all to base a short break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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a mere pittance expected to deliver his key state of the union address to parliament the head of state will outline russia's progress and give his vision for the future scalise to a correspondent mind ghastly at his new website a man appears he will be speaking i get to see him right and what do we know about the president's address. whether the the state of the nation address is as it is in many nations a route map a road map for the year ahead for russia the challenges and difficulties that it faces as well as the opportunities and the priorities that it has this year is that you have got to be a putin is an old ad that this is his 17th state of the nation address so he's very experienced and there are tricks that he's known for and that is that he leaves what he's going to talk about. secret until the last moment until he actually appears on the stage behind me and delivers his delivers his address obviously this

year is very different this is a new reality that we live in the post with world and there are about a 1000 guests in attendance usually this year obviously more we all had to submit 3 negative test before being allowed into the building into the holds barred me as did all the dignitaries behind me as well the the elites as you would call them the politicians top politicians businessmen and 1000000000 is well it's cultural icons editors and chief they're all here to hear what vladimir putin has in store what the government has in store for russia for the year perhaps years ahead what it what he'll be talking about is as i mentioned always secret we hear some dogs educated guesses there have been hints that he may announce a giant new. infrastructure projects or additional help socialist it's for the millions of people that are struggling in russia as well as you know all over the

world because of the covert pandemic because of ravaged businesses and lost opportunities lost lost jobs but he may devote some time to international themes such as the you have virtual collapse of relations with the european union. stream the tense situation on the border with ukraine. but again we'll find out within the next hour that to me a putin is supposed to be giving his speech at 12 pm local time more scope and. all eyes will be on him not just in russia but internationally as well there will be efforts to add allies and to scrutinize every single one of his words well as even syllables for any hint any indication as to what russia is planning strategically intact. i think even across the south or as marathons r.t. correspondent mark ghastly i will speak to later in the program. of the mass

allegations of sexual misconduct and mismanaging the pandemic the governor of new york has yet another scandal on his hands andrew cuomo is now being investigated for using state funds to write his new book is called american crisis leadership lessons from the cove a 1000 pandemic and much of the work in compiling the memoir was done by cuomo stuff as well receiving state salaries quiznos team denies any wrongdoing. the idea there was criminality involved. served on its face and is just furthering of a political dialogue and his state officials who go into the system this project did so on his or her own time and without the use of state resources earlier this year andrew cuomo was accused of downplaying the true death toll in new york state can holmes cuomo has accepted some blame but denied it deliberate cover up tracy alvey no assistant director of the voices for seniors which represents the rights of care

home patients thinks the book was poorly timed. the dubliner cuomo we're in the middle of a pandemic people are dying and you had time to write a book that was my 1st thought it was adding insult to injury of felt like i got in the gut all of the families felt the same way he he dare straight a book when we're suffering and people are dying a just it's unconscionable to me easing that the deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens wasn't the nail in the coffin so to speak or governor cuomo. governor share is that that's the most egregious tremlett the sextet that the book deal that's bad too but there's nothing worse agree just than the mass deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens if that didn't get him out of office

what will get him out of it's. the indian capital has imposed a week long lockdown after a deadly surge in covert cases fatalities hit a daily record in new delhi on choose day bringing the nationwide total to more than $180000.00 hospitals across the nation are severely overcrowded meaning new covert patients are simply being turned away there are widespread reports of ambulances loaded with bodies dropping them off at crime atory arms and is fed the official death toll could mosk the true scale of the crisis public health expert on mongo up to told us the situation is dire. the indian situation right now is very grim with gold and really you know continued to go. it would be very difficult for them to sort of look you know really explore i think the current situation for an environment is will be to really ensure that they have enough supply for the

domestic population but do you who isn't about exports i think that is something which we now had to be. the bigger issue is the lack of diagnosis because there are cases where people are not able to dig the only 19 through the regular testing and to go for 0 or a different mccann ism and also i think the other german which is emerging is that it's hitting the population of a younger age which was not the case in the in the one. india registered 273000 covert infections on monday alone with numbers remaining close to record highs but while the caseload saul's the vaccine rollout is failing to keep up only a small fraction of the population has been inoculated that's despite india being the world's largest vaccine producer manufacturing many of the shots used in the west india has also signed up to produce 200000000 doses to 92 countries as part of

the w h o's kovacs program although those supplies are now on hold the government has moved to restrict vaccine exports to make up for the domestic shortfall delhi medical association doctor told his india can no longer afford to send it shots a book. which is less than 10 percent and. he. did nor. so many see. the impact on the herd immunity on the coverage of the vexed issue it will be good to go forward in the. to keep. their obligation in the should work. for their countries. depending on what he. says many thanks for

joining us here are not t. international today we'll be back in 30 minutes with the latest with. russia west relations are in tatters at this point there is no reason to believe they will improve anytime soon it appears that washington is determined to force moscow to take the meat this is delusional this will never happen we live in the most dangerous of time.

i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground ahead of earth day observed on the planet seemingly closer to extinction than ever whether from nuclear annihilation or the climate emergency in part to a speak of the sea spirits the star in captain who gives new meaning to direct action at sea but 1st with everything from pandemics to wars over resources to movements of refugees being catalyzed by climate change can the global promotion of basic human rights avert planetary catastrophe joining me now from vancouver is david boyd the un special rapporteur on human rights and the environment thank you so much measure up of your for coming on just explain that remit human rights and the environment for. yes owen it's basically a u.n. volunteer position they have many of these independent experts and my particular expertise is in the area of preventing adverse human rights impacts from environmental degradation shining a spotlight on instances where this occurs or around the world and identifying

solutions that can protect the environment and protect human rights now on this show we often talk about the the war between different pluses it when it comes to the environment it's often said the richest one percent more than double the poorest 50 percent in terms of emissions we have statistics showing that high income countries use once above 46 percent of consumption based c o 2 and just 0.4 of low income who is the media here it's billionaires saving the planet what is the club dimension here well there's a huge there's a huge class dimension you know the reality as you've mentioned is that. over consumption in the wealthy countries of the global north and really amongst the one percent of the global elite who live everywhere are the drought one of the primary drivers of the environmental degradation which is then in turn shouldered most heavily by the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world and you.