we're going to speak to some of the most prominent locals of all home and uncover some of the secrets ah anger hits the roof as over a 1000000 protesters against controversial pension reforms clash with police across france. this, as the french president defense has hated bill. washington pledges support for creating a coast of a national army as serbia market for 24 years since nato led forces on belgrade. 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 afternoon for martine or national studios in moscow, and welcome to this hour's top stories across the globe. i'm fear, allies about out of control. that's how french citizens described violent clashes with police that ever ruptured across the country. what's some news outlets like me? the demonstrations to a war zone, over a 1000000 protesters took to the streets against the controversial pension reform heavily armored police have been using tear gas, water, cannon, don grenades, and baton against protesters. ah, ah

ah ah, president micron has brush 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 stance 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 la 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 the several yellow vest 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 apathy praised the arab spring protesters a decade ago. busy and back to the resulting regime change of leaders like alcohol bag bo, of cote d'ivoire, and mom are gadhafi of libya, and lights are cosy. mccaul has also cheered on protestors 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 is 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 france's retirement age from see to, to 64 years has been rammed through the french national assembly, not by democratic vote by, by french president emmanuel michaels prime minister elizabeth bonn, 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 aren't challenging the policies in 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, its 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 24 years since nato led forces bomb belgrade. the u. s. fully supports kosovo, secure to force us comprehensive transition into multi ethnic professional name to interoperable tutorial defense force proud of her continuous and excellent cooperation. following the bombing of serbia, the u. n. 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. this by objections from local serbian residence. moscow 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 u. s. and he said it seemed they were concerned about the humorous issues affecting companions in regional or so products of serbia. and part of what was once a former yugoslavia said he was battling and the army surgeon seeing causal either by the so called the coastal abrasion, army or kaylee and the u. s. threatened to bombs would be if you didn't 1st to don, my fellow americans. to day, 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 for free weeks. but it would go on for 70 days over

oppression allied force. that's what they call it. in the warplanes carried out the 900 and more air strikes during every day of sunday school bombing campaign. which selfishly claim to please san a 158 civilian life? probably with more. but so been sources into the actual death was as the price demand and to help use depleted uranium and the it says air strikes on there. you were flavia. this by this i was showing that 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 for this your students for that 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. any more, i'm a lucky boy. we will never trust them again, and we will never forgive them for the children, the civilian casualties and the uranium i. they conducted the biggest ethnic cleansing of the serbian population and corporation cost survey. 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 the state. according to do shan pro rocha which a serbian independent journalist. the bombing of yugoslavia represented

a precedent for nato forces. the box to the a so called the counselor independence recognition, the national organizations is closed. so this is the, this is the alternative path. how do legitimize position of kosovo in international relations for us and nato? for the u. s, which was the global hagaman at the debt, the time that you m frame, or it became too narrow, do that. oh, organizationally and the politically that the u. s. did not want to seek a brewer from russia, china, or european countries for the dimensions all around the world. in this context, context, the data going yugoslavia, it presented a president. net would then be used anywhere else in the case of the ukrainian crisis. it will of rather than to leave the do escalation,

since it will not force the russian leadership to negotiate. on the contrary, it will leave the possibility for up, but as the process, the order one that is broken. asper, marking the anniversary of nato's bombing of yugoslavia, you can head over to r t dot com to watch her full documentary on the events of those years, shedding lie on the lives of people who came face to face with war. today our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against the serbian forces. ah, the glove with them for doctrine visit. okay, we'll get this going from bad to worse grade tonight. skyline again, it's by flames. nato insisted it's strikes against us. love ya would go off me

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he's government has no access to private data on check talk users. that's the position of the company, c, e o. as he was forced to defend the platform before us congress, while officials bring him over fears, the popular ab could be away 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 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 1st looked in, 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 sensors. at this point in the testimony we heard, or 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,

now tick tock has faced a wave of the 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 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. a. 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 media analyst line all believes all social media platforms are equally vulnerable to data breaches, including those based in the us. but take 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, 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,

and 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, right? so 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. i think it was blurred, i think ultimately the tick tock, seo, one former pakistani prime minister emron con, has claimed washington's foreign policy is dividing countries into blocks. he made the claims while speaking with option returns, the ongoing underground. you can watch a full episode on saturday in the meantime,

here's the teaser. how is it to view? she jin ping visiting moscow and both put in and she, heralding almost a new well daughter which seems to be very different at 1st sight to that that we've seen since 1945. i see, you know, great change is taking place. i mean, a, china and russia is one because it seems the u. s. this policy is just pushing countries in the last is wrong jain. i brought together iran in saudi arabia. i think that's one of the best developments as far as spice on is concerned, because iran is an ever and saudi arabia is one of our closest friends for years. so them together, easy tensions for us. we feel that it's a great

a step forward. 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 that ideal non alignment when they were gone, warren countries, when rocks in the us are 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 be in. the u. s. has again slammed human rights in india, fighting challenges to freedom of expression while praising the democratic mal is that by washington. and you deli, archie's in your correspondent, routine sharma has more details. biden administration's india's track of g honestly seems a bit confusing on one hand, the u. s. slams india for human rights violation in the country. and the other had

said that had values, it's strategic partnership. we've the india appointment of the top you as diplomat in new delhi, the man and a garcia t he 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 place after a gaff, also to we'll, 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, in to 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 afterthought. 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'll be a core piece of what all the engaging my indian counterparts have confirmed with the boy angel doesn't need. does anybody interfering in a personal matter and secondly, not from a man who is on years has been marked by a series of scandals. he was the mayor of los angeles. there were number of auto st organized against him outside his residence as well. now, honestly, by don't speak of the u. s. ambassador to india is a bit of a question mark and the appointment diplomatic appointments usually do 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 ladder marapoo than something carlson claims us intelligence discovered by spying on him. young victor, i can confirm that this journalist made such a request some time ago how 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 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 source who knew 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 claims say he has never been an intelligence target the agency. however, one person accused him of being a kremlin intermediary by the at a se grays on journalists. anya param pals says 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 an as an essay whistleblower came forward and told tucker that the u. s. government was actually planning on leaking his texts 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 abusing 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 alan 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 the u. a secretary of state has urged tenicia to strike in 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 the economy 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 $1900000000.00 loan had been reached with tunisia, but negotiations on its implementation happen stalled ever since in order to have the cash over the i m f to mans the countries government carry out reforms including fuel subsidy reductions, cutting transfers to stay 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 haven't always had the desired effect in africa. back in the late 19 eighties, the body agreed to help wanda on the condition that its currency be devalued and state support for farms was slashed, 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 devaluing its currency. but that led to a price surgeon, fuel and fertilizers, rippling local farmers. political sociology professor sidesaddle says that in order to attract for an investment african countries are pushed into i, m f agreement. despite a history of funds requirement actually damaging economies,

the public premium, now indonesia will be suffering. you can mclee and the demons and another agreement with you. more cutting subsidies, more economic cushions on their daily life. it will be not acceptable, but now the only game in town today punish alisha is that you must get a lot of them from the i m f. otherwise know for donors will come to you. and that's why the under pressure to, to do something. if you look at american or die in math in africa, many countries, so that if they have disagreements to balance the budget and deal with the 4 in depth and you can get that things will be better. but what happened is, i think 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 get to, you must evaluate. you can see your mascot subsidies and in many developing

countries, this would mean most of the vision, more party and more socially and economically, and also political. that's her up on the hour and coming up. sean thomas explores the heart of the bike hall in russia. siberia, giving you a glimpse into the unique island next on r t. c a back. so ah, ah, in the west, it's called a marriage of convenience, but for russia and china, their relationship is strategic. and an alternative to the west. so called rules based order. what the west refuses to recognize the russians in the chinese practice, and it's called multi polarity blue

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