brochure books the u.s. draw for resolution at the u.n. on extending a chemical weapons program in syria accusing the panel of bias. for the students hold rallies across the country against president controversial label reforms. also the media outlets funded by the us government are told they may have to register foreign agents in russia move there are some requirements imposed on america. we also hear from an activist who was jailed for terrorism often releasing thousands of animals from a farm. and

i welcome to all the international law from moscow just going to five am here in the russian capital. thanks for joining us this. russia has vetoed a us trough resolution at the u.n. on extending the work of a joint probe into a deadly chemical incident in syria this year a lot more and has this report meeting began with the united states putting forward a resolution to extend the work of the joint investigative mechanism to continue its work looking into allegations in syria well the vote was taken and russia blocked it as a permanent member of the security council russia blocked this resolution put forward by the united states we then heard from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to united nations and she was not happy with russia this is what she said. russia has acted to obstruct these investigations many times but today it strikes a deep glow russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council and by lemonade in our ability to identify the attackers

russia has undermined our ability to deter future attacks now later in the meeting russia and bolivia were able to put forward a resolution that would have extended the work of the joint investigative mechanism but restricted it and urged it to operate in what they called a more reliant and scientific manner and this resolution put forward by russia and bolivia was also vetoed it was voted down at the council it was blocked by the united states so this is this is what was said by the russian ambassador to the united nations this was this was was his response to russia's proposed resolution to extend the investigation being blocked. you would you. could you proceed on the basis of an investigation which does not withstand scrutiny is derived from evidence of unclear origin and it's like a house of codes the joint infests mechanism has imposed guilty sentence and the

entire state of syria security council meeting concluded with the investigation of the joint investigative mechanism of the o.p.c. w. the investigation into chemical weapons in syria going to expire no extension was agreed upon now this is in response to the chemical attack the alleged chemical attack in qana shaikh eighty people were killed back in april with sarin nerve gas that was used in concha koon now when that chemical attack took place the world had no evidence no information had been gathered but immediately we heard u.s. officials blame the syrian government the usa then unleashed fifty nine tomahawk cruise missiles against a syrian government air base this is what we heard from u.s. . officials but for any fact that even when gathered when that vote bolivia was the only country to join russia or in voting against the u.s. draft resolution at the security council china and egypt abstained from voting either way and i believe in ambassador to the u.n. he spoke exclusively to r.t.

after the vote we would against a resolution because not resolution due to represent the what we need for joining. mechanism to to to do there were many many members of the council that has to have a stress their concerns regarding how the joint investigative mechanism has been. issuing these last report we really believe that the investigation should be done in c. too so if we talk about the attack the l.h. talked in. saw the g.m. the joint investigation mechanism should go to that place and to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete the investigation there are differences different approaches to that but i think there's a common ground common ground is that there should be investigations on the ones that commit this kind of war crimes should be held accountable if the nations there

are around the table the one of the security council are united it means that there should be compromised that should they should engage in negotiation we should try to accommodate the interests of. all of them author nicholas davies believes the chemical probe failed to take an impartial look at all the evidence available. clearly this this is not you know this is know what the world expects of the o p c w or of the u.n. security council when you know you know when when these. you know when the world signs an international treaty and establishes an agency to investigate an incident like this. we expect to be able to to rely on it took to conduct its investigations with integrity and to hear from.

experts from all sides and from different or all points of view and this clearly didn't happen. over to france where thousands of students on trade union members have been marching in cities across the country crowds voice their anger of a president labor reforms in the capital he's got the latest on the almost four. well what we have a thousands of people who have decided to join this small watch which as you say was set up by the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions in france call the no members for a day of national action and this is one of a number of protests taking place across france what we're finding from people is that they're incredibly angry about what they describe as being the liberal reforms of missed the mark on the mr michael has made changes to the code to define the term via this is the working code in france and he signed those into power using

simic stream powers just a few months back but just want to bring you up to date with some of the latest that we've seen a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break and smash what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage this is a small select group of people but as you can see the great still in the shop door here where they attacked in fact that she went in and asked all the customers to leave before they attack the shop but this is what we're seeing along this street now but this is a small group of people at the front and not the union members who are trying to hold a fairly peaceful rally what we saw was 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 that she blocked our camera and frightened us and said you know you not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that we've been speaker. some of the protest is about what this protest was really about why they're angry and what they think of president phones idea to reform the code to try all the working directive this is what they told us you can see they're all good at this thing there's the way mccomb passed a law by executive order is an attack a democracy does not a democracy you know he didn't ask the people whom the stories about parsifal on that there's not going to happen we're very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights.

to liberalize to miners and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we are here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers. the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to divide and the fact that although my point 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. now the editor in chief of purple magazine thinks that such executive orders

can be undemocratic. occupies to the center of the political spectrum the full center and so the extreme left which is the only support that the unions have in parliament in the us. are seventeen seventeen members of parliament thirty democratic the these executive orders most politicians say repeatedly that they won't use it until they use it in this instance probably it was the only way to get it through because the french people are very reluctant to go to let it go through and this labor reform was really the first big stumbling block for. just to pass that through then you will have a period of of let's say. a long period to do what he wants to do on all the points but this was key for him for his movement.

the russian justice ministry has sent letters to two major u.s. funded media outlets they've notified them that they may soon be labeled us foreign agents this comes in response to being forced to register as a foreign agent in america respectively so miracle follows the story well 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 r t 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 r t and its measures are similar to those required under fair and clearing disclosing finances and providing evidence of editorial independence 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. america registered as a foreign agent we sent requests for comment to dozens of press freedom watchdogs and rights groups as well those who replied told us they're not any position to comment on a scene the nationals office in london didn't respond to us directly but they did condemn the move by the russian parliament following a day calling it a blow to press freedom the organization for security and cooperation in europe initially said it was not ready to make any judgments over america's status but once the russian justice ministry issued its own warning to american outlets the organization did issue a statement condemning both sides british journalist told us the reaction from

whites groups is inconsistent. 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 i think everybody can see now very clearly the hypocrisy that underpins so much of this western the western organizations who claim to be in favor of free media free speech but they only really start shouting and start protesting when it's countries like russia who are taking action in response to action taken by western

governments. i was rails top military official has said his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia is remarks could further complicate an ongoing standoff between tehran and riyadh i certainly is there with the full story this chief of staff now with his his comments are quite interesting is a misguided aizen caught and he says that where possible israel and saudi arabia will share intelligence he also says that iran must pull back what he calls their militias from places like syria iraq and of course in lebanon but here in lebanon the situation is far more complicated you know you have hezbollah who are the perhaps the more militarily powerful group in lebanon but they're also a political party they have m.p.'s and they have ministers within the government as well and of course we've seen in the last twelve days or so the prime minister saad

hariri rather bizarrely and i. it's in his resignation from saudi arabia and it's his party which is traditionally been supported by saudi arabia but in the last few days even those members of the lebanese parliament in the political landscape have been calling for him to return to the country because there have been suspicions he's been held against his will in the last day or so there's even taishan has been extended by the french government and emmanuel marquand to sad hariri to visit paris and it's thought that that's perhaps the first stage of this whole crisis being resolved and it's actually been welcomed by the lebanese president michel aoun who is a christian that he's in an alliance with the hezbollah party and so it seems like that attempt by saudi arabia to try to force the lebanese people into putting pressure on hezbollah seems have backfired and the people here in lebanon are

expecting mr hariri to return to the country they say hopefully within the next few weeks. now we can now bring in colin cavell associate professor of political science at bluefield state college west virginia thanks so much for joining us on our. as we just heard from our correspondent lebanon's really been caught up in this regional feud between the saudis on the one hand iran on the other hand. in your opinion what are the saudis really hoping to achieve in lebanon how could this really play out in the coming weeks and months. mr daniels this is a president and is really chief of staff and israeli general given an interview in saudi arabia agreed to an intelligence sharing arrangement with saudi arabia over iran what this confirms is exactly what was the memo content released by the lebanese newspaper akbar

a couple of days ago which was fun but they're allowed to bear the saudi foreign minister which call for a try on for an alliance between israel saudi arabia the united states and have they remain amongst them so that they can contain iran and in so doing they were yes but they would give up any type of demands over jerusalem any type or right return for the palestinians in any type of solvents that is for the palestinians so that the first step of a compromise that this memo there was published in the bar is. i just want to ask you on this news about intelligence sharing saudi arabia obviously saying they're willing to share information on iran. israel saying they're willing to share information with. with the saudis i mean isn't this really surprising because riyadh doesn't even recognize israel's right to exist so what's

the situation there. well actually saudi arabia and israel have been collaborating for quite some turn however they have not done it openly so this is the first open collaboration public collaboration and acknowledgement that there is a strong relationship between israel and saudi arabia and you can assure us that the united states or this agreement. in particular since the crown prince mohammed bin someone came to power in saudi arabia just a couple of months a few months back in august we've seen a much more aggressive stance on iran to put it that way what do you think is behind those moves exactly. well mr daniel of course you know the situation externally you have the defeat of saudi forces in syria isis is on the run and has basically been defeated in syria you have the defeat of the

saudi forces then they created havoc down. here in thousand ready for have fifty thousand more estimated in the next five years you have a cholera epidemic going on in yemen you also have the conflict that is going on in the arabian peninsula between saudi arabia and qatar where saudi arabia is threatened to overthrow the government of qatar and is basically calling for it to give up its law for all of these not all problems really big problem for the crown prince mom at the moment otherwise known as b.s. and so he is trying to salvage is neighing jump in with reforms within the kingdom that he thinks will make him popular and secure in spare toward

taking over or. there's a lot of hidden power play going on here as well as in a lot of him interests i mean just last month saudi arabia accused the ron of arming shia who say rebels in yemen they've blamed the ratings for that missile attack on a an airport in riyadh iran is of course denied these claims outright how much of a role do you think iran really does have on the yemen conflict how crucial is their influence on their support. i'll show you exactly what influence iran has and that is specifically that they are a nation that practices the market see in the election of its leaders and that very basic fact is threatening to all of the kingdom particularly saudi arabia which is just one family. on the arabian peninsula that has no legitimacy at all that it continuously wages or against its

neighbors the press is in the speech as a phony. to them. basically limit half of their population seen part of the population to a subservient. iran stands out against all of this backwardness as a. progressive century. i mean iran has of course faced some criticism as well for human rights abuses but you certainly do have a point but just going back to the the saudi role in the middle east and in particular the role of hezbollah in lebanon why do you think the saudis are so concerned about hezbollah as a military force and of course a political force as well as a primary were created in lebanon why is that such a warning to the saudis. well there all two million dollars.

but. it's an hour. and they. may be you know it's really no big. i think. you. actually. get it. all right i was calling cavell associate professor of political science at bluefield state college west virginia thanks so much for insight today so great to talk to. a. politician house call for the spanish prime minister to be arrested he spoke out during a parliamentary session in madrid he denounced the countries or the government's crackdown on catalonia independence movement said you know many still you have made your prisons. but i assure you no we will make our ballot boxes your nightmare

minister you have beaten us with sticks but we will be with our boates and i hope one day with the mr wrong in the. now in his new show here on r.t. former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively with arthur castle and president carter suppresion on for a rare insight into the independence referendum whose you want was sacked as the castle and president is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion or spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium he is currently on bail he spoke to r.t. recalled the region's referendum day he also told alex salmond how he views the future of catalonia. let me take you to that the that extraordinary day in the first of it told her and tell me what your emotions were that the in the one hand there was the celebration of the whole millions of your fellow country people

coming out to exercise a vote for self-determination on the other hand it was the the violence that we all saw on our television screens from that the state police or what were the conflicting emotions that you felt that as president of catalonia on 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 state in the european union it was a tragic day to day because i see directly the violence in the face school in my hometown there a lot of injuries i was of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system all rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained well this mistake in fact start

a new era in the end of his era that will start a time rapidly because in these conditions is not possible is not possible there is no future at all and to remain a spain in these conditions what is your message to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will win. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. over to the states where an animal rights activist is pushing for legal reform after he was jailed for releasing thousands of animals from a fur farm even johnson spent three years behind bars on charges including terrorism he spoke to r.t. about his experience two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lange and i entered the east for ranch in northern illinois for thirty six years of the facility that was imprisoning and killing manc

killing children within the sight and smell of their mothers after a 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 sensed 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 now the a controversial law randa which was jailed was passed back in two thousand and six it actions that cools the most is to companies dealing with animals if an individual causes damages of more than one hundred thousand dollars they can face up to a decade behind bars kevin johnson gave us his views on being treated as a terrorist 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 then use always when you worry about with employers landlords it's a serious thing even if people look at it and they say 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 i think that it's incredibly cynical for legislators to try to use the rhetoric of terrorism you know in order to essentially repress activists on behalf of industry and finance. you know terrorism we all know we've all experience in this country sadly terrorism is the killing of civilians in order to intimidate their populations you know it it's a desecration. of the victims of terrorist attacks and you know an

affront to the concept of what terrorism is. over to sweden where the justice minister has rejected a proposal by the country's conservative party to mention the ethnicity of people accused in sex crimes in official reports morgan johansson points out that the main commonality among the perpetrators is that they're men he was the party of targeting immigrants or meanwhile a controversial report by forty year old former truck driver has been published online patrick johnson surveyed more than four thousand rulings on sex related crimes passed by swedish courts in a two year period between two hundred twelve and twenty fourteen from the included that ninety percent of sex 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. to investigate a crime you must to gather intelligence to best effect that u.k.

and demography of what's going on the geography of what's going on the origins of what goes on all forms of the investigation so we must put this real racial issue ethnic issue all on one solenoid you know if you do following. 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 prices of their ethnic origin you know that does not have to be a matter of broad cost but i think it is an important my first far as the investigation itself is concerned and they need to separate politicize him from investigation of crime otherwise the investigations will be forty eight i just approaching five thirty in the morning here in moscow holkins are watching r t international thanks for staying tuned to come back for more headlines from around the world in just on the half an hour.

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