up to something wonderful very often. and up to something terrible. i just think i was in i was just scared i was a scared little girl i was 24 and like. i didn't have to be so complicated. warns western nations confrontation saying moscow's response will be asymmetrical. if it's red line. president also those who provoke russia the jungle book characters. all sorts of little girls run a room. just like in the kipling story how to gain favor with the rule of. mass rape child murder. a damning new report sheds more light on how france quote

enabled the forseeable genocide of hundreds of thousands in rwanda in 1994. is found guilty on all counts in the killing of george floyd but despite the fury. focused on lawmakers for allegedly influencing the trial floyd's death for political gain. also new york governor andrew cuomo faces a fresh probe on top of sexual assault and the covert death toll claims are reportedly misusing state resources to write his own book. already a fast and busy day here at the international we come to you live from moscow a very warm welcome to you. russia's president has given his annual state of the

nation address setting out his vision for the country from regional development to support for families and as expected there was also an international focus a lot of putin urged western powers to stop trying to provoke russia and warned of an asymmetrical response. but it should 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 jackals run around like

with shift just like in the kipling story howling to gain favor with a ruler kipling is a great writer we really don't want to burn bridges but if someone mistakes are good intentions for indifference or weakness and is determined to completely burn or even blow up these bridges that person must know the brushes answer will be as symmetrical fast and hard. but most of his speech was of devoted to international affairs it was about domestic affairs it was about the pandemic it's 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 that gathered its institutions and the medical field wasn't ready for a crisis of such proportions but it was thanks to frontline medics and doctors who he thanked as well as. to the applause of all the attended 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. is just the vaccination is of immense importance right now i'm asking the government and regional heads to terkel 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 car the current health care 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 exploited the environment for profit such as all companies and coal extraction mineral extraction that they then kene up after themselves he said that within the next 30 years the emissions of the russian federation will be less than those 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 has undergone a major demographic process and that many government plans and initiatives to help both parents both schools in the social sphere as well as as well as businesses recover from the ravages the good of the pandemic. but i guess the of reporting there will oksana boyko the host of r.t.s. well the part was also closely following vladimir putin's speech and i think so there are different ways to interpret what he had to say. actually very interesting on how interpretation of the 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 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 before 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 you often been criticized for being a huge 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 those next time people have to interact with the government services they don't have to wait in line to all ireland 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 calculated that speech it really show you how russia differs from the united states because he talked about there much of value so bad 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 or differences. 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 citizens. it's an obvious rather than going to fix meeting about what's

good what's bad and not well we didn't mean it harry 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 these kind of armaments in the world he proposed to hold a summit that's not just a russian americans but of 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 so 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 strength of its their respective government governing system as well as it was efficient it was particularly touching actually when the sector of society actually. you know could still get people through this. morning for what how to get people working in the cultural sector thanking everybody for what they have done for the country almost reminded me of john f. kennedy address not ask what the government can do for you but what you can do for the for your country he said that we are absolutely sure of our professionalism we base our policies on common sense and that applies to domestic affairs as well as international affairs. sex assaults and destruction of life on an

appalling scaling clearing of children that's the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands over a one dozens in 1904 the document commissioned by the african states government says quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsi the latest witness account paints a horrifying portrait. even today that sadness does 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 half survived.

one woman died after hutus hacked off her arms and forced them into her mouth her 2 small children aged $1.54 then slaughtered. they came in a great crowd shouting like crazy people the whole place was littered with bodies. the report alleges that france kept giving military support to its rwanda allies even after the atrocities were very well known more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale and brutality of the killings reverberated all around the world but france still insists it doesn't bear responsibility for failing to intervene as our correspondent charlotte reports. morning close to 600 pages and based on interviews with hundreds of witnesses this damning report due to the recent findings by a french commission that said paris was

a quote lying to the hutu resumes genocidal agenda. to not a doctor to prevent the genocide that was a fact but another fact is that the government of france that time accompanied the rwandan government that was committing massacres preparing a genocide the french government at the time was close to that government and supported them in various ways draining the diplomatic and political support that's what we call the responsibility of france in 1904 france led operation turquoise a military humanitarian starting to back. it went under. but this is moving it seems to being a front for collaboration with the extremist is that allegation of being too close to the hutu regime was also leveled in the report into the genocide commissioned by from really just this. is the french authorities who in this case

bear grave responsibility because every 3 years instead of supporting democracy in 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. 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 you know. the report says that they found any evidence that french officials all personnel directly participated in the killing of this latest investigation horrifying like. in rwanda relations between the 2

countries have been strained. and. with these new reports that this term confined me. so much to the. allegations of sexual misconduct and mismanaging the pandemic the governor of new york has yet another scandal on his hands andrew cuomo who is now being investigated for using state funds to write his new book it's called american crisis leadership lessons from the coping pandemic and much of the work in compiling the memoir was done by cuomo staffers while receiving state salaries a quote most team denies any wrongdoing the idea there was criminality involved speaking clips are done its face in is just the furthering of a political dialogue on any state official who volunteered to the system this project did so on his or her own time and without the use of state resources

earlier this year cuomo was accused of downplaying the true death toll in new york state homes he has accepted some blame but denied any deliberate cover up. you know assistant director of voices for seniors which represents the rights of care home patients think the timing of the book is very poor and a donor 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 have felt like i got hunched in the gut all of the families felt the same way he he dares to write a book when we're suffering and people are dying a just it's unconscionable it's amazing that the deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens wasn't the nail in the coffin so to speak for governor cuomo in

a governor's chair is that that's the most egregious cranleigh the sex stuff that bad the book deal that's bad too but there's nothing more 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 all it's that we are back in just. one l to be wrong but all the old just don't have all. the world yet to shape out these days. and in again try to ignore the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

up. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. years thinks. we dare to ask. god to have you with us today minneapolis police officer derek chauvin has been found guilty over the motor of george floyd the crowds celebrates the verdict

outside the courthouse on tuesday if. you. like. but while some celebrated others took to the streets to demand tougher action over police killings of african-americans some protesters in new york called for the abolition of the city's entire police department saying the system is fundamentally racist. and was convicted on 3 charges 2nd degree on 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 though america of course was swamped by protests after george floyd's death in may last year.

tempos were so fired up around the trial that at one point the presiding judge warned the entire process could be derailed i was off to congresswoman maxine waters encouraged crowds to get more confrontational live shows and was acquitted in the mainstream media was very happy to embrace those comments. not. 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 do you know 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 we saw dozens of people guy last year or is the blood of those people 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 as a constitutional right of this police officer into question now after the jury concluded george floyd was motive by the house speaker nancy pelosi applauded her decision and she even thanked floyd for sacrificing his life and well that certainly drew a reaction. we saw it happen and thank god the jury.

dated what we saw what we saw so again thank you cured or 8 percent accurate i think your life or just think you murdered person for it 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 simplifies it was necessary this is how liberals will read produced a larger that labeled his life expendable in the 1st place no no no no what the fuck lucy 2nd feis in your life is something people have to do on their own floyd was murders we just had the whole trial there are you know a shop or a differing reactions to the case from our guests while some thought police changed their tactics this time others say the only thing that's changed is that officers are now getting caught. but i thought was most unusual about this case is that a director of on was pretty much thrown under the bus by the police department is

own police chief justified against them normally emmy's trials in these cases were police officers are accused of misconduct that go on trial policemen fill the room to intimidate the witnesses to intimidate the system itself incorrectly and we don't see any of that in this case we didn't see the police department supporting show bond we didn't see the the cops in the or room we also didn't see a lot of his family members at the courtroom either so that was kind of unusual probably because very much because of what was the both local national and international the case got there was some pressure on the state to prosecute show on and i think this the results of it i don't see this as a race issue. i know a lot of people do but 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 some for 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 a way into 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 when you get real change. now around the time of the show trial verdict an african-american teen was fatally shot by police in columbus ohio and should warn you you might find the following images disturbing in boarding footage an officer can be seen approaching a group of people one of whom has to attack another with a knife the officer fired his gun at the alleged assailant block 16 year old girl

who dies of her injuries protesters took to the streets following the shooting and police claim the use of force was justified but say they will investigate the case . well in a new peak of irony notoriously censor happy you tube has sponsored a freedom of expression overboard and doled out the prize to its own boss with 99 percent of reactions to the footage of the event being negative it seems the absurdity is not lost on its uses his oddities to me. 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 funny thing is they're 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 an open server taishan 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 i hear 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 in 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 a 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 and your news returns in half an hour.

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 2 will speak to 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 our boy 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.