sparrow's. maximizers financial survival guide. looking forward to the edge of the town. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. warns western nations against confrontation say moscow's response will be asymmetrical and hard if it's red lines across the president also compared those who provoke russia to jungle book characters. all sorts of little jackals run a room. just like in the kipling story howling to gain favor with the ruler. mass rape child murder and ongoing trauma a damning new report sheds more light on how france quote enabled the forseeable

genocide of hundreds of thousands in 1904 also coming up. clashes break out in berlin as police disperse a 1000 strong anti long down rally officers in riot gear deployed pepper spray and made more than a 100 arrests. good evening and thanks for joining us you're watching international. russia's president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country and as expected there was an international focus let him in putin urged 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 shear just like in the kipling story howling to gain favor with their ruler kipling is a great writer 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 russians answer will

be as symmetrical fast and hard most of his speech was a devoted to international affairs it was about domestic affairs it was about the 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 by the pandemic begad its institutions and the medical field wasn't ready for a crisis of such proportions but it was thanks to frontline medics and 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 the issue it's 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 our citizens get vaccinated we've made a breakthrough things to our son. exists and now we have 3 reliable vaccines 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 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. my colleagues will receive spoke with talks on a boy co-host of the r.t. show worlds of parts he was closely following limited speech and thinks that there are different ways to interpret what he said. it's actually very interesting on how

our interpretation of the speech depends on who is listening because my take on it this totally different from a bout of herat 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 because what i took from it was not just the ravages or the pain of the pandemic actually sad because at 900 provided they were very useful. strasser to us to the russian government which in the past has also you often been criticized for being too slow to figure out a. beleaguered by red tape and he sat there during a very. real learning how to provide services fast and efficiently 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 shows how do you how russia different from the united states because he talked about there much of a values he is the cli sad 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. be and how our citizens and others rather than going to fix meeting about what's good what's bad in the world 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 as on

a do you think putin's. federal assembly address today was any different than any other outstanding ways to previous years but it wasn't particularly. actually when the satirist. you know could still get people through could this be true or are you going boy in for what how to get people working the cultural secretary thinking everybody for what they have done for the country they are almost reminded me of john f. kennedy address you 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 sounds and that applies to domestic affairs as well as international affairs but when russians announce this expelling 10 u.s. diplomats in a tit for tat move they've been given a month to leave the country comes a week after the bod the ministration unveiled new sanctions against moscow for

allegedly interfering in last year's presidential election and for hacking federal agencies the u.s. also booted out 10 russian diplomats because liberal studies professor michael rector involved how he interprets president putin's warning about red lines. so anything that harbors any kind of sense of aggression is certainly a red line and i think you're seeing these signs of aggression not sure how far to go but i think it depends largely on the biden response and this administration has has a has a kind of obsession over russia which is unwarranted in my opinion and which is completely off the charts in terms of what they think russia is doing then they have put pressure on. to the 2. sitters and. diplomatic. personnel just from from the from the country.

6 assaults and destruction of life on an appalling scale including of children that's the howling testimony exposed in a new report finding france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans back in 1904 the document commissioned by the african states government says paris quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsi latest witness accounts 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 arm and forced him 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. report alleges france kept giving military support to israel and allies even after the atrocities were no more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale and brutality of the killings reverberated around the world the front still insists that doesn't bear responsibility for failing to intervene as r.t. shola do but to give 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 and quote the lying to the. 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 rwandan government and supported them in various ways draining the diplomatic and political support that's what we call the responsibility of france in $99.00 to $4.00 france led operation turquoise a military humanitarian starting to back. it went on. but this is it seems to being a front for collaboration with the extremist. that allegation is being too close to the brutal regime was also in the report to the genocide commission by from the

list. of. the french authorities who in this case bear grave responsibility because every 3 years instead of supporting democracy in peace in or around 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 no. the report says that they found any evidence that french officials all personnel directly participated in. this latest investigation

said that more horrifying lights. in rwanda relations. have been strained. and it's uncertain that if with these new reports this term could finally. so much evil scheme see paris. they just cities across russia have seen unauthorized rallies across the day in support of jailed opposition activist alexei navalny both scare the rallies are still ongoing and he's donna is among the people who have gathered there in the center of the capital good evening what is the scene like there now how many people are turned up and what are they calling for. well neal basically i'm in the midst of one of the larger groups of protests in central moscow those an f.s.b. building one of russia's made security services literally a couple of misses

a way that way few dozen meters and there's a bunch of hard pool protesters a few dozen of them who gathered down the street that has been cordoned off and blocked by the security forces in total in this group of protesters there's probably a couple of 1000 people basically they are moving around the area right now because a lot of exits have been blocked off by the police by the police officers there chanting slogans like russia russia freedom for enough valley the one of russia's political activists who is a right now in prison over the case on embezzlement charges so they keep as you can clearly hear they keep chanting slogans and basically right now they are waiting for the next leg. over the protest of the telegram and other messages being used to grow tonight the crowd basically have they are chanting anti government anti putin

slogans chung's so far i hear the police rather inert but they haven't detained anybody at this location but we have seen people being detained in other parts of moscow and other parts of moscow because this protest has been going on for a couple of hours now there's no we can only we're not really seeing if it windows down but you can see how the mass of people is slowly moving away probably because they've got a new location now mosco is far from the only city in russia that has seen protests today or all around from blood of all stalks to st petersburg in various towns and cities people came to the streets in certain towns it's safe to say that the protests flopped because only a few dozen people showed up in other in other. others of people of those old lodges showing of a bit of a more significant scale but all of them of course pale pale in comparison to the

world's good morning most of today now to give you some figures there's an official estimate from the russian police that some 6000 people are taking part in this protest today it looks like it looks like an accurate number perhaps even more people have now gathered in central moscow but we'll have to see basically would be following them throughout this evening and seeing what they're doing largely it has been peaceful again largely to have been some scuffles with the traffic police but so far so far all resorted the all resorted to just chants now and while making their voices heard now there is another group of people of another a few 1000 in another another part of moscow so there's no single. group why basically moving on foot around the russian capital is a challenge because a lot of areas have been called cordoned off been blocked off by the police and are

be blocked off as this protest well unravels so it is quite challenging to move on full because basically protesters have to make decisions literally on the go as to which turn to take next we will be we will be following the crowd we will be staying with them in the thick of it to for you and i will be bringing you all the latest thank you very much our correspondent has done after reporting from the scene of the protest in central moscow. but let's turn our attention to germany now where police have resorted to force to disperse crowds of anti to lock down demonstrators in the capital more than 100 arrests have been made pepper spray has been deployed with reports of injuries on both sides.

well according to berlin police as many as 8000 to vist turned out for a protest in the capital they were demonstrating against the so-called infection protection act which has now been passed by the bundestag it will give the central government the right to impose nationwide lockdown drills which over rule regional or dorothy's $342.00 lawmakers voted in favor of it $250.00 oppose the bill which now needs to go through the upper house of germany's parliament assuming that happens central government will have the power to impose nightly curfews if infection rates should spike along with various other measures. let's bring in hans you'll go to his pain from the alternative for germany party good evening hans talk about that power i just mentioned. that got a lot of people concerned do you think it's right the government has the power to impose something like that. i was one of the protesters are also going to keep

speakers on the street protests today also one born of these 250 m.p.'s who voted against. this. quite softly speaking to call in the infection protection act out it's called infection protection act but it's conquer a small us like enabling act it is you know we are very sensitive in germany due to truman history about enabling acts. which government is granted such a huge power that it will never give away any more in the future do you accept that by trying to get this act of law passed the government to only wants to use those powers to save lives. no this is this is not true out 1st you know since the dawn of time the governing always used the argument the

argument of shelter or protection in order to subdue the people and deprive them of their freedom and always using of course fear to create a desire for this protection and i think there's a very well known your state's man who coulter didn't write it was benjamin franklin who told they who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety he serves neither liberty no safety and will eventually lose both and use the french chick. outcome of today's pos in this in an enabling act the 2nd and big act in german history if you don't want to say a national long down how would you go about containing the spread of the 19 in germany. you know 1st if i get it from

a come back place by by what measurement got the government in power itself to do whatever it wants it's very. important to understand the use of the so-called number of insect it 100 infected. compared 210-0000 inhabitants if this threshold is come up warts then government empowers itself with nearly unlimited rights and very interesting is that this rest hold can be steep and controlled by the government itself only by testing more people now though this is not by the rule of law at all and then coming back to to a next question there is. 100 percent useful normal way of. inhibiting spreading the virus it's herd immunity you know that the deaths or the mortality rate of coherent compared to flu is smallest the

same the mortality rate is ciro point 15 percent which is very low like do people not die from flu because we have immunity more or less and that is the right way of stopping it wires from spreading on day to day also passed measures that allegedly this a more current immunity can only be reached by. beccy nation so taking away the natural way for the immunity system and forcing people to spend dollars and before it's pharmaceutical industry if this bill does become law do you think we'll see tensions between the federal government and the local 16 state regional government . this is for sure because simson 149 we have.

a quiet week center and we're strong 16 regions which are the basis of. the start of the republic of germany that is why it's called this way and also this new enabling act empowers the government to decide for the whole ringback of germany were few and all the other pressing measurements looked on and so on without asking the regions so this is for the 1st time in the history of the federal government of germany that this center completely over rule of the 16 regions all ruled their power. this is more or less a very huge breach of our constitution. until thanks so much for your time i guess hands and pay from the alternative for germany party and you by.

now reaction has been pouring into the guilty verdict the case for minneapolis police officer derrick chauvin could now face of the food is in prison on 2 counts of murder one count of manslaughter after the death of george floyd last night crowd celebrated the verdict outside the court on tuesday evening. this is. quite right. but while some celebrated others took to the streets to demand tougher action over police killings of african-americans some protestors new york were calling for the abolition of the city's entire police department saying that the system's fundamentally racist. tempers were so fired up around the trial that at one point the presiding judge warned the entire process could be derailed that was after

congresswoman maxine waters and courage grounds to get more compensation to show he was acquitted but the mainstream media was happy to embrace those comments. not. know. 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 you know you have to be there she is 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 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 saw dozens of people die in last years 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. but the jury concluded george floyd was murdered by the officer house speaker nancy pelosi applauded the decision she even thanked floyd for sacrificing his life with that comment to a scathing reaction we saw it happen and thank god the jury. dated what we. what we saw so again

thank you. for sacrificing your life for just 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 simplifies 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 fight in your life is something people have to do on their own floyd was murders we just had the whole trial it was sharply differing reaction to the case from august while some thought police changed their tactics this time of the say that the only thing that's changed is that officers are now getting caught. but i thought was most unusual about this case is that character of on was pretty much thrown under the bus by the police department is on the 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 chauvin 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 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 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. around the time of the show when trial verdict an african-american teen was fatally shot by police in columbus ohio a warning you may find these images disturbing. in bodycount footage an officer can be seen approaching a group of people one of whom peers to attack another with a knife the officer fires his gun at the alleged assailant a black 16 year old girl who dies of those injuries protesters took to the streets after the shooting police claim the use of force was justified but say they will investigate the case. brings up today don't forget by

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