i was i i. was. i. was in france the interior minister reveals two hundred seventy jihadists have returned to the country while a much vaunted effort to tackle radicalize ation flanders. also on the way more trouble in the house of trump now his national security advisers loyalties in question forgive me security clearance to a former top aide to president obama. feeling the heat over meet the reagan activists who forced a butcher in california to hang an animal rights sign in the stalls with.

two o'clock here in moscow are you watching r.t. international now it's been revealed that around two hundred seventy jihadists have recently returned to france after fighting in iraq and syria some have been arrested in the courts are currently ploughing through the cases of others the numbers being revealed by the french interior minister who also highlighted that the terror threat remains extremely high and to rein in extremism in france had opened its first the radicalization center nearly a year ago but the facility has already hit the buffers the charlotte dubinsky now reports. it was billed as a front seat to its program with just modest this was the country's.

radicalization center when it opened last year ati's. was here. this is rehab for extremists once inside psychologists here will provide therapy and counselors will teach students about this isn't ship. i am. i overheard. today for small and within this center should be located somewhere much less populated there is a school just eight hundred meters away but mission of separately i don't think it's an intelligent move to put the ridiculous zation center next to a nuclear power station it's terrifying and i'm against it. they're trying to fix the problem but it's about a kilometer away from the nuclear plant. but

it still leads to cities and they are inter they have only been interrogated some sort of life police. told that evidently there wouldn't be any violent people but there was be only those who are the early stages of frantically ization. but just months later the shutters down so way did it go wrong. at a cost of two point five million us pay year knowing that people were treated none finished the course one resident from this center was even a rested for having links to those behind the paris times. and fifty one. from his rehabilitation and since february not a single person his being here the deed radicalisation so did this friendship of of value for money. it is a complete fiasco everything is to be rethought everything is to be reconstructed

decoding to people all to me putting it mildly yes i would say this is a fiasco. money spent this way is a waste there are so many other things to do but to spend it on radicalized people know there are other associations and other centers to spend money on. this could not have turned out well if it is organized this way just letting people in and convincing them to think the other way or to see differently there are four or five people at once this is too expensive but residents say they. said it's closed because it's nothing but. i was against this center from the beginning and i am happy to is now closed this center should not have been here there is a nuclear plant near here. i think the location was inappropriate as it is quite close to the town to the kids this is too close to houses and not very secure and

we were not properly informed we did not receive any information many people sold their houses because of the center a complete failure that's how many people are describing this project and many and now left wondering if france has a concrete solution to the estimated fifteen thousand citizens. in this country. to me some problems. for terrorism expert believes it's not enough to. preach at the. but the french this time on this issue got it wrong. you know we talk about what it was going to be barbecue izing and where france missed a trick on this was it don't really remove individuals who were shot over in a remote part of france or rule part of france and preached to them there are

successes that these dates of france missed the trip into this issue of trying to deal radicalize. and help help those individuals who've been drawn towards terrorist activity very heavy know just just by tilting move away from the community. i'm just preaching to them i think this has been the wrong approach of and this is why in the end of the became. the third. now brutal massacre in a village in northern afghanistan is thought to have killed at least forty people including children the province's governor says the attack took place after the village was captured by an unknown group of militants including foreign fighters they are suspected of being a mix of taliban and i still insurgents elsewhere scores of other afghan civilians also including many children are in search of shelter in the east of the country also being caught in taliban i sill and u.s.

air strikes some of been describing their own. islamic state groups brutally attack civilians and the afghanistan national army then foreign forces came to the battlefield then the u.s. dropped the mother of all bombs on the village what is left is ruins. throws a lot of what has come up you should be sure that you didn't know. of them getting isis militants slaughtered our own saying he was a spy who fled since they threatened to kill us the next day.

islamic state militants slaughtered our five cousins so front of us they could have come and killed us any time to kill so we left our whole. faith first isis attacked our village then came american airstrikes and now we don't have anything everything is destroyed. fighting has intensified in afghanistan this year with the taliban stepping up its attacks international relations professor jamal wakim says that's because the u.s. airstrikes are proving ineffective in countering the root cause of the violence i believe that the syrians are the primary victims of the war going on in afghanistan and for the world isis. and the taliban and other predators groups in afghanistan.

going to the human lives. for the united states which claims that it respects human rights. its rights to promote democracy. human lives specially when it comes to an un-american and human lives it's not easy to wipe out these groups you need to work again on the grass roots of the problem fighting radical wow. now the latest major reshuffle among donald trump's top team has seen a series of sackings among his national security aides but even the man in charge of the dismissals is in the firing line over what might have driven his decisions with more his. general mcmaster national security adviser to donald trump his loyalty to the president is supposed to be

a default quality except now instead it's widely in question mcmaster made a decision to allow susan rice his predecessor in the job and long time obama ally to keep full access to classified information. the national security council will continue to work with you to ensure the appropriate security clearance documentation remains on file to allow you access to classified information. this revelation emerged just weeks after it was revealed that susan rice had been unmasking members of the trump team who happened to be mentioned in classified intelligence reports by default the names are redacted but susan rice had been making sure that the names and the information was readily available to anyone with a clearance to see classified government documents and potentially leak this information to the media susan rice's actions were flagged by as i recall one watt nic a member of the trumpet administration since january apparently his revelation struck

the wrong chord with mcmaster who has now dismissed him and it appears that's how it works with the general if he doesn't like you you go these people lead the very foundation of trumps foreign policy promises as a candidate we've been moving from one wrecked was intervention to another kid libya syria iraq iran this destructive cycle bad decisions we cannot be the policeman of the world now that most of those who shape trumps foreign policy have gone we have this my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much and i know you ordered a tall good new jersey state or if you. will handle both here we're going to be able to handle it will be it will be handled trump they have come to washington promising that you would drain the swamp that's proving to be pretty difficult especially when you're already neck deep in it caleb r.t.

new york well according to reports the security clearance given to susan rice was a regular procedure issued for every living former presidential adviser rice says she never requested the identities of trump's team members to be revealed for political purposes. well former u.s. congressman michael family again thinks that mcmaster is pursuing a different us foreign policy strategy than the president and that's what's putting his future as the national security adviser at risk i think general mcmaster views his own views of the national security the united states his job and the foreign policy of this noted stays as superior to that of the president just like master was a mistake he's going to go to factors whatever is that he will even take over as commanding general in afghanistan put a uniform back on and he will be replaced with someone who can actually execute the trump administration's foreign policy goals still to come this hour bahrain's most

prominent human rights campaign a face is prison again for tweeting but this time it's about a foreign war we'll explain why after the break. the one almost seem wrong. just don't. let me. get to see. this day. and in detroit equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. i.

i i i i i. i i i i. i i. i. again i reading the rainy human rights activist and we'll have a jab is facing up to fifteen years in prison for tweeting about the war in yemen the job is the co-founder of the bahrain center for human rights and has been in and out of prison for criticizing the bahraini government jobs being described as the unofficial leader of the opposition in bahrain where a muslim shia majority has been protesting against the sunni more like

a few years. was. was. was was was was was was well it was first arrested in may of two thousand and twelve and served two years he was then arrested again in october twenty forty and released a month later but placed under a travel ban then in january the twenty fifteen he was sentenced to six months in prison again though he was released on bail and a few months later he was put back in jail but pardoned in july of twenty fifth enough to calls for from major international groups for his release and then finally in june or twenty sixteen he was arrested and then sentenced the following

year for a further two years but here are the latest charges that are based on his twitter account activity they do include spreading fake news about the saudi led coalition's involvement in the conflict in yemen and for insulting to win undermining the prestigious of bahrain the burn center for human rights is currently appealing for jobs immediate release and for the charges to be dropped. to many people you remain as a whole that somebody took it and did it without being the voice for the voiceless people that's just didn't i just did engine to me told me to get. down on the scene of the ecosystem does give what i mentioned based on the other routine or based on the political background just all something wrong there's north . discussed being modest. i can only see people and people and keep what just i turned to. the.

let's cross live now to the senior advocate for bahrain center for human rights julie mellon is with us now good afternoon. firstly julie we know that he's the court case is taking place sorry court cases taking place today can you just bring us up to date have you heard any information from there. julie sorry i can't hear you actually just ask one more time i hope you can hear me yes for the last for the last bit about. the b.c. trial president. has been. to the court this morning and we are waiting for the court to release a decision we fear that he would be sentence for more years as you've already

mentioned he has been sentenced for two years for interviews it gives and today it's trial or it is to the turkeys and we feel it will receive a harsh sentence when you say harsh sentence what sort of are you expecting. actually according to the bahraini law you can be charged for more than fifteen years. that's why we are expecting a kind of decision today because in the past the bahraini government has not displayed any respect for international law for freedom of expression so we believe is going to be sentenced today in terms of the procedure of the trial itself to feel it's been fair. for the many international n.g.o.s the bahrain center for human rights as the two men to try your sorry.

i cannot tell you about that. has been. does not respect the international standard in terms of. it did not have a. pretrial detention for more than a year without any concrete charges against him. a more sort of reaction do you expect in bahrain today if he gets this harsh sentence. actually we are not expecting. to take in the concrete positive states but we are very disappointed by the fact that many western states including like the close. of the u.k. and the u.s. have not reacted appropriately. to the prosecution often a bit and so. is in that tension now because no appropriate reaction has been taken

by those western states as well ok judy look we'll leave it there we do apologize for the quality of the sound and that was senior advocate for bahrain center for human rights judy graham and thank you. now nothing use of all the signs you'd expect to see in a butcher's window one saying how killing animals is violent and unjust must come as a surprise to customers but a shop in california has agreed to display it after activists rallied outside for months conducting aggressive and gruesome starts. and that is hardly. well as well as forcing the owner to display the empty meat sign in the shop demonstrators from the greek direct actions everywhere are demanding it because of the good and butchery

although it's not clear exactly what that means they also want the right to carry out and more rights demonstrations there twice a year group spokes person matt johnson explains their mission. as with the successful social movements throughout history when we when we do these public demonstrations we are intending to dramatize an issue and get an issue on the table because we feel like it's an issue that we are inevitably going to win when it is discussed on a wide enough scale we know that we are on the side of of justice we are on the side of compassion and nonviolence we know that people don't actually want to support violence towards animals and it's only because we we live in a society that that normalizes it so much that it is allowed to persist we intend to make berkeley california the united states leader on animal rights issues we intend to liberate the city of berkeley by banning all violence towards animals by twenty twenty five in effect banning meats in berkeley as part of

a broader plan to pass a constitutional amendment for animal rights and on human discrimination that's pervasive in our society. well the shopper longs to monaco and her husband the family says though it's their rights which are being abused describes the activists is extremists carrying out ethical extortion by california comedian jeffrey mark klein the protests were a form of extortion because essentially they were saying. do this for us or we won't stop harassing you so yeah that is expression it's kind of like how the mafia used to say pay us for protection or we're going to destroy your shot that's kind of feels protesters chose a small butcher shop because it's a smaller target so they feel like they could have a bigger impact a smaller shop would be easier for them to extort then a big farm or a big factory if they chose mcdonald's there's a chance that mcdonald's lawyers may get involved and ultimately people are their

kind of just children who are scared of consequences so they'll only do something if they feel like it's going to work out. the fate of eight missing workers in the flooded diamond mine in far east russia remains unknown as rescuers and now tapping pipelines to make a sound in the hope that the trapped miners will hear it and respond and help to locate the emergency crews last managed to bring a miner to the surface on friday bringing the total say so far one hundred forty three. alecia way of had spent nearly twenty four hours on the ground before being reached he heard a phone ringing and followed the sound he then managed to call and let rescuers know his location has been describing his ordeal. yours was. started certainly the lights went out which will usually go windy and

misty out of nowhere a massive wave hit me i swallowed salt water. i couldn't breathe. the water was cold and dirty and it was my chest there were obstacles pipes boards and all the rubbish. i had to move with my leg badly injured and it was difficult of course but what can i do i wanted to live. like i was a war hero my leg was trapped the pipes were bending because of the water pressure i had to try and get my leg out without breaking it i got lucky.

and i looked for any way to be rescued but a phone was my only hope however all the phones were destroyed. the french president is facing a barrage of criticism over plans to create an official first lady role for his wife despite manual macron having banned lawmakers from employing their spaces when in france the president's wife does not have an official status and plays a courtesy role according to according to the plan though would have her own office the number of staff and security guards but a particular bone of contention is the idea of allocating a separate budget for the present we talked to a french publisher and journalist who says the president is becoming un french and copying his american counterpart. mr mcauliffe decision could be

a real big mistake the main reason for that is that he thinks as an american little signs of tooken moves are piling up to prove that mr merkel is more and more out of touch with reality when becoming the president for instance he chanted the french in the mass years with a hand on his heart like you probably saw on american movies but this kind of religious pious attitude is complete and french the explanation for this love of america is that he has been supported like french. by the way by the young leaders of the french american foundation whose aim is to strengthen the links between france and the u.s. . in fact a petition against the proposals quickly hit its initial target of two hundred thousand signatures and now organizers say they will send it to president macron once it hits three hundred thousand it does come as the latest polls show where his approval rating is actually plummeting because when he was first elected he had

more than sixty percent of the population on his side now after less than one hundred days in office that has fallen to a record low of thirty six percent it is america again. mr backhauls proposal was not surprised it was announced during his election campaign because it has become a part of his american way of thinking like thinking that the french state could be run as a business for over the less this decision could be one of the moves to popular he has ever taken sixty five percent of the french disapprove of this new decision his appearances flagging only. thirty six percent of french of the french are happy with this new leader and he will soon face a terrible winter of discontent with the unions and that's how things look so far today here in r.t. i'll be back with more nice and hot for. it

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