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president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder would leave his country's embassy in london. to washington for help in getting the. u.s. to quit the country saying its policy has been a failure. the problem is that the policy is. being the wrong. approach. to deal the head of a key parliamentary vote next week we ask people in london what they think about the current situation. discussion about.

what the problem. but i don't believe. your top stories. across france are protesting against the government's education reforms now forcing over one hundred fifty schools to close a number of the demonstrations.

the student riots come on the back of weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases and declining living costs more so cold yet a fast rallies are planned for the weekend and the government is resorting to quote exceptional security measures with visitors to paris for example being told to stay away from certain attractions including the eiffel tower the yellow bus movement is named after the high visibility jackets worn by many of those protesters. other protests planned for the weekend come despite the government caving into the yellow vests initial demand to scrap a new fuel tax more details here with our correspondent charlotte divots. another day another protest today in france. by the government's huge children on a fuel tax rise feel like the wings are changing and blowing in their favor now is the crisis continues parties from the left are calling for a very tough no confidence in the french government this second in months of work

and 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 in him voted through on if you had his 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. labor will be free companies will be supported initiatives will be encouraged he. was right that was a. gamble i'm i will humbly serve our people. the. fosses a frenchman and french women who feel forgotten would be better protected. if

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 if you were to shift all steroid use. pete over spending cuts the head of the french open forces soon quit and he would be far from the last to abandon macron scam 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 hoped 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 farmers are new students now taking their

concerns to the streets protesters here are calling for a makeover to resign was you course to doubt i consider micron to their president who's against social rice who is trying to national party to construct their 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 a lawsuit a president who prioritizes the common interest. across a commission would be a deal palms job to respond to the people's democracy unfortunately though in the national assembly where the majority are with marsh the deputies follow orders like sheep but we are happy because there are a deputies who represent the interests of the people and sort of their democracy is on the 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 macrorie sign. let's see what happens is that the

greats of. corn once penned a book entitled a revolution in it he wrote about the quest to reinvent the french nation has a popular policies may just be doing that as the yellow vests movement continues to gain traction problem is this wasn't the revolution the president foresaw nor one to. charlotte even ski r.t. paris. we spoke with john walker a professor of political science at the catholic university in a day he says the protest movement could actually spell the end of the dream for a manual macaroons presidency it's certainly the end of the dream that he liked to cultivate he made people dream or think 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 emmanuelle michael like his two predecessors has absolutely no new ideas he remains where did the policies that 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. julian assange just lawyer has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which ecuador's president claims will enable the weeklies co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london and says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite assange to any country where he might face the death penalty and more details now with polly boyo. 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 surely good news for julian assange but it's important to remember that the ecuadorian president isn't exactly julian assange is biggest fan lenin miranda no has referred to a sunday 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 and embassy or how good the treatment is that they're receiving hosting him costs one million dollars a year the big concern that

a songes lawyers have had throughout the six years he spent in the ecuadorian embassy is this prospect of a criminal case against julian assange over in the us in fact last month it was revealed accidentally that the u.s. justice department had filed secret criminal charges against the wiki leaks that it's at and prosecutors have refused to reveal what specifically those criminal charges are so however much the ecuadorian president might want julian assange 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 there was against a songe in sweden has collapsed and it's expired but technically a son just still wanted by british authorities for skipping bail here in the u.k. and with prosecutors in the us 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 america for leaking thousands of classified documents including 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 of twenty sixteen we spoke with a human rights activist peter tatchell who believes that even if life is not in danger he could still face up to fifty years in prison in the united states it's certainly true that the british government would not extradite during a sound 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 ninety days as planned despite the arrest of the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of chinese smartphone giant who are way in canada she's now facing 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 which have been severely damaged by a terrorist war or something the arrest of who are always c.f.o. could scupper the latest efforts as often now 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. demand an explanation for the detention the person's immediate release the 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 was very into all this 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 riyadh. action from a representative of deutsche bank we believe this is a clear signal that the 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 a market specialist at jamil ahmad about the extent to which the president's tweets are contributing to volatility in the financial markets the financial markets are very sensitive to such issues and this is something you cannot predict you cannot predict what could come across as 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 chalky so i mean changing narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positive it's the around the tree truce that relations are improve and then this much of over verse once again however if we see the same suit for the tension some of the risk that what we've seen today and yesterday as currency prolonging even further. to

resume is government and the whole of the u.k. gearing up for one of the most crucial votes in the country's modern history and with parliament to to vote on whether to accept the draft brecht's a deal on december the eleventh as confusion panic and anticipation on the streets season as to see a church and attacks a closer look. for except for 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 set in 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 days of fiery brags that debates have

been rocking parliament ahead of the meaningful vote to deal before us would make our country worse off 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 fungus it is a paint a gloucester pseudo brick shit the choice before parliament is clear this deal or no deal or 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 crews are still. ranks you know that the mess that group going to wait should do is getting very

messy son's eyes due to the i'm still nervous over the people that i'm sick to death of hearing about it i've seen fed up now you have to change the subject yes please give us a break i think you've been called a bit too much of this is nothing actually being done as a solo specifically told you every single day move outside bricks of bricks people . often. six to six a day everybody figured out if i'm not sick of the very interesting. it's going to sasha but don't make it very clear they seem to be very confusing nobody knows but it's going on to discuss i don't know that. i think everything is a. little bit uncertainty i don't think it's effecting anyone yet who does it feel real good to go on forever when the camp hope it doesn't have but if you go back to square one probably it was people who should have got their arm straight or were you sort of from the birth of truth. meanwhile words like chaos panic and meltdown

all too common in newspaper headlines these days have been adding fuel to the fire as the u.k. reads tea leaves and bites its nails into the sea it sure can out hard to find it and still up and coming on the program here on r.t. international pakistan says it will now help the u.s. and its bid to bring the taliban to the negotiating table after a brand new request was made by washington that story and more interest. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting

past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. what does the rise. in france tell us about the state of the neoliberal order in europe are the protests in france the largest since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight just about a hike in prices and is. the right person to be president to address the problems so many. twenty am here in moscow. has finally agreed to a u.s.

request for assistance in bringing the taliban to peace talks in afghanistan that is where the war is seen. we want the u.s. to leave afghanistan as a friend of the region not. that statement came right after america's special representative for afghanistan wrapped up his visit to pakistan follows a rather difficult period in relations between islamabad and washington for example in september the u.s. announced it was stopping millions in financial aid to pakistan but saying that america had received nothing but lies and deceit for its money we can no longer be silent about pakistan's safe havens for terrorist organizations don't do anything for us didn't do a damn thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion to pakistan we're paying them not because that's what they've done to help us not that we discuss the u.s. policy in the middle east on ties with pakistan with. pakistan's federal minister

for human rights. president trump i was talking absolute nonsense a very mrs so and for the first time a pakistani prime minister studies ground and told him off for basically accusing pakistan of all sorts of things they have come back to pakistan and. do normally makes a lot of very strong and the pakistan statements has come like live video sheepishly. and very quiet and arse and trump wrote a letter asking for pakistan's help in bringing about a dialogue with the taliban and helping in resolving the problems in afghanistan and now zalmay to leave that came with the same message the next day. the problem with the americans is that the policy has been exposed to being wrong their policy has failed the military approach has absolutely failed. there is more

chaos the more there is more terrorism there are more deaths now in the violence than than ever before despite the heavy need to in u.s. military presence so that the americans have realized what we had realized a long time ago that at the end of the day you have to come to the dialogue table to bring about peace. the americans have to talk to pakistan. the fact that. it does not work anymore. and i think that this is dated by the new government that this government because our government is not going to dig dictation from the. opec is keeping other countries in suspense the world's biggest oil producing

nations have agreed to cut production not yet by how much the decision aimed at stabilizing foreign oil prices was agreed on thursday at a meeting of the group along with russia 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 or saudi arabia what to do meanwhile oman's energy minister confirmed that the size of the card will be decided on friday. if. we don't we didn't disclose their numbers. we all did. what. we can get them in. enough to. hope that she will discuss. the much anticipated

opec meeting comes following a thirty percent for the oil prices in the past two months one of the worst since the two thousand and eight financial crisis has been added interest as well after qatar announced it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the opec bloc some analysts think it's politics those determining opec's plans to cut oil production. trying. to influence. this isn't of coke 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 following go to withdrawal 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 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 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 like 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. 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 them turned violent. protesters set up barricades in the streets and started fires. at

police who responded with tear gas at least fifty people were detained back in two thousand and eight a policeman shot dead a fifteen year old boy. with a group of teenagers was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison another policeman present at the time was given. the protests taking place each year since the killing. so there are only ten states in the us where being considered a full time job in other states nothing prevents you from pursuing business interests while having a say on the rules to regulate those. leaving some to worry about a possible conflict of interests. is shaped by who they are and they do i'm someone who represents business and that

shapes my views sometimes. and we know it's not because the house rules make it clear. that we.

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