what was up with that. was the. chorus is on high alert as it braces itself for more mass protests this saturday with so-called yellow vest demonstrations expected to bring the french capital to a standstill for a fourth consecutive weekends. it's the end of an era in germany after nearly

two decades at the helm angela merkel steps down as leader of this pristine democratic union party she's replaced by other great scrum karrenbauer known as miniver. and the israeli defense forces change their official line on the use of tear gas after a video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a stun grenade into a school in the west bank. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron great to have you with us this hour now we do start with a developing story in italy where six people have been killed and over one hundred injured during a stampede at a nightclub in the eastern city of ancona reports suggest the stampede was triggered by pepper spray being used in the club but no. version has been given so

far revelers were packed in for a concert at the venue to see a famous italian rapper those injured have been receiving treatment at the scene while ten people are believed to be in a serious condition. now a day of rage is expected to sweep paris later this saturday as yellow vests protesters prepare for a fourth round of anti government rallies despite french president emanuel mccraw earlier bowing to pressure and canceling proposed fuel tax hikes the southern city of leon has already been hit by fierce protests with police using tear gas to disperse a student riot. acar .

it was for protests have been against reforms in general student specifically is being rallying against proposed exam changes according to local media dozens of arrests have been made across multiple cities over the past few days schools have been blockaded forcing many to close in the french capital six locations have been labeled potential hot spots with paris and during some of the worst rioting in decades last saturday sure do bensky reports on the preparations to stem the violence. with bated breath and many parisians are wondering what will become of this city this saturday three weekends of violence have already rocked the capital some described as the worst in decades.

and the government says it's braced for significant violence does a full monsieur 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. across the country eighty nine thousand security forces are being deployed here in paris eight thousand will stand between protesters and many of the capital's most iconic sites police of shops and restaurants to close the leas a. many tourist sites including the eiffel tower. are

battening down the hatches. not exactly the christmas spirit many were hoping for when they booked their trips bad that we have to keep one day in total is going to either interest or i'm not going to be here is a bit nerve wracking like to see the damage and stuff because we are trying not to go in the place where. it's going to be dangerous dangerous to even to be a tourist to be careful for sure because you know i understand people concerned about their future but also there are people who will abuse that and try to maybe still crush things etc this is actually the people we read about it's not clear how many of the best protesters. today but what is clear is that

they are unhappy with the peace offering being made by the government so far when you turn on an increase in fuel tax is not enough they say the months are increasing including that of the resignation of president. bush of no confidence as is clear from the name means that we tell the government you are going in the wrong direction in addition to the three factions that signed this voted no confidence we want to unite and win over the deputies he's become a miter all that symbol for the protesters many saying they want him to speak to them the suggestion is that he will do that but not until next week. able address is likely to give little solace to those caught up and impacted by water for unfolds all saturday. otty paris. germany's christian democratic union party has a new leader described as a mini merkel and a great crime karrenbauer was elected during

a party vote on friday chancellor angela merkel is stepping down from the role after eighteen years at the helm our europe correspondent peter oliver reports from berlin. and a gret will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany she. can mess in a runoff vote to take the party leadership picking up five hundred seventeen votes from the one thousand and one delegates that were voting in hamburg she is pretty much and certainly was billed as the continuity candidate heading into this election she was given the blessing by angola merkel the outgoing leader of the party after eighteen years when mrs merkel put miss crime karrenbauer in the position of general secretary of the c.d.u. interesting enough the same position angela merkel held before she went on to lead the party eighteen years ago now mrs merkel did give

a very emotional speech in phones to the opening of the party conference in which she said whoever takes over from her is going to have a difficult task of pulling together and uniting a party and a nation in very polarizing times 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 the polarized societies well certainly one of the reasons why you miss karrenbauer bay well of being voted in by those delegates is the relationship she has with angola merkel because although chancellor merkel has stepped down as leader of the c.d.u. she hasn't stepped down as chancellor and the two will have to work together very closely all the opposite side of that of course would have been if through to commit to get near. him mrs merkel do have a history in fact it was chancellor merkel that essentially ousted him from the c.d.u. party leadership way back when she rose to power but just who is under great

power the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet company. known by her initials. i had lunch assist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certainty for the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin the chancellor merkel last week she called for russian ships coming from the sea to be barred from us ports saying blood in your food hadn't been squeaks enough was on the valve put in pushes as far as his things he will get away with and if you are in the us don't give a through united response he will continue to push for we have seen this in the recent years and it's those policies that convince the five hundred seventeen delegates out of the one thousand and one casting their ballots that it was a k.k.k.

that should be taking the c.d.u. forward. maximilian cry for my cd you politician and current alternative for germany a nominee for the e.u. parliament thinks the cd use choice of leader eliminates it as a right wing rival to his party. for every conservative in germany it is clear to see the you want to become you are left liberal party but it will give what a conservative scholars germany for the. evil. probably come over twenty percent in the european election in may two thousand and two to see that you have a continue the same style as noted the steps to fundamental change that action that brought. no one can still have to silent to deceive you comes a conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and. at last a competitor to. some of the hardest mastermind and bomb maker to

m i six double agents on the front line a mundane spent almost a decade counting with al-qaeda switching sides to become a british intelligence by r.t. show going underground has his incredible story of becoming disillusioned with the terrorist cause and having his cover blown you can watch the full interview at on r.t. international this morning at nine thirty g.m.t. here's a quick preview that letter which was sent to bill clinton it was urging him to invade iraq and to make it a beacon for democracy and to establish american hegemony they were just a think tank they put that letter. to most of the bloggers deputy seized on it seized on it and he said that the american administration. would not do this unless of there was an event on the magnitude of pearl harbor so he said we should give

them a pearl harbor. because then they can invade afghanistan they can invade iraq they're going to vote somalia elsewhere that's exactly where we want them to be because we need the bulldozer. you know we don't own a bulldozer but they are the bull dogs that we needed to provoke the bulldozer owner to come in and to smash the structure out of nationalism communism whatever you want to call it socialism they must smush it in order for us to build an islamic structure. teachers in palestine say israeli forces have been firing tear gas and stun grenades into schools in the occupied west bank in response to a query posed posed by israel's haaretz newspaper an i.d.f. spokesperson said the incidents had never happened and weather conditions were to blame as a rule no two gas is used against schools however the changes in weather must be taken into account and some of the tear gas smoke might dispersed with the wind in

different directions however video released by the newspaper on thursday shows an israeli soldiers shooting tear gas into a palestinian school in the occupied west bank city of hebron. when asked about the video the i.d.f. said the incident is under investigation. when my colleague andrew farmer spoke to sayyid professor of cultural studies from the birthday it's university who says the israeli military deliberately used tear gas against the school's. israeli troops as well as the settlers are always. having these kind of atrocities against the schools. and specially the schools which is within the perimeter of the controlled by the israelis and the settlers are targeting schools in particular so the parents will take their children out of this school by crime the school would be empty and by then they can could grow the sport because they are in the area

which is very close to the. and that was the aim to take over these areas they also say that the soldiers have to experience a lot of provocation and children throw rocks at the soldiers is that the case i don't think that all the sickness accuses are standing in front of the reality especially in this particular case when there was some someone or you know like videoed what happened and proven that they were not actually lying about the reasons and also the excuses aren't really him because there were some footage showing exactly what happened and that the israeli were throwing this inside the school. a british teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for making hoax bunk it's a nineteen year old emailed hundreds of schools sunday even made a prank call about a hijacked plane and to see a check in every port think prank calls are funny think again and british team is

heading to jail for three years after sending out thousands of fake bomb threats to schools in the u.k. and us we have sent a student with a bomb. the bomb is said to go off in three hours time and pulling off a security scare on a transatlantic flight to the states that had to be quarantined upon landing after the prankster pretended to be a concerned father of a child onboard and claiming the plane was hijacked all from his bedroom in hard for church north of london. their part. i don't. like. like. the nineteen year old lived with his mother and sister and had no previous convictions the plain prank calls george juco in two years in prison for the schools allegedly being planted with bombs and other twelve months inside thousands

of kids had to be evacuated from four hundred locations across the u.k. then the hoaxer sent out another fake warning to schools both in the u.s. and u.k. even after being arrested he pled guilty to three counts of big bomb threats while accepting he had autism spectrum disorder the judge said he knew exactly what he was doing you were playing a game for your own perverts and sense of fun in full knowledge of the consequences the scale of what you did was enormous the national crime agency made a point that the three year sentence was a warning to others this investigation proves start operating online does not offer offenders. juco the now has a criminal record which will harm his future career prospects on this should act as a deterrent the series of pranks gone too far with irreversible consequences for the trickster and associates r.t. london. and alleged chemical attack in syria as aleppo last month has put moscow

and washington at loggerheads once again the u.s. state department says it has credible evidence of the syrian army using tear gas on civilians stating that rebels did not commit a chlorine attack russia has their claims. the russian military considers that hysterical claims by the us state department that the gas attack on civilians by terror groups in aleppo or november the twenty fourth was fate as an attempt to pressure the o.p.c. w. and prevent an objective investigation the statement is nothing more than an attempt to whitewash the international terrorists operating in the lip along with the white helmet suter rescuers who with their provocative behavior reflect badly on their western backers. around one hundred people were reportedly injured in the alleged chemical attack on government controlled aleppo which syrian officials claim was carried out by terrorists in neighboring is live province russia says it has evidence supporting the use of chlorine so mask is has formally requested that

the un's chemical watchdog send investigators to the site. the u.k. has also weighed in on the dispute the foreign and commonwealth office has lent it support to washington saying it believes it's highly unlikely that terrorists use chlorine against civilians in aleppo but a journalist who's covered the conflict in syria says the use of chemical weapons has long been part of a narrative to discredit the syrian government. political isolation of the use of chemical weapons inside syria has been an ongoing theme of the conflict with the u.s. coalition officials westernizing. against the syrian government and its allies particularly russia we sing the failed attempt to do so in tomorrow which was the entire narrative produced by the u.k. foreign office propaganda construct the white home that was discredited by the eventual p.c. w a report that found none of the chemicals described by much of the mainstream

media following that alleged chemical attack p c w you have always been given free access they have an agreement with the syrian government the idols crumble into territory that is secured by the syrian government calls that are on the able to run to terrorists all territory because of the risk to their life but i've been doing my when they were given free access to the duma alleged chemical weapon attack site they would be given free access to the aleppo site. donald trump has named the state department head and now it is his nominee for the u.s. ambassador to the united nations the president said that she smoked she's nice she's all of the things which make a good candidate. heather nauert will be nominated. you go work with nikki haley to. replace vicki at united they will be ambassador to the united

nations very talented very far very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also head there now or will be nominated for the embassador to the united states so we've got heather nauert slated to replace nikki haley nikki haley trump's ambassador to the united nations is stepping down now heather nauert has been at the state department and it was highlighted when she was confirmed for that position as the spokesperson for the state department that she had no previous foreign policy experience now she's been holding that post for a little while here some of the highlights of heather nauert at the u.s. state department briefings i don't know if you are working for today or what but i . did not monitor so i go i could be funny to magnify my. boy and. my children are in the back today so i haven't started school just yet so if you see a couple little wild wild man good to see you know you all getting ready for thanksgiving

. yes no ok they're small to take in the united states it's mostly styles sent to different directions so i had to say that they are you take out your hand from russia and i'm going to leave it here yeah ok ok enough said then i'll move on . which is when you get there to happen they're not. a fish because of the russian government they're just asking a question about me oh really ok if you all will give me the grace as they go through my book because this was a pretty meaty. mistake and. now the trumpet ministration has taken a strong stand regarding issues related to the u. we've seen the usa withdraw from these. human rights council as well as unesco we've also seen the united states accuse the un of being biased against the usa and against israel at this point it is expected that heather nauert will continue those

policies no big shift is expected with the new ambassadorship now it's also interesting to note the trouble announced another key appointment and that was the announcement of mr william barr to replace jeff sessions as the u.s. attorney general now william barr was previously u.s. attorney general has held that post before what's most interesting is that william barr has expressed confidence in special counsel robert muller who is carrying out the investigation into alleged collusion between the trumpet ministration and russia it appears that william barr has called for a what he says is a more balanced investigation team regarding that effort so both of these appointments will have to be confirmed by the u.s. senate and as we saw with kavanagh in the supreme court confirmation hearings in the era of trump the confirmation hearings aren't always as smooth as some would expect. the search and rescue ship the aquarius which is save thousands of migrants from the mediterranean has announced it feasting operations doctors without borders

which runs the mission blames pressure from european countries initiated by it's really a charity said room has sabotaged efforts to save lives for the last two months the ship has been confined to a port in fronts following on occasions the organization nor the italian government accuses those behind the mission of running a taxi service to a tiny and poor old spy carrying people on the ship here is a recap of what happened. it's ridiculous response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a bold moves cynicism and a lack of responsibility on behalf of the italian governments when faced with this dramatic humanitarian disaster. my duty is to defend the borders of this country

which cannot become a refugee camp only those who have the right into italy will enter into their other ports they can go to spain france malta and the netherlands. according to the international organization for migration already this year well in two thousand people have died or gone missing trying to reach europe by way of the mediterranean earlier my colleague in a day or two to discuss the issue with the aquarius project coordinator dr tom de kock. in the last three months we've had our flag strips twice. once expressly from a time pressure to the panamanian maritime authority most recently we've had a trumped up. waste profiteering. legal process started in catania sicily and it's part of a longer two year smear campaign not just of ourselves but of the whole search and rescue. community if you'd like to refer to it as such all of it

attempting to switch the focus onto us away from the core of all who are at present drowning at sea you know from the italian perspective they're trying to control illegal migration to europe that's the perspective they're putting so how are they going to avoid returning these migrants back to libya and the other countries that are having from the european union has something called k. which is a comprehensive european the asylum system. at present there is something called the dublin regulation that dictates that every border nation is responsible for everybody who arrives there the preamble to creating madness that border states take their. migration very seriously consequently it is left room for populist and right wing politicians to create and stoke fear

and use what is arguably not a migration crisis the european commission is admitted it's as much. to create fear . the one hundred thousand people crossing the mediterranean is a draw is a very very small drop in the bucket. of population and with the the ultimate point here is that what what. italian and other european politicians are seeking is a creating this into a discussion about migration and it is most certainly not a discussion about migration is a discussion about risk you would see. only ten states in the us where being a legislator is considered a full time job and out there is nothing prevents you from pursuing a business career or having a say on the rules that regulate industry leading some to worry about a possible conflict of interests.

everyone is sort of shaped by who they are they do i'm someone who represents business and that shapes my views sometimes. it's not a conflict of interest and we know it's not because the house rules make it clear and so does louisiana state. i'm sponsoring the bill for all return pharmacist's. i'm just one person i'm one little spoken who we.

have let state government and federal governments get so big that it has the ability to give out special favors in the first place when you have a government that can give out special favors you're going to attract this type of behaviors what we're seeing happening at higher levels is basically a reflection of that culture we need to change that culture that says it's ok and instead say listen the government should not be giving money or special favors to anyone it is corruption at the when the worst way and we need to stop it the people who benefit from the special favors also write the laws so of course they don't change the laws the laws continue as long as the law makers can get special favors from the laws. great to have you with us this saturday and join us again for all

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