and then we hear even many of the families want the death penalty to be abolished. the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. we've been through this this isn't the way. i'm. standing with the. streets on fire over education reform it's following weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases which ultimately made the government even. julian assange lawyer

has rejected a u.k. ecuador deal under which the whistleblower can leave the ecuadorian embassy in london without being extradited to a country where he might face the death penalty. also the. after washington asks pakistan for help in getting the taliban to engage in peace talks in afghanistan. the u.s. took quick the shattered country saying its policy there has been a failure. the problem of the medical is that the policy is being exposed still being wrong their policy has faded the military approach has absolutely fear. and to resume a battle zone with a draft deal the head of a key vote next week we asked people in london what they think about the current situation is not fashionable the last time this discussion about we'll be trying to go over the mess. that's is all stuff. you know. we were not told anything

like what the prime minister says he said. right tomorrow but i don't believe. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the international in moscow. students across france are protesting against the government's education reforms ultimately forcing of our one hundred fifty schools to close a number of cities the demonstrations turn violent. riots come in the wake of weeks of nationwide protests against fuel price increases

and high living costs more of these rallies by the so-called yellow vest movement planned for saturday the yellow vest riots have seen three deaths on the hundreds of injuries nationwide in paris alone shot profits dropped by fifty percent and four million euros of damage has been inflicted and the government has since about promising to scrap its proposed fuel tax however it's still introducing quote exceptional security measures with visitors to paris for example being told to stay away from certain attractions that includes the eiffel tower. and several does a film assume we have information about a great number of individuals who are coming to paris not to protest peacefully but to confront to attack the forces of law. we mobilized an important number of police offices eighty nine thousand in front so rule this is an exceptional mobilization because we don't want to endanger the republic. weeks of protests have taken

a toll on the french president emanuel macron who have seen his approval ratings kind. of shot it to post your report. another day another protest today in france. by the governments you cheering on a few wise feel like the wings are changing and blowing in that favor now as the crisis continues parties from the left all calling for a very good no confidence in the french government this second in months. we see that our government is heading for disaster it's a collective response. ability to make it stop here and to do something to change the government and of policies you could try to convince other members of parliament aside from all to sign this motion of no confidence with the voters through on if you 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 weyburn will be

free companies will be supported an initiative will be encouraged he. was that 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 labeled the president of the rich he's also known for his loose tongue and perceived arrogance he told army generals just he would push if 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 form is our new students now taking their concern . to the streets protesters here are calling for a makeover to residing in luxury of course you doubt i consider my home 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 for the poor a lawsuit a president who prioritizes the common interest. in a concert mation it would be

a deal parkman's job to respond to the people's demands unfortunately though in the national assembly where the majority are with a march the deputies follow orders like sheep but we are happy because there are deputies who represent the interests of the people and sort of their democracy is on the mark on the 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 a great option for 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 this movement continues to gain traction problem is this was the revolution the president foresaw nor wanted charlotte even ski altie paris. john laughlin the professor of political

science of the catholic university in vaughan says the protest movement could spell the end of the dream for emanuel micron's presidency it's certainly the end of the dream that he liked to cultivate he made people dream 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. julius our 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 then says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite astonished to any country where he might face the death penalty more details now with r.t. is poorly boyo. they're called or in 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 at its 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 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 these include information on civilian deaths in afghanistan and on the cia's spy tools is now also the focus of an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election that was now already a couple of years ago but human rights activist peter tatchell believes that even

if assad is life is not in danger you 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 sanch to a third country where he could face the death penalty. and you know maybe the u.s. government might at some point give assurances that he won't face the death penalty but so far the u.s. government has not given those assurances and even if they did that would not preclude him facing charges which could land him in prison for thirty to fifty years and that is of most would be a most unjust punishment for person an organization that he is part of who simply published published information which also have been in the public domain from the get go. u.s. president donald trump has tweeted his agreement with remarks made by china expressing optimism that a trade deal between beijing and washington is

a cheaper ball in one thousand days. one day or two from both sides i communicate and cooperate and well we are fully confident that we can reach an agreement in the coming days these are positive remarks came in with the arrest of the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of chinese smartphone driver who are way in canada she's now facing extradition to america over an alleged violation of sanctions on iran china is dividing the immediate release of the c.f.o. called her detention a violation of human rights with more the case to the kia. well there was a sigh of relief when the us president and his chinese counterpart agreed to a temporary truce to their trade spots last weekend's but won't just them but the first may have been denied diplomacy in argentina at the same time the u.s. was making moves which would take relations to new lows it involves one of china's leading telecoms firms weiwei the jewel in china's enviable tech industry and this

is the c.f.o. of that company mung one joe who also happens to be the daughter of its founder she was taken into custody by canadian authorities on the very same day that she didn't paint and donald trump was giving the impression the better times were on the cards for the bilateral relations well monk now faces extradition to the u.s. and while u.s. authorities have not revealed the motives behind the arrest there are reports that the company is suspected of potential violations of u.s. sanctions against iran the response from beijing has been stood. under the explanation for the detention and the person's immediate release detention without providing any explanation violates the human rights of the detainee. rewinds to less than a week ago trumpet claims that a trade deal was in the works and that relations had taken a big leap forward but that was followed by a tweet insisting that if an agreement wasn't reached it's important to remember

he's a tariff man it's a roll of. you want just for emotions but for the market to even the white house is top economic advisor can't help but exacerbate only insurgency i think it's coming ok harry is what give us some details well it hasn't been signed and sealed and delivered yet and adding to all the confusion is the proposal of this ninety day truce that period the supposed to be used to ramp up dialogue an attempt to mend the rift between the two sides richard wolffe a professor of economics at massachusetts university says volatile relations between china and the us bad for the world as a whole. there is the crazy up and down of the tensions with china one day we're on the verge of a breakthrough the next day were threatening one another again the next day we're friends the next day we arrested the executive in canada and the biggest problem about all of that is the uncertainty this kind of crazy uncertainty may be good

politics for him but it's growing gould's up the economic lifeblood of the united states let's be clear what's being done year if the united states wants the rest of the world to behave according to what we want we are inviting every other country to put sanctions on whoever they don't like and then we can all be able to trade with anybody for fear that some government somewhere is going to punish us arrest or executives this is a kind of nationalism gone crazy and that is worrying both american investors and the rest of the world. to resume his 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 the parliament due to vote on whether to accept the draft or breaks a deal going to some of the eleventh there is confusion panic and then to suppression on the streets is a correspondent and i started here checking. percocet 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 a 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 me has been pushing through like a cupcake through a keyhole the stakes are higher than ever d's a fiery breck's it to beat have been rocking parliament ahead of the meaningful vote to deal before us would make our country worst. 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 the 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 brags it at all are all being mulled over while the british public grows weary of the uncertainty but this is madness crews are still. drink she writes you know that the mess was really going to wait should do is getting very messy sounds i was due to be i'm still nervous over that i'm sick to death of hearing about it i 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 especially told to every single day over time bricks and bricks people.

often search for six to anybody to get out of it i'm not sick of it very interesting how does it go it's going to sasha but don't make it very clear they seem to be very confusing nobody knows quite which going on to discuss 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 who does it feel real good to go on forever i've been a terrible puppet does it have been told to go back to square one oh it was people who should have got our straight or were you sort of from the barbara church. 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 as they see it sure can out hard to find it. and is right now turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is aussie international with lots of your friday stories still to come and just.

you know world of big partisan movies a 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad 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. make this manufacture consent to step into the public wells. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final larry go

live to the one percent. in all middle of the room sick. good of you to join us today pakistan has finally agreed to a u.s. request for assistance in bringing the taliban to peace talks in afghanistan the war has now been ongoing for seven years. 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 and wrapped up his visit to pakistan and follows a difficult period in relations between islamabad and washington for example in

september the u.s. announced it was stopping many millions in financial aid to pakistan but all 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 they don'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 discussed 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 saw 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 lots 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 leave that came with the same message the next day. the problem with american does that the policy has been exposed to being wrong their policy has failed the military approach has absolutely failed. there is more chaos there more there is more terrorism there are more deaths now in the violence than than ever before despite the heavy need to an us 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 though not yet by how much the decision is aimed at stabilizing falling oil prices it was agreed on thursday at a meeting of the group along with russia meanwhile energy minister confirmed that the size of the cut will be decided on friday. if. we don't we didn't disclose the number.

we will be. recorded. enough to. hope that he 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 there's also been added interest after a cut out announced it was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the bloc just head of research at london capital group gave us his thoughts on opec's planned cut in oil production. i think politics does play a part in the movements and the oil price and the decision that opec's taking here used to be the opec where the marginal produces so in essence a completely controlled all 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 produces 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 play is 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 and a number of the demonstrations did turn violent.

in athens protesters set up barricades in the streets and started fires while in with us along a key they hold fire bombs on stones of 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 given ten years in the protests have been taking place each and every year since the killing. and we are back with more of your top friday world headlines. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer to win the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict.

innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying is just no way to present them that we're even many a victim's families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

the welcome to go i'm sophie shevardnadze. moscow to meet with russian president vladimir putin maritime tensions are growing up between athens showdown imminent and what role is moscow to play i sat down to discuss all of this with george got to alternative foreign minister. of russia's gas business hoping to have the story natural gas pipeline routed through securing a stable supply at a reasonable price but with brussels being frozen. russian energy related. to the project with greeks oil. deals with individual members then what will that mean for greece but it's winter. at the gallows thank you for being with us today on our program it's a pleasure welcome to me so let's talk about prime minister to press and present

putting our set to discuss the turks trade natural gas pipeline project which actually have possible extension to greece so i understand the moscow is yet to decide whether this will go through well gary or greece how do you sing your prime minister will convince put that it is more profitable for russia to actually tilt towards grace rather than bulgaria well the only or maybe not even more important these. leaders are going to discuss and it's not the first time they have met. have in mind. become the hub not just of sport but also for energy so we're quite open to a lot of pipelines.