the. spirit. of. the law. the fourth weekend of mass writing sweeps across france as thousands of police officers backed by armored vehicles failed to keep a lid on the violence. our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order. washington outlines its vision for the world

questioning the relevance of key international organizations and also threatening to scrap a major nuclear missile treaty with russia over alleged noncompliance charge that moscow strongly rejects. exactly years since a rock proclaimed the defeat of ice in the country but the humanitarian crisis remains among the most volatile in the world nonetheless according to the norwegian refugee council. hello good evening welcome to the weekly we're not international look back at the stories that made headlines for the past seven days live from h.q. in moscow here is kevin knowing with you things for companies to say first than vehicles move through the streets of paris on saturday the first time that's happened in more than a decade as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vests move. there were more than seventeen hundred arrests

as thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds but despite their best efforts as you're about to see demonstrators wreak havoc in a fourth consecutive weekend of on rest. was. what began as local protests of a fuel tax hike snowballed into a nationwide uprising against emanuel microbes government and it's not only people in high visual low jackets who is showing their frustration as paramedics in paris high school students across the country all have been holding rallies and skis

following events for us in france. 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 that changing france it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now you decide to reach ambulance service in france or collect patients on the drive is a concern that i could write a job so in the future we would always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything was the be here until the end. last night the elisei government and hence the would 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 thrown the u.-turn. and fuel tax hikes would have quelled the anger but it

doesn't make me seems to have intensified it with truckers foam is our new students now taking their concerns to the streets. was your cause to doubt would i consider to be a president again some clothes trying to deconstruct the welfare state. clearly implementing policies that ridge because he's the president of the rich we want a president of 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 and 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 out rubber bullets being deployed eat. very close to us. 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 of cheating to confirm that. they

have been responding immediately and it's not just tear gas it's rubber bullets it's our hutu 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 it's a little bit spongy at the top the point is the need be quite large the idea it's not meant to three you like a normal bullets but if this hits you believe me this is going to hurt and it's pretty scary having these things flying all around. you. it was mean time french impedes a slum but they're calling what you see in your screens know this as civil and humiliating police treatment of student protesters on thursday so after this video came out of detained students in a paris suburb allegedly being lined up and forced on their knees from that

education is condemned the actions. following the most violent roy roy son in paris in decades munyal mccrum bowed to public pressure earlier this week and then abandoned the fuel tax for the reforms that ignited all this in the first place but the protests it seems have already gone past just fiscal policies political analyst eric ver hague told me most french people know sure their president micron's are actually capable of solving this ongoing crisis. we have to find a political solution and it's the political phases which begins today and i'm not sure that emanuel mccall as a good idea of what to do and i'm not sure that you will 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 in gentlest of all the people in france in the interest of all citizens and they consider that is the man of minority of the reaches which is

a assemble in france of this breakdown was jurist of the people of. here are the key stories that shape the week as reported from us russia raise the alarm of the u.s. threats a pull out of a key nuclear treaty on tuesday saying it may trigger washington's further withdrawal from other significant international accords the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed off in the cold wars towards the end of it production of short and medium range nuclear missiles a hit is one of them for now but the us is now claiming that russia is producing weapons in violation of that agreement that russia has sixty days to comply or else washington will start pulling of the deal for its part moscow says it's in compliance with the treaty and quote the us knows it meantime washington this week also laid out its vision for the world in its mission to reestablish the world's

liberal order it also questioned the relevance of many other international agreements and organizations as a signal correspondent word goes to you point. it is time for change time for the old ways to die time 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 as the world is this today doesn't 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 unions treaties and agreements they only hinder america tire its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound when we all be better off if we just let

america rule america intends 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 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 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 for us to please the pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty now would also undermine the u.s. relations with broader europe to. 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 in kampala 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 what the consequences are that is what my fear is here. almost in this last week exactly years since the claimed victory over islamic state the defeat of the terrorist group came a few months off to iraqi forces secured control of the major urban areas particularly the country's second largest city mosul the humanitarian situation though has remained died despite all that said as pointed out 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're also going to state that thousands of children born under islamic state rule 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 point eight million are still displaced across the country one your own 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 a total lack of services. this is why more than two hundred thousand u.n. cds are still displaced across the country and are simply unable to reach the budget or 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 exceptional and to think that millions can respond that it 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 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 discussed with iraqis in in the camps they really tell me that if you opened and. since then the islamic state. then these are still there only four or twenty eight eight million iraqis were in need of humanitarian assistance so this is not time to abandon iraq. seems such a long time ago now but back in two thousand and three a u.s. led coalition invaded iraq setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the rise of iceland the country you need to remind is a timeline of how all folded. as

the night 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.

coming up after the break the arrest of a top chinese telecom executive made big news in the wake is threatening to derail ongoing efforts to try to patch up that big a u.s. china spot on trade deal the latest on what's going to happen to that lady tomorrow right after this break.

you know world's big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very

critical time time to sit down and talk. again this is the way clear under the big stories of the last seven days let's continue that now with this one the chinese foreign ministries someone the american ambassador following the arrest of the chief financial officer of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker well way may not one jew was arrested in vancouver last weekend at washington's request if extradited no to the u.s. she could face a lengthy prison to scurry detention as it stands at the moment this weekend awaiting a hearing tomorrow. the week began with a worldwide sigh of relief at a potential cease fire in the u.s.

china trade war but it wasn't long until washington and its canadian ally 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 twenty fourteen huawei used a 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 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 argentinean 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 them 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 a year i'm but it's crying girls 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. this next story good luck you're talking on our side r.t. dot com last week a classic christmas song a civil have been left out in the cold this festive season it's called baby it's cold outside it was first released back in the one nine hundred forty s. but it's no increasingly questioned as to whether or not it's appropriate in the me two era it's been dropped to the radio stations across the u.s. over its lyrics about a man attempting to persuade a woman to spend the night with it because it was cold to have side. looks well on a no no nine there i'm all very early going to say that i try our sense of. meaning buried on of old. times change maybe that really

looked innocent then but it comes looks a bit different now maybe while the truck was first recorded for hollywood film neptune's daughter in one thousand nine hundred nine quickly became a hit winning an oscar the following year scores of artists are covered it seems me to activists say those lyrics normalised manipulative and coercive behavior though others point out on the other side of this the songs could be dropped as well if you play the same rules. 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 offensive as well i saw mommy kissin santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male. well you don't know who can do that we

put the issue of the debate asking where the classic culture is compatible these days 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 means 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 the commentators have been i've been reading about this it's very interesting to see the different take small 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 our audience 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 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 think of where we are now and we're going to have a voice you know the time changes don't let us not show wired for us historically brought in the last week report about internationally mosco you can go so it was so much more calm it's not it's twenty seven minutes past eleven in the evening it's kind of annoying saying thank you for taking those last two albums.

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