Albania

We normally roll in the back.

Now, I will say, like, the Russians, I've seen, I mean, I'll never forget in Albania when Sadulaev, Russia was warming up here.

America was warming up here.

Sadulaev walked right next to David Taylor and did his entire warm-up right in front of him.

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And in France, a standoff after protesters rejected proposed concessions from the government and promised to take to the streets once again.

So why are young people turning out in such numbers now, and what unites their causes? I asked Mariana Kočeku, an Albanian MP who joined the mass protests in her country, and Katrin Bennhold, a longtime journalist for The New York Times.

ABC's Marcus Moore is in Rome.

There have been protests underway in Poland where thousands have taken to the streets there over the cost of living and wanting change there, as well as Albania this weekend where protesters have been taken to the streets over the same issue there, the cost of living.

So we've got a lot of young people who are involved in this as well as young adults and others who are wanting change in their countries.

In France, the French government estimated that 320,000 people took part nationwide.

They want the cost of living to be addressed as well as other issues that are very important to the people there.

And across Europe, too, the movement spreading this weekend into Poland, Albania, Italy, Germany.

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Protests in Albania have turned violent.

Molotov cocktails and paving stones were hurled at police as part of anti-government demonstrations.

The student-led movement is calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister, who has imposed a nearly $9,000 fine for violent protesters.

You have multiple countries having violent clashes.

Albania wants to overthrow their leaders.

The Serbian students just did.

What greater way to keep all of their global puppets in power except to start World War III? What greater way to cover up their financial crimes? Because the entire monetary system is made out of air.

The only way to keep control is to create a scary, massive event that puts the whole world under emergency alert, emergency lockdowns, martial law.

If the unrest gets out of hand, because the unrest is already getting out of hand in places like France.

and Albania and Serbia and Greece and Italy now joined that and Belgium and the UK and most of these Western countries.

Notice it's all the countries that are still supplying Ukraine to go to war with Russia because they're losing power in their countries.

and i'm praying with him regularly i have communion with him and he speaks and i move even if i maybe don't get it all right but there i believe when i'm trying to be obedient there is a sovereignty of like okay well you tried you know so i'm going to bless you in this because you've tried to be obedient but when we stay back where would our kids be in 10 years? If I chose to stay in America, America would have been great.

Maybe we could have lived a still good Christian life, but would it been the fullness of what, what God wanted us to do that our kids have experienced? Like, shoot, my kids have been on so many planes and from Albania to France, Switzerland, you know, all these different places in America, tons of times, you know, and it's not about travel, but it is experiencing things that they've never experienced.

But where would your family be? And where would you go and let alone who has missed out? You know what I mean? Because we haven't stepped out.

And that's not a dig in that way.

But in the same way, there is so much more to the world that offers if people will be willing to step into that place but talking about the spiritual aspect of that is recognizing that actually just like denominations if we can appreciate each other and recognize that okay this denomination is great at this and this denomination but oh well if they're good at that let's dial into how they do that let's dial into these people the same way with culture What Americans are and the giving, the loving, you know, stereotyping massively.

But, you know, the character of that side of things.

Then you look at the UK, you know what I mean? And you look at the so that then you like we do quite a bit of ministry in Albania.

You look at this and you realize very quickly.

The UN didn't exist during the interwar period either, and it wouldn't matter because back then Taiwan was part of Japan.

Why is it drafted so incompetently? Maybe because it derived from an Albanian resolution and Enver Hoxha's Albania didn't yet use Claude Max in 1971.

Second, the one clause in this text that does refer somehow to Taiwan has clearly expired.

The resolution decides to expel forthwith representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the UN.

Two very different things.

Fifth, as Jacques Delisle and Bonnie Glaser remind us, back in 1971, Beijing itself did not think that the resolution settled the matter.

Before the vote, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai apparently complained to US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger about the Albanian resolution that is that sloppy text that became the infamous Resolution 2758.

Premier Zhou Enlai noticed that it restored China's lawful rights, including the seat, but there is no way to put a clause on the status of Taiwan into it, so the status of Taiwan remains undecided.

And there's been huge riots, as you can imagine.

Police protests out on the streets of France and in Italy and Albania, and the budget has just been passed in Britain to huge amounts of controversy and complaints, but nothing new with that.

I think that's probably fair to say.

Anyway, we've got plenty of stuff for you and lots of... musicals to discuss and Joe Chindamo who I'm a huge fan of an exceptional composer and talent I reviewed one of his pieces earlier in the year that he did with the MSO he's one of the along with Deborah Cheat and one of the in-house MSO's resident composers had the premiere of his flute concerto at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night you'll hear my review later as well as a review on the Edward Scissorhands on the Friday night as well as a review of the Kate Sebberano concert last week.