you mention they can tell in fact that money printing in rich people on average in paris and. in paris and those people who are working doing blue collar jobs their person power is eroded and so they like morning pamela anderson figured out that this is a structural leave violence system that they need to address with a quid pro quo violence or violence. that. i. think holds a set on fire student riots as clash with french police and fresh mass protests following the government's decision to accept

a key demand of yellow vests demonstrators. president says when one has provided sufficient guarantees for julian assange to safely leave the embassy in london. but china bence's few one of the bosses of the country's telecoms giant wild way was arrested in canada she faces extradition to the u.s. but allegedly violating sanctions on iran i mean threatens the media if we truce in the ongoing us china trade will also. our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order. washington outlined its new vision and for the world a question of the relevance of key international organizations i know so threatens to scrap a major nuclear treaty with russia. it's

one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with nina dio today welcome to the program. opposition to president micron's policies is intensifying across france with increasing numbers of students going on strike against the government's education reforms over one hundred fifty schools were forced to close on thursday and in the city of student protests turned violent. police used tear gas against protesters after a car was set on fire and in turn were profitable with stones and other projectiles there have been similar scenes in cities across some recent days in particular students are unhappy about changes to the university admissions process the unrest comes as the country braces for a fresh wave of violence this weekend over fuel tax hikes. despite the

government announcing a total climbdown on the tax increases earlier on thursday the elo best say the announced by the government and not quite meets the requirements of yellow vest france's pm claimed it speaking in the senate. the government is going to deploy exceptional security measures are you going to be added to the sixty five thousand police deployed across from us we will continue to question and bring to justice all the people we caught in flagrant acts of violence and degradation we will continue to show the greatest firmness we will fight hate which shows itself through unbelievable violence. on thursday the capital witnessed fresh demonstrations this time by students who took to the face of god it's a case. with more details now as charlotte defaults. to protest in the center of paris i saying that they're unhappy to raise up the prices

of the registration fees for foreign students in comparison to local students and they're hoping that if not you change was announced by the government last night in front over those rises in the few times they will be also able to get to him in their demands and they will also be met basically protest groups now seeing that they can see no blood and they seeing a fracture risk 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 all know what we've been speaking to some of the other that's been telling us that it's too little soon late by the muslim governments. 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 opportunities there is no way back to the country needs a new political strategy as well another protest is planned for this saturday by this really shows who are not consent that the government has really hurt they claims and their problems at the government is only saying that. is concerned it could be as violent as the previous saturday when the damage totals. million euros there were more than one hundred people in cheering those protests in france and also move the no one hundred people arrested as a result of that russia seeing what appears to be a fishing within the french government last night the elisei government and hopes to be cancelling that increase in the fuel tax just i was off to 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 for this shit is on the to the force of the yellow vests was demonstrated the government took a small step back but this is a maneuver and 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 a 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. what is your lazy on say they will continue their movement the protests and saturday is still teaching to take place some suggestion that these protests could go on until the end of the year and we also know that there is and why disapprove on these protests now with one police union is saying that it will go on strike on saturday to be honest we doctors from the very start we supported the ideas of the

yell of this movement and at some point it became clear that we were not being heard we continue losing our purchasing power or police officers like us this have been affected by the increase in fuel prices we had little choice and we decided to go out and strike it seems like the other. rest here in france is far from. charlotte even ski. as a precaution the authorities are still closing off the eiffel tower saturday along with dozens of museums after tourist hot spots including the tail vandalized by demonstrators at last week however political analyst nick colonic of it thinks the government is not fully in control of the situation. there is definitely panicking they don't know what to do x. the size of these protests which are going across france what it whether it be in europe or even on the other french is humongous and they haven't seen it coming they should have seen it because we have had not

a single showing that this was coming out they didn't see it and now they're panicking and they don't know what to do best that's a legacy in france you have to get violent if you want things change so that's this is also of course getting a positive message out of people think that bringing out more about this is going to change even more so yes there will be more violence and also i do think that as the government is extremely clumsy they're trying to build on this violence to show that it is a violent movement and that's not working we've seen these past days mainstream media showing only videos pictures of the violence and unrest in major french cities when ninety percent of these demonstrations across france are nonviolence. meanwhile yellow best protests have gone beyond france's borders and two of the continent's.

the chief financial officer of the founder of the chinese smartphone giant way has been arrested by canadian authorities she's now facing extradition to the u.s. over alleged violation of sanctions on iran the move threatens to reignite a trying to war between washington and beijing which had shown signs of easing and it will and has more details. well on december first when it was announced that a truce had been reached between president xi of china and president trump after their meeting in argentina there was an uptick on the global market people were

optimistic however now with the news that has come out about the c.f.o. of he alway being arrested in canada it's been widely alleged that this c.f.o. of the corporation has been involved somehow in violating the sanctions against iran however no no formal charges have been leveled as of yet the news that caused just a huge amount of uproar we're now seeing the stock market plunging to a two year low and at this point now we're seeing a rather swift and strong response from china. demand an explanation for the detention the person's immediate release detention without providing experimental any. violates the human rights of the detainee when trouble announced that he had reached an agreement with president xi at the g twenty there was optimism but then when he followed up that tweet by reminding president xi that if a deal didn't work out too that he is

a quote tariff man when that happened then there was another plunge in the markets now this is what lawrence kudlow of the white house economic council has has come forward and said i think it's coming ok harry troll that's what give us some details well it hasn't been signed and sealed and delivered yet the mixed signals regarding u.s. china trade relations and the many different statements that have been made in the news of this arrest have caused a bit of a roller coaster on the u.s. stock market this is been the reaction from a representative of deutsche bank 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. . left discuss this further with cullen associate professor of public political science and i'm playing field state college thanks for coming on to the program

colleen now what could this arrest and potential extradition mean for the u.s. china trade war. well it is part of the. crude war that is going on the dollar troubles waged against china but as well it is also part of the sanctions the. initiated against iran on november fifth now. that eight countries had waivers on his. and china was to be one of those countries so by arresting many in one jew and. now can they you know did this at the behest of you know. and now the united states is seeking extradition of million went to the u.s. now she is the chief financial officer. for i and also the daughter of the

founding c.e.o. of so i think they're trying to indicate that can. china even though it may have an additional waiver with regards to buy oil from iran the united states is going to penalize it in other areas such as in the telecom industry this is a i think is trying to ratchet the tension with china. to miss when jews credit she has indicated that she does not want this to be too public she is trying to keep this below the political radar hoping that this situation can be resolved between the two governments however given the she was arrested at the behest of the united states in men who were it does indicate that perhaps donald trump wants this

to be blown up so that he can claim that he is attacking china. in these by arresting one of their top executives well what do you make of think timing of the rest. considering it's kind of close after a meeting between u.s. and chinese leaders. well supposedly there was posed to be a truce between the united states and china on december first. and yet here we are making when zoo is arrested on december first so i think as a political analyst it looks like trump wants to have his cake and eat it too he wants a truce with china but at the same time he wants to whip it into say so he thinks.

he can be the bully ball on the international block and that everybody else is supposed to count to his and brush. how much influence do you think chimes tweet about trade wars have on stock markets and how much do you think they can be blamed for the falls because it does seem to have an influence doesn't it. it definitely has an influence and in the united states any type of. tweet or statement from a person such as the president of the united states can have a tremendous effect on the stock market stock analyst or listening all the terms. the chairman of the federal reserve the president or other. people involved in political decisions what is going to be the future because they're all concerned

about banking money and they think their ability to make money is going to depreciate because of some political decision they're going to try to move their money out of a particular market or into a particular market so they will live by these different signals coming from political elites who may please decisions so yes president trump's tweets can have a tremendous effect on the stock market they've already had an effect on the wireless stock situation by plunging it. so we'll have to see. what is the eventual outcome. every gore's international market and as regards china reacting trying to going to be quiet about this and try to resolve it. through the backdoor or they're going to see it for what it is an affront to china boldly by

a way we live in a convention on cancellations article thirty six by not granting china any type of access to this one here. or are they going to. just be quiet about alec and have to wait and say cullen cavallo associate professor of political science at plainfield state college thanks very much for coming on to the program. as u.s. china trade tensions send shock waves across european markets the e.u. is taking steps to ease its dependence on the dollar the european commission has unveiled plans to boost use of the euro in international energy deals this will allow european businesses to benefit from stronger tonally and finance themselves with reduced exposure to legal actions taken by third country jurisdictions brussels announcement comes after washington declared its withdrawal from the iran

nuclear deal the may have has forced many to stop trading with iran for fear of u.s. actions back in twenty fifteen an international deal was agreed to end sanctions on iran in exchange for scrapping its nuclear program that opened up iran's a new court of all market however this year trying to quit the agreement disastrous or sanctions previously lifted by reimposed which did not sit well with europe. president. bush. at least that is if it was the ultimate we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision and we will do so in a concrete manner by maintaining our political engagements by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran and also by getting all parties to pursue negotiations for a larger indispensable deal a crowd funded professor of economics on paper and believes transmission behavior

on the international arena makes america a tough partner to work with. did the recent rogue behavior by america because it got far worse than it was beforehand i think is convincing a lot of countries they simply can no longer a lot on the american dollar for international trade you have the most with being told not to allow iranian bank accounts to use swift now you have the chinese citizen being arrested in the candidates for violating an american sanction all this sort of action is going to say we have to find another foundation apart from the american dollar for international trade and find it quickly and even though the euro is incredibly flawed at the moment it's the strongest alternative currency the main reason american manufacturing is not competitive this goes the dollar is massively over valued possibly to us what it should be deceiving international reserve currency so to be in the interests to say spending the answer is a currency but there's so addicted to palla that they're going to probably in force

try to enforce that power and well they'll just dropped any attempt to use any currency other than the american dollar tried meanwhile will the markets poised in anticipation ahead of opec next move to the group of some of the world's biggest oil producing nations if we to a cut in production although they haven't yet agreed by how much the move which is hoped it will stabilize falling prices was agreed today meeting of the group along with russia the decision flies in the face of comments by donald trump who expressed hope the flow of oil would remain as it was he said any supply cut is not what the world wants to see however the u.s. the president's recommendations didn't go down well with the saudi energy minister when he asked to comment on the truck with coal he said the u.s. is not in a position to tell opec whole saudi arabia what to do energy minister confirm the size of the cut will be decided on friday. do you think do you recommend

a part. of us but we don't we have an exclusionary number look here at the early work you've been a good one would you recommend you to do recovery because we will be. able to do all the things we can do to me. enough to. hope that you will discuss it with one of. the much anticipated opec meeting comes at a time when all prices have plummeted around thirty percent in two months almost equalling the worst for since the two thousand and eight financial crisis has been added interest after qatar and it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the block financial experts. gave us his thoughts on opec's plan to cut in all production he says relations between the u.s. and iran have been a key determinant of prices. traum tries to do play in this pressure and tries to

influence the decision of a break but we have to remember that opec reversed its policy. earlier this year because donald trump feared that there would be a disruption of supply follow india we draw all of the united states from the iran nuclear deal so it kind of ironic all that now trumps comes and tries to influence these decisions not to do good this extra supply of oil that had been put on the market while at the same time you see a record that exports of crude oil from the u.s. both three point five million barrels per day i think so basically there is a fundamental contradiction between what donald trump says and what actually the american oil industry does. sounds lawyer has rejected

a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which ecuador is present claims will enable the wiki leaks founder to leave his country's embassy in london and in lorain it says that end of the agreement britain will not extradite a tiny country where he might face the death penalty with more details of his. lenin miranda did a radio interview where he said that the british government has provided a guarantee in writing that julian assange should be safe to leave the ecuadorian embassy here in london and that he wouldn't be in danger of being extradited by the british authorities to any third country where he could potentially face the death penalty so as a headline this all sounds like jolly good news for julian assange but it's important to remember that the ecuadorian president isn't exactly julian a songes biggest fan lenin miranda has referred to the wiki leaks editor as a hacker in the past he said in the interview he's fed up with him occupying his

tiny embassy here in london but he did concede that you have to respect julian assange just human rights and that he has done his fresh air of time he has after all spent more than six years holed up in ecuador's embassy here in london the big concern especially for a songes lawyer is and it's a concern that they've had for the past six years that he spent in the embassy is the prospect of facing charges over in the u.s. criminal charges in fact last month it was revealed that the u.s. justice department had filed secret criminal charges against julian assange but prosecutors have refused to reveal what specifically those charges are so however much the ecuadorian president wants to walk out it's really simple on the one hand yes whatever the case against

a songe in sweden was has long since expired and collapsed but technically a songe is still wanted by british authorities here in the u.k. for skipping bail i don't think this is a very yet. human rights activist peter tatchell believes that even if his life is not under threat he could still face up to fifty years in prison in the united states. certainly true that the british government would not extradite drea sans to a third country where he could face the death penalty. and you know maybe the u.s. government might at some point give assurances that he won't face the death penalty but so far the u.s. government has not given those assurances and even if they did that would not preclude him facing charges which could land him in prison for thirty to fifty years and that is of most would be a most unjust punishment for person an organization that he is part of who simply

published published information which also have been in the public domain from the get go. now washington threatened to pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow has deepened the rift between the two sides the u.s. accusing russia of noncompliance but the american administration is also going further is questioning the relevance of other international agreements and organizations as artie's explained. it is time for change time for the auld 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 as the world is this today doesn't work doesn't 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 union's treaties and agreements they only hinder america ta its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound wouldn't we all be better off. we just that america rule america intends to leave now and always the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty russia is violating it says america others aren't bound by it it holds limits limits the united states and washington's policy requires it seems more nukes big nukes faster 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 in 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 a new longer know what's good for them america is good for them this is what president trump is doing he is returning the united states to its traditional central leadership role in the world and so it seems we enter a new age in the 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. treaty was signed in the final years of the cold war production of short and medium range nuclear missiles or perhaps put it under the

pact but the us claims russia's printing missiles in violation of the agreement and moscow says washington is threatening its security with bases and missiles located in eastern europe former u.k. army officer charles shoe gave us his take on the situation. you've got this 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 the american decision making here is as indeed the russian government has indicated that they're looking more at 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. peace talks on the yemeni crisis are taking place in sweden on thursday the meeting aims twenty four years of war he spoke to the president of the international committee of the red cross peter marra he says 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 the international community manages to draw a pathway to or more peaceful revolution in yemen what is certainly true is that humanitarians by 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.