mothers still search for grown children. for their parents. warns western nations a. response will be asymmetrical. if its red lines of the president also. run a room. just like in the story. with the. child . a new report shows more light on how. enabled the

forseeable genocide on hundreds of thousands. as police. officers and deployed make over 100 arrests. wednesday worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is r.t. international welcome to your news. russia's president has given his annual state of the nation address ultimately setting out his vision for the country as expected there was also an international focus. western powers to stop trying to provoke

russia and warned of an asymmetrical response. some countries have adopted the highly indecent habit 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 than 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 as i 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 sheer can just like in the kipling story howling to gain favor with the ruler kipling is a great writer but we really don't want to burn bridges but if someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and is determined to completely burn

or even blow up these bridges that person must know that the brushes also will be as symmetrical fast and hard most of his speech wasn't devoted to international affairs it was about domestic affairs it was about the pandemic it it's 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 by the pandemic they gathered its institutions and the 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 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 isn't that you just think solution 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 her. immunity by the autumn i 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 extraction mineral extraction that they then clean 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 again of the pandemic. but i guess the of reporting right there when he wasn't alone oksana boyko the host of ati's world apart was also closely following blood in a putin's annual speech and she thinks there are different ways to interpret what he said. 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 that 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 you often been criticized for being a few slow to grab. beleaguered by red tape and he sat there during these. really ringback learned 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 where differences is that we approach those 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 others rather than going to fix anything about what's good what's bad in the world we didn't need it here is 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 a 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 so on 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 government governing system as well as its efficiency it

was particularly touching actually when sector of society actually. you know because. of this. boy in for what how we 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 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 destruction of life on an appalling scaling clued in of children just a harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans in 1904 the document commissioned by the african states government says

quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsi the latest witness accounts paints a terrifying 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 $1.00 and $5.00 were 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 about it we understand more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale and brutality of the killings reverberate all around the world but france still insists it doesn't bear responsibility for failing to intervene a solid to begin our investigations. 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 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 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 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 on monday but is moving it seems to being a front for collaboration with the extremist. that allegation is too close to the to resume 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 to vision

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 the 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 report says that they found any evidence that french officials all personnel directly participated in the killing of this latest investigation horrifying lights rule in rwanda relations between the 2 countries have been strained. and. with these new reports that this child can find. so much he will speak.

to germany now where police resorted to brute force to disperse crowds of anti lockdown demonstrators in the capital we understand more than a 100 arrests have been made pepper spray deployed with reports of injuries on both sides. according to police as many as $8000.00 activists turned out for a protest in the german capital they were demonstrating against a so-called infection protection act which has now been passed by the bundestag it gives the central government the right to impose nationwide lockdown rules over

ruling the regional authorities and i spoke with martin a member of the humbug parliament from the left party he thinks some of the new rules make no sense from a medical standpoint and are merely causing frustration. measures and it's the contradictionary if you have only one and reasonable things that for example you have to. measure sit you. like this there is a high incidence of security measures but on the other hand it's no. all scientific underground for doing a curfew from 10 o'clock in the there's sort of. abusing the basic right of freedom of movement if you want to really like. you know stopped at you sure. follow all the lines of infection and stop the lines of infection more than closing down salusa so if you do measures you should do all the

measures and the same won't be constantly used and not only on small companies and against those who are only really good working and that of course causes. and causes a smell that people are frustrated. sweden's covert inoculation campaign is hitting new roadblocks with large numbers of people reportedly turning down the astra zeneca vaccine health authorities in several regions say they've had to discard unused doses and it comes after sweden suspended the astra zeneca shot back in march over an alleged link to a fatal blood clots it's since been reinstated for over 60 five's but people are only being told which drug they're receiving right before the injection and that's led to seniors walking out of clinics after finding out it is the astra zeneca jab let's get more details on this now and cross live to dr job honestly chairman of

the stockholm division of the swedish medical association joining us here on r.t. international today thanks for coming on the program as we understand that swedish people are apparently going to get their shots but only right before the injection they're being told who the manufacturer is why is that. then we decided that we should not be able. to make a choice. if we go to the. to the. clearly you have to take. whatever you are we have. someone from our point of view we have a leg. so we have to need to need to use every every vaccine we can get at so that is a problem yes is it possible that because as you say we need to use any vaccine that's available is it possible you can mix them up like a like a vaccine cocktail can you have one dose of astra zeneca and then one dose of

pfizer or no. they have decided that. now it's good to have the other do so from different storms so we're going to make serious why do you think there seems to be this reluctance what went so let's say that people come into the clinic they want to have their covert vaccination the doctor then tells them seconds before the injection oh it's going to be astra zeneca or it's going to be 5 let's say is it is a this is this perhaps a fear campaign that's been propagated by the media because as we understand regarding astra zeneca the risks of a blood clot a fatal blood call is less than one in a 1000000 should people be worried or not they should not be worried it's extremely rare and it's especially in john so we should not be afraid to know. are now on tuesday sweden announced that people who had the 1st dose of

the astra zeneca vaccine will be offered an alternative drug for the 2nd heroes is that accurate is that does that work in line with the actual astra zeneca medicine . it's hard to tell the sweetest. has the things that have been isa good do this decision we had to do. tend to me and here it is we had and we were the last us dead people so we have we are forced to do everything. to be able to solve the problem yes now when when you and i 1st started this conversation doctors feared would you mention that people aren't being given a choice did you say that that was mandated by the government that people are not being given a choice as to whether they can choose to fight a modern or astra zeneca you know your you know are 2 terrorist they have to decide if the docs to be to make

a choice yes so what i'm sorry why would the government why would the government decide that why would the government say the average citizen is not allowed which manufacturer of which vaccine to take. isa good question i'm sorry i cannot give in and they're also too stupid to that question. 11 point in the beginning we have we had very few seem to see this so we have to need to use every dose with which they can buy what about what about obviously in europe there being big shortages with available vaccines we understand that the russian sputnik 3 for example still has not been approved by the european medicines agency if the russian vaccine what was approved would sweden do you think be interested in bringing that over to help with the shortfall in western vaccines. endemic to extreme heat is. very important to get this man

a vaccine hospital and i think that's the side you see if they're seeing are improved by the sort of this it would be fine for me dr johan stuart a physician and chairman of the division of stockholm and swedish medical association thank you very much for joining us on r.t. international today we appreciate your time and your insight thank you. thank you. thank you for joining us here on the program after allegations of sexual misconduct and a mismanaging the pandemic the governor of new york has yet another scandal on his hands which is now being investigated for using state funds to write his new book it's called american crisis leadership lessons from the covert 1000 pandemic and much of the work is compiling the memoir much of the work was done by his staffers while receiving state salaries well cuomo team denies any wrongdoing they did there was criminality involved he is speaking glib certain it's faceless just

the furthering of a political pile on any state official who volunteered to assist on 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 care homes he has accepted some blame but denied any deliberate cover up tracy alvey no assistant director of voices for seniors which represents the rights of care home patients things the timing of the book is in poor taste and a downer cuomo. we're in the middle of a pandemic people are john. and you had time to write a book that was my 1st thought it was adding insult to injury and felt like i got interested in the guy all of the families felt the same way he he dare straight a book when we're suffering and people are dying pages it's unconscionable to me

saying that the deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens wasn't the nail in the coffin so to speak or governor cuomo has a governor share is that that's the most egregious kremlin to sext out that the book deal that's bad chill well there's nothing worse agree just in the mass deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens if that didn't get him out of office what will get him out of the. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin has been found guilty of the motor of george floyd crowds celebrated the verdict outside the courthouse on tuesday evening. this is. quite right the night

but while some celebrated others took to the streets to demand tougher action of a police killings of african-americans from protesters a new goal called for the abolition of the city's entire police department saying the whole system is fundamentally racist or short on it was corrected on 3 charges 2nd degree on a 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter he faces up to 40 years and prison but the official site has to be decided inside 8 weeks america of course was swamped by protests after george floyd's death in may last year.

tempers were so fired up around the trial that at one point the presiding judge warned the entire process could be derailed that was off to congresswoman maxine waters encouraged crowds to get more confrontational if shogun was acquitted but the mainstream media was very happy to embrace those common. 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 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 right of this police officer into question after the jury concluded that george floyd was murdered by the office and house speaker nancy pelosi applauded that decision she even signed floyd for sacrificing his life so come on that's certainly true some reaction. we saw it happen and thank god the jury that dated what we saw what we saw so again thank you cured or 8 percent accurate i think your life or just thank 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 simple eyes it was necessary this is how liberals will read produced a larger that's 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. that's been sharply differing reaction to the case from our guests well 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 police them 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 show bond 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 what was city 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 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 liii not so obvious presence of police officers who abuse their authority against black white indian agent 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 when you get real change. around the time of the show over and trial verdict an african-american teen was fatally shot by police in columbus ohio a warning you might find the following images disturbing in bodycount footage an officer can be seen approaching a group of people one of whom appears to attack another with a knife the officer fired his gun at the alleged assailant a black 16 year old girl who then dies of her injuries the protesters took to the streets following the shooting police claim the use of force was justified but say they will investigate the case. when there are some of your top stories for this wednesday live from moscow here on .