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[00:00:02] in
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[00:00:24] Ukrainian capital is hit by a
[00:00:26] of massive overnight attack with multiple strikes reported across the city.
[00:00:32] Washington claims the straight of horm will soon reopen, while Iran is
[00:00:36] reportedly close to an agreement with Oman regarding shipping in the critical
[00:00:43] de waterway. of And Tucker Carlson launches his 10 point vision for
[00:00:47] America, promising to break the traditional two-party stranglehold on
[00:00:51] US politics. Our panel of guests weighs in on whether the
[00:00:54] shift is actually feasible. Are people
[00:00:58] willing to actually put the work that goes beyond the
[00:01:02] money and populism is the name
[00:01:03] of the game at this point, we see populist and insurgent candidates
[00:01:07] and political movements all throughout the world, especially uh in
[00:01:11] the west. the two main parties, the republicans and democrats were
[00:01:14] virtually identical in many, many
[00:01:16] ways.
[00:01:31] Our top story this hour, the Ukrainian capital came under a massive
[00:01:35] overnight attack with multiple strikes reported through the
[00:01:38] city. Social media also reported explosions in
[00:01:41] Njepra Petrovsk and other Ukrainian regions. The
[00:01:45] Russian ministry of defense has not yet issued any comment regarding the strikes,
[00:01:49] but of course we'll keep you
[00:01:51] of updated. Now that says the ministry of defense has confirmed
[00:01:55] two more Ukrainian
[00:01:56] of naval tankers have been destroyed in the black sea,
[00:01:59] in an analyst. are estimating that Moscow's maritime blockade has
[00:02:03] already cost Kiev upwards of a billion dollars.
[00:02:06] Ukrainian businesses are also said to have suffered similar losses in Russia's
[00:02:10] strikes on military supplies kept in commercial
[00:02:14] of
[00:02:14] of warehouses. Lawmakers in Kiev however say there's no money to support the affected
[00:02:18] firms. As for direct compensation for
[00:02:22] losses at the expense
[00:02:23] of the state, not at the expense of insurance, I think everyone
[00:02:27] of understands the lack of such potential, and if we're talking about. compensation than
[00:02:31] it should have been provided since 2014. therefore,
[00:02:34] unfortunately for now, future reparations are the only source of
[00:02:38] compensation for such losses. the Kiv regime seems to
[00:02:42] be detached from reality, while it dreams of some kind
[00:02:45] of reparations from Russia, we've reported
[00:02:49] for years on the Kiev
[00:02:51] of regime's blatant killings of civilians whom they saw
[00:02:55] as subhumans. all that time they were nudged by
[00:02:59] their... "western curators, do all you can
[00:03:03] to inflict a so-called strategic defeat against Russia,
[00:03:07] apart from a targeting Russia's oil
[00:03:09] of industry and well
[00:03:11] of achieving a temporary civilian fuel shortage that
[00:03:15] was quickly rectified by the way, Ukraine decided to
[00:03:18] attack the warehouses of Russia's online marketplace
[00:03:22] called uh Wildburies. Well those strikes
[00:03:26] had nothing to do with the military,
[00:03:29] the goal was clear.
[00:03:35] of
[00:03:37] of
[00:03:38] of that is a massive amount of money.
[00:03:42] if you destroy this business, you trigger a disastrous shift of business
[00:03:46] activity out
[00:03:47] of the formal tax system. top of that, it's a direct blow to vast
[00:03:51] number of people who are ostensibly a political, people who are simply earning
[00:03:55] living and keeping their heads down. they
[00:03:57] of instantly lose
[00:04:01] of of everything, they instantly lose. prospects they might have had in a country that's not at war and so on and so forth. well, that had
[00:04:05] obviously not worked and actually had the opposite effect for
[00:04:09] Ukraine, not only inside Russia,
[00:04:12] of but also through Moscow's retaliation strikes against Kief's
[00:04:16] targets that actually used similar facilities for their
[00:04:20] military. among the targets of similar businesses in
[00:04:24] Ukraine, but that were seriously embedded
[00:04:28] into Ukraine's military machine.
[00:04:31] a of were marketplaces, including one called Rosetca, now that
[00:04:34] company's largest distribution center
[00:04:37] of which processed more than
[00:04:40] of 100,000 orders per day
[00:04:42] in was
[00:04:43] a destroyed, now one of its co-owners estimated the losses at more
[00:04:47] than 44 million dollars. now we can
[00:04:51] go on and on about how much the Ukrainian
[00:04:54] business had lost due to the Kiv regime's
[00:04:58] decisions to attack Russia. businesses, but
[00:05:01] those numbers are already well into billions of US
[00:05:05] dollars and those losses are obviously not
[00:05:09] going to be reimbursed by Zelensky
[00:05:11] of and he's clicked. And I've only mentioned just one
[00:05:15] case here without stating the obvious ones
[00:05:18] like Ukraine's apostal service called Novia
[00:05:22] Postta that uh already turned into a
[00:05:25] franchise the Ukrainian army by
[00:05:29] storing and transporting goods for the military the Kiev
[00:05:33] regime and let's not forget the regular
[00:05:36] strikes against Ukraine's black sea ports
[00:05:40] infrastructure and vessels used. deliver western
[00:05:43] supplied weapons to the kiiv regime.
[00:05:47] usually mining and processing plant in
[00:05:49] Zelensky's hometown of Krivoy rock had
[00:05:53] stopped its operations as well as poltava mining and
[00:05:57] processing plants which is part of a swiss mining company called
[00:06:01] Fed Expo, and by the way, major global container
[00:06:05] shipping company, myers can already also
[00:06:08] discontinued its service through Ukrainian ports and
[00:06:11] redirected. its cargo to Romania, now once again,
[00:06:15] while Kiev is trying to inflict a so-called
[00:06:19] economic damage to Russia by attacking an online
[00:06:22] marketplace that largely deals with cheap beauty
[00:06:26] and housing products, it gets a blunt
[00:06:30] response against all businesses that are
[00:06:33] associated with its failing military
[00:06:35] machine. now according to Russia's defense ministry,
[00:06:39] air defense forces have intercepted and
[00:06:43] 397 Ukrainian UAVs over multiple Russian
[00:06:46] regions overnight. Earlier Russian forces
[00:06:50] intercepted the unmanned vessel and that's after officials placed the
[00:06:54] area on high alert for a possible UAV strike. So
[00:06:58] far, no casualties were reported, and former Pentagon security
[00:07:02] analyst Michael Maluf is the view that attacks on
[00:07:05] civilians have become a part of Kiev's regular government
[00:07:09] policy. There is no strategic. tactical
[00:07:13] gain, because number one, there's no military
[00:07:16] facility in the region, but number two, uh, I
[00:07:20] think it's meant to strike fear, it's it is definitely a terrorist act, but I
[00:07:24] also would go one step further and say it's now the policy the
[00:07:28] government of Ukraine to attack civilians, they've they're
[00:07:32] basically overt about it, they they haven't come out and
[00:07:35] admitted to it, but by their example they they have clearly
[00:07:39] shown that civilians are definitely to be targeted. It's for
[00:07:42] maximum effect, people are out
[00:07:44] and in resort areas and uh they're there and you
[00:07:48] have hundreds if not thousands on the beach sides and so
[00:07:52] consequently they're fair game, they're defenseless,
[00:07:56] and this is all the more reason why the Ukrainians
[00:08:00] are attacking them because they they make easy targets, they don't get shot
[00:08:04] back. Washington
[00:08:07] claims the straight of hor moves will soon reopen while Iran is reportedly
[00:08:11] close to an.
[00:08:42] extent that it acts we act, where it didn't act, we didn't act,
[00:08:46] whatever advantage we gained, even the fact that America was able ease the
[00:08:50] siege, we gave no concessions to America. As for the straight of
[00:08:53] Hormus, it has always been there, now it was decided that we would only
[00:08:57] permit passage through it, and even then, strictly according to our own
[00:09:00] regulations. Shipping through the Choke Point has
[00:09:04] been on hold for a month, after fresh hostilities between Iran and
[00:09:08] the US saw most traffic frozen. Iranian state media report:
[00:09:12] that only eight ships passed the straight this
[00:09:15] friday. That says Toront is believed to have drafted
[00:09:19] new plan that would see it control all maritime activity in
[00:09:22] Hormus. The first details were laid out by Iranian state media,
[00:09:26] citing a parliament member as the source. This document
[00:09:30] states that the entry of US and Israeli ships is going to
[00:09:34] be banned as well as vessels from countries with sanctions on
[00:09:37] Iran. Violators would be reportedly hit with
[00:09:40] penalties of up to 20. percent the cargo's value, and for its
[00:09:44] part, the revolutionary guard would decide on tariffs
[00:09:48] by providing security for providing security, rather, something that the US
[00:09:52] vehemently opposes. an Iranian academic told
[00:09:56] us that relentless American aggression forced toran to take this
[00:10:00] action. the US is not going to like that, but they have
[00:10:04] other choice. they can go back to war and they will get
[00:10:07] hit more. so they need to realize that they're not going
[00:10:11] to have. the the state of formus used
[00:10:15] in the manner that they have used it in the past it is a strategic
[00:10:19] and also Iran has other choice, the United States used
[00:10:23] a state of almost to attack. Iran, they used a state
[00:10:27] of hormos to build these bases in the Persian Gulf,
[00:10:30] it's Iran's right under the UN charter,
[00:10:34] article 51, to defend itself when Iran is
[00:10:38] attacked, and under UN conventional law of
[00:10:41] seas, ships that pass through these states are
[00:10:45] supposed to do innocent passage, and if you are attacking a
[00:10:49] country, killing its civilians, killing its
[00:10:52] leaders, attacking its infrastructure obviously
[00:10:56] you are not doing anything innocent and Iran is going to
[00:11:00] exercise that right under international law to make sure
[00:11:04] that US behaves properly and Iran is not
[00:11:07] endangered by the United States. Is Israel
[00:11:11] already looking beyond Iran? Growing opinions in Israeli
[00:11:14] strategic circles suggest that Turkia could be the next target and
[00:11:18] the latest episode of going underground here on RT International,
[00:11:22] option Ratanzi speaks to professor. Ounal to explore how this
[00:11:26] view is being received in Ankara. The full conversation airs later today,
[00:11:30] but for now here's a quick preview. Does uh
[00:11:34] Erdouan realize that Israel has turkia in
[00:11:38] its sights as the next target after
[00:11:41] Iran, does does Turkey understand
[00:11:44] that? Well, I would think it does, um,
[00:11:48] but on the other hand, um, I would say that Israel
[00:11:52] is a bit,
[00:11:54] you know, ' talking a bit too much about you know
[00:11:57] boasting about this and the other and uh you know the
[00:12:01] next target is going to be turkey oh
[00:12:04] certainly trying to punch much higher than
[00:12:08] their weight you how are you going to basically strike
[00:12:11] Turkey if you do that then you are going to
[00:12:15] basically um it is like poking into
[00:12:19] the into the beast
[00:12:23] nest basically a... which is already very, very
[00:12:26] volatile, that's what we said about Iran beforehand, when no
[00:12:30] one thought they were going to do this, yep, yep, yep, and particularly
[00:12:34] after basically Iran gave them a bloody
[00:12:37] nose, I mean talking in such
[00:12:41] a childish way, saying that Turkey is going to be the
[00:12:45] next target, and okay,
[00:12:47] you know the Turkish institutions, the military, the intelligence
[00:12:51] and all the other related institutions basically do their
[00:12:55] job, but politically you don't take them seriously, would
[00:12:59] you?
[00:13:04] heads are rolling among Israeli spy chiefs, media is reporting that the
[00:13:08] heads of masad's intelligence directorate and Iran division have
[00:13:12] been fired for failing to bring about regime change in the Persian
[00:13:15] nation. We revealed that Msad Head Roman
[00:13:19] Goffman decided to remove two very senior officials from the
[00:13:23] organization's ranks. These are the officials who conceived
[00:13:26] and wrote down the plan for regime change. These two, whose contributions to the
[00:13:30] country's security are invaluable, are going home. Goffman
[00:13:34] believes that they should pay the price for the failure the plan that was brokered to
[00:13:38] President Trump and was not implemented on the ground in
[00:13:41] practice. Israeli intelligence reportedly
[00:13:45] proposed a plan to Washington involving a ground invasion by
[00:13:48] US backed Kurdish forces, which would be coordinated by
[00:13:52] Masad and the CIA. The operation. called for massive
[00:13:56] air cover by the allies and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
[00:14:00] Khameini was killed in an air strike at the beginning the joint
[00:14:03] US-Israeli war. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu
[00:14:07] justified the assassination as necessary to eliminate the
[00:14:11] threat posed by nuclear armed tiran, urging
[00:14:15] Iranians to support regime change and overthrow their
[00:14:18] clerical
[00:14:19] leadership. The former
[00:14:23] head the Massad's covert. MIA operations told us that any
[00:14:27] regime chain effort, regime change effort in Iran was doomed to
[00:14:30] fail despite firm backing from
[00:14:33] Washington, the Americans and the Israelis
[00:14:37] believe that the riots in January
[00:14:41] were were intensive enough
[00:14:44] to make one believe that once a war
[00:14:48] against the regime, and once this regime is weakened, the
[00:14:52] crowds in Iran that seek a different Iran and they do seek
[00:14:56] different Iran would rise to the task and would change the
[00:14:59] regime, this was misunderstanding the people in
[00:15:03] Iran, and at the end the day we find ourselves
[00:15:07] a conflict that has no real objective, did not come up with
[00:15:11] anything, except maybe political gains for
[00:15:15] Donald Trump and political gains for
[00:15:18] Benjam, the cooperation
[00:15:22] between Washington and Jerusalem is... tight on
[00:15:26] the operational level, the armies work together, the
[00:15:29] military is joint military that operated in Iran, you have to
[00:15:33] understand this, it wasn't two armies were working in Iran.
[00:15:37] It was two armies that were working in Iran a joint venture
[00:15:41] where American generals set in Israeli command
[00:15:45] and Israeli general said on the American command and the
[00:15:49] aeroplanes were flying out of Tel Aviv and flying
[00:15:53] out of American bases so at the end
[00:15:56] the day it was a joint complete
[00:16:00] cooperation that was coordinated to the
[00:16:03] last to the last element now
[00:16:07] less it was not a successful operation, if you have
[00:16:11] asked me in advance, I would have said that they had no chance of
[00:16:15] succeeding, it is true that Netanyahu will try to divert the
[00:16:18] attention from the failure of this plan
[00:16:21] vis how it reflects on him, and
[00:16:25] he has been trying to do this with the military, been trying to do, this is
[00:16:28] internal
[00:16:29] politics. Conservative
[00:16:33] journalist Tucker Carlson has unveiled a 10-p vision for the future.
[00:16:37] of America, he aims to break away from the traditional US two-party
[00:16:41] system and forge a third political path. Tucker's manifesto
[00:16:45] focuses heavily on domestic matters, ranging from public health
[00:16:49] and urban planning to procreation and education.
[00:16:53] Meanwhile, his foreign policy outlook dictates that the US should
[00:16:56] strictly clear, steer clear of foreign interventions and
[00:17:00] avoid unnecessary wars. He placed a particular
[00:17:03] emphasis on distancing the country from both military and
[00:17:07] financial involvement with Israel, ultimately Carlson's questioning why
[00:17:11] America's two-party uh system
[00:17:14] push, it's rather two, it's two opposing parties
[00:17:18] push exactly the same agenda. Trump initiates the one thing
[00:17:22] he said he'd never do, regime change war in the middle east against Iran, a country
[00:17:25] much bigger and more powerful than the last regime change we attempted, which didn't
[00:17:29] work, and there were no protests against it, because
[00:17:33] of course the leaders the other party, his opposed enemies agreed with him
[00:17:36] completely. as they did with his budget fundamentally, certainly with the
[00:17:40] tax code that he endorsed, and that tells us what? one thing at
[00:17:44] least that on the issues that really
[00:17:46] matter, the most obvious
[00:17:49] and historically significant expressions the exertion of power,
[00:17:53] which would be foreign policy and the budget, tax
[00:17:56] code, the parties are aligned, they're the same, they have the same agenda,
[00:18:00] exactly the same agenda, and they go through this whole song and dance to convince us, no,
[00:18:04] we're really blood enemies, but are they really? no, they're not. and once
[00:18:07] again just to restate the obvious cuz you can't state the obvious
[00:18:10] enough, if
[00:18:13] Trump's opponents really
[00:18:16] opposed what he was doing, well then we would have people in the streets
[00:18:20] famously, and the party whose whole
[00:18:23] self-understanding is people taking to the streets and marching for this
[00:18:27] that or the other thing, especially peace, would be marching
[00:18:31] for peace and against this war, but they're not, and why aren't they? because they're
[00:18:35] not against it, that's why. not to complain about it, but just
[00:18:39] to sort of set the predicate for for the next stage
[00:18:43] in our lives as American citizens, we know that the
[00:18:47] parties are aligned on the issues that matter
[00:18:50] against the population. now how do we know it's against the population because we have public opinion
[00:18:54] polling, and it may not be precisely right, but over time we get a
[00:18:58] pretty clear picture of people's priorities, and the
[00:19:01] big things that the US government, endorsed by both parties are doing, which is
[00:19:05] spying on you more, moving ever growing share
[00:19:09] of gross domestic product to a smaller percentage the
[00:19:13] population, invading countries, spending $1.5 trillion dollar a year a
[00:19:17] military, they can't win a war, etc., etc., etc., all things that they're doing, the big
[00:19:20] things. population doesn't want those
[00:19:21] things. now, prior to sharing his goal
[00:19:25] for America, Tucker Carlson fueled the political fire storm by
[00:19:29] hosting maga breakaways at his estate. among them were
[00:19:33] major Majory Taylor Green, Thomas Massy, and former Counter.
[00:19:37] terrorism chief Joe Kent, all them recently had falling
[00:19:41] out with Trump, claiming that the president had compromised the America
[00:19:45] first doctrine. We also asked
[00:19:49] panel of guests what it would take to create genuine multi-party system
[00:19:53] in the United States. Look to find to
[00:19:56] found an actual third party, it takes lots of money,
[00:20:00] because the two main parties, the Republicans and Democrats were virtually
[00:20:04] identical in many, many ways. The one thing they do agree on, uh more
[00:20:08] than all is to collude to prevent anyone uh on the
[00:20:11] ballot who will threaten them who threaten their supremacy, so it takes a lot of
[00:20:15] money, it takes a lot of work, getting on balance is extremely
[00:20:18] difficult. uh, yes, of course, money is resource, but the ultimate resource
[00:20:22] is needed is people's willingness, are people willing to
[00:20:26] actually put in the work that goes beyond the money, and I think
[00:20:30] with people being fed up and the energy being there, it's completely
[00:20:33] possible to start something completely new and independent that can...
[00:20:37] takeoff
[00:20:38] the two party system historically in in US electoral politics has been
[00:20:41] rigged uh we have a 50 state 50 the 50 states
[00:20:45] divise their own election rules uh and ballot access
[00:20:49] and signatures required, also there is the financial
[00:20:53] considerations that Daniel was mentioning earlier, so it requires money, it
[00:20:56] requires uh institutions and structures and you have to reach certain
[00:21:00] thresholds that are not aligned across the entire US. well Jose, of
[00:21:03] those who have made some sort of impact in the past,
[00:21:07] those as as we've heard there, that core ideology of third party
[00:21:11] candidates, do they really diverge from the existing
[00:21:15] platforms the republican and democratic
[00:21:18] parties? Uh, well, yes, actually, and I think
[00:21:22] a lot of
[00:21:22] it is because you see it with the insurgent democrats that are
[00:21:26] coming into power now, you know, there are many criticisms you can make
[00:21:30] them, but what they are seen as is insurgent force that is coming
[00:21:34] in and overtaking the democratic party,
[00:21:37] and uh, what are they saying, they're saying medicare for all, they're saying no
[00:21:41] money for Israel, um, and they are calling out democratic
[00:21:45] leadership, but that is the kind of energy that people want to see right
[00:21:49] now coming. out of both the Democratic Party and the
[00:21:52] Republican Party, and I think what's going to be pivotal in getting a
[00:21:56] third party elected is a third force, which means that you'll
[00:22:00] have individuals who will run in the Republican parties, in the Democratic
[00:22:04] parties, but ultimately are committed to an idea of independence and
[00:22:08] away from the power structures that exist now. I think Jose makes a great
[00:22:12] point, which is we're thinking in terms of a political
[00:22:15] party, new political party, whereas it might actually be a
[00:22:19] politic. faction or voluntary a set of set
[00:22:23] of positions that candidates may take in run in the other
[00:22:27] two parties, and I think the DSA is doing that with the Democratic Party right
[00:22:31] now and doing a phenomenal job, the their success I think is
[00:22:35] evidenced by the fact that they're being called every name in the book, every terrible
[00:22:39] thing in the book, so I think they're certainly within the Republican Party
[00:22:42] uh, but the devils in the details, if you agree on the broad strokes then you've
[00:22:46] got a lot to work with, and I think that populism is the name of... game at this point
[00:22:50] we see populist and insurgent candidates and political
[00:22:54] movements all throughout the world, especially uh in the west,
[00:22:58] because we've seen the failure of politicians and of politics
[00:23:01] as as has been done over the past decades. i think tucker
[00:23:05] as as our good friend George Galloway says, is a is very
[00:23:09] viable candidate, so I think absolutely he could be a unifying figure, and I think that he
[00:23:13] could achieve sizeable results an election
[00:23:16] campaign. tariffs are back.
[00:23:20] Donald Trump has announced a 15% levy on the import of
[00:23:23] polysilicons used in the production of semiconductors
[00:23:27] and solar panels. It's seen as a measure to counter China which
[00:23:31] holds a near monopoly on the raw material.
[00:23:35] The secretary recommended the establishment of minimum import prices
[00:23:38] (MIP) for polysilicon and polysilicon derivatives, to create
[00:23:42] a protected domestic market that allows United States producers to compete
[00:23:46] free from global distortions. I determine that it is necessary. and
[00:23:50] appropriate to impose a 15% advalorum rate of duty on imports
[00:23:54] of polysilicon derivatives so that such imports will not threaten to
[00:23:58] impair the national security the United
[00:24:00] States. The US imports massive amounts of
[00:24:04] polysilicon derivatives from four Southeast Asian nations,
[00:24:08] that's Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. And
[00:24:12] those countries are where China primarily has subsidiaries and
[00:24:15] manufacturing facilities as well. The
[00:24:19] American. President repeatedly cites national security is the reason for his
[00:24:23] decision, but right now the US has only two domestic producers
[00:24:27] of polycylicon, one them being a German company. Analysts
[00:24:31] worry that these businesses are incapable of satisfying domestic
[00:24:34] demand. For too long we be dependent on outside
[00:24:38] sources and it's we really should have been happened
[00:24:42] yesterday, but we need to be able to manufacture
[00:24:45] within our own country or the United States needs to
[00:24:48] manufacture for United States. production of lot of things, we've been too
[00:24:52] dependent on having the almighty dollar to buy us anything everywhere
[00:24:56] all the time, and that just isn't true, if you can't source your own
[00:24:59] materials, you are vulnerable, and this these vulnerabilities keep
[00:25:03] coming up in different areas, this being the latest. this says the tariff
[00:25:07] combined with minimum price system is intended to create protected markets for
[00:25:11] american producers, what producers? it's almost a ruse in my
[00:25:15] opinion that this is a way to cojo the markets, but i
[00:25:18] wouldn't be surprised.
[00:25:50] hurts the consumer,
[00:25:51] it doesn't
[00:25:52] really hurt the importer, although it's it's sold that way,
[00:25:56] it's not really true.
[00:26:00] the french embass in the republic the suffering a bad case of
[00:26:03] foot in mouth after posting satirical video that sparked public
[00:26:07] outrage and allegations of
[00:26:09] racism.
[00:26:19] oui, monsieur le consul, on dit que maintenant la France
[00:26:23] refuse tous les visas. oh, c'est pas vrai, vous avez plus de de
[00:26:27] 8000 étudiants congolais en france, hein? 8000
[00:26:30] étudiants? oui mais? cela il faut faut un bon profil et surtout un bon
[00:26:34] dossier, la france aime les gens authentiques, pas besoin d'en jouter une vie, il faut
[00:26:38] être sincère dans dans son projet, dans ses études, dans ses
[00:26:42] ressources, ah ouais, donc je veux devoir repartir sur le bon
[00:26:46] l'école, continue pour avoir des
[00:26:48] bonnes, the Brazoville
[00:26:52] embassy was making a light-hearted attempt to explain the french visa
[00:26:55] process, but it did fall flat. the foreign ministry had swooped
[00:26:59] in, demanded the video be deleted after critice. went
[00:27:03] viral and that which condemned the ad for pushing stereotypes
[00:27:07] about Congole's applicants. The the visa issue is a constant
[00:27:10] source of friction between Paris and African states, and this isn't
[00:27:14] France's first diplomatic misstep this year either. President
[00:27:18] Macron interrupted his Africa Forward summit in May to tell the
[00:27:21] audience of mainly Africans to be quiet.
[00:27:25] Ready, you're not waiting your turn. I will
[00:27:29] make order. Excuse me.
[00:27:32] everybody, hey, hey,
[00:27:35] hey, I'm sorry
[00:27:37] guys, but it's impossible to
[00:27:41] speak about culture, to have people like that, super
[00:27:45] inspired, coming here, making a speech with such
[00:27:48] noise,
[00:27:54] so this is total lack of respect, so I
[00:27:57] suggest if you want to have bilaterals or speak about somebody
[00:28:01] else, some... mean something else, you have bilateral rooms
[00:28:05] or you go outside, if you want to stay here, we
[00:28:09] listen to the people, and we're playing the same game.
[00:28:12] okay, thank you. earlier, my
[00:28:15] colleague
[00:28:16] andil spoke with African Freedom's president, professor Franklin
[00:28:19] nyamsi. he says that the deleted video is
[00:28:23] a proof that France still views Africans as
[00:28:26] inferior. the message the
[00:28:29] French embassy is message of cont
[00:28:34] condescention and arrogance. French
[00:28:37] authorities forget that
[00:28:39] there was a time when Brazaville was proclaimed the
[00:28:42] capital of free france by Charles. It is racist
[00:28:46] negative portrayal that reflects the fact that the French
[00:28:50] government has not moved beyond the mindset the
[00:28:54] code noirs dating back to
[00:28:57] 1685. The message is clearly negative
[00:29:01] one is to to tell. to African people, not only to
[00:29:04] Kongolese, that France is not opening its hands for them,
[00:29:08] because the French political elite considers
[00:29:12] africans like inferior beings. President Macron's
[00:29:15] comments that we just ran earlier, does that back up that view
[00:29:19] as well, because you know, I remember looking at it at the
[00:29:23] time and just thinking, this is a misstep, he may
[00:29:27] regret that, but I don't think he does, I think Macron is just of that
[00:29:30] mindset that, I'm I'm lecturing these people, they need to
[00:29:34] listen to me. For President Macron, doing so in Kenya in
[00:29:38] Nairobi is very natural, in fact it is the small milk of
[00:29:42] his childhold that he was sharing there. It is not
[00:29:46] believable for President Macron to do the same thing in
[00:29:50] France or everywhere anywhere in the west, in Europe and so
[00:29:53] on. This is the defeat of the political
[00:29:57] capacity of France to adapt to the reality the world. In
[00:30:01] Africa, many people have... forgetting this is
[00:30:04] the first house of humanity, how dare you, how dare you
[00:30:08] be condescending with the continent where all our humanity comes from,
[00:30:12] there is a complete and total condemnation the french policy in
[00:30:16] Africa, not only in Congo, everywhere, France is
[00:30:20] rejected today because of this condescending racist,
[00:30:24] negative portrayal of Africans, it
[00:30:26] has. That's all for this hour, but make sure to stay
[00:30:30] with us. We're going to be back with more news here
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