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the protesters are looking pretty rowdy already in the french capital in fact moments ago there were thirty two unleashing water cannons. yeah. that's right rule removed cannons have been unleashed here at the bottom of the show you might get a sense as well from the plumes of smoke in the distance of the tear gas that's being released by the security forces here that's me because the protesters started throwing projectiles to groups the security forces they were also trying to break past a barrier that been put in place on the street that leads to the main street the elisei palace here in paris that is of course where president macaroons official home is as you can see the security forces now lining up here in one of the

roundabout. as they trying to push the protesters away using all food necessary to make sure those protesters don't get close to woods the palace take a look at what happens in the last few minutes here on the. well our hands artistry to the entrance of our yearly zay parents as you can see tear gas has been fired by the police that's as the protesters were trying to enter into the streets to get close to a leisurely journalist i tear gas and spreading in this area has been completely forbidden as you can see the protesters moving back now they were actually throwing projectiles towards the police and also trying to. move the fence has been put in place to pull them to getting closer to the elite a palace it seems to be getting hotter here on the streets of paris as usual asians

are determined that their message will be heard there are possibly a fashion people here as you can see trying constantly to move towards the police to try and get a reaction urge them all to try and push through to the place that they were hoping to hold a protest today which is a plus to the concord which is about five hundred meters to a kilometer further down there. well that was a teaser charlotte live in paris as it's certainly getting pretty rowdy now we show you live pictures here with these protests that ultimately it could be entering their second week now we understand three thousand of police officers are being drafted into paris right now and amid fears that these protests could turn fairly violent so far though the only violence seems to be on the side of the authorities with the water cannons and tear gas and blockades on the street to prevent these demonstrators from reaching the leaves

a palace where we were spoken speaking moments ago to r.t. charlotte we will patch through to her throughout the day here on the program. and now the british government is funding a large scale network to control political and public opinion about alleged malign russian activities now that's according to documents leaked by the infamous hacker group anonymous let's shut some light on this with you go to turn off. in secret it's funded from the federal budget and it seeks to property here and manipulate foreign governments no matter how far they are for all it's worth program integrity initiative sounds like a brainchild of russian intelligence especially given all the recent hype and hysteria around it except it isn't it's british at least according to a hacker group called anonymous which has published what did claims are classified documents from the u.k. foreign office through a london based ngo the u.k.

government has allegedly been working with opinion makers all across europe to promote anti russian narratives an effective network is best achieved by forming in each european country a cluster of well informed people from the political military academic journalistic and think tanks fears and analyze examples of this information in their country and inform decision makers and other interested parties about what is happening in clusters the key instrument of integrity initiative and the fairly power. well one as proven by the spanish cluster which has shown how the program gets things done back in twenty seventeen the u.k. seemed surprisingly concerned with events playing out in spain's catalonia and london's keenness to see russia's hand in that bid for independence from spain so step one get public opinion on your side it's simple really you can write up a study yourself this close to produced a major study on russian influence in the catalan referendum process which was

circulated privately to key influences in spain including the prime minister's office and throughout europe on the integrity initiative network step to feed the results of your research to the media its main means of influence is through academic papers and especially through articles written by independent journalists in newspapers like el pais based on material provided anonymously by the cluster. the most read spanish newspaper put out quite a number of independent pieces on catalan referendum some of them written by the man named as the head of the spanish cluster just take a moment for this information to sink in the leader of the cell designated with pushing a very specific message parts of an information secret service with a budget poses as an unbiased journalist in some of the most popular national newspapers that is what anonymous claimed to have revealed in its leak and the hackers claim it's not about one outlet the list of names in the spanish close to

includes writers and contributors to different media some even outside of spain peddling the same message and then it step three sit back relax and enjoy the show you scripted. the u.k. foreign office says that information about this project is publicly available and that it welcomes any published today that it gets meanwhile a source at russia's foreign ministry told us they are assessing the documents and are not surprised that the u.k. is allegedly carrying out such activities and we also got reaction from one of the people featured in the documents released by the hackers. the documents prove no such thing i have not been paid by the institute but i applaud their work in dealing with the chekist regimes pertinacious information and influence operations the kremlin is losing russia bullying neighboring countries and murdering its critics why don't you investigate that the real risk of fire bia instead of trying

to smear people who are trying to resist the kleptocratic xenophobic incompetent hoodlums who make your wonderful country into an international pariah we discussed aspects of who is a phobia with columnist and political analyst george assembling. western countries are doing exactly what they are accusing the the russians of doing i mean they are essentially waging a psychological propaganda war. directed at the russians what that should tell us is that we really should stop believing. all the various pronouncements of government ministers and the stories that constantly appear in the media russian there's russia did that russia's responsible for this rough was responsible for that because it's clear that this is all part of a. concerted campaign to manipulate public opinion.

hillary clinton defended her suggestion that europe needs to curb mass immigration to prevent the election of populist leaders critics say it's hypocritical to fight populism with what looks like populism they also note that the refugee crisis was in part created by foreign international military interventions peter oliver explains former u.s. secretary of state and twenty sixteen presidential candidate hillary clinton has been having her say on the state of liberal democracy in europe she says the e.u. nations need to cap immigration if they're to halt the rise of the populists i think europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lead the flying i admired the very generous and compassionate approaches that we're taking europe must send a very clear message we're not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support if hillary clinton is correct and immigration is the root of the popularity

of the populists and it's have a look it's where those refugees and migrants have come from and why they came to the european union well the top three nations of origin for asylum applicants to the e.u. since twenty fourteen. syria iraq afghanistan all of those countries that have been bombed or in some way to stabilize by the united states and their allies in nato. currently one of the main routes into europe for refugees and migrants is the dangerous mediterranean sea crossing from libya a nation that was plunged into chaos following the nato intervention that took place on mrs clinton's watch we came we saw he died. apparently politicians couldn't have forseen that people would start fleeing in their thousands since they were bringing democracy and the new promise for the

future we are standing with the people of libya the. bank yes the. beat and get out these domination of libya so freedom can develop his country and when refugees did start arriving they told the europeans not to worry those who flee misery war political oppression there we have the responsibility to help lambing the door on every syrian refugee that is just not who we are the rise of populous parties is also a major concern for those at the very top of the e.u. tree liberal democracy has never been under such attack since the collapse of the soviet union it's all well and good for hillary clinton and like minded e.u. politicians to say that they are concerned about a rise of populism in the e.u. but when they say that the way to stop this is to clamp down on refugees and migrants it comes across as more than just a little bit hypocritical especially when they had

a direct hand in making those people refugees in the first place directly contributed to this rise in populism it was under her rule so to speak under the obama administration that libya was bombed into the. stone age. is supposedly to promote democracy and created a failed state is in direct effect from what she did in office where europe isn't just being told that migration is a bad idea plans for an army you've also been criticized from across the pond in case you missed it takes a closer look at the french german idea of a unified european military force which has washington in case you missed it may european talking about building up again. and i know my own and the angle i'm not will have been breezily outlining their

plans to dominate continental europe the french president declared that it's a friend that a german responsibility to prepare the reef founding of the euro i'm sure that the other twenty five union members have nothing to worry about i'm sure that the. last nineteen thirty z. in the original friends at least this time paris and berlin all working together the german chancellor she won't run in another election can finally say what she actually wants and she really was a real true european army isn't it lovely how europeans have mitchell because no one is really grieving to hearing a german leader say well i want from britain we can't wait to get out and seeing amman and friends of friends it may finally lead like a good idea of course leaving the room is a rather large number of younger brother nato which has been in charge of making

sure that europe doesn't have to look after itself for the past seventy years behind very specific to the pop. star. does not like the sound of your. own kids. from his french kissing buddy raul the well breaking out classic you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for. britain called the idea of a european army to undermine nato crazy so why do we stand european nations don't like being told they morph a nation a say they plan a whole new army of their own which will cost more than outsourcing to the us marines as usual the us wants europe to do more to defend itself as long as it doesn't cool when you need to do it but i'm britain moans about the threat to nato unity he couldn't quite join just a pure peace and unity of these armies planning to fight anyway micron is worried

about china russia and the us but that is a whole nother episode. so american lawmakers will be investigating president respond to the death of. a short you and your other sort of stores just. i think i would want to go fast but inside i mean i'm. a dockside and i think you go down to your neck side you can improve yourself. but it's all so bloody then joe

but i really believe that the bottle that we show on the side that is the band. completion of life. on the sea on the lying circumstances that's a load for the emergence of this very very lengthy violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of dies at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken only minutes we've got on the traditions. thanks for joining us violent clashes between protesters and police said anti governmental demos on the streets of haiti's capital of claimed more lives

a week of on rest is now seen eleven people killed. i. i. looked up. at least used tear gas off the people started throwing rocks and molotov cocktails the demonstrators want the country's president to step down over his failure to. investigate corruption after a week of silence haiti's president has now said his office would investigate the accusations and that he would resign. american lawmakers will investigate president donald trump response to the death of journalist. for possible double standards when it comes to treating allies and

enemies and he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul last month a riyadh has denied any awareness of the orchestrated killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials. and investigates. no significant action will be taken against saudi arabia for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi trump says they are significant allies so we have to give them a pass now many prominent democrats and republicans disagree the language that was used it was as if they were writing a press release for the saudi arabia not for the united states it is certainly testing the proposition that the enemy of our enemy is our friend our friends don't murder journalists but in response to his critics trump has a pretty solid rebuttal maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious bush and there you have it us middle east policy in a nutshell in order to maintain your allies put your moral principles aside it's

not just saudi arabia back in twenty seventeen the u.s. secretary of state blocked all aid to egypt and since then they've admitted that the human rights situation is getting even worse but now aid has started flowing once again and trump has had glowing words for president el-sisi relationship has never been stronger. we're working with egypt or these different fronts including the military and free agent whatever you can we're working. we're going to be great and it's an honor to be with you. and how about qatar a long time u.s. ally that's not exactly a human rights paradise probably used to say that they were sponsoring terrorism the nation of. unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. at a very high level the palestinian organization known as hamas designated by the u.s. state department as a terrorist organization is quite open about receiving qatari support however

washington and doha are cozy we're working very well together and i think it's working out extremely well so amir thank you very much for being here. now the same thing is true for nato member and long time u.s. ally turkey the usa hasn't stopped them from going after the kurds and u.s. allies in the fight against islamic state in syria so from the words of paul in a little flat yes please mr curd we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot to great people and we have not forget we don't forget i don't forget what happens some day later but i can tell you that i don't forget these are great people ok for a long time it seemed like cable news had most americans convinced that foreign policy was about lofty ideals like writing freedom and overturning dictators but it seems now that most americans realize that that's not the case at this point it

seems pretty clear that u.s. foreign policy is about taking care of your friends no matter how shady they might be it does seem if you're critical of some ways that the united states preserves democracy promotion for its enemies but has been the trend in the past it's still the most powerful country but it can't do what it used to do i mean nine hundred fifty three for example we were able to overthrow. the iranian government for three million dollars today we're spending billions of dollars on sanctions on trying to affirm up other countries and we have under we have not been succeeding in overthrowing the islamic republic and that's a sign of it is growing you know that there are other competitors out there. we are not robots that was the rallying cry of disaffected amazon employees across europe on black friday as they staged protests against what they describe as

inhuman working conditions in the online retail giants warehouses amazon workers in the spanish capital demanded better conditions on salaries while over in america they protested against plans to open a new amazon headquarters demonstrations were also held in france germany italy and the u.k. and one trade union through its weight behind the protesters with the following video. and this. i was on has a half a million employees worldwide including a quarter of a million in america the minimum wage it pays an hour is twelve dollars in europe and fifteen in america but the company recently increased its minimum wage in the u.s. after workers protested. after the black friday protests amazon for its part denied its exploiting its workers saying that it provides a safe and positive workspace with competitive pay and benefits and labor rights

lawyer told us amazon is susceptible to work and consumer pressure. we see in the united states that because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their ways but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people are realizing that while jeff bezos is making many many millions of dollars and his people or working in prison like conditions that this is unacceptable. animal rights activists have been accused of woman headed thinking of the calling for the

englishtown of wool to be renamed apparently the name change would be an animal friendly thing to do though not everyone is entirely convinced. it. with a simple name change huge can take a stand against cruelty and remind everyone that it's easy to stay warm and be warm hearted to sheep by choosing the good will. the name should remain as it is the idea of remaining in the village is possibly ridiculous the most is you want to go easy i have come across in a long time the name ball has nothing to do we cheat it calms from deceptive

a word for spring. that is your news program for this hour here on odyssey international my colleague and your father manning the helm and half an hour's time with more of your saturday stories hope you can join us that.

was right. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot place the phone book of virtue if you look at any interrogation out there what

you'll see is promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer and don't accept their denials she said if i were poor horary said the statement that i would be home by the next day there's a culture of on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. max styles or i'm starting again here's my gang sting signal. oh. stacey you want to be in my gang. no but i do want to talk about

a topic. that might trigger you and it has to do with brakes it oh. oh see i totally off not. know a lot of the headlines talk about the economic disaster that is the united kingdom and place it as the explanation on breaks it but al gore edwards from soft is back and he said it's not to do with brags that in fact it's to do with what one of our guest said that steve keen and he was right we're going to get to that so i'm going to first lay out the story of his thesis this is albert edwards from society in general famous bear was very bearish during the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight two thousand and nine and finally capitulated and went long i think in twenty eleven or two thousand and twelve but he's back and he's saying time has run out at the start of his latest albert edwards highlights a recent warning by the chinese central bank that the financial risks associated

with grey rhino events which are highly obvious yet ignored threats may surface next year and reminds readers that going into the two thousand and eight global financial crisis many of the massive macro imbalances and credit bubbles that ultimately sunk the global economy were all too apparent but now he says we have all the same risks and actually more disaster on the horizon but what's going to be the trigger of this time might not be with the chinese say which is the grey rhino is it's obvious is there but nobody is afraid of it which he compares he uses a metaphor of in south africa where i think he's from but in south africa. reserves there you know the wildlife reserves what they find is that the buffalo actually causes the most danger.