fall apart. see them. tear gas water cannons and armored vehicles and that's paris this saturday on the fourth consecutive weekend of so-called yellow vests demonstrations our

correspondent is there. and here we've also how rubber bullets being deployed each . very clearly still this season i've read the lights. the end of an era in germany has on the merkel stepped down as leader of her party after eighteen years at the helm she is replaced by on a gret. also known as many miracle also ahead. everywhere in london i would see this they know who i met before in. the philippines and afghanistan what are they doing there what do they we're here because it was so easy for them to open a hiding in plain sight we hear the incredible story of a man who switched from being a trusted al qaeda bomb maker being an m i six informant. casting. live director our studios in moscow this is archie international and john

thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right there wasn't more mayhem in paris on saturday as another round of yellow vest protests against rising living costs rocked the city on what activists had said would be a day of rage around eight thousand police officers and a dozen armored vehicles were deployed in the french capital in an effort to prevent a fourth consecutive weekend of unrest but despite that it didn't take long for violence to erupt. god. if.

more than one hundred twenty five thousand people have been taking part in it you know that protests across more than a thousand have been arrested protests are ongoing despite president earlier balancing the pressure and canceling proposed fuel tax hikes our correspondent charles reports now from the french capital. branches just took a look at this this tear gas going everywhere we've also had reports that christmas trees are being burned across paris we are of course in the last few weeks early doing up to that festive season and here we've also had rubber bullets being deployed each. very close to us was. we've also seen people who've been injured in the sean sillies a today and in fact there was a pool of blood at one point after one person who seemed to have had a mouth injury and we are really trying to move out to him but. it's in very

difficult and he really does get completely and so i do see is streaming down my face again as a result of tear gas i can't tell you how many times that we've been gassed we're in the middle of it it's what we're trying to do i had lots of people coming to to me before you know you should where you goebbels but the thing is even when you go where you go girls you still get tear gas everywhere about you there's nothing much you can do other than trying to get out into some fresh air. thousands of people have once again come out to protest for their demands and there are many demands that they will the government to meet a believe more than forty now what started out as a protest movement against a hike in fuel tax that was due to be included in january has now become so so much more people here and it is going to show you here we've got police running down the street we're not exactly sure why but what we do know is that in the streets just

beyond us the protesters were trying to smash up restaurants and shops there and there was a huge amount of tear gas being deployed there actually just at the street you can look now next to that luxury a good shop louis witold and you can also see just a bit further down the street that huge police presence because that is one of the things we really noticed this week is in the previous weeks i believe last week there were about five thousand six hundred police officers here this weekend eight thousand in paris alone they go more tear gas they're being deployed at those protesters are trying to clear them out of that street where they would causing damage in previous protests the police have generally try to hold back from deploying tear gas and even when they've had objects pelted at them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when one or two things have been thrown at them they have been responding immediately and it's not

just tear gas it's what the bullets it's our water cannons and of course we have all made vehicles on the streets in paris the first time since two thousand and five. thank you thank you one of the things we've heard from some of the sunni sure is is that the violence that we've seen over the last few weekends here in paris and elsewhere in front have actually been caused by people for me it's. dreamlife and the extreme right and actually this illusion movement is a peaceful movement that's that's what they tell us i mean we have seen a lot of violence in the streets the idea is that the police had cool wouldn't to swing stopping people from getting into areas before they'd had check in searches going on if they felt that they had any material any weapons on them than they were taking them away as a preventative measure. many

people i've spoken to over the last few weeks said if after the first protest call and turned around and said ok we're going to cancel the fuel tax that might have been enough that this is turned into something much bigger this is a spontaneous social movement in france and now the two months are increasing over time the loss a look there were more than forty which includes well they want things such as a minimum pension they want it to be raised they want the minimum working wage to be raised him front they want there to be a massive overhaul of the tax system in front those are just some of the demands and that list goes on and on and actually the recent it seems an official list because the jelly the yellow vests themselves are a split movement. say that the yellow vest movement is split it's fractured in fact this week a new group is emerged the yellow vest or the free yellow vests and they say that they are prepared to talk to the government other yellow vests say they're not with

us they don't represent us and in fact when the l of us movement actually elected some spokespeople in the last few weeks to try and deal with the government they decided they were going to go and have a check with the french prime minister and they in fact canceled that because they got death threats to the idea that they would even negotiate with the government this is a rubber bullet it's going to put it in my hands so perhaps my cameraman alex can get a nice close up look at it for you it's pretty big. a little bit spongy at the top the point is. quite large the idea it's not meant to free you like a normal bullets but if this hits you believe me this is going to hurt and it's pretty scary having these things flying all around you. undercover officers with france's anti-crime brigade were also out in force working to quell the rest in paris they were filmed detaining demonstrators and pepper spraying journalists.

social media users meanwhile have been drawing parallels between the unrest in paris and the popular uprising in ukraine five years ago following a violent crackdown by police in q the protests were snowballed venture early culminating in the toppling of the government earlier my colleague kevin owen was joined in the studio by journalist brian macdonald to discuss some of the perceived similarities. there are a few similarities in the sense that i mean my dan mushroomed into a much different name but in the beginning it was more or less a grassroots movement in the beginning before it got manipulated by external forces and became something completely different so this is i mean the roots of it are quite similar and the roots are basically down to a lack of money now it might seem a bit strange to say that ukrainians and french people could have something in common in terms of lack of money but you have to look at purchasing power and you have to understand that even though ukraine is relatively poor country things are cheap in ukraine we think france is a very wealthy country but it's not for everyone

a lot of french people and very low incomes and i believe the national minimum wage is something around fourteen thousand euros a year and ice might seem like a lot to some people watching but it's not in france where you know a pint of beer is between six and eight euros and another issue in france which is also in ukraine is that in ukraine's provinces it's very very poor but kiev has always been relatively well off and a lot of people in ukraine were very resentful of this kind of elite and he even had to say going to car to going to shop are going to get you to buy their clothes you know i'm looking in these windows of shops they could never afford to go into and it's quite similar in france. i mean paris is one of the wealthiest cities in the world and if you're on fourteen thousand euros a year with big utility bills down in the provinces somewhere of course you can be resentful towards paris so the roof itself is not dissimilar let's look at the political reaction back in twenty fourteen europe was almost unanimously calling on the government then of president on a covert course to show restraint on these protests is to pull back i have to say that the purpose immediately must be to see an end to violence be very shocked by the amount of violence it's being specially the day it will be what is needed is to

get back to an a peace situation as soon as possible but the people who are responsible for this cannot go on punished we together with the germans are going to look at what we want to do and sanctions taken at a european union level obviously comes to mind immediately we can then in the strongest. use of violence as a way to solve the political of these to smoke rises all right that was there and this is now no mention of restraint by french police this time no mention of maybe sanctions on france but different no very different but then don't forget there's a big difference here there's no geopolitical element at the time the whole idea was ukraine was caught between russia and the west supposedly although russia did mask for that it was the west that was trying to pull ukraine out of russia's orbit so to speak and there was a deal on the table there was a deal of fifteen billion from russia to the young girl which is government it was another deal of an association agreement with the e.u. that's not the case here now nobody is looking for

a geopolitical advantage like nobody's trying to wrest france out of the european union or out of nato for example at the moment and seemingly another element as well that you know. emanuel kwanza relations with russia are actually been very good and if you're based here in russia what you are russian perspective the idea that russia should be interfering here is ridiculous but then you go on twitter there's a guy that contributes regular gets the b.b.c. and c.n.n. has tweeted this china got strategically pace placed cameras around paris at the moment to catch everything is going on as if this is some. thought through as if we've got anything to do with it we're just a broadcast or you're working here in the mind and i think and you remember there was a twenty four a camera on the my done for months and months and months i mean i think if the b.b.c. and c.n.n. guy is wondering why ortiz got a camera and they don't you might want to get on to them being one because i mean i mean as larry king said recently c.n.n. doesn't even do journalism anymore a number of u.s. and european officials visited them to support the protesters in twenty four to talk in just now about u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland when she was handing out cookies. do

you think we'll see officials handing out treats in paris this time i bet not the only possibility would be if the russian ambassador or the or the chinese ambassador went on and did it i'm like i said at the end of the day there's no geopolitical play here so there's no reason for them to do it i mean why would the russian ambassador want to destroy a relationship. because eight thousand security personnel on the streets of paris such is the degree of the problem that's there seen. crews show the pictures back a very heated city shops being looted brussels if this is being taken seriously not very my breath coming up very mind is there a kind of a feeling maybe in france that they want to really kick things up a bit as well as gotten into all this trouble not because of you know the fact they gave the rich a tax raise not listening to these people is a look it's a wake up call not for of course is not i mean mcallen was elected on a change agenda what was the very first thing he did like donald trump when he got into power he brought in a tax return for the wealthy and now he's turned around and shown

a carbon tax on the poor and middle class who are the ones that kind of for it and there's a huge issue to europe of the squeezed middle and so one of the say that as we see more and more carbon taxes that would global warming and the kind of pressures upon them if those taxes are placed on ordinary people rather than the elites we're going to get much more of that all around the world because people are squeezed like they said wages are not rising and people are squeezed. well france isn't alone in europe facing discontent on the streets in belgium police have arrested around seventy people trying to start their own yellow vests protest brussels police spokesperson said the demonstrators did not have a mission for the ground. germany's the ruling party the christian democratic union has

a new leader described as a mini miracle on a gret. was elected during a party vote on friday replacing chancellor angela merkel who is stepping down from the role after almost two decades at the helm peter oliver reports now 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 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 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 a polarized society 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 comerford gotten in well done 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. 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 initials. and it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certainty for the already tight links with france when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptical of the kremlin the chancellor merkel last week she called for russian ships coming from the sea to be barred from u.s. ports saying putin hadn't been squeaks enough to. put in pushes as far as he thinks he will get to play with and if you open the u.s. don't give a firm 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. former city you politician maximillian krar who is now in the e.u. parliament nominee for the alternative for germany party thinks the christian democrats choice of leader eliminates the as a right of center rival to his party. for every conservative in germany it is clear to see the you want to become a left liberal party but it will give what a conservative scholars germany. probably come over twenty percent in the european election. to see do you have a continue the same style as noted the steps to fundamental change to election day brought on the. new one. the silent who. comes big conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and

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then they can invade afghanistan they can invade iraq 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 bull dogs that we needed 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. russia has doubled down on its claim that the clash between russian and ukrainian ships near crimea two weeks ago was a result of a deliberate provocation by bring you up to speed on that after a break this is. hope

is a point spread political allegation that it's almost well meaning if any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled a populist isn't all politics populism of some sort or another. putting back in place order. dr vision between northern ireland. economic consequences as 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 and social activity in the us to see how to stop them. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back this is our two international security services have been speaking about the quote provocative nature of the ukrainian ships involved in clashes in the carriage strained two weeks ago they gave more details on the incident that almost sparked a conflict between the two nations on the crimean peninsula as our. expense. russia's f.s.b. coast guard hold a briefing here in moscow where the course of events that took place in november the twenty fifth was outlined in details of the f.s.b. you called this incident a clear provocation and a very dangerous one however it added that incidents of such sort happened before on a numerous occasion in the past two years now russia's f.s.b. coast guard aside the proper procedures and rules for passage haven't changed and

before there's been no misunderstanding. it's necessary to stress that the rules of passage through the cook strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by both russian and ukrainian ships the abscess be goes gars so that there were ammunition and weapons found on board of the arrested ukrainian vessels that exceeded the standard load and also documents that said that that should have been a call for an op when 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 pass through the cut straight end of quote you can make your own conclusion. russian court issued a decision ordering that all of the twenty four ukrainian servicemen arrested and

the incident be held in custody for two months while the investigation is underway all of the men who were accused of trust passing ukraine calls this an act of aggression russia's f.s.b. says that the country is trying to picture servicemen as prisoners of war as they do immigrants just on 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 on. it's in the states and. some new information was also revealed at the briefing regarding zose onboard of the rest of ukraine and vassals russia's f.s.b. said that the residents of the ukrainian city of dawn yanek them saying that he had recognized one of the ukrainian security service man who was on board of the vasella as a person who allegedly tortured him all and now this whole operation was called to

be an outrageous provocation that endangered over eight hundred civil ships stations at the port. and just to remind you ukraine says its ships were intercepted while sailing through international waters and that it notified russia of the ship's passage for its part moscow denies receiving any notification from ukraine and says the ships intentionally ignored orders to stop russia also says the vessels were following direct orders from the ukrainian government. the chinese foreign ministry has warned of canada that it could face serious consequences if it fails to release of the chief financial officer of smartphone giant who always making wango was arrested in vancouver last weekend at america's request and now faces extradition to the u.s. and the u.s. alleges she violated its sanctions on iran china however is demanding her immediate

release and has called the detention a violation of her human rights beijing has also summoned of a canadian ambassador over to view over the case independent political analyst bruno told us that he believes the arrest could be politically motivated. i think united states uses the u.s. sanctions against countries is in order to. apply these very rules so it can arbitrate who. can control competition and in fact many u.s. companies have used the same system as you know a way in other words shell companies based elsewhere allow them to trade with iran one of the things that the u.s. wants negotiate is the rules over technology abuse or use by the chinese so that they might the deal discussed in. between c. jinping and trump has not been signed yet so it perhaps hopes to use

this current issue a quote the how a card to force more concessions out of chinese companies the chinese government over the use of technology in the demand that companies doing business in china share their technology. that does it for me i'll be back in about month say thirty three and a half minutes for the full of two news you are watching our two international schools. responding in this hour the need. arise how the powder but. yeah as this stuff. you know going to employ is going to go somewhere. bring your brother the most almost the whole cd i mean look if you get the thumbprint you know has it funny but it was you tell a million. four hundred ten days right on the bank

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sick. i mean real news group. max kaiser this is the kaiser report oh g. twenty time g. twenty time question is offered are we globalize ing a digital blood thing dollar rising the dollar rising let's get some more details from stacey 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 the sense that the events we're witnessing in the world whether it's the economic crisis the global financial crisis the war on terror all this stuff is really about a disintegrating empire it's not unique there have been many disintegrated and disintegrating empires throughout history and this is just another time. every single company all sorts of businesses industries corporations rise and fall and this is what we're going through but at the g twenty. you know it was very awkward g twenty because there are all sorts of trade wars and. was hoping to get out of there and anyway right before the g. twenty china's ambassador to the us a warrant that the lessons of history show trade wars can lead to catastrophic shooting wars this is something you and i of course.