let me ask dan. policy to point out how they are going to get them in a lot of class and. what are the options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. i said to. both of you up of a few of the. i . set on fire a student right has clashed with french police in fresh mass protests following the government's decision to accept they keep them on the yellow best demonstration. so

this our ecuador's president says britain has provided sufficient guarantees for julian a song to safely leave the embassy in london. china vent his fury off to one of the bosses of the country's telecoms joint address that in canada he faces extradition to the u.s. for allegedly violating sanctions on iran to move threatens the needed read truce in the ongoing us china trade. and thanks for joining us on the program today what's your team's national live from moscow on. the night thanks for joining us on the program. students across france stepped up their protests against the government says u.k. should reforms on thursday they forced over one hundred fifty schools to close so affecting the. well with blockades and

a number of cities the demonstrations spilled over into violence. well the students are unhappy about the changes to university admissions process and also increases in tuition fees the rest comes as the outcry country braces for a fresh wave of yellow vests violence this weekend over fuel tax hikes the risk is that she's got more details. to do so have come out to protest in the center of paris by saying that they're unhappy to raise the prices of the registration fees to foreign students in comparison to local students and they're hoping that if not

that huge change was announced by the government last night in phones over those rises in the few times they will be also able to get to hear their demands and they will also be met basically protest groups no seeming that they can see no blood and they sing a fractured wrist government could possibly give in to some of their demands however the yellow vests so they huffy with all they've been opened so far it seems many all north we've been speaking to some of the other that's been telling us that it's too little shoe 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 up but you need to say there is no way back to the country needs a new political strategy. could. another protest is planned for this saturday by

this really shows who are not consent that the government has really heard of their claims and their problems that a 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 them 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 now see the cancelling the 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 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 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 that bubbles was a lazy don't say they will continue their movement the protests on saturday is still teaching 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 ulema saying that it will go on strike on saturday to be honest 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're continually losing our

purchasing power police officers like us of us have been affected by the eateries in fuel prices we had little choice and we decided to go on strike but it seems like the unrest here in france is far from. sure that you can ski on c s. i with the yellow vest demonstrations continuing to gain momentum the french prime minister has warned protesters not to act violently this weekend but we shall pass . the government is going to deploy exceptional security measures but 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 were vandalized by demonstrators last week political analyst nicole a bit of each though thinks the government isn't fully in control of the situation on the streets. they're definitely panicking they 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 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 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 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 nonviolent. while the

yellow vest protests have spread beyond french borders now as well. i. i i i. i think. the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of the chinese smartphone giant away has been arrested by canadian authorities she's 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 shown signs of easing in 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 any explanation violates the human rights of the detainee who are always one company we've been concerned about there are others as well as the negotiations proceed i think we're going to see a lot about what chinese companies have done to steal intellectual property to hack into the computer systems not just of the u.s. government but into private companies as well 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 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 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 riyadh. action 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. jamila the global head of currency strategy and market research f x t m believes trumps twitter to raids against china send shock waves across the stock 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 ours financial markets are very sensitive to such issues and this is something that 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 any change in narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positive and see around the tree truce that relations are improve and then this much of over a verse once again however if we see the same suit political tension some more political risks than what we've seen today and yesterday is going to prolong even further. i was u.s. china trade tensions send ripples across european markets use taking steps to ease its dependence on the dollar the european commission has unveiled plans to boost one of the euros to be used the use of the euro rather in international energy deals. this will allow european businesses to benefit from stronger ptolemy and finance themselves with reduced exposure to legal actions taken by third country

jurisdictions brussels announcement comes just a short while after washington declared its withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the moves forced the 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 tehran scrapping its nuclear program that opened up iran's lucrative oil market however this year trump quit that agreement disastrous all sanctions previously lifted were imposed which didn't set well with you are looking at the latest of president. bush. but if it's hard to articulate the mood getting new 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 kroft funded professor of economics on petro and believes trump's recent behavior on the international arena makes america a tough part of the 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 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 as goes the dollar is massively valued possibly twice what it should be a deceiving international reserve currency so it'd be in the interests to say

spinning the currency but they're so addicted to power 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 and i mean while world markets a poison anticipation ahead of that opec next move that's up to the group of some of the world's biggest producing nations of all agreed to a cut in production that haven't yet specified exactly how much that will be and the move which is hoped will stabilize falling oil prices was agreed today at a 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 and he said any supply cut is not what the world wants to see those comments though by the u.s. president didn't go down too well with the saudi oil energy minister he was asked to comment on trump's call he said the u.s. is in no position to tell a saudi arabia or indeed opec what to do

a man's energy minister confirm the size of the cut will be decided on friday. do you get it do you recommend a part where there's a cut yes but we don't we haven't discussed in their numbers look here at their baby walking program under if you were commanded a couple back and if you were coming to class we all did our you won't like what parents you do always recommitment and to morrow and after toward. open class if you use you will discuss and come up in the final. the much anticipated opec meeting comes following a thirty percent fall in oil prices in the past two months one of the worst since the two thousand and eight financial crisis has been out of interest after cats or else that was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the block just for a head of research at london capital group gave us his thoughts on opec's plan cut in oil 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 your 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 on 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. here with us on r.t. international we've got more news updates coming to you after this short break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tempi each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you want to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from its last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar

a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. welcome back to the program washington's threats of pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow has deepened the rift between the two sides with the us accusing russia of noncompliance american administration i was also going further questioning the relevance of other international agreements and organizations. 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 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 tire its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound when we all be better off if we just had america rule american tends to lead 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 in the middle east we have to be responsive near term 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 and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact the us though russia is producing missiles in violation of that agreement and moscow says washington's threatening its security with bases and missiles located in eastern europe former british army officer gave us 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 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 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. you're going to songes lawyer has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. in ecuador which president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london but in what i know says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite assad's to any country where he may face the death penalty more details here's party workers. 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 judean a songes biggest fan lenin miranda has referred to the wiki leaks editor as a hacker he said in that interview 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 in the dorian embassy we have been respectful of his human rights 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 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 a songe 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. well human rights activist peter tatchell believes that even if a song has a 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 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 that is of most would be a most just 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 thanks for staying with us here on r.t. international join us again in thirty minutes for the latest when you use headlines in the meantime though it's boom bust up next.

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into york city today the heart of global finance we're glad you're on board coming up in the ever evolving saw goal of chinese american relations there is yet another bump in the road this time canadian officials have taken a high ranking wall way official into custody how will this impact international relations will be joined by the c.e.o. of straw marco record which to dig into the details plus kristie i is back to talk about the bit coy blowout that's been happening for the past few. and where its price stands today and later with the holiday season here how big a splash will the smartphone market make tall and cook close to the big picture here and tech buzz we'll discuss all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. international what tronic intrigue leads our globe report today as a top executive at chinese tech giant wall way has been arrested by canadian authorities at the request of the united states department of justice while ways chief

financial officer. was reportedly arrested by canadian authorities on december first ms mangas also the daughter of wild ways founder and deputy chair of the company remarkably her arrest occurred the very night the presidents of china the united states reached their so-called agreement on a trade truce a spokes person for the canadian just apartment as confirm his u.s. counterparts are seeking extradition of ms missing to the united states meanwhile the chinese foreign ministry demanded ms meng's be released a ministry spokesperson told reporters quote the detention without giving any reason violates a person's human rights that's true but that's also rich coming from china later in the day reuters report of the charges in the case relate to suspected evasion of u.s. sanctions against iran the arrest was also regarded fears in the markets of escalating u.s. china tensions bush.