allegations of russian meddling reach new levels as britain's prime minister calls for unity against moscow while accusations fly from spain and even from a star trek actor. the russian parliament passes a law allowing the kremlin to register media outlets as foreign agents in response to measures taken against r.t. america in the us. and we hear from an animal rights activist who was jailed for terrorism after releasing found minks from a fur farm. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r.t. international. the u.k.

prime minister pointed the finger at russia in a speech on monday accusing the country of military aggression and election meddling but she offered very few details and apparently the stalled bragg's at talks are far less pressing chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not want to secure the best possible brics it. the day after may's speech a group of researchers claimed russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the bags of vote artie's point looks into the story for us in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the brags it talks on the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian

interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media are out and that could be a lot more yeah i believe there is sometimes and this was the way the foreign secretary put it on. the. evidence of the ninety's. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a man months is most likely evidence russia russian territory but that's not the celebrations and he now deleted you. guys says russian bly they're not crafting some story of you have allegations made by someone else who benefits from this there is absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some stranger and some cryptic association

with some has been star trek actor or an accusation that's forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. germany could be on course for a snap election after talks on forming a governing coalition collapsed the leader of the pro-business free democratic party announced his decision to pull out of the negotiations. we have the other one is that we will not abandon our waters for a poli sci with the trio know it's kind of it is better not to govern when to govern by the. christian laettner gave that statement after more than a month of talks with chancellor merkel's c.d.u. and two other parties the sides were unable to agree on key issues including energy policy and whether refugees should be allowed to bring their family members to germany said that she regrets the f.t.p.'s decision but pledged to see the country through a difficult time her future as chancellor now hangs in the balance that's because

the second largest party in parliament to the social democrats has ruled out forming a new coalition with merkel that leaves her with the difficult task of trying to form a minority government by striking deals on individual issues with multiple parties and if that fails the bundestag could vote to remove her as chancellor meaning a snap election would have to be called voters do not seem too optimistic about her chances the latest polls show sixty one percent of germans believe the collapse of the coalition talks means the end of merkel as chancellor a political scientist and c.d.u. party member verner ponselle told us that the lack of a stable government in germany would harm the entire european union. but sherman is see most important power of the european union is the european union certainly cannot move with our chairman e and for chairman need to move to push forward the european union or to stop pushing it forward whatever germany is in need of a stable government so far we have no stable government sooner for all european

business has to wait until germany is ready again to be an active player in the european game we will simply have the situation there other than in the last decades germany paralysed itself which is an exceptional situation but since our contributed there are much to this situation well it's up to her to find a way of muddling through. this week r.t. america was forced to to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. after months of pressure from washington and china will now have to abide by a law first to set up to combat nazi propaganda before the second world war it will have to regularly disclose full details of its broadcast and staffing to the u.s. government plus it must maintain a transparent financial structure and be ready for full inspection at any time there's r.t.c. and he's now let's talk about the first amendment more american than apple pie freedom fries and gun violence the first amendment is supposed to protect the

freedom of speech right right it allows anyone to have a voice in till you speak to the out r.t. america was forced to register as a foreign agent why forced because the other option was legal action and accounts frozen so let's say you're an american journalist and you want to cover stories the mainstream media will never talk about and then all of a sudden your employer is labeled a foreign agent that makes you a spy the o.j. is using a law from one thousand nine hundred thirty eight created to fight nazi propaganda against america but the war doesn't apply to any other foreign broadcasters can't are the you. ok france and many other countries can have their say as long as they don't say too much remember when al jazeera was the t.v. that real quick as soon as they started walking washington's line they became respected journalists you are not

a respected journalist if you cover imperialism nato expansion israeli occupation if you talk saudi arabia straight up if you go inside guantanamo to reveal human rights abuses and i say spying currency wars exorbitant military spending manmade interventions and soft coups you are not a respected journalist if you go on live t.v. call out the country that funds your network but keep your job you are not a respected journalist if you risk your life to cover proxy wars violent protests police brutality and coverage without corporate censorship you are not a respected journalist if you win multiple prestigious awards and emmy nominations you are not a respected journalist if you only work for r.t. because it's one of the larger outlets that will actually let you say what no other network will and touch topics you would be fired for anywhere else you are a spy a foreign agent it's official the u.s.

government now decides what is journalism and what is not but this is just the beginning it starts with russia and it will end abhorrent right in the heart of america and they follow up the russian parliament responded to the treatment of r t america voted in favor of making it possible to require u.s. funded media outlets to register as foreign agents russian justice ministry later released a list of organizations that could be affected by the law when it comes into force failure to register will lead to prosecution and the outlawed could be banned and just like with r t america all output by the channels will have to be marked as a product release by four. funded media british journalist clarke and former london merican livingston gave us their views on the issue i think there's a more more of attempt over the years to come to try and suppress what the american people get here because if american people could see the truth about a lot of what's happening around the world they would be questioning what their

government is doing behind all of that and so on the result of this is going to be more people now finding out are going to hear what's on our t.v. i mean there be people out there never exist now that want to know what run from it what's going on i would be a total surprise to find foreign listeners of r t will be more in a few weeks time than they are now 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 organizations. garlands former first minister has launched his new talk show right here r t alex salmond it was slammed in the press for joining this channel with headlines like these but he is confident that he made the right decision. are you not afraid of been hosts in the rush of the program taking into consideration all the publications. haven't disappeared the question i thought might be from the sun the daily mail but a bit on the west side either quake through the. russia today broadcasting a counted fifty lead but m.p.'s there at the tory m.p.'s fourteen s m b m p seven liberals friesian seen today you'd be in the green. on russia today programmes so. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell. john redwood crispin blunt.

for you and black for vince cable and carville and lucas then i can probably. stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well in his first show alex salmond spoke exclusively to the ousted catalan president who was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion explain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail speaking on are to recall the region's referendum day and related his vision of the future of catalonia you can watch that full program on r.t. dot com. thousands of people took to the streets of paris on saturday to voice their anger at president micron's social policies and crowd was blocked by police as it moved towards micron's official residence the i would say palace protesters rallied against the growing presidential powers and his labor reforms which he claims will spur growth and cut unemployment earlier one hundred members of micron's party in march announced that they were going to quit because of his

betrayal of democracy these events were the latest in a string of protests across france against the president party's tried to report. what we have are thousands of people who have decided to join this march which was set up by the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions him. called on their members for a day of national action and this is one of a number of protests taking place across france. we're seeing along the street where this profound them is not just rocks on the street from around the trees and actually. 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 threatened 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 speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about because it will get at this thing that the way mccrone passed the law by executive order is an attack of democracy one that this could happen where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights. even micro wants to liberalize optimize and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we're here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers they also want to school measure the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to divide and the fact that although much has signed this and given his approval it still.