so i just got this memo. that says we're going to destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with money others lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness for. these are live pictures from paris where thousands are protesting against the ever increasing price of fuel police have used tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators. not a bit of difficulty opening my eyes right now and that's because we've just been in the midst of all of this tear gas documents placed online by a hacker group suggest that britain's government is behind clandestine anti russia campaigns across the world and also to u.s.

lawmakers plan to investigate. the death. suspecting double standards at the white house. block pictures. there is four pm here in moscow you're watching international start this hour with paris because protests against government imposed fuel hikes that have been gripping french cities throughout the week of now reach paris and there have been clashes with police too with gas and water cannons use reality charlotte pinsky has been there covering the story from the start and was earlier caught up in the ticker. here on the show in silesia as you can see there is our rallies gathering behind me and there is a row of the police vehicles that there's many speakers trying to stop the protesters from going up. down the shuls at least

a bit of the old. of . thinking oh. well my hands artistry to the entrance of rb ellie's a prize fight you can see tear gas is being fired by the police that's was the protesters were trying to enter into the streets to get close to it seriously ellie's a burnous. thank you thank a. good. thanks

to the thank you ok. thank you hello to her hank thank. you guess keeps being shows out to the protesters they keep responding by throwing project goes towards the security forces the security forces of also now started using shoes wood to cannons i have to own eyes you can see they were cannons are trying to push down this party this be made by the protests is they're also trying to see rulebooks towards the police i said she picking up what looks like to be the stones from the riot enjoying it to. it's i'm again i'm having

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. past the police are coming we're having to move now because we're all being pushed up the streets into the to gaston to protest this it really is absolutely crazy here on the streets of paris the protesters throwing projectiles literally taking out some old what that stones from the ground throwing them at the police have also been throwing trees cabinets literally anything that they can get their hands on look at this here they've overturned some sort of truck as a barricade korogocho straits this is eight days of protests now and it looks like these protests is giving up here complete chaos here on the streets of paris as you lose yours take over the shows and he's

a hero for the whole. season the protesters have now barricaded themselves in this part of the show and silesia a this tear gas that looks like it's being fired up towards the protesters trying to make as much noise as possible possibly to make themselves heard in nearly as a palace which is about a hundred fifty meters away from where we are the car that i have. to. thank us continuously being pushed up the shoulder leading public down here you've got the police lines coming out coming up with a group of candidates. you know the one shot that letting out the full force jet

that these trucks are trying to get out of the back is that we keep seeing being put out by the protesters at different parts of the shops at least look at this here they've overturned son who's sort of struck as a barricade the police becoming less able to be. pushed up the streets in. protest this. is crazy on the streets. for her. i. shall have been see there reporting from paris now the british government is funding a large secret network to control political and public opinion about alleged malign

russian activities at least that's according to documents leaked by hacker group anonymous because down of. its 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 and the u.k. government has allegedly been working with opinion makers all across europe to promote anti russian narratives and 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 can 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 two thousand and 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 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 instead of three sit back relax and enjoy the show you scripted. because he's done of reporting there with a nuke

a foreign office says that information about the project is publicly available and that it welcomes any publisher to that it gets meanwhile a source that russia's foreign ministry told us that they are looking at the documents and are not surprised that the u.k. is allegedly carrying out such activities we also got reaction to being from one of the people think should 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 checketts 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 we discussed. 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 you waging a psychological propaganda war. directed at the russians what that should tellers is that we really should stop believing. all the various the pronouncements of the government ministers and the stories that constantly appear in the media russia did this russian did that russia's response of adverse ruff is responsible for that because it's clear that this is or part of a. concerted campaign to manipulate public opinion. that hillary clinton has claimed europe needs to curb mass immigration in order to prevent the election of populist leaders like donald trump critics point to the fact that the refugee crisis was in part created by foreign interventions by the

u.s. and its allies as 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 were taken 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 i 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 and 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. lady and get out of his domination of libya so freedom can develop his country and when refugees did start arriving they told europeans not to worry those who flee

misery or war political oppression there we have the responsibility to help. lambing the door on every syrian refugee that is just now 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 the 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 and populism it was under her rule so to speak under the environmentalist libya was bombed into the stone age. supposedly to

promote democracy and created a failed state is in direct effect from what she did in office while europe isn't just being told that migration is a bad idea because plans for any army have also been criticized from across the pond takes a closer look now at the french german idea of a european military force which has ruffled washington spent this. in case you missed it the europeans talking about building a bomb even get. to go wrong. and i know my own and i'm going to not go have written 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 europe i'm sure that the other twenty five union members have nothing to worry about i'm sure the plan much less nineteen thirty z. in the original french 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 wasn't a real true european army isn't it lovely how europeans have mature because no one is running their lives grieving their hearing in germany leaders say that well i won from britain who can't wait to get out and seeing eminem's plans brings it may finally live like a good idea of course looming in the room is a rather large numbers are going to brother nato which has been in charge of making sure that europe doesn't hostility after itself for the past seventy years behind very specific to the part played by you start told the world does not like the sound of it you're in. trouble kids from his french kissing buddy rather well breaking out the classic you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for us. and britain

called the 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 plan a whole new army of their own which will cost more than outsourcing to the us marines i am usually the us once europe to do. more to defend itself as long as it doesn't when you come to detest it and britain moans about the threat to nato unity even more join just a pure peace and unity of these armies to fight anyway micron is worried about china russia and the us but that is a whole nother episode. american lawmakers will investigate. the death of journalist will tell you why just after

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condition our lives. come back how amazon staff of told their bosses to stop treating them like robots a number of rehab of the retail giant's employees staged protests on black friday over working conditions in the company's warehouses and workers in the spanish capital demanded that improvements be made to both conditions and salaries while over in the u.s. they protested against plans to open new amazon headquarters demonstrations rule so held in france germany italy and the u.k. one trade union the protesters with the following video. cameras are annoying or

show mobile phone from or about the story we cannot. get on our way out of the. amazon. has more than half a million employees worldwide including a quarter of a million in the in the u.s. the minimum wage it pays an hour is twelve dollars and in europe and in fifteen dollars in the u.s. the company recently increase the rate in the u.s. after workers protested. following the break black friday protests amazon denied exploiting workers and said it provides a safe and positive workspace with competitive pay and also benefits labor rights lawyer down coverlet told us that amazon though is susceptible to worker and consumer pressure b.c. in the united states there 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 like conditions but this is unacceptable. a group of american lawmakers say that they do plan to investigate president donald trump's response the death of. a possible double standards when it comes to treating allies and enemies was killed in the saudi arabian consulate in the stumble last month riyadh has denied any awareness of the orchestrated killing and has launched an

investigation charging eleven officials. takes a look now at how u.s. foreign policy that 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 there 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 riding 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 place 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. working with egypt or believe. the military is really what it really worth the workers. were going to. be with you. and how about cutter 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 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. 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 you know that there are other competitors out there. finding this animal rights activists have been accused of headed thinking off to calling for the english time bull to be renamed apparently the name change would be an animal friendly thing today will they not everybody agrees.

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nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the spot place the phone for conviction if you look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat 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 don't accept their denials she said if i were all poor or a sad statement then i would be home by that time 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 the crime. on the sea on the line circumstances that's a load for these imagine so this very very eventful violence i think that we

may get the sons and even grandsons of died at some point in the future if it's primarily a political issue north that has taken on the minutes we hear. it on the free cations. i. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm part children in washington d.c. today we welcome you to a special edition of boom bust if we focus on the great recession which is now a decade in our rearview mirror we'll look at the causes of the calamity and what went down on that rough and rocky road to ruin and how it incredibly impacted the

u.s. the eurozone and the rest of the world plus we'll look at where we are now how safe are we from another monstrous economic meltdown and what might be the next point and crisis ready let's go we start with bill clinton a democrat who was u.s. president and his financial policies clinton nomics which began in one nine hundred ninety three when he took office and lasted until he left in january of two thousand and one he started following the single term of george herbert walker bush a republican now known by many as bush forty one or simply forty one president clinton was handed a growing economy from bush forty one with annual gross domestic product g.d.p. rate of three point five percent the good economy was however partially premised upon years and years of increasing spending and rising us budget deficits clinton nomic sought to keep the economy going while balancing the deficit.