we are in such i'm content. to the ones at the same time. noticing. the. symbol symbol. of not they got. about the future with the plane. we've come to the three story you have to see. the events. if you really. believe the view. i was. a manhunt is underway in france after a gunman killed three people and then just twelve more near a christmas market is transferred officials are treating it as an act of terrorism

. to miss him britain could face life imprisonment on terror charges after blocking a flight deporting failed asylum seekers from according to authorities response an unprecedented crackdown on the rights to protest. to break the law all of which they were fully aware and in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences. because they were probably charged with aggravated trespass the charge effectively prevented the jury from considering their motivations. despite concessions to ease violence andress to e.l.o. first protesters are back out in force in the french capital we speak to the friend of a student who was blinded in one eye during the latest demonstrations we also police just leave but they had orders not to let anyone out we go to far as we could from that but a right dispersed grenade went off right next to us. and she fell down. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. i was starting france where three people have been killed and twelve more injured today were christmas market in the city of strasburg and they should wind up manhunt is underway with the suspect still at large a warning you might find the next clip just. a lot of people running there were terrified children were crying so i realized something terrible was happening and people said there was a shooting right next door so i ran to. see. that i was in my way to the city center with a friend but the road was blocked and we couldn't go further someone told us there

was a gunman shooting it people couldn't even get back so we ended up being stuck here . french president among them across the meeting at the presidential palace on tuesday night to monitor the emergency off france correspondent. it's apparent best occasion 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 esle ist 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 pack 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 will 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 were. 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 strasbourg just chill weekends ago where we saw some of those heightened security measures with the entire city over the area where the christmas market is not allowed for an authorized vehicles to go inside that and also checks as you were 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 the strasburg

shooting follows a wave of terror attacks in france over the past four years. representing from the french national rally in the u.s. believes the tragedy in strasburg could have been prevented if the intel had been used efficiently. this person was listed has an s five hundred s. file so what it is is basically the front secret service have seen this person has

a potential security threats because he was radicalized you think his day was in jail no he was you know totally free you know to go everywhere and that's the big problem we have thousands of people under the file in france and our governments are doing nothing prison market on the same as the previous government believe 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 and those people are you know alexi to go everywhere and you can impose more strict than on french on the french population if you don't contain this radical lace movement then it's just a ground is just a recipe for more disasters. was . a group of british activists who have been convicted for

a stunt at london athens the death toll in which they blocked an aircraft taking off the chance to fly it was carrying failed immigration applicants for deportation the following video shows the protesters in march last year lying on the ground to be at point tied to one another. and. the activists known as the downside fifteen cuts the apples permits a fence and surrounded the plane be undocumented immigrants and on board what to be to return to nigeria gone on sierra leone following a nine week trial a jury found to protest is guilty of intentionally disrupting flight services at the apples. so the charges are considered terror related the activists could technically face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced on a later date after the hearing we spoke to one of them along with fourteen other people. last year through offenses to. gain access to

a very remote. around a plane that was. around sixty people to nigeria and we were there for about ten hours. and then arrested we don't know what's going to happen but what we do know is this charge should never have been brought against us it should never. have been the home office it should be in that building just over that this is simply an anti terror piece of legislation that's what it was and the fact that it's been used against peaceful protesters is remarkable. 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 right now that's what's at the forefront of our mind. in the u.k. laid out there reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stance that fifty. these people place themselves the flight crew airport personnel and greece at serious

risk of injury or 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 activists and according on the government to stop the deportation flight they're calling for activists to be spared from prison saying that they should be supported not punished while the protesters found themselves on the wrong side of the law or it's clear that many see their campaign as justified we heard from political commentator david vance and george potter who's a social justice campaigner. here we heard of 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 the sledgehammer to break and not as a question of in forcing 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 the number of already being given indefinite right to remain we have a crazy system in this country where so-called hostile environment was intentionally created by the previous home secretary theresa may who's 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 it's a horrible situations it's quite clear given the countries from which they come from but 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 simply not a lot of the ira so it's a hell of a 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 live russet description that this country takes so long to remove these people who should not be endace country in the first instance they think they should have been arrested as they were and probably charged with aggravated trespass and then they had 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 as an ira 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 illegally and of not been rightly fighting 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 tamed and deported because they've been allowed to stay sense and what else i 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 no one doesn't demming allowed to go home they broke the law and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated jasper's which is what they did they cut through a fence that's not justice process aggravated trespass and they were prepared to face the charges for that instead they were charged with anti terror charges and and if that be the case that might stop other such people breaking india or ports shuttling themselves in and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless. so you want to call it the pell the that is a road one. following

a month longer uprising by the so-called yellow vests movement in france a minor mcroy made concessions on monday but protesters have vowed to continue saying the president's promises are insufficient the only rest was initially triggered by a proposed fuel tax hikes which president mccrum backed down on after 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 injured. and one of those caught up in it all is twenty year old student theory here during the latest weekend of unrest in the french capital she claims she was hit by daybreak after police had used a crowd control grenade despite receiving medical treatment fear we know is they are blind in one eye and warning you may find the following video upsetting. the moment the moment you. get yours and if 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 a shop that had been covered in wooden panels they tour those off and set them on fire riot police started to disperse the crowd to let firefighters in 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 the arena has raised more than thirty thousand euros here's her friend again who says it's inexcusable for police to disproportionately target everyone principle he took after the force of the 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 you know gas masks. we have

been closely following the protest movement in france since it began last month for a recap and more of the incredible footage we have you can head to our you tube channel or to our web site r.t. dot com. well still to come this hour an advent calendar and a police group charges have been causing a stir in germany there among the stories coming up after this very short break stay with us. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the roots to. come back it's supposed to be the season of goodwill an online atlanta calendar has box controversy in germany the anti immigration also wanted to fit too many policy

has launched what it says is a white men version of the christmas countdown our europe correspondent pays 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 men 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 there's just not acceptable it's just racism or something like

that this is homophobia so but there is no one coming for old white people the phrase old white man seems to be some kind of a 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 have the reaction. you are regarding to there are some critics in the mainstream media say it's racists and they claim that there is no discrimination of all white men of course you have to will estimate what's going to happen and what kind of criticize some. you come you you will produce with that but the message is still clear all toibin are not they are not all bad. allegations of discrimination

and anti immigration sentiment dog the police in frankfurt's to five officers in the city are under investigation for allegedly inciting hatred after a probe into far right extremists they exposed their on line chat history that was full of nazi symbols and anti immigrant texts. 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 party says there's no 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 on the staff if there was a persistent effort by the government to check those radical right wing extremists

from all 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 those positions there has 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 process an effort by the government to get rid of nazi extremists in 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. be you says it's hopeful to have a mechanism in place to support everyone the by the end of twenty eight to help

ease sanctions imposed by washington the u.s. runs the middle east a nation have been in dispute over two issues for yiss to wrongs a nuclear program and pistachios. explains. many my think what's going on between iran and the us is completely nuts and it turns out that is quite literally true we're talking trade in past stuff is the us closely followed by iran dominates the world's pistachio markets effectively controlling around eighty five percent of the global markets with the two countries getting a crack affairs place everybody is documentary filmmakers discovered that some american press to shoot from us were left in panic when iran sanctions were lifted by president obama stashes right now or like the cash crop in in california everyone's planting them all farmers in california are very aware of sanctions on iran or the 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

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collected in areas that have been breached in the soyuz capsule for examination the holy was discovered back in all but it still unknown what caused it early out of russia's space agency chief said it could be the result of a manufacturing error while on micrometeorites has also not been ruled out. thanks for joining us on r.c. international this hour if you would like to have your say on a story you can get in touch by following us on social media join us again at the top of the or. anyone else so it seems wrong. but i. just don't call. me. yet to see how does this come up to. and in detroit equals betrayal.

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greetings and salutations welcome my friends to the winter of political revolt or at least a whole lot of winter with a few big debts as a bold tease starting with the good folks dressed in yellow vests who took over the political dialogue in france using massive revolts and protests over a government they believe only caters to the wants and needs and desires of big business and the super rich you see what started as a protest in the french countryside in rural areas over a gas tax put on the backs of the working class poor has now hit the streets of paris putting the city of lights on lockdown as more than one hundred thousand persians revolted against the neoliberal policies of the manual mccrone led

government as a whole and every one of them twelve hundred yellow vests were arrested in the demonstrations which included everything from burning tires in cars to dumping manure on government buildings president mccrone took to the airwaves in a prerecorded speech promising minimum wage hikes canceled planned pension taxes and a delay to the controversial gas tax lead list to say the protests will continue but it wasn't just the friend sure smelling the sweet air of revolts us here across the pond in the halls. the united states supreme court the much vaunted conservative majority on the bench is starting to show cracks in a surprising move chief justice john roberts in the newest justice to join the fray bret i like beer kavanagh jump ship on their fellow conservative judges and join forces with the courts for liberal leaning justices to decline a pair of cases that would have served as the first major abortion test of the court's new can.