the. president promises to raise the minimum wage and cut taxes after four weeks of civil unrest across france. the british prime minister calls off a crucial vote in parliament after admitting that she would face a major defeat prompting calls for her to resign. this government on the prime minister's field it's time because of the weak prime minister members across this

house don't want your deal she don't realize how chaotic and curious. and an alleged russian agent requests to change her plea in the u.s. after initially insisting she was not guilty a hearing will be held on wednesday. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international sometimes going to have you with us and whether watching in terre haute indiana or france we're going to have you with us. right now the french president has offered a series of concessions to quell four weeks of mass on rest in a televised address it to the nation emanuel micron promised to raise the minimum wage and introduce several tax cuts. looted your economy i'm declaring

a state of economic and social emergency today and i want to stop affronts where our children will live better that we have a very humble tone from president matt corn as he addressed the nation as a gesture that he really wanted people to know that he had been listening to the stories over the last few weeks as people who have been out on the streets have been talking about the problems that they deal with on an every day basis in france because of the high cost of living according to those yellow vests on protesters but president said that while people had a legitimate right to protest there was no legitimacy for the violence that is being seen he also warned that france was facing an economic and a social crisis. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in two thousand and nineteen are no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to

pay an end of year bonus this will not be taxed and there will be no social payment for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euros that's actually increased will be cancelled because we planned well what did he offer as a concession and only branch to the protesters first of all he said that the minimum wage would increase by a hundred euros every month that will start from next month he also said that overtime shouldn't be taxed and shouldn't have social charges taking away from it this of course comes after four weekends of violence and many people have been cooling on president to speak many people wondering why it's taken him so long until now let's just look back at the four weekends and three weeks of protests that france has so far seen.

well is it enough it's not yet clear and one thing that many people may be particularly unhappy about as announced today is the president back on said he would not roll back on one thing that many of the protesters fastball and this is the changes that were made to the wealth tax. amount of one thirty plane while some want me to go back on the wealth tax this is been around for forty years it just caused people to leave our country we can't go back we want to go on we need to create jobs for this speech was being described by many as much because moment it's truth will it be enough to quell the the social tensions here in france will it be enough for this in asia. yellow vests to decide that they will no longer take

to the streets of france will it be enough to stop the violence that remains to be seen solitary pinsky r.t. paris. independent journalist robert harness who believes that the concessions president micron is offering will not be enough to end of the civil unrest he's got to solve this problem we can't have a situation every weekend where mobs go down the shores illegally smashing the place up and all the hotels are empty. that cannot be allowed to continue is he going to change his strategy is he really great european well if you continues with these policies a spending money then he has to change his policy regarding the euro and already the euro if you don't you're exploding so easy suddenly going to turn its back on europe the so what the germans are now saying they were a contributor and we just have to go our own way i don't know i mean it's it's the implications of what he's done masses because it means that he's completely turned

away from the policies on which he would you go to elect. british prime minister has postponed tuesday's parliamentary vote on her braids and plan theresa may was confronted by anger on all sides in the house of commons as she admitted that lawmakers were bound to reject her deal. does this house want to deliver bricks it . if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can the biggest on certainty for british business lies not in this field but on the front bench of the labor. prime minister members across this house don't want your deal does she not realise how chaotic and when articulates this make you know you hear what she's done to day. i mean she is for eight. years so it's

a reason may that addressing a very fractious house of commons confirming that vote has been delayed it must of been humiliating for her to concede that her deal that she'd been talking on she said it would be voted down and that she will now go to brussels in an attempt to renegotiate certain elements of the deal is she actually calls that to seek assurances over the contentious issue of the irish back start in the future of the irish or they take a listen to what she had to say i've listened very carefully to what has been said in this chamber and. from listening to those views it is clear that while there is broad support for many of the key aspects of the deal i. yes on one issue on one issue the northern backstop that remains widespread and deep concern and we will therefore defer the

coach for tomorrow. and not to proceed to divide the house at this time to challenge. it on as the result of the referendum it's pretty does this house want to deliver bricks it. a clear message from the s.n.p. but. does it want to do so through reaching an agreement with the e.u. be honest that this risks dividing the country again. time wise to reason may says that she wants to go and visit e.u. leaders in the european commission before this week's e.u. summit but still not clear specifically when that's going to be but she wants to

discuss changes and address and peace concerns but we have a date for a renewed vote when this vote will now take place and that is a great source of anger among politicians in the chamber many of them which is desperate to finally have that say on this rather chaotic gregg's that process make claims that she's listened to her critics into the case that people have and that she's going to do everything she can to seek assurances from the e.u. over the issue of the irish stop a lot of people would say that she didn't listen that she should have those in her own party will say she should have pressed by in this vote on this say that this wasn't a deal that they wanted a whole and that's what the leader of the labor opposition party jeremy corbyn had to say the government is in disarray uncertain is building for business people are in despair at the stage of these failed negotiations the prime minister is trying to buy himself one last chance to save this deal if she doesn't take on

board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can m.p. after m.p. after two reason my statement lined up desperate to get in that ostensibly that questions to the prime minister but really indignant. criticisms of how she has handled this negotiation process as of yet no date for the vote the prime minister planning to tweak or not renegotiate but seek a sure it says on some elements of the deal which calls the m.p.'s in the chamber of already dismissed as not good enough and a deal that brussels has already said that it's going to refuse to renegotiate broadcaster and a former m.p. george galloway says teresa mayes attempts to improve her brags a deal will be doomed to failure this is not bricks that she's proposing and therefore a good one hundred of our own m.p.'s will never vote for whatever reassurances she

brings but it's a bit it's a bit like jim berlin waving his piece of paper promising peace in our time the e.u. leaders clearly smell blood this meld blood in the form of a second referendum which they hope would lead to a reversal of the last referendum result whether or not they're right about that it would still leave millions of people very bitter and angry it would risk social peace in britain if the first referendum is somehow i'm old i think the most likely outcome is treason may being overthrown by her own army her own party and the new prime minister returning to you square one there are plenty of people in the wings waiting boris johnson even gore is here for the occasion just to look prime ministerial and he's churchill's biographer. russian citizen maria bhutto now who has been charged in the us of being an illegal foreign agent

has filed a request to change her plea hearing on the motion is scheduled for wednesday. defined. by counsel and a government by and through its attorney respectfully found this joint motion to set a change of plea hearing in the above caption matter and request a hearing at the court's earliest convenience we understand that this has been filed and they are requesting a hearing in which she can then change the police people are jumping to some pretty strong conclusions the press has been speculating that she may be ready to plead guilty however that's just that's a pretty strong conclusion to jump to now at the moment it would be possible for her to perhaps change her plead to no contest maria bettina she has been charged with being an agent allegedly of the russian government and trying to infiltrate the politically powerful national rifle association and at first it was put forward that she had been in town to act with intelligence officers and that she'd been

trading favors for sex however prosecutors dropped the charge of espionage at this point are simply charging her with being an unregistered lobbyist failing to report herself as a foreign agent now she's denied all charges said that she is not guilty and after her arrest she was denied she was denied bail and she was held pending pending trial so she's been in federal prison awaiting trial this entire time since her arrest appears that pretty soon we will be seeing tina in federal court and that she will be having a hearing regarding a change of police there's a many many different possibilities about what this could mean a change of police that seems to be what is coming up and we'll have to wait and see what happens in the courtroom. the japanese government has stopped buying equipment from the chinese tech giant wall way over security concerns that story much more after a short break this is our two international. what

politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more somehow want to. get it right to be close to see what the faux tree in the morning can people get. interested falls in the waters of our. six.

figure. what matters is our international and the e.u. foreign policy chief says a plan to maintain trade with iran despite u.s. sanctions could be ready in the coming weeks federico marina gave a statement in brussels. from it and we have to make sure that it on ian's benefit that italian people benefit from the lifting of sanctions even after the u.s. this intervene for some of the sections i would expect this is tremendous to be established in the coming weeks before the handover here as

a way to protect and to promote a legitimate business with the fact itself that the e.u. is taking this step and that's already made some symbolic expressions of support for the deal to maintain a deal is a really important in itself we should not forget that the stones allies within the e.u. the conservatives of forces are also in favor of maintaining this deal with iran after ink it's going to go on dishrag and isn't but we should not overestimate its possible consequences now big companies in our car companies or our others are going to do they're going to do do do do best and not stop dealing trade with iran anyway because they're going to maintain their biggest trade barn but for some smaller e.u. companies who for example only have three dealings with near asia or with iran specifically they will benefit from this deal in the they will iran has

warned of u.s. sanctions that could have a catastrophic impact on the fight against drugs and terrorism and interest thirty six of the sort of. trump iran sanctions three words all a little too familiar to the world although washington aimed sanctions at iran and its european companies who have felt the impact although 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 here 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've spent a hefty amount on enforcement measures but arias canals fences around eight hundred million dollars annually it says on sealing its border is 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 hesse. 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. going to representatives of more than one hundred sixty countries agreed to her agreed on monday rather to adopt a v united nations global migration pact and a meeting in morocco however some e.u. states as well as the us refused to attend. it's all over what they've been those who were in attendance were intending in what they were attending for the migration pact the un migration pact to set out to put in place a framework for a global solution or at least to try and get a global solution to tackling migration one of those world leaders that was in

attendance was the german chancellor angela merkel. the whole migration pact idea was roundly supported here in germany only the right wing opposition alternative for germany spoke out against it they have this to say the migration pact contains lots of political commitments and leads to more migrants entering germany but it proved far more toxic elsewhere another of the big names in attendance from europe was the belgian prime minister sharjah shell and now he in fact lost his well governing coalition because of this migration pact on sunday the right wing flemish nationalists that were helping to give him a ruling majority in the belgian parliament walked out of the coalition over this issue in slovakia the foreign minister. he threatened to resign over it it was only when assurances were made that bratislava would main would remain closely aligned to both the and nato when it came to issues of migration did he agree to well pull

back that resignation and in fact in countries such as canada we're seeing quite big demonstrations against this pact was was. it was was the united states australia austria the czech republic hungry amongst many others have also said they wouldn't be signing this deal in fact the un secretary general he outlined exactly what was meant by this non-binding agreement the compact is. moreover he's not legally binding he's a framework for international corporation but rooted in an intergovernmental process of negotiation in good face and it's wording this perhaps led to a lot of nations being willing to sign it because why sign up to something if it

isn't binding in the first place. a picture of the ukrainian president posing with paratroopers has caused widespread shock and surprise the image it shows petro poroshenko lined up alongside ukraine's elite troops but if you take a closer look at one of the soldiers you can see the insignia of the nazi s.s. death's head division we asked the presidential ministration of ukraine to comment on the photo but i've yet to receive a response and the death's head division was a part of nazi germany's military during the second world war it was initially formed from concentration camp guards and was involved in the mass murder of polish civilians and a massacre of british soldiers during the battle of france as well and this is not the first time nazi german imagery has been noticed on display with ukrainian forces. the as of battalion which is

a ukrainian national guard it regiment uses a local very similar to another nazi german military symbol however the cuban officials have denied that there is any real connection. well. i. was. with. her and vendor still president of the media company your voice america thinks the ukrainian leader may be pandering to far right movements to gain their support head of next year's election. clearly what poor sankoh is trying to do is curry favor with the folks that he believes are going to support him in his

reelection coming in january his polling very strongly they i believe he's definitely pandering to the far right because he thinks that not only can gain the votes there but i think he's also looking potentially to find the funding ukrainians need to maintain vigilance for that far right movement because we do not want to see a repeat of what happened in world war two you do not want to see the rise of the far right party the amount a far right movement you're seeing in ukraine is not going to necessarily create problems today but the problem with that is there's no such thing as a little bit of cancer a little bit of cancer if it's ignored it gets to be a bigger bit of cancer and we saw that back in nazi germany and this is the beginning of what can potentially be another history repeating itself story. japan has barred two major chinese tech firms from government contracts tokyo says state ministries and the armed forces will no longer buy equipment from wall way

and z t e due to data security concerns this follows the arrest in canada of wall ways chief financial officer at the request of the u.s. washington accuses her of violating american sanctions imposed on iran and is seeking her extradition mang one jews arrest was has undermined recent efforts to repair ties between the u.s. and china and china's foreign ministry has warned both canada and the u.s. of consequences if she is not released to go to war over the weekend the voice for a minister some in both the canadians and the u.s. some boss it is a make clear opposition over the issue we hope that the governments of the two states take this seriously as for what the severe consequences will be but the voice foreign minister warned off when we see the canadian ambassador i can tell you that it's totally depends on the canadian side it's so. while way is the world's largest producer of telecommunications equipment and second largest smartphone menu smart phone manufacturer hong kong based political scientist joseph

chang believes both japan and the u.s. want to limit the firm's growing reach since twenty fourteen the american government has been warning. ration and agency people who night its day to walk away. and be. british. has also practiced to its praise while waiting in the coming two years and now. and also a new seat in trying to avoid losing. money so this apparently is a consulate. and promoted by the united states to exert pressure on the military action. thirty two and a half minutes that's when i will be back with a full look at your news you are watching international glad to have you with us.

putting back in place a hard border. dr vision between northern ireland and. has economic 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 and nobody wants to see how to stop the. prosecution will need to become almost. a full zone. where you. just read you'll find somebody number one place you do i mean jani i mean political pressure on the. security industry knows what kind of business models used by american corporations. he's sold them could matilda's you to

use. the solution. in association with. it is just really really came to an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. hello and welcome across town for all things are considered peter lavelle the yellow that's shaped france to work or is it time to go speaking of time to go with the brags that vote looming is to rest of maize time up to also my column pale

wants to remake the world. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with international and we have these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of that it can be of western civilization and resurgence of russia are a german cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i want to talk about the yellow vests first had their fourth weekend in the spotlight here i want to go to paris right now i want to go to. morrow he is the founder of the center of political strategic analysis strapped public. be a welcome thank you for being with us ok after four weekends of this in the spotlight.