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is to reassert our sovereignty of the liberal order washington vision for the world questioning the relevance of. nuclear missile treaty with russia over alleged noncompliance something that strongly. but nonetheless the humanitarian crisis remains among the most. according now to the no we. pay good morning welcome to the wake. of the stories that made the headlines from us over the past seven days live from. the first. an armored vehicles moved through

the streets of paris on mass saturday the first time in more than a decade that's 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 but despite their best efforts as you're about to see demonstrators wreak havoc in a fourth consecutive weekend of unrest. the to. cut. cut. cut. what began as a local protests over fuel tax hikes snowballed into

a nationwide uprising against a man who micron's government and it's not only people in high visual jackets so in their frustration it's paramedics in paris it's high school students across the country all holding rallies charlotte due bensky literally was in the thick of it covering it all for us in france. 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 you decide to reach 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 of 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 he is clearly implementing policies for the rich because he's the president of the rich we want to president for 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. ojt at those protesters are trying to clear them out of the street where they were causing damage around us just check and 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. she 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 in 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 secrets for 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 and piece of what they're calling the unacceptable and humility

police treating the student protesters who are these pictures or this came out of ten students in a paris suburb being lined up and seems to be forced to the knees from says education mrs condemned the. it was following the most violent riots in paris in decades money mccrum then earlier this week to public pressure and abandoned the fuel tax reforms that was all catalyst for this in the first place on the face of it anyway but the protests it seems already gone far beyond just fiscal policies i spoke directly to political analyst eric the hague he says most french people aren't even certain that president mccrone can even solve this crisis now we have to find a political solution and it's to political faces which begins today and i'm not sure that emmanuel 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. jurist

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 assemble in france offer this breakdown was jurist of the people. more the big stories of the last seven days russia raised the alarm over u.s. threats to pull out of a key nuclear treaty up on choose day this saying it will 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 this pact but the u.s. no claims russia is producing weapons in violation of the greenman adding that russia has sixty days to comply or else washington will start pulling out of the deal now moscow says it is in compliance with the treaty and quote the us knows it

meantime washington this week laid out the vision of the world as it sees it and its mission to reestablish the world's liberal order and also question the relevance of many other international agreements and organizations as our senior correspondent word goes d of points at. 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 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 had america rule american tends to lead 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. turning 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. former u.s. diplomat jim judd triss believes that pulling out of the i have treaty could also undermine u.s. relations with broader europe too. i think it's quite likely the us 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 iraq they can throw at moscow and they don't really care with the consequences are that is what my fear is here. in the week one year since of rock claim victory over islamic state the defeat of the terrorist group came a few months off iraqi forces accused control over the major urban areas particularly the country's second largest city mosul the humanitarian situation that despite all

that said has remained dire in the last year as pointed out by the norwegian refugee council in the 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 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 they're still operating i'm going to get rid of what is left of his home state group one 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 to rebuild schools the need to rebuild all spitballs

are and. 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. of the service is this is why more than two hundred thousand u.n. cities are still displaced across the country and are simply unable to reach or the budget for the country or for twenty one thousand is currently being discussed and the only landing to allocate only one percent of the budget through the route to most school which is the city where the where the needs are the biggest and this governor it counts to ten percent of the population of the country so it's are from being an of it is indeed an exceptional. to thing that millions can respond and it can be spend on bombs. but not on human eternity and reconstruction

i am. it is essential that internationally the international criminal community invests as much in the country in the red construction and in 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 terms they really tell me that if you opened and. since then the islamic state. then these are still there only for twenty eight eight million iraqis were in need of a few my internet systems so this is not time to abandon iraq. so much time has passed to remind you the us led coalition invaded iraq back in two thousand and three setting off that whole huge chain of events eventually led to the rise of the

country is a timeline briefly of how things unfolded. so 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. it 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 in the more of a news review of the week the arrest of a top chinese telecom executives threatening to deal well ongoing efforts to try to

touch up the big spot which in the u.s. and china on trade we've got the latest on what's facing that might lead to more infighting call right after this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. populism is such a zero point spread political allegation that it's lost 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.

putting back in place a hard border. dr vision between northern ireland. has 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 got to stop them. i get another big story the week is going into this next week as well the chinese foreign ministry summoned the american ambassador following the rest of the chief financial officer of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker wayward mang one jew was arrested in vancouver last weekend at washington's request now if she's extradited to the u.s. she could face a lengthy prison and another big spot will be coming out of that no doubt she's currently in detention awaiting a hearing juhu 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 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 right 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 if you assure everyone that we are true independent judiciary and the appropriate authorities took the decisions in this case without any political involvement of the 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 advisor 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 of 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. now this next little story got a lot of people talking in the week specially on our site maybe you want to join the conversation as well you may remember the song in a classic christmas song a simile been left out in the cold this festive season it is called baby it's cold outside it was first released way back in the one nine hundred forty s. but it's now increasingly question is whether or not it's appropriate in the me to error you've probably heard it before but now here it again maybe in a different context has 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 because baby it's cold. the hair looks well

no known line there i'm only going to say that i try our sense of purity mike i really don't. see you can look at it in a very different light these days can you will that truck was first recorded for the hollywood film she was daughter back in nineteen forty nine it quickly became a hit it won an oscar the following year scores of art is a coveted since me two activists say though those lyrics normalised manipulative and coercive behavior others point out will be fueling use that kind of rule other songs world famous will be dropped if the same kind of thing applies depends how you look at it 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 these horrible ravening using the talks about sex drugs shooting

people and cetera these other holiday songs must also be removed as are fanciful as well i saw mommy kissin santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger blackmail would use turn on this will out eternal hawkers put the issue of the debate asking whether classic culture is indeed these days compatible at all 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 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 reading into the lyrics of the song and also 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 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. 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 where 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. so they also got to talking to a good book for kids to go in germany about how to tackle right sentiment provoke a raft of basically the same they claim those encouraging children to spoil peter

all of it bitterly they will get him but peter all of the unit correspondent takes the story here is. it's the season of goodwill to all and. to his. right spare a thought for those on throwing the phones and checking emails at wall of until racism n.g.o.s received around four hundred fifty hate calls in the first forty eight hours threatening things like terrorist attacks we hadn'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 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 is 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 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 trends from 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 our off the building this is the way clear out of all the week's top stories including one is happening right now in fact that we're tracking any results from i mean is parliamentary elections suggest the prime minister nicol pasha neons alliance is leading by a clear margin with over sixty percent of the vote the reformist anti corruption

leader who took power after spearheading the country's peaceful revolution earlier this year a cold.