clashes erupted between police and protesters in paris as thousands gather to voice their anger over president social reforms. turmoil in the city of portland. demonstrators blocked traffic and cars and the latest action by left wing activists in the u.s. . russia dismisses the latest findings of the investigative group of. which says it has identified the second suspect in the script poisoning came.

our broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas is certainly glad to have you with us all right shocking scenes in paris as police fired tear gas at 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 as more than one hundred rallies were held across the nation as the story. thousands and come out to the streets of paris to protest against the policies of my own government those two words hard workers and students all coming together to show that they're unhappy with those policies that have already been passed in the reforms of the two to be passed over the next few years older than my presidency this was a false union protest one of around a hundred across france and there have been a number of skirmishes between 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 stop this protest to ending as violence as we saw with some of those this year only made the first many people all very unhappy they're very angry with all the c's of the michael government saying that the reforms that he's been passing on the reforms the expects the past one could destroy the fabric of the french society this is what some of the protesters have been telling us somerset is 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 remark or. micros like the bankers chief. workers or his oldest 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 a 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 who are some and get some of the comments he's made over the last few weeks including. telling the unemployed god knows that if he just crossed the street he would be able to get a job in a bar or cafe and one of the things he said in the last week was a pensioner when he suggested they should take at least part of the book of the founder of the french public general to go in and just talk complaining this is what he said it's. just keep she's going through some of the general shoulder told me you can speak freely the only thing we don't have the right to do is complain

because you would be different if everyone did the same what is clear is that the people who come out to the streets here in paris and of course france are lying credibly and happy with the my presidency and they want to do everything to ensure that their voices are heard will lose voices be heard well it's not sure that the protests that have launched michael's presidency over the last seventeen months so he doesn't seem to have taken any new just a new changed course and he says he is carrying out the manifesto that he was elected on but the people here say they will just stop by to change course immediately challenged you to speak monti. left wing anti-drug back to rest have caused a turmoil in central portland in the u.s. state of oregon after they blocked traffic and attacked cars trying to get through and his car mopping comet's. 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 were furious about the the situation regarding brett kavanaugh a 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 to enjoy their dinner at a washington d.c.

restaurant you're. right. there guys are married. 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 late it was some taking it well beyond arguments and to physical confrontations. former

texas republican official john griffin believes that there is a growing mob mentality fueled by significant partisan divide 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 it in motional outraged they feel and this is stoked in 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 the 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 controversy over a subjective term someone's views may be they're a u.s. senator they should be given at least their space. turkish investigators were granted permission to search the saudi consulate in istanbul on tuesday as outrage grows over the suspected murder of a journalist there last week it came as c.c.t.v. footage emerged of it jamal khashoggi entering the consulate just before he vanished the saudi journalist has not been seen since and there is nothing to indicate that he has left the building turkish authorities have suggested that a hit squad may have been sent from the kingdom to murder the dissident reporter riad has strongly denied those allegations. a fifty nine year old kushal he left

saudi arabia of arabia for the u.s. last year he wrote for the washington post and had his own column critical of the saudi regime kushal gay was visiting the consulate to obtain a wedding documents and donald trump says he will question riyadh on where its president is going to be. i have no. but i will be at some point where you know i know nothing right now i know what everybody else does know well the u.s. secretary of state has also commented on kushal his disappearance my pump aoe says officials are talking to the saudis about the disturbing incident but many are questioning why it took him a week to issue a statement. and it's nearly a week it's wein i'm his first reports of his disappearance and that statement from secretary pompei oh 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 to answer what was the reason behind that delay statement i wouldn't i wouldn't call it a delay why has not secretary pompei zero said that if the reports are true and the saudis our allies turn out to be cold blooded killers that there will be repercussions we're going to wait until the facts come out and we call again for a thorough and transparent investigation to be repercussion again let me say this one more time i'll leave it at that i mean i don't have anything more for you on that stage last time i'll say this i don't have anything more for you on this today i don't have anything more for you and when i do i would be happy to give it to you . across live to a political analyst charles or tell who can help us shed some light on this situation charles thanks for being with us here on r t international. so the us president says that he will raise the issue with riyadh will that lead to any

answers do you think. i would hope so i mean i think there's been a lot of optimism we need to remember back that saudi arabia was the first nation that visited as president. and there's been a lot i think of the trouble ministration invested in the theory that this rising prints mom had been saw him on is somebody who will perhaps be king of saudi arabia for a long time that he will lead. an opening. of saudi arabia into the modern world there's been a lot of hope invested in this man and you know we have united states we have one attitude towards the press saudi arabia does not have a free press turkey does not i don't believe have a free press. and so for starters it would be in the united states' interest to encourage a free press everywhere but beyond that. if it is true agents of the saudi government travelled into turkey and murdered

a journalist on foreign soil that's very serious indeed and not something that we would i would hope that trump would really discuss i think that would be that would should lead to a chilling in relations with saudi arabia if that's true but again we don't know on whose behalf these people may have been sent we don't know what actually happened to the journalist yet and we should be very sure of our ground now charles a number of u.s. senators are actually calling for a rethink of america's quote political and military blank check for riyadh i mean there's a lot of people who question the relations there with saudi arabia do you think there's any chance of america kind of reorganizing its foreign policy to be more against saudi arabia. or at least critical i think that's unlikely. unlike you and i think it's unlikely i think that the trumpet. so we were getting a little reverberations are the truth the trouble ministration made a calculation unlike the obama administration that favored iran to reset relations

in the middle east to try to work closely with saudi arabia and certain of the gulf kingdoms on a plan to hopefully cement ties with israel and then lead to a wider peace throughout the middle east so i think it's unlikely that the united states would you know abruptly reverse course but very possible and probable that the united states is putting immense pressure on saudi arabia to explain what really truly happened here. so turkey has launched a probe but we also know there are a lot of traditions and rules and international norms about diplomatic immunity what have you do you expect that this probably find anything and if so when can we expect it well i think you know the president ministration in turkey a lot of hope was placed on turkey and this person by barack obama and that hope was misplaced i think relations are very tense frankly between the united states

and turkey. this incident clearly embarrassed as rabia and so you know we've got to think this through through it many different angles is it were was it agents of the saudi arabian government who did this if there was a murder or were there people hostile the interests of the current government saudi arabia that wanted to embarrass the current government we really need to push hard on these questions i don't have high confidence that the turkish authorities are going to do an impartial thorough and objective investigation what about the saudis do you think that there's any chance of a serious investigation from them. i think if the trump of illustration and others who have been the saudis have a lot at stake here they want to take this around go public that's a gigantic multi-trillion dollar exercise it's going to be impossible to do without u.s. assistance. they're already down a path of trying these ambitious. modernization plans i don't believe this curtis

prince is somebody who wants to move saudi arabia backwards into an authoritarian regime and i also would guess that this prince who is young has a lot of older people of the previous generation or fighting and resisting in so it would behoove us to tread very carefully here right charles or tell who's a political analyst you know this is one of those things that there's a lot of it we don't know and a lot that we assume in the story is going to be very interesting to see how it all plays out thanks for helping us sort through it here on our two international. all right switching gears and now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley is stepping down here's artie's washington correspondent samir khan with comments 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 like a little girl you know 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 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 to follow 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 disclose. as yours 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 designers will have details of short break.

the u.s. is trying to cling to this idea of the u.s. dollar is there a fire they built over a post world war two hero for everyone gets into debt to the america and pays homage to america china russia iran africa name it they're all saying now we want markets. markopolos up we want to go for it we want to trade directly bilaterally we don't want to be part of the globalization that. would. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present. it to going to be put before. people. interested.

are welcome back this is our team international the syrian president has made an amnesty offer to desert hers in the country amid fears of a prison term for dodging military service syrian reconciliation ministry says it expects tens of thousands to accept the amnesty russia's foreign minister called it a positive move. this is a step towards national reconciliation creating acceptable conditions for a few jews who want to come back to syria and into 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

a province in the north being the only major rebel stronghold left roughly six million people have fled the country since two thousand and eleven the director of a think tank focusing on syria and the middle east told us the offer of amnesty is a step in the right direction. of the refugees for example in neighboring countries . have been actually asking and demanding with the president. it came out today has deserved this from the army. but still it's a very good step in the right direction to. give confidence to those refugees who are looking for a way to go back to syria having to deal with all sorts of legal issues or you know with the fear of somebody throwing the book i think in the piece of syria is using the tools at its disposal to make headway in terms of the.

progress in the. investigative group belling cad claims it has identified the second suspect a link to by britain to the poisoning of the former russian spy and his daughter however the presented facts raise a number of questions. has been following the news conference in london 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 hmong journalists here on the ground following this conference where these latest revelations that had to had unraveled where journalists were confronting each other about opinions and certainly quite a media frenzy about these latest announcements and in terms of what specifically resigns was that they said that they have identified. through social media the

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 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 had the same pattern him 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 pos board 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 living and one person they had found via social media had throat 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 made. 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 and some of them and show a. picture of the but it turned into a question for months post and then come up that is the minimum anybody stoneman dished out and to give you its influence think that sort of goes to part of the kind i don't mean many more of them. jim boulden many million lucia going to continue to know. you knew he. could sort of but us who instituted while these are journalistic of revelations 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. firefighters in the spanish city of valencia disrupted and you will parade on tuesday in protest over their poor working conditions and ended up scuffling with police. the violence in that community had gathered to celebrate the reconquering of the city by the christian army of the king james the first are gone in the thirteenth century the firefighters say their salaries are too low given the risks they face now arrests or injuries were reported following the clash. that does it for me i'll

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