paul. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause a report. subscribe to read. for just twelve euros fifty per month. paris is on high alert as more mass protests get underway so-called yellow bus demonstrations being bring the center of the french capital to a standstill for a fourth consecutive weekend we bring you live pictures from the scene. and it's the end of an error 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 other great crime karrenbauer known as minnie merkel. everywhere in london i would see jihad as you know who i met before in bosnia of the philippines of afghanistan what the world to do with you there would be there with you 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 feared jihad ists as an m i six by. the israeli defense forces apparently changed their official line on the use of tear gas in schools i thought the video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a stun grenade into a building in the west bank. a

very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron great to have you with us this hour as we start with our top story branded by organizes a day of rage crowds of yellow vest protesters have gathered in paris for a weekend of anti-government rallies we're showing you live pictures from paris now where demonstrations are ongoing despite president emanuel mccrone earlier bowing to pressure and canceling proposed fuel tax hikes the southern city of leon has already been hit by fears protests with police using tear gas to just. a student ryan is.

all protests have been against wide ranging reform student rallies have been against a proposed exam changes according to local media dozens of arrests have been made in cities across france over the past few days that schools have been blockaded forcing many to close in the french capital six locations have been labeled potential hot spots with the city and during some of the worst rioting in decades shola deep and ski reports on how well far as he's planning to stem the violence. with a base to 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.

but the government says it's braced for significant violence 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 iconic sites police of shops and restaurants to close. a. 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 back that we had to keep one day at a wholesale is going to be the interest. i'm not going to be here as if it never came late 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 a tourist here to be careful for sure because you know i understand people concern the ball to their future but also there are people who will abuse that and try to maybe still. crush things etc this is actually the people of the world it's not clear how many of us protesters and other guests will descend on 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 names 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. to our developing story in italy next where six people have reportedly been killed during a stampede at a nightclub near the eastern city of and kona 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 now official version has been given so far revelers were packed in for a concert of the venue to see a famous italian rapper those injured have been receiving treatment at the sea of ten people are believed to be in serious condition. 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 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 miss crime karrenbauer in the position of general secretary of the c.d.u. interesting enough the same position angle of 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 the 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 to the polarized societies certainly one of the reasons why ms 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. 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 saying food. is on the. times he thinks he will get away with it and if you. give it through united response he will continue to. 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. maximillian craft former c.d.u. politician and current alternative for germany nominee for the parliament thinks the cd use choice of leader eliminates it as a right wing rival to his party. for every conservative and generally it is clear to see the you whilst you are less harshly but it will give all the conservative support of germany for the. probably come over twenty percent in the european

election in may two thousand and two to see that you have a continued the same style as merkel and there is the steps to fundamental change that action that brought on the. no one can still have to silent to deceive you comes big conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and. at last a competitor to do. from edge of hardest mastermind and bomb maker to m i six double agent on the front line a mundane spent almost a decade count in 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 on r.t. international this morning at nine thirty g.m.t. that's right after our rundown here's a quick preview for now. 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 and i will have some muscly blood as deputy seized on it seized on it and he said that the american administration would not do this unless if there was an event on the magnitude of pearl harbor so he said we should give them a call. because then they can invade afghanistan that kind of a that off they can 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 bulldoze that 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 as after a video obtained by israel's haaretz newspaper apparently shows an idea of soldier targeting a school building. i thank of their opinion risk complaints from palestinian authorities over tear gas and stun grenades being fired into school property in an earlier interview with the newspaper an i.d.f. spokesperson denied the incidents of her ever happened he said weather conditions were to blame for the chemical smoke drifting into school. 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 to operational needs and regulations and that the

incident is under investigation or my colleague andrew farmer spoke to a cultural studies professor from birthday at university who says the israeli military deliberately target the facilities israeli troops as well as the settlers are always. going to bow to us that is against the schools. and specially the schools which is within the perimeter of controlled by the israelis and this is that is where you are targeting schools in particular saw the parents with good children out of the schools but it would be a good example groves it would because they are in the area which is very close to the sun. and that was over the years 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 still. and being in front of the

reality especially in this particular case when there was some someone or you know like reviewed what happened proven that they were not really lying about the reasons and also the excuses aren't really him because there were some footage showing exactly what happened and that is really worth all of this inside the school. a british teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for making hoax bomb threats and one thousand year old e-mails hundreds of schools and even made a prank call about a hijacked plane and to see a check and i reports 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 u.s. 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 the. room again. like a minute ago. 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 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. juco now has a criminal record which will harm his future career prospects and this should act as a deterrent the series of pranks gone too far with irreversible consequences for the trickster and i say r.t. london still to come a ship that saved thousands of lives in the mediterranean retires after three years of service we have more details on that right after the break. remember before a trade war leaves a hot war there's currency war plays

a trade war where in the current you are going on already with the china pegged artificially low to get their exports to the u.s. in a way to build their economy and then the u.s. it worker was losing their job but they were paying a lot for chinese made stuff and so there was this symbiotic relationship going on so if the question is who's going to be twenty first century empire and who's going to lose if it's going to be the u.s. or china my thought is going to be a coterminous and that both the u.s. and china are going to fall apart. hope it is a. great political allegation that it's almost well meaning. any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled a populist. politics populism of some sort or another.

welcome back now the search and rescue ship the u. querrey s. which has saved thousands of migrants from the mediterranean has announced it's ceasing operate sions doctors without borders which runs the mission blamed pressure from european countries initiated by italy the charity said rome has some time to its efforts to save lives for the last two months the ship has been confined to port in france following on occasions the organization broke the law the italian government accuses those behind the mission of running a taxi service to italian ports by carrying people on the ship here is a recap of what happened.

and sister patricia this response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a full 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 each only those who have the right into it's legal and it's there are the police they can go to. france malta in 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 early my colleague to discuss the issue with the aquarius project coordinator dr tom at the call. 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 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. secondly it is left room for the populist right wing politicians to create and stoke fear

and use what is arguably not a migration crisis european commission as admitted it's as much. to create fear. the 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 of 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 the alleged chemical attack in syria as aleppo last month has put mosco in 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 lambasted the accusation 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 rescuers who with their 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. russia says it has evidence that chlorine gas was used damascus has formally requested that the un's chemical watchdog send investigators to the sites . 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 journalist who's covered the conflict in syria says the use of chemical weapons is long been part of a narrative to discredit the syrian government. 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 weaponized thing 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 construct 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 u.s. were being a legislator is considered a full time job may not 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. i'm someone who represents business and that shapes my view sometimes.

it's not a conflict of interest we know it's not spin. the 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 a mom i'm just one little person time one little spoke to do 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. thanks for joining us on r.t. international this saturday we're closely following those protests in paris as well as everything else happening in the world join us for the latest at the top of the hour.

but oh. oh. god whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa time out record. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be with 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 is terrifying the is just no way to present them 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 want to that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. time after time as you know what you get a special edition of going underground coming up in the show zero question of the. n.b.a.'s ordered the killing monitor detailing knew exactly what was happening planted and. if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes but did saudi crown prince mohammed

bin someone who has been bombing yemen this week with a weapons really would have the killing of a washington post journalist we have an interview with revelations that appeared to contradict what u.s. senators heard of a closed door briefing by cia director will we speak to the man who was asama bin laden's chemical weapons expert then allegedly turned them i six by plus we hear about his recruitment and the origins of the war on terror and defacto british backing of islamists from yugoslavia to afghanistan to iraq to syria well with me now is a man who was allegedly one of the most senior members of some of bin laden's al qaeda a participant a jihad since the age of fifteen turns you and i six in nine hundred ninety eight after the u.s. embassy bombings in nairobi where he continued to be part of al qaeda as an intelligence operative his new book about his time as both an ally of as i would love and as a spy for the british government is called nine lives my time is m i six top spy inside al qaeda is available now in the new film of blood that he advise.