to this day mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their birth parents. lattimer putin warns that western nations against confrontation saying moscow's response will be asymmetrical and hard if its red lines are crossed the president also compared those who provoke russia to jungle book characters. of little girls run a room. just like in the story howling to gain favor with. mass rape a child murder and ongoing trauma damning new report sheds more light on how france

quote enabled the forseeable genocide of hundreds of thousands in rwanda in 1994 also. clashes break out in berlin as police disperse a 1000 strong antilock down rally officers in riot gear deployed pepper spray and make over $100.00 arrests. are broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us let's start with a story that is developing right now 1st in israel the israeli military says air raid sirens have sounded near the secretive dimona nuclear reactor site people across israel are reporting they felt their houses shake local media are citing

unconfirmed reports that a patriot defense battery responded to a missile launched towards the country meanwhile syrian news agency sana is saying syrian air defense systems are right now repairing and israeli missile attack in damascus province of course our news team is saying across the story we'll bring you more information as it develops. now russia's president has given his annual state of the nation address setting out his vision for the country and as expected it was also in international focus vladimir 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 the ruler kipling is a great writer we really don't want to burn bridges but if someone mistakes all 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 answer will be 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 it's its ravages and how it has made life that much harder for so many people he also came out and said that russia simply wasn't ready 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. it's just the meat and veg 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 heard immunity by the autumn and once again call on all us citizens get vaccinated we've made a breakthrough things to all scientists and now we have 3 reliable vaccines 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 attraction 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 and social sphere as well as as well as businesses recover from the ravages again of the pandemic. are common boyko host of artes worlds apart was closely following vladimir putin's speech and she thinks 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 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 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 recess. we learned how to provide services sassed 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 different 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 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. well russia has announced it is expelling 10 american diplomats in a tit for tat move they have been given a month to leave the country this comes a week after the biden administration and. veiled 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 we asked liberal studies professor michael jackson wald how he interprets president putin's warnings over 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 i'm not sure how far it could 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 better they have put pressure on poland and czechoslovakia to the 2 jets. you know. and diplomatic. personages from from was from the country. sex assaults and the destruction of life on an appalling scale including of children that is the harrowing testimony exposed in a new report finding france and mabel the genocide of hundreds of thousands of rwandans in 1904 the document commissioned by the african nation says paris quote

did nothing to stop the slaughter of ethnic tutsis the latest witness accounts paint a terrifying portrait. even today that sadness just not in 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 him into her mouth her 2 small children aged $1.00 and $5.00 for them slaughtered.

they came in a great crowd shouting like crazy people the whole place was littered with bodies. the report alleges that friends kept giving military support to it's a real want to allies even after the atrocities were known more than a 1000000 people lost their lives the scale of the brutality of the killings that reverberated worldwide but france still insists it does not bear any responsibility for failing to intervene as artist reports. or no close to $600.00 pages and paste still interviews with hundreds of witnesses this damning report adds fuel to the recent findings by a french commission that said paris was a quote lying to the hutu resume genocidal agenda. to not have back 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 training. diplomatic and political support that's what we call the responsibility of france in 1904 france led operation turquoise a military humanitarian stalled intervention me in rwanda it went on monday but is moving it seems to being a front for collaboration with the extremist. allegation of people too close to the hutu regime was also in that field 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 activision under the leadership of

a dictator who was very close to the hutu extremists however senior officials from the french government in 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 reports say that 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. with these new reports that this doctor can find. so much people ski party.

to germany now where police have resorted to force to disperse crowds of lockdown demonstrators in the capital more than 100 arrests have been made pepper spray deployed with reports of injuries on both sides. according to berlin police as many as 8000 activists turned out for a protest in the german capital they were demonstrating against the so-called infection protection act which has now been passed by the british and it will give the central government the right to impose nationwide lock down rules overruling

the regional authorities. $342.00 lawmakers voted in favor and $250.00 opposed the bill which now needs to go through the upper house of germany's parliament assuming vats happens central government will have the power to impose nightly curfews if covert infection rates spike along with various other measures we heard from politicians from both sides of the german political spectrum for their views on the new bill. i was one of their 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. quite softly speaking to callie didn't fix the protection act yeah it's cold that you fix protection act but it's functor small us like and enabling act yes you know 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 without the returns. to see the ongoing incident in the one the one 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 they are contradictionary and in itself you have on the one hand reasonable things that for example you have to. measure a senate you have reasonable things like if there is a high incidence of security measures have to return again 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 course causes social discontent and it calls a smell that people from straight to. major russian cities have seen rallies in support of. jailed opposition activists selection a volley that and much more after a short break this is our chief international. 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 chip in probably from china and paying rent if they can afford a house to someone in china.

welcome back this is our 2 international now major cities across russia have seen unauthorized rallies throughout wednesday in support of jailed opposition activists alexina volley at least a 1000 people were detained including more than 300 st petersburg alone or he's got a ton of comments from central moscow. well this is the final leg of today's protest in the russian capital to the left of me would rather i'm amidst the most juror of a 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 produce is going in see through the night earlier we saw as i've said thousands of people according to the police some $6000.00 people took to the streets of the russian capital they're 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 hunt 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 ma scale the warrens own a lot of jews scale but several people have been detained here in mosco now the rush. capitol 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 sloped 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 they will do you a little pale 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's 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 hence the hence the detentions but well obviously the protesters they don't agree with that sound of yet they're chanting that they are 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 left because the majority of of the protesters they decided to had home rule him to attend to some other business that they have after a couple of hours in the streets. reaction has been pouring in to the

guilty verdict against former minneapolis police officer deck children who could now face up to 40 years in prison on 2 counts of murder and one count of manslaughter after the death and george floyd last may. celebrated the verdict outside the court on tuesday evening. that. this. fight right. now. but while some celebrated others took to the streets to demand tougher action over police killings of african-americans some protesters in new york called for the abolition of the city's entire police department saying the system is fundamentally racist after the jury concluded that george floyd was murdered by the officer to house speaker nancy pelosi a part of the decision and she even thank floyd for sacrificing his life in that

drew scathing reaction. we saw it happen and thank god the jury that dated what we saw what we saw all so again thank you cured. by thing your life or 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 simple eyes 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 feis in your life is something people have to do on their own floyd was murders we just had the whole trial we discussed in this with a libertarian politician are involved who thinks policies remarks failed to properly on of the memory of george floyd. the i mean the unfortunate comments 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 in this case you know if your life is in voluntarily sacrifice that's your murder and that's not a sacrifice isn't he chose to do the people of 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 through just a sense that the police are no longer protecting life or property but harassing people 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 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 to see a lot more demands to crack down on that victory inspires people it doesn't stop them. and they knew peak of irony notoriously censor happy you tube or has sponsored

a freedom of expression award and doled out the prize to its own boss but with 99 percent of reactions to footage of the event negative it seems the absurdity is not lost on its users artie's dmitri pollack comments. 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 to 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 i hear to all of you tube's ridiculous rules avoid all the no no words you still might get shadow banned or censored if youtube doesn't like your opinion and then

there's a lot of content that technically meets the spirit of what we're trying to do by it . it's borderline and so 5 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 scriber is magically disappear videos don't show up in feeds of people who are subscribed and so on a platform that prides itself on allowing diverse voices there doesn't seem to be a lot of permissible variety when it comes to actual speech in the final r. is reward which is basically all about that ad money making sure that people with the right opinions get it and the people with the wrong ones don't explain to me again how any of these principles have anything to do with free speech the freedom forum institute which gave out this award claims its mission is to foster a 1st amendment freedoms for all but apparently they haven't actually read the text

of the 1st amendment it literally says congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech but i guess you tube isn't congress so they can make all the laws they want right well then maybe they shouldn't pretend like they actually care about the 1st amendment or free speech and definitely not get awards for it. and it's not just youtube 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 to create the lives and the jobs that they want and to connect with people they once and i just think that will lead to a better world facebook of course has no shortage of critics it is now building a version of instagram exclusively targeting children under the age of 13 despite warnings from public health advocates that the platform can be harmful for youngsters meanwhile newspapers in 11 countries are suing facebook for abusing its

monopoly on digital advertising and that follows and string of other accusations ranging from political censorship to harvesting of private data political and social commentator lauren chen says the tech giants should steer away from a focus on pushing changes in society. 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 witchetty these tech giants keep trying to market their products as forces for positive social change 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 excretions of a tech not krissy and 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 sees c pac speech from its platform so how anybody thought that this would not be met with 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 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. to go back to our top story from israel 'd where air raid sirens have sounded near a secretive nuclear reactor site israeli military has attacked targets in syria in response to a missile that impacted in the desert near the negative negative nuclear research center close to the city of dimona people across israel are reporting they felt their houses.