markets saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. french president emanuel mccrone prepares to break his silence on some of the most violent protests in decades with some outlets blaming social media for feeling the red. cross as foreign minister warns donald trump not to interfere in french

domestic affairs before the u.s. president tweets about the yellow vest protests and them chanting for pay him we asked people at the rally if they support the trial trump is rich a billionaire i'm just like my crew for me he's not a politician for us trying to present the very worst of our room president. a warning that sanctions could impact on the global fight against drugs as a wrong claims the economic penalties imposed by washington could see a boom in narcotics microbes and terrorism arriving in europe. belgium's colonial past comes back to haunt it sparked by the reopening of the museum of the democratic republic of congo demands the return of artifacts seized when it was a belgian colony. a

very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky arun great to have you with us this hour now our top story french president armando mccrone is expected to address the public this monday the us after yet another weekend of violent protests in paris because it was like they was left strewn with burned out cars shots of glass and rubber bullets and what was some of the worst rioting in over a decade well our correspondent in paris charlotte de bensky joins us now with more charlotte good to see you very little has been said by the french president so far but others are talking about the protests on the. yes that's right the french president has not addressed the nation o'toole in regards to the protests that have been going on for the last few weeks here in francais there was a suggestion that he might speak out last week but he decided apparently not seeing the suggestion is that he didn't want to see you lose the flames ahead of

saturday's demonstrations so we are expecting nothing addressed the nation by president michel and at some point today a snore this week and that's something that many protesters have been asking for since the very beginning we've heard from the french prime minister but norton president meant course we to again while the right thing here on the streets of paris after a fool for a weekend process there was also joyous in other cities across from hundreds of well more than a hundred thousand people who came out on the streets to once again protest against many of the policies that they were unhappy about with the michael government this is course started almost four weeks ago now as a protest about a few tax hike the french government and the elites a policy since then a u. turn and land says it scrapped that hike the next year but it's north enough for many the protesters who've been asking for a range of of the changes here in france including raising the minimum wage and

a reduction in the taxes that they pay and they say all comes at a time when president much going popularity has just been sinking lower and lower polls in the last few days suggest that it's now down to about eighteen percent well many people have been talking about the problems and why they've been protesting but apparently there is also something deeper and a couple hind this some mainstream media outlets and now suggesting that social media could be behind some of the protests right shooting them up they blaming facebook algorithms and. russian boss on twitter yet again. there's mostly been suggestions that bad actors. have this really bad residency the social media invaders but it's mark zuckerberg who is behind

their success cronies paint big time on days of glory them. plenty of articles also circulating with evidence for the russian state being behind these protests an article by bloomberg has sources from the alliance for securing democracy now it suggests that around six hundred accounts which are known for promoting kremlin views have been busy circulating information about the protest and the hash tag usually your own which is the one because your own is the french the yellow vests has been pushed by them were the times a british newspaper quotes a cyber security firm that suggests the run hundred accounts that it's a monitors have been churning out the tweets to the chin you know one thousand six hundred tweets a day i did some quick math some luck but means on average they were tweeting or retreating eight times a day doesn't seem to be significant figure to me but that that's just one

opinion but we've also been speaking to the protesters about what they think about this and actually many people have come up to us and protest over the last few weeks and said that they've been chiming in to r.t. to try and find out what's going on because they feel that the visual aid your movement yellow vest movement the issues that are being discussed on the street being discussed on charms like i was and they feel let down by what they describe as the main stream media we also know that these protests have started some international tensions as well just be of the day the french. foreign minister. trump has been tweeting about the protests in france suggesting that this is all the result of the paris climate accord so we look at what he said. the paris agreement isn't working out so well for paris protests and riots all over france

people do not want to pay large sums of money much to third world countries that are questionably run in order to maybe protect the environment chanting we want trump love france i am telling donald trump the president of the republic also told him we do not take part in america's debates leave our nation out of this. so it depends a u.s. sanctions against iran may lead to a deluge of drugs asylum seekers bombs and terrorists in the west us the warning coming from to iran is there is the economic pressure could affect its fight against drugs on his border with afghanistan the world's leading opiate supplier iran spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to curb the illegal drug trade and it's just that they takes up the story trump iran sanctions three words all a little too familiar to the world although washington aimed sanctions at tehran it's

european companies who have felt the impact although sanctions may have closed the door to your pin business says they could apparently open another to the flow of drugs. i warn those who impose sanctions that if iran's ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected you will not be safe from a daily drugs asylum seekers' bombs and terrorism in case you didn't know iran has been a barrier to a deluge of drugs coming from afghanistan. iran has a lengthy border with afghanistan the world's lot. just producer of opium destined for markets in europe and elsewhere in twenty sixteen alone the u.n. estimates that iran seized a hof a million kilos of opium iranian officials say they spent a hefty amounts on enforcement measures barriers canals fences around eight hundred

million dollars annually it says on sealing its borders to prevent the transit of narcotics and if iran contra is stopped because of sanctions well you get the picture. you don't weaken iran by sanctions many will not be safe washington claims to have the problem under control since two thousand and two has been engaged in the council narcotics program in afghanistan but get this back in two thousand and one before the u.s. intervention poppy field stretched to around seven thousand six hundred and six has fast forward to twenty seventeen and the number grows to three hundred twenty eight thousand hex says. program undertaken by the united states its coalition partners or the afghan government resulted in lasting reductions in poppy cultivation or opium production so if iran can no longer protect its borders with afghanistan a wave of drugs threatens to engulf europe and beyond another tragic consequence of trumps foreign policy hitting allies instead the effort iran is putting in fighting

drug trafficking is primarily aimed at protecting its own citizens drugs affect. million iranians nevertheless it's also bringing benefits for other countries such as the europeans as well i think with the wrong honey government is trying to do is it is trying to tell the europeans that if the. nuclear deal dies and unfortunately it seems that that is the. they cannot expect corporation on other issues such as fighting drugs in terrorism and. while drugs and terrorism impairs you on primarily but you have to remember that the also in the region as well the trans regional our research is europe. troubles brewing between belgium and the republic of congo with the reopening of a museum dedicated to central africa it was supposed to be

a new chapter in relations between the two countries but some have lashed out at the museum given belgium's brutal colonial history congolese president joseph kabila is demanding the return of items seized during that era that are on display in the museum when first established the museum was supposed to shine a light on the imperial might of belgium showcasing the best start of facts from the african continent seven congolese died there in eight hundred ninety seven after being put on show as living exhibits the museum now says its focus is more on the works of african artists but it still has thousands of items looted from the congo including the skulls of tribal chiefs despite sixty years of independence the horrors of the belgian rule are still remembered there a warning the next clip contains some disturbing consonant.

in a statement to the museum acknowledge the mistakes of the past visitors on opening day would divide it over the controversy. it's really interesting to see a cultural history i think because of the fact that the music is still managed by white people who are still in power. that it is still a wide vision. on diversity it's

a new vision of africa it's different to the one that existed when i was a child i'm going to discover it it's been seen i used to come here as a child so i'm curious to see the rain of a museum i don't feel concerned by the controversy i think it's ok that these artifacts are here in belgium a museum is a museum it allows us to see what happened. the friends of the congo advocacy group believe that in order for a new chapter to open all the looted artifacts have to be returned. to have a situation where through belgian colonialism european colonialism. they. destroyed african societies and now they're going to point where africans are making the demand they come and say well you don't have the infrastructure to accommodate the materials that we deluded in order for a new chapter to be opened the thousands of artifacts in the museum

need to be returned to the congo that's found they can advance expand the museum and. other artifacts however the primary concern is the return of the cultural legacy of the africans. artist documentary on how colonial rule has impact on the african country will be playing throughout the day you can also watch congo my precious any time online at our website r.t. dot com. no young boy and devoted fan of football star little missy has been forced to flee his home for the second time after threats from the taliban the group confronted this seven year old when he went viral for his homemade messy shirts made from a plastic bag but the boy's family now fears for his life after his fame has caught unwanted attention. that was pushed it was that was it was it's just sit on.

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for common ground the. it. welcome back it's been a year since iraq declared victory over islamic state the defeat of the terrorist group kemah few months after iraqi armed forces secured control of major urban areas particularly this country's second largest city mosul the humanitarian situation though remains dire as pointed out by the norwegian was still displaced across the country with eight million more in need of humanitarian aid they also say thousands of children born under islamic state rule are still on recognized by the government we spoke with a member of the aid group. i am iraqi security forces are still active in some parts of iraq there are still operate i'm going to get rid

of what is left of his home state group one hundred ten million are still displaced across the country one year on five hundred thousands are in panic only for twenty eighteen eight million iraqis were in need of humanitarian assistance 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 spittles i am 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 service is the budget for the country for for twenty one thousand is currently being discussed and the overwhelming to allocate only one percent of

the budget to the river to mosul which is the city where that where the needs are the biggest and this governor eight accounts to ten percent of the population of the country so it's far from being and of god. it is essential that international the international community community invest as much in the country in the record friction and in the stabilization of the country as they did in the fight against islamic states it is indeed an exception all and to think that millions can respond to it generally spend on bombs but not on human eternity and reconstruction their work is far from being done and as of today when i discuss with iraqis in in the terms they really tell me their lives. and since then the islamic state so this is not the time to have been to new york. the ruinous three year long civil war broke out in iraq in twenty foreseen the rise of islamic states

due to the country to suffer the terrorists dominance has a timeline of how things unfolded. will take time to read a cure cancer like i said we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government.

for. the killing of a mentally disabled palestinian man in the west bank has once again bulls the actions of israeli defense forces into question a video of the incident has appeared a partly showing him being shot in the head the following images are disturbing twenty two year old mohammed ali can be seen lying face down bleeding he was pronounced dead later in hospital hundreds attended his funeral in the west bank we spoke to his parents about the tragedy. it was on the way home from work and happened to come across some israeli soldiers he was then shot and the bullet hit between his eye and his nose you could see that his eye was swollen it said that he

was shot from far away but we saw on the t.v. that the three israeli soldiers shot him at close range. into the heart of that we got a call saying that had been shot and is now in hospital his father rushed there only to find he was already dead. my son was not related to any political faction he was a very simple person due to his mental disabilities. israeli defense forces say soldiers were responding to dozens of palestinians who were hurling rocks they used to riot disposal means and live fire they get to comment further on the incidents but they say they have launched an investigation israel it regularly raids the west bank searching suspects wanted for terror attacks or illegal weapons possession last year over a thousand palestinians were arrested and twenty eight killed here are some previous cases.

of the local. mohammed father has been devastated by the killing of his son and opened up to us about his loss and who he thought was to blame. almost gone we don't need the israelis claim that they have been investigating the three soldiers who shot him but i have no idea if the investigation will continue he's a big loss to everyone he was special and different all his brothers he was my right arm and help me with everything i want to repeat that the israeli army bears full responsibility for the death of my son. well they would all say we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so you do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving all your comments there will be back at the top of the

hour with the latest headlines see them. join me every first week on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race on all sides very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down

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minutes of not there. on the covered with the plane. would come back to the place story you had to see. you. i am delighted to my best wishes as celebrate the seventy seventy first city of one of the most exceptional documents ever conceived universal declaration of human rights i've seen on the seventieth anniversary of the un declaration of human rights were going underground for british based chile to the saudi war on yemen on the ever growing history of britain's secret human rights abuses for this going

underground special i'm joined now by one of the world's great chroniclers of anglo-american secrecy and lies the author of secret affairs britain's collusion with radical islam and the great deception anglo-american power and world order and many other works mark thanks so much for coming on just before we get to the seventieth anniversary of the un declaration predictable that there was almost universal media derision and political derision and jeremy corbyn for raising poverty instead of the important issues like breaks it only important tourism liver really doesn't surprise me of korban received a lot of criticism for that because he's raising an important issue and it has to be said much of the british media and lot of british parliament don't seem to like important issues actually being raised in public they seem to be much more content often with debating fairly marginal issues rather than issues of real public importance i mean for example where is the the. real outrage and accountability for the prime minister over war crimes in yemen at the moment for example why is there

not very much attention on that in the political scene or in the media scene i would have thought that that is an absolutely fundamental issue in terms of britain's role in the world in terms of how we interact with people around the world and you know that complicity in more crimes in yemen is simply not being addressed to anything like the level it should be and we have to ask ourselves a question why not what is it about our political and media system that doesn't focus on the really important issues to be fair there has been some media attention i think you would recognise but this on the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration. often says it's a low key phrase usual that had the international rules based order which britain is a promoter what would you say the u.k. has report card of his of and yours is today well it's exceedingly poor my view looking at the going through the declassified files looking at the evidence on british foreign policy over the last seventy eighty years since the end of the

second world war is that britain is a systematic violator of human rights of the un principles is a systematic supporter of repressive regimes systematic promoter of wars and i think that this is being largely kept from the british public. you can go right the way back to the late one nine hundred forty s. when britain was engaged in of really brutal war in malaya terror bombing vast areas of a war which has been described as a kind of liberation for the for the malayan people right the way through to the current war in in yemen and many episodes in between i think highlight the fact that britain is not a promoter of human rights and not a not holder of international principles it is a serial violator of them and it's easy to find this out actually doesn't it's not rocket science to actually find out what britain is doing but it is largely kept from us i think by need.