[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, the french president dismisses the nationwide protest engulfing his country over pension reform, calling the public voice illegitimate. but that's what demonstrations in other countries have his full support with tick tock comes under the scrutiny of the us congress as washington fears beijing could be using the popular app to spy on us citizens. this by no tangible evidence being presented by officials also ahead. years ago, i do not expect transparency in these investigations, nor the general public to get acquainted with its results. russia's foreign minister says he doesn't expect western investigations into the north stream

sabotaged to expose the truth. does after award winning journalist seymour 1st claims the cia scripted a narrative to cover up washington's role in the pipeline attack. and former pakistani prime minister in brand con, reveals details of assassination attempts against him, pointing to the culprit in an interview with our teeth going under ground. it was all done by people in both the prime minister. the minister won the senior intelligence agency guy, a coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins. here with the latest news. welcome to the programmer. violent clashes with police have are up in paris as nationwide, protest against controversial pension reform plans. rage on it says the french

president bowed to implement the change. no matter what. ah, president micron has breast decide those concerns calling the public's voice illegitimate. but that's why protest in other countries have his full support. archie contributor rachel mars then gives her take on the story. so the increase of france, his retirement age from 62 to 64 years, has been rammed through the french national assembly, not by democratic vote, by, by french president amendment michael's prime minister, elizabeth bon,

evoking clause 49.3, the french constitution. now that clause permits the government to push through new laws and very limited circumstances without any vote. and also cutting short any debate or discussion on the issue. listening to my call trying to defend his decision to push through this particular law without a vote. you think that the french actually had a chance to express themselves through democratic charles the crowd. whatever form it takes, has no legitimacy in the face of the people who express themselves through their elected representatives in parliament. so in the absence of the vote on the reform itself, protesters have continued to take to the street to express their upset and how the whole thing has been handled. so paris right now is basically a giant hel, scape of trash from the sanitation workers joining this strike, which makes for convenience tenure for protesters. so there are trash fires pretty much everywhere. tourists are getting

a complimentary dose of tear gas to go with their fresh bye. yes. and also a free french revolution experienced tour of the french capital. now remember that several yellow vast protesters had lost eyes as a result of french police action. we're talking here about france, whose recent leaders have been quick to back protests elsewhere. remember that former french president, nicola sahu z praise the arab spring protesters a decade ago, and back to the resulting regime. change of leaders like a low hall bag bo, of cote d'ivoire, and lamar, gadhafi of libya, and lights are cosy. michael has also cheered on protesters in other countries. the government from adobe revolution cannot be achieved on its own. it can be only ducted by the people near look. then you must continue to support the hundreds of thousands of bella russians who peacefully protest for their rights, their freedom and their sovereignty. i salute the courage of the hundreds of

thousands of venezuelans marching for their freedom. in a very clear way, france condemns the repressions carried out to day by the iranian regime. and we stand by these women. they are a sovereign people fighting for their freedom. so apparently popular protests are only legitimate if they aren't challenging the policies in action of mac home, and is western bodies not caused positioning himself as the defender of democracy. but all he's really defending is the increasingly and democratic establishment. the bossa tick tock has faced a grilling and congress over fears that the popular app could be away for china just by on us citizens. that's is by no tangible evidence being presented. i'll local data for the app is also processed solely within the u. s. never the last that's not reassuring officials. the chinese government has that data.

well, how can you promise that that will move into the, into the united states of american be protected here a congressman? i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to that data. they have never asked us will not provide it. but you know, i've asked that i find that actually preposterous. i have for a look. then i have seen no evidence of this happening. and in order to assure everybody here and all our uses, our commitment is to move the data in into the united states to be stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel. so we have the ceo of tick tock testifying before a u. s. congressional committee and explaining the great length, the tick tock goes to in order to protect the data of its users. however, these answers are not satisfying for many in the u. s. congress, i in addition to that, there are concerns about problematic videos on tick tock depicting violence, suicide, drug use and other harmful issues that

a similar app which operates on the chinese mainland sensor. so at this point in the testimony, we heard a rather harsh questioning of u. s. officials are where they pressed the seo of the tick tock corporation about why a similar censorship measure was not being used for content directed at the united states as was done with contact directed at the chinese mainland. here's the interaction. the typical us experience. it should be compared to other u. s. companies, because this is a common what's your parent company has the technology to prevent it because you prevented china, but you can't prevent here. why it's different. that's why i'm asking. oh, congressman, there is no technology. there is perfect in doing this. we have to deal with the reality of the country they were operating in and who in the united states. as with other companies we, we shared this challenge. we are investing a lot to address the challenge. bo, it's a shirt, shall you invest a lot to seem to be, address it in china, but not here. again, you know, i think the comparison has been within the, the single country. you know,

we faced the same set of challenges here and what you, i 1st was, i'm sorry, i'm out towards the difference in china and here, let me give you an example. congressman in my home country, singapore. there is that almost no illegal drug content because singapore has very strict dropped loss. now tick tock as place faced away those allegations that it is somehow a mechanism for spreading chinese influence or spying on americans for the chinese government in 2020, at hired a u. s citizen, as it's c e o, and the company has set up privacy protection centers, a transparency centers in both the united states and in europe in order to ensure the privacy and protection of its users. in order to make clear that their data is not being used for some nefarious purpose. however, these answers have not been satisfactory to the u. s. government u. s. officials continue to hurl allegations against tick tock as we saw in today's congressional hearings. it's also worth noting that

a 150000000 people use tick tock around the world, and that number continues to rise despite the heated allegations leveled from voices in the united states. however, a poll did indicate that 40 percent of americans would favor a ban on tick tock. now there have been a number of us states that have passed a law for bidding tick tock from being used on government devices. we saw the scenes today in congress. the heated exchanges that went on so the controversy continues surrounding this social media app. legal and media analyst line all believes that all social media platforms are equally vulnerable to data breaches. including the u. s. once bad, that tick toxic just being picked on because it's chinese and this c e o acquitted himself splendidly better than anything i and i as a lawyer, i'm watching the way he answered the questions very,

very well. may i ask you a question? i wish he would have said, madam congress, a person make, may i see your phone for a 2nd? do you mind if i see it? oh, you've got facebook. instagram. twitter may have this in that. do you know where this data go collectively? do you know where the servers are? do you know how no, you don't. there is, i don't want to say something, but there's a scrum that's going on, right? well, there's a, there's this idea. we're tick tock is the embodiment of all eve. why is tick tock in this was? i think the gravamen of this whole story. why is it substantially and significantly more dangerous than any other application? why is it? and there are 2 issues, content and the actual data capture. 2 completely different issues, concomitant issues, important issues, but separate and i think it was blurred. i think ultimately the tick tock, seo,

one, rushes, foreign minister survey live. rob says he doesn't expect to western investigations into the north stream attacks to be thorough or objective. he suggests the u. s. will fall back back on the narrative to blame russia. yesterday, i do not expect transparency in these investigations, nor the general public to get acquainted with its results. so most likely they will end up with something like that. it's highly likely to as london 1st in 2007 in connection with the poison, the income of lit vin ankle. and then in 2018 in connection with the poison in, in salisbury. that's when the formula, highly likely russia did. it was invented with no evidence that russia was involved was ever provided us, and i have no reason to believe that in the situation with the north streams, the current german leaders will find the strength to do something else. so do, wow. rob's message came after the latest revelations, from investigative journalist, seymour hersh on the north june pipeline,

sabotaged hersh claims that the cia invented a cover story to divert attention away from the u. s. involvement in the explosion and of the german chancellor aloft shows helped president joe biden. the leaders met in washington in early march, and as hers reveals, discuss the sabotaged. they reportedly planned to create an alternative narrative to the one that seen the u. s. blamed, i was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline expos, a. as a result, certain elements in the central intelligence agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with german intelligence that would provide the american and german press, with an alternative version for the destruction of nordstrom to in the words of the intelligence community. the agency was to post the system in an effort to discount the claim that biden had ordered the pipelines destruction. following that report, the north stream attack was once again brought up in a white house press conference on wednesday,

and senior official river and washington position of the u. s. was not involved in any way that those german officials have cast doubt on whether it will ever be possible to find out who was behind the sabotage. according to the country's media . the perpetrators of the explosions will probably never be able to be clarified without a doubt. according to security circles. the chances of being able to provide factual evidence or lo, if only because there is little experience with criminal investigations on the c bed. besides commenting on the latest hearse revelations, the russian foreign minister and his counterpart from the african state of variety, disgust, strengthening relations, and pushed back on a world order where a select group of states seem to dominate earlier. my colleague lori sushi, i spoke with our team donald quarter about what was sat at the press conference. i was able to personally ask survey lab for what he thought about these new

revelations that seymour hersh put forward. and he said it was funny that all the west could all the west could do was ignore he, seymour hersh, in the hopes that most people wouldn't really pay attention to the kind of revelation he was bringing forward lab. rob also said that we shouldn't really look to the european investigation for answer because, and that abroad or international investigation should really be launched that doesn't just include countries from the west. laboratory also said that a proposal was launched to the united nations calling on its organization to remember their obligation to combat international terrorism. when considering the fact that a lot of information points to washington in terms of who carried out this north stream sabotaged all of the coal mines. donald were given by law for office during a press conference with his brother indian counterpart there in saw where you are now. they covered many, many, 3 years. they're going to be talking what they're going to be agreeing to contracts and nuclear energy security bilateral business. what else, what are some of the highlights you can give to us to? well, one thing that both foreign minister said is that

a cooperation needs to be increased essentially across all spheres. and one of the main ones that you mentioned is the peaceful development of foreign des, atomic energy sector. the burgundy, foreign minister said that atomic energy needs to become essential in lighting the countries roads as well as the home it's homes and its buildings. and we also heard more talk about cooperation, further cooperation in the sphere of health care. russia wants to help randi combat the spread of infectious diseases, specifically called 19 and this is really building upon cooperation that's already existed. we also did here at the burgundy and foreign minister say that he brought up the united nations and the fact that the african continent is not represented on the security council. he called this a historic injustice that needs to be corrected. you know that africa is the only continent in the world that has no representation among the permanent members of

the security council. we are under represented among regular members of the security council, and i think it's unfair. it is a historical injustice. we are excluded. and one bill in 300000000 people hands are under represented to the security council for the african continent. it is unacceptable. now both foreign ministers also said that defense cooperation is developing in a positive way as well. that specifically, both countries working together to combat terrorism in the region as well as help or protect its national sovereignty at a time where many countries, specifically western countries are trying to metal in the internal affairs of countries on the african continent. there was also a little talk about the ukraine conflict, the perone and more minister said that his country's stands for peace and resolving conflicts and negotiations. and you said that that can be extended to the ukraine conflicts as well. and that's obviously long been the position of russia. so this

is another area where both both countries, the id i and essentially that is a general round up of the main topics that were discussed at this meeting. former pakistani prime minister and ran con, has claimed that the country's government was behind during the fascination of time on his life last year. he claims the authorities are now hampering the investigation in order to conceal their involvement. he made the claim while speaking to r. t is going underground, you can watch the full episode on saturday, but here's the teaser, you mean overthrown? you've been shot and injured, your family is being targeted. how real the assassination plot against you right now as we speak a lot. unfortunately, i really the dent on me when i was very lucky, i'm lucky to be alive and where my legs. i was wanting full,

almost 2 months before the attempt. i gave the exact manner in which they were going to try. and as i said, we blame it on a religious fanatic, but it was all done by a people in the prime minister. they minister and one senior intelligence agency guy, and they had planned this murder nation, and i was lucky to be alive. and unfortunately, they are still in a position of power. and so therefore, even though the investigation started, but this got really messed again because it was pointing in the direction of, of the guns proceed along the lines which i predicted. and therefore, they just, this is the investigation. so try to rel, because these people are sitting and follow the petrified. but if i wouldn't the elections, they would be in trouble and accountable. so they have been doing since then,

which i will say by the almighty, ah, the us secretary of state has urge trainees yet to strike an agreement with the international monetary fund, claiming it's the only way for the country to get out of its current crisis. a message echoed by the e. u foreign policy chief. the most critical thing they can do, and they can all make side is actually get an i m f agreement. we would strongly encourage them to do that because the economy risks falling off the deep and the situation in tunisia is very dangerous. if tunisia collapses, this risks causing migratory flows towards the e. u, and causing instability in the middle east and north african region. we want to avoid this situation. president, how you said must sign with the i m f and implement the agreement. otherwise, the situation will be very serious for tunisia. back in october,

if the i m. f reported a tentative agreement for a 1900000000 dollar loan had been reach with tunisia, but negotiations on its implementation have been stalled ever since. in order to hand the cash over the funds demanding the country's government carries out reforms including fuel subsidy reductions, cutting transfers to state own companies, and greater transparency for foreign investors. the authorities have already been flashing food subsidies further privatizing state assets and cutting down public spending in order to meet the requirements. however, past experience shows i. m. f. loans haven't always had the desired effect in africa. back in the late 19 eighties, the body agreed to help wanda on condition that its currency was d valued and state support for farms was slashed, but that caused skyrocketing inflation and the collapse of real incomes for locals . so malia also received i m f. loans on condition of purchasing us brain and

devaluing its currency. but that led to a price search and fuel and fertilizers, crippling local farmers, political sociology. professors i, as a deck says that in order to attract foreign investment, african countries are pushed into i. m. f. agreements, despite a history of fund requirements, actually damaging economies. the public opinion now is denisia kinda the overview suffering economically. and the fact that if there is an agreement that with you to more cutting subsidies, more to economic bushes on their daily lives, it will be not acceptable. but now the only game in town to they punish alicia's is that you must get the law stamp and i am f, as always, no foreign donors will come to you. and that's why they are under persia to, to do something. if you look at the very core of di and beth in africa, many countries are sure that if they have this agreement to balance the budget and did was

a foreign death and you can get that things will be better. but what happened is that things even got worse, more unemployment, more poverty, had been expanded because of the deal. the additional danger is given to everybody . it's the same medicine. everybody we give, you must evaluate your currency, your mascot subsidies, and in many developing countries. this would mean more starvation, more bahati and more toppled, socially and economically. and also political cherokee and hungary should not be trusted within the nato alliance as the claim being made in an opinion piece and the german daily di. well, it's author claims and encore and budapest don't share the same values as other nino members. and in their turn toward authoritarianism and current, budapest have also distance themself significantly from the community of values for

which native stance. the alliance is therefore well advised to treat both a spotless with reservation. they should include, for example, no longer necessarily shedding certain sensitive data with till kia and hungary within nater. the peace focuses on the turkish president, continuing to block sweden's native accession, also claiming that hungary wants e u. money in exchange for approving the membership of both sweden and finland. these accusations came without signing any sources, while boot of us was also not asked for comment. hungary has been opposing sanctions against russia since their 1st implementation. walter kia has been playing a major mediator role in the ukranian green deal, which sees exports to countries in need. meanwhile, staying with nato new figure show that only 7 out of the 30 member states have increased, defend spending to the required 2 percent of g d p. that's one country. down on

2021. the alliances chief had expected. 2 more members would achieve this goal. in 2022 on it shows $37.00 allies now spend the 2 percent. or we actually expected that to be slightly more earlier. but to be close to the p house increased more than expected for a couple of hours. 2 hours that are expected to be able to present that. i'll slightly below 2 percent author in war, correspondent thomas roper, feels that on kara and budapest are being criticized because they are the only alliance members. not falling washington's lead. hey, theresa new esl kids, zation. um and the yes is now organizing this so called summit for democracy. and it's quite interesting that he did to now to alice turkey and, and hungry, also not invited as far as i know. so that countries who are not following the political course of the u. s. r officially named no democracy and no, no to park apartments and so on. and so this is not really

a surprise for me. i am in europe. we also see that that in kangaroo has, has problems and that, that the countries are not happy with hungary because of the hungary, rigor government. first of all, seeing a things of their own people when they, when and when it comes to sanctions or anti russian pre ukrainian or measures a well. and if europe in countries would think of their own interests and the policy would be different. but we are seeing a policy which is are in taking of the american interests. and if countries like turkey and hungry don't follow that. they will be criticized and they are not. i'm a full ls anymore. so this shows that we are talking about double standards about her. yeah, a misuse of the world. democracy ah, bethel offense, chief presidential legal council has suggested overturning the countries and on nuclear weapons. calling it the most unwonted provision of the constitution. in the modern world to day,

a small country can protect itself against the superpowers. if they have nuclear weapon, if we can afford it, we should also have nuclear weapons. so our people will not be tremble. the bone, let alone made a popular slave of other countries. manila constitution has a new free policy and is signed the nuclear weapons ban treaty in 2017. the agreement prohibits the development production and possession of nuclear weapons. at the same time, the philippines has several u. s. military bases on its territory, and is in the middle of a territorial dispute with china over the spartley islands. political activists, renada reyes, says the country would need washington's help to develop these weapons, raising tensions in the region. i think it's a very dangerous proposition right now, especially considering with tensions in the region. the ongoing quad sneaks here in this part of the world. sturgeon,

the proposition would not mean having the philippine government. it's all in nuclear weapons because we don't have the capacity to produce such my suspicion is that it would be the us. we should be positioning this nuclear weapons in the philippines. once the constitutional ban is removed and this will result in greater attentions and could potentially trigger a newly with arms race between the u. s. and china. once that happens, the philippines should look after its own interest. it should the sheet to align itself with the interest of the american states because our national interest is not the same as the u. s. we have an outstanding being an issue in china and

relation to the rest philippine c. we hope to be able to resolve that to this, to a matic and political means, certainly not through the u. s. b s. u. s. troops on our shores because i think that would only aggravate the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippine people. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you next time. ah, the ah . the claims of the king of the belgians leopold the 2nd to the congo

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