it's a year since a manual micro-loan was inaugurated as the president of france but for many in the country his reforms have fallen short of expectations he's also accused of cronyism and running a virtual monarchy in part as thousands marched against micron's pro-business economic reforms the protesters say the changes represent an assault on workers' rights it is just the latest in a series of rallies across france in recent months a number of we shall be marred by violence and clashes with police present a call is now under even more pressure following the knife attack in paris on something late evening amount of chechen origin stopped one person to death and injured or others in the french capital he was then shot dead by police islamic state earlier released the video allegedly showing the attacker pledge allegiance to the terrorist group charla dubin ski has more knowledge turbulence first year in

the. discontentment on the streets violent confrontations. used to subdue protest is this is fronts one. first term in office twelve months ago still it's fair to much fun he had just won the election he was riding on high little did he know perhaps that his real battle was just about to begin reforming the working code provoked a backlash that pushed ahead because went on strike. everything is done to benefit the rich to give funds and subsidies to big companies the multinationals. he's an old true liberal who thinks he's bosses his friends but on the small people say yes at that. he's against everyone who works against the

pensioners against the students. some also argue that much corn has consolidated concentrated power and by hand picking his m.p.'s who now have outright control of the national assembly he has ensured that his way is the only way. even the grassroots members of his own party have voiced frustration with his leadership saying it's not inclusive and their opinions don't count many are also unhappy that he's bypassed parliament to push through some reforms by decree rather than a vote meanwhile khan has said he's proud of these choices and hates having to constantly explain his reasoning get us hostage in an attack it's a catastrophe it's a general attack and everything that makes up the french identity it's history and it means everything we succeeded in constructing over the centuries has chucked it

out it's been thrown in the been shackled an os every announcement every new law that's prepared encroaches a little more in our democracy whether it be on the judicial level or business level or concerning constitutional reform. his bringing down all the values of the french republic has turned his back on them the way the system set up is it's sometimes described as a republican. that was how it was conceived and how it's meant to be run it's meant to give for ols strong. or for or to footnote off oratory and leadership but i don't think it's he's on them a critic there is you know counter power balance to his to his power many in france same corner is like a king who doesn't understand his subjects his supporters say he's carrying out the pledges that he was elected on unlike his predecessors he isn't. backing down to

social pressure but with another four years left to go one former president has given mcconnell a warning those who say that people are looking for a king should never forget they're in a country where the monarch had his head cut off we are the presidential administration to respond to the accusation of his critics but they declined to respond so. paris. moving to indonesia which has been hit with terror attacks for a second consecutive day believes the explosion took place a police station headquarters in the country second biggest city of sure by a day after triple suicide bombings on churches in the same city a c.c.t.v. camera captured the moment off the attack on the police who which has left at least ten people wounded it was carried out by members of one family a ten year old girl among them who survived the blast it's believed the explosions

that targeted church goers on sunday was also the work of a single family thirteen people were killed and dozens more injured islamic state has taken responsibility for those attacks so far no one has claimed the latest explosion. ok returning to our top story now and these are live pictures via a lot of smoke right now as we just cross live to ramallah the central city in the palestinian the ministration palestinians right throughout the west bank. been urged to turn night for the protest with the palestinian islamist group hamas saying as many as two hundred thousand people will take part what you're seeing here now is one of the main streets in ramallah a sizable security presence not a lot of locals there towards the end of the streets on the right a lot of smoke plumes of smoke perhaps. from burning tires burning cars area that's

what we saw when we went straight to there we're going to be keeping a very close eye on developments in ramallah in jerusalem and also of course we're up to sixteen people according to the again military officials have now died today in clashes between the israeli forces and palestinians just a reminder in response to all of this is really military is boosted its presence along the border on similar demonstrations are taking place this is. hundreds if not thousands of people coming out on to the border line between the enclave in israel the u.s. embassy moved of course from television to jerusalem this is the overhanging story two developments today and we're going to be getting into that up after the break here in our international stay with us.

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you're back with r.t. international grace might soon be able to exit a bruising be allied program that was put in place by the international monetary fund and the eurozone that is according to one of the blocs finance ministers the deep economic crisis and austerity measures the country has suffered has been blamed for the rise of far right groups their golden dawn described by many media outlets as fascist neo nazi has gained wide support on a special report by the red fish media group looks at its spike now in popularity.

terri is one of the latest victims of golden dawn the far right group that has surged in recent years while unleashing a wave of violence she was attacked by several members of the group earlier this year at a community center in the city of courageous. as well as a lot of the. more they use a. different. method to sing that out. there see. all of the characters. just to separate them and set the pace because something's. up. golden dawn's meteoric rise was mirrored by that of the coalition of the radical left or surrealism which formed a government in two thousand and fifteen but all that we pledged to take on the

troika of the international monetary fund european commission and european central bank to series a prime minister alexis tsipras caved in in july two thousand and fifteen accepting a third bailout that continued the harsh austerity measures of his predecessors with the left still reeling from this development many worry that it's the far right it is increasingly feeling the anti establishment get golden dawn only received nineteen thousand six hundred thirty six bogus four point seven percent of the vote in two thousand and nine parliamentary elections however in two thousand and twelve as the effects of the economic crisis left their mark they received over four hundred forty thousand votes or seven percent a massive increase that sent shock waves across europe as they entered parliament although they deny any ideological connection to naziism their use of violence in their symbolism leaves others to believe that is simply absurd on september seventeenth two thousand. and thirteen powerless fists us an anti-fascist hip hop

artist was stabbed to death in athens by george roopa cops alleged to be a member of golden dawn that murder led to the prosecution of sixty nine of the group's m.p.'s party officials and supporters among the charges that golden dawn is a criminal organization the group denies any organizational connection to the murder even if you have you may and i lie. let me ask. you a black man you must get this testimony came a. golden dawn might be known for its violence but of all the countries political parties they hardly hold a monopoly on anti refugee an anti immigrant rhetoric we spoke with a member of the independent greeks the coalition partner of some reason the current government who at the design of rhetoric the golden dawn is known for.

even in germany. if they like migrants or not. they will not likely you know what have you seen the politics. of the crimes committed by the migrants the vice president of new democracy greece's conservative party is your justice he has said that parts of athens have turned into a quote taliban land and that is the fault of the left wing ideology that has quote surrendered greece into the hands of muslims biggest problem. or a bigger threat to greece and far right of all of us over for well some reason has failed to win this fight greece is left is regrouping at the grass roots and take. in the battle from parliament back to their communities and the other they want to

. the people. who is responsible for the crisis so this kind of bodes well for the governments of the space for the far right and the fascist and this put the cup in europe where there is no resistance but if there is no left there is just the giving out of the. well you can watch the full version of reports on the red fish channel to check it out. ok returning now to our top story sixteen palestinians that number rising this hour being killed in protests the non-singing the relocation of the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem dollars according to dance and health officials that information coming into us from what you're seeing now are live

pictures from. thick smoke coming from burning tires where protests have been happening from early morning today right up until the afternoon hundreds of people if not thousands coming out to protest there also the israeli military we need to point out it has boosted its presence right along the border after hamas said that up to two hundred dollars and people will be joining those protests right across the region when our middle east correspondent paula is in jerusalem at the site of the the new embassy or near to there paula what are we expecting from today's opening just talk us through what's going to be happening. well as you can see here in jerusalem it's a lot quieter than the scenes coming out on the gaza border after much speculation the american pay. didn't donald trump will not be attending the opening ceremony

today which gets under way in about an hour and a half at four o'clock the softer noon local time but he has sent instead his daughter event and her husband jared kush know who our senior white house officials and advises also in town are the treasury secretary and a number of members of congress now yesterday in the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu held a ceremony to mark this historic occasion and they were invitations it was sent to all eighty six diplomatic missions but only thirty three responded and said that they would be intending in these included paraguayan as well as what america guatemala both countries who will be moving their embassies to jerusalem before the end of the month also attending were presented to us from hungary romania the czech republic but there were no representatives from waist an e.u. states which certainly shows that there is a rift with inside the bloc in terms of this embassy move however the united states has been pushing hard for people to come on board they've even resorted to duty

tactics which we saw when the american ambassador to the united nations nikki haley issued a threatening letter. to consider the vote i want you to know the president and the u.s. take this vote personally he will be watching this vote carefully and has requested our report back on those who voted against us thank you for your consideration. now if the sentence the american president made the announcement that the embassy would be moving back in december there have been protests not only here in the region but indeed around the world two days ago there were protests that were held inside jerusalem where residents of the city marched to show their annoyance their disgust and their extreme concern over this embassy move. came today because i firmly believe to restore moorings to everybody and there's just too much bad stuff being done in the name of june. i think this is a group of people coming to the center of tourists at

a time particularly this coming right where. that's just a violent racist. deepening of the occupation. coming out to the forefront of the embassy bombing and miserable people that i wanted to join to say not enough of this we are holding these you know going for two state solution don't you know the four over and also for nations who want the sharks discovered to be interested. now so far at least sixteen palestinians have been killed and the obvious even reports of dozens if not hundreds who have been injured the figures are expected to climb as the day continues in justification for its response these really army has issued what many are calling a somewhat over the top video to try and justify its heavy handedness. israeli homes destroyed. and whole innocent men

women and children because. this is not the video that anyone wants to see this week the israel defense forces will do everything to protect the civilians from the math that hamas is planning. now this conflict is centuries old and what many people here are asking is how will moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem do anything to try and dissipate could be growing anger and frustration and indeed condemnation on the palestinian arab and european street. bring us right up to date from jerusalem funks from apollo this our. top story this hour according to the gazan health ministry sixteen people have been killed in the gaza israeli border that is one of the stories we're going to be keeping a very close eye on right through the day do join me in around half an hour's time for all the latest developments but for now appear lavelle and his cross talk guest

. hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle have you ever known a hero well here you'll meet one also what is the future of the transatlantic alliance in the era of trump and the prehistory of the next war in the middle east . across talking resistance i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke to international origin across hospitals in effect i mean if you can jump in anytime you want gentlemen we have a special guest on the program today and i want to talk about the level of dissent

in the united states in the west in general and freedom of speech and theory is we're joined by ray mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst and co-founder of veterans intelligence professionals for sanity ray thank you for joining us here i think most of the viewers of this program know that what has happened to you when you were at the congressional hearings to get through donald trump's nominee part of the head of the cia. can you follow up on what's happened. what were you you were charged what were you charged with and what happens now. i was charged with resisting arrest and also disrupting congress. i will have to appear in court on the twenty fourth i think it is of may and face those charges so who knows what will happen hopefully the judge will have looked at the videotape and see how how ironic it is that i should be charged with resisting arrest when so to speak i was not on my own power and being dragged out

of there one thing that people don't realize is that as senator richard burr yes who's hand in glove with the intelligence people they supposed to be supervising he started the meeting by saying you know we're we're no procession of we're going to executive session but there will be people who need to make a statement or all i say to them is good quickly do it fast and then be gone i said to myself wow oh it's the first time i've heard a chairman and invite some. as that was part of what i thought would be ok if i made a short statement and then be gone and turned out that they made sure that i'd be god and not on the my own power but you know quite. well i thought what was interesting for me watching the video of you being assaulted is that here we were there was an hearing on a woman that there is ample evidence that she was involved in the brutalizing and

torturing people and and then at the same time you were being brutalized and i don't think it's unfair for me to say i think you're seventy eight years old i watched that video a number of times i could not see how you could have possibly been a threat to those police officers and you didn't look like you were resisting in respect of the fact of being force on the ground. thought at the time you maybe that your arm had been dislocated and there seem to be no interest other than a few people videotaping it here watching brutalization in public so you know it seems to be brutalization seems to be the themes of the time. right. well you know go ahead mark i had to ask a question yeah i have to say ray you look pretty good generally for a seventy year old guy a seventy eight year old guy a twenty four year veteran of the you know as a cia analyst but you look at a little worse for wear i see your glasses are still broken could you show us your

hands ray. yeah those are it was a real tuesday they did it that a job on may u.s. police state is my prison well you know. that's what we have to sort of keep our sense of you my youngest daughter when she saw the picture of dad how did they make your right ear down so low how did they bring it down so low. ok well it wasn't the air it was the glasses but you know if you live let's talk about the level of dissent here because i mean what you were you were invited by the chairman of that committee as a member of the public to express an opinion but you were not allowed to do that so what does this tell you about the level of dissent and freedom of speech in the us i mean these hearings are very important jeanne a bloody gina probably will get the get through it and be placed as head of cia so

what about dissent. remember where you heard it first dear she's not going to be approved ok or enough decent people in the united states are storming to senators she's not going to be confirmed so yeah it was set up those guys were already to pounce on me i took advantage of the fact that one of them moved away from the front so i could get at least a sentence and but you saw the rest of what happened so what we have here is a committee this supposed to be an oversight committee see what the what the what the cia's doing but it's richard burr and it's the kind overlook committee they're handing glove with the with the intelligence people who are supposed to be overseeing or monitoring david you want to jump in there well i think that there's just well for what's happened unfortunately it's a part of a trend i mean there are hundreds of people so-called whistleblowers in the united

states on the no fly list and a lot of them who are subjected to similar treatment in europe piskorski the polish citizen he has been in jail for two years without trial simply a for giving need to be used to the russian media saying things which their means team does not except in law to xander good point and who was also or even don't r.t. and that to vist for the russian minority in logic he has been arrested a few days two weeks ago and no western media not not a single western media outlet reported to about it i'm pretty sure this story with a rake is not going to be picked up by the mainstream media you know that's. brings up a really interesting point because you know. ice i saw a couple of comments in the mainstream media you know very small margin marginal comments but alternative media and social media picked up on your story like a dead engines i mean it's all over facebook right now i made the announcement on

facebook to be on this program the positive reaction was so overwhelming it really made me happy that people are the people do know about this story here and you're not going to learn about it from the mainstream media. well that's the major major point here that's the back story and i grew up in in new york first twenty two years of my life i went to school there i went to university there and i have lots of friends that are still looking at the grass for my top ok this is still around now when i go back to college reunions and i say blah blah blah they say right now how would you learn so i mean oh well it's not in the new york times that's how bad it is it's not in the new york times and course i didn't expect to be in new york times nor was i washington post wall street journal so it's really encouraging that this is going goes viral among people who feel the same way we do for the most part but it's i guess the main story in my view is that nobody knows what they did what

i did and what i did was quote quite within my rights run why didn't the senator had asked jena high school were you there in thailand that you should provide the waterboarding of al new shiri and she said. senator that's classified yeah and he said i'm out of time now that is a classified well senator i classified it i have lots of incriminating evidence against me so sacred section she so she she classified so that's let's make sure our viewers understand she classified information about herself ok oh wow there's oversight there not only right not only did she classify it she destroyed evidence right she did it which is also a federally run even though gray gray even though ron wyden to run wyden ran out of time right so he couldn't follow up but here's the chair right and he knows that every one of those senators know that sure she did supervise the waterboarding of

on the shiri at that black site in thailand everyone knows that ok so why didn't he intervene why didn't he say now miss haswell we have the documents of course you say there are secret but it's a little odd that you should be allowed to classify these so would you answer yes or no lawyer there when he was waterboarding course she would say yes so that's the cover up that's the the supreme irony that she can classify and make unavailable to the public to the people who are supposed to be watching what's what person this is this nominee to be to head the cia i mean this is an open hearing is to inform the american people which is a no no i'm sorry that's classic i think any of that's right senator that's classified but. readers who are inherently apparently gentleman her nickname bloody gina. number one parent lee she kind of like the nickname and number two there are

reports that she enjoyed that kind of well in hand tara geisha and i mean this is kind of a reflection of the mindset you know nice nice nicknames these people have the defendants of democracy a mad dog blow. jean they're going to defend democracy a bunch hundred percent can you imagine someone that the newer trial you know the german nazi spite of that accused of torturing people can you imagine good i can tell you if i did this this is close you fly you know they will say that they were fighting coleman isn't what they are different resisting jewish law but they will never say it was collection fighting the business as if there are never happened i mean this is what happens to a twenty four year veteran of the cia when he protests against torture and war criminal let's be clear you know haskel is a war criminal. for not wanting a torture to be the director of the cia and it's not the first time we've seen this type of brutality of course i mean we all remember occupy wall street pepper spray

cop ferguson black lives matter and so i keystone x.l. anti dakota pipelines we've seen this again but but really i'm i'm glad that you i'm trying to keep a sense of humor and i've got a couple twitter quotes for you what you in that vein jeremy scahill i'm sure you know as well as i do ben jena high school is waterboarding the glass ceiling movement of the. movement. because you know in america at least at least women have the equal rights to torture you think it's thirty seconds gina haskell said she worked very hard and sometimes even slept on the floor of her cia station that must have been torture from danielle brian irish journalist. well gentlemen i'm glad we're making light of this and i'm really glad that ray is ok but again it seems to me this is a sign of time in the times that we.