it was. schools of people injured and attains across france has fallen still as during demonstrations against fuel price increases police used tear gas and water cannon against protesters trying to stop fires in the capital. and that the 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 suggests that britain's government is behind contest in anti russia

campaigns across the world. plus black friday sees dark clouds gather over amazon's warehouses the stuff protest against working conditions. from the russian capital this is international we start this hour with paris protests against government imposed fuel hikes hitting french cities throughout the week have swept across the capital they have been clashes with police too with take gas and water cannon used against the demonstrators who've been wearing yellow safety vests the rallies have left the streets of paris on fire . her uncle hundred and thirty protesters have been detained around the country on

saturday forty two of them in paris nineteen people were injured including four offices more than one hundred thousands have taken to the streets in france charlotte dubinsky he's in paris has been covering the story from the start here on the show as least as you can see there's a rally gathering behind me and there is a rule of the police of vehicles that there's many speakers trying to stop the protests is from going down or who. you know are here at sardis street to the entrance over the earlies a parts are you can see tear gas is being fired by the police that's as the protesters were trying to enter into that streets to get clear research into the alleys very perilous.

oh. thank you who. are going to the tear gas 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 water cannons i have. to get as you can see the war cannons are trying to push down this party this be made by the protests is there all throwing i see rulebooks towards the police i

said she picking up what looks like to be the stones from the riot and throwing it towards them. and 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. the police are coming we're having to move now because we're all being pushed up the streets into the two gotten to protest this it really is absolutely crazy here on the streets of paris the protesters throwing projectiles literally taking out some old. 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 not giving up here complete chaos here on the streets of paris as

you lazio's take over the shows and he's a hero apparently put a. oh. you can see some of 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 say palace which is about a hundred fifty meters away from where we are. right . thank i 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 become infamous in paris of late they're burning here this is one of the barricades have been put in place were actually being shouted out 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 left and from the right and they woundings ahead of this protest in paris that it was going to get hot and it seems that those warnings are absolutely right it was not just all just fuel protests in protest against the cost of living and living standards here for months but it just seems that people now all purely angry at the situation and the fact that the president is still refused to meet them to discuss the problems in this country the suggestion is that eight thousand people are protesting in paris today as part of this a yellow vests movement well here only shows iliza we're still hearing what sounds like to be by the sound good aides altie again or sabean 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 and altie france correspondents reporting on the protests also found herself caught in the crossfire. that is. really good really good president micron has tonight's condemned the violence. thanks to our lord forces for their courage and professionalism shame on those who attacked them shame on those who have abused other citizens and journalists shame on those who try to intimidate elected officials there is no room for this violence in the republic. the british government is funding a large secret network to control political and public opinion about alleged malign russian activities that's according to documents leaked by hacker group anonymous it was done off explains. 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 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 can analyze examples of this information in their country and inform decision makers and other interested parties about what is happening 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 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. why the 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 the 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. 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're looking at the documents

and are not surprised that the 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 check his regime has 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 aspects of ressa fame with political analyst george samueli western countries are doing exactly what they are accusing the the russians of doing i mean they are essentially a waging a psychological propaganda war. directed at the russians what that should

tell us is that we are initial stop believing. all the various pronouncements of the government ministers and the stories that constantly appear in the media russia did this russian did that russia's response above verse ruff is responsible for that because it's clear that this is all part of a. concerted campaign to manipulate public opinion. hillary clinton has came to europe needs to curb mass immigration to prevent the election of populist leaders like donald trump but critics point to the facts the refugee crisis was in part created by foreign interventions by the u.s. and its allies peter one of the has more. 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 led 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 populace and that'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 applications 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 to assad 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 heave. and get out this domination of libya so freedom from developing country and when refugees did start arriving they told europeans not to worry those who flee musically 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 clear. and like minded 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 in populism it was under her rule so to speak under the obama administration libya was bombed into the stone age. supposedly to promote democracy and created a field steve is in direct effect for what she did in office. europe isn't just being told that migration is a bad idea plans for an e.u.

army have also been criticized from across the pond honeyboy kaye takes a closer look at the french german idea of a european military force which has ruffled washington this in case you missed a european talking about building up again. and i know my son and i have been breezily outlining their plans to dominate continental europe french president declared that it's a friend 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 sure. was naive very easy 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 european. because no one is going to fail this grieving after hearing in germany. a massive wealth of one from britain who can't wait to get out and seeing eminem's plans friends it may finally looks like a good idea of course looming in the room is a rather large number of younger 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 these dogs the world does not like the sound of europe. some kid spinning from his french kissing buddy rather well breaking out the classic you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for us. and britain will be idea of a european army to undermine nato crazy so let are we stand european nations don't

like being told hey more often nato say they've only won me of their own which will cost more than outsourcing to the us marines and usually the us wants europe to do more to defend itself as long as it doesn't when you need to detect it i'm 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. but friday ten so us with stuff around the world still not seeing working conditions well the details of the short break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. a statistic from a couple excel came out that showed the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries and then there's there's the u.s. there's your there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like wow this stuff incredible spread between this concentration and then you've got the royal leicester people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of breaks it was to support the queen ok so they just aerialist and a moron a policy because it credible poverty brags it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of their world contacts.

welcome back to r.t. this and stuff have told that bosses to stop treating them like robots the number of the retailer john simply staged protests on black friday they've awaken conditions in the company's warehouses amazon work is in the spanish capital to mounted improvements to both conditions and salaries while they were in the us they protested against comes to open new amisom headquarters as demonstrations were also held in france germany italy and a one trade union blocks but the protesters for the following idea. amazon knowing or sell mobile phone and also motorola and the story we in the world and on our way out of the world. amazon has more than half

a million employees worldwide including a quarter of a million in the u.s. the minimum wage it pays in now is twelve dollars in europe and fifteen dollars in the u.s. the company recently increased the rate in the u.s. off to workers protested. following the black friday protests some isn't tonight exploiting workers and said it provides a safe and positive way expats with competitive pay and benefits labor rights lawyer told us and this and is susceptible so where can conceive the pressure be seen 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 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 are realizing that while jeff bezos is making many many millions of dollars in his people or working in prison like conditions is this is unacceptable. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov have answered questions at a news conference in lisbon about the script case as well as u.k. claims of a russian threats that soft a meeting his portuguese counsel parts. 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 chief general staff recent feat he said now that islamic state had pretty much been eliminated russia poses

a greater threat to the west then myself and so i ask surrogate lavrov for his reaction to that statement. as to whether there is a red line in russian regarding statements similar to the one that the british chief of the general staff allowed himself to make you know we cannot prohibit anyone to exercise their intellectual and political abilities so you know quite a lot of portugal was one of the few european union countries that refused to expel russian diplomats as a result of the script poisoning scandal and so a local journalist asked his foreign minister the question on what could be seen as a lack of diplomatic action to this the portuguese top diplomat replied that orchard call 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

glowingly will put a steward in a good year the main question is where easy julia 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 access to this information it can mean only one thing the british secret service and the government have something to hide if you start a lab ross trip to rome and lisbon is wrapping up and according to wash inside it has showed that rome and lisbon are the places on the map of the europe. and you know where it had to be felt that the tide is gradually being what he called it to our senior european politicians are treating their relationship with moscow. animal rights activists have been accused of trying to ram their agenda down the throats of an english town called wall that demanding it to be 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 going to rule. the name who should remain as it is the idea of renaming the village is possibly ridiculous the most easy antico easy i have come across in a long time the name wall has nothing to do we cheat becomes from distracting the word bush spring. thanks.

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to 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 i'm good. of almost getting wet 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 news for you can't you can't find a finer 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 report they could not find the words climate change or global warming or even simply we're thinking they just couldn't it got caught in their throat they were like clank clank clank. was good they could here take action cause most of the fires. take a look and let's see how long it takes for n.b.c. nightly news to say something stupid this is n.b.c. nightly news with kate snow.