no there are these industries out of polluting your dissembling ignored your money that most of them love will be lost and will be lost a mother of them like me that we lost even that. i don't. want the. police used tear gas against protesters is a fourth consecutive weekend of so-called yellow vest demonstrations kcal in paris . is the end of an era 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 on a great scrum caraballo known as many. everywhere in london i would see jihad as they know who i met before in bosnia or the philippines or afghanistan whether there would be a there would be that they were here because it was so easy for them to operate hiding in the ranks of notorious terrorists we have the incredible story of a man who switched from being a trusted al qaeda bomb maker to informing on the fate jihad this is an m i six by . the israeli defense forces the power of the change their official line on the use of tear gas along schools now soft a video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a stun grenade into a building in the west bank.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me niki arran great to have you with us this hour now as fears grow of a mass violence in the french capital police have moved quickly to use tear gas against yellow vests protesters the movement's it was called this saturday a day of rage and what marks a fourth weekend of anti-government rallies. i think i also think i was. when i was showing you live pictures from paris where demonstrations are ongoing despite president emanuel mccrone early of bowing to pressure and canceling proposed fuel tax hikes in the southern city of leone has already been hit by fears protests with police using tear gas to disperse

a student riot. or protests have been against wide ranging reforms student rallies have been against proposed exam changes according to local media dozens of arrests have been made in cities across france and the past few days that schools have been blockaded forcing many to close. everybody's record. 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. but the government too says it's braced for significant violence as a whole 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 go home excites police of shops

and restaurants to close all these 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 bad that we have to keep one day in a total is going to either interest or 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 a tourist here 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 us protesters and other guests will descend saturday but what is clear is that they are unhappy with the peace offering being made by the government so far the u. turn on an increase in fuel tax is not enough they say made to months or increasing including that of the resignation of president. of the verge 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 vote of no confidence we want to unite and win over the deputies 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 little solace to those caught up impacted by water for unfolds all saturday. azzi.

germany's christie and democratic union party has a new leader described as a mini merkel and i care about i was elected during a party vote on friday chancellor angela merkel is stepping down from the role after eighteen years at the how are europe correspondent peter all of our reports from berlin. and a gret will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany. friedrich 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 misc. 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 and fired 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 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 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 and a great power the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet. known by her initials. i had lunch assist with a small a pro european and the 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 us and the courts see plenty of food being squeaks of no use on the valve put in pushes its fires his things he will get away with and if you are in the us don't give it through united response he will continue to push for we have seen this in the recent years and it's 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 nominee for the e.u. parliament thinks the cd use choice of leader and limits it is 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 all the conservative scholars germany that means you have to be evil. probably come over twenty percent in the european election in may two thousand and thirteen to see do you have a continue the same style as merkel. yes the steps to fundamentally change that action they brought. no one can still have to silent to deceive you comes back a conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany

and that's. lost a competitor today. russia's security services halfway yesterday to the provocative nature of the ukrainian ships involved in clashes in the current straits two weeks ago they gave more details on the incident that almost spoke to conflicts between the two nations on the crimean peninsula and we can hear about that right now from maybe the question of a he was listening in to that briefing with dana good to see you what else was said . while russian staffers be coast guard indeed hold a briefing here in moscow where the course of events that took place in november of the twenty third was outlined in detail it's really now the f.s.b. coast guard cause there's no incident or clear provocation adding that it was a very dangerous provocation but but also saying that these sorts of incidents are provocative actions were not something new as

a number of other actions of such sort has been taking place before and they were given even an exact period of time in the last two years now after this because guards also added saying that proper procedures and rules for the passage and that very area haven't changed and before there have been no misunderstandings . it's necessary to stress that the rules of passage through the strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by. both russian and ukrainian ships. also saying that the situation was a very dangerous one after the f.s.b. coast guard has also given an example saying that the coast guard said that there were weapons and ammunition found on board of the arrests that ukrainian vessels

that exceeded the standard a load and also it was said that there were documents saying that that operation should have been a convert one. could you put it in the first note of during the inspection of ukrainian ships a document was found which orders and this is a quote to make passage through the coach straight out of the russian navy and f.s.b. supervision the main goal is to covertly posture the cut straight end of quote you can make your own conclusions. russian court issued a decision ordering that all of the twenty four ukrainian serviceman that were arrested say during that incident to be held in custody for two months while the investigation is under way and all of them were accused of trespassing now ukraine is calling this act an act of aggression and old so it servicemen prisoners of war now today are russia's f.s.b.

said that such thing as not even possible as there is no war between the two countries. but they do it in accordance just on the up in recent times the ukrainian side has attempted to present its officers as war prisoners to those detained ukrainian sailors are charged with criminal offenses and according to the geneva convention neither can hold war prisoners while russia and ukraine are not in a state of war. while some new information was also revealed to regarding those who were on board of the arrested ukrainian vessels now russia's f.s.b. said that the residents of the ukrainian city of dynastic. down saying that he had recognized one of the ukrainian security service men who was on board of the arrested ukrainian vessels as a person who allegedly tortured him all in all this whole operation was called to be. treated as provocation endangering over one hundred several

ships stationed at the port and also de railing situ with security in the region thanks to break air bring in as the highlights from that briefing that's medina koch and i thank you very much. from a jihadist mastermind and bomb maker to m i six double agents on the frontline a mundane spent almost a decade camped in with al qaeda switching sides to become a british intelligence by the show going underground here's 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 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 they were just a think tank the letter. of the 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 the kind of aid of the kind of 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 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 still to come a lot of international conflict and the nightclub in italy takes a facial turn after another stampede rocks italy eighteen months after a similar incident in tearin and more details on that after this short break stay with us.

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 it is 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. place hard order. dr vision between northern ireland. 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 and forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity and nobody wants to see the. welcome back the israeli military says it's opened an investigation into soldiers firing tear gas into schools in the occupied west bank it's off to a video obtained by israel's haaretz newspaper pony shows an i.d.f. soldier targeting a school building. the have been numerous complaints from palestinian authorities over tear gas and stun grenades speak find into school property and 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 a school. as a rule no two. is used to get 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 but 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 my colleague andrew farmer spoke to science nima a cultural studies professor from the at university who says the israeli military deliberately target the facilities. israeli troops as well as the settlers are always. having this kind of atrocities against the schools. and specially the schools which is within the perimeter of the controlled by the euphrates and the surface is where you are targeting schools in particular saw the parents with

good children out of the school bus and the food would be in the end by going to the council groves the 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 these excuses are standing in front of the reality especially in this particular case when there was some someone you know like reviewed what happened and proven that they were not all be lying about the reasons and also the excuses are really because there were some footage showing exactly what happened there were throwing this inside the school. a british teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison for making hoax bomb threats and nineteen year old e-mails hundreds of schools and even made a prank call about a hijacked plane and to see

a check and a report. think pringles 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 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 hard for church north of london. 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 per 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. 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. a search and rescue ship the aquarius which is they have thousands of

migrants from the mediterranean has announced it ceasing operations doctors without borders which runs the mission blamed pressure from european countries initiated by italy a chair. he said rome has sabotaged its death it's to save lives for the last two months the ship has been confined to a port in france following allegations the organization broke the law the italian government accuses those behind the mission of running a taxi service to italian port by carrying people on the ship here's a recap of what happened. it's ridiculous response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a ball 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 to 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 madeira 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 trump. 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 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 still fear and use what is arguably not of migration crisis the european commission as of methods 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 what. italian and other european politicians are seeking is a creating this into a discussion of migration and it is most certainly not a discussion about migration is a discussion about risk you would see. back to our top story now as promised. keeping a close eye on the situation in france where protests are continuing with police using tear gas to stop clashes and disperse the huge crowds that we cannot cross live to and i'll guest from space political analyst nicholas. thank you for joining us he knew and leon in southern france right now what has been violence over the past couple of days you were asking about right now what can you tell us about

where you are. you i met a tool your motor way to work the people the yellowjackets a really good job making it free for all the vehicles coming over you been doing this these past weeks there are a lot of people this morning as you can see right over here opening the tolls it's very peaceful all the people here are coming down you can hear a lot of people honking the police is right behind me but they're not doing anything this is one of the views one of the images the mainstream media in france were in the second biggest city of france and actually it's extremely peaceful there's no violence there's no police probe provocation and actually a lot of people think if you're in hockey you can hear them happy this is all about it's a ninety five percent about what the yellow jacket movement is about but manged to me that is a wonder so this is something which is going on all across france if you look on social media you see that in war you'll see that in question must say more per year to lose a lot of things that are having very very peaceful demonstrations like this ones

where the yellow jackets are opening the tools and making them free so of course they're making the movement very popular unfortunately perris and mainstream media doesn't want to show these images it's sunny eleven thirty am that. at the moment what do you expect how do you expect the day to progress with things that crowds across france i think you'll be two different situations i mean everywhere there's there's a peaceful demonstration it will go on like this i came here last night to see how it's going on people are deciding at the time to take in coffee they're speaking to the to the people driving their cars. are exploiting the situation this author photo support so it's going to be ok it will stay peaceful as long as there is no provocation here the police are very friendly then the free soliciting some cop with the over there a couple a couple of minutes ago in other towns and parents we've seen already that there are posters of all the patients we know that the macro government wants violent images it needs these violent images in order to show the people tonight on t r news on the mainstream media that the movement is fighting so there's going to be

police for the occasion in some major cities and there is going to be violence also don't forget that for a lot of these people the situation is very dire it's very complicated in france and the end they feel when they're with this rotation from the police they want to react and there's some sort of provocation and violence coming from the police but also some people who really are sick and tired of the situation and who want to fight back and who want the things to move in france you may know and you probably do know that if you want things to move in france are going to maybe force rather than violence is something which is current but we will see different types of situations and perhaps the more towards the majority the manifestations will remain peaceful that's for sure but we will see some major cities in the big cities and city centers there will be violence that force are on the police side and on the yellowjackets side as well and i thank you so much for bringing us these live pictures from leon that passed nicholas a political analyst thank you. what if you have something you'd like to say about any of our stories to get in

touch by following us on social media we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest on my colleague. max kaiser this is the kaiser report oh it's g. twenty time g. twenty tom question is offered are we globalize ing a due to low blood zing dollar rising or do you know rising let's get some more details from stacy yes the g. twenty was earlier this week there's been so much going on and of course we're getting to it now but i want to look at this headline here because it's quite remarkable about the g. twenty what their sense of what was happening there g. twenty summit top agenda item by by american empire we here at kaiser report have kind of been covering this for the past few years.