i think that we may go. on living grandsons of dying at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on military. for. thousands are protesting in paris against the ever increasing price of fuel these are live pictures from their police have used tear gas and water cannon against the demonstrators. that 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. but. also to come this hour documents placed online via groups suggest that britain's government is behind anti russian campaigns across the world. black friday

sees dark spilled over amazon's warehouses and staff protests there over working conditions. and i welcome just gone five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now we start this hour with paris because 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 too with gas and water cannons use let's get the latest now from paris with our correspondent there the show they've been ski charlotte it looks like things have calmed down slightly doesn't it what's the latest situation. that's why things feeling a lot calmer here than they have throughout the last few hours. in paris just to

give you some updates on some figures that we're getting through the suggestion is that eight thousand people are protesting in paris today as part of this a yellow best movement across france twenty thousand people out in the streets that's all we see follow the we saw a week ago when almost three hundred thousand people came out on to the streets across france to protest against the price of fuel the fuel taxes as well as other problems they saying with the price of living here in france but i just want to give you a flavor of what's happening on the scene here now you might be able to see simply of smoke down further this is down on the seans easy to call pastor concord where originally these protests who do take place before they were forbidden by the authorities or the authorities did actually give them another location that to demonstrate that was on the show to mars the protests said that wasn't the place that they wanted to be and if you look back at the top of. the nice day you can see

that there is another fire burning there let's take a look now at some of the issues we've seen today including when we were tear gas to caught in that tear gas by the police when the protests just been throwing projectiles at the police and trying to get close to the palace this is what happened. while we're here outside a street to the entrance of oddly ellie's a parent's eyes you can see ten gas is being fired by the police that's as the protesters were trying to enter into that street to get close to the alleys a journalist. they're trying to make as much noise as possible possibly to make themselves heard in the lease a palace which is about a hundred fifty meters away from where we are all being pushed up the streets in getting absolutely the protest is it really is city crazy here on the streets of

paris. so 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 tear gas as you can see eyes red is really hard to open them and at the moment they are just a burning uncontrollably. well here only shows iliza we're still hearing what sounds like to be by the sound good aides altie a gas of being released we know and you can see the flashing lights of the police the police and security services are surrounding all of the areas of course trying to keep some sort of control on this protest i have to say it does seem to have been chaos but much of the point today with people sporadically burning as

throwing those projectiles up the police as well as forming barricades here on the shields at least a choice stop the security services the c.r.s. from actually getting up higher on the. way these foy's the continuing to burn and the protesters who are now in their eighth day of protest a movement that's been described as many as a spontaneous social movement with no leaders they saying that they want to resign they want to have the fuel taxes removed and they want to have a complete change here in france in terms of the politics looks like they're here to stay in here to continue but those figures showing that this move. eight days on it is far less widespread far as the large than it was a week ago when almost three hundred thousand people protesting figures today once again showing that around twenty thousand people of course sponsor out in protest here in paris the figure is reported to be eight thousand. ok shiloh thanks for the

update that was charlotte dubinsky there reporting from the center of power. how the british government is funding a large secret network to control political and public opinion about alleged malign russian activities that's according at least to documents leaked by a hacker group called anonymous dan of a small. it's 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 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 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 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 their 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 curse to produce 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. of 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 but

selling the same message and then it's step three sit back relax and enjoy the show you scripted. because dan of there well the u.k. foreign office says that information about the project is publicly available and that it welcomes any publicity it gets meanwhile a source at russia's foreign ministry told us that they are looking at the documents and are not surprised u.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 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 where we discussed aspects of the noosa phobia with the political analyst george zimmerman. western countries are doing exactly what they are accusing the the russians of doing i mean they are essentially you are 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 there's russia did that russia's response or verse 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 that europe needs to curb mass immigration to

prevent the election of populist leaders like donald trump but critics point out the fact that the refugee crisis was in parts created by foreign interventions by the us and its allies as peter oliver reports. 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 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 a new promise for the future we are standing with the people of libya the bank yes the relief. and gadhafi is domination of libya so freedom can develop and his

country and when refugees did start arriving they told europeans not to worry those who flee misery a 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 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. 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 because plans for an e.u. 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's feathers. in case you missed it the european the talking about building on the get. go wrong. and i know mike brown and the angle of not have been breezily outlining their plans to dominate continental europe the french president declared that it safe friends that a german responsibility to prepare has 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 plan much less leakey's those easy 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 was a real true european army isn't it lovely how europeans have mature because no one is running for their lives grieving to hearing a german leader say that well i won from the brits and we can't wait to get out and seeing eminem's plans friends it may finally lead 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 i'm the daughter of the old does not like the

sound of your. drum kits the news from his french kissing buddy rather well breaking out the classic you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for us. around 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 to 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 hold when you want to do it well 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 micron is worried about china russia and the us but that is

a whole nother episode. black friday turned sour for amazon with staff around the world announcing working conditions there will have a look at the details just after the break. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then.

statistic from a couple weeks ago came out that showed the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries. there's a you ask there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like. the scotch or treasury and then you've got the royal people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of breaks it was to support the queen ok so. terry was a moron because trouble poverty breaks it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of the world. welcome back now amazon stuff told their bosses to stop treating them like robots a number of the retail giants employees did staged protests on black friday over working conditions in the company's warehouses and workers in the spanish capital demanded improvements to both conditions and salaries over in the u.s.

they protested against plans to open new amazon headquarters demonstrations russo held in france germany italy and the u.k. one trade union backed protesters two with the following video. and the song. well amazon has more than half a million employees worldwide including a quarter of a million in the u.s. the minimum wage pays an hour is twelve dollars in europe and fifteen dollars in the u.s. the company recently increased the rate in the u.s. after workers protested. well following the black friday protest am isn't denied exploiting workers and said that it does provide a safe and positive workspace with competitive pay and benefits laborites lawyer down government told us though that 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 realize in the larger bozo is making many many millions of dollars and his people or working in prison like conditions that this is unacceptable. that russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has answered questions that a news conference and there's been about the scope out case as well as u.k. claims of a russian threat that after meeting his portuguese counterpart. is there for us.

the portuguese foreign minister began by saying that countries should work together to fight terrorism internationally yet he didn't exclude russia and that is in stark contrast to what we heard from you case she called general staff recent feat he said now that islamic state had pretty much been eliminated russia poses a greater threat to the west than myself and so i ask surrogate lavrov for his reaction to that statement. as to whether there is a red line in russia regarding statements similar to the one that the british chief of the general staff allowed himself to make you know we can appreciate it and he want to exercise the intellectual and political abilities of portugal was one of the few year opinion union countries that refused to expel russian diplomats as a result of the script poisoning scandal and so

a local journalist cast his foreign minister the question on what could be seen as a lack of diplomatic action to this the portuguese top diplomat replied that portugal will decide on its own what to do when it comes to international politics and the russian foreign minister went on to say that britain was losing trust with the moves it's making now when it comes to this crippled poisoning case globally what bit of seward did you the main question is where is usually a script and her father they haven't been seen in public for many months recently a film was released about the script but what is significant is that there is not a single word about where these poor people are so if the reason no access to this information it can mean only one thing the british secret service and the government have something to hide and start a lab robb's trip to rome and lisbon is wrapping up and according to russian side it has shown that rome and lisbon are the places on the map of the year. in union

where it had been felt that the tide is gradually changing when it comes to how senior european politicians are treating their relationships with moscow. in the trunk reporting their maps and more rights activists have been accused of trying to ram their agenda and the throat of an english town called wall they are demanding it's renamed to make it more animal friendly. 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 the good will.

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that i think. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be in this population a problem for. 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 them one 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 to. sign a statement that i would be home by 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 crime. and this young the lying circumstances that allowed for these emotions so very very violence i think that we may get his sons and even grandsons of some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on minutes where he. went on the free cations.

i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground is the future of britain's prime minister is arguably decided today in belfast by an all that irish policy previously linked to protestant paramilitaries coming out of the show with up to eighty five thousand children under the age of five dead as a result of manmade starvation in yemen we all hold a drone operator if britain is complicit in war crimes and unicef on the ground in newquay weapons dog did. yemen gives us its take on the world's worst humanitarian crisis and britain's biggest police force advises not to drive into london but it's not because ten thousand die each year in the capital because of pollution but as it's happening now stop pete because he won't work no britain's parliamentary speaker didn't publicly right off to raise a maze bricks at dealing in pews pull the civil coming up in today's going underground the first in a week when britain's intelligence services admitted they didn't act accordingly to stop the bombing of the ariana grande

a concert in manchester which killed twenty two are others continuing to be killed because of so-called u.k. intelligence this in a week of carnage in british involved conflict from afghanistan to yemen i'm joined now via skype from one town in the northwest of the united states by ordering whistleblower and former drone operator brandon bryant brandon thanks so much for coming on the show now we have in one analysis a third of those killed in drone strikes in yemen this year have been civilians including children. much surprise i would say that probably the numbers are a lot higher actually. in terms of the reports that are coming out you know my leadership one of the first times a mistake happened and i went to my leadership for reconsideration my supervisor told me to pretend it was a dark so imagine that i kill the child at that point and imagine. the you know if they're being forced to report on this they're being forced to give

you a number they're going to give you a number that they think is reasonable and i don't think one life is reasonable at all and mean in any case according to the united states constitution we should be giving people fair and free trials in front of juries and we're sitting there just demolishing an entire nation or britain's exporting arms of course but sharing intelligence with the united states for the targeting of these drones. given perhaps what you are saying is an outlier if well should britain be sharing intelligence well i mean this is where secret compartmentalised information kind of gets needs to be brought to the table because this is where people who should be men and take responsibility for their own action and if britain is giving intelligence for the consummation of these people's lives then yes they're held responsible for it there's no question about it they've they've they've participated to it and so if britain is going to do something then they need to

restore their honor then they need to fess up to it on the other hand as our report that britain which it's denying that they are being linked to the development all fully automated drones you might have to describe doesn't what that what they are the u.k. i should say has no intent says it has no intention of developing them and does not possess any fully autonomous weapons that's a troubling trouble one because the hardware had already been put in to the drones when i entered even in the software had not been developed and now we're eight hundred. or twelve years later and we're looking at how they were already in the process of developing it look at how much our technology has gone so we have artificial intelligences and algorithms that know it's better than god or santa claus and it wouldn't surprise me if these technologies are being used over in yemen and even tested on people.