he may be. the. subscribe to read people also get iraqi culture for just twelve euro fifty. french president emanuel mccrone prepares to break his silence on some of the most violent protests in decades with some outlets blaming bush all media for fueling the red. cross its foreign minister warns donald trump not to interfere in french domestic affairs after the u.s. president tweets about the yellow vests protests and then chanting for him we asked

people at the rally if they support trump trump is rich a billionaire and just like marco for the money is not the politician for us from prison since the very worst are really gross with. a warning that sanctions could impact on the global fight against drugs as they run claiming the economic penalties imposed by washington could steal food and narcotics migrants and terrorism arriving in europe. and belgium colonial past comes back to talk born to bomb by the reopening of a museum the democratic republic of congo demolished the return of the artefact to see what it was a belgian calling. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me thank you alan great to have you with us now our top story

this hour the french president a man whom a crowd is expected to address the public this monday i saw after yet another violent weekend of yellow vest protests in paris parts of the city center were left strewn with burned out cars that shattered glass and rubber bullets and what was some of the worst rioting in over a decade artie's that shallow dubin ski reports from the french capital. well but address to the nation is eagerly awaited by many yellow vest protesters who've been asking for president mccone to speak to him directly since the start of peace process back on november seventeenth this will be the first time that he will have to directly address many people wondering what he will say and what he might also them as a way to appease some of the tensions in the requests from those processes but we've also been hearing from the french finance minister who's described these protests that have been going on for the last four weekends as being an economic

catastrophe with france with french economic growth being reduced boy zero point one percent as a result of them now we have also been hearing while we've been describing these protests as being a spontaneous social needs and so for the last three weeks there is in fact something think behind it it's social media mainstream media outlets now suggesting that facebook algorithms could be to blame for spreading these protests around twitter yesterday's pesky russian bought their act it again with some two hundred accounts retreating or tweeting one thousand six hundred times a day to put that in context that's on average a tweet three tweets per account saturday i think that tweeted at least twelve times so it's not a huge of the french authority cup that they launch an investigation in to this alleged interfering by a russia once again but they said that they won't speculate as to the results of

that until that investigation is ended that's according to the foreign minister who's also taken out to hit out against donald trump after he sent this tweet on saturday 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 debate leave our nation out of it. don't trump say that it's we the people on the streets of france and in paris which own thing we want trump well we didn't hear anything such like that but we decided to ask the protesters if they did indeed want trump even to leave. the

french one revolution they don't want mccrone they want him and the french government to resign. no i don't want or micro it's dangerous i'm not sure who is worse trump is rich a billionaire and just like micro for me he's not a politician no one in france would have voted for trump for us trump represents the very worst of our own president we want. you power in france some feel. about equality and we've balanced system something like that. we have a kid and we don't want a king anymore it seems the protesters don't want trump more today he won't. and many will be waiting with bated breath to see what the president will say to the country this evening will i quote tensions we won't know the social tensions that the protests are continuing today in france and yellow best said out again in

force this weekend they describing as life. altering paris. some outlets suggest social media is the driving force behind these riots and not french press corps policy they have also been suggestions that bad actors are stirring up this part where little bots whether it's the social media or invaders as this scene and many many other instances of elections and other such things this whole thing has been revved up on the social media can you imagine how this a pupil hundreds of thousands in the streets every day don't forget we've got these massive demonstrations on saturdays but every day in thousands of villages and towns across the country we've got demonstrations i think this is totally irresponsible this is preposterous this is incredible that they even do say this

they're so disconnected the french elite and the western elite the they don't assume the responsibility the have to they have to do some super nanny and find a scapegoat and at the end of course this is it is always the case today when there's a problem the worst then they have to blame at one point russia this is ridiculous and nobody believes that in france today besides maybe a couple people around macro. u.s. sanctions against iran may lead to a deluge of drugs a phylum think as bombs and terrorists in the west that's the warning coming from toronto it says the economic pressure could affect his fight against drugs on the border with afghanistan the world's leading opiate supplier iran spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to curb the illegal drug trade hellacious that they take that 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 all those sanctions may have

closed the door to european businesses 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 use of 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 feel he is. iran has a lengthy border with afghanistan the world's largest 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 come to a stop because of sanctions well you get the picture. you don't weakening 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 accounts in our caustics program in afghanistan but get this back in two thousand and one before the us 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 has. program undertaken by the united states its coalition partners or the afghan government resulted in lasting reductions in poppy cultivation were opium production so this. iran can no longer protect its borders with afghanistan a wave of drugs threatens to engulf europe and beyond another tragic consequence of trump's foreign policy hitting allies instead the effort iran is putting in

fighting drug trafficking is primarily aimed at protecting its own citizens drugs effect for two million iranians nevertheless it's also will bring 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 in unfortunately it seems that that is the. not expect even for gratian on other issues such as fighting drugs in fighting terrorism and while drugs and terrorism empower iran primarily but we have to remember that they also in the region as well the trance we do our research is europe. trouble 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 mights of belgium showcasing the best artifacts from the african continent seven congolese died there in eighty ninety seven after being put on show as a living exhibit the museum now says it focuses it focuses more on the works of african artists but it still have thousands of items looted from the congo including the skulls of tribal chiefs despite sixty years of independence the horrors of belgian rule out. still remember there a warning the next clip contains some disturbing content.

in a statement the museum acknowledged the mistakes of the past visitors on opening day were divided over the controversy is that it's really interesting to see a cultural history i think because of the fact that the regime is still managed by by white people who are still. that it is still a wider vision. on the group maybe 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 just when you think i used to come here is a child so i'm curious to see the innovative museum i don't feel concerned by the child or see how much 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 of the looted artifacts have to be returned. have a situation where through colonialism european colonialism. destroyed african societies and now 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 now it's found they can advance expand the

museum and other are other artifacts however the primary concern is the return of the cultural legacy of the africans we can watch a special report on how colonial rule impacted the african country in about fifty minutes time and you can also watch congo my precious at any time online at our website r.t. dot com. i am boy and devoted fan of football star little messy has been forced to flee his home for the second time after threats from the taliban the group confronted the seven year old when he went viral for his homemade messy shirt 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 back out.

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what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to be cross it's like the fourth freedom or people. interested in the why. putting back in place a hard border accentuation dr vision between northern ireland and. has economic consequences that 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 going forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity i know you've got to stop to.

come back it's been a year since iraq to collide a victory over islamic state to defeat all the terrorist group came a few months off to a rocky armed forces secures control of major urban areas particularly the country's second largest city mosul the humanitarian situation there remains as pointed out by the norwegian refugee council and its latest reports it's there is millions on displaced across the country many of them are in need they also say thousands of children born under islamic state still on recognized by the government we spoke with a member of the age group. it was 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 this one 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 misplaced iraqis are able to go home the need to to rebuild schools the need to rebuild all spitballs 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 over twenty one thousand

is currently being discussed and the opening to to allocate only one percent of the budget to the route to mosul which is the city where the 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 records friction and in the seventies action of the country as they did in the fight against islamic states it is indeed an exceptional and to thing that millions can respond at a generous bend 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 that really feel abandoned since the defeat of islamic state group

so this is not time to abandon iraq. the ruinous three year long civil war broke out in iraq in twenty fourteen the rise of islamic state dooms the country to suffer under the terrorists' dominance here's a timeline of how things unfolded. they 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.

the killing of a mentally disabled palestinian man in the west bank has once again brought the actions of his radio defense forces into question a video of the incident has appeared apparently showing him being shot in the head the following images are disturbing twenty two year old mohammad hotham how they can be seen lying face down and bleeding he was pronounced dead later in hospital hundreds attended his funeral in the west bank we spoke to his parents about the tragedy. he 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 in his nose you could see that his eye was swollen it said that he was shot from far away we saw on the t.v. that the three israeli soldiers shot him a close range. i. did it on the night it cost seen that had been shot and is now in hospital his father rushed the er only to find he was already dad. my son was not related to any political function and was a very simple person to his mental disabilities. israeli defense forces say soldiers were responding to dozens of palestinians who were hurling rocks they use riots dispersal means and live fire yet to comment further on the incident say they have launched an investigation israel regularly raids the west bank searching for suspects wanted for terror attacks or illegal weapons possession last year over a thousand palestinians were arrested and twenty eight killed here's

a look at some previous cases. ok. mohammed's father has been devastated by the killing office and opened up to us about his loss and who he thought was to blame almost gone we don't know israelis claim that they have been investigating the three soldiers who shot him but i have no idea if the investigation will continue is a big loss to everyone but 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. if you have something you'd like to say we'd love to hear it so you do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving your comments that we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines join us then. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. prosecution will need to become almost. a fall from design. where you question the threat of fines. by the number one perceived to i mean yeah i mean i mean did our political pressure on that god you've. told on earth were securely

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