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deal struck by the door to not deport the whistleblower to a country where he would face the death penalty if indeed he leaves the ecuadorian embassy in london. to washington. for help in getting the taliban to engage in peace talks in afghanistan. the u.s. to quit the country saying its policy of. the problem of them. being the wrong. military approach has absolutely. it is friday december seventh i'm just here in moscow let's get into your top stories for this hour on r.t. international and we do start with this news just in the sea. an office in new york

has been evacuated after a phoned in bomb threat a c.n.n. employees are still at this moment milling around outside the building it's just off to midnight now the caller said there are five ball moves currently in the building of the incident happened to shortly after ten thirty pm local time and we understand several fire alarm bells rang inside the c.n.n. newsroom the programming was taken off the air immediately and now a police investigation is underway. now students across france are protesting against the government's education reforms forcing over one hundred fifty schools to close in a number of cities the demonstrations turn violent.

the student riots come on the back of weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases on declining living costs more so-called a yellow vest rallies are planned over the weekend but the government is resorting to exceptional security measures with visitors to paris for example told to stay away from certain attractions including the eiffel tower yet a movement is named after the high visibility jackets worn by many of the protesters. and the protests planned for the weekend to come despite the government caving into the yellow vests initial demand to scrap a new fuel tax a correspondent reports another day another protest a in front. by the government in a few. feel like the wings are changing and blowing in their favor now as the crisis continues to. from the left are calling for

a very good no confidence in the french government this second in months local now we see that our government is heading for disaster and it's our collective responsibility to make it stop here and to do something to change the government and the policies try to convince other members of parliament aside from us to sign this motion of no confidence vote it through on the can you tell judges front sees hope when he was elected last year he came into office with an approval rating of more than sixty percent but he's gone from jupiter to g.s. with the latest polls showing his popularity has crashed recovery labor will be free companies will be supported initiatives will be encouraged he. was there was a. gamble i'm i will humbly serve our people was.

the fosters a frenchman and french women who feel forgotten a little better protected. so what's caused the collapse as well as implementing a vast range of unpopular reforms that have led to him being labelled the president of the rich he's also known for his news tongue and perceived arrogance he told army generals just he would push if just speech over spending cuts the head of the french open forces soon quit and he would be far from the last to abandon macron scamped the president even told pensioners that france would be better off if people stop whining after being harangued by the worried about pension cuts the only thing we don't have the right to do about is complain the president may have hope. the u.

turn on fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it hasn't it only seems to have intensified it with truckers of farmers earning students now taking their concerns to the streets protesters here are calling the macro to resign one issue of course to doubt i consider micron to their president who's against social rice who is trying to nationalize to deconstruct the welfare state. he's clearly implementing policies for the rich because he's the president of the rich we want a president for the poor last year a president who prioritizes the common interest. across or is ignition would be a deal palms job is to respond to the people's demands unfortunately though in the national assembly where the majority are with a marsh the deputies follow orders like sheep but we are happy because there are deputies who represent the interests of the people and sort of the democracy mark and i don't like him a lot but the problem is that if you want to make on to resign who are you going to

put forward against them so if you have a good candidate that's fine but michael resign. let's see what happens is that the greats of. corn once penda book entitled to revolution in it he wrote about the quest to reinvent the french nation he's unpopular policies may just be doing that as the yellow this movement continues to gain traction problem is this was the revolution the president foresaw nor wanted charlotte even ski r.t. paris john auckland a professor of political science at the catholic university in vaughan day says the protest movement could spell the end of the dream for a manual presidency. it's certainly the end of the dream that he liked to cultivate he made people dream things made people think and dream that. change

could take place without difficulty and that because he was new and a new person and a new party that everything would suddenly get better emanuel michael like his two predecessors has absolutely no new ideas he remains where did the policies that have failed well for many decades in france high tax high spending. european policy relaxed policy on immigration all the costs of these things add up and spending is out of control and so taxes keep going up higher and higher and people have had enough. joining us are just lawyer has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which i could always president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london and then in so that britain has given assurances it will not extradite assange to any country where he might face the death penalty and more details here with r.t.

he's. the ecuadorian president has done a radio interview in which he's been very frank about julian assange and he said that the british government has guaranteed in writing that if you're in the sun just to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london well then the u.k. won't extradite him to a third country where he could face the death penalty so as a headline this 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 moran no has referred to as sanjay as a hacker in the past in the interview he said that he's fed up with the wiki leaks editor staying in his country's tiny london embassy 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 in embassy. or how good the treatment is that they're receiving

hosting him costs from one million dollars a year the big concern that a songes lawyers have had throughout the six year is he spent in the ecuadorian embassy is this prospect of a criminal case against julian assange over in the u.s. in fact last month it was revealed accidentally that the u.s. justice department had filed secret criminal charges against the wiki leaks at its at and prosecutors have refused to reveal what specifically those criminal charges are so however much the ecuadorian president might want judy and a songe to walk out now that he says he's got these guarantees it's simply not that easy on the one hand yes whatever case that was against in sweden has collapsed and is expired but technically a son just still wanted by british authorities for skipping bail in the u.k.

and with prosecutors in the u.s. on able to even say what the criminal charges against julian a songe are i don't think this is a very yet julian assange has been voicing concerns that he could face the death penalty in the u.s. for leaking thousands of classified documents or these include information on civilian deaths in afghanistan and on the cia's spied tools is now also the focus of an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election back in twenty sixteen we spoke with a human rights activist peter tatchell who believes that even if assad your life is not in danger you could still face up to fifty years in prison in america. it's 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 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. donald trump has expressed confidence that a trade deal with china will be reached in one thousand days as planned despite the arrest of the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of the chinese smartphone giant who are way in canada and she now faces extradition to the u.s. over alleged violation of sanctions on iran and the prospect of a new trade deal was seen as a sign of a thaw in u.s. china relations with chav been pretty badly hurt by the tire of war and something the rest of who are always at c.f.o. could scupper the latest efforts

a killer and reports. 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 before 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 indonesia we demand an explanation for the detention and the person's immediate release tension 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. we spoke to market specialist jamil ahmad about the extent to which the president's tweets contributing to volatility in the financial markets that's what's it feeds us now being watches 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 that you cannot predict you cannot predict what could come across a social media feeds next you can't predict what could happen with bullets a chorus 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 it see around the tree truce that relations are improve and then this much of over verse once again however if we see the same suit political tension some hope it's a caress than what we've seen today and yesterday as currency to prolong even further. pakistan says it is ready to back us efforts for a peace settlement in afghanistan and will help to bring the taliban to the negotiating table washington has always insisted that islam about could play a vital role as many taliban leaders reportedly reside on pakistani territory. as much as we can we will facilitate what the us is expecting from us and the foreign office is cooperating with is that somehow they could have these negotiations with the taliban we want the u.s. to leave afghanistan as a friend of the region not as a failure just before the statement america's special representative for

afghanistan wrapped up his visit to pakistan comes after some major ups and downs in u.s. pakistan relations. we can no longer be silent about pakistan safe havens for terrorist organizations or do anything for us they don't do a damn thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion to pakistan we're paying them nothing because that's what they've done to help us nothing we discuss the u.s. policy in the middle east and their ties with pakistan with. pakistan's federal minister for human rights. president trump was talking absolute nonsense the very mrs so and for the first day we're bikes finally prime minister stuart is grown and told him off for a basically accusing pakistan of all sorts of things they have come back to pakistan and. do normally makes a lot of it is strong statements has come like livid is sheepishly.

very quiet and asked and trump wrote a letter asking for bikes terms of help in bringing about a dialogue with the taliban and helping in resolving the problems and of understand and now. came that the same message that makes the. the problem with the americans is that the policy is been exposed to being wrong their policy has failed their military approach has absolutely failed. there is more chaos there more there is more terrorism there are more deaths now in the grandstand than ever before despite the heavy need to an us military presence so the americans have realized what we had realized a long time ago that at the end of the day you have to come to that dialogue table to bring about peace. the americans have to talk to pakistan.

the fact that you can all do more do more of month rather that the inflicted does not work any more it has changed the way that they approach pakistan and i think that change was necessitated by the new government that has come into power because our government is not going to dig dictation from the us. to resume a government of the whole of the u.k. gearing up for one of the most crucial votes in the country's modern history and the parliament to vote on whether to accept the draft or percs a deal on december the eleventh there's confusion panic and anticipation on the streets is our correspondent and i start to you chuck. brick said from a people's vote to a nation's headache it's a ticking time bomb with just days to go before it goes off which could potentially send the u.k. into more chaos and uncertainty december eleventh will be make or break day for the british prime minister apparent it's guessing game about what outcomes are likely

to follow have reached boiling point in the u.k. the house of commons will vote on whether or not to give a green light to the plan to rescind may has been pushing through like a cupcake through a keyhole the stakes are higher than ever day's a fiery brags that debates have been rocking parliament ahead of the meaningful vote the deal before us would make our country worse our country would be better off remaining in the european union the next sitting on the basis of this deal i've got no stake in this government anymore is it time that the prime minister to responsibility responsibility for concealing the facts it is a paint a gloucester pseudo brick sheet the choice before parliament is clear this deal no deal over the risk of no bricks it. or tuesday's vote leads is anyone's guess it may suffer as a major defeat developments like heart brags that a no deal bracks it a vote of no confidence against the prime minister general election

a second referendum and even no progs it at all are all being mulled over while the british public grows weary of the uncertainty but this is madness because our story . brings you right to know that the mess really going to wait should be getting very messy sons i was due to be i'm still nervous over it but. i'm sick to death of hearing about it have so fed up now yet we change the subject yes please give us a break i think you've been covered a bit too much because there's nothing actually been done as a sort of become the talk you every single day over time bricks and bricks people. often. so it's for everybody to get out of this i'm not very interested in. going to. make it very clear they seem to be very confused if you know it's going to be just. everything is. a little bit uncertain to see i

don't think it's affecting anyone yet she does it feel real good to go on forever i've been. told to go back to square one probably it was people who should have got there are straight or were you sort of reverberate through. meanwhile words like chaos panic and meltdown all too common in newspaper headlines these days have been adding fuel to the fire. and bites it's males and. opec is keeping other countries in suspense the world's biggest oil producing nations have agreed to cut production though not how much but the decision aimed at stabilizing prices and the falling prices was agreed upon at a meeting of the group along with russia it was reached despite donald trump expressing hope on twitter that the flow of oil would remain as it is the us president added that the world doesn't want to see prices go up. however he got

a firm reaction from the saudi energy minister who insists that the u.s. cannot tell opec all saudi arabia what to do meanwhile a man's energy minister confirmed that the size of the cut will be decided on friday. do you recommend you can't. cut us but we don't need to we didn't disclose the numbers here and here they don't work if you recommend you to keep your equipment or can't we all do you. want to give it to you do you recall it to me and to moral enough to to. help it plant if you will discuss the income of the refinery. the much anticipated opec meeting comes following a thirty percent for the oil prices in just the past two months one of the worst since the two thousand and eight financial crisis has been added interest after cut out announced it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the block some analysts think it's politics this determined opec's plans to

cut oil production. to influence the this issue of opec but we have to remember that opec reversed its sporty c. . earlier this year because donald trump feared that there would be a disruption of supply following go to withdrawal of the united states from the iran nuclear deal so it's going to of iran you call that now trumps comes and tries to influence these decisions not to do good this extra supply of oil i think politics does play a part in the movements in the oil price and the decision that opec's taking here 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 the international economy but then the other hand they're trying to appease us president donald trump and he has a different he would like 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. 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 protests turned violent. in athens protesters set up barricades in the streets and started fires while in the thessaloniki they hurled fire bombs on stones at police who responded with tear gas at least fifty people 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 at the time was given ten years of protests have taken place each year since the killing. there are only ten states in the us where being a legislator is considered a full time job in other states nothing prevents you from pursuing business interests while having a say on the rules that regulate those interests leading some to worry about a possible conflict of interests. everyone is sort of shaped by who they are and what they do i am someone who represents business and that shapes my you sometimes.

it's not a conflict of interest and we know it's not because the house rules make it clear and so does louisiana state law. i'm sponsoring the bill for all retail pharmacists industry to follow mom i'm just one little person time one little spoke to who we. are where there are some of your top stories for this hour on this friday there are plenty more still to come your way in about twenty five minutes time ok and join us that. all.

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