retracing in the heat of the night this new orleans. police. thousands of protesters rallied in cities across france mounting a challenge to president back from his controversial labor reform a number of buildings vandalized in paris and also this hour media outlets funded by the u.s. government are notified they may have to register respond agents in russia the move is similar requirements imposed on r.t. america in the u.s. and the deposed plan leader talks about his regions in the pendants push and the turmoil it triggered in a rare interview on artie's brand new talk show he opens up to host alex salmond about his feelings when violence erupted on referendum that. was

a tragic day to. see directly the violent way fate. cooled by hometown there are a lot of injuries and worth of injuries. but i welcome to r.t. this the evening where it's just turned nine o'clock here in moscow in our top story thousands of students and trade union members have marched in cities across france today protesters were voicing their anger over president micron's labor reforms the changes were signed into law in september and are widely seen as eroding workers' rights and handing more power to employers in paris some demonstrators vandalized buildings from their charlotte dubinsky reports thousands of people turned out to the streets in paris to voice their concern. gates president nikon's. plans to change the working conditions here in france around

forty five thousand people here on the streets of the capital and there were other demonstrations on this national day of action that was called by some of the biggest unions in france they worried about what they say the erosion of working whites would be under this new directive by mr mack gone and they say that one hundred twenty thousand jobs are at risk now like many of the protests we see here in paris this protest was no different in the sense that it was actually marred by a small group of people who decided to start wreaking havoc on the streets of paris smashing some of the buildings up as they walk past them in fact we were actually stopped at some point during the protest as people were targeting specific buildings i need to say that this is a small group of individuals who are not linked to the trade unions who we saw as them smashing up buildings like banks building societies and places that rent

apartments here in paris and it was seemed to be very targeted very angry stopping the crowds and in fact when they saw that we were trying to film they actually blocked our camera and threatened us and said you know you're not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about the police being able to work out what their identity is. that the fact that the code to survive and the fact that although much has signed this and given his approval it still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get parliamentarians in france to change their mind and to not support this law as it's debated in the parliament at the end of november for the moment though they're holding their breath and hoping that they can continue protesting like this to make sure that their voices are heard loud and clear.

charlotta penske reporting now the russian justice ministry has sent letters to two major u.s. funded media outlets and their subsidiaries notifying them that they may soon be designated as foreign agents the move comes in response to r.t. being forced to register as a foreign agent in america so america has more. while the new legislation targets u.s. funded outlets including voice of america radio free europe and its other regional branches this comes only a few days after r.t. america was forced to register as a foreign agent or have all of their assets frozen russian r t have been regular topics of discussion at various hearings in the us discussing alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election but until this very day there has been no evidence to substantiate any of these claims under the foreign agents registration act or our team america will now have to disclose its finances provide regular reporting on its activities all within forty eight hours they'll also have

to add a disclaimer on all of its work the ministries latest decision is a mere response to washington's recent crackdown on our t.v. and its measures are similar to those required under fair and clearing disclosing finances and providing evidence of editorial independence as news of russia's response went global amnesty international was quick to react and released a statement on the issue saying that the legislation strikes is serious blow to what was already a fairly desperate situation for press freedom in russia but the organizations concerned wasn't extended to r.t. america when they were initially targeted by washington we reached out to several press freedom watchdogs for comment and they didn't appear to be so outraged to say the very least in their responses ranged from not being on forms on the topic to only being able to comment on domestic issues but this is the first time that russia has specified a list of companies that could possibly be designated as foreign agents but we're

actually still waiting for the official announcement we discussed russia's reaction with r.t. host afshin rattansi british journalist neil clark. when we heard last week that r.t. had until the following monday to register as a foreign agent in america there was silence from groups like amnesty and other groups that are supposed to be defending free speech and free media and yet when russia very reasonably announces reciprocal measures in response to these measures from the us then all of a sudden these so-called impartial western pro human rights organizations come out and say this is outrageous this is terrible russia is clamping down on free speech so really it's very very transparent you only have to look at what's happened the last five days to see the racket pocket see well u.s. authorities want to the media war and russia giving it right back to them i presume that if radio free europe and the voice of america are on this russian list

one can only presume that the russian kremlin and the russian government they understand that these were well known as propaganda outlets well before that is decision so obviously it is just no one in the world would think the voice of america is anything other than american propaganda outfit it was used massively as propaganda against the left wing in the movement democratic movements in the american central america and voice of america is seen as that. a spanish parliamentary session has once again brought into focus the divide in the country over catalonia is independence one catalan m.p. in madrid has suggested that the spanish prime minister be arrested for his actions against the troubled region it does come during a sustained crackdown by madrid against catalonia is deposed leadership. senior minister i'll let you have made your prisons into our nightmare but i assure you

that we will make our ballot boxes your nightmare minister you have beaten us with sticks who will be you with our votes and i hope one day with the mr a whore in the power of the. well deb using his new show here in r.t. for my scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with ousted cattle and president carlist pleased him on a rare insight into the independence referendum push the man was sacked as the cattle and president and is now facing charges of sedition and also rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail but speaking to r.t. cards page the man recalled the region's referendum day and told alex salmond how he views the future of catalonia where they take you to that the extraordinary day in the first of october. tell me what your emotions were that the in the one there

was the celebration of. millions of your fellow country people coming out to exercise or vote for self-determination on the other hand was that the violence that we all saw the television screens from the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia when that famous day there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent. i couldn't imagine the the direction like that from the democratic stately european union it was a tragic day to day because i see directly the violent face school in my home town there of lot of injuries i was of injuries by the start of the next week the spiral is judicial system all rolled into actual and took away the

constitutional prize catalonia had given well this mistake in fact start a new era in the end of his era that will start a catalan republic because in these conditions is not possible is not possible there is no future. to remain a spain in these conditions what is your message to the people of caterwauling we must to be confident resilient because we will win. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. a british right wing daily newspaper has been caught interrupting its journalists to paint the u.k.'s opposition leader jeremy corbin in a negative light the revelation came after one of its reporters accidentally forwarded the instructions to the labor party when asking for comment on

a story and situation or as more details of a journalistic folk part to say the least and just one example of really many of these days of how the press can twist and turn stories to try to get a certain angle this particular latest example includes the daily express journalist who apparently was instructed by either an editor or our producer to spin a story about national debt in the u.k. and then anti-labor or anti jeremy corbyn manner specifically this was published by buzz feed who had received. i have a copy of an email that they ended up publishing and this e-mail read quote needs a reaction from the taxpayers alliance but let's definitely also put the boot into corbin who wants to plunge us into into even deeper debt so as the readers are very clear that lever is not the solution and quote and even more curiously this journalist apparently did while trying to reach out to the libor party press office for comment for this piece ended up probably or apparently accidentally including

a very large the email in the request for commentary so not very surprisingly the labor party press office did not and commenting for this particular piece in the piece did come out it didn't actually end up mentioning jeremy corbyn or the libor party however it did include a video with an anti jeremy corbyn headline as well as a really big photo of him splattered across that article perhaps to connect the visuals with this originally intended angle he was still ahead this hour sweden is polarized over how to categorize suspects in sexual assault cases we'll have the story plus of the after the break.

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welcome back with r.t. now the former lebanese prime minister has accepted an invitation from the french president to come to paris sad hariri caused a political crisis in lebanon after flying to saudi arabia where he unexpectedly resigned from his post lebanese officials say they believe he's being held against his will by riyadh or the lebanese president's official twitter account posted that the government's next steps will be decided upon after her release returned from paris and new macron has made clear though that france's invitation is not an offer of political exile. i spoke with crown prince mohammed bill sammon and prime minister saad hariri we agreed that i would invite the prime minister in his family to france for a few days is also a gesture of friendship in the willingness of france to contribute restoring calm

and stability in lebanon that the french sort of is very curious i mean it's quite a thunderbolt what's happened just yesterday is that mr macron has offered her riri some sort of x. are they not using the word excel of course but they're stressing this is an offer to him and his family to come for just a few days that may well be a euphemism for to come here indefinitely we just don't know there are more questions than answers at this point france would be the obvious country to make such an offer you have to understand that there's a history of course a colonial history with france and lebanon but also that hariri is had a home for a number of years in paris so this seems to be simple to quote a smart move so this all started on november the fourth when hariri arrived in riyadh and was a real initially surrounded by police and detained his phones taken away from him and he was told on that day that the saudis were very displeased with his one year premiership in lebanon when negotiate effectively nothink the middle e-mail of

speech which more or less said that i'm resigning and i blame hezbollah for that and then just a couple days later after that you were on the record and did a live interview with lebanese television saying that he would be back in lebanon within a few days i think that reassured a number of people in lebanon that that that things could be things could calm down if we move on to just recently just yesterday the patience of the lebanese president michel own snapped and he went public and stated that this was international law being broken we believed the lebanese prime minister was being detained by the saudis so the french of coming to an interesting moment we don't know for sure if he will go to paris with the reuters or citing elise sources who has said he will certainly be there but there's a question mark over how long it will be some news agencies are using the words for a few days certainly i can tell you there's enough people in lebanon who are eagerly waiting for him to come back to beirut and to kick start negotiations which of not really move forward for a whole year now with hezbollah. well brianna has long been

a supporter of whereas lebanon's president is an ally of hezbollah with the militant group with ties to to iran and although the country's leadership has shown a united front so far the resignation risks worsening the sectarian divide. sweden's justice minister has rejected a proposal by the country's conservative party to mark the ethnicity of people accused in sex crimes in official reports morgan you hanson has pointed out that the main commonality among the perpetrators is that they are men who also added that the party just tries to blame immigrants will meanwhile a controversial report by a forty year old former truck driver has been published on the internet patrick johnson surveyed more than four thousand rulings on sex related crimes passed by swedish caught between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen and from there he

concluded that ninety percent of sexual crimes in the country were committed by people of foreign descent roger gray a former senior metropolitan police officer thinks that marking the ethnicity of a suspect could be crucial to an investigation. vertigo a crime you must gather the intelligence to best effect the two k. and the demography of what's going on the geography of what's going on the origins of what goes on all form part of the investigation so we must put this real racial issue or ethnic issue all on one side you know if you do fall in. the main force of a particular crime originates in one quarter of any particular society then that's where you must go look if they are going to. trace individuals on the on the basis of their ethnic origin in no that does not have to be a micro broadcast but i think it is an important matter as far as the investigation itself is concerned and they need to separate polluted system from investigation of

crime or otherwise investigations will be faulted. for now videos of people smashing their coffee makers are spreading online in protest over the manufacture of putting its ads from a t.v. needs. thank. people began training themselves destroying their machines are to the make a keurig dropped its ads from the hannity show on america's fox news channel keurig took issue with hey sean hannity defending republican senate candidate roy moore who faces several accusations of sexual misconduct including one woman who says she was fourteen at the time but viewers sided with hannity forcing the coffee company to apologize for what it described as taking sides the decision to publicly communicate our programming decision vire our twitter account was highly unusual this gave the appearance of taking sides in an emotionally charged debate that

escalated on twitter i apologize for any negativity that you have experienced as a result of this situation and assure you that we will learn and improve going forward. well in fact sean hannity then gave away five hundred keurig coffee makers to thank his supporters he also called for alabama photos to make their own decision at the polls when they vote for their representative in the u.s. senate we spoke to political analyst charles auto who thinks that companies should be careful if they want to weigh in to politics. i think it's a big mistake for publicly controlled companies to start meddling too aggressively in the political minefield particularly country like the states which is so sharply divided you have to understand that you know the hard right and the hard left you know represent all the a portion of the target market there's a a large percentage of the middle that doesn't like either party it doesn't like politics intervening every day on television in every aspect of one's life trying

to meddle in what a voter might want to do in the ballot box which is really none of the business of a company or encouraging words employees to support kerry rather that's just not a province that i think makes any real sense for for profit companies just does. now releasing two thousand small animal smith a farm isn't what most people would think of when they hear the word terrorism but that's what kevin johnson was found guilty of after doing just that back in twenty thirteen he was sentenced to three years in prison under what's known as the animal enterprise terrorism act he recently tried to challenge that legislation too but his case was rejected by the u.s. court of appeal the controversial act was passed in the u.s. in two thousand and six and it prohibits any actions which causes damage or losses to any company's dealing with animals if an individual cost the firm more than one hundred thousand dollars they can be fined and sentenced to ten days in prison more

places say we can talk to kevin johnson himself now the animal rights activist convicted of terrorism and let's just talk about exactly what happened to kevin good to see thanks for coming on just briefly then outline what happened to you here. well in two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lange and i and sort of the east for coming cranch in northern illinois for thirty six years as a facility that was imprisoning and killing manc killing children within the sight and smell of their mothers all for fashion and so we entered the facility we opened all the cages in the facility to free two thousand mink and saved their lives and we painted the words liberation is love on a barn to demonstrate that we weren't trying to threaten anybody we were trying to have a message of compassion when we were arrested we were sentenced under state law for possession of burglary tools we were already doing time for the crime in illinois

state and the federal government intervened to indict us under this terrorism legislation you know which ended up being a nightmare and i was in prison for three years. trying to challenge that haven't you unsuccessfully tell us a bit about. why you feel it wasn't successful. ok well my attorneys at the center for constitutional rights rachel merritt pole who's one of the most brilliant legal minds that i know of today they've been trying to challenge this law for ten years almost since the year was passed in our instance we were you know what the court essentially found was that the government is permitted to apply the label terrorism to virtually any activity that it doesn't like in this instance the court said it was not quote utterly unreasonable so that's their standard for determining whether the government can call something terrorism and specifically there was a case only a year after our arrest where teenagers in fresno california broke into

a foster farms chicken farm and beat nine hundred chickens to death with a golf club we raised this matter in our appeal in the courts that they were not guilty of animal enterprise terrorism because quote they killed the chickens for no reason so essentially what the court is saying is that the government is allowed to take a crime and target you not on the basis of what you actually did but on the basis of what you believe in this case the belief that animals deserve to live free from violence how does that make you feel kevin being deemed a terrorist. i mean you know it's a distressing thing in life in general people kind of can't believe it when i tell them and he's always telling you worry about with employers landlords it's a serious thing even if people look at it and they say oh that's kind of silly whatever at the same time they take pause which was the entire purpose of the federal government when they passed the law even if people look at it and say well that's silly they still take pause people are nervous when they pass this law i

remember a lot of activists in the animal rights movement saying they were scared of being put on a list people were canceling their subscriptions to animal related magazines the entire purpose of it was not simply to punish acts such as mine but it was to intimidate and frighten others who are engaged in mere speech. has it stopped from doing the activities that you're involved in before and i don't want to get sound like a crime but obviously you're an animal activist i mean how do you perceive that now . you know i'll be an activist for animals for the rest of my life when you consider the masses terms. hello and welcome to the very foster the sort of the simon chill i'm looking forward to you joining me every week as we beat a whole host of politicians stars of stage and screen business personalities and

fools leaders and of course those who want to be any of the above as robert burton said i was some poor the gift to get us to see ourselves as others see us. this program will give people behind the public figures and i'm not interested in catching people over statistics or laying them lol with previous quotations i want to hear from people of ideas and answers and with something positive to contribute and effort of change their mind about something then so much the better each week i'll be reading your tweets and your e-mails please get in touch i'll also be joined by i mean i'm a chick will be out and about in villages towns and cities across the silence speaks of catalonia carlist bush sturgeon's has started apology and passed laws criminalizing gay sex she'll be speaking with senior conservative m.p. crispin bill g b t rights both domestically and internationally but first to a really important part of the show but i get to hear from you over the past week

and even before the show has started we've received an avalanche of tweets and e-mails can i just say to the media thanks folks for all the publicity let's just look at a few of them were fussed up by a tweet from l n who asked so why are t. well our i have to the web the total control and offers an international platform so why not r.t. then from adam roberts what aslan's mean well adam is as garlic means good health cheers except it's not usually water than the glass and then from the godfather if you were prime minister would you stop but exit yes god for i certainly would. an e-mail from neil from miami i think you're sure was a huge mistake and reveals a naive ety cleve this only seen in your courting of donald trump deal i thought i'd torn for that and that's for the sure why don't you watch it and make up your own mind and then from last john weatherly gettig post that from on the show well

last jon i thought joint interview with chairman kim of north korea that would be a cracking episode and lastly from miss kate smith how would you like history to remember you well it alive alive. now to a regular feature state your case most often this will be a prominent public figure but i also like to give you the opportunity to state your case so if you feel strongly about an issue and like a chance to air your views then please write to me in the midst of their westminster kill some confusion one woman has seized the moment to spell out a programme of radical reform i once offered to make her a minister for cologne but this determined lady said no i'm of course referring to barrenness helena kennedy q.c. welcome halima let's see you state your case.