clashes erupt between police and protesters in paris as thousands gather to voice their anger over president. poland demonstrators blocked traffic and attacked calls in the latest dangerous action by left wing activists in the u.s. . and russia dismisses the findings of the investigative group which claims it has identified the second suspect in the script poisoning case.

it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. shocking scenes in paris as police fired tear gas tens of thousands protesting against the french president's reforms five people rallying against a manual labor education and transport reforms were arrested discontent was nationwide is more than one hundred rallies were held across the nation. has the story. the policies of. all coming together to show that there are those policies. maybe the next. presidency. one of the. cross fronts. she's watching 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 to have a stop at this protest to ending as violence as we saw with some of those earlier this year all that made the first many people all very unhappy they're very angry with all the seas of the michael government saying that they will form cities mean passing on the reforms the expects to pass on to destroy the fabric of french society this is what some of the protesters to be telling us they're threatening 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 america. is like the bankers chief he compromised the workers over his shoulders of the employers he also goes against

retirees like me and the general public don't give 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 tail on the streets how they think the president sees out to touch reality and how he could chase bugs 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 cause them and get some of the comments he's made over the last few weeks including telling the unemployed gardner that if he just crossed the street he would be able to get a job in a bar or cafe you know 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 the civic leader and some of his general shoulder told me you can speak freely the only thing we don't have the right. because if you would

be different if everyone did the same what ease clearly is that the people who come out to the streets hearing race and the cool sprawl 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 voices be heard well it's not sure that the protests that have launched michael's presidency of the last seventeen months 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 get me children to speak on t.v. . left wing and to come back to miss of course turmoil in central poland in the u.s. state of oregon after they blow traffic and attack cars trying to get three artie's kenya reports it's 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 other 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 to enjoy their dinner and. washington d.c.

restaurant. owner. 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 new vision is being asked late it was some taking it well beyond arguments and to physical confrontations

from a texas republican official john christine believes there's a growing mentality field by a significant partisan to find. this is a mob rule mentality and this is what has been encouraged by democrat leaders and it's certainly not consistent with the democratic process the democrats have ceased being able to defend their own ideas in fact many of them don't know what those ideas are they change from minute to minute from second to second depending on whatever whim or sense of emotional outrage they feel and this is stoked and fanned by people who know better in washington and it's very dangerous there are people like me and others who are engaging in community form of community pushback with forums and with models of civil dialogue and that is

a trend i would like to see encouraged modeling what civil discourse looks like again for the younger generations i don't care how a controversy old a subjective term someone's views may be they're a u.s. senator they should be given at least their space. c.c.t.v. footage has them a showing the channel as to valid stuff to entertain the side of the consulate. the bank to show. a side a citizen a critic of the country's role farai walking into vats consulate in istanbul a week ago he was not seen a has not been seen since tucker's thought his point the finger at the saudi government suggesting a fifteen hit squad may have been sent from the kingdom to lead at the report to me at denies the allegations. on tuesday saudi authorities found a mission for turkey to search the consulate has launched an investigation into his

disappearance fifty nine year old left side arabia for the u.s. last year he wrote for the washington post and had his own column critical of the site eventually he was visiting the consulate to obtain wedding documents says he will question riyadh on these whereabouts prove. it's a word. of the know what everybody else goes to the u.s. secretary of state has also commented on his disappearance might pompei or says officials are talking to the saudis about the disturbing incident but many are questioning why it took a week to issue a statement. it's nearly a week it's his first reports of his disappearance and that statement from secretary pompei oh why was there such a delay between between those two so are you assuming that taking time to put out a statement means that the state department has not been doing anything is that

your assumption of what was the state department doing the state department was engaged at the highest levels and also at the working level and having conversations with saudi government officials and i'll leave it at that and so what was the reason behind that delay and statement i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't call it a delay the u.k. the foreign secretary has said that if the reports are correct well we will treat the incident seriously knowing to ask why i can't second or why has not secretary pump aoe said that if the reports are true and the saudis our allies turn out to be cold blooded killers that there will be repercussions i think that would be entirely a hypothetical question and so if the brits decide they want to comment that way they're more than welcome to do so but we're going to wait until the facts come out and we call again for a thorough and transparent investigation or be repercussions i'm not going to get ahead or assume that anything happened we're calling for a thorough and transparent investigation. that's cause live right down the color of

the executive director of the realm paul institute thanks for joining us on the program daniel now right so the u.s. president he says he'll raise the issue with that riyadh how likely is up to happen and what kind of on says do you think we'll get. well i think president is in a very delicate and precarious situation because on the one hand he's tied his mass to a degree to margaret and some in the crown prince of saudi arabia so he's going to go over there and he's going to start accusing them of murdering kushal ji then he's going to find his his middle east policy in a shambles so he's in a very delicate situation i think it really underscores the toxicity of the u.s. saudi relationship which we may actually see being unraveled as was i mean that is the problem isn't with the situation as the relationship is is pretty good at the moment do you think a confrontation like this will disrupt that relationship will sour that

relationship well president trump is is in a bind as i said because he needs the saudis to pump more oil because of his idiotic iran policy his policy of not allowing iran to sell oil to anyone it has to be made up somewhere and so he has to lean on the saudis to do this if they don't do it if the if the relationship rupture is in the oil spikes two hundred fifty dollars a gallon and everything that the president's you rides on right now which is this great economic success of the claims is going to come crashing down so he is in an incredibly delicate situation because of this situation that you just described how likely is it if they get the action will be taken. well you know as you in your previous segment you know someone asked well if it's determined that the saudis are cold blooded killers will they be repercussions well we already know they're cold blooded killers they've killed thousands in yemen in a war of aggression so it's kind of interesting that one of washington's elites

this saudi transplant who may or may not have ties with u.s. intelligence he certainly has had ties with saudi intelligence everything relies on this on this elite of being perhaps kidnapped perhaps worse but we know what the saudis are up to in yemen and we know what they've been up to in syria and by the way kushal ji was all in favor of the saudi policy in syria so the idea that he is a real dissident i think is a myth that's being that's coming out of washington if we look at how to case we acted they've launched a probe do you expect them to find anything. after the investigation has been completed. well i have no idea but i would guess that the saudis open the consulate in istanbul they're not going to be body parts around on the floor you know if you was whisked away i would suggest he's probably was kidnapped the idea of this sort of gruesome story of him being caught up i think is pretty thick it doesn't seem like something that you would do want foreign soil if

that's what they had in mind ok i will leave it there for now danielle mcadams ron paul institute thanks for joining us on the program thanks. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley is stepping down his aunty's washington correspondence me a colleague with the details well nikki haley thanks for the honor of a lifetime serving as ambassador trump accepted her resignation and said that he announced 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 their reaction but that's rare. when he said that they love how honest he is and it's not difficult 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 u.n. ambassador until the end of this year so we'll just have to see who replaces her in this highly coveted position the syrian government has made an offer of amnesty to military does says we'll have all the details after this break.

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come back to the program the syrian president has made an amnesty offer to desert is in the country and it fears of a president for dodging military service the syrian reconciliation ministry says it expects tens of thousands to accept the amnesty russia's foreign minister called it a positive way. shakun the probably this is a step towards national reconciliation which is creating acceptable conditions for refugees who want to come back to syria and internally displaced citizens we actively encourage this commitment by the syrian leadership. the syrian war is now in its eighth year president assad's forces have retaken most of the country with province in the north being the only major rebel stronghold left roughly six million people have fled the country since twenty eleven the director of a think tank focusing on syria. is a step in the right direction. circles of the refugees for example in neighboring

countries jordan and so on has been actually asking and demanding with the president of. it came out today has deserved this from the army some sort of stupid stupid to very good step in the right direction to. give confidence to those refugees who are looking for a way to go back to syria without having to do you with all sorts of legal issues or you know with the fear of somebody throwing the book. in the forty's and so forth syria is using the tools at its disposal to make headway in terms of the reconsideration effort of progress in. the investigative group 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 raises a number of questions. has been following the 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 more journalists here on the ground following this conference where these latest revelations that have had to resign and how to ravelled were journalists were confronting each other about opinions and certainly quite a media frenzy about these leaders to announcements in terms of what specifically had to present was that the said that they have identified through oh. social media . who the man who's 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 the sea 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 they 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 had the same name but of course you know that is a very very very common name in russia so they had to connect those dogs by trying to find after finding one person with the same details trying to find a pos board photo or some kind of i.d. they said that basically when they did find something according to belling katz 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 all

of this they talked about some kind of granny who lived in the village where this character was supposedly living and one person they had found via social media had told told them that this granny had showed the entire village where she lived 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 events so certainly quite a few of these questions despite all of the headlines that these allegations have been making the right. 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 and some of the mention. of the becomes you know concern months post and then come up against the number of interest on the list and figure which implements include sort of those two parts components mean many more of them. jim boulden many million lucia going to critique from. you know he. could 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 and in terms of these specific individuals that have been in the headlines recently. there are

calls for a u.s. school to be charged with emotional abuse often separating the transgender student during a shoot a trial because it could not decide whether to send it to the boys or girls locker room that has been a massive backlash to the incident including from. during an event that prepares children to survive an attack actual sealants she was treated as if she was so much of a danger to peers that she was left exposed and vulnerable school authorities are pledging to review all protocols and procedures to make sure all children are treated with dignity and respect in future but it's far from the first gender related controversy in schools last year a british teacher was suspended after he accidentally called a transgender pupil a girl while praising school work then at edinburgh university in scotland student union officials handed out permanent badges to help transgender freshers with either the word he she or they written on them my colleague hawkins debated the

issue with human rights campaigner peter tatchell and journalist john conte. what do you make of the way the teachers handle this incident and separated the students during a drill well first of all this issue is not about whether you support trans people or support trans riots this is about child welfare and safety now if this has not been a drill i fear that as the teachers debated with the trans people where to place them. were ended up with they would have all been exposing could have all been potentially killed i agree with peter tatchell that trying to think about it is implying there's either a percentage to joe a real shooter stalking to corridos in the stairwells of the school it was a mistake the school should be told off but the school was worried they would get accused of transphobia old whatever they want to call it a straight functional peaches is a very reasonable man would accept that the trans lobby needs to calm it down

a bit the militant ones john has a point i mean there are extremists on both sides there are extremists who are anti trans some trans people have reacted in a very extreme ways but they would say they're extremely ism is a reaction to the decades and centuries of put downs and oppression of they have suffered gender is about much more than physical bodily appendages that i personally thought they'd view if you want to have it and in a grown up democratic society people should be able to have that without being no platform because they're scared of what trichet will do and the way that this minutes and lobby of men in my opinion wearing dresses or react they would never ever put themselves through the horrendous prejudice and violence they face unless they truly an absolutely believe that this is who they are but some people peter do

not believe and do not agree with that and some people say this gender nonsense passed still. not that there are men and no women there are lesbians are homosexuals in the straight people it's really important and it's not a big deal it's not a huge concession to give trans people the dignity and respect i'm referring to them in their correct agenda now you can you may disagree with that but i think you should show them that basic sort of courtesy is just about being a civil kind compassionate person. roundup of the news from thomas will take up at the top of the hour with all but first here on out international it's between walls . with gold make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the

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