if you really. believe you. know. what's. up and. paris is on high alert as it braces itself for more mass protests this sounds a day with so-called yellow vest demonstrations expected to bring the french capital to a standstill for a fourth consecutive weekend we bring you live pictures from the sea. is the end of

an era for in germany after nearly two decades at the helm angela merkel steps down as leader of the christian democratic union party she's replaced by undergrads crump karrenbauer known as many. everywhere in london i would see hard to know who i met before in. the philippines or afghanistan what the world to do with you there would be that we're here because it was so easy for them to open it. hiding in the ranks of notorious terrorists we hear that it be incredible story of a man who switched from being a trusted al qaeda bomb maker to informing on the feared to harvest as an m i six by. the israeli defense forces apparently changed their official line on the use of tear gas in schools as off the video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a stun grenade into a building in the west bank. a

very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me and great to have you with us this hour now our top story a day of rage is expected to sweep paris later this saturday as yellow vest protesters prepare for a full round of anti government rallies we're showing you live pictures from paris now where it's about nine am local time in protesters are gathering for today's rally the so-called the yellow vests are continuing their demonstrations despite french president a monument run earlier bowing to pressure and canceling proposed fuel tanks hikes the southern city of leone has already been hit by fierce protests with police using tear gas to disperse a student write. 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 of course multiple cities over the past few days schools have been blockaded forcing many to close. in the french campus all six locations have been labeled potential hot spots with paris than some of the worst urban why attain in decades last saturday charlotte dubinsky reports on the preparations to stem the violence. with a bated breath 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. but the government says it's braced for significant violence. 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 iconic. police of shops and restaurants to close. many tourist sites including the eiffel tower. all battening down the hatches. not exactly the christmas spirit many were hoping for you when they booked their trips bad that we had to keep one day at a wholesale is going to be the interest of i'm not going to be here as if it never came like see the damage and stuff we are trying not to go in the place where. it's going to be dangerous dangerous to even to be a tourist here to be careful for sure because you know i understand people concern a ball to their future but also there are people who will abuse that and try to maybe still. crush things it's out of this is actually the people of the world it's

not clear how many of us protesters and other guests will descend saturday but what is clear is that they aren't happy 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 demur ones are increasing including that of the resignation of president. of the verge of no confidence and it is clear from the name beams that we tell the government you are going in the wrong direction to the three factions that signed this vote of no confidence we want to unite and win over the deputy he's become a victory all ik 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 that possible address is likely to give little solace to those caught up impacted by whatever unfolds all saturday. azzi paris.

or next to our developing story in italy where six people have reportedly been killed during a stampede at a nightclub near the eastern city of ancona police say dozens of people have been injured some critically reports suggest the stampede was triggered by a 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 was injured have been receiving treatment at the scene while ten people of the leave to be in serious condition. germany's christian democratic union party has a new leader described as a mini merkel and a great scrum 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. and

a gret will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany. friedrich a 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 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 phone at 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 the 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 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 when she rose to power but just who is. our the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet company. known by her initial. and atlanta system with

a small a pro european and a francophile she's certain to form 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 and ports blood to be a prudent hadn't been squeaks enough on the valve put in pushes as far as his things he will get away with and if you open the us down given through united's 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. that should be taking the c.d.u. forward maximally uncross foremost c.d.u. politician and current alternative for germany nominee for the e.u. parliament things the cd use choice of lead to eliminate sit 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 cause 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. to silent to deceive you comes a conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and. at last a competitor. from a jihadist mastermind and bomb maker to m i six double agent on the frontline a mundane spent almost a decade campaign 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 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 and to make it a beacon for democracy and to establish american hegemony they were just a think tank the put that letter. will have the most of the blood his 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 invade somalia or 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 need 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 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 there's also a video obtained by israel's haaretz newspaper apparently shows an i.d.f. soldier targeting a school building. thank you folks here been numerous complaints from palestinian authorities over tear gas and stun grenades being fired into school property and an early interview with the newspaper an i.d.f. spokesperson denied the incidents had ever happened he said weather conditions were to play to the chemical smoke drifting into schools. as

a rule no tear 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 accordingly according to operational needs and regulations and that the incident is under investigation when my colleague andrew farmer spoke to stan's nema a cultural studies professor from percy at university who say is the israeli military deliberately target the facilities israeli troops as well as the settlers are always. having this kind of i trust is against the schools. and specially the schools which is within the perimeter of controlled by the israelis and the settlers is where you are targeting schools in particular saw the parents with their children out of the schools by the food we. could go 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 soldiers have to experience a lot of provocation and children throw rocks at their 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 you know like reviewed what happened proven that they were not only lying about the reasons and also the excuses are lame because there were some footage. showing exactly what happened is very worth all of this inside the school. a british teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for making hoax bomb threats the nineteen year old e-mail to hundreds of schools and even made a prank call about a hijacked plane and asked to see a chicken or reports. think pringles are funny think again

a british team is heading to jail for three years after sending out thousands of feet bomb threats to schools in the u.k. and us we have sent a student with a bomb. the bomb is set 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 hartford 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 proof start operating online does not offend . juco the now has a criminal record which will harm his future career prospects should act as a deterrent the series of pranks gone too far with irreversible consequences for the trickster and the star said sure can r.t. london. coming up a ship to save thousands of lives in the mediterranean retires after three years of

service details on that right after this short break. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be. too great to be right this is what the four three of the more people. interested in the wives are. 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 move back going forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity and nobody wants to see got to stop to. welcome back the search and rescue ship the aquarius which is save thousands of migrants from the mediterranean has announced it's ceasing operations doctors about borders which runs the mission blamed pressure from european countries initiated by italy the charity said rome had some but targets efforts to save lives for the last two months the ship has been confined to

a port in frogs following allegations the organization broke the law the italian government accuses those behind the mission of running a toxic service to its. imports by carrying people on the ship here's a recap of what happened. it's a strategic phillis response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a full 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 which cannot become a refugee camp only those have the right to enter it's legal and it's their other course they can go sit in spain france malta and the netherlands. according to the international organization for migration already this year more than two thousand

people have died or gone missing trying to reach europe by way of the mediterranean earlier my colleague in india is here to discuss the issue with the aquarius project coordinator 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 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 all noble who are at present drowning at sea european union has something called chaos which is a comprehensive european asylum system. at present there is something called the

dublin regulation that dictates that every order nation is responsible for everybody who arrives there in 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 of migration crisis european commission as admitted it's as much. to create fear. the one hundred thousand people crossing the mediterranean is a drop of very very small drop in the bucket. of population and with the the ultimate point here is that. 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 rescue at sea. and alleged chemical attack in syria's 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 foes they claimed it was a rebel chlorine gas attack well russia has bastid 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 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 italy along with the white helmet suter rescuers who with their provocative behavior reflect badly on the 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 from neighboring province russia says it has evidence that chlorine gas was used and muskets has formally requested the un's chemical watchdog send investigators to the site. the u.k. has also weighed in on the dispute it lent it supports to washington saying it believes if it is 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. politicized ocean and the use of chemical weapons inside syria has been an ongoing theme. with the u.s. coalition of calls weaponized thing. the syrian government and its allies particularly russia we've seen the failed attempt to do so tomorrow which was the

entire narrative produced by the u.k. foreign office propaganda the white home that was discredited by the eventual p.t.w. report that found none of the chemicals described by much of the mainstream media following that alleged chemical attack. you have always been given free access they have an agreement with the syrian government 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 duma a chemical weapon attack so they would be given free access to be a leopard site. there are only ten states in the us where being a legislator is considered a full time job and others 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 conflicts of interests. everyone is sort of shaped by who they are 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 pharmacists in the state i'm just one. time

one little spoke to 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. if you have something you'd like to say we'd love to herit so do get in touch by following us on social media and even your comments that we'll be back with the latest in about thirty minutes see that. it was up to that little oh oh. oh oh god whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what a bummer record out. when

a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be to win the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying there was just no way that was present and that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough

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