was. a. lot over the international in the headlines this week a fourth weekend of mass rioting swept across france thousands of police officers but failed to keep

a little move on. our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order. washington outlined its vision for the world questioning the relevance of key international and also threatening to scrub nuclear missile treaty with russia over alleged noncompliance a charge that moscow strongly rejects plus two. another maybe you could say it was exactly a year it was since a rock proclaimed the defeat of ice still in the country but the humanitarian crisis remains among the most volatile in the world according to the norwegian refugee council. over a good evening for me kevin i would hear of ten o'clock now this is the weekly back of the stories that made the headlines over the past seven days life. armored

vehicles moved through the streets of paris yesterday the first time in more than a decade this happened as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vest movement there were more than seventeen hundred arrests as thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds despite the best efforts demonstrators wreaked havoc though in what was a fourth consecutive weekend of violence. was. what began as local protests over fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against

a minimum across government but it's not only people in high visual low jackets showing the frustration it's paramedics in france is how you school students across the country who's been holding rallies to show that he's been following what's happening in front. as you can see they are sounding names so i are insane i just in the past the look on code as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change she starts it was in two to two months ago whereby hospitals now you decide to reach ambulance service in france are correct patients wanted to write a visit concerned but could write their jobs in the future we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything was the be here until the end of. last night the elisei government and hence it will be canceling that increase in the for. yuletide it's just 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 oppose the new turn on fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it wasn't it only seems to have intensified it with truckers from is our new students now taking their concerns to the streets. because you can see down that i consider my home to be a president and again social close trying to deconstruct the welfare state was all clearly implementing policies that are written because the president is the rich we want to the 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 tear gas they're being deployed at those protesters are trying to clear the much of that street where they were 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 early doing up to that festive season and here we've also had that rubber bullets being deployed each. very close to us my. tea 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 had objects pelted at them by the protesters it held back until they feel it's too much to day when one thinks of being sure and then they have been responding immediately and it's not just take us it's rubber bullets it's our who to 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 that'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 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. the time french m.p. to slumber coronel acceptable and humiliating police treatment of student

protesters on thursday after a video emerged of detained students in a paris suburb being lined up and seemingly forced of a nice there are pictures there. has condemned those actions. following the most violent riots of paris and decades that mental mccrone finally bowed to public pressure earlier in the week an abandoned the fuel tax reform person thing that ignited all this in the first place but the protests were already gone beyond just fiscal policies political analyst told me most french people now are so sure that president micron's actually capable of solving the crisis. we have to find a political solution and it's to political affairs this which begins today and i'm not sure that emanuel michael 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 the country. to rest of all the people in france in the interest of all citizens and to consider that is

the man of minority of the reaches which is a symbol in france of these breakdown was jurist of the people of. russia raised the alarm of u.s. threats to pull out of a key nuclear treaty on tuesday saying it may trigger washington's further withdrawal from other significant international accords intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in the finally is the cold war production of short and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact the us now claims that russia is producing weapons in violation of that agreement adding that russia has sixty days to comply or else washington will start pulling out of the deal while mushing the moscow says it's in compliance with the treaty and quote the us knows it meantime washington's this week laid out its vision of the world its mission to reestablish the world's liberal order those who question the relevance of many

other international agreements and organizations as a senior correspondent orgasm pointed out in the week. it is time for change time for the old ways to die child 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 exists today does. that work doesn't 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 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 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 returning 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 jefferies believes the pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty would also undermine u.s. relations with broader europe too i think it's quite likely the u.s. will pull out of this treaty i think the at 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 a consequence as our that is what my fear is here. it's been a year now since a rock claim victory over islamic states the tums flown isn't it just defeat of the terrorist group they came just a few months of the rocky forces secured control over the major in areas particularly the country's second largest city of mosul but all that said the humanitarian situation though as remained dire it seems as pointed again now by the norwegian refugee council in its latest report it says almost two million people are still displaced across the country with eight million more in need of

humanitarian aid they also state thousands of children born under islamic state rule is still unrecognized by the government we spoke earlier with a member of the aid group. iraqi security forces are still active in some parts of europe there are still operate i'm going to get rid of what is left of islamic state groups one hundred ten million are still displaced across the country one year on five hundred thousands are in panic iraqi government face tremendous challenges big country has been through this war for three years. what we need to focus on today is to ensure that millions of displaced iraqis are able to go home the need to rebuild schools the need to rebuild the hospitals. some parts of iraq are slowly recovering. like most all even if it's still heavily destroyed but other parts like

sanjoy for example are still destroyed to up to seventy percent with the total lack of of services this is why more than two hundred thousand yen cds are still displaced across the country and are simply unable to reach the budget for the country or for twenty one thousand is currently being discussed and the old planning to allocate only one percent of the budget to the river to mosul which is the city where the where the needs are the biggest and this governor it accounts to ten percent of the population of the country so it's far from being an it is indeed an except of all. and to think that millions can respond and you can respond on bombs. but not on human eternity and reconstruction. it is essential that internationally the international community community invests

as much in the country in the reconstruction and the stabilization of the country as they did in the fight against islamic states. their work is far from being done and as of today when i discuss with iraqis in in the camps they really tell me that if you opened and. since the needs of islamic state. the needs are still there only for twenty eighteen eight million iraqis were in need of humanitarian assistance so this is not time to abandon iraq. that u.s. led coalition invaded iraq back in two thousand and three setting off that whole chain of events the french led to the rise of iceland a country such a lot of times gone by so much of it under the bridge but here's a timeline of how things unfolded.

tonight i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has ended and the iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country. will take time to read a case of cancer like i said we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government.

the rest of the top chinese telecoms executive is threatening to de relatives to punch things out with the u.s. on trade that was another story that made it big in the way we covered it for you of course we'll tell you about that and everything else that when we come back to. but ninety seconds away.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow can only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. back in place order. 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 i'm looking to see how to structure.

the chinese foreign ministry summoned the american ambassador following the rest of the finance chief officer of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker well away in the wake mangan she was arrested in vancouver last weekend at washington's request if extradited to the u.s. she could face a lengthy prison now she's currently in jail this weekend seems her next hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. 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 detained 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 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 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 this kind of crazy uncertainty may be good politics for him but it's crime goes up the economic life part 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. as a world gone mad or not well to where this next story a classic christmas song you see will be left in the cold this festive season baby it's cold outside you may not remember on kona do was first released back in the one nine hundred forty s. i modeled but it now isn't being increased the question as to whether it's appropriate in the me too area very good point it's been dropped in fact because of the concern by radio stations across the u.s. over its lyrics about a man attempting to persuade a woman to spend the night with him because it's were cold or. their hair looks well. no no no i didn't write. that i'm going to say that i quote our sense of mercy my god i really don't. i guess you can see the point these days things change delay while the truck was first recorded for the hollywood film neptune's daughter nine hundred forty nine and it quickly became a hit with an oscar the following year scores of artists are coveted since me to

activists know those say the lyrics normalised manipulative and coercive behavior when you look at it like that however others point out many other songs would be dropped too that if the same rules are applied to these things that happen in the past 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 and cetera these other holiday songs must also be removed as are fanciful as well i saw mommy q since santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male artist on hawkins put the issue of the debate and asking whether classic culture is compatible with modern values these

days. 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 meta 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'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 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 and who can stand strong who can look at the song and say you know what 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 that in those in that time that that kind of sucks for back then but thank god we are where we are now and we're going to have a voice so we're different stories and conversation points to try and bring each and every day on this show who are enjoying it always going to vote as well. as a chance to have your say the comment section. what she weakly on kevin though in saying very good evening.

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welcome to the party populism it is such a popular political allegation these days it's almost lost its meaning isn't all politics of feel is an off some sort of another to discuss that i'm now joined by going at that trying to reach a politician former vice president of the norwegian parliament so how going to pleasure to talk to you thank you very much for a time like you are now you were described as a political populist long before this war became trendy. what is populism for you and isn't any democratically elected politician a populist to some extent of course you have to be of popular in those to be elected to the world populist move was used as a negative you know that's not a good politician it was a populist to me that's been the and all are good to be called a populist because basically.