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welcome to max keiser financial survival guide. looking forward to your pension account. this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. but putin warns western nations against comprende taishan say moscow's response will be a sabbatical and hard if it's red lines of crossed president also compare those who provoked russia to jungle book characters. all sorts of little jackals run a room. just like in the kipling story how linked again with the rule of. mass rape child murder and ongoing trauma a damning new report sheds more light on how france quote enabled the forseeable
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genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwanda in 1904 also on the way. i clashes break out in berlin is police dispersed a 1000 strong anti lockdown rally offices in riot gear deployed pepper spray and made more than $100.00 arrests. watching r t international thanks for joining us. russia's president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country and as expected there was also an international focus that emir putin urged western powers to stop trying to provoke russia and warned of an asymmetrical response. some countries
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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 the 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
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as symmetrical fast and hard most of his speech was of devoted to international affairs it was about domestic affairs it was about the pandemic in 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 they gathered 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. 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 our citizens get vaccinated we've made a breakthrough thanks to all signs. no we have 3 reliable vaccines he also spoke
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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 the use of 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 it 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 spoke with oksana boyko host of artie's worlds apart he was closely following peace in speech and she thinks that there are different ways to interpret what he said. it's actually very
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interesting on how interpretation of a speech depends on who is listening because my take on it this 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 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 because what i took from it was not just the ravages or the pain of the pandemic actually sad cobbett 900 provided a very useful. straps task to the russian government which in the past has also often been criticized for being a few slow to grab. beleaguered by red tape and he sat there during a very. real learning how to provide services fast and efficiently going
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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 different from the united states because he talked about the russian revalues he is nicholas add 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. 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 or so on
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a do you think that putin's. federal assembly address today was any different than any other outstanding ways to previous years but it was particularly touching actually when sector after. watching. you know could still get. this. boy in fort smith what how to get people working the cultural. thinking 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 their 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. when russia has announced that it's expelling 10 u.s. diplomats in a tit for tat move they've been given a month to leave the country this comes a week after the biden administration unveiled new sanctions against moscow for
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allegedly interfering in last year's presidential election and hacking federal agencies the u.s. also booted out 10 russian diplomats liberal studies professor michael rector involved how he interprets hussein's 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 our 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. sitters and. diplomatic. personnel just from from the from the. country.
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sexual assaults and destruction of life on an appalling scale including of children that's the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding friends enabled the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans in 1994 document commissioned by the african states government says that paris quote did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic to see the 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.
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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 france kept giving military support to israel and even after those atrocities were known of more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale the brutality of the killings reverberated around the world france though insists that it doesn't bear responsibility for failing to intervene saudi charlotte due to give reports. morning close to 600 pages and based on interviews with hundreds of witnesses this
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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 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 stalled intervention. it went on. 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
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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 knowing. the reports say that they found any evidence that french officials all personnel directly participated in the killing of these this latest
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investigation shed some more horrifying light rule in rwanda relations between the 2 countries have been strained. and. with these new reports that this. could finally. see this. listed germany now where police have resorted to force to disperse crowds of anti lockdown demonstrators in the capital more than 100 arrests have been made purpose spray deployed with reports of injuries on both sides.
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according to berlin police as many as 8000 activists down for a protest in the capital they were demonstrating against the so-called infection protection act has now been passed by the bundestag it will give central government the right to impose nationwide lock down rules overruling the regional authorities 342 lawmakers voted in favor to did and 50 opposed it which now needs to go this bill through the upper house of germany's parliament assuming that happens so interim government will get the power to impose night because if used if covert infection rates spike along with various other measures we heard from politicians from both sides of the political spectrum that their views on the new bill. i was one of the protest protest kosovo's one of the key speak on the street protests today also warned one of these 250 year m.p.'s who voted against.
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a quite softly speaking to call it didn't fix the protection act yeah it's cold that you fixed protection act but it's functor small us like and enabling act yes or no we are very sensitive film 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 few and all the other pressing measurements looked on and so on with all of the returns. to see the ambulance and in the 11 had to discover that the parliament at least decides on the ball now before it was just a group of. presidents of the federal states and the chancellor now it's a parliament that is about the measures that it says contradictionary and in itself
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you have on the one hand reasonable things that for exxon mobile you have to. measure since you have reasonable things like if there is a high incidence of security measures that can but on the other hand it's no scientific condiment for doing it because if you from 10 o'clock in the that is. abusing the basic right of freedom of movement and that of calls causes social discontent and calls a smell that people are frustrated. and you've written cities or seen rallies in support. the jailed opposition activist. will have more on lot after the break.
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seem wrong. to shape our. engagement because the trail. worlds apart. to look for common ground. i think there will be an interesting new chapter in all of this is that after all the jobs have been shipped to china the majority of american landlords will be chinese and so most people will have lost their jobs from china they'll be addicted to fence and all chip in probably from china to rent if they can afford a house to someone in china.
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welcome back reaction has been pouring into the guilty verdict against former minneapolis police officer derek chauvet he could now face up to 40 years in prison on 2 counts of murder one count of manslaughter after the death of george floyd last my crown celebrated the verdict outside the courthouse on tuesday evening.
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while some celebrated others took to the streets to demand tougher action over police killings of african-americans and protesters in new york called for the abolition of the city's entire police department saying the system is fundamentally racist. tempers were so fired up around the trial that at one point the presiding judge warned the entire process could be railed after congresswoman maxine waters and courage grounds to get more confrontational if chauvelin was acquitted but the mainstream media was happy to embrace those comments. no. 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 most people know that that's not true and the people who are speaking out against her
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are 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's she's fine so 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 a mafia intimidation during the trial i mean it really is you don't know all these jurors if they catch wind of this in any way shape or form are going to think that hey you know we brought dozens of people die you last year it's the blood of those people are going to be in our hands if we don't return a guilty verdict against shalvey you know who wants to live with that on their conscience it's completely screwed billygoat process in the due process as a constitutional right of this police officer into question. not to the
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jury concluded the judge floyd was murdered by the house speaker nancy pelosi applauded the decision and even thanked floyd to sacrificing his life that comment drew a scathing reaction. we saw it happen and thank god the jury . dated what we saw what we saw so again thank you cured or 80 percent accurate i think your life or just think you murdered person for without your horrific killing we would have never known that it's not ok to kill people for no reason nancy pelosi in a nutshell the word 2nd fives implies 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 2nd feis in your life is something people have to do on their own floyd was murders we just had the whole trial. ok let's bring in former vice chair
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for the libertarian national committee arvind vora thanks for coming on of and also talk about start with the fact that. people have been celebrating this verdict do you think this is over now will this will all calm down or will it not take much for the kind of the protests the flare up again do you think no this is this is the 1st this is the 1st of many steps you know people in america have been fed up with the police for a long time through drug war abuses where the police have just used the drug war as an excuse to just bully minorities to just a sense that the police are no longer protecting life or property but harassing people harassing the rich through minor things like traffic tickets rest in the poor and the way through through much worse things like swat team raids and in florida case murder so the fact that now people have had this taste of victory that the police are no longer the sort of socially protected class you can never say
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anything against now that we know it's ok to say that when the police do something wrong it's wrong and they're a completely accountable i think we're going to see a lot more demands to crackdown on that victory inspires people it doesn't stop them. during the trial congresswoman maxine waters called for confrontation on the streets of shoving was to be acquitted that didn't happen but the judge did say that those comments could be grounds for an appeal. do you think she's messed up. i mean what we had is this this mindset that says just because a political leader says is you know aggressive rhetoric which is what most political leaders do that now that's a license for all kinds of violence and should all be blamed i mean if this is just the capital riots all over again i mean that it wasn't trumps doing that was the doing of the rioters and in this case had there been any any rioting which there was and it would have been her doing it would have been the root of the doing of any adults involved will there be an appeal i mean of course is going to be an
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appeal but i don't think that that her comments will be grounds for a successful appeal to say the least. what do you think the end game here is for the black lives matter movement is made various demands from defunding the police to even asking for compensation for descendants of slavery will this and a definite point or will the goalposts keep moving. i think that once you once you get to where were logic stops working i think you're going to see a lot of people turning away listen everybody agrees that the police should not be harassing beating and killing people everyone can agree with that so you're going to get a lot of support for things like that you're going to get a lot of support from all different parts of the political spectrum but for a view lake you know just be that your great great great great great great grandfather a slave and now you're owed a bunch of money and that that's going to be a little bit of a tougher sell and i don't think that's really going to get anywhere so i think
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that there that this will go as far as would be considered logical and i think there's quite a ways ago i mean ending the drug war completely i think is a 1st step i think at getting rid of the idea of the police as as a law enforcement organization and going back to the sort of protect and serve model where the job with the police is to keep people safe not to henpecked people to follow nonsensical laws i mean that's the kind of change that i definitely do see coming i do believe they'll be a future where there are no more to the police aren't giving out traffic tickets and ignoring burglaries i think there will be a time in the future or police actually do protect life they do protect property and the current model will be totally different will be completely thrown out and replaced with something totally different we see a lot of politicians wanting to come and get involved in such a high profile case. clearly some of them think that they can get some kind of political advantage out of it but nancy pelosi the house democrat house speaker said thank you george floyd for sacrificing your life for justice
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a lot of people picked up on that as being like a huge mistake what did you make of a comment. i mean the unfortunate comment a sacrifice is a voluntary thing right when you sacrifice your life that's that's that's a noble act and it's an intentional act getting murdered is not the same thing so and but but that to me is it is more than just a misstep right that's me reflects an idea that doesn't understand the importance of voluntary action palosi for support many laws that are essentially you bet rely on one kind of force or another that don't involve any kind of voluntary agreement so i think that the idea of something being voluntary or involuntary is not some that you really seems to get so in this case you know if your life is in voluntarily sacrifice that's good murder and that's not a sacrifice doesn't he chose to do if you ask your sloyd would you you know when he was alive would you like to get killed i assume you would have said no so so it is it's a factually accurate statement but i do think it also reflects
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a toxic underlying political man mentality that ignores the importance of voluntary action thanks so much appreciate getting your take on things my guest this alvin vora former vice chair for the libertarian national committee. thanks reveal. also this hour major cities across russia are seen unauthorized rallies across a wednesday in support of jailed opposition activists alexina at least a 1000 people were detained including 300 in st petersburg alone because donna was at the protest in 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 general group of protesters a few dozen of them of accused 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 going into the
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night 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 alexina volley russia's political activist who is in prison now on embezzlement charges they're calling on vladimir putin to step down and a bunch of other anti corruption turned and see 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 mass scale they weren't on a larger gale 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 protests flow up because only a few because basically
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a group to the left of me was all there showing and other towns it was more of a success but basically they will they will who paled in comparison to what's going on. 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 dozens of people across russia because from the government on standpoint this rally as well as others weren't authorized they weren't greenlit they didn't get a green light from the authorities and so in the eyes of the lulu 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 they are the authorities essentially this is not their chanting right now but again this is this is the very these are the very very charitable people who are left because the majority of of
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the protesters they decided to had home rule him to attend to some of the business that they have often a couple of hours in the streets. and kept about with the place for you in half an hour's time had to say that. i think that will be an interesting new chapter in all of this is that after all the jobs have been shipped to china the majority of american landlords will be chinese and so most people will have lost their jobs from china they'll be addicted to fence and all shipped in probably from china and paying rent if they can afford a house to someone in china. is your media a reflection of reality.
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