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student riots has clashed with french police in fresh mass protests following the government's decision to accept a key demand of yellow vests demonstrates its. china benches furia off the one of the bosses of the country's telecoms giant way was arrested in canada she faces extradition to the u.s. for allegedly violating sanctions on iran the move threatens the new league retreat in the ongoing u.s. china trade also to come. to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal intellectual order. washington outlines its new vision for the world it questions the relevance with key international organizations and also threatens to scrap a major nuclear treaty with russia and the london property developers accused of islamophobia. yeah after airbrushing from a sales brochure

a mosque next to its new apartment block we hear from locals. here gets upset mean people should be inclusive we shouldn't even give the state as it is it will be difficult to put it in i think part of their. fellow their seven pm here in moscow you're watching international now just hours after the french government announced a total climb down over the fuel tax increase after weeks of protests that have been fresh demonstrations in paris today this time students took to the streets and did an increase in tuition fees with more details on this is shot a debate skit well so you do serve come out to a protest in the center of paris saying that they're unhappy to believe that the prices of the registration fees for foreign students in comparison to local

students and they're hoping that given that you train was announced by the government last year in france over those rises in the field tax they will be also able to get to their demands and they will also be met basically protest groups now seeing that they can see no blood's on this ng structure is government could possibly give in to some of their demands however the yellow vests are they happy with what they've been offered so far it seems many on north we've been speaking to some of the other best have been telling us that it's too little soon late by the muslim governments still. it's a step backwards it shows mccraw and listens to the public only when things like this happen people are angry and the women across the country insults them even policemen are protesting they're also fed up no one listens to them no one gives them up what you need to see there is no way back to the country needs a new political stripe. well another protest is planned for this saturday by this

really shows who are not content that the government has really hurt their claims and their problems the government is only saying that it is concerned it could be as violent as the previous saturday when the damage totals up through a million numerous there were more than one hundred people in suturing those protests in france and also move the four hundred people arrested as a result of that russian seeing what appears to be a fishing within the french government last night the elisei government and now see the cancelling the increase in the fuel tax just hours after the french prime minister had gone to the national assembly to say that it would be suspended for six months there's no suggestion we're hearing from some of the parties from the left here for us that they would like to place an order of new confidence in the government let's take a listen now to alec see if colby yeah he's from the party force also moves toward

a four digit is going to do with the force of the yellow vests was demonstrated by the government took a small step back but this is a maneuver he needs to be understood they postponed the decision to raise or not raise taxes for the period after the elections the european parliament however the universe clearly expressed their position they do not want to fuel price hike and they are right and then the problem of the high cost of living itself will not be solved people have an empty fridge now not after six months that bubbles was you lazy don't say they will continue their movement the protests on saturday is still did it take place some suggestion these protests could go on until the end of the year and we also know that there is no i disapprove of these protests now with one police you know him saying that it will go on strike on saturday to you it seems like the unrest here in france is far from. charlotte even ski artsy.

we want to say michel of s. protests have also gone beyond france's borders. thank you. thank you thank you thank you. thank. her. thank. you the chief financial officer and the daughter of the founder of the chinese based smartphone giant huawei has been arrested by canadian authorities and she's now facing extradition to the u.s. over alleged violation of sanctions on iran the move though threatens to reignite

a trade war between washington and beijing which had shown signs of easing the carrot as more. well there was a sigh of relief when the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart agreed to a temporary truce to their trade spots last weekend's but one december the first may have been denied diplomacy in argentina at the same time the u.s. was making moves which would take relations to new lows it involves one of china's leading telecoms firms weiwei the jewel in china's enviable tech industry and this is the c.f.o. of that company munger one joe who also happens to be the daughter of its founder she was taken into custody by canadian authorities on the very same day that she jinping and donald trump were giving the impression the better times were on the cards for their bilateral relations war monger now faces extradition to the u.s. and while u.s. authorities have not revealed the motives behind the arrest there are reports that the company is suspected of potential violations of u.s.

sanctions against iran their response from beijing has been stirred. we demand an explanation for the detention and the person's immediate release detention without providing any explanation violates the human rights of the detainee. rewind to less than a week ago trumpet claims that a trade deal with in the works and that relations had taken a big leap forward but that was followed by a tweet insisting that if an agreement wasn't reached it's important to remember he's a tariff man it's a roller coaster want just for emotions but for the market to even the white house is top economic advisor can't help but exacerbate all the uncertainty i think it's coming ok i was very troubled is what give us some details well it hasn't been signed and sealed and delivered yet and adding to all the confusion is the proposal of this ninety day truce that period this supposed to be used to ramp up dialogue

and attempt to mens the rift between the two sides well so far china has kept fairly quiet about the talks but to many actions speaking louder than words we believe this is a clear signal that the drug war is escalating to a new level public opinion in china will likely become more negative in respect to the trade war and potentially against u.s. companies the government may find it difficult to tell the public that they have offered significant concessions to the u.s. . ok we can talk further about this with my dad he's the global head of currency strategy and market research effects t m and you're very welcome to mail in your opinion do you think this arrest that we've heard about has had a direct impact on the markets. thank you very much for having me first i should say sir that it looks like there's weight further on the united states and china political tensions are already brewing for most of the share around trade and some other issues but if you look at

the market sentiment today it's a continuation of negativity that we saw in yesterday's. trading session and over rule we've seen quite a roller coaster ride this week monday and tuesday we had a motive of pewsey us in the markets a lot of risk or much more positive stocks risk up which side lots of emerging market currencies were rally and face on this trade truce hopefully lead into a withdrawal of these tensions but a simple sweet five for president trump and now this fisher who has weighed elite lee on market sentiment when markets have basically reversed that gains there's a lot of risk off higher japanese yen based on safe haven i said i did it does appear that we're back to square one when it comes to this issue they are very unpredictable and they the markets they do seem to be very choppy why is that is it just so difficult to ascertain what's going on between america and china. that's it secondly what it is this is

a lot of political risk and it's very unpredictable so investors do not know what's going to happen next and of course nobody can second guess or even six to imagine what could be fired over or a twitter feed but this is how financial markets it became so since to such issues as wife volatilities brits have been quite high on the financial markets as you correctly said very choppy we've got my man some sigh of momentum slower however over the past two days we've seen everts and it's indicative of see a lot of risk off so global stocks are suffering across the globe europe asia the united states i didn't so we get some clarity further confidence that this trade juice trade true story is going to lead soon some renewed optimism improved relations between the u.s. and china this ilmu that is probably likely to prevail even longer. are you surprised tweets have such an impact on the markets because when he first started tweeting i can recognize why people might think that but it's become clear he can

change his mind quite quickly county don't people to people not sit back and digest what's been said. before they react to you all watching the twitter feed. i know that's what's at feeds now being watched as closely on the dashboards as economic data and traditional economic macro releases which is very commonly being watched on my laptop as closely as anything else financial markets are very sensitive to such issues and this is something you cannot predict you cannot predict what could come across social media feeds next you can't predict what could happen with political risk around the united states and china which is why financial markets should correct reports it's so sensitive and choppy so i mean a change of narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positive and see around the true truce that relations are improve and then this much of over versus once again however if we see the same suit political tension

some more political risks than what we've seen today and yesterday as currency prolong even further. good to see fascinating stuff we'll have to leave it there was a global head of currency strategy market research ethics t.m. thank you. i came in about top top story now because students are back act on the streets of france protesting against tuition fee increases it does come as the french government scraps a fuel tax hike after weeks of mass protests against the we can get more insight now from john locke and he's a professor this with signs of france's catholic university if they and you very welcome also thanks for coming on the c. ning war two what are your thoughts do you think the french government climbdown on fuel tax is sort of admission that it's done something wrong or was it really didn't panic they they were prepared to do anything just prevent further protests and violence. i think it's a lot of panic i think that you're dealing here with

a very fragile situation a situation of insurrection and possibly of revolution because although the demonstrations have taken everyone by surprise and the the emergence of this movement was completely unexpected the fact is that there's a lot of background to this there's been a lot of discontent in france now for many many years and probably for decades and the people in power now in france i think know that their base is very thin their supply support base is very thin you know we must never forget that mccaw was elected on a very low turnout in the first round of the election he got a very low score much lower than even his unpopular producers and that he was elected firstly by default because he was standing against many look penn who was demonized but also he was elected because he'd managed to conjure

a new political party out of thin air and he was elected on the basis of a collapse of confidence in the traditional center right and center left parties both of which lost the election very badly but he was elected on the words by default he was elected because. the french population a large part of it had lost confidence in the whole political class and that's the key to mccall's victory and he probably knows that and now that these demonstrations have started i think that we're going to see we may see how how how fragile the political system is in this country and certainly the present incumbent there are those that argue john that this climbdown by the government is actually making things worse because it doesn't bolden people now to go out into the streets and cause violence in the hope that they too will get something back from the government. that's absolutely right you know the fact is that although one can have sympathy with people who are on low wages and there are plenty of

those people in the french countryside and although one can certainly sympathize with them feeling the brunt of taxes because france of course does have the highest taxes anywhere in europe the fact is that this step back is. i would say a more important symbolically almost than anything else because it symbolizes the inability of france to reform herself and this is a chronic structural problem in french politics which has been dragging on now for decades and decades and the fact that as you say after just a few demonstrations they've backtracked on this means that the government has lost its reason for existing because the whole point about this new rich this new administration was that it was supposed to be a new broom which would you know break the mold and would undertake changes that other previous administrations had not dared to undertake well we see that almost at the first hurdle they fall and that's why i think that we are in

a very fluid in and very or i would almost say dangerous situation at the moment in frocks because when we talk about the. which of course is a very modern nori i would even say post-modern movement it's emerged from nowhere it's presumably organized through social networks and so on it's very amorphous it doesn't seem to have a structure the same to some extent is true of the governing party which also emerged very suddenly in the run up to the electoral campaign last year and which also doesn't have a very solid structure so you know under the pressure of the street even the governing party could split because not much unites those members of parliament they were only united by a vague hope in emmanuel merkel and that hope has vanishing very very quickly because his popularity is going through the floor. so i mean it's difficult isn't it john to assess where this is going to go next because it doesn't seem to be any obvious or quick solution. there are no solutions the problem is that mccall

when he came to power hoped that he could repair france's chronic debt problem which really is very bad indeed by getting his hands on german money by means of creating a european federal budget you know he's like a man who's up against it and will steal almost from anywhere to to to live through to the next week well that plan was rejected quite firmly by the germans there's no chance that france is going to have a that france will have access to a federal european budget and that means that change and reform has to come somewhere else and the place where it needs to come. back home said it would come in his manifesto is from overspending by the french state he promised sixty or seventy billion euros of it of savings in his manifesto. but of course we haven't seen a single song team of saving in in france no department has been closed down nothing

has been sold off to raise money people haven't been sacked from the from the public services so the this this decision to back down puts france literally back to square one and france has been at square one now for at least a generation john ok look we're going to have to leave it there john good to talk today really good to get your analysis and all of this that was general and professor of political science at university of the day thank you. another news washington's threat to pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow has deepened the rift between the two sides with the u.s. accusing russia of noncompliance but the american administration is also going further because it's questioning the relevance of other international agreements and organizations is not against the earth now expects. it is time for change time for the old ways to die for a new undisputed leader

a new american world order our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order the central question that we face is that is the question of whether the system as currently configured as it exists today and as the world is this today doesn't work does it work for all the people of the world the old ways are out of date united nations is useless incompetent the i.m.f. is obsolete european union pointless all these international organizations unions treaties and agreements they only hinder america tire its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound when we all be better off if we just let america rule american tends to leave now and always the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty russia is violating it says america others

are bound by it it holds limits limits the united states and washington's policy requires it seems more nukes big nukes foster nukes one country in the world is bound by the i.n.f. treaty us china is not bound by iran has an extensive b.m. capability that but we have global responsibilities in asia and the middle east we have to be responsive to their terms international democracy has failed alliances have failed asians cannot tell right from wrong everyone wants a say but why let them they no longer know what's good for them america is good for them this is what president trump is doing he is. turning the united states to its traditional central leadership role in the world and so it seems we enter

a new age in age where might makes right without all the fluff and lip service to partnerships and equality the old world order is dead welcome to a new american age the i.n.f. treaty was signed in the final years of the cold war production of short or medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact but the u.s. does claim now that russia is producing missiles in violation of the cream and moscow in turn says that washington is threatening its security with bases in missiles located in eastern europe former u.k. army officers bridge gave us his take on the situation you've got the situation here where nato seems to be advocating one position on the part in support of the u.s. at the moment but many of its member states are not just privately but publicly raise their concern that this is part of the arms control mechanism breaking down and that this will of course hold in a new arms race of course the united states isn't just looking at europe it's

looking elsewhere in the world and that i suspect is the key to what the american decision making here is as indeed the russian government has indicated that they're looking more countries such as china iran possibly that are developing such systems that already have systems in place that would be bad for america and russia to have because of the limitations on the range still to come this hour here in r.c.b. airbrushing of a mosque from a london property sales brochure sparked an outcry well have a look at that in more detail just after the break. what holds us institutions. to put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich.

have to be right to be cross that's what the forty three of them or can people get . interested always in the water out. there should. seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just they become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

hello again our property developer in the u.k. is provoked something of a storm over brochure one of its new projects because images of a planned housing development in london how the neighboring mosque airbrushed out with more his promise to see. we are in hornsey north london mostly residential area about forty five minutes away from central london why not consider moving to a nice newly built high rise here. take note though if you look this one up on line it would miss the building right next to it this mosque which is obviously right here in reality the property developer has been accused of a slum a full after probably airbrushing the mosque out of its marketing photos the dome and the minarets are gone instead replaced with a row of trees in the building is nowhere to be seen what do locals make of all

this let's find out there's no mosque in the pictures in the marketing photos so people have been complaining about it a little bit what do you make of it you can't miss the mosque if it's not in the picture it's been left out of the previous and it will be just about to put it in i think they got there. first i think it's obvious that it. doesn't know not to take so i know how things work and people who see it in the way i mean them people . don't need to be visual like the show. you know would you be offended or you wouldn't be offended. by if you were a user of the local mosque you'd not be offended yeah it does upset mean people should be inclusive we shouldn't even give the site as it is so that people really nowhere they belong and what they are getting in front so why would you to move a mosque a temple or a church what does that mean if you're trying to sell something you want to make it look. so not everyone is going to like

a mosque while if you were shopping for an apartment mosque scare you off you personally know various people there were well some were offended by the doctored images others start it wasn't a big deal the mosque spokesperson said the apparent photo shop is nothing to worry about when we first saw the photo. the mosque had been hidden because i realized it was a marketing tool the developer of the building has reportedly said the images used are computer generated to create a visual representation of how the development will look to us they said they won't comment so whether it was a deliberate move or just an innocent marketing tool could be anyone's guess reporting from london and as they see it with our two. peace talks on the yemeni crisis are taking place in sweden today the meeting aims to end nearly four years of war we spoke to the president of the international committee of the red cross and he says that both humanitarian and political measures should be taken to

resolve the situation. at the present moment and with talks in sweden we do hope that we manage and the international community manages to draw a pathway to or more peaceful revolution in yemen what is certainly true is that humanitarian spy their own cannot fix the situation in which yemenis to be disease one of the most dire humanitarian situation we have seen people have been dying not only from the direct attacks and the direct impact of war but in particular also from the destruction of infrastructure from the destruction of hospitals of water systems think this is indeed a very dire situation which can only be fixed if a political solution is found and there is a slight. a light at the end of the tunnel maybe with peace talks going on in sweden. but yemen isn't the only country in the region at the moment

suffering a humanitarian catastrophe in syria over thirteen million people are in need with six million internally displaced and then in afghanistan the u.n. says that over six million people there are in need and a third of them are children the red cross president again says the organization is doing what it can in both countries. priorities in syria definitely is to have access to as many people displaced within syria tools support as good as as ever we can to deliver a basic human need here in assistance in terms of water health services and services. to many within syria are still displaced and we tried to contribute to destabilize ation. one of our largest operation worldwide where we are active in the whole of the country in all the provinces we have more than.

seven outfits in afghanistan we are responding to people these placed we are responding to populations in need in all parts of the star we have been worried over the last couple of years to see how much the civilian population but not only the civilian population also militaries are exposed to enormous amounts of casualties we see people. really heavily affected and the i.c.r.c. has one of the most multifaceted humanitarian the response program in afghanistan which we try to continue in the future you're watching our international company tonight that's the news wrap for this hour back again there with more for you in thirty minutes.