we've come to the place story people have to see. the need. to do. to move. people. just twelve euros fifty per months. a manhunt is underway in france after a gunman killed three people and in just twelve more near a christmas market in struggles but officials are treating it as an act of terror.

despite concessions to ease violent time dressed in yellow vests protesters are back out in force in the french capital we speak to the friend of a student who was blinded in one eye cheering the latest terror demonstration. we all believed to match as league but they had orders not to let anyone out we got as far as we could get a right first grenade went off right next to a review purina she fell down. and the activists in britain could face life imprisonment on terror charges after blocking a flight to depart deporting failed asylum seekers some appalling the north origins response to an unprecedented crackdown on the rights to protest. to break the law which they were fully aware and in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences they think they should have been arrested as they were probably charged with aggravated transpose the judge effectively prevented the jury from considering their motivation.

to very well welcome you watching r.t. international with me. we start in france where three people have been killed in twelve more engineer a christmas market in the city of strasburg and nationwide manhunt is underway with the suspect still at large a warning you might find the next clip disturbing. lots of people running terrified children were crying so i realized something terrible was happening and people said there was a shooting right next door so i ran into. that

i was in my way to the city center with a friend but the road was blocked and was getting over someone told us there was a gunman shouldn't. we couldn't even get back so we ended up being stuck. french president held an emergency meeting at the presidential palace on tuesday night to monitor the emergency correspondent. in paris for us. a terror investigation has been opened as a nationwide manhunt is currently underway for the perpetrator of a fatal attack in the french city of strasburg it took place on tuesday evening in strasburg near the christmas market there is now heightened security at the french buddhist particularly the buddha with germany where strasburg straddles around three hundred fifty security personnel said to be involved in that search for the shooter what do we know about the shooter well we know that he's

a twenty nine year old man who's born in stroudsburg and has been currently living in the city we also understand that he was on the fishy s.-a list here in france this is a watch list of people who are under police suspicion here in france and there are reports in local french media that the gunman originally fled his own apartment in the city following a police search where they said to have found nate's suggesting that he could have been planning something for some time possibly an even larger attack when this happened on tuesday evening the plesk kleber in the city of strasburg which is part of the christmas market something that two million people go visit every year the unesco world heritage site well many shops and restaurants across the city were on lockdown on tuesday evening after they were told by the interior ministry to stay

in residence in the city were also being warned to stay as that manhunt continued we also understand that the european parliament was on lockdown as a result of that attack with people not being allowed in nor out of the building now this comes just huge years after another christmas market attack that was the one that took place in two thousand and sixteen where. twelve people were killed including the perpetrator of that attack and fifty six people were injured since then christmas markets across europe have had heightened security particularly here in france and i was in weekends ago where we saw some of those heightened security measures with the entirety of the area where the christmas market is not allowed for an authorized vehicles to go inside that and also checks as you are entering into the area where the christmas market was for the moment a high security alert here remains in place in france is that nationwide manhunt

continues for the perpetrator of france's latest terror attack strasburg sating follows a wave of terror attacks in france over the past few years. while a representative from the french national rally in the u.s. believes the tragedy in strasburg could have been prevented if intel had been used efficiently. this person was listed has an s five hundred s.

file so what it is is basically a different secret service have seen this person has a potential security threats because it was radicalized you think is going i was in jail no it was you know totally free you know to go everywhere and that's the problem we have thousands of people that under the s. file in france and or governments are doing nothing prison market on the same as the previous government believing in a fairy tale you know it's like disneyland you know with unicorns and fairies we never go into the roots of the problem you can you know more police officer if it were but if they said if you have people injured as foil in those people or you know let's go everywhere that you can impose more subscription on french or the french population if you don't contain this radicalized movement then it's just a ground is just a recipe for more disasters. was . the deadly attack in strasburg follows

a month long uprising by the so-called yellow vest movement emanuel mccrone made concessions on monday but protesters have vowed to continue saying the president's promise is insufficient the unarrest was initially triggered by proposed field tax hikes which president mccrone backed down on off to some of the most violent rioting in half a century more than four and a half thousand people have been arrested and over a thousand more enjoy it and one of those caught up in it all is twenty year old student very nearly near during the latest weekend of unrest in the french campus all she claims she was hit by daybreak after police had used a crowd control grenade despite receiving medical treatment fear enough is now blind in one eye a warning you may find the following video upsetting. whenever . we were together on the show. we asked police to let us leave but they

had orders not to let anyone out so we've been waiting for about two hours and some vandals attacked the shop they'd been covered in panels they tour those off and set them on fire riot police started to disperse the crowd to let fire fighters in the hooligans have been to the right of the riot police but they started to shoot in all directions we got as far as we could from that but a right dispersed grenade went off right next to us. and she fell down. a campaign to help fear you know has raised more than thirty thousand euros here's a friend again who says it's inexcusable for police to disproportionately target every well. i'm not against police using force it's needed to restore order and confront the hooligans but there's absolutely no excuse for attacking people who are standing far away from the epicenter of the conflict who are peaceful and have no means of protection or no gas masks you know. well we have

been closely following the protest movement in france since it began last month for a recap and more of the incredible first as you can heard while you tube channel or r.t. dot com. a group of british activists have been convicted for stunt as london stansted airport in which they blocked an aircraft from taking off the charter flight was carrying failed immigration applicants for deportation the following video shows the protesters in march last year lying on the ground at the airport tied to one another. since the charge is the activists known as the standard fifteen cut the airport's perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the undocumented immigrants on board were to be returned to nigeria ghana and sierra leone following a nine week trial a jury found the protestors guilty of intentionally disrupting flight services at

the air force. says the charges are considered terrorists the activists could technically face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced as a later date after the hearing we spoke to one of them. along with fourteen other people shot twenty eight last year through offenses. gain access to a very remote. tied ourselves around a plane that was due to poor around sixty people to nigeria and ghana later that night we were there for about ten hours we have actually come out and then arrested we don't know what's going to happen but what we do know is this charge should never been brought against us it should never been us should be in the home office it should be in that building just over there this is simply an anti terror piece of legislation that's what it was in for and the fact that it's been used against peaceful protest is. remarkable it's nonsensical we need to continue the fight against a brutal secretive barbaric barely legal charter flights the ones that we. that

we targeted and. i guess that's the thing that's me that's enough right now that's that's what's at the forefront of all my. wealth or if he's in the u.k. later on their reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stands at fifty. these people place themselves the flight crew airport personnel and police a serious risk of injury even death due to their actions on the airfield the crown prosecution service worked with the police to build a strong case which reflected the criminality of the defendant's actions regardless of their motivation in the u.k. many public figures including m.p.'s have backed the activist calling on the government to stop the deportation flights by calling for activists to be spared from prison saying they should be supported not punished while the protesters found themselves on the wrong side of the law it's clear that many see their campaign as justified we heard from political commentator david barnes on george barda who's

a social justice campaigner here we have one bunch of lawbreakers because another bunch of lawbreakers are being deported i'm not sure what the problem is here it's not a question of taking a sledgehammer to brake. not as a question of in force in the law the fact is that they set out to break the law of which they were fully aware in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences thirteen of the people on that flight are still in this country and a number of already been given indefinite right to remain we have a crazy system in this country where a so-called hostile environment was intentionally created by the previous home secretary theresa may who is now the prime minister and part of that has been you know these barely legal flights that are clearly brutal and uncompassionate and many of the people on them still have opened up here to these people acting to prevent people illegally being taken out of the country to horrible situations it's quite clear given the countries from which they come from that if they were seeking

asylum which of course they're not there because they've been defined as on documented immigrants i.e. illegal immigrants are simply not a lot of the arsenal is available safe country if i can finish my point i'd like to finish my point place so so they these people are quite clearly and i'm sure george understands this they are illegal immigrants and i agree with george in one regard they wrote a description that this country takes so long to remove these people who should not be in this country in the first instance they think they should have been arrested as they were and probably charged with aggravated trespass and then they have their day in court to make their case as to why they were acting to prevent further harm and the problem in this case is that the judge effectively prevented the jury from considering their motivation and so these people are being charged with an irony or that was joint into deal with terrorism and whatever your view of the what these people have done it was clearly not a terrorist act they were quite clearly

a word of what they were doing annoyed they have been fined guilty george comes on to cry and whine about it here's a bit of advice george obey the law and they won't be any problems just like those who came here. legally on of no been rightly following to have been here illegally should also have obeyed the law the fact that david seems to ignore is a the fact that these people it has been proven since were not all. should not all of been in tamed and deported because they've been allowed to stay sense and what i also think is incredibly important is that all the decent things that we have in this country did not come out of the generosity of power the reason the law has changed over and over to become a more moral and decent and democratic thing is because people have broken it in pace for principled ways in the past what i'm saying is not that they should people who wasn't demming allowed to go home they broke lower and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated just by us which is what they did they cut through a fence that's not just our spouses aggravated trespass and they were prepared to

face the charges for that instead they were charged with anti terror charges and on the thought be the case that might stop other such people breaking into our ports shuttling themselves and to terror craft and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the the penalty they pay is the right one so they can this hour an advent calendar and a place group chats that have been causing a stir in germany there among the stories after this short break.

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has spokes contract controversy in germany the anti immigration alternative for germany party has launched what it says is zero is a white men version of the christmas countdown our europe correspondent peter all of a has more on this dreaming of a white christmas right wing populists alternative to germany of sets up an online advent calendar each day unveiling a member of a group in society they say has become much maligned white men we introduce you to a person who is significantly influenced western civilization white man have become an insult to some. in recent years not to us no me neither. with an appearance. from the world.

you would imagine this has been. one on to hate group took another approach who would think of such a thing but why not say yes the white man the a.f. they say that a combination of the left quality and the green lead to discrimination against white men i spoke to one of their representatives here in berlin and asked what they mean by that if you make fun of black person or woman so they will

come and tell you this is not acceptable is just racism or something like that this is homophobia so but there is no one coming. for some people the phrase old white man seems to be some kind of a pattern salt but it's not and we want to show that humanity has achieved a lot of things and. many white men brilliant minds considering the criticism seems like a bit of an attempt to get some publicity. out of ideas no we're not well we. the reaction you were regarding to there are some critics in the mainstream media say it's racists and they claim that there is no discrimination of old white men of course you have to will estimate what's going to happen and what kind of criticize some. you come you will produce with that but the message is

still clear all toibin are not. not all bad. allegations of discrimination and anti immigration sentiment dog the police in frankfurt to cover five officers in the city are under investigation for allegedly inciting hatred that's off to a probe into far right extremists expose their online chat history that was full of nazi symbols and anti immigrant text in total shock in court there were indeed images of swastikas hitler and things like that and judging by the pictures we saw they also exchanged text messages against refugees and disabled people political parties in germany have condemned the case the greens say the country needs a prevention system in place while the left parties there's no given government will to eliminate the far right from the police force. one of the big problems of the police forces in germany are that they are seriously overstretched and

understaffed if there was a persistent effort by the government to check those radical right wing extremists from our police and security forces and they would have already succeeded but their least some parts of government that are interested in those people being at the positions there's been a long history of nazi infiltration if you go back to the fifty's and sixty's of the last century they have never been a persistent effort by the government to get rid of nazi extremists and the police force but i think that it's also called the left wing parties that they have made in the past who just generally. condemn members of the police as nazis and i think the right path forward is to work together with anti crashes and progressive unions tried those extremist elements within the police force.

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lack of sanctions and so we when we went out there and filmed interviews with farmers whether it's at a convention or out in the field everybody was very unhappy with president barack obama's deal with iran that would have lifted some of the sanctions and i would have allowed iranian stashes to come into the american market if the price went from three dollars ten to three dollars. you know what is it one million dollars. one of the farmers told us you know obama really screwed the pooch on this one because he's he's basically screwing they're screwing you messing with their business the filmmakers say the secrets behind the success is the leading us pistache f.m. the wonderful company his gimmick adds of course the hearts and minds of americans rajan got another star. her. stash ago believes that she or. the things that you believe or.

pistachio. the wonderful company made its fame and fortune after the fest and tehran sanctions were introduced in the late seventy's something they've perhaps been too honest about we don't mind stealing share from the radiance the sanctions against iran seem to be paying off to keeping the us as the leader of the not trades there are all sorts of industries in america that have an interest or a stake in some kind of some kind of either actually having a tougher sanctions on iran or actually lifting those sanctions what was surprising about looking at that at the statue was this foreign policy dimension the note is interesting because it gives us a way into these kinds of in a world that people don't usually think about and don't usually think are connected it seems the pistachio is an actual seat of discourse in the two nations many confrontations. thanks for joining us on our take this hour we'll be back at the top of the hour with a late. goal

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for the place. a senior executive said happily in his private jet after just pulling off quite a coup. he has secretly initiated the sale of one of his biggest companies. even before landing of the he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions.

even knows that a government member is waiting for him. minister of the economy is demanding an explanation he sell without consulting the staff and the deal must be cancelled the c.e.o.'s refusal threatens a social tensions rise and it's pointed out that the minister has already broken dreams and he will be next this is the last time he will stand in this office or inside the ministry this is the coffee cup of a convicted man. two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the minister straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. were. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s.

without consulting the french data. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances worthy of a spy novel and fun from prying eyes and public opinion and. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom story begins in the city of bell fort this is where the company was blown in eight hundred seventy two and since then it has literally shaped the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name alstom in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then else dumb has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then.