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i. think i was. standing with the yellow best students across france take to the streets over education reforms it follows weeks of protests against fuel price increases which forced the government need to. also russia's foreign minister says he believes the u.s. has laid the grounds to terminate the strategic arms reduction treaty its words come as washington announces plans to leave a key cold war era nuclear pact and to resume a path of the draft great deal ahead of a critical parliamentary vote on tuesday we asked people in london what they think about the growing turmoil over the situation. is not actually being done either heard the last of the second house or so discussion about will he try to go. absolute is also. you know we're not told anything but what the prime minister says is. right tomorrow but i don't believe.

that i welcome you watching our international this friday afternoon which just gone five pm here in moscow now students across france are protesting against the government's education reforms forcing more than one hundred fifty schools to close in a number of cities to the demonstrations have turned violent. meanwhile french m.p.'s have slammed as an acceptable and humiliating the police treatment of student protesters on thursday that after video emerged of detained students in the

suburbs of paris being forced on to their knees. france's education minister has condemned the footage though adding that the context of the protests must also be taken into account the country has seen some of the worst violence in half a century with demonstrators rallying for weeks now more protests are planned to for this weekend where the yellow vests riots have seen three deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide comparison loan shop profits dropped by fifty percent and four million euros of damage has been inflicted the government has since back down to promising to scrap its proposed fuel tax however it's still introducing exceptional security measures with visitors to paris for example being told to stay away from major attractions like the eiffel tower and in interview the french prime

minister said the government would deploy a dozen armored vehicles to ensure the protest remained peaceful on the streets of paris the last time such a measure was taken was thirteen years ago. because of what is a pharmacy all 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 authority of president macron along with his ratings have been ski has more details another day another protest in france. by the governments you turn on a few taxwise 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 good no confidence in the french government this second in months when most

french are shocks a vote of no confidence as is clear from the name means that we tell the government you are going in the wrong direction i mean the majority party of course the government can then resign and the president of the republic would appoint a new prime minister in addition to the three factions that signed this vote of no confidence the communist party unbowed france and the socialists we want to unite and win over other deputies. touted his front seats 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. gambling i will humbly serve our people

was. it fosters a frenchman and french women who feel for. god will be better protected than. i. 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 new stung and perceived arrogance he told army generals just. to speech over spending cuts 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 this 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 foam is our new students now taking their concerns to the streets protesters here are calling the macro to residing in luxury of course you doubt that 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 ridge because he's the president of the rich we want a president of a lawsuit a president who prioritizes the common interest as well. as a concert of nations would be a deal more parliament's job is to respond to the people's democracy unfortunately though most of 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 more uncertainty is on the mark

on the i don't like him a lot but the problem is that if you want to mark on to resign who are you going to put forward against them so if you. good candidate that's fine but resign. let's see what happens is that the grid of. corn wants pended 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. or the professor of political science at the catholic university in van de jong laughlin says that the protest movement could spell the end for macro 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 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. you know the news donald trump has tweeted his agreement to remarks by beijing expressing optimism a trade deal between the two countries is achievable in ninety days. will i do it here in the next ninety days china and the united states will carry our negotiations on important issues relating to each site's concerns and make an

effort to reach a consensus with the ultimate goal of removing all the increased tariffs this will be done in accordance with the principles of mutual respect equality and mutual benefit. positive remarks to come despite continuing fallout over the arresting canada of the chief financial officer the daughter of the founder of the chinese smartphone joined she's now facing extradition to the u.s. over an alleged violation of sanctions on iran china is demanding her immediate release though and call the detention a violation of human rights here and has more on the story. well there was a sigh of relief when the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart agreed to a temporary truce to their trade spots last weekend's but one december 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 jinping and donald trump were giving the impression the better times were on the cards for their bilateral relations war monger 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 stirred. demanded explanation for the detention and the person's immediate release detention without providing any explanation violates the human rights of the detainee. rewind to less than a week ago trumpet claims that a trade deal was in the works and the 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 rollercoaster not just for emotions but for the markets too even the white house is top economic advisor can help with a disaster but it's all the uncertainty i think it's coming ok. harry tell us 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 they're supposed to be used to round up dialogue an attempt to men's the rift between the two sides here and there we spoke to the economics professor richard wolfe who believes the volatile relations between china and the us are 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 with 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 a year i'm but it's crying 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. the u.k. is gearing up for one of the most crucial parliamentary votes in the country's modern history parliament confronted prime minister trees a major in a five day debate on whether to vote through the draft breaks it deal on choose day and there seems to be a mix of confusion panic and also anticipation among the british public on the

issue as artie's and see reports. brooke said 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 send the u.k. into more chaos and uncertainty december eleventh will be make or break day for the british prime minister apparent it's guessing game about what outcomes are likely to follow have reached 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 days of fiery breck's a debate 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 fungus it is a paint a tossed

a 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 new deal bracks 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 crews are still. ranks you know the mess by group going to wait should do is getting very messy son's eyes due to the i'm still nervous over the people that have i'm sick to death of hearing about it i've seen fed up now you change the subject yes please give us a break i think you've been called a bit too much of this is nothing actually been done as a solo just basically told to you every single day move outside bricks of bricks

but. often. six figure that everybody figured out if i'm not sick of the very interesting. it's going disaster but don't make it very clear they seem to be very confusing though you know it's been going on here just as i don't know what i did. i think everything is. little bit of uncertainty i don't think it's affecting anyone yet they do feel real good to go on forever i've been a terrible because would have. told you to go back to square one probably was people who should've got on straight or were you sort of from the barbiturate. 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 in special churkin out party fund. now germany's ruling party is about to vote on who will replace angle as their

leader we'll have a look at that story in a couple of. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to the rich the weak six percent markets thirty percent from last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers

overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one doesn't show you know for a minute one can only. be watching i say now the u.s. could be considering tearing up another streety with russia the strategic option treaty known as start that's the concern expressed by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. one gets the impression that the ground is being late for the eventual terminations of star three well earlier this week the number one diplomat in america said 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 the one allowed by the treaty i think you. system. or change the system where it doesn't exceed the range all of this is about a missile with a name that only contains letters and numbers the nine m. seven two nine moscow has said many times that it's only been tested within the range of five hundred kilometers that's the i.m.f. red line however the american intelligence insists that its range is actually far greater than that well sir once again said that this is false and also added that washington's never show russia anything to prove their claims. the us has identified a certain 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 it has been said many times that europe will fall under the most serious risk if the i.n.f. treaty is abolished so the russian foreign minister believes that washington spark there is any europe should try and convince washington to start a dialogue with moscow on how to resolve this dispute no yes no new disproportional to it 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 there is already concern at this point that washington could use these allegations against russia as a pretext to ditch other treaties and we've heard previously from russian officials including blood of our putin they believe the american side first quits and then

tries to explain why they did so. germany's ruling christian democrat party will decide on a new leader later today as chancellor angela merkel stepped down from the row after eighteen years of a report from berlin. has kicked off the christian democratic union party's conference a crucial war in the history of the party its angela merkel's lust leader eighteen years she's been in charge of the c.d.u. she stepped down from that position today she remains as chancellor of course she says she'll stay on doing nut job until twenty twenty one she gave a speech that was followed by ten minutes or so standing ovation not speak she said that the challenges facing the country right now were polarizing and that they needed strong will to tackle them. 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 and fast and with a polarized society. well it was about as a motive of speeches you have attained to get from angola merkel you could hear her voice go a few times when she was thanking people for the help that they'd given her over the years what she did say and this was a key point throughout the speech was the time now is 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 you 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 it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certain to foster 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 bloody near putin hadn't been squeezed enough. protein pushes as far as he thinks he will get away with it and if you read through the years done given through and united response he will continue to presume 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. the 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 so investors 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 fredricka mertz was a big fish in the c.d.u. in the early to thousands but he fell out with the 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 not being a fan of president trump he's understood to support e.u. defense cooperation as were his opinion on russia he has backed stronger sanctions against moscow even if it harms german economic interests if the west wants to react mcluhan to live and more seriously this time than it did to russia's previous violations of international law economic relations with russia cannot remain in effect 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 there 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. . meanwhile attention is also on the opec group of oil producing countries today's

they meet in the austrian capital vienna when earlier they announced they had agreed a cut in production or produces hope that opec's move will stabilize. plummeting prices reports suggest the group has agreed to cut oil production by one point two million barrels per day effective for half a year however iran's oil minister has reportedly confirmed that iran will be exempt from the cuts the price of brant oil jumped five percent on this news opec is meeting after a thirty percent slide in oil prices in just two months one of the worst falls since the two thousand and eight financial crisis there's also added interest too in these talks after katter announced on the eve of the meeting that it was quitting the organization just lawler head of the research the head of research at the london capital group gave us his thoughts on opec's planned cut in production. i think politics does play a part in the movements in the oil price and the decision that opec's taking his seat used to be the opec where the marginal produces so in essence opec completely

controlled or supply these days that russia and the us do as well russia's pollinating 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 showing to walk a tight rope here they're trying on the one hand to cut production to increase the oil price which is good for the 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 lie or 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 and and who is able to profit most from various price levels and that is the news for now here in our say our programs

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