you're watching r t international bringing you your live news update this hour straight from the russian capital welcome to the program. not the rule of law but the law of the strongest that was the damning assessment of french national security by the country's outgoing interior minister before his resignation earlier this week but some of the measures that have been table to improve the situation have been slammed by france's police force our europe correspondent charlotte devinsky takes a closer look. aspirant says interior minister resigned this week he's shown a spotlight on the state of the country's security and it was stark. i went to these neighborhoods the situation there is very bad it's time to restore the rule of law because today's roll of the law of the strongest the rule of narco

traffickers radical islamists who have taken the place of the republic france has been on a high terror alert since a wave of islam missed attacks in two thousand and fifteen which killed more than a hundred and forty people and the atrocities kept coming. in a bid to keep france safe two hundred and fifty thousand security personnel are deployed every day but forces say they're being stretched too thin and have reached

a breaking point they've worked on most twenty two million hours in overtime without any extra pay but m.p.'s from korn's own party have a simple solution to the problem private security forces are a component which we must know take into cone's everyone recognizes that there are no key partner there report suggests guards in places like supermarkets and shops should essentially become another arm of the security services it suggests that they could all be equipped with tasers have the right to carry concealed weapons and even get a distinct uniform police unions off furious to give its privatizing security there's a real problem with the risk of private security agents being more the risk to our citizens than an advantage right now feel you private security agents can carry firearms but that could also change up to three thousand could be granted the right

to carry guns and rifles a situation which could cause a small revolution in homeland security again making police unions uneasy is a real risk with these agents not having enough training having a weapon in your hand means the possibility of taking your life is out of the question and he says the changes could also lead to a clear divide between the protection of vailable to those who can afford it and those who can't. see well bridge people have an equal right to security we want the public service missions to effectively protect people from the problem. because if it's privatized security will depend on the purchasing power of the french to defend themselves and protect themselves also the officers are worried it will move fronts closer to the u.s. model a country all too familiar with gun violence so far this year there have been more

than two hundred seventy mass shootings in the us mass shootings mass shooting in florida another mass shooting in a year of mass shootings the shootings continued unabated people are dying more people have been killed at schools this year and have been killed while serving in the military where the mass shooting generation while france understandably wants to make tragedies on its streets a thing of the past police have slammed the new plans and say there is a far simpler solution just give better back up to existing officers who are accountable to the very people they're meant to protect. in the u.s. tensions remain high over brett kavanaugh nomination to become a u.s. supreme court justice a final floor vote is expected on saturday which is now all but certain to go his way after the f.b.i.

failed to find convincing evidence that could have been our committed sexual assault but that hasn't stopped the protests. i. was. warning you going to jail in thought. but you know what's the. matter is. there has even been an internal revolt among facebook employees they found out that one of the company's top executives is one of common office closest friends and attended his sexual assault hearing last week samir com picks up the story. it may be the number one news story in the us right now but weighing in on the cabin or case can prove fatal in today's political climate facebook's vice president joe

kaplan a close friend of kavanagh's made the grave mistake of attending the hearing to support his friend and kaplan's crime was caught on camera facebook employees were furious complaining about it on a private message board he knew that this would cause outreach internally but he knew that he couldn't get fired for it this was a protest against our culture and a slap in the face to his fellow employees according to kaplan they'd been friends for over two decades he attended his wedding their kids grew up together but friendships no excuse when confronted by liberal outrage so kaplan groveled apology i want to apologize i recognize this moment is a deeply painful one internally and externally given the level of hysteria facebook went even further apologizing on behalf of the whole company our leadership team recognizes that we've made mistakes handling the events of the last week and we're grateful for the feedback from our employees believe it or not all this was nothing

compared to what an american pastor said in one of his sermons if he dare to mention the kyoto thank you. he's made it this far because he is not corrupt he's like family because he is ethical he is our only hope and that is why i'm here even those who love to hate bill sinatra can't stand him because obvious similarities to trump i think i'm not a person world like the car breaks and even the never troubled protest movement is comparable to hash tag resistance in the usa i. although the anti trump backlash never quite reach such fever pitch levels possibly because nobody managed to get to trump anyhow balsa not who has suffered for his straight talking even getting stabs at a campaign rally. oh. oh both

is like trump upgraded he takes things to a whole new level and a couple felt like it was bad often with bush. thirty points of that if i was there was still that i think of the new one of the defendants who this is my kid goes to school. in new york who think. you know what you think you could do much but even those out by us haven't shaken his lead in the polls his trump like promises are playing their part no more government red tape put brazil first privatized state owned farms get real tough on crime at all costs and in a country that has a history of put crime and corruption his cool stuff found an audience population is fed up with corruption population is fed up with the going on the crisis and crisis of representative each of the traditional parties so the very fact that is

leading the race as a front runner is a sign of the times here people really don't care what the he actually thing. balt gay people or minorities or or human rights there really were one the change to human bodies just change one can argue that he's he's not serious about what's being to change he's not prepared for being the change this is a good argument he was really a free much figure in brazil in politics someone was always been there but it was all very important to change parties all the time but the point is he's contenders that they failed to present themselves as better options even though technically they might be better options. three palestinians have been shot dead including a thirteen year old boy during a protest at the gaza border with israel another three hundred seventy six protesters were injured around twenty thousand palestinians gathered at the border on friday as part of a weekly demonstration that's been held for over six months now.

meanwhile the israeli military defends its actions saying that protesters threw tires and explosives and that some of them broke through the border fence it also responded with two airstrikes in gaza with no casualties reported the great march of return demonstration started in march every friday protesters demand the right to return to ancestral land that's now part of israel around two hundred

palestinians have been killed during the protests. still to come in the program french president emmanuel mccrum has told his public to stop complaining i'll see why after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday

shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides clearly dramatic to follow the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. here watching our two international this saturday welcome back to the program french president emmanuel mccrone has urged citizens to complain less saying they should follow the example of wartime leader sheil de gaulle that's after a pensioner expressed anger anger to the president about his small pension french

politicians have rounded on the crown over his words. because i think he's going to learn some of his general shoulder told me you can speak freely the only thing we don't have the right to do is complain because he would be different if everyone did the same dosu complain do not do it for pleasure but because they are victims of uninterrupted tax increases and endemic insecurity in short your policy the president complains all the time there is a deep misunderstanding between him and the people these incessant insults addressed individually or collectively to the french sometimes even from abroad must stop micron visited the city of the girl's home and burial place during the anniversary of the fifth republic his comments came a week after the french government revealed its new budget plan for two thousand and nineteen this invasions further cuts to pensions and welfare benefits the businesses will enjoy tax breaks back in june micron said that france spends quote

a crazy amount of cash on social programs meanwhile the latest poll shows macross popularity has plummeted to thirty percent in another survey the lion's share of respondents agree that mccrone is arrogant we asked people in paris what they think about his latest remarks. the letter was always to complain it's in the french character car needs to accept this anyway we have the right to complain. to the french people across the problem is that he's completely disconnected from what people feel he seems to be young he should be careful not to give too many unless it is just what my corn is right the friendship complaining too much i hope he'll have no reasons to complain and he's retired as well. as somebody who doesn't know. he doesn't come up even. if your backlog is like so

while good things that life is simple and everything's a deal but he's very fast. he looks like a young there's not seen much of ron's does not know how to speak with french people granted looks like a consultant who thinks he's at the head of a company he doesn't understand that he changed his role when he became president. he looks like a cockroach who wants to impose his domination on the farm you know it doesn't work he looks like the good guy but was a smaller nose. the crown prince of saudi arabia says his country doesn't owe the u.s. a cent and unpaid weapons bills his remark was a response to donald trump who issued a warning to the gulf kingdom. we project saudi arabia would you say they're rich. and i love the gang king solomon but i said gang. we're protecting you you might

not be there for two weeks without us you have to pay for your village or actually we will pay nothing for us security we believe that all the armaments we have from the united states of america are paid for their not free armaments we have to accept that any friend will say good things and bad things you cannot have friends saying one hundred percent good things about you even in your family you have some misunderstandings so we put that in that category. riyadh's traditional foe iran also weighed in with terrance top diplomat tweeting that it's a delusion to think that one can outsource security adding also that the saudis should focus on building regional bridges saudi arabia and the u.s. have been close allies for decades in the last ten years washington sold the country three hundred fifty billion dollars worth of weapons and other business deals between the two powers are said to be worth tens of billions. patrick henningsen founder of the news website twenty first century wire believes iran is

simply trying to convince saudi arabia it doesn't need america's protection the question is who is the u.s. protecting saudi from they're not going to be invaded overthrown by styria or me and even now there is no country strong enough to topple saudi arabia except for the united states so that our protection racket works you pay the mafia and the mafia allows you to run your business and what iran is doing by reaching out is basically exposing that hypocrisy saying look you're under a protectionist arrangement or a protection racket arrangement from the united states and so why don't you think about a collective regional security arrangement that's in everybody's interests and so not to be a client state of washington. there's less than twenty four hours to go until the most anticipated mixed martial arts fight of the year russian u.f.c.

fighter habib nor monk of me above will try to retain the u.f.c. at lightweight world title against irish star conor mcgregor the encounter is taking place in las vegas the fight will see mcgregor aka the tourists return to the ring after his defeat to boxing great floyd mayweather in august of last year our sports correspondent aleksey had a shift will be bringing us all the pre-fight build up later this saturday. while mcgregor vs nor my goodness of maybe the most anticipated fight this season some would rather see two other big names tear into each other. part of russia they want me to get into a boxing match. that

your firm will be going to. the art world has been left stunned after a work by graffiti artist banksy which had just come under the hammer for over a million dollars proceeded to self-destruct. the iconic stencil image girl with red balloon was shredded by a secret automatically activated device fitted at the base of its frame auction house attendees gasped as the art prank unfolded before their eyes banksy who's known whose work is known for his anti-capitalist themes took to instagram posting the message going going gone the fire needn't be too upset it's thought that the work will have doubled in value as a result of the stunt. that's our breakdown of the day's top headlines for now but

don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like facebook twitter and instagram for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in this hour. secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the do graphic solution so what the

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