can the. mother see the. tear gas water cannons and armored vehicles and. this saturday on the fourth consecutive weekend of so-called demonstrations our correspondent is there. and here we've also how it's. being deployed each. very close.

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round of yellow vest protests against rising living costs rocked the city demonstrators set fire to cars vandalized buildings and clashed with police officers thousands of whom had been deployed in an attempt to prevent a fourth consecutive weekend. was. i. thank. my. and around ten thousand people are estimated to have protested in the french capital while police reportedly made one thousand arrests a further one hundred fifteen thousand yellow vests were also demonstrating nationwide that's despite president having ballots to public pressure and abandon

to the fuel tax increases that ignited the unrest in the first place our correspondent is in pairs. but i'm just took a look at this this to 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 leading 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 when the seans elisei today in fact there was a pool of blood a woman point i for 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 are you t 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 were 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 go who else 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 implemented 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 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've really noticed this week is in the previous weeks i believe last week there are 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 this protest is 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 rubber 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 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 have actually been caused by people from the stream 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 to swing stopping people from getting into areas before they 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 protests 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 that the moans are increasing all the 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 france those are just some of the demands and that list goes on and on and actually there. seems an official list because the jelly the yellow vests themselves are a split movement. say that the yellow vest movement is split is fractured in fact this week a new group is emerged the yellow rest of 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 movements 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 chat with the french prime minister and they in fact canceled that because they got death threats 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 the need be quite large the idea it's not meant to do you like a normal bullet but if this hits you believe me this is going to hurt and it's pretty scary having these things flying all around you. cover officers with france's anti-crime abrade were also out in force working to quell the unrest in paris they were filmed detaining demonstrators and pepper spraying at journalists and 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 versailles 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 dann mushroomed into a much different thing 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 us 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 gucci 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 be very shocked by the amount of violence it's being specially based day it will be what is needed is to get back to 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 but different no 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 did mask 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. among your 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 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 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 broadcast or you're working here in the my den i think and you remember there was a twenty four hour camera on the my done for months and months and months i mean i think if the b.b.c. and c.n.n. is wondering why or it's you've got a camera and they don't you might want to get on to them and i mean 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 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 or the or the chinese ambassador went down and did it 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 relations with twelve thousand security personnel on the streets of paris such is the degree of the problem that's the senior correspondent. crews show these pictures by could very heated see shops be looted brussels if this is being taken seriously not very much bricks coming up in their 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 it is not listening to these people it's 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 protection 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 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 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. france isn't alone in europe in facing discontent on the streets in belgium police arrested around seventy people trying to start their own yellow vests protest on saturday a brussels police spokesperson said the demonstrators that did not have permission for the rally. germany's ruling party the christian democratic union has a new leader described as a mini merkel karrenbauer was elected to during a party vote on friday replacing the chancellor angela merkel who is stepping down from the role after almost two decades at the helm party's peter oliver reports now

from berlin. anna gret will be the new leader of the christian democratic union party here in germany. fredricka 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

a nation in very polarizing times. 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 ms. may well have been 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. the new leader and what she all about the preferred choice of mrs merkel is understood

to be an internet camp counselor 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. and ports saying blood to be a prudent hadn't been squeaks enough is on the valve put in pushes as far as his things he will get to play with and if you're up in the years down given firm united's response he will continue to push president 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.e.o. politician maximillian cross who is now an e.u.

parliament nominee for the alternative for germany party thinks that the christian democrats choice of leader eliminates 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 what a conservative cause germany means you have to be evil. probably come over trend it was suddenly european election in may two thousand and t. to see do you have a continue the same style as merkel. yes the steps to fundamental change to election day brought. a new one. to silent hope to deceive you comes conservative party so there is just one remaining conservative party in germany and that's. a competitor today. from a jihad is to mastermind and bomb maker to m i six double agent on the front line

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 blog here's some of the interview which you can watch in full. 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 but that letter. will have to mostly billard as the party 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 up. because then they can invade afghanistan that kind of a that off 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. 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 sparked almost sparked a conflict between the two nations on the crimean peninsula. explains. russia's surface because 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

and in numerous occasions in the past two years now russia's f.s.b. coast guard. 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. strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by both russian and ukrainian ships the afros bigos guard 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 when you 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 conclusions 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 that servicemen as prisoners of war as 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 scope of 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 outreach is provocation that endangered over eight hundred civil ships stationed at the port. well 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 ukrainian government. israeli military says it has opened an investigation into soldiers firing tear gas at schools in the occupied west bank comes after a video was obtained by israel's newspaper apparently showing an i.d.f. soldier targeting a school building. and

there have been numerous complaints from palestinian authorities over tear gas and stun grenades being fired into school property in an earlier interview with parrots an i.d.f. spokesperson denied the incidents had ever happened he said weather conditions were to blame for the chemical smoke drifting into play. as a rule no take gas 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 when asked about this latest video the i.d.f. said they act in accordance with operational needs and regulations and of that the incident is under investigation earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to cultural studies professor saad nima based in the west bank he says the israeli military deliberately targets the facilities. the israeli troops as well as the settlers are always. having these kind of i trust these are going to schools.

and specially the schools which is within the body which. is where you are targeting these schools in particular saw the parents with their children out of the school by crime this would be a. lot of this is because they are in the area which is very close to the. and that was the aim to think over these areas they also say that so after experienced a lot of provocation and children. is that the case. i don't think that all of these you can seduce is standing in front of that reality especially in this particular case when there was some someone who you don't like video of what happened and proven that they were not already lied about the reasons and also the excuses. because there were some footage showing exactly what happened.

inside the school. the chinese foreign ministry has warned of canada that it could face serious consequences if it fails to release the chief financial officer of the smartphone giant who always bring one jew was arrested in vancouver last weekend at america's request and now faces extradition to the united states she's 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 china however has demanded her released immediately calling meng's detention an extremely nasty violation of her rights beijing's also some of the canadian ambassador over the case independent political analyst alessandro bruno told us he believes the arrest may have a political dimension to it. 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 your way in other words shell companies based elsewhere allow them to trade with iran one of the things that the u.s. once negotiate is the rules over technology abuse or use by the chinese so that they might deal discussed in. between see jinping and trump has not been signed yet so it perhaps hopes to use this card the way 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 thirty two and a half minutes that's when i will be back with a look at your headlines you are watching on to international and john thomas so glad to have you with us.

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