not want to be seen as that. but i think it s a very positive step in the right direction. it s interesting, clive, putting in the context of britain and other colonial countries. germany has a record of apologising for terrible things it s done in the past. maybe other countries france, britain don t necessarily have that. president macron in rwanda saying you know, we should ve listened to the warning. this isn t an apology, by the way, he said very specifically. absolutely, because that brings legaljeopardy, i and that brings having to hand out, you know, reparations, whatever, so you try as a society or as a government to frame your apology or your level of culpability in a way that - will not leave you open to having to fork out millions and millions. and it s tricky finding i the right form of words, to be honest with you, - but president chirac apologised for some of france s past colonial misdeeds in north africa, - which was interesting.
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leotard were more hesitant preferring a purely humanitarian operation certainly some of the elements of the military wanted war and there were some within the chirac camp who packed them because of the damage they knew it would cause prime minister barak do you know also. edward balladeer ended up secretly dispatching two emissaries to rwanda to talk to polka gummi writers on christophe for a fair and historians your opinion only. we were sent to reason with khatami we said there are a couple of mad men and friends who would like to fight against you and your side also had a few mad men and i would be willing to fight the french so let s be reasonable and afford that if this room that s a meeting also saw the drawing up of the safe humanitarian zone the tensions between paris and konami were calmed at least temporarily nevertheless the into
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necessary hi there the way this you re also beginning to see a greater european debate about taking matters into their own hands, not being as dependentin the united states and particular will to china lengsly saying we have to navigate without such a close atlantic relationship. that s the sense of history now, that the atlantic era of history is essentially consigned to history. we re not quite sure what comes next but something different is coming. and, mika, of course that is the worst case scenario. it is remarkable, though, how much you see change when administrations change. remember during the gulf war and gerhard schroeder and chirac,
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