on the streets of paris violent clashes erupt between police and demonstrators marching against reforms. turmoil in the city of portland demonstrators blocked traffic calls in the latest dangerous action by left wing activists in the u.s. . a controversial website claims it has identified the second suspect in the form of double agent and his daughter. reacting to findings by various media.

it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. shocking scenes in paris as police fired tear gas at the tens of thousands protesting against the french president's reforms five people running against. education and transport reforms were arrested discontent nationwide as more than one hundred rallies were held across the nation . has the story. coming together to show that. the presidency of. one of the.

some of the protesters and the police some protesters throwing projectiles at the police including students at clawson bottles and smoke grenades and the police coming back with some force and detaining some of those protesters aiming at stopping this protest from turning as violent as we saw some of those early this year only made the first many people all very unhappy they're very angry with all the seas of the michael government saying that the reforms that he's been passing on the reforms he expects to pass on just roy operate the old french society this is what some of the protesters have been telling us that the something we are outraged revolted by what he says about a population hardship it proves he doesn't know his country properly improves above all existing in what he says the american. micros like the bankers chief will he compromise with workers over his shoulders serve the employers he also goes

against retirees like me and the general public don't care since we returned our pension has not stopped trink i'm really mad in my work to. most of the other things that people have been talking about a on the streets how they think the president sees out to touch reality and how he could chase a bunch in a twenty two members of the public he's been described many times of being the president of the rich but some of the things that have hurt the people here because some and get some of the comments he's made over the last few weeks including telling the unemployed god know that if he just crossed the street he would be able to get a job in a bar or cafe in one of the things he said in the last week was a pensioner when he suggested they should take that money out of the book of the founder of the french public the general to go in and just don't know complaining this is what he said it's because of a leader and some of his general shoulder told me you can speak freely the only thing we don't have the right to do. if you would be different if everyone did the

same what these cliches that the people who come out to the streets hearing race and the cool scroll it's great to be on the happy with the michael presidency and they want to do everything to ensure that their voices are heard willy's do we speak well it's not sure what the protests that have launched michael's presidency of the last seventeen months or so he doesn't seem to have taken any new just a new change tools he says he is carrying out the manifesto that he was elected on but the people here say they will still have to change course and to me show that you can speak on t.v. . back to being activists of course in downtown portland in the u.s. state of oregon after they block traffic and attack cars trying to get through kind of milk and reports things got rowdy in downtown portland now it was in the aftermath of a vigil for an african-american man who had been killed by police officers now the

vigil itself was peaceful but afterwards protesters poured into the streets and things got intense people described the scene as chaos random people in cars driving by were harassed by the protesters let's take a look at some of the video that came out of the incident in downtown portland. ted cruz the senator from texas was simply having dinner with his wife he was in a restaurant and soon he was surrounded by left wing activists who are furious about the the situation regarding brett kavanaugh i controversial supreme court justice who has just confirmed now of the protesters interrupted him this took place in september and after the incident took place there was actually a threatening tweet that was made on social media let's take a look at what happened to ted cruz and his wife as they were just trying. enjoyed

their dinner in a washington d.c. restaurant. candace owens she's an activist with the conservative organization known as turning point usa she was confronted by protesters after she was simply trying to have breakfast in her hotel the protesters were confronting her and did not approve of some of the statements that she had made on social media this is what went down when candace owens was just trying to enjoy her everyday life. there's. seems to be an extreme polarization in the country between those who support donald trump and those who oppose him and it seems that this division is being asked

a late it was some taking it well beyond arguments and to physical confrontations. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. . stepping down his washington correspondent with the details. well nikki haley thanked trump for the honor of a lifetime serving as ambassador trump accepted her resignation and said that he'd announce her successor in a matter of two to three weeks and he also hopes that she'll come back to serve the administration in a different capacity let's check out what they both had to say she told me probably six months ago she said you know maybe at the end of the year the end of a two year period at the end of the year i want to take a little time off or i would take a little break no i'm not running for twenty twenty and i can promise you what i'll be doing is campaigning for this one so i look forward to supporting the president in the next election so thank you nikki haley has been embassador to the u.n. since january of two thousand and seventeen and she leaves at a very inopportune time just as disagreements are brewing between trump and other

world leaders and this was made obvious at this year's u.n. general assembly when world leaders laughed at trump during his speech and even then haley tried to defend him in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america hears so true i. didn't expect that reaction but that's. when he said that they love how honest he is and it's not defined magic and they find it funny i mean when he goes and he is very truthful they kind of are taken back by it now for something to think about on monday a government watchdog called for an investigation into whether or not nikki haley violated federal ethics regulations by accepting free private flights this was

acknowledged by nikki haley in her twenty seventeen public financial disclosures as saying that she was friends with the c.e.o.'s of those private jet companies that's what everyone's talking about so it looks like she'll be serving as you want to. i asked her until the end of this year so we'll just have to see who replaces her in this highly coveted position. controversial website belling cat claims it has identified the second suspect linked by britain to the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter however the presented facts raise a number of questions r.t. correspondent on this to see has been following the belling katz a news conference in london. not only has this whole story been creating diplomatic rows of course as we've seen unraveling throughout the last couple of months but certainly now among journalists here on the ground following this conference where these latest revelations that have had to present had a ravelled where journalists were confronting each other about opinions and

certainly quite a media frenzy about these latest announcements and in terms of what specifically dell inc out how to present the said that they have identified through social media . who the man who has been described as the second suspect in this case he was initially presented as alexander patrol belling cat say his real name is alexander miskin they see he is a medical doctor who was recruited by the g.r.u. before two thousand and three and was taken to moscow by the year twenty ten they say he was involved in visiting ukraine and in terms of identifying who they were there were quite a few loopholes and certainly lots of questions here from journalists follow ups to what they had to say one of the things that were curious is they said. their first so-called you reka moment as they describe it was when the name alexander came into the spotlight and then they tried to find a man who was born on the same day and the same name but of course you know that is

a very very very common name so they had to connect those dogs by trying to find after finding one person with the same details trying to find a possible word photo or some kind of i.d. they said that basically when they did find something according to billing caps they couldn't really see exactly where they hit lock but we did get a copy of the document they said that this man had been honored with hero of russia by the president putin himself however when it was asked for some kind of proof of this they talked about some kind of granny who lived in the village where this character was supposedly. and one person they had found via social media had told told them that this granny had showed the entire village where she lives a photo of this man being granted that honor by the russian president and when asked whether or not they were actually at least able to directly contact her they said she had vanished when they announced their advance so certainly quite

a few of of these questions despite all of the headlines that these allegations have been making the russian embassy here in the u.k. have said that they have essentially been told by the foreign office that this is all part of freedom of public debate and that the u.k. government does not comment and we've also heard from official moscow say that they are essentially at this point tired of any leaks and speculations being made on all sides of the media and what they would like is official channels to cooperate on this matter let's take a look at this current state of. other issues christiane the some of the nature. of the the terms you know cause for months of course in the company of the minimum union but he still managed to huge influence include sort of those two parts components me and many more of them. if you believe me move you lose your good christian criminals. you know he's. sort of

a bit of who instituted while these journalistic of revolutions if we can call them that continue to be made it does seem to continue to be a major standstill in terms of figuring out kind of a common way to move forward with this story which continues at this point to be a lot of he said she said and certainly a lot of opposing opinions on how exactly and what had happened to script all and in terms of these specific individuals that have been in the headlines recently. two leading russian footballers are being investigated after two people were allegedly attacked in moscow within two hours of each other while. a high ranking government official in a cafe and another man in the street but i think were taken to hospital that whole consist only of a sports correspondent and lexi. and i looked at those videos i thought somebody was trying to reenact the grand theft auto computer game in the streets of moscow but then it happened to be not just to footballers to star footballers now one of

them i saw that got caught in this leading strike and then in st petersburg he actually scored a winner in the europa league just a fortnight ago the others by my from class that are both used to play for the russian national team up until twenty sixteen they were in a strip club they went out of the strip club for some reason clashed with a man in the street who happened to be a personal driver of a t.v. host in russia now this man reportedly is in intensive care with a with a brain injury with a head injury they did not stop there after that brawl and we can see the video the man in the white hat is actually my according to eyewitness reports they went further they went to a cafe in central moscow and collapsed with two visitors of that cafe the visitors were turned out to be public servants both relatively high ranking government officials one of them also reportedly ended up in hospital with injuries so you know indefensible actions and it's really really not looking good for these two footballers after this you know mayhem in central moscow and what's the reaction to

incident been obviously a lot of details coming in and confirm that all of them from various news channels saying there's now another incident on the train and you know all the speculation. this is really stirred some heavy controversy and russian indeed i mean the reactions have been overwhelming and they have been overwhelming criticism as well coming from the very top now let's listen to what the russian sports minister had to say about that. the victims have turned to the police there is video of the incident they cannot be any extenuating circumstances in this situation this is unacceptable unsportsmanlike behavior the cast a shadow on all russian football the words of five local of course are as. in the reactions coming from the russian premier league and the both respective club senate st petersburg and cross the the russian premier league expresses its concern strongly condemns the hooligan behavior we believe that those responsible should face the strongest possible punishment there is no place for hooligans in football we consider any form of violence an acceptable and condemn we are certain that at

the end of the investigation the incident will receive an appropriate legal assessment we're waiting for a legal assessment from the respective agencies but from a human and emotional point of view this incident only evokes both clubs have been relatively quiet about the possible repercussions for both players but the talk of the town that both clubs are looking into terminating these players contracts they're just looking at the contracts whether this domination is possible but let's not forget if they are found guilty if they're charged and found guilty of these misdemeanors they could face up to two years in prison each and that is definitely more serious than terminating a contract you know of course footballers are renowned for perhaps being party boys making some mistakes this is pretty serious there is no and it's not the first time this pair have made headlines as it yeah definitely you talking about party boy stay went on a big party surprisingly after russia crashed out of the euro two thousand and sixteen championship they were caught filmed in one of the monaco is nightclubs

with a lavish party with champagne. i. should not be doing even if this is not you know if it's outside of the of the pitch. according to was caught several times reckless driving in moscow his bentley was pictured in the south are said to your wedding firing off pistols in the air so they operated the tories for their misdemeanors but of course all that pales in comparison to what they did this last weekend and it's absolutely no chance that they will scape any sort of punishment from that. crucial us that mid-term elections are fast approaching with every vote. being seen as a potential deal breaker in the almost evenly split senate the traditionally democrats supporting states and new jersey is drawing particular focus after an influential black pastor seemingly threw his backing behind the republican candidate polls show there's a little between the embattled two term democratic senator robert menendez and

republican challenger bob if you can despite claims by an endless pasta jethro james insists he invited both contenders to meet his congregation so often the african-american vote is taken for granted and so i believe we should have had or should have. the ability to make a choice and so i decided to in common let our folks hear what he's offering in the race as well as the same member station went to senator menendez senator menendez been busy and he decided not to take the invitation and so it was just as you go to a grocery store there's more than one loaf of bread on the shelf more than one. brand of bread in folks can make intelligent choices the pastor also compared america's political system to a political plantation and says his community will not vote for someone who does

not have their interests at heart. reality is that this country is so divided and that some folks are just taking those at the bottom for granted and i think that that's all part of really a moral issue that has to be. a challenge in this country we're not we're not just going to go and haul the lever for anyone or anybody who doesn't have the interests of our people at heart. scientists have voicing concern over a pentagon project to genetically modify insects that spread viruses is a theme that hollywood horror films are already familiar with.

you haven't just released a transmissible virus you've released a disease the united states knows better than to return to a biological arms race the program may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and a means of delivery which if true would constitute a breach of the biological weapons convention. the insect allies project is aimed at protecting agriculture but also includes developing a defensive response to quote threats by state or non-state actors and or with the help of insects in nature bugs spread viruses among plants but the u.s. defense department hoped to modify insects so they spread viruses that make crops like tomatoes or corn more resilient however scientists warn the move is full of dangerous they says baked the gene engineering could lead to unforeseen rotations such as making the plants course cancer the insects themselves could prove hard to

control and it could be a path towards biological warfare and by the biological weapons convention but those behind the research say there's nothing to fear. technology's dealing with food security and gene editing certainly do have a higher bar the most for transparency research ethics and regulator engagement and i believe insect allies means that raise standards we reach are fundamentally new ways of delivering more precise efficacious treatments through systems that can be read lived up to to confront a range of potential threats it is very very rare for a single gene to create such a widespread result in the plant mostly these things like increased year old or resistance to disease they require many different genes working in coordination and we don't yet eat the language of the genome so if they're claiming that this technology was a forty five million dollar budget over a few years will solve those problems they're either highly naive or they're hiding

something obviously these genetically engineered insects could be used as biological weapons there's no doubt that if you create insects that can insert genetic constructs and change genetic expression they can be used as weapons what's also interesting is there. and if it were not being used as weapons it's extremely dangerous enormously dangerous to even release these at this point they're already releasing them in greenhouse and if there was an earthquake or some kind of problem where they released we have no idea how they might actually reproduce and propagate in the gene pool changing the nature of our ecology perhaps forever. discovering all should be a chance to celebrate an economic boost in the creation of thousands of local jobs

but things have turned sour in the u.s. state of north dakota where the new war wealth is being linked with a surge in truck abuse prostitution and domestic violence on wednesday on r.t. we'll take an in-depth look. there was a very agricultural community it was mostly just cattle and farmland. you had this small little town of water herd and then all of a sudden all these people move in. this is. so they need to actually physically can't get out of the. thing that made north dakota. and. with whole lot of money just like all the oil field workers can fly you know my love for them right along with taking the drug in the. guns. they

work twelve sixteen hours a day you know it's hard work oil workers not easy work and so they want to relieve their stress and how do they really have the stress these men that outweigh these men that comfort these men. people who've been murdered up here people going. rapes there are massive drug issues up here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money i could ride around newtown and know that i was ok now i wouldn't even let my fourteen year old son run around town because i don't know who is here there's drugs. people who are trying to get these kids addicted to drugs going to look for the younger ones here try this take this smoke this. watching the whole is next.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. just manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. when the crime larry go around listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. from the real news room.

this is crude oil. so they need to actually physically can't get out of the ground you know well well well well. well. there's a lot of money with the oil and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country. you don't make a hundred thousand dollars a year. as a minimum there is an issue. here in the. they work well sixteen hours a day hard work well work is not easy work and so they want to relieve their stress and how do they relieve their stress these men that outweigh these men believe that

comfort these men that. people have been murdered up here people can raise their massive drug issues up here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. and. you know. coming up that. one type of time to all pull enough. to know. why even. in film plan there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground six in the street sometimes by the people they trust the most.

greetings and salutations one one sued over ten major manufacturers for poisoning merican citizens you would think it would be for billions in cash but a new class action. lawsuit against three m. dupont and nine other companies isn't looking for payback they're asking for the companies to create a panel of independent scientists tast was studying the effects of p s a s chemicals on the human body the lawsuit filed this week by ohio firefighter kevin hardwick seeks relief on behalf of the nationwide class of everyone in the united states who has a detectable level of p f a s chemicals in their blood vs a sore per and poly flora area a class of artificial louv grown chemicals that do not decompose an air or water or

even human body not even for the hoses of years p.f. they are used in fast food wrappers water repellent fabrics nonstick cookware like teflon cosmetics and fire fighting foam according to both the international agency for research on cancer and the us environmental protection agency p f a as are possible kirsan engines to humans this c.d.c. lists the side effects of p.f.a. s chemicals as they can affect the growth learning and behavior of infants and older children they can lower a woman's chance of getting pregnant interfere with the body's natural hormones increased cholesterol levels affect the immune system encreased increase the risk for cancer now with cities and towns across the us finding elevated amounts of p.f.a. ass chemicals in their drinking water and considering it could take a decade or more for concentrations of the chemical to leave our body i think it's time to get serious and start watching the hawks.

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