are working for example in aleppo or in the middle it so this is this is it this is the answer for that question who are or who are not propaganda journalists i think i'm not sure that russia today are i mean. has no things to improve of course when for a fact i mean nobody's perfect as we know but i think. your what you are doing and what we're doing a through several last year is in different parts of the world proved finally proved to the world that you are correspondents and of course you shoot move that way and you should be in the places and in the situations where when people need not only alternative information but just basic information because several years ago when aleppo and all everybody in the world was focused on aleppo there

were actually only russian media working there russia t.v. russia today and others. so this is it maria thank you for these words moving on with syria just wanted to ask you in the recent months we've been hearing from the russian army from russian diplomats including within the walls of the u.n. security council that the rebels are preparing a false flag chemical chemical attack we've been hearing this message is one after another but it hasn't happened what's going on in that regard. speak about this ok . by thank you very much so it seems it is time for the spokeswoman of the russian foreign ministry to go as the russian delegation is about to leave just to remind you this was maria harbor live for t. talking about all the pressing international issues in the portuguese foreign ministry just thirty minutes after the press conference of serug and his portuguese

counterpart wrapped up andrew back to you. ok thank you for a lie in this been in portugal. now in other news the protests against government imposed fuel hikes that have been gripping french cities throughout the week have now reached paris and there have been clashes with police to you will take gas and water cannon being. was. was. was. ok but we can go live now to. paris for a sec show that we've seen a lot of take gas water cannon just over the last couple of hours or so what's the

situation like now. well it seems like come right where i am. but believe me there is still chaos descending all across us look down the bottom of a you'll see that fish plume of black gray smoke just because there is another protest that side of the police blockade which you can see in the middle of the day here take a look around these are the usual asia walls they are taken over the roundabout around the block to three of one of the most prominent iconic symbols here in paris some figures are suggesting up to five thousand protesters just in this area shows elisei they are spread right across all the way around this roundabout in fact you can see the c.r.s. the police are in situ pushy much where every you look tear gas has been dispersed it will copious times here we've been caught in it numerous times the

water cannons have been fired as well and that's as the police have been trying to move some of the barricades that have been put in place by the protesters the protesters have also been throwing projectiles to woods of the police including picking up essential the stones from the floor of the roof on the show and throwing them directly at the police take a look at some of the tear gas and some of. the police of the purchases that we've already been caught up in today. are here outside to street to the entrance overtly ellie's a parent's eyes you can see tear gas is being fired by the police that's as the protesters were trying to enter into that street to get close to it seriously ellie's a journalist. all

being pushed up the street seems to grassroots and protest is it really is city crazy here on the streets of paris. so i'm a bit of difficulty opening my eyes right now and that's because we've just been in the midst of all of this take us as you can see eyes red is really hard to open them and at the moment we are just a burning uncontrollably. well that was the scene early allusions elise i want to bring you this is a road just off the of the israel of this is a road just off the arc de triomphe and as you can see here we've got some of the stooges they've up become infamous in paris of late they're burning here this is one of the barricades have been put in place and if you look down the streets

you're going to see these delays will only yellow vests movements the old moving down this street no more projectiles being thrown at the police literally everywhere you look at the police to see orest are here trying to stop the protesters removing we're actually being shouted at by a protester right you have telling us to not show people's faces and that's because there has been suggestion that this movement has been hijacked by radicalized individuals from the last and from the right and they woundings ahead to this protest in paris that it was going to get hot and it seems that those warnings are absolutely right here on the streets of paris thousands of people all protesting it was meant to stop just a few protests in protest against the cost of living and living standards here france but it just seems that people now all pew angry at the situation and the fact that the president is still refused to meet them to discuss the problems in this country. ok thank you charlotte for that update that was shot at the bin ski there in the thick of the protests taking place in the french capital as we speak

and will be crossing live to charlotte throughout the afternoon thank you. so the british government is funding a large scale network to control political and public opinion apparently about alleged malign russian activities that's according to documents leaked by the infamous hacker group anonymous done off explains. secret it's funded from the federal budget and it seeks to property 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 it 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 who track 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 a fairly powerful one as proven by the spanish cluster which has shown how the program gets things done back in twenty seventeen in 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. right 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 part 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 instead of three sit back relax and enjoy the show you scripted your design of their with the u.k. foreign office as they that information about the project is publicly available and it welcomes any public city gets meanwhile a source at russia's foreign ministry told us they are looking at the documents and are not surprised you k. is allegedly carrying out such activities 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 check is regimes put knishes information and influence operations the kremlin is losing russia bullying neighboring countries and murdering its critics why don't you investigate that the real risks of phobia 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 where we discussed aspects of the most a phobia with the political analyst george similarly. 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.

now hillary clinton has defended her suggestion that europe needs to curb mass immigration to prevent the election of populist laid his critics though say it's hypocritical to fight populism with what looks like to them populism they also know that the refugee crisis was in part created by foreign interventions is 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 populous. 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 were 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 let'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 became rosado he died. apparently politicians couldn't have forseen that people would start fleeing in their thousands since they were bringing democracy and a new promise for the future we are standing with the people of libya the. bank

gets the. money beat and get out of his domination of libya so freedom can develop his country and when refugees did start arriving they told the europeans not to worry oh those who flee means even more 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 she 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. supposedly to promote democracy and created a field steve is in direct effect for what he did in office well apart from europe's approach to migration its plans for an e.u. army have also drawn criticism from across the pond in case you missed it takes a closer look at the french german idea of a european military force which has upset washington in case you missed it european talking about building up again. to go broke. and i know mike brown and will have been breezily outlining their plans to dominate continental europe the french president declared that it safe france or german

responsibility to prepare the reef founding of europe 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 french at least this time paris and berlin are 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 mature because no one's really is grieving after hearing a german leader say well i want from britain we can't wait to get out and seeing eminem's transgressions it may finally lead like a good idea of course looming in the room is a rather large number of young 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 part played by the dog. does not like the sound of your. thumb from his french kissing buddy rather well great. being out the classic you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for us. around britain kolby idea of a european army to undermine nato crazy so let are we stand european nations don't like being told they morph a nation a say they only want me of their right 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 when you need to detect it and britain moans about the threat to nato unity he couldn't quite join just a pure peace and unity and of these armies planning to fight anyway macron is worried about china russia and the us but that is

a whole nother episode. that are still ahead see the south american lawmakers will investigate president donald trump's response to the death of the journalist. i will tell you why just off the bridge. i think that i would want to go fast but inside i'm i'm dockside i think. going down your backside that you can improve yourself for. but it's also a very dangerous but i really believe with this. bottle that we show our

side that it's story and depend. on our condition our blood. amazon the lying circumstances. allowed for the emergence of this very very long while. i think we may go. on living grandsons of the irish at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on military. armor traditions. again now we are not robots that was the rallying cry of disaffected amazon employees across europe on black friday is they staged protests against what they describe as inhumane working conditions at the company's warehouses and workers in

the spanish capital demanding better conditions and salaries while over in the u.s. they protest against plans to open new amazon headquarters demonstrations were also held in france germany italy and the u.k. one trade union has thrown his weight behind the protests with the following video . knowing or. not or more about this story we are not world. missouri has over half a million employees worldwide including a quarter of a million in america the minimum wage pays an hour is twelve dollars in europe and fifteen dollars in the u.s. the company recently increased its minimum wage to in the u.s. after workers protested well after the black friday protests amazon for its past denied it is exploiting its workers saying that it provides a safe and positive workspace with competitive pay and also benefits labor rights lawyer dunn public told us amazon though is susceptible to worker and consumer

pressure you see in the united states because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders. amazon raise 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 way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people realize in the larger bozo is making many many millions of dollars in these people or working in prison my conditions that this is unacceptable. now these american lawmakers will investigate president donald trump's response to the death of the journalist.

for possible double standards when it comes to treating allies and enemies was killed in the saudi arabian conscious and stumble last month riyadh has denied any awareness of the orchestrated killing though and has launched its own investigation charging eleven officials are these kind of more pain takes a look now at how u.s. foreign policy can be a very flexible thing depending on who's involved. 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 for aviation whatever it is you can work for and 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 kurd 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 us 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. most adept at the iranian government for three million dollars today we're spending billions of dollars on sanctions on trying to firm up other countries and we have we have succeeded in overthrowing the islamic republic and that is that's a sign of it is growing and you know that there are other competitors out there. finally the sad animal rights activists have been accused of when he headed

thinking off to calling for the english time to be renamed apparently the name change would be an animal friendly thing today although not everybody agrees. thanks. with a simple main 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 begin to hold. the same. plane as its news media will remain the silage the spots of the particulars the most idiotic idea i have come across the whole long time to name the wall has nothing to do we cheat the commies from the south to the workforce

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join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this marketplace the fall of the virtue books read any interrogation out there what you'll see is fred promise threat promise threat lie a lie 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 don't accept their denials she said if i were poor or a sad statement then i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crimes. the comedy show americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents yes so climate change is reshaping our country and our lives as we speak and we're quickly learning that climate change doesn't just mean. it's raining again and again. of almost getting when i run from the front door to the

louvre i called them from the over to the temperature control office and know for a lot of the world climate change means showing people where your house used to be so it's great to see that this week the mainstream media has extensively covered the fact that california is on fire they have they have actually covered it they just can't bring themselves to say the words climate change you know instead the reports are like there were five years and they were bad and what caused them is they were bred. as most reporters take for example n.b.c. nightly news now it's a it's a great new you can find a fine or news program anywhere in the building where they take. this past sunday they open the broadcast with five full minutes on multiple california fires the destruction the loss of life and yet throughout the entire.