subscribe to but people also give already comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. mass rioting sweeps across france in a fourth weekend of so-called yellow vest protests as thousands of police officers backed by armored vehicles fail to keep

a lid on the violence. a trade round turns its focus to telecommunications as china calls the u.s. detention request for while ways finance chief vile in nature warning canada it will face consequences if she isn't released and one of the big stories to shape the week. our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order washington outlines its vision for the world its questions the relevance of key international organizations and also threatens to scrap a major nuclear treaty with russia of alleged noncompliance something mosco strongly rejects. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly here on arsing international bringing you all the latest on

a roundup of the stories that shape the week great to have you with us. or first armored vehicles moved through the streets of paris on saturday for the first time in more than a decade as more violence hit the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vest movement's thousands of security officers attempted to use tear gas to disperse the crowds but buildings were vandalized as demonstrators wreaked havoc in a fourth consecutive weekend of unrest. thank you. thank us for it what began as local protests over fuel price hikes has apparently turned

into a nationwide uprising against emanuel mccrum his government is not only people in high visibility yellow vests who are showing their frustration the anger has spread with paramedics in paris and high school students across the country joining rallies trying to do penske has been following events for us. as you can see there is sounding there so i are insane just on the plus still a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change in france it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now are just so i rich ambulance service in france will collect patients and their drivers are concerned that that could threaten their jobs in the future we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything will be here until the end .

last night the elisei government and hence it will be cancelling that increase in the fuel tax just as i was off to the french prime minister had gone to the national assembly to say that it would be suspended for six months the president may have hoped the u. turn on fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it hasn't it only seems to have intensified it with truckers and foam is our new students now taking their concerns to the streets. once you close you down i consider my home to be a president who's against social rights who's trying to deconstruct the welfare state was all the he's clearly implementing policies for the rich because he's the president of the rich we want a president of the poor a lawsuit

a president who prioritizes the common interest as well. thousands of people have once again come out to protest and there are many demands that they will the government to meet i believe last week there are about five thousand six hundred police officers here this weekend eight thousand in paris alone they go more to gas they're being deployed. oids at those protesters are trying to clear them out of that street where they would causing damage around us just took a look at this this tear gas going everywhere we've also heard 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. very close to us the a. 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 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 things are being 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 armored vehicles on the streets of paris the first time since two thousand and five 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 quite large the idea it's not meant to have see go through 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.

meanwhile french champagnes have slammed what they are calling the unacceptable and humiliating police treatment of student protesters on thursday i'll start a video emerged of detained students in a paris suburb being lined up and forced to their knees france's education minister has. condemned the footage following the most violent riots in paris in decades president mccrone bowed to public pressure and abandons the field tax reforms that ignited the unrest but the process have already gone beyond just fiscal policies writer and political analyst eric von hagens sais that most french people don't think president mccrum is the man to solve the crisis we have to find a political solution and it's to political fors is which begins to do and i'm not sure that emanuel is a good idea of what to do and i'm not sure that you will be

a good man dry to man the dr because a lot of people in france consider that he's not able to lead the country. of all the people in front of all citizens and you can see during the two years demand of minority of to reach which is a symbol in france offer is breakdown was jurist of the people. or so this we russia raised the alarm of the u.s. threats to pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow on tuesday saying it may trigger washington's further withdrawal from other significant international accords the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that washington is threatening to abandon was signed in the final years of the cold war production of shorter and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pax but the u.s.

now claims russia is producing weapons in violation of that agreement it gave russia sixty days to comply or else washington will start pulling out of the deal. moscow says it's in compliance with the treaty and quote the us knows it meanwhile washington this week laid out his vision of the world and its mission to reestablish the world's liberal order and also question the relevance of many other international agreements and organizations artie's more aghasi of explains. it is time for change time for the old ways to die for a new undisputed leader a new american world order our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order the central question that we face is that is the question of whether the system as currently configured as it exists today and as the world is this today doesn't work does it work for all the people of the world

the old ways are out of date united nations is useless incompetent the i.m.f. is obsolete european union pointless all these international organizations union's treaties and agreements they only hinder america a tie its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound when we all be better off if we just let america rule american tends to leave now and always the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty russia is violating it says america others aren't bound by it it holds limits limits the united states and washington's policy requires it seems more nukes big nukes foster nukes one country in the world is bound by the i.n.f.

treaty us china is not bound by iran has an extensive b.m. capability that but we have global responsibilities in asia and the middle east we have to be responsive to their terms international democracy has failed alliances have failed asians cannot tell right from wrong everyone wants a say but why let them a new longer know what's good for them america is good for them this is what president trump is doing here's why. turning the united states to its traditional central leadership role in the world and so it seems we enter a new age in the age where might makes right without all the fluff and lip service to partnerships and equality the old world order is dead welcome to a new american age former u.s.

diplomat jim joshua's believes that pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty would also undermine u.s. relations with europe i think it's quite likely the us will pull out of this treaty i think the the end of the story that just to finish and my fear were guarding the europeans and how it will affect our relationship with them is they simply do not have the courage or the the strength of character to say to the americans no this is bad for us this is bad for europe this in danger is our security we won't go along with this whatever trumps impulses might be to either have an agreement with the russians and as well as with the chinese to have a better relationship that he has a national security team that is entirely composed of the wrong people and what they want to do is to put russia into an untenable security position and this is simply one more rock they can throw at moscow and they don't really care with the consequences are that is what my fear is here. that chinese foreign ministry has

warned canada evident could face serious consequences if it fails to release the chief financial officer of smartphone giant huawei among one joe was arrested in vancouver last weekend at america's request and now faces extradition to the u.s. currently in jail for the weekend next herring will be on monday artie's that donald's quarter has the details. the week began with a worldwide sigh of relief at a potential cease fire in the us china trade war but it wasn't long until washington and its canadian allies crashed the party this arrest can be used as a leverage in negotiations on trade with china it asserts that between two thousand and nine and two thousand and fourteen huawei used to shell company called sky com to break u.s. sanction laws around exports to iran this is a message from the united states a warning shot action typically reserved for drug lords and arms dealers not corporate executives men one jews the c.f.o. and daughter of the c.e.o.

at wal way one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies so why target her while the company has been on the u.s. is hit list since twenty twelve mostly for allegedly stealing american technology and this time canada says one jew is being extradited to face charges of fraud in trying to swerve around u.s. sanctions on iran but the company claims it follows all the rules and the chinese foreign ministry had fighting words for the west calling the move extremely disgusting unreasonable and a serious violation of one jew's legal rights they demanded her immediate release china's strong candidate to immediately release the detainees person and honestly protect their lawful legitimate rights otherwise kind of domestic sets full responsibility for the serious consequences caused but the canadian prime minister wants everyone to be clear this was done by the book no pressure nada but i think

you assure everyone that we are a country of an independent judiciary and the appropriate authorities to the decisions in this case without any political involvement were interference as must be the case and while the arrest was being carried out the u.s. and chinese leaders were tucking into a. couple argentinian stakes at the g. twenty in point to cyrus their dinner diplomacy was supposed to fix their months long trade war but trump's national security adviser john bolton later admitted he had advance warning of the arrest i knew in advance this is something that we get from the justice department in these kinds of things happen with some frequency we certainly don't inform the president on every one of the there is the crazy up and down of the tensions with china one day we're on the verge of a breakthrough the next day with threatening one another again the next day we're

friends the next day we arrested the executive in canada and the biggest problem about all of that is the uncertainty of this kind of crazy uncertainty may be good politics for him but it's crime goes up the economic lifeblood of the united states let's be clear what's being done year if the united states wants the rest of the world to behave according to what we want we are inviting every other country to put sanctions on whoever they don't like and then we can all be able to trade with anybody for fear that some government somewhere is going to punish us arrest our executives this is a kind of nationalism gone crazy and that is worrying both american investors and the rest of the world still to come a sixty papers released in germany and strikes teachers in kindergartens how to identify and deal with kids from five right families we have the chance for you and more fight off the plane.

putting back in place a hard border accentuation dr vision between northern ireland. has 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. to see how to shop to. welcome back now a guidebook for kindergartens in germany about how to tackle rightwing sentiment has provoked the wrath of parents they claim it only encourages children to spy on the pace all of a takes up the story it's the season of goodwill to all of. the. right there were thoughts on throwing the phones and checking emails it was moved on to racism and received around four hundred fifty hate calls in the first forty

eight hours threatening things like terrorist attacks we haven't counted the exact number of emails but it was around five hundred so what is this all about the organization with the blessing from the german government has produced a brochure for kindergarten teachers and parents designed to tackle right ideology what to do if a child draws swastikas in class and says they do this that hard. what to do if it's teacher is active on the far right see these are the types of situations and suggestions on how to deal with them addressed in the sixteen page guide why all the hate against it some of the information has rankled to say the least with far right blogs as well as mainstream conservatives a scenario as described where a kindergarten how to deal with children of parents involved with the far right the go away is dresses in braids and the boy faces physical challenges and takes part in drills so i want to devise do you think was given to kindergarten stuff have

a face to face with the parents it should be made clear to what extent all thora tarion in gender stereotypes are renting styles limit the many possibilities of children and complicate their development some were rattled by the advice quiting the wearing of dresses and braids with membership of the far right i find it unbelievable that a taxpayer funded brochure identifies girls wearing braids and clothes as potentially nationalist the family minister should have his booklet recalled and revised as soon as possible the anti immigration alternative for germany party seized on the backlash accusing me and geo of promoting secret police methods the ngo denied the allegations saying it didn't mean to cast a shadow on how kids and dressed and also added that the brochure was well received by professionals this is based on true cases transform long term counseling work which teachers have asked for help dealing with nationalist families on doubted leave the organization behind this brochure and the german family ministry the best

of intentions here however in a country where most people still remember the g.d.r. asking teachers to look out for certain political motivations could prove problematic peter all of her off the bill is. a classic christmas song has seemingly been left out in the cold to this festive season. baby it's called outside was first released back in the one nine hundred forty s. but has now been dubbed inappropriate in the age of hashtag me too it's been dropped by radio stations across the u.s. over its lyrics about a man attempting to persuade a woman to spend the night with him. looks well no no no. i'm going to say that i. really don't. know the track was first recorded for the hollywood film neptune's daughter in one

nine hundred forty nine and it quickly became a hit winning and also the following year scores of artists have covered it since me so activists say the lyrics normalise manipulate manipulative and coercive behavior however others point out that many other songs would be dropped too if the same rules are applied baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song i'm glad people are finally realizing this here is your annual reminder that baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song they won't play baby it's cold outside because it implies rape but they can play this horrible rag music that talks about sex drugs shooting people it's true these other holiday songs must also be removed as are fanciful as well i saw mommy q since santa claus subject to minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male. he's daniel hawkins put the issue up for

debate asking whether classic culture is incompatible with modern values. if this is something that is creating such an uproar we can't ignore it and also maybe it's reflecting that things need to change and that. maybe maybe things have maybe christmas carols also. has to evolve with our society there are a lot of important issues right now and when we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean we're painting a message that mates who has just become unhinged in going after these christmas songs from the one nine hundred forty s. which yes was a different era but frankly nobody nobody has cared about and so the meter movement wants to stay wants to stay current and relevant and i think that we need to focus on the main issues the biggest issues and stay away maybe from some of the lesser things like some of these christmas songs i think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry the argument that maybe this is a little bit overkill. i think you have to look at that and see kind of what is behind

that and what's behind it is you know women want relief women who want change women want their voices heard reading into the lyrics of the song and also some of. it is a been i've been reading about this it's very interesting to see the different as you said it's really a question of interpretation is that it could be taken in different ways i mean i think if you're. a survivor of rape you're going to interpret it that way as a date rape song i think most people are going to study that it's from the one nine hundred forty s. and you know you could make an argument this is that this is a woman who several to celebrating for the actuality and it's really a flirting again and i missed it and i understand and i do understand both sides of this argument i just see really the need to focus on on some of the bigger issues i understand that they're women that are survivors of rape and i do understand the argument i understand the side where we have to look at everything we have to understand because it's way if women are truly angry about this and then there must

be something to it but at the same time you know i. want to see a woman who can stand strong who can look at the sun and say you know that's not going to bother me i know what my boundaries are i know when to leave for me i feel like it's almost a step back to see all this rage and anger over that where i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back there in those in that time that that kind of sucks for back then but we are we are now and we're going to have a voice. peace talks on yemen got underway in sweden on thursday with news of a prisoner exchange there near four years of civil war have pushed the country to the brink of the world's worst humanitarian crisis we spoke to the president of the international committee of the red cross who says both humanitarian and political measures should be taken to result of the bitter conflicts. talks in sweden we do hope that we manage the international community manages to draw a pathway to or more peaceful revolution in yemen what is certainly true is that

humanitarians by their own cannot fix the situation in which yemenis to be disease one of the most dire humanitarian situation we have seen people have been dying not only from the direct attacks and the direct impact of war but in particular also from the destruction of infrastructure from the destruction of hospitals of water systems. disease and indeed a very dire situation which can only be fixed if a political solution is found and there is a slight. a light at the end of the tunnel may be. but yemen isn't the only country in the region suffering a humanitarian catastrophe in syria over thirteen million people are in need with six million internally displaced and in afghanistan the u.n. says over sixty million people are in need a third of them are children where it crossed president peace and more again says

the organization is doing what it can in both countries. priorities in syria definitely. have access to as many people displaced within syria tool support. as ever we can deliver a basic human need assistance in terms of water or health services services. many within syria are still displaced and we tried to contribute to destabilise ation. our largest operation worldwide where we are active in the whole of the country in all the provinces we have more than eleven outfits in afghanistan we are responding to people displaced we are responding to populations in need in all parts of the star we have been worried

over the last couple of years to see how much the civilian population but not only the civilian population also militaries are exposed to enormous amounts of casualties we see people. really heavily affected by the i.c.r.c. has one of the most multifaceted humanitarian the response program in afghanistan which we try to continue in the future now if you have something to say to herr eight thirty get in touch by following media and even all the comments that will be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines and more from the weekly. more make this manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling

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