but something was up and. is on high alert as it braces itself for more month's protests this saturday with so-called yellow versus demonstrations expected to bring the french capital to a standstill for a full consecutive weekends. it's the end of an era in germany after nearly two

decades at the helm angela merkel stepped down as leader of the christian democratic union party she's replaced by and a great crime karrenbauer known as many were. everywhere in london i would see her hard as you know why before in bosnia all the philippines of afghanistan what were they doing here there would be that they were here because it was so easy for them to operate hiding in the ranks of notorious terrorists we hear the incredible story of a man who switched from being a trusted al qaeda bomb maker to informing on the feed to harvest as an m i six by . the israeli defense forces apparently changed their fishel line on the use of tear gas that on scholes was off the video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a gun coordinate into a building 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 our top story a day of rage is expected to sweep paris later this day as yellow vests protesters prepare for a fourth round of government rallies now despite french president emanuel 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.

while protests have been against reforms in general students specifically have been 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 the main one in the french capital six locations have been labeled potential hold spots with paris injuring some of the was to open rioting in decades last saturday show the two penske reports on the preparations to stem the violence with bated breath that many parisians are wondering what will become a city this saturday three weekends of violence help already rocked the capital some described as the worst in decades.

but the government choose says it's braced for significant violence usable does a form 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. across the country eighty nine thousand security forces all being deployed here in paris eight thousand will stand between protesters and many of the capital's most i cornered excites police of shops and restaurants to close on the lees a. many tourist sites including the eiffel tower. all battening down the hatches.

not exactly the christmas spirit many were hoping for when they booked their trips back that we have to keep one day in a total is going to be the interest of i'm not going to be here as a bit nerve racking like to see the damage and stuff as we are trying not to go in the place where. it's going to be dangerous dangerous to even to be interesting 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 us protesters and other guests will descend on saturday but what is clear is that they are unhappy with a peace offering be made by the government so far the u. turn on an increase in fuel tax is not enough they say the months are increasing

including that of the resignation of president on the verge of no confidence and it's clear from the names were the ones that we tell the government you are going in the wrong direction to the three factions that signed this very confident we want you nice and. he's become a metrolink 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 the possible address . is likely to give a little solace to those caught up impacted by whatever unfolds all saturday charlotte azzi paris. to our developing story in italy next where six people have reportedly been killed during a stampede at a nightclub in the eastern city of ancona police say dozens of people have been injured some critically reports suggest the stampede was triggered by pepper spray

being used in the club but no official 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 germany's christian democratic union party has a new leader described as a mini merkel and a great cramp. 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. on the growth will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany. fredricka 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 it certainly was billed as the continuity conduit 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 this crown karrenbauer in the position of general secretary of the c.d.u. interesting enough the same position and gloom urkel held before she went on to lead the party eighteen years ago now mrs merkel did give a very emotional speech in phone at the opening of the party conference in which. he said whoever takes over from her is going to have a difficult task of pulling together 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 of us and with the polarized societies well certainly one of the reasons why 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 opposite side of that of course would have been if through to commit to. 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. the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet. known by her initials a k k and it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile. 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 u.s.

ports to be a food haven't been squeaks enough is on the part of. times he thinks he will get away with it and if you are in the us done given united's response she will continue to push for we have seen this in the recent years and its policies that convince the five hundred seventeen delegates out of the one thousand and one casting their ballots that it was a k.k. that should be taking the c.d.u. forward. maximillian cross former c.d.u. politician and current alternative for germany 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 new one. but it will give all the conservative squad of germany for the. probably come over to

a new european election in may two thousand and two to see that you have a continue the same style as merkel and their steps to fundamental change that action that brought. no one can still have to silent to deceive you comes conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and. at last a competitor to do. from the hardest mastermind and bomb maker to m i six double agents on the front line a mundane spent almost a decade camped in with al qaeda which ng sides to become a british intelligence spy well r.t. show going underground here's his incredible story of becoming disillusioned with the terrorists' cause and having his cover blown you can watch the full interview on r.t. international this morning at nine thirty g.m.t. but for now here's a quick preview. that letter which was sent to bill clinton it was urging him to

invade iraq to make it a beacon for democracy and to establish american hegemony but they were just a think tank the but that letter. of mostly beloved of the party 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 invade 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 bulldozer we need to provoke the bulldozer owner to come in and to smash the old structure out of nationalism communism whatever you want to call it socialism they must smash it in order for us to build an islamic structure. the israeli military says it's opened an investigation into soldiers

firing tear gas into schools in the occupied west bank that's after a video obtained by israel's haaretz newspaper powerfully shows an i.d.f. soldier targeting a school building. i have had the numerous complaints from palestinian authorities over to gas and stun grenades being fired into school property in an earlier interview with the newspaper an i.d.f. spokesperson denied the incidents had ever happened he said weather conditions were to blame for the chemical smoke drifting into school. 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 when asked about this latest video the i.d.f. said they act according to operational needs and regulations and that the incident

is under investigation or my colleague andrew farmer spoke to saad nima a cultural studies professor from both the at university who studies the israeli military deliberately target the facilities. 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 the school by crime the food would be empty and by then they can put drugs to school 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 abuses are standing in front of the reality especially in this particular case when there was some someone or you know like reviewed what happened and proven that there were not every lying about the reasons and also the excuses are really because there were some footage showing exactly what happened and we were throwing this inside the school. of course this teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for making hoax bomb threats a nineteen year old emails hundreds of schools and even made a prank call about a hijacked plane and asked to see a check and reports think prank calls are funny think again the 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. airport. again. like. the nineteen year old lived with his mother and sister and had no previous convictions the plane prank caused 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 perverted 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 and. now has a criminal record which will harm his future career prospects on this should act as a deterrent to others the series of pranks gone too far with irreversible consequences for the trickster and associates r.t. london. washington and moscow are in a standoff over another alleged chemical weapons attack in syria we've got that story and plenty more coming up after this short break.

putting back in place a hard border accentuation division between northern ireland. has economic consequences it has a lot of consequences for people particularly those who live along the border there's a lot of free movement at the moment people are going forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity. doctor shopping.

welcome back the search and rescue ship the aquarius which has saved thousands of migrants from the mediterranean has announced its ceasing operations doctors without borders which runs the mission blamed pressure from european countries and by italy the charity said rome has sabotaged its efforts to save lives for the last two months the ship has been confined to ports in france not following in allegations the organization broke the law the italian government accuses those behind the mission of running a taxi service to a tally of ports by carrying people on the ship here's a recap of what happened. and

sister patricia this response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a bold moves cynicism and a lack of responsibility on behalf of the italian government when faced with this dramatic humanitarian disaster. my duty is to defend the borders of this country with which cannot become a refugee camp you know you those have the right into it's legal and it's there are the police they can go to. the phone smalls and the network. and according to the international organization for migration already this year more than two thousand people have died well going missing trying to reach europe by way of the mediterranean only my colleague here to discuss the issue with the aquarius projects coordinated dr tom de kock in the last three months we've had our flag stripped twice. once expressed lee from italian pressure to the panamanian maritime

authority were 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 os away from the vulnerable who are at present drowning at sea european union has something called chaos which is a comprehensive european the asylum system. at present there is something called the dublin regulation that dictates that every order 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 poppy. list 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 . of one hundred thousand people crossing the mediterranean is a draw it's a very very small drop in the bucket. population and work to the ultimate point here is that what what. it telling him 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 rescue at sea. and alleged chemical attack in syria aleppo last month has put moscow and washington at loggerheads once again the u.s. state department says it has credible evidence that the syrian army used tear gas

on civilians and then falsely claimed it was a rebel chlorine gas attack russia has the accusation the russian military considers that hysterical claims by the u.s. 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. 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 a provocative behavior reflect badly on the west. 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 from neighboring it live province russia says it has evidence that chlorine gas was used damascus has formally requested that the un's chemical watchdog send investigators to the site. the u.k. has also weighed in on the dispute it lent its support to washington saying it

believes it's highly unlikely that terrorists used 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's. this political isolation of the use of chemical weapons inside syria has been an ongoing theme of the conflict with the u.s. coalition of course saying they straying against the syrian government and its allies particularly russia we've seen the failed attempt to do so in tomorrow which was the entire narrative produced by the u.k. foreign office propaganda the white house and that was discredited by their venture p.t.w. report that found none of the chemicals described by much of the mainstream media following that alleged chemical attack i p c w you have always been given free access they have an agreement with the syrian government to be able to come on to

territory that is secured by the syrian government of course there are. terrorists all perjury because of the risk to their lives. when they were given free access to the day in a chemical weapon attack so they would be given free access to the aleppo site. there were only ten states in the us why being a legislator is considered a full time job and this is nothing prevents you from pursuing a business career while having a say on the rules that regulate industry leading some so worrying about a possible conflict of interests. everyone is sort of shaped by. i'm someone who represents business and that shapes my view sometimes.

it's not a conflict of interest we know it's not because. house rules make it clear and so does louisiana state. i'm sponsoring the bill for all return of pharmacists in the street or from my mom i'm just one little person time 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. hit back to our top story now we're showing you live pictures from paris where a day of rage is expected to sweep the french capital day saturday as yellow vests protesters prepare for a fourth round of anti-government rallies stay with us throughout the day we're going to be keeping on top of the situation and it front and we have much more

coming up to see what the top of the hour. will be this them is some job weight spread political allegation that it's almost meaning if any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled a populist isn't all politics populism of some sort or another.

well known this is the comedy show where americans in america covering american news or call of foreign agents. your brand for nation is worth alexandria ocasio cord ten has been ruthlessly attacked this week and i feel a bit responsible i might have accidentally tainted her twitter feed with my truth serum. but that sounds weird so let me back up. you know my recall that on a previous show i covered the twenty one trillion dollars that has gone unaccounted for at the pentagon that's right trillion with a t. and i feel like every time this. topic is even mentioned if you come with like a little just a little clue suffix a little suffix right there in that cell fix should be. god. god god you're. right there anyway

the twenty one trillion includes six point five trillion dollars unaccounted for in twenty fifteen alone and when i covered this a few months ago really the only two journalists looking into it were david de graw writing for his own website and a single forbes article which was co-written by the economist who discovered the unaccounted adjustments mark skidmore and i discovered i don't mean skidmore like found a dusty shoe box in donald rumsfeld's old desk underneath the you know the baby skeletons underneath the baby skeletons. i mean he took a minute to look at the defense department's own inspector general's report so really he does bother to look at the thing that was designed for the public to look at. that's what he did anyway add to the redacted the night after so it came out it got hundreds of thousands of views my true to go articles on the same topic also went viral.