to address quid pro quo violence or violence. i. i. i. i vehicles are set on fire a student run just clash with french police and fresh mass protests following the government's decision to accept

a key demand of best demonstrate. to the president says britain has provided sufficient gotten tease for julian a song to safely leave the embassy in london. china vent its fury off to one of the bosses of the country's telecoms joint was arrested in canada she faces extradition to the united states for allegedly violating sanctions on iran move threatens the new agreed truce in the ongoing us china trade war. thanks for joining us here live it all to you tonight just gone three am here in moscow. thanks for joining us this hour. students across the french capital have stepped up their protests against the government's education reforms on thursday they forced over one hundred fifty schools to close and disrupted tens more with. in a city of non group

a group of students clashed with police officers in a car on fire and burning rubbish in the streets. the police used tear gas in attempts to disperse the protesters and in turn had stones and other objects thrown at them students are unhappy about the changes to the university admissions process and also increases in tuition fees demonstrations also turn violent in a number of other cities with cars being torched in paris the rest comes as the country braces for a fresh wave of violence this weekend over fuel tax hikes more details in charlotte lewinsky. to do so have come out to a protest in the center of paris saying that they were unhappy with the prices of the registration fees for foreign students in comparison to local students and they're hoping that he's not that you'd turn was announced by the government last night in front over those rises in the field tax they will be also able to get to

hear their demands and they will also be met basically protest groups no seeing that they can say no and they sing surest 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 guests who've 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. well another protest is planned for this saturday by this really shows who are not couldn't stand that the government has really hurt their

claims and their problems they are the government is only saying that it is concerned it could be as violent as the previous saturday when the damage totals are through a million euros there were more than a hundred people in cheering those protests in france and also move them to go 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 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 that's taken this now to aleksey it could be any who's from the party force also moves to force the shit is gonna do with the force of the yellow vests

was demonstrated 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. was you lazy don't say they will continue their movement the protests on 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 no i disapprove in these protests now with one police union saying that it will go on strike on saturday to do pretty bonus reduction from the very start we supported the ideas of the universe movement and at some point it became clear that. we were not being heard we are continue losing our purchasing power police officers like us have also been affected by the

increase in fuel prices we had little choice and we decided to go on strike it seems like the unrest to infer it is far from. charlotte even ski on sea ice. and with the yellow vest demonstrations continuing to gain momentum the french prime minister has warned protesters not to commit acts of violence this weekend but we shall pass. the government is going to deploy exceptional security measures which you're going to be added to the sixty five thousand police deployed across fronts 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. as a precaution the authorities are still closing off the eiffel tower on saturday along with dozens of museums as well as off the tourist hot spots including the arc de triomphe or vandalized by demonstrators last week however political analyst an

acknowledgement of it thinks the government isn't fully in control of the situation . definitely and it can be don't know what to do at the size of these protests which are going across france what it whether it be in europe or even on the other french islands is humongous and they haven't seen it coming they should have seen it because we have had a lot of 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 that people think that bringing out more violence is going to change even more so yes there will be more violence and also i do think that as the current 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 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 and meanwhile

the yellow vest protesters have spread far beyond french border. i i. was she financial officer own daughter of the founder of the chinese smartphone giant who our way has been arrested by canadian authorities is now facing extradition to the united states over alleged violation of sanctions on iran the

move threatens to reignite a trade war between washington and beijing which had some signs of abating 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 and the person's immediate release the tension without providing any

explanation 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 and i want harry to tell us 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 nanny 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. . zoomie the global head of currency strategy and market research at f.x. t.m. believes trump's twitter tirades against china is sending shock waves across the uk markets that's what's it feeds are 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 are so sensitive and choppy so i mean a change in narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positivity around the true truce that relations are improve and then this much of

over verse once again however if we see the very same super that's a quote tension some hope it's a caress than what we've seen today and yesterday as currency to prolong even further. i was u.s. china trade tensions send ripples across european markets the e.u. is taking steps to ease its dependence on the dollar the european commission has unveiled plans to boost the use of the euro in international energy deal this will allow european business is to benefit from stronger tonally and finance themselves with reduced exposure to legal actions taken by third country jurisdictions. a brussels announcement comes off the washington declared its withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the move forced many e.u. firms to stop trading with iran for fear of u.s. sanctions back in twenty fifteen an international deal was agreed to end sanctions on the country in exchange for to iran scrapping its nuclear program that opened up

iran's nuclear to oil market but this year trump quit that agreement disastrous all sanctions previously lifted were reimposed which didn't sit well with you rick. if the president i see them fail. like that. but if it was a legitimate them a getting the 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 steve kean crowd funded professor of economics on trade on believes trumps recent behavior on the international arena makes america a tough partner to negotiate 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 lock on the american dollar for international trade you have the most with being told not to allow iranian bank accounts to use which now you have a chinese citizen being arrested in canada 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 it's cause the dollar is massively over there are you possibly twice what it should be a deceiving international reserve currency so to be in the interests to say spinning the ins there's a currency but they're so addicted to power that they're going to probably in force try to enforce their power and well they will disrupt any attempt to use any currency other than the american dollar for tried meanwhile world markets are poised the anticipation ahead of opec's next move that's off to the group of some of the world's biggest oil producing nations agreed to

a cut in production though they haven't yet agreed by how much exactly the move which is hoped will stabilize falling prices was agreed today at a meeting of the group plus russia that was there as well 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 surprise cut isn't what the world wants to see however the u.s. president's recommendations didn't go down too well with the saudi any human is that when asked to comment on trump's call he said the u.s. isn't in a position to tell opec or saudi arabia what to do a man's energy minister confirmed the size of the cut will be decided at the end of the week. do you get it do you recommend a plant roots apart yes but we don't need to we haven't discussed the number of years and here it is working abroad i wonder do you recommend you to cook it like you do recover declared we all did you already know what period to do. is recorded

and to morrow or enough to toward the hope of plus if you use you will discuss the income of the refinery. on the multi-year the much anticipated opec meeting comes following a thirty percent fall in oil prices us just over the last two months is one of the worst since the two thousand and eight financial crisis as we noted interest after qatar announced it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the bloc just ahead of research at london capital group gave us his thoughts on opec's plan cuts in all production i think politics does play a part in the movements in the oil price and the decision that opec's taking here it used to be that opec were the marginal produces so in essence opec completely controlled or supply these days that russia and the us do as well russia's partly partnering with opec the u.s. isn't so we have various marginal producers and i think that's why there's

a lot of volatility in the market. another political factor i think is a bit involved here is that saudi arabia who are one of the leading opec member countries are trying to walk a tight rope here they're trying on the one hand to cut production to increase the oil price which is good for their national economy but then the other hand they're trying to appease u.s. president donald trump and he has a different motivation he would lie all prices to stay low i think that's why we're seeing all prices jump up and down so much because they have all these competing players globally for who has market share in and who is able to profit most from various price levels. greece has been rocked by and to police brutality protests we'll have more on that story after this short break.

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back to the program and 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 the american administration is also going further questioning the relevance of other international agreements and organizations artie's but i guess if as more. 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 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 the 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 lead 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 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 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. there are enough treaty was signed in the final years of the cold war production of short and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact but the u.s. claims russia is producing missiles in violation of that agreement moscow says washington's threatening its security with bases and missiles located in eastern europe or british army officer charles troubridge gave his take on the current 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 have not just privately but publicly raised their concern that this is part of the arms control mechanism breaking down and that this will of course held 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 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. protests took place across greece on thursday to mark ten years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy in athens a number of the demonstrations turned violent. in athens protesters set up barricades in the streets and started fires and there's a lot of they hurled fire bombs and stones police who responded with tear gas at least fifty people were reportedly detained back in two thousand and eight a policeman shot dead a fifteen year old boy in athens during a quarrel with a group of teenagers he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison another policeman present was given ten years in jail. and

julian assange has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which ecuador's president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london let in more or no says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite a songe to any country where he might face the death penalty with more details here's polly burka. 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 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 judean a songes biggest fan lenin miranda has referred to the wiki leaks editor as

a haka he said in that interview today that he's fed up with the the wiki said it's occupying his tiny ecuadorian embassy here in london i do not like the presence of mr sunshine because during the embassy we have been respectful of this human rights issue with that in mind we think that six years is too long for someone to remain it's almost incarcerated and embassy no matter how good the treatment is that they're receiving from hosting him costs one million dollars a year 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 a songes life isn't not under threat you could still face up to fifty years in prison in the united states certainly true that the british government would not extradite during a sanch 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 that's all from the team i myself for this hour just coming up to you after you know in moscow join us again in the next thirty minutes for those latest global news headlines. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing. the road

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