you know when you're the monkey in the rule. you. subscribe to rob people also get all rocky concert for just twelve euros fifty per month. battle out. standing with the yellow vests students across france set straight some fire over education reforms that follows weeks of protest against fuel price increases which forced the government needs to also to come this

hour the lawyer of june the sun just rejected a deal between the u.k. in ecuador that would allow the whistleblower to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london without being extradited to a country where he could face the death penalty and this reason may battles on with her draft deal ahead of a key parliamentary vote next week we asked people in london what they think about the current situation. is not firstly being done about the last time to such an arsehole a discussion about will be trying to go look at the mess. absolute is also. you know we're not told anything like what the prime minister says the search will go right tomorrow but i don't believe i. welcome you watching r.t. international this friday afternoon which just on three pm here in moscow the top

story students across france protesting against the government's education reforms forcing over one hundred fifty schools to close in a number of cities the demonstrations turned violent. france's education minister has condemned what is happening in the country including some of the police's actions blank was referring to a video that sparked outrage showing student protesters on their knees with their hands behind their heads on police orders although he did add that the incident needs to be understood in context.

while these latest rights to 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 vests movement are planned for saturday the yellow vests riots have seen three deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide in paris alone shop profits dropped by fifty percent and four million euros of damage was inflicted the government has since backed down promising to scrap its proposed fuel tax however is still introducing exceptional security measures with this is to paris for example told to stay away from certain attractions including the eiffel tower and in interview the french prime minister said that the government will deploy a dozen armored vehicles to ensure a peaceful protest on the streets of paris the last time such measures were taken this thirteen years ago. because of what is a former show 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 officers eighty nine thousand in france overall this is an exceptional mobilization because we don't want to endanger the republic. but weeks of protests have taken their toll on the french president emanuel mccrum who has seen his approve approval ratings dive with more on this has shot it depends. another day another protest today in france. by the government's huge churn on a fuel tax rise feel like the winds are changing and blowing in their favor now as the crisis continues parties from the left are calling for a very good no confidence in the french government this second in months of work and we see that our government is heading for disaster 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 all to sign this motion of no confidence vote it through on the can you tell it it is 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 the labor will be free companies will be supported an initiative will be encouraged. that was a. gamble i'm i will humbly serve our people was. it fosters a frenchman and french women who feel forgotten would be 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 loose tongue and perceived arrogance he told army generals just he would push if just speech over spending cuts. yes the head of the french armed 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 of 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 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 for the poor a lawsuit a president who prioritizes the common interest. across was a commission 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 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 the democracy is on the mark and i don't like him a lot but the problem is that if you want to make going 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 wanted charlotte even ski r.t. paris. don rockland a professor of political science at the catholic university in van day says the protest movement could spell the end the 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 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. in other news judy songes lawyer has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. in ecuador which ecuador's president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london and marino says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite his sanch to any country where he might face the death penalty with more his party. 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 assange is biggest fan lenin 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 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 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. boy go there were june the sanchez has been voicing concerns that he could face the death penalty in the u.s. for leaking thousands of classified documents these include information on civilian deaths in afghanistan and also on the cia spying to seize now also the focus of the

investigation into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election back in twenty sixteen human rights activist peter tatchell believes that even if the songes life is not in danger he could still face up to fifty years in prison in the united states. certainly true that the british government would not extradite drew or sounds 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. now it's fear the u.s. might be considering putting out of another treaty with russia the strategic arms reduction treaty also known as start that's the concern expressed by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. says that it's one gets the impression that the ground is being late for the eventual terminations of start three. ok let's get more details now from covering the story for syria just run three what has provoked these comments then from sergey lavrov. andrew holo well first of all earlier this week the number one diplomat in america says that russia has sixty days to stop breaking the rules of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the american side claims that russia has to get rid of one of its missiles with a range that's longer than allowed by this treaty here's the ultimatum that they

put forward. either you rip the system rid the launcher or change the system where it doesn't exceed the range it is all about the missile with a name that only contains letters and numbers it's called the nine seven two nine moscow has been saying may. any times that it can't fly for longer than five hundred kilometers this is the i.n.f. treaty red line however the americans insist that the range is actually much greater than that but surrogate lavrov once again said that this is false and also said that washington has failed to provide russia with any kind of materials that show that russia has been breaking this rule. but that you knew most of the u.s. has identified the second missile and claims that it was tested at a distance prohibited by the treaty which says that both the distance and the

conditions of the test were in accordance with the treaty the russian foreign minister also added that the euro ball find itself under the most serious risks if the i.n.f. treaty is abolished and and that case according to mr lavrov washington's partners in europe should convince the u.s. to start a dialogue with russia on how to resolve this dispute. you slow news for google to if some of our european counterparts are concerned they must influence their ally of the united states so that the american sit down with us and start to talk substantively instead of just throwing accusations at us across the ocean because we are ready for such a conversation so that's what it was but we have already heard about conversations on the other side of the atlantic that these alleged violations by moscow could become the basis for us withdrawing from other similar treaties however as we've

heard from the russian foreign minister and from the russian president as well they believe washington firth's decides to quit and only then starts to look for ways to justify it. ok thank you. but the latest on that story. you're watching out international said to have. i'm going to step down as leader of germany's trading c.v. posse if i tell her success is taking place a bit like today we'll go live to been informed that. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on

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welcome back to ascertain attorneys amaze government and the whole of the kerry gearing up for one of the most crucial votes in the country's modern history and with parliament due to vote on whether to accept the draft deal on december the eleventh there is confusion panic and also anticipation on the streets and see reports. 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 set in the u.k. into more chaos and uncertainty december eleventh will be make or break day for the british prime minister a panicked 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 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 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 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 bricks. 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 a general election a second referendum and even no bragg's at all are all being mulled over while the british public grows weary of the uncertainty but this is madness crews are still. triggs right look at the mess that group 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 absolutely fed up now you change the subject yes please give us a break i think you've been covered a bit too much because there's nothing that should be done as a solo specifically told to every single day all the time bricks of bricks across the coffin six foot six to everybody to get out of it i'm not sick of it very interesting how is it going it's going to sasha but don't make it very clear they seem to be very confused nothing nobody knows quite which going on to discuss i don't know what i did in jail i think everything is. a little bit uncertainty i don't think it's affecting anyone yet who does it feel real good to go on forever when the. public doesn't have been told to go back to square one probably was people who should have got our straight or worries for before 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 mails and stacey churkin out parts he wanted. germany's ruling c.d.u. party will decide on its next leader later today as chancellor angela merkel steps down from the role after eighteen years as party chairwoman our europe correspondent peter all of us joins us now with more details on what could happen good afternoon paid to just run through then what is likely to happen this afternoon who could get chosen. right well i'll start off with the angle of merkel and what she's been saying because she's kicked things off the party conference in homburg she gave a speech to the delegates that are gathered there looking back on her time eighteen years as leader of the christian democratic union she took time in the speech to

look back on the period when she first took over it was a period of hardship for the party both politically in terms of them losing votes but also in terms of how they were seen on the public stage because it came off the back of a huge scandal involving party donations this is what she had to say. in the fight. it's a critical time for our country and for parties like ours the c.d.u. c.s.u. with the f.t. to the right in fast and with a polarized society. well it was about as a motive of speeches you have attained to get from merkel you could hear her voice go a few times when she was thanking people for the help that they should they'd given her over the years what she did say and this was a key point throughout the speech was the time now as for the christian democratic union as a party to put together a new program a new direction in fact the motto of this party conference which mrs merkel kept

going back to is unite and lead together she said the job of shaping the party in the direction it will go in is up to somebody else now and that she will continue as she will continue as chancellor to take responsibility for looking after the nation so the choice for the one thousand and one cd you delegates that are currently gathered in hamburg it's going to come down to one of three people going to be a choice between the current general secretary of the party the current german health minister or a businessman and former m.p. . the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet camp cound known by her initials a k k and atlanticist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certainty fostered the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin than chancellor merkel last week she called for russian ships coming from the as of sea to be

barred from u.s. and e.u. ports saying vladimir putin hadn't been squeezed enough. protein precious as far as he thinks he will get away with it and if you reckon the year is done give a firm united response he will continue to press for there we have seen this in the recent years. if the c.d.u. delegates look to the future and inject a little youth into the leadership then the end span of thirty eight is the one they'll be voting for he's built up a relationship with donald trump's administration through a close friendship with trump's man in berlin he's also singing from the trump song sheet when it comes to raising defense spending on europe he's all about the national interests of member states on russia he's in favor of a tough stance and even using the nord stream to gas pipeline project if he thinks it's necessary but if in some of it it does signal i think it's important to send

and russia the message that north stream two is not entirely unconditional that it cannot exist no matter what he does or how far things are escalated the frederick mertz was a big fish in the c.d.u. in the early to thousands but he fell out with than realistically was ousted from the party by angela merkel he has since made millions as a corporate lawyer and working with u.s. investment management giants black rock although very much in atlanta assist with a capital a he is in step with most germans and not being a fan of president trump he's understood to support. it's a huge defense cooperation as for his opinion on russia he has strongest sanctions against moscow even if it harms german economic interests if the west wants to act more can the ones who do it and more seriously at this time than it did to russia's previous for lation so if international law economic relations with russia cannot remain in effect yet. so three hats in the ring but

realistically the smart money is going on this coming down to a contest between metz and. the voting will start at around four thirty local time what we can expect though is a runoff between the the two candidates that have the most votes the winner will need to get fifty percent or over of the votes cast by the one thousand and one delegates of course everything that happens throughout the day in hamburg i'll be bringing you right here on r.t. yeah we're coming back she later the south many thanks peter i was a paper all over there in berlin. and thank you for watching plenty more stories to never forget on our website you can find that out article.

one else seemed wrong. but all blogs just don't call. me. yet to seep out just in the attic. and in detroit because of the trail. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . we've got the economic diplomacy nazrul complement of normal for you to come diplomacy and as i said we did not consider that the them so phobia that's something some minds exists is that i have to wait to get these people to switch off between the debian. goal make us manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round if the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. billion really need. a temporary truce in the us china trade war well in the hold and what happens if it doesn't we'll take a look at that on this edition of politics. welcome to 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 recent 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 low. white house cat sitter and former deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he's now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and he joins us from seattle all right didn't tales of aig what's your read on this u.s. china semi agreement. larry any temporary truths in this trade war is welcome but you're one hundred percent right the devil's in the 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 on

a 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 on their lot in there is 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 has 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.