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this is the weekly n r t international law and welcome. armored vehicles move through the streets of part. this on saturday the first time in more than a decade as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow fest movement there were more than seventeen hundred arrests thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds the spite their efforts demonstrators wreaked tell but in a fourth consecutive weekend one rest. i think i did ok but.

what began as a local protest over a fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against the money will maccollins government but it's not only people in high visibility yellow bibs who are showing their frustration part of medics in parts and high school students across the country have been holding rallies on the tube and steve has been following events for us and for us. as you can see there is sounding names so i ring say it's just in the past on a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is that changing fronts it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now you decide to reach ambulance service in france will collect patients on the drive is a concern that that could write their job so in the future we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything else will be here until

the end of. last night the elisei government and nancy will be canceling 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 to take the u. turn on fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it wasn't the only seems to have intensified it. with truckers form is our new students now taking their concerns to the streets. once you close it out i consider my home to be a president and again the social flow who's trying to deconstruct the welfare state . clearly implementing policies that the ridge because he's the president of the

rich we want a president of the or 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 at these protests is to try to clear the much of that street where they were causing damage around us just took a look at this these 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 early doing up to that festive season and here we've also had rubber bullets being deployed eat. very clearly stressed my.

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 fired objects pelted at them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when one achieve things have been thrown at them they have been responding immediately and it's not just take us it's rubber bullets it's our duty cannons and. if we have vehicles on the streets of paris the first time since she says and i'm fine this is a rubber bullet that's going to put it in my hands saying 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 be quite large of the idea it's not meant to 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. charlotte dubin ski with the report while french m.p.'s while they are calling the bill and humiliating treatment of student protesters on thursday after a video emerged detailing students are being. forced the. front says education minister results of actions well following the most of violent riots in paris and decades of. public pressure earlier in the week in the fuel tax reforms that ignited the unrest but the protests have already gone beyond just fiscal policies but it. virg sees most french people don't think president is capable of solving the crisis. we have to find a political solution and it's to political faces which begins today and i'm not

sure that emanuel my point is a good idea of what to do and i'm not sure that you would be do a good man the right man to do right place because a lot of people in france consider that he's not able to lead a country. of all of the people in france in the interest of all citizens and to consider that is demand of minority of the reaches which is a assemble in france offer this breakdown was jurist of the people and. to another big story of the week russia raised the alarm over u.s. threats to poets 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 was signed in the final years of the cold war

production of short and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact but the us now claims russia is producing weapons in violation of the agreement russia has sixty days to comply or else washington will start pulling out solve the deal. it is in compliance with the treaty and quote the us knows that meanwhile washington has this weekly its vision of the world and its mission to reestablish the world's liberal order in also question the relevance of many other international agreements and organizations. steve takes us through. 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 unions treaties and agreements the 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 are 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 they no longer know what's good for them america is good for them this is what president trump is doing he is. 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. against the will former u.s. diplomat jim justice he shared his views with us today he believes the pulling out of the f. treaty would also undermine u.s. relations not just with russia but europe i think it's quite likely the u.s. will pull out of this treaty i think the the end of the story that just finished 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 iraq they can throw at moscow and they don't really care with the consequences are that is what my fear is here. ok to a developing story no of the weak the chinese foreign ministry has one count of a that it could face serious consequences if it fails to release the chief financial officer of smartphone john and while way one was arrested in vancouver last weekend washington's request not faces extradition to the u.s. currently in jail for this weekend or next hearing is scheduled tomorrow monday. 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 hallway 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 took the decisions in this case without any political involvement or 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 steaks at the g. twenty in buenos 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 and 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 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 or executives this is a kind of nationalism gone crazy and that is worrying both american investors and

the rest of the world still plenty to come after the shores of breaks here in r t international including kindergarten teachers in germany receive instructions on how to identify and deal with children from far right families that's coming up. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to express. something wanted. to do like to be close this is like the full story of the people. interested always in the why is it. they said. it's a minutes past the four pm here in moscow this sunday welcome back a guidebook for kindergartens in germany about how to tackle right wing sentiment has provoked the rough of parents they're claiming it only increases children to spy on them peter all over as more. it's the season of goodwill to all of.

the. rights there are thoughts for those on suing the phones and checking emails it warned of germany's antti racism n.g.o.s received around four hundred fifty eight calls in the first twenty 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 far right ideology what to do if a child draws swastikas in class and says they do this at home what to do if its 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 what advice do you think was given to kindergarten stuff have a face to face with the parents 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 equating 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 interest 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 for all of her off the building. ok it's perhaps not the most serious of topics but i very well that's being talked about a lot this week a classic christmas song seemingly being left out in the cold this festive season baby it's cold outside was first released back in the one nine hundred forty s. but is now increasingly questioned as to whether it's inappropriate or not in the mean to europe it's being dropped by radio stations across the u.s. over to the ricks about a month attempting to persuade a woman to spend

a little more time with their hair looks well no no no i'm going to write very clearly that i'm going to say that i can understand something. i don't know. the truck was first recorded for the hollywood film neptune's daughter nine hundred forty nine it quickly became a hit winning an oscar the following year scores of artists have covered it since me to activists say the lyrics normalized manipulate the course of behavior over others point to its many other songs would have to drop those well at the same rules were to apply 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 want to 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 and cetera these other holiday songs must also be removed as are fanciful as well i saw in santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male. yes some interesting points being raised there n r t's during the whole contain the issue up for debate in fact asking whether cluster culture is compatible 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 trying 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 been reading into the lyrics of the song and also some some of. it is have been i've been reading about this it's very interesting to see the different news you said it's really a question of interpretation is that it could be taken in different ways i mean i think if you are. 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 am here today 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 some 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 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 i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back then in those in that time that that kind of sucks for back then but think of where we are now and we're going to have a voice. that hopes of relief on another issue not peace talks on yemen is going to weigh in sweden on thursday with news of a prisoner exchange the near four years of civil war have pushed the country to the

brink of quote the world's worst humanitarian crisis many humanitarian organizations seeing that while the president of the red cross told r.t. that both humanitarian and political measures should be taken to resolve the conflict. talks in sweden we do hope that we manage and the international community manages to draw a pathway to or more peaceful revolution in yemen what is certainly true is that you many tarion spied 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 destruction of hospitals of water systems and i think this is 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 isn't the only country in the region suffering a humanitarian catastrophe in syria over thirteen million people are need but six million internally displaced afghanistan the u.n. says over six million people are suffering severely a third of them are children the red cross presidency's the organization is doing well it can. priorities in syria definitely is to have access to as many people displaced within syria tool support. as ever we can to deliver a basic human need here in assistance in terms of water or health services services. to many within syria are still displaced and we tried to contribute to destabilise ation afghanistan is still one of 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 all populations in need in all parts of the star and 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 and the i.c.r.c. has one of the most multifaceted humanitarian response program in afghanistan which we try to continue in the future. one of the most pressing issues are very telling in focus next clean water and where to find

it over rivers starts. putting back in place a hard border. dr vision between northern ireland. economic consequences it has a lot of consequences for people particularly those who live along the border there's a lot of free movement at the moment people move back and forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity and nobody wants to see how to stop the.

spread political allegation that it's almost all meaning if any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled a populist isn't all politics populism of some sort or another.