i. think with the yellow fasts students across from the streets on fire over education reform it's following weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases which ultimately made the government cave in. has rejected

ecuador deal under which the whistleblower could leave the ecuadorian embassy in london without being extradited to a country where he might face the death and. also this hour after washington asks for help in getting the taliban to engage in peace talks on afghanistan. to quit the country saying it's a policy that has been a failure. the problem of the american does that the policy is being exposed to being the wrong. policy has their military approach has absolutely. battles on with a draft deal the head of a keep parliamentary vote next week we ask people in london what they think about the current situation is not actually being done the last time the discussion about will be trying to go. i mean you know we were not

told anything but what the prime minister says he said oh don't be all right tomorrow but i don't believe. your world news on the every hour this is the international welcome to the friday. shootings across france are protesting against the government's education reforms forcing over one hundred fifty schools to close a number of cities the demonstrations turn violent.

the student riots come on the back of weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases and declining living costs more so-called yellow vests rallies are planned over the weekend and the government is resorting to quote exceptional security measures with visitors to paris for example told to stay away from certain attractions including the eiffel tower and the yellow vest movement has named off the high visibility jackets worn by many of the protesters and the protests planned for the weekend that will come despite the government caving into the yellow vests initial demand says scrap a new fuel tax. reports another day another protest today in france. who weighed by the government's huge cheering on a fuel tax wise feel like the wings are changing and blowing in that favor now as the crisis continues parties from the left all cloning for a very good no confidence in the french government this seconds in months invoking the 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 holidays try to convince other members of parliament aside from all to sign this motion of no confidence in him voted through on if you've targeted 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 recovery labor will be free companies will be supported an initiative will be encouraged he. was. cumbersome 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 labeled 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. speech 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 for. earnings students now taking their concerns

to the streets protesters here are calling for macro to resign what is your course you doubt i consider my comment to be a president who's against social rights who's trying 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 of the poor an aussie a president who prioritizes the common interest well i think there are decent across was a commission it would be a deal palms job to respond to the people's demands and fortunately though the national assembly where the majority are with a march 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 they gave them so if you have a good candidate that's fine but michael resign and let's see what happens is that

the great option for 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 schalit even ski r.t. paris. john laughlin the professor of political science at the catholic university . says the protest movement a could spell the end of the dream for a manual macro his 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 emanuel michael like his two

predecessors has absolutely no new ideas he remains where did the policies that have failed 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. sandra's lawyer 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 and then in marino says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite a songe to any country where he might face the death penalty the more details his polyvore. they're called or even 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 lennon moran 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 said it's 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 son in sweden has collapsed and it's expired but technically a son just still wanted by british authorities for skipping bail in the u k. and with prosecutors in the us on able to even say what the criminal charges against you in a songe ah i don't think this is

a they yet julian assange has been voicing concerns that he could face the death penalty in america for leaking thousands of classified documents these include information on civilian deaths in afghanistan but also on the cia's spy 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 human rights activist peter tatchell who believes that even if assad is life is not in danger he could still easily face up to fifty years in prison in the united states it's certainly true that the british government would not extradite during the sounds 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 rest 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 america 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 china been severely damaged by a terrorist war is something the rest of who always c.f.o. could scupper the latest efforts as 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 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 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 a market specialist 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 that 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 choppy so i mean changing narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positive it's the around the trade truce that relations are improve and then this much of over verse once again however if we see the return soon for that support tension some more political risks than what we've seen today and yesterday as prolonging even further.

it is r t international tourism 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 deal on december the eleventh there's confusion panic and anticipation on the streets as our correspondent and i see a truck and. bricks it through 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 a 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 me 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 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 plaster pseudo brick sheet the choice before parliament is clear this deal no deal or the risk of no breaks it. or tuesday's vote leads is anyone's guess it may suffer as a major defeat developments like heart breaks it and no deal breaks it a vote of no confidence against the prime minister general election a second referendum and even no president all are all being mulled over while the british public grows weary of the uncertainty but this is madness cost of. rights you know the mess not really going to wait should do is getting very messy

sounds i was due to be i'm still nervous over the people that 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 solo specifically told to every single day over time bricks and bricks people have often six foot six to everybody to get out of if i'm not sick of it very interesting how does it go it is going to disaster but do make it very clear very very soon to be very confusing nobody knows quite which going on because just as i don't have a duty to do until i think everything is. a little bit of uncertainty i don't think it's affecting anyone yet so does it feel real good to go on forever i've been a terrible hope it doesn't happen so if you go back to square one all it was people who should have got are straight or worries for before the birth of her. 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 mails and stacey churkin out party fund it. so pakistan says it will now help the united states and in its bid to bring the taliban to the negotiating table after a fresh request made by story and much more. most

people think just this is this you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest read in truth to stand listens is just the right questions and the right answers. question. stories here on r.t. pakistan has finally agreed to a u.s.

request for assistance in bringing the taliban took peace talks in afghanistan but the war has now been going on for seventeen yes. we want the u.s. to leave afghanistan as a friend of the region not a failure. that statement came right after america's special representative for afghanistan and wrapped up his visit to pakistan and follows a difficult period in relations between washington and islamabad for example in september the u.s. announced it was stopping millions in financial aid to pakistan with donald trump saying that america had received nothing but lies and deceit for its money we can no longer be silent about pakistan safe havens for terrorist organizations or do anything for us to 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 nothing we discussed u.s. policy in the middle east and ties with pakistan with. pakistan's federal minister for human rights. president trump was talking

absolute nonsense a very mrs so and for the first day were bikes finally prime minister stuart is grown and told him off for basically accusing pakistan of all sorts of things they have come back to pakistan and. who normally makes a lot of videos strong statements has come like liberty sheepishly. and very quiet and asked and trump wrote a letter asking for bike fund help in bringing about a dialogue with the taliban and helping in resolving the problems and of understand and now is a little leaves out to him but at the same message the next. the problem with the americans is that the policy has been exposed to being wrong their policy has failed their military approach has absolutely failed. there is more chaos more

there is more terrorism there are more deaths now in the violence than than ever before despite every need to in us military prisons so the americans have realize what we have realized a long time ago that at the end of the day you have to come to that dialogue be able to bring about peace. the americans have to talk to pakistan. the fact that you can do more do more of month rather that they did does not work anymore 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. opec is keeping other countries in suspense the world's biggest oil producing nations have agreed to cut production

though not yet by how much the decision is aimed at stabilizing for lng oil prices it was agreed on thursday at a meeting of the group along with russia meanwhile oman's energy minister confirmed that the size of the card will be decided on friday. do you get it do you recommend it can't. hurt us but we don't need to we didn't disclose the numbers. and here they don't work you draw the line if you are commanded to keep it like you do recover because we all did. what you do all the things we can do to me and to moral enough to toward the hope that you see will discuss can come up in the final of. 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 there's been added interest after a cutout announced it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the block just a lawyer 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 used to be the opec were the marginal produces so in essence opec completely controlled your supply these days that russia and the us do as well russia is 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 fact 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 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. ten years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy things a number of the protests. the protesters set up barricades in the streets and started fire while in thessaloniki they hurled fireball is 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 was also given ten years protests that have taken place each and every year since the killing. plenty of your friday news stories still to

come here with international we were at the top of the hour. what does the rise of the yellow vests movement 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 fuel prices and is. the right person to be president to address the problems so many in france. temporary truce in the u.s.

china trade war will it hold and what happens if it doesn't take a look at that on this edition of politics. politicking on larry king after months of escalating tariffs in the u.s. china trade war the nation's two leaders agreed to a ninety day truce following the reason g. twenty summit in argentina details of the new agreement are vague and whatever new deal was struck between the leaders still needs to be implemented by the administrations who seem to be operating on conflicting information will start there with chris. foreman deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration is now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and he joins us from seattle where i didn't tales of a once you read on this u.s.

china semi agreement larry any temporary truths in this trade war is wall but you're one hundred percent right the devils and it details are right now when you look at the two statements that were put out by the countries after the fact there was a bit of a disconnect it wasn't clear from the chinese side whether they had even agreed ninety day period of negotiation they made no commitment about what additional u.s. products they would buy and the president president trump has been talking about cutting auto tariffs by the chinese and there's nothing at all in the chinese statement on that so a lot still needs to be worked out are there a lot of there is a one key area. well again i think there's a lot of areas i mean certainly from the united states side there are legitimate issues about access to chinese markets intellectual property protection to

a lesser extent currency manipulation by the chinese and so all of these things are part of the broader relationship between the united states and china that need to be dealt with when we think about trade issues and then obviously we have this escalating series of tariffs that each side is put on the other's products fortunately for now we've we've put a halt to that but unraveling all this will take a lot of time. is there a lulu's. look i think ultimately the winner and the loser are u.s. companies and u.s. workers and u.s. consumers let's remember tariffs are sensually a tax which is why they are generally disliked not only by economists but really by policy makers on both sides of the aisle and so each one of these tariffs is making products more expensive here to buy in the united states that's affecting companies that's affecting worked.