what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the. forum even in the shallows. western nations against confrontations say moscow's response will be asymmetrical and hard if its red lines across the prison and also compare those who provoke russia to jungle book characters. and you know all sorts of little jackal's runaround. 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 of rwanda in 1904 also on the way.

i clashes break out in berlin is police this burst a 1000 strong and down rally offices in brought gear deployed purpose spray and make hundreds of arrests. either thanks so much for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. this president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country as expected there was also an international focus. 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 without any excuse and usually without any reason it's turned into a kind of sporting competition a new sport of who speaks louder and 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 brushes also will be as symmetrical fast and hard most of his speech was of devoted to international

affairs it was about the best a confession 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 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 a science. 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 the many government plans and initiatives to help both parents both schools and social sphere as well as as well as businesses recover from the ravages again of the pandemic. my colleague will receive spoke to oksana boycott host of artie's worlds apart who was closely following the speech she thinks that there are different ways to interpret what he said. actually very

interesting on how interpretation of the speech depends on who is listening because my take on it is totally different from that of iraq i didn't think that the russian president was stern in fact i thought that that was. an address about reflection of 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 and what i took from it was not just the ravages or the pain of the pandemic you 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 huge slow to grab. 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 carefully to that speech it really showed you how russia differs from the united states because he talked about the russian values he is the cli 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 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 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 also on a do you think that putin's. federal assembly address today was any different than

any other outstanding ways to previous years but it wasn't particularly touching actually by the sector of just. watching. you know could still get. this. boy in fort smith what how to get people working the cultural sacked. thinking everybody for what they have done for the country almost reminded me of john f. kennedy address you not ask what the government can do for you but what you can do for their for your country he said that we absolutely sure of our professionalism we base our policies on common sense and that applies both to domestic affairs as well as international affairs. russia has announced this expelling 10 u.s. diplomats in a tit for tat move they've been given a month in which to leave the country comes a week after the biden ministration unveiled new sanctions against moscow for

allegedly interfering in last year's presidential election and hacking federal agencies the u.s. also booted out 10 russian diplomats just liberal studies professor michael rector involved how he interprets who tunes warning of a 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 now not sure how far to go but i think it depends largely on the biden response and this administration has as 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 poland and czechoslovakia to the 2. suiters and. diplomatic. person. just from from from the country.

sex assaults and destruction of life on an appalling scale including of children that's the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report which finds france enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans in $994.00 the document commissioned by the african states government says the paris quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic to see latest witness accounts paint 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 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 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 known of more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale of brutality of the killings reverberated worldwide france though insists it doesn't bear responsibility for failing to intervene. or do risk of 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 on quote 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 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 is that allegation of being too close to the hutu regime was also leveled in the reports of the genocide commissioned by

from really just this. is the french authorities who in this case paragraph responsibility because every 3 years instead of supporting democracy in peace in rwanda they supported the rwandan government's policy of radical action into 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. 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 they found any evidence that french officials all personnel directly participated in the killing of this latest investigation

shed some horrifying light rule in rwanda relations between the 2 countries have been strained for many years and it's uncertain that with these new reports that this child can find. so much speed see paris. said to germany now where police are brazil's had to force to disperse crowds of empty lot down demonstrators in the capital mobile 100 arrests the night pepper spray deployed with reports of injuries on both sides. now according to the berlin police as many as $80000.00 activists turned down for

a protest in the capital they were demonstrating the isis so-called infection protection act does now being passed by the bundestag and give central government the right to impose nationwide law down rules overruling the regional authorities 13 votes to lawmakers were in favor to did 50 oppose the bill which now needs to go through the upper house of germany's part of it assuming that happens central government will get the power to impose nightly curfews if covert infection rate spike along with various other measures we've heard from politicians from both sides of the german political spectrum for their views on the new bill. i was one of the protesters old was one of the key speak us on the street protests today also warned one that these 260 year m.p.'s who voted against. it just. quite softly speaking to callie didn't fix the protection act yeah it's cold protection act but it's funky small ass like in

a building yes you know we are very sensitive in germany due to truman history about enabling acts. by which government is granted such a huge power that it will never give away any more in the future it will be seen when a building act empowers government troops you saw it for the whole ringback of germany were if you and all the other pressing measurements looked on and so on we thought ask you to reach homes. to see the ambulances. and the one who wanted to just look at the parliament at least decides on. the law and now before it was just a group of. presidents of the federal states and the chancellor now it's a parliament that is good about the measures that it set of the contradictionary and in itself you have on the one hand reasonable things that for example you have

to. measure since you have reasonable things like if there is a high incidence of security measures have to be so you can but on the other hand it's no more scientific condiment for doing it coughs you from 10 o'clock in the year that is. abusing the basic right of freedom of movement and the act of calls causes so she just contacted and calls a smell that people are frustrated. and they need to take of already notoriously a sense happy each a bit sponsor the freedom of expression award on the double down the price to the boss of 99 percent of reaction to footage of the event negative it seems the absurdity is not lost on its uses we'll hear more about that for the price.

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used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right. on accountable and we're just getting more and more good. destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for. welcome back and you pick you've already notoriously sensa happy to sponsor a freedom of expression award the prize through its own boss but with 99 percent of reactions to footage of the event negative it seems absurdities not been lost on the c's this is more details he isn't used to meet you poppy. 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 and open so interpretation that literally any video can be suddenly deemed unacceptably dangerous have an opinion on coded don't like the w.h.o. don't like the election results banned for free speech the 2nd r. is rise which basically. it means boosting or recommending videos that have the right opinion according to you tube so basically videos by mainstream media corporations their partners but you know those guys that always tell the truth and

never run a fake story. 3rd are is reduce this one is the best this means ghosting or shadow banning or hiding videos that have not broken any rules that are completely fair game you tube just doesn't like them so they make them impossible to find so even if you're really careful about getting your thoughts out there and here to all of you tube's ridiculous rules avoid all the no no words you still might get shadow banned or censored if youtube doesn't like your opinion and then there's a lot of content that technically meets the spirit of what we're trying to do by it . it's borderline and so for that content we will just reduce meaning we're not going to recommend it to our users and this has been happening to countless creators over the past few years subscribers magically disappear videos don't show up in feeds of people who are subscribed and so on

a platform that prides itself on allowing diverse voices there doesn't seem to be a lot of permissible variety when it comes to actual speech the final r. is reward which is basically all about that ad money making sure that people with the right opinions get it and the people with the wrong ones don't explain to me again how any of these principles have anything to do with free speech the freedom forum institute which gave out this award claims its mission is to foster 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 it's not just you tube this congratulating itself the c.e.o. of facebook told an interviewer on monday that his social media giant is actually

making the world a better place what's really happening is individuals getting more power and more opportunity to create the lives and the jobs that they want and to connect with people who wants and i just think that will lead to a better world facebook of course has no shortage of critics just some of the most recent examples it's now building a version of its instagram platform exclusively to target children under the age of 13 despite numerous warnings just how dangerous a platform could be for youngsters you want newspapers in 11 countries assuming facebook for abusing its monopoly on digital advertising done in turn follows an endless string of accusations ranging from political censorship to harvesting of private data let's bring in political and social commentator lauren chen to discuss this in a bit more detail great to have you on laura to start with you chief then fully admitting that it removes more videos than ever and yet their c.e.o. proudly receives

a free expression award in an event sponsored by you tube itself so more censorship but they claim that they're being very free does it make sense to. well i mean 1st off regardless of the context the optics of sponsoring an awards ceremony in order to give yourself an award is not great but regarding free speech specifically remember you tube is the site that actually went out of its way to remove donald trump c pac speech from its platform so how anybody thought that this would not be met with a huge backlash is beyond me what's interesting is that if you actually listen to susan which ickes acceptance speech she she goes into detail about all of the censorship efforts that you tube has made so in these people's minds in the minds of someone like susan which you cannot separate free speech from censorship and monitoring hate speech and it really just goes to show that in these people these progressive activists of which susan which he obviously is one have no concept of

what free speech actually means it's all about promoting speech that they do like and as one of the you tubers the many creators who has fallen unfortunately in the borderline content category where we're no longer recommended by you tube i do take this personally and if you 2 wants to censor its creators i suppose that they currently have the right to do that but at the very least i would appreciate them not simultaneously trying to seem as if they're championing free speech ok let's move on to facebook things that by connecting people he believes he's creating a better world than he says will be different to the world that came before what kind of will do you think this future what do you think is imagining the. well coming from mark zuckerberg it's hard to imagine anything that's not increasingly dystopian but what i don't understand is that why people like he and susan with these tech giants keep trying to market their products as forces for positive social change because right now we see with facebook that they are being criticized

both from the left and the right the right is of course upset that they've banned popular figures from the right and pages like the walk away movement the left is then mad that they're not doing enough. 2 targets oppose it hate groups and violent or violence each and what what would probably be easier to facebook in the long run is just to accept that this is a platform to share photos of your pets and maybe information about your business stop trying to make facebook into this a social element it's frankly it's excrete tech not chrissy and i don't think that facebook is going to like the attention it reads it receives as a result of these comments. facebook and instagram just mentioned a moment ago this new idea instagram for kids under 30 years old now we know that instagram can be addictive we know that it can give people really bad self. self issue self reflection problems the way they view themselves i should say and we also know that it's a great way to track people's location which basically means you can monetize them

will other any positives that you can see in having instagram for kids. i can barely see positives for having instagram for adults let alone children and for any parents who are watching this i i hope you understand that even though facebook may come out with this product that by no means means you need to actually use it and put your children on this we've seen social media platforms be used for things like grooming of children and unfortunately twitter specifically has had an issue with the sharing of pornographic images even involving children so trying to create an entire platform targeting children it just seems like a beacon of for predators and i hope facebook reconsiders this stance and this rollout but unfortunately i believe the motivation behind this is that a lot of products are a lot of companies rather are looking for ways to advertise toward children and of course instagram is an extremely lucrative way to connect with consumers and i think this is facebook's way of trying to bring those products in front of children

hoping that they eventually ask their parents to buy it for them but it's not worth putting children's safety at risk laura thanks so much for coming on great to get your perspective on this political social commentator lauren chen is my guest thanks for having me. made to cities across russia have seen unauthorized rallies throughout the day in support of jailed opposition activists alexina valmy i think has done a propose from central moscow. well this is the final leg of today's protest in the russian capital to the left of me or rather i'm amidst the most jury of a group of protesters a few dozen of them of what used to be thousands of people who took to the streets of moscow to make the voices heard well again only a few dozen people but they're very very loud under this protest is knowing in see the nights earlier we saw it as i've said thousands of people according to the police some 6000 people took to the streets of the russian capital today chanting

slogans like freedom for election a volley russia's political activist who is in prison now on embezzling charges they're calling on vladimir putin to step down and a bunch of other anti corruption hunter anti prison i should say slogans so far the police today have been rather. we have seen some detentions but they weren't they weren't on ma scale they weren't on a large is gail but several people have been detained here in moscow now the russian capital is far from the only place far from the only city in the country that has seen protests towns all the way from flight of a stork to st petersburg have seen people taking to the streets in certain towns it's safe to say that the protest float because only a few because basically a group to the left of me was all there showing and other towns it was more of

a success but basically who they will they will who paled in comparison to what's going on what was going on in the russian capital largely the protests have been peaceful although we have seen some scuffles with the traffic police and so far. and again the police they did detained several people here and with dozens of people across russia because from the government standpoint of this rally as well as others weren't authorized they weren't green lights they didn't get a green light from the authorities and so in the eyes of the lure the it makes them illegal hands the hands the detentions but well obviously the protesters they don't agree with that sound yet they're chanting that they are 7 they are the authorities essentially this is what they're chanting right now but again this is this is the very these are the very very charitable people who are.