so appealing, we're going to speak to some of the most prominent locals of all home and uncover some of the a washington pledges support for creating a coast of a national army as serbia marks 24 years since nato led forces bomb belgrade. ah, anger hit the roof as over a 1000000 protesters against controversial pension reforms clash with police across france. this, as the french president defend his hated bill, no evidence that the chinese government has access to that data. they have never asked us, we have not provided tick tock, c, e o testifies in

u. s. congress that the chinese government has no access to users. private data. as washington claims the app is a threat to national security. ah, good morning for martine or national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories across the globe. i'm fiorella, isabel. washington has promised a self proclaimed republic of kosovo. it's full support in creating an army that will work closely with nato. that's according to the u. s. ambassador to the nation as serbia prepares to mark it's 24 years since nato led forces. bob belgrade, the us fullest supports care stuffs, comprehensive transition into a multi ethnic professional nato. interoperable territorial defense force proud of her, continues an excellent cooperation following the bombing of serbia the you and gave permission for a nato led international peacekeeping force to be formed in pristina,

with the goal of providing stability to the war torn region. the mission consisted of both nato and non nato members, which organized several joint exercises with local security forces tasks with non military functions. however, in 2018 pristina announced its plans to change and transform the kosovo security forces into a fully fledged army. despite objections from the serbian population living in kosovo, moscow has long question, kosovo claimed independence and criticize the western bombing campaign in 1999 on the eve of the anniversary of nato's attack, russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman has cast doubt on the humanist reputation of the us and its allies, under the cynical guise of humanitarian intervention for $78.00 days, nato aircraft,

and may be struck the peaceful cities of this country. more than 2000 missiles were fired, 14000 bombs and other munitions were dropped, including those containing depleted uranium. the same one that britain considers its standard for use the reputation of the collective west as some kind of peacemaker humanist. some kind of righteous man, was forever buried in yugoslavia the u. s. and sellers claim they were concerned about the human rights issues of ethnic albanians in regional or so probably so certainly, and part of what was once for former yugoslavia, so it was battling and the army insurgency in coastal either by the so called coastal ration army or kaylee and the us threatened to bombs have been done with insurgency to recovery from them in the bombing. that unfortunate says the country will never forget what need to lead to our people.

they then do as president will clinton declare bombing claim? nathan loans will have who they're in the conflict with my fellow americans. today, our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against serbian forces, responsible for the brutality and kosovo expected the proverbial shore to thought this war last 2 or 3 weeks. but it would go on for 17 days. abrasion allied force, that's what they call it. it. the warplanes carried out the $900.00 and more air strikes during every day of sunday school bombing campaign. which selfishly claimed that the sac 158 civilian life. probably the more but sort of been sources into the actual death was, as this price demands into has used depleted uranium. and the it's in

it says air strikes on the he was lava. this by this i was showing that the children born after he had suffered severe consequences of this, especially in the cancer related illnesses or very little or so has been done to hold those responsible to be accountable for this position. students for italy, we're talking about several types of cancer leukemia, throat cancer, thyroid gland, cancer, brain tumors, bone cancer, and several other types of cancer which are caused by depleted uranium. the world health organization based in leone has proved this claim. they found the cause and effect relationship between cancer and uranium. we're, we're, we're not. i am not suing nato because of the financial gain. i'm suing them because i want to prove to the world that a crime against serbian people has been committed. the crime was committed by criminals in the nato alliance. i hope i will live long enough to see the success of this lawsuit. i am waiting to see the confirmation that the depleted uranium is

responsible for what's happened to us. and what i will not report. we will never does the year before the bombing then the u. s. a. san angelo. by them threatened was flavio with bombing, i'm as a con country followed their agenda now by the public. people do with our president in 99 v. that day, he doesn't do it as he sold the u. s. for bomb his country. and the that happened the just one year after that i was suggesting we bomb belgrade. i was suggesting that we send american pilots in and blow off all the bridges on the dream. i would suggesting we take out his oil supplies now by the president of united states as a look actually, that's welcom. do you k decision to send edition with the deployed to uranium to ukraine? this kind of, i ammunition is a fairly common place been in use for, for decades. decades decades

this kind of nation is a fairly common place because of its use for decades already. know the recall in the it was 5 in experience. it has action via the d. n. charter of article do article 53 and 103. those are the blogs own rules. article one, article 7 was the helsinki final act of $975.00, and the 19th vienna convention on the law of treaties. no accountability for those who cause the suffering of millions of people worldwide. marking the anniversary of nato's bombing of yugoslavia, you can head over to r t dot com to watch a documentary on the events of those ears, shedding lie on the lives of people who came face to face with war. today, our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces. ah,

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your bushes for your stick. it is under the director of me in the me. ringback i out of control. that's how french citizens describe violent clashes with police that have a ruptured across the country. with some news outlets lightening the demonstrations to award zone over a 1000000 protesters took to the streets against the controversial pension reform. heavily armed police have been using tear gas, water cannon stand grenades, and but tongs against protesters.

ah, ah ah ah, president micron has burst aside the concerns about police tactics. calling the protestors voices illegitimate, promising to implement the reforms, no matter what. that's as protests and other countries appear to have his full support. art contributor rachel marsden 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's been handled. so parents right now is basically a giant health scape of trash from the sanitation workers joining this strike,

which makes for convenient 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 ves 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 protest elsewhere. remember that former french president equal azako 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 mom are gadhafi of libya, and lights are cozy. mac hall has also cheered on protesters in other countries. the government revolution cannot be achieved on its own. it can be only ducted by the people near, looked in. 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 today 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 and action of michael and his western bodies not caused positioning himself as the defender of democracy. but all he's really defending is the increasingly on democratic establishment. the chinese government has no access to private data on tick tock, users. that's the position the company's c e o. as he was forced to defend the platform n u. s. congress. while officials grilled him over fears, the popular app could be a way for china to spy on us citizens despite no tangible evidence being presented

to back up the claim. 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. we have not provided, let, you know i've asked that i find that actually preposterous. i have fucked in i have seen no evidence of this happening. and in order to assure everybody here and although uses our commitment is to move 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 sensors. 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 i. 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 is the difference is why i'm asking. oh, congressman, there is no technology. there is perfect in doing this. we have the deal with the reality of the country they were operating in. and here in the united states, as with other companies we, we shared this challenge. we are investing

a lot to address the challenge. bo is a shared child. 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 single country. you know, we faced the same set of challenges here and when i 1st moved, i'm sorry, i'm out of what's the difference in china and here, let me give you an example. congressman in my home country, singapore. there's do little almost no illegal drug content because singapore has very strict drop laws. now tick tock, s place faced a wave of allegations that it is somehow a mechanism for spreading chinese influence or spying on americans for the chinese government. in 2020, it hired a us citizen, as it's ceo, and the company has set up privacy protection centers 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 their data is not being used for some nefarious purpose. however, these answers have not been satisfactory to the u. s. government us officials

continue to hurl allegations against chick talk 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, a media analyst line all believes all social media platforms are equally vulnerable to data breaches, including those based in the us, but picked up 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, you 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 somebody, 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 leave. 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 ah rushes deputy foreign minister has confirmed that fox news host tucker carlson, had made an official request for an interview with ladder marapoo didn't something carlson claims us intelligence discovered by spying on him. yamaha the details. i can confirm that this journalist made such a request some time ago. our system is designed so that this kind of request is automatically reported to the presidential administration, where it's considered in terms of the messages. i wouldn't be surprised if the national security agency or the federal bureau of investigation is collecting data from your smartphone, bright now. tucker carlson claims the an essay tapped his phone messages in order to sabotage his attempts to interview vladimir putin in july 2021. the host says he

contacted russia's deputy foreign minister, but later received a call from a source who knew confidential information about the proposed interview. where are you going to do interview booting? why wouldn't had it set up? i was working on it and they broke into my text messages and adding of an essay, broken dear signal because they admitted it really the u. s. national security agency dismiss tucker carlson's claims saying he has never been an intelligence target of the agency. over one person accused of being a kremlin intermediary by the an essay, gray zone journalist anya, per impel pulled us otherwise the legal for the and as they to spy on the communications of us citizens. and pretty much as a result of the sweeping, domestic spying powers that were ushered in as a result of president george w bush's war on terror. those national security regulations were slowly

walked back to the point that us authorities could claim it was okay to spy on the communications of a us citizen as long it was part of their overall effort to monitor the communications of foreign government officials. and so in this case, it's possible that the essay was monitoring the communications of russian deputy foreign minister. rog cause but the fact that in as an, as they whistleblower came forward and told tucker that the u. s. government was actually planning on leaking his tax essentially unmasking his identity as a u. s. citizen, a journalist who was in contact with rehab, cause in order to embarrass him and, and do this for political reasons. shows the length to which these powers are getting abused us authorities are using these buying powers. they weren't

actually interested in leaking this information because they believe that i or tucker, had in some way violated the law and had an inappropriate relationship with the russian government. they were c simply seeking to embarrass tucker carlson to discredit him by implying that he was communicating with the russian or kremlin agent, ne, a u. s. citizen who has no formal relationship with the russian government or financially or otherwise. my and alice that i work for the gray zone is completely independent. we don't get money from states or even state funded organizations. and so they were using me in order to imply through innuendo that tucker was somehow speaking with russian agents in a way that was inappropriate. and then by extension, they were trying to de, legitimize any views that he takes regarding russia or the current war. and ukraine, former pakistani prime minister, emerald con,

has claimed the country the government was behind an assassination attempt on his life last year. he claimed authorities are now hampering the investigation in order to conceal their involvement. he made the claims while speaking with often ritathui ongoing underground. you can watch the full episode on saturday in the meantime. here's a teaser, you've been overthrown, you've been shot and injured. your family is being targeted. our real are the assassination plot against you. right now, as we speak, a lot of unfortunately i ran the john, me when i was very lucky, i'm lucky to be alive when she was in my legs. i was wanting for almost 2 months before the end. i did the exact manner in which they were going to try necessitated b and other. i blame it on a religious fanatic,

but it was all done by people in bol, the prime minister, the minister, and one senior intelligence agency, guy, and then blandest murder, assassination. and i was lucky to rely, and unfortunately they're still in a position of power. and so therefore, even though the investigation started by the scholarly mitigation, because it was pointing in the direction of a proper goes through c on the lines which i'm predicted. and therefore, they just, they sabotaged the investigation. so the trend, israel, because these people are sitting in bol, the verify that if i, when the elections there would be in trouble, are held accountable. so they have been doing them since then. when i was saved by the almighty, ah, the, your secretary of state has urged tenicia 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 build economic site is actually get an i m f agreement. we would stall, 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 the situation. president case said, must sign with the i, m f and implement the agreement. otherwise, the situation will be very serious for tunisia. back in october, the i m f reported that a tentative agreement for a 1900000000 dollar loan had been reach with tenicia, but negotiations on his implementation have been stalled ever since. in order to

have the cash over the i, m f demands, the countries government carry out reforms including fuel subsidy reductions, cutting transfers to state own companies and greater transparency for foreign investors. 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 have always had the desired effect in africa. back in the late 1980 the body agreed to help wanda on the condition that its currency be devalued and states support for farms with flash, but that caused skyrocketing inflation in the collapse of real incomes for locals. so malia also received i m f, loans on condition of purchasing u. s. brain, and to valuing its currency. but that led to a price surge and fuel and fertilizers, crippling local farmers,

political sociology, professor sites. fedex says in order to attract for an investment african countries are pushed into i m. f agreement. despite a history of funds requirements, actually damaging economy. so public opinion and now indonesia will be suffering. you can on the key and the feel that if there isn't another agreement with you to more cutting subsidies, more economic pushes on their daily life. it would be not acceptable. but now the only game in town today in punish on the nation is that you must get all of them from the i m f, as always know for donors will come to you. and that's why the are under pressure to, to do something. if you look at american di m f in africa, many countries, so that have disagreement to balance the budget and did was a full in depth and your condition that things would be better. but what's happened is that since even got close, more unemployment,

more poverty had been expanded because of the deal. the additional danger is that given to everybody, it's the same medicine. everybody we give to, you must evaluate that. you can see you must the subsidies and in mary's developing countries that this would mean loss of ation more bahati it more toppled socially and economically and more so politic. those were the hours top stories for the latest breaking news and updates had over to r t dot com. and be sure to follow us on all social media platforms. thanks for tuning in. we'll see again at the top of the hour. ah

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