the soon to run off with a similar was in the little. of milk that got. with the fun of the cup with. the flame. would come to the play story you'd have to see. the. june. fourth weekend of massa riding 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 international organizations and also threatening to scrap a major nuclear missile treaty with russia over alleged noncompliance a charge moscow strongly rejects. and it's been a exactly a year since iraq proclaimed the defeat of i still in the country but crisis remains among the most volatile in the world according to the norwegian of refugee council. for broadcasting a lot of direct frost it is a moscow recapping the week's stories with our weekly program this is r t international. you know armored vehicles have moved through the streets of paris on

saturday the first time in more than a decade as yet more violence a group to the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vests movement there were more than seven hundred arrests as thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds despite their efforts the demonstrators wreaked havoc and a fourth consecutive weekend of unrest. it was . what began as local protests over fuel price hikes snowballed into

a nationwide uprising against amanda micron's government and it's not only people in high visibility yellow jackets who are showing the frustration paramedics in paris and high school students across the country have been holding rallies of their own artists probably the best game is following the bands for us and. as you can see this is sounding names so i ring say i just in the past in 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 reach ambulance service in france will collect patients and the dr is a concern that that could threaten their job see in the future we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything we'll be here until the end of. last night the elisei government and hence it 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 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 as any students now taking their concerns. to the streets. the. ones you cause you doubt i consider to be a president who's against social flow who's trying to deconstruct the welfare state was all clearly implementing policies that the ridge because he's the president of the rich we want a president for the poor a lawsuit a president who prioritizes the common interests while. 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 rubber bullets being deployed. 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 fired objects pelted at them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when one of two 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 water cannons and of course we have all made vehicles on the streets in paris the first time since. she says and this is a rubber bullet that's going to put it in my hands 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 the idea it's not meant to be 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. meanwhile french m.p.'s have slammed what they're calling the unacceptable and

humiliating police treatment of student protesters as happened on thursday that's after video emerged of detained students in a paris suburb being lined up and forced on their knees france's education minister has condemned the actions following the most violent riots in paris in decades and bowed to public pressure earlier in the week and abandoned the fuel tax reforms that ignited the unrest in the first place but the protests have already gone beyond just fiscal policies political analyst eric vera hague says most french people aren't certain that president is capable of solving the crisis. we have to find. a solution and it's departed to face these which begins today and i'm not sure that a man who in my can't as a good idea of what to do and i'm not sure that you would be too good men to write men need to write plays because they're not to be put in france considered that

he's not able to lead a country. of old to be putting francine jurists of all citizens and to consider that is the man of minority of the reaches which is a assembling friends office breakdown was jurist of the people. switching gears now russia raised the alarm over 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 courts the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in the final years of the cold war production and of short and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact but the u.s. now claims russia is producing weapons in violation of that agreement adding russia has 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 its vision of the world and its mission to reestablish the world's liberal order and also question of the relevance of many other international agreements and organizations as our senior correspondent. comments. 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 it is the question of whether the system as currently configured as it exists today as the world is this today doesn't work does it work for all the people of the world the old ways 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 tire 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 lead 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. sponsor's near term 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 us a diplomat jim 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 u.s.

will pull out of this treaty i think the the end of the story that just finished and my fear would of 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 with the consequences are that is what my fear is here. it's been one year since iraq claimed victory over islamic state the defeat of the terrorist group came a few months after iraqi armed forces secured control over the major urban areas

particularly the country's second largest city of mosul and humanitarian situation though has remained a dire 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 and also state thousands of children born under islamic state rule are still on recognized by the government we spoke to a member of an 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 the 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 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 yen cds 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 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 counts to ten percent of the population of the country so it's far from being an of it is

indeed an exceptional. to thing that millions can respond and you can respond on bombs. but not on humanitarian and and reconstruction. it is essential that internationally the international community competes he invests as much in the country in the reconstruction and stabilization of the country as he did in the fight against islamic states. their work is far from being done and as of today when i discuss with it 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 four or twenty eight eight million iraqis were in need of a few major ness extends so this is not the time to abandon iraq. the u.s. led coalition invaded iraq back in two thousand and three setting off

a chain of events that eventually led to the rise of ice all in the country here is a timeline of how things unfold. throughout. 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.

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up with the us on trade and got that and other stories after a short break you're watching the weekly a large international. police . join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hope it is a point 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.

place order. 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 and social activity on the list as you got to stop the. car welcome back to the week we are to international now the chinese foreign ministry has summoned to the american ambassador following of the arrest of the chief financial officer of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker while way now making one who was arrested in vancouver last weekend at washington's request if extradited to the u.s. she could face a lengthy prison term she is currently in detention awaiting

a hearing due on 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 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 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. if 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 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 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. a guidebook for kindergartens in germany about how to tackle far right sentiment has provoked the wrath of parents they claim it only encourages children to spy on them peter oliver takes up the story for us. it's the season of goodwill to all of. this. right there a thought for those on throwing the phones and checking emails at wall of germany's 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 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 what to do if a 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 it should be made clear to what extent all thora

tarion in gender stereotype or renting styles limit the many possibilities of children and complicate their development some were ruffled 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. shadow on how kids addressed and also added that the brochure was well received by professionals this is based on true cases drawn from long term counseling work which teachers have asked for help dealing with nationalist families and doubted leave the organization behind this that you haven't found the ministry the best of intentions here however

in a country where most people still remember the asking teach is to look out for certain political motivations could prove problematic for all of our off the building. i mean as parliamentary elections suggest that prime minister nichol pression younes alliance is leading by a clear margin with more than seventy percent of the vote reformist anti-corruption leader who took power after spearheading the country's peaceful revolution earlier this year had called the election years ahead of schedule he's looking to bolster his own authority and form a parliament that he says will better serve the country's interests armenia's election commission has said that turnout appears to have been just under fifty percent over half of the ballots have been counted and no serious irregularities have been observed at this point the final result is expected to be released on monday. you've been watching the weekly here on r t international be back with more

the top of the hour stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is

terrifying the is just newly that hasn't been that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. all. the welcome to all the parts populism it is such a popular political allegation this base that it's almost lost its meaning isn't

all politics all feel is a lot of stuff. or have another to discuss that i'm now a joint by going at that trying to reach a politician former vice president of the norwegian parliament so how going to it's a 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 word 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 and the world populist move used as a negative you know that was not a good politician he was a populist to me that's been an all or good to be called a populist because basically produced speaks to the average person not to the elites not through the managers and lawyers but to the i've rich citizen and the way that you talk about every citizen those citizens are actually very very

different how do you make sure that your appeal to both let's say a worker and a lawyer that takes quite a skill isn't it it's very difficult when your own television but if you are speaking in a holding speeches you meet them not together but in different groups and then i used to adopt to the people i was talking to my close on the whole was talked on if i could swear or not and you know i adopted troy to be similar so that they should think he's one of them that was my methods and that your brand of politics is to the right of such a. well if this that's how people in your right i mean saying that the progress sponsor when i was their leader was between the conservative party and the labor party took the best from the conservative party the markets are going to make sinking and the social consciousness of the labor party of east was a mixture in the middle well there is also

a layer of anti immigrant sentiment there are.