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in 1900. welcome to your story. vladimir putin has just delivered his keynote state of the nation address to parliament the president noted there was only so much aggression from the west that russia. senior correspondent who was at the speech reports. well i've got to tell you that before this speech begat all the ad and this will

the dignitaries all the journalists expected it to be much more about international issues the pressing issues of the day of thinking of the collapse of relations between russia and the european union problems with the united states of the americas well this is the situation on the border with ukraine but most of his speech was devoted to domestic affairs it was only at the end that he really mentioned the pressing international problems that russia has russia and certain other countries towards russia and here glad we're putin was very clear we are interested in peace we want more arms limitation treaties we want a cyber security framework to involve the whole world to avoid situations where so many misunderstandings and problems occur but let me a putin also said that there are there are those who are set on burning bridges with russia and that for them there will be

a response. but if some countries have adopted the highly indecent habits of blaming russia with any excuse and usually without any reason it's turned into a kind of sporting competition a new sport who speaks louder we react to that with the highest restraint and you could say without any irony with modesty often we don't even respond to unfriendly actions or even to open rudeness we want to keep good relations with all participants in the international community which we see what's happening in real life has already said they're picking on russia all over the place without reason and of course immediately around them all sorts of little jackal's runaround like was shift just like in the kipling story howling to gain favor with the ruler kipling is a great writer we really don't want to burn bridges but if someone mistakes or good intentions for indifference or weakness and is determined to completely burn or even blow up these bridges that person must know that russia's own civil be as

symmetrical fast and hard. the president ended with a stern warning that any country that goes after quare russian interests will experience a firm harsh immediate and as a metric response but as i said most of his speech was of devoted to international affairs it was about domestic affairs it was about the had to make it its ravages and how it has made life that much harder for so many people he also came out and said that russia simply wasn't ready but the pandemic began its institutions and the medical field wasn't ready for a crisis of such proportions put it was thanks to frontline medics and doctors who he thanked as well as. to the applause of all the attendants he said it was thanks to them that russia emerged out of this crisis stronger than many other countries with many fewer deaths many fewer infections and with 3 vaccines something really

is an issue it's just the solution is of immense importance right now i'm asking the government and regional heads to tackle this everywhere people should have the chance to get vaccinated which will allow us to have heard immunity by the autumn and once again call on all us citizens get vaccinated we've made a breakthrough things to all scientists and now we have 3 reliable vaccines. the president also spoke at length about health care about the need to overhaul russia's health care system with a revolution happening in medicine with all sorts of new systems diagnostic equipment and procedures scientific breakthroughs making the current healthcare system almost obsolete despite all of its excesses during during the pandemic he also spoke about the environment saying that it is paramount that companies which exploit the environment for profit such as all companies and coal extract and

mineral extraction that they then key not. after themselves he said that within the next 30 years the missions of the russian federation will be less the news of the us the european union was a spoke about supporting single parents about encouraging birth rates in russia it's no secret that it is undergone a major demographic process and the many government plans initiatives to help both parents both schools in the social sphere as well as as well as businesses recover from the ravages again of the pandemic. on a boycott host of oxys world apart said interpretation of putin's speech really depends on which side you're looking from. it's actually very interesting on how interpretation of a speech depends on who is listening because my take on it this totally different from a bout of rather i didn't think that the russian president was stern in fact i thought

that that was. an address about reflection and value trying to motivate and inspire people about learning lessons from the pandemic and finally about outreach and making sure that people understand your intentions well if you and i it's true that for the most wired focused on the pandemic but what i took from it was not just the ravages or the pain of the pandemic actually sad cobbett 900 provided a very useful. straps task to the russian government which in the past has also often been criticized for being a few slow to grab. beleaguered by red tape and he sat there during a very. real learning how to provide services fast and efficiently and this is something that we are going to take into the future making sure that his next time people have to interact with the government services they don't have to wait in

line to all are to wave pool star going to the international side of the speech i thought that that was indeed putin's response to joe biden and if you listen carefully to that speech it really showed you how russia differs from the united states because he talked about the russian values he is sad that russia has been able to establish and maintain good relations with most nations around the world based on the principles of mutual respect track what differences is that we approach to things not abstractly but in a very practical manner we look at what we can do and how we can. and how our city. zones and others rather than going to fix meeting about what's good what's bad in the world we didn't need it kerry clear and that he sees russia as an absolute leader in terms of strategic armaments around the world he actually

sad that russia has the qualitative advantage over the united states and russia has a new generation of weapons which the united states cannot counter at this point and as a leader of this kind of armaments in the world he proposed to hold a summit that's not just the russian americans but all p 5 permanent members of the security council one of the things that putin always like to talk about is tipping is how to our professional partners around the world showing and exercising a mutual respect with professional partners around the world as well or sought to do you think that putin's federal assembly address today was any different than any other outstanding ways to previous years we had a very challenging and very unusual year and in this sense it couldn't have been the same i think many russians believe that the way any given nation. managed to. do with this major challenge actually demonstrates the strengths

of with their respective governments governing system as well as the efficiency was particularly touching actually when the sector of society actually. you know could still get people through this. boy in for what how to go from people who work in the cultural sector thinking everybody for what they have done for the country almost reminded me of john of canada to address not ask what the government can do for you but what you can do for there for your country he said that we are absolutely sure of our professionalism we base our policies on common sense and that applies both to domestic affairs as well as international affairs. sex assaults and destruction of life on an appalling scaling clued in of children as the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwanda

in 1904 the document commissioned by the african states government says paris quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsis the latest witness accounts paint a terrifying portrait. even today that sadness does not end the thought that someone came rape 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 of the country even after confirmation of systematic rights abuses more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale and brutality of the killings reverberated worldwide however france still insists it doesn't bear any responsibility particularly for an action i thought he shot to do once again our reports. were no cause to $600.00 pages and paste still interviews with hundreds of witnesses this damning report adds fuel to the recent findings by a french commission that said paris was a 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 at that time 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. it's training the diplomatic and political support that's what we call the responsibility of france in 1904 france led operation turquoise a military humanitarian installed intervention in rwanda it went under un mandate but is moving it seems to being a front for collaboration with the extremist. that allegation is being too close to the brutal regime was also on levels in the report into the genocide commissioned by from the list this. is the french authorities who in this case bear grave responsibility because every 3 years instead of supporting

democracy and peace in rwanda they supported the rwandan government's policy of radical action of division under the leadership of a dictator who was very close to the hutu extremists however senior officials from the french government. at the time of massacre 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 doctor can finally. so much people speak. right now tony quarter past the hour here in the russian capital your program continues in a. the

world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day years thinks. we dare to ask. you to join us or not to you today a former minneapolis police officer chauffeur and has been found guilty of the

motor of george floyd a crowds celebrated the verdict near the courthouse. this is. quite right. but while some celebrated others took to the streets to warn the police killings of african-americans will still continue a protest as demanded the breakup of the entire new york police department all giving the entire system itself is racist and demonstrators also held what they called a chance to outdoor diners demanding they pay a 30 percent tax and that white owners should shut down their restaurants. now chauvin was convicted on 3 charges 2nd degree and 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter he faces up to 40 years in prison and with the official sentence to be decided in 8 weeks there america was swamped by protests off to george floyd's

death in may last year.

the trial generated so much attention and opinion it could have even gone to retrial one such event was congresswoman maxine waters encouraging crowds to get more confrontational if shogun was acquitted the judge should warn that such incendiary rhetoric could prejudice the outcome that mainstream media maintain the comments were harmless. enough. that. i don't think what she said and in any way should we should criticize her for of course we should be more confrontational do you really think she's 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 a good no you have to be there she's 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 mafia intimidation during the trial i mean it really is you don't know how these jurors if they catch wind of this in any way shape or form are going to think that hey you know we saw dozens of people die in last year or is the blood of those people going to be in our hands if we don't return a guilty verdict against 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 right of this police officer into question. well the house speaker nancy pelosi applauded the vote and thanked floyd for sacrificing his life has been scathing

reaction to what were some thinking that actually belittled the victim. we saw it happen and thank god the jury. dated what we saw what we saw so again thank you cure. for sacrificing your life or just think 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. for the suffering of dr robert gucci an associate professor of sociology at lancaster university thanks for coming on the program

today do you think the guilty verdict against derek show over and will be sufficient to pacify protesters or will their grievances continue do you think. well i mean i'll tell you my reaction last night was to take a deep breath after after that. and i think there are so many things coming through the reporting that you all just did that shows how this one conviction isn't going to be the linchpin isn't going to be the civil war which might be inappropriate to say but it may not be that needle on into to get. to change that people want in the united states and i think there are a lot of individuals particularly local white individuals and of us who say yes this is it this is accountability this is change you're moving in the right direction and i think as your reporting just showed we're still in a fog of mass over issues of race and more importantly. it seems that citizens just

aren't willing to do what it takes to get police to fall in line and by that i mean they're going through court systems beyond just this one situation of holding police more accountable in more cases we talk about you know holding more police accountable them all cases it's just this down for a 2nd we've seen protesters in new york cold for the abolition of the police forces but also the same time we've seen some of these protesters assaulting people at restaurants so when a cold goes to the police how do you expect them to respond. yeah i think there are lots of things in here and one of the debates about defunding the police isn't necessarily to i mean certainly there may be people calling for the. revoke all police from new york city or whatnot but the notion of defunding the police which has been really manipulated by politicians and its meaning is really to among

other things remove the military grade weaponry that. the local police forces have access to which is from the u.s. military surplus from from the government i worked at a university in the states once that had its own tank it had its own and still has its own machine guns now what in the world suggests that a university for instance or even a local police force should have access to that type of weaponry because what we don't want when we want police to respond is to immediately pull out a gun in maybe a mistake a taser for a gun which has allegedly happened in a previous case recently i think people want police to respond as you serve the public certainly but they don't want them to show up as a member of the military for instance when we saw militarized response to protesters in portland last year it was hard to distinguish between who were the local police officers and who were federal troops that donald trump put on the

streets partially because those voter groups also went out without any name badges and so i think people are having a hard time understanding the idea that police forces can serve a purpose but they shouldn't be. militarized militia but what about what about that part of the black lives not a movement in the past year or so off to georgia floyd we we saw enormous amounts of protesting demonstrations c.n.n. like to call them peaceful protesters when they were torching shops vandalizing raiding saving as well what is the and gain for the black lives protesters do you think what do they want to the end of the day can be given what they need. well i mean i think there's a there's a way to look at notions of looting and rioting and the racialized notions of those terms that people have identified even and most recent scholarship that stands out there in one book called the defense of looting which which articulate some of

these some of these misrepresentations in media the burning of post c.b.s. or a target convenience store or a retail store isn't an attack on somebody's its own community it's an attack on hyper capitalism and its effect on the deterioration of their community through gentrification so that's a whole nother lecture we don't have to do now but this is a very layered meaning what do black lives matter into why i'm i'm not quite sure i think that's also part of part of the concern what are the 2 or 3 things i think one of the things is stop caring militarized weapons stop killing black individuals have great numbers and i think that those are the things that people have asked for the guard of the courts for and they've become violent for. this if we're this is one of the things i want to just jump in to quickly because this is one of the main themes that we've been seeing all that all of violence now before we got the guilty voted what did you make of democratic congresswoman maxine waters calling for

a quote confrontation some said it amounted to a jury intimidation would you agree she was telling people to get serious to get aggressive to get physically confrontational with people on the streets what did you make of the democratic congresswoman is called men's. you know i think for a long time democrats haven't done themselves a lot of good and i've also called at some point for some of them to just maybe be locked in a room and do the things that they need to do and maybe not say the words that they're saying sometimes they're not very helpful but i think at the end of the day there still needs to be a call for people to be out on the streets and for people to to take action and sometimes it does lead to violence and that's. unfortunate for some but we have to also understand that the 2nd amendment which is in the u.s. constitution allows for people to take up arms if they feel the government is tyrannical and is coming for them and certainly i think that there can be

justification at some point for individuals to take up arms against their government if they feel that it is being tyrannical and i think we see black communities and black individuals and collectives being targeted by u.s. military in by local police forces i've written about this in my in my own books where in miami they used for target practice mug shots of blacks who had been put in to the jail system and i mean how do you justify using that for police target practicing so i think that there are decades of you going back to slave patrols you know some centuries of history here that we failed to acknowledge and see coming out on the streets and instead go to where the cameras go into where politicians like to insert themselves for probably less than. you know virtuous reasons because she what about the issue of carrots you've got black lives matter of course black lives to about oh you've got white life not a white lives matter of course in fact how about all lives you see at the end of the day it should come down to a person's carrots

a person's character should be more important than the color of their skin and yet we're seeing a really mixed a batch of potentially bad characters out on the streets these days what is your thought to do old lives not to talk to kaci. well i think certainly the notion of all lives matter has been brought up in the same way that white lives matter as a way to diminish the movement and to parody the movement of black lives matter so that's a whole nother conversation we can get into but absolutely there is a crime happening in particular neighborhoods and among particular collectives that needs to end but that doesn't excuse. the right for police to living in the united states you get pulled over by police police officer it is not unusual for the police officer to immediately unbuckled their gun. walking into a starbucks it's not unusual for

a police officer to come in with 3 or 4 firearms attached to their body and they're walking like a soldier that's intimidation to an entire citizenry whether you have dark skin or light skinned that is of behavior of a police state that quite frankly is one of the reasons we left that country at that time because that police state particularly in miami was getting completely out of control that's the that's the norm now imagine being someone who doesn't look like me who has statistically a greater likelihood to die at a gun or at the knee of a police officer having that person walk into starbucks as it could be a very different experience dr robert there are 3 associate professor of sociology at lancaster university joining us live here on r.t. international we appreciate your time thank you very much. i thank you for joining us here with all of the international we all facts are with.