[000:00:00;00] a with anger hit the roof as over a 1000000 protesters against controversial pension reports clash with police across france. this, as the french president defend his hated bill, washington pledges support for creating a coast of a national army as for be a mark 24 years since natal left ports is bomb belgrade. evidence that the chinese government has access to that data. we have never asked us, we have not provided to talk c e o testifies in

u. s. congress that the chinese government has no access to you. there's private data at washington claims. the app is a threat to national security. ah, good morning for mark, international studios in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories across the world. i'm paralyzed about, out of control. that's how french citizens described violent clashes with police that ever rusted across the country. with some news outlets like mean the demonstrations to award zone over a 1000000 protesters took to the streets against the controversial pension reform. heavily armed police have been using peer gas, water, cannon stand, grenades, and baton against protesters.

ah ah ah, present micron has brushed aside concerns about police tactics, calling the protestors voices illegitimate while pressing on with plans to raise the pension age, inflaming public anger. but he apparently takes a different line when it comes to protests in other countries. the crowd, whatever form it takes, has no legitimacy in the face of the people who express themselves through their elected representatives in parliament. revolution cannot be achieved on its own. it can be only conducted by the people in europe in the you must continue to support

the hundreds of thousands of bell 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, listening to law 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. 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 protests elsewhere. remember that former french president nicholas acquisition praise the arabs, spring protesters a decade ago. and back to the resulting regime change of leaders like a low hall bag bo, of cookie, blah, and lamar gadhafi of libya, and lights our cosy,

michael has also cheered on protesters in other countries. 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. so the increase of frances retirement age from 62 to 64 years has been rammed through the french national assembly, not by democratic vote, but by french president, emmanuel michaels prime minister elizabeth bone 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. so apparently popular protests are only legitimate if they are challenging the policies and action of mac home and is western bodies. michael was positioning himself as the defender of democracy, but all he's really defending is the increasingly on democratic establishment. washington has promised the self proclaimed republic of kosovo. it's full support and 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 24 years since nato led forces. bon belgrade, the u. s. fully support kosovo, secure to forces, comprehensive transition into multi ethnic professional nato. interoperable tutorial defense force proud of her continuous and 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 tasked 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 local serbian residents law, so as 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 navy struck the peaceful cities of this country. more than 2000

missiles were fired. $14000.00 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 us sellers claim they were concerned about the human rights issues, i think for millions in the region also probably of serbia and part of what was once former yugoslavia was battling and consistency and also led by the so called also abrasion, army or kaylee. and us present bombs to be able to get it done. my fellow americans. today, our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against serbian forces, responsible for the brutality and coastal expenses. the proverbial shore to thought

this war last 2 or 3 weeks. but it will go on for 70 days operation and i force that's what they call it, and the war brains get it out. 900 in more air strikes during every day of 72 bombing campaign, which officially claimed at least 58000000 lives. probably the more but sort of been sources into the actual death was as if, twice the month and to can the police and uranium. and it's in, it says air strikes on you were flavio just by this i was showing that there and born after it can suffer severe consequences of this, especially in the cancer related in this is very little or so has been done to all of those responsible to be accountable for this position. so that's what 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. more when 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. any more, i love you more. we will never trust them again, and we will never forgive them for the children, the civilian casualties in the uranium nob rolison, osha and they conducted the biggest ethnic cleansing of the serbian population and creation, kosovo. the whole world kept silent about it. and i'm here because it hurts me. my father is a wu veteran and i'm and violet,

his sacrifice. everything for this state. marking the anniversary of nato's bombing of yugoslavia, you can head over to r t dot com to watch our documentary on the events of those years, shedding lie on the lives the people who came face to face with war. today our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against the serbian forces. ah, the. ready the white glove with them, a doctrine visited. kid is located. it's going from bad to worse than grades. night skyline. again, it's by flames. nato insisted it strikes against the slob would go off me.

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the chinese government has no access to private data on tick tock, users. that's the position of the company, c, e o. as he was forced to defend the platform before you as congress, while officials grilled him over fears, a popular up could be a way for china to spy on us citizens despite no tangible evidence presented to back up the claim. the chinese government has that data. well, how can you promise that that that will move into into the united states of america can 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 well, you know, one thing that i find that actually preposterous, i have been, i have no evidence of this happening. and in order to assure everybody here and all our users, 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. 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. at this point in the testimony, we heard a rather harsh questioning of us officials where they pressed the ceo 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, now tick tock has 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, at hired a u. s. citizen. as it's ceo and the company has setup 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. i, 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 diane 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. or we saw the scenes today in congress, the heated exchanges that went on. so the controversy continues surrounding this social media app. leo and media analysts line or believes all social media platforms are equally vulnerable to data breaches, including those based in the us. but tick talks 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, what madam congress, a person make me. 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 something, but there's a scrum is going on. rachel, 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. i think it was blurred, i think ultimately the tick tock, seal one former pakistani prime minister, him wrong con, has claim washington's foreign policy is dividing countries into blots. he made the claims while speaking with often times the ongoing underground. you can watch a full episode on saturday in the meantime. here's a teaser. how is it to view?

she jin ping visiting moscow and both putin and she, heralding almost a new well daughter which seems to be very different at for a site to that that we've seen since 1945. i see, you know, great changes taking place. i mean, of course of china and russia is one because it seems of the u. s. this policy is just pushing countries into last in, in home. a giant brought together iran in saudi arabia. i think that's one of the best developments as far as my son is concerned, because iran is a neighbor and somebody is one of our closest friends for years to them together. easy tensions for us. we feel that it's a great, a step over him, but what i do not want these last developing countries like us,

you choose either one side or the other because india has, i mustn't mind yes for the policy. their ideal non alignment, when they were gone, warren countries, when rocks india standards in the making itself a country which is non aligned and, and devoid intent relationship with everyone. and that's what i want. my son to b o u. s. has again slammed human rights in india, fighting challenges to freedom of expression while praising the democratic values that bind washington in new delhi r t. the india correspondent rudy sharma has more details. biden administration's indian strategy honestly seems a bit confusing. on one hand, the u. s. slams india for human rights violation in the country and the other hand, it sees it and values it strategic partnership. we the india appointment of the top

you as diplomat in your danny, the man and a garcia t. his stand. your has been marked by a series of scandal and he has been appointed at the u. s. envoy in new delhi. now disappointment took bass after a gap off to we're as that's been the longest gap ever, that india did not have a u. s. ambassador, but as far as this man and before we, before he got appointed done, he basically said that he wants to, into fair, in india's matter. never mind that his own tenure has been marked by a series of scandals. but i intend to engage directly with civil society. there are groups that are actively fighting for the human rights of people on the ground in india that will get direct engagement from me. for me, these will not be after thoughts, my master's degrees and human rights international law. i've fought for human rights on 4 different continents. do we have your commitment that you will be a voice in regards to any discrimination against minority groups such as the muslim population within india?

i would not only just bring it up, but it would not be something at the end as an obligation. it would be a core piece of what all the engaging my indian counterparts have confirmed with the boy india doesn't need. does anybody interfering in a personal matter? and secondly, not from a man who was on years has been marked by a series of scandal. he was the mayor of los angeles, there were number of daughters organized against him outside his residence as well . now, honestly, by them speak of the u. s. ambassador to india is a bit of a question mark and the appointment diplomatic appointments usually don't. won't make headlines. this one did just because of the choice of biden's administration. russia's deputy foreign minister has confirmed that fox news host tucker carlson, had made an official request for an interview with water mere potent something

carlson claims us intelligence discovered by spying on him. young, but give 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, just collecting data from your smartphone, bright now tucker carlson claims the essay topped his phone messages in order to sabotage his attempt to interview vladimir putin in july 2021. the host says he contacted russia's deputy foreign minister, but later received a call from a store to new confidential information about the proposed interview. where are you going to do interview, put me, why wouldn't had it set up? i was working on it and they had broken to my text messages of an essay broken deer signal because they admitted it really the u. s. national security agency dismiss

tucker carlson's claim saying he has never been an intelligence target of the agency. however, one person accused of being a kremlin intermediary by the an essay res on journalist on your param, pell says. otherwise, the legal for the, an essay 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 an essay was monitoring the communications of russian deputy foreign minister,

rog. gov. but the fact that an as an an essay whistleblower came forward and told tucker that the u. s. government was actually planning on leaking his tax, a centrally unmasking his identity as a us citizen, a journalist who was in contact with rob, cause in order to embarrass him and, and do this for political reasons. it shows the length to which these powers are getting abused us authorities are of 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 a russian or kremlin agent, me a u. s. citizen who has no formal relationship with the russian government or

financially or otherwise my and all of 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 la jeremiah any views that he takes regarding russia or the current war in ukraine. the u. a 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 at good by the e. u foreign policy chief. the most critical thing they can build the economic 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 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 its implementation have been stalled ever since. in order to hand over the cache, the i, m f to man, the country's government carry out reforms including fuel subsidy reduction, cutting transfers to say don't 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 am upload,

haven't always had the desired effect in africa. back in the late 1900 eighty's, the body agreed to help or wander on the condition that its currency be devalued and state support for farms was flash, but that caused skyrocketing inflation and the collapse of real incomes for local somalia also received i. m. f loans on condition of purchasing u. s. brain and the valley unit currency. but that led to a price 3rd in fuel and fertilizers, crippling local farmers, political sociology, professor sites. fedex says that in order to attract foreign investment, african countries are pushed into i. m f agreement. despite a history of fund requirements, actually damaging economies, the public will premium. now indonesia will be suffering you can on weekly. and the feel that if there isn't another agreement, that would be more cutting subsidies more to it again i'm, it pushes on the daily lives. it will be not acceptable. but now the only game in

town today in 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 they are under pressure to, to do something. if you look at the record of dian beth in africa, many countries so that if they have disagreements to balance of and deal with the 4 in depth and you can get that things would be better. but what happened is that things even got worse, more unemployment, more poverty, had been expanded because of the tradition of being given to everybody. it's the same medicine, everybody we give to your muscle. if any way you can see your mouth subsidies and in meaning developing countries, this would mean more the vision, more poverty, more trouble, socially and economically, and also politic. that's her up on the hour's top stories for the latest breaking news and updates head over to

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