she. looked. upon the bar as the try except my share of responsibility economy gets to santa clara states of economic and social emergencies a state of economic and social crisis the french president of my new mccrone move to that he's a nation in revolt on missing tax cuts and wage hikes. also

this hour spared herself a major defeat for the british prime minister a console's a crucial vote on the brakes is triggering more called to resign may's resignation us this house wants to deliver bricks. prime minister members across this house don't want your deal to not realize. just this make. saudi fighter jets get free field for the conflict in yemen if it's revealed that american taxpayers have been footing the bill. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky allen great to have you with us this hour now our top story the french president's trying to quell weeks of violence by offering an olive

branch to his angry nation after four weekends of nationwide protests emanuel mccrone made a dramatic statement. i am declaring a state of economic and social emergency today i want us to have affronts where our children will live better than we have and initial attempt to appease the revolt failed the so-called yellow vests protests continued even when the government scrapped to feel tax hike and a short televised address on monday evening mccrone responded to other demands like tax concessions and a minimum wage rise in his first public address since the unrest among them a crown admitted that he is in part responsible for the turmoil. upon the path to success possibility i accept my share of responsibility of would an innocent may have given the impression that it wasn't my concern that i had other priorities i also know that my words may have hurt some of you very humble tone of

speech from president my corner as he addressed the french nation on monday evening saying the people had legitimate right to protest but there was no legitimate right for the violence it had been seen over the last few weeks not court also ruled the country was facing a social and economic crisis. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros and twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers because over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employees to pay an end of year bonus this will not be taxed and there will be no social payments a pension is receiving less than two thousand euros the tax increase will be cancelled as we had planned but many people will be questioning why it took president almost four weeks to address the nation many people saying this address should have come much much before and wondering why it took so much violence before

he decided to address the problem directly. will these measures these offerings be enough well it's difficult to say but one

thing that many of the protesters may not be happy with is the fact that much refused to roll back on one of the taxes that they wanted changes these were the reforms that he made to the wealth tax. amount of all that he didn't want some one need to go back on the wealth tax this is been around for forty years and it has caused people to leave our country we can't go back we want we need to create jobs that it speaks to the nation was right by many things in moments of silence will it be enough to quell the social tensions there the people who are unhappy here in france the solutions to stop them from taking to the streets once more i think he's getting scared and he's feeling the heat and that's it has lost all credibility and people don't trust him i must leave you to go very nice but i don't trust him at all so when he was alone there many of us were staying here as long as we don't have a clear science so i could. minutes since november seventeenth

a lot of minutes compared to the number of days we've been here but there were a few reassuring elements you took one step here is meant to take on. the other vest protesters not the only ones who have demands for more crowd students opposing academic changes are expected to stage a new round of demonstrations later on tuesday independent journalist robert thomas believes the concessions president mccrone is offering will not be enough to end the deep civil unrest in france. he's got to solve this problem we can't have a situation every weekend where mortgages go down the shelves are literally smashing the place up in all the hotels are actually. that cannot be allowed to continue is he going to change his strategy as he's been the great european well if he continues with these policies of spending money then he has to change his policy regarding the euro an already the euro t.

shirt or exploding so is he suddenly going to turn it back on your so what the germans are now saying they won't contribute any excess 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 he's completely turned away from the policies and would he would you go elect. fearing for her future the british prime minister has cancelled a crucial vote on her breaks that deal the house of commons was set to decide on it this choose day to raise and they will meet with the e.u. leaders in an attempt to rescue the deal seeking assurances over issues like the irish border which has hinted at much of the negotiations she admitted that they cancel votes but her and major defeat and may faces increasing pressure in westminster but this is very carefully to what has been said in this chamber and in the. from listening to those views it is clear that while there is broad support

for many of the key aspects of it it was. just this house wants to deliver bricks it. if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can families across this house don't want your deal does she not realize how can your take and when articulates this may. you know. this isn't a government in control failing for you isn't her time wasting to like simply reckless what has been the portable pain and uncertainty of the last two years what the heck is going on. r.t. she cheers for eight true prime ministers better than a prime minister to. the chaotic atmosphere in the house of commons was

a pitts of my spy one m.p. getting thrown out as after he picks up the parliament's ceremonial mace in protest the regime was. there. because it made technically must be present for u.k. parliament to meet and parse norse's as a symbol of the monarchs or forty the m.p. was ordered to leave by the leave the chamber by the speaker of the house or says the breaks that referendum back in the summer of two thousand and sixteen the issue has divided and stirred controversy amongst the british public and politicians. takes a look at how it all started here's the moment it began to sink in for the british media. become now say the decision taken in one thousand nine hundred seventy five by this country to join the common market has been reversed by this referendum to

leave the. we are absolutely clear that there is no way that the remains side can win or can it it's two and a half years since britain voted to leave the european union. but the prospect of staying in that club is higher than ever how did it get to this. it how to be rather straightforward that country advantage this is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back and brussels mr payne sean have created. but it. can be concluded quickly. bendish the negotiations began and chugged away for a year until they hit a couple of major stumbling blocks the thorny issue of the irish border as well as future trade bluster from one side to train work for economic cooperation.

and provide a from the other let nobody be in any doubt that as i've always said we are preparing for a new deal ministers left mase side in the e.u. faced with and to european movements across the continent wasn't just going to roll over so when it deal between london and brussels was finally struck last month john made it clear if this one you. should shoot from monthly efficiency comes. back home to reason may's deal only united politicians of all stripes against it faced with losing the vote by a landslide to reason make called it off at the eleventh hour and much to the hour . rage of politicians failed to set a new date the whole house wanted to do this we wanted to vote or meet the people expected us to vote on it and the government have gone the wrong way and did

it in the toilet this is the ultimate humiliation for the leader of the house for this prime minister and how we could look the most of the other way and try to suggest the pain this is business as usual is quite extraordinary constituents are watching this farce with the been in the newsman with no idea how this country is being run and we did a host comes up with new way forward for all of this the message for many including the hard drugs it is in her own party is that she can't improve a rotten deal which although not exactly in those words also happens to be the message from brussels i have decided to call european council meeting on thursday we will not renegotiate the deal including the backstop but we are ready to discuss how to facilitate u.k. ratification as time is running out we will also discuss a preparedness for a no deal scenario so instead of surviving a historic parliamentary vote to raise

a maze had to endure historic humiliation and by failing to reschedule the date of the vote she's been accused of running away from democracy and this is the u.k. moves ever closer to the twenty ninth of march the official date of britain's departure from the e.u. that means that m.p.'s are going to be under even more pressure to approve what perhaps they consider to be a bad deal just to avoid a disastrous no deal sonari oh that's if to resume a survives as leader and doesn't get ousted by either her own party or through a vote of no confidence which incensed opposition parties say they're now planning that could force a general election and considering the current state of disarray a party promising a second referendum to potentially reverse brags it could win popular support.

well an emergency debate is still expected to take place later this tuesday in the house of commons but of course without the votes we'll be staying across all the bugs that developments as to reason may heads to berlin to meet the dutch and german leaders earlier we spoke to various political analysts about a more possible twists and turns ahead this is not brics that she's proposing and therefore a good one hundred of our own m.p.'s will never vote for whatever reassurance as she brings but it's a bit it's a bit like jim waving his piece of paper promising peace in our time the leaders clearly smell blood this meld blood in the form of a second referendum does not which is the hope i 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 and if the force referendum is somehow i know we don't want to see any border

certainly not on the island of ireland and not in the area she either the majority here in the north of ireland to ring me in that is absolute democratic destress or to force us to accept the european union if we accept on the terms that the blacks are two years. as well as our allies which then it will be returned to the heart border of well me diminishing the older man enough to be trade agreement which of course is the underpin our peace process will mean that jobs will be lost investment will be lost we will jeopardize the progress that we had in terms of our peace progress on in terms of reconciliation over twenty years. the pentagon has acknowledged that millions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money has been lost to the saudi led campaign in yemen because of errors in accounting it came to light after the at blunting magazine obtain information from the defense department he's kind of more pain as the story. what comes to

dealing with america's allies the trumpet ministration has one great fear paying too much money. you want to say maybe even have to pay many nations ovett sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the united states they're not paying their bills well there is one war in which the united states has been paying well beyond its fair share according to the department of defense saudi airplanes and airplanes from the united arab emirates have been refueling themselves at the expense of the american taxpayers apparently it's all due to an accounting error u.s. central command recently reviewed its records and found errors in accounting where the department of defense fruit to charge the saudis adequately for fuel and refueling services now it's quite an expensive mistake the costs are still being added up but apparently it's in the millions of dollars u.s.

aerial refueling assistance was provided to the saudi led coalition for more than three point five use activities that likely cost tens of millions of dollars we must ensure that u.s. taxpayers a fully reimbursed for that support the united states uses k c one thirty five strato tankers and casing ten extenders to refuel planes mid air a mere hour of work with these aircraft costs over ten thousand dollars now these refueling were stopped in mid november but that was after over two thousand operations had been carried out in which the united states was helping the saudis to wage their war against yemen and that is not a popular war seventy five percent of the u.s. public according to the latest polling doesn't want the country to be involved but u.s. government officials seem to think differently we do believe that the support for the coalition is necessary it sends a wrong message if we discontinue our support but what the u.s.

public wants doesn't seem to be of concern. united states remains highly involved with the saudi coalition as it wages its widely condemned war against its neighbor caleb mop and archie new york we spoke to journalist david lindorff who claims that the pentagon is wasteful and at constant risk a fraud. the pentagon's accounting is so crazy and so incompetent and also corrupt that. the numbers are actually frequently being just made up year after year the pentagon has been on the list of high risk of fraud waste and abuse at the g.a.o. as office that's a scandal for something that's the largest line item in the federal government's budgets pentagon is asking for more money than it actually needs and is using the fake numbers that it puts into the financial end of your financial

reports for the prior year and the year before that that they submit to congress try to show through those fake numbers that they spent all the money. and then his this huge amount of money being spent on fueling these saudi jets spawning yemen and they aren't even i mean spend if they're doing it but then they're not charging saudis who have endless money for the u.s. doing all of that air tanker refuelling you know in it but it's it's not necessary spending so they've been able to keep jacking their budgets. through these accounting gimmicks. a picture of the ukrainian president posing with paratroopers has caused shock and surprise the image says petro poroshenko lined up alongside ukraine's elite troops but if you take

a closer look at one soldier you can see the insignia of a nazi s.s. death division we asked the presidential administration of ukraine to comment on the photo but so far they've chosen not to respond the division made up a part of nazi germany's military during the second world war he was initially phone from concentration camp guards. and was believed to be involved in the mass murder of polish civilians and the massacre british soldiers during the battle of france and this is not the case nazi imagery has been as a pit among the ukrainian forces the eyes of battalion which is a ukrainian national guard regiment who uses a logo very similar to another nazi german military symbol however officials in kiev have denied that is any connection. to. the current. her.

the still president told the media company your voice america thinks the ukrainian leader may be pandering to far rights movements to gain their support ahead of next year's election. what i was trying to do is curry favor with the folks that he believes are going to support him in his reelection coming in january he's not polling very strongly he's also looking potentially to gain access to armament to defend his position and maintain martial law by reaching out across into nato and while nato allies might think that they are protecting a sovereign nation when in fact they're doing is they're going to eventually fund an arm a nazi coalition that will again repeat history from what we saw in nazi germany if

they need to to take a page out of what we do in this country which is we are constantly monitoring for far right activity in our own military forces ukrainians need to do the same thing particularly in this instance is maintain vigilance for that far right movement because we do not want to see a repeat of what happened in world. to the amount of far right movement you're seeing in ukraine is so minuscule that it's 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 piece 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. a russian citizen a charged with being an illegal foreign agent in the united states has followed a request to change her innocent plea maria bhutto was arrested in july last year and is now reportedly expected to file a guilty plea after her lawyers struck

a deal with the u.s. prosecutors. to define maria by counsel and a government by through its attorney respectfully filed 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 maria burton or allegedly infiltrated groups like the national rifle organization to gain political influence for russia she's been held in solitary confinement since her arrest in a written statement to our team maria's father dismissed the allegations against his daughter and cast doubt on reports of her plea deal with prosecutors there have been media reports on an upcoming pleas deal between maria and us federal prosecutors i have no such information and any such claims without possession of the case materials and nothing but speculation maria will not falsely admit to violating the law the reports that she is due to get us citizenship appear fantasy

or simply lies from the media or elsewhere we are critically short of money for maria boots in his legal defense and we need support during three out of the five months of marie's detention she's been in solitary confinement causing her psychological and physical harm it's hard to tell how long a person can in just such torture. human and labor rights lawyer dunn cavallo believes maria burton a was pressured to switch her plea to guilty these charges were always politically motivated i think they don't have anything on her and that's why they're left with a pretty nice new charge but again i think they trust these charges and they pressed him at a time when it was very politically sensitive to frankly bolster the whole russia gate scandal which is frankly gone nowhere but they continue to add you know secondary and tertiary charges to make it look like something's there she's been treated very badly in jail kept isolated she's also been subject to regular body

cavity search searches which she has claimed amount to sexual so they appear to be . an australian chan's gender athletes he was born male is staring debate over her performances of the women's national harmful championship and it claims that she has an unfair physical advantage hannah amount see weighs nearly one hundred kilograms and stands at a height of one point eight seven meters previously she had played for the men's handball squad but three years ago she made the transition to the women's team and her decision has drawn flak from many on twitter say who say her inclusion makes her unfair competition. the athlete who's come under fire ses the allegations over her physicality are unfair explaining weight should not be

a reason to be excluded from sport she also believes there's size and power alone don't give a sporting advantage. transgender athletes are found themselves increasingly in the spotlight patricio manuel became the first transgender to compete professionally in the u.s. sporting history a transgender sportsman take more and more victories even recent transgender books . patrice. excuse me. became the first to compete as of rational in the u.s. history defeating his mexican opponents and new zealand weightlifter laurel hubbard also claimed two silver medals at the world championships when we decided to debate the issue. using somebody as weight and height. to say that they can't take part in a vein because of their superior white strength speed is ludicrous because quite

obviously you can sync up a lot of examples of people in the large number of sports i mean to take one example in russian history in wrestling alexander corralling who was a wonderful wrestler who i sure several times i mean he was so much superior to everyone else but no one complained about him being so big but i have always been transsexual people and i and many others and many other women and feminists even have recognized and accepted transgender women this new politics is i think actually attacking women. frankly because it's only a number of couple of decades that women have been and enabled to play some sports whether it's cricket boxing is a whole host of things we've finally allowed to do i don't know what it is but some

of us what has happened the reaction by some men to call themselves women and shut down the possibility of us as women participating in sports with other women where the law i need. a years woman and watch is a man and some people are in the middle and then you say well perhaps there ought to be a championship for people in the middle is a very very difficult situation and to be a prank i don't envy the individuals who are trying to be fair both so those individual competitors and also to their rivals there are plenty of opportunities for men and possibly other trans men to participate. things this is this is shutting down sports opportunities to put women in boxing you don't have a featherweight you know but seeing with the way you do have situations where some

women have a particularly high level of testosterone regarding lawsuits santu says an unfair advantage but other scientists are saying actually testosterone a high level of testosterone which is a male home that is something that is not necessarily indicative of somebody being a. male a male rather than a female so we are in a very different situation across several sports and this is going to become an increasing problem in the years to come you can have your say by following us on social media and leaving a comment that we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest see them.

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