ok. mum. seat of. your gas water cannons and armored vehicles that's paris this saturday on the fourth consecutive weekend of so-called yellow vest demonstrations our

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we're broadcasting live for our studios in moscow this is our international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. are there wasn't more mayhem in paris on saturday as another round of yellow vest protests against rising living costs rocked the city demonstrators set fire to cars vandalized shops and restaurants and clashed with police officers thousands of whom had been deployed in an attempt to prevent a fourth consecutive weekend of violence. god . if. that. around ten thousand people are estimated to have protested in the french capital

where police reportedly made one thousand the arrests of hundred twenty five thousand people took part in a yellow vest demonstrations across the country that's despite president micron having down to public pressure and council the fuel tax increases that ignited a correspondent in perth. brian has 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 in fact there was a pool of blood at one point after one person who seemed to have had a mouth injury where we were really trying to move back 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 have lots of people coming to be before you know you should where you goebbels but the thing is even when you get 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. in to 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 are angry 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 the much 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 fired objects pelted at them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when one of two things have been thrown at them they have been responding immediately and it's not

just tear gas it's whether 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 one of the things we've heard from some of the sunni shows is that the violence that we've seen over the last few weekends here in paris and. elsewhere in front of actually being caused by people from the extreme left and the extreme right and actually this should be shown 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 cooled and suspending 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 of the last week 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 but this is turned into something much bigger this is a spontaneous social movement in france and now the dumond's are increasing all the time the last say 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 france those are just some of the demands and that list goes on and on and actually there isn't it seems an official list because the jelly the yellow vestige of asians and selves or 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. look at it for you it's pretty big a little bit spongy at the top the point is the navy's quite large the idea it's not meant to have secrets for 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 unrest in paris they were filmed detaining demonstrators and the pepper spraying journalists

some social media users 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 kiev the protests there snowballed and eventually culminated in the toppling of the government parties kevin owen was joined in the studio earlier 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 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 as 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 in kiev who had to say going to car today going to shop are going to get you to buy their clothes you know and looking in these windows of shops they could never afford to go into and it's quite similar in france and in 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 four to europe was almost unanimously calling on the government then of president on a covert course to show restraint in these protests is to i have to say that the purpose immediately must be to see an end to violence to be very shocked by the amount of violence that's been specially based 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 then this is now no mention of restraint by french police this time no mention of maybe sanctions on france bit different very different but 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 didn't ask for that it was the west that was trying to pull ukraine out of russia's orbit so to speak 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's looking for geopolitical advantage like

nobody's trying to wrest france out of the european union or out of nato for example at the moment and another element as well that you know. emanuel my qualms relations with russia have actually been very good and if you're based here in russia or what you are russian perspective the idea that russia would 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 catch everything is going on as if this is some pretty thought through as if we've got to do with it we're just a broadcaster 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. guys wondering why ortiz got a camera and they don't you might want to get on to them having one because i mean i mean as larry king said recently c.n.n. doesn't even do journalism anymore the number of u.s. and european officials visited back then to support the protesters in twenty four to talking 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 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 is there's no reason for them to do it i mean why would the russian ambassador want to destroy relations with twelve armored vehicles eight thousand security personnel out on the streets of paris such is the degree of the problem that's the scene. they get. crews surely pictures back a very heated city shops being looted brussels if this is being taken seriously not very my breath coming up where the mind is there a kind of a feeling maybe in france the 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 in 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 reception 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 in europe of the squeeze midland's want to say that as we see more and more carbon taxes that would global warming and the kind of pressures on 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. francis into alone in europe in facing discontent on the streets in belgium place arrested around seventy people trying to start their own yellow vests protest on saturday brussels police spokesperson said that the demonstrators did not have permission for the rally. germany's ruling party the christian democratic union has a new leader described as a mini merkel and a grad bar 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 artie's peter oliver reports now from berlin. and a gret will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany she friederich 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 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 under a nation in very polarizing times it's a 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 through to committed gotten in him mrs merkel do have a history in fact it was chancellor merkel that essentially our. stood him from the c.d.u. party leadership way back when she rose to power but just who is on

a great crime kadam by with the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood to be an internet camp. known by her initials a k k and it lands assist with a small a pro european and a francophile she certain the already tight links with brands when it comes to russia she is perhaps even more skeptic from the sea to be barred from us in the ports seeing blood to be a food hadn't been squeaks enough on the part of the team pushes as far as he thinks he will get to play with and if you're ever in the us don't give a firm united 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 c.d.u.

politician maximillian cross who is now an e.u. parliament nominee for the alternative for germany party thinks the christian democrats choice of leader eliminated as a right of center 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 us what a conservative scholars germany that means so you have to be evil. probably come over twenty percent in the european election in may two thousand on t.v. to see do you have a continue the same style as noted the steps to fundamental change that action they brought means no one has to silent to deceive you comes a conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and. at last a competitor today. from a jobless mastermind and

a bomb maker to m i six double agent on the front line i mean dean spent almost a decade camped in with al qaeda switching sides to become a british intelligence by parties going underground has his incredible story of becoming disillusioned with the terrorist cause and having his cover blown hear some of the interview which you can watch in full on our two dot com that letter which was sent to bill clinton it was urging them to invade iraq and to make it a beacon for democracy and to establish american hegemony and they were just a think tank they put that letter and i will have to mostly billard as deputy seized on it seized on it and he said that they 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 pearl harbor. because 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. all right russia has doubled down on its in claiming that the clash between russian and ukrainian ships near the crimea two weeks ago was the result of a deliberate provocation scuse me by bring you up to speed on that after a short break through.

putting back in place a hard order. dr vision between northern ireland and. as 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 for people to move back and forwards there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social and social activity and locals to see how to stop them.

welcome back this is our t. international now russia's security services have been speaking about the quote provocative nature of the ukrainian ships involved in clashes in the carriage strait two weeks ago they gave more details on the incident that almost sparked a conflict between the two nations on the crimean peninsula as artie's medina collection of explains. precious 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 i rushed f.s.b. coast guard i said 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 kirk strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by both russian and ukrainian ships the abscess because guards said 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 put to put it in the first lot 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 has. the country is trying to picture that servicemen as prisoners of war but they do it in accordance 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 are not in a state of war. some new information was also revealed at the briefing regarding zose onboard of the rest of ukraine in vassals russia's f.s.b. said that the residents of the ukrainian city of dawn yanek skep produce 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 in all this whole operation was called to be an outrageous provocation that endangered over eight hundred civil ships

stations at the port 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 canada that it could face serious consequences if it fails to release of the chief financial officer of the smartphone giant who always making one jew is was arrested in vancouver last weekend at america's request and now faces extradition to the u.s. she is accused of using a subsidiary of who are way to circumvent u.s. sanctions on iran and defrauding multiple financial institutions by claiming that it was a separate company from china however has demanded her immediate release it has

called meng's detention and extremely nasty violation of her rights beijing's also summoned the canadian ambassador over the case independent political analyst alessandro bruno told us that he believes the arrest may have been a poor have at least a political dimension to it i think you are right we have some technical difficulties here. and i guess we're not going to be able to hear that grab right now but i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour stay with us you're watching international.

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