in. the end of the world. no. zero point zero zero site you don't really. need. this only best was not really. a manhunt is underway in france after a gunman killed three people and in just twelve christmas market in strongs berg officials are treating it as an act of terrorism. activists in britain could face

life imprisonment song terror charges after blocking a flight deporting failed asylum seekers some are calling the all thorough response an unprecedented crackdown on the right to protest they set out to break the law all of which they were fully aware and in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences they should have been arrested as they were probably charged with aggravated transpose the judge effectively prevented the jury from considering their motivation. the answer migrant alternative for germany party launches a controversial advent calendar for white men promoting prominent figures in history but it's received a far from festive reaction in the country. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron and we start this hour with breaking news from

the u.k. well a vote of no confidence has. been triggered for the british prime minister it means at least forty eight letters have been submitted by u.k. m.p.'s who have called into doubt to reason may's leadership the vote will be held later this wednesday the prime minister was to meet with leaders of the northern irish people who the conservatives and to into a coalition with back in twenty seventeen to secure a majority government but that could now be on hold. i think i have now to our headline story in france where three people have been killed and twelve more injured near a christmas market in the city of strasburg a nationwide manhunt is underway with the suspect still at large a warning you may find the next clip disturbing.

i saw a lot of people running terrified children crying so i realized something terrible was happening and people said there was a shooting right next door so i ran to. see if. i was on my way to the city center with but the road was blocked and we couldn't go further someone told us there was a gunman shouldn't people couldn't even get back so we ended up being stuck here. french president emanuel mccrone held an emergency meeting at the presidential palace on tuesday night to monitor the situation our friends correspondent. joins us now with the latest. could you bring us up to speed on the situation please. yes well we're here in strasburg information coming through thick and fast about

what happened on this attack and we understand the biggest increase to nicky three days and now thirteen people said to be injured in that attack on tuesday night in this city in the east of france we understand. been injured or seriously injured and they're all being treated at hospitals around the strasburg area just to remind you about what we know what happened on tuesday evening. we understand the interior minister has been saying that the shooter who is a twenty nine year old man who was born in strasburg was living in strasburg and was known to authorities he was on what's called in france the fish e.s.q.'s this is a watch list he apparently twice confronted security forces with systematic exchanges of fire we understand often the first exchange of fire when he fled the

scene he is said to have hijacked and robbed a taxi including the driver inside we understand that the driver was later released unharmed but the driver was able to tell authorities that the attacker had actually been injured as a result of an exchange of gunfire we're also getting some information. about the man in question this twenty nine year old and the suggestion is from local media in france and also from government sources that he had been imprisoned several times and is said to have been radicalized while he was in prison and the suggestion is from french media that the police were actually at his address in strasburg on tuesday morning where they would do to make an arrest over allegations of an attempted homicide and attempted robbery and that's when he fled the scene some reports also suggesting the corn aides were found at his property in the city

of the interior minister in france christopher arrived in strasburg late last night this is what he's had to say about the attack. france's. security level the government has just decided to up the level with the implementation of reinforced border control and reinforce control across christmas markets in france to avoid any risk of that happening. or. well a nationwide manhunt is now under way we understand that the number of security service personnel involved in that is now four hundred twenty we understand that there's been heightened security on the border. is on the border with germany and we understand that the christmas markets as you heard there from the interior minister there will be additional security this at the moment is going in here every year

they hold a christmas market two million people come and visit and it annually and it's been going since the sixteenth century it's incredibly popular there was already high security here when it started just over two weeks ago of course that's now going to be increased again but let's not forget it was just two years ago when there was another attack on another christmas market that was in berlin where many people killed and many people were injured as a result of a terror attack and we are hearing from some government sources that the motive is still too early to determine but the french prosecutors the french terrorist prosecutor has opened an investigation into this attack which has claimed the lives of three people and thirteen people injured including eight seriously. thank you so much for that update that speaking to us live from strasburg well strasburg shooting follows a wave of terror attacks in france over the past four years. represented

here from the french national rally in the u.s. believes the tragedy and strands both 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 his day was in jail you know he was you know totally free you know to go everywhere and that's the big problem we have thousands of people under the best file in france and our governments are doing nothing person mark 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 foyle and those people are you know alexi to go everywhere that you can impose more of this friction on french on the french population if you don't contain this radicalized movement then he is just a ground is just a recipe for more disasters. was . a group of british activists have been convicted for

a stunt at london stansted airport in which they belong to next off from taking off the chance of 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 of the. things the activists known as the stones that fifteen cut to the airport was perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the undocumented immigrants on board were to be returned to nigeria gone that and sierra leone on the nine we trial a jury found the protest of guilty of intentionally disrupting flight services at the airport. so as the charges are considered terror related the activists could technically face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced at a later date after the hearing we spoke to one of them along with fourteen other people. last year cut through a fence. gain access to

a very remote. tight ourselves 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 there this is simply an anti terror piece of legislation that's what it was and the fact that it's been used against peaceful protests 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. oath or she's in the u.k. laid out their reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stance at fifteen. 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 well in the u.k. many public figures including m.p.'s have backed the activists on to calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they calling for activists to be spared from prison saying they should be supported and not punished while the protesters found themselves on the wrong side of the law it's clear that many think that campaign is justified we heard from political commentator david long's and george barda 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 enforcing 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 are 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 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 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 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 having been charged an ira or that was joint into deal with terrorism and whatever your view of these 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 if that be the case that might stop other such people breaking india or ports shuttling themselves and and endangering human life so quite frankly regarding. well you want to call it the pell the there is a road one. following

a month long uprising by the so-called yellow vest movement in france and the new mccrum made concessions on monday but protesters there have vowed to continue saying the president's promises are insufficient they only rest was initially triggered by proposed fuel tax hikes which president looks wrong back down on after some of the most violent rioting in half a century over a thousand people have so far been injured and one of those caught up in it all is twenty year old student theory no linear during the latest weekend of unrest in the french capital she claims she was hit by daybreak police had used a crowd control grenade despite receiving medical treatment fear is now blind in one eye a warning to may find the following video obsessing. on american women from. the chores 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 they'd been covered in with. a 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 it. and she fell down. a campaign to help theory has raised more than thirty thousand euros here's her friend again who says it's inexcusable for police to disproportionately target everyone. principle into a philosophy 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 you have no means of protection oil no gas masks. four thousand five hundred protesters have

been arrested since the start of yellow vests demonstrations police may have to detain hundreds of people before last saturday's protest started explaining that actions as a preventative measure but a french lawyer we spoke to believe some of the arrests may have been unjustified and i know. we should give the justice system enough time to decide whether those arrested were fair considering the number of a rest before the start of the demonstration between one and two hundred it would appear that some of them may have been preventative we are now in a unique and contradictory situation to detain a person that has to be some evidence that's a crime might have been committed but this situation is different we're talking about unauthorized process around what the law becomes a little bit more flexible for example if you walking down a road and causing a scene it's an offense but during an authorized demonstration you can't be

punished for it another violation the justice ministry has used to detain yellow vests is a violation of public assembly law punishment is more severe for this but we have to establish intent to commit violence it's up to the judges to decide it's a category of offense that allows an arrest to be made before the offense has happened. so to come this hour an advent calendar and a police quick chat have been causing a stir in germany there among the stories coming up after this short break. cutter's financial survival guide i don't five i'm on

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welcome back now it's supposed to be the season of goodwill plus an online advent calendar has sparked controversy the anti immigration alternative for germany party has launched what it says is a white men version of the christmas countdown our europe correspondent peter all of us 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 know me neither of those almost within appearance include the greats in goods from home and abroad.

as you would imagine this has been. one on the hate group took another approach who wants. 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 has led 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 a jew or woman there will some activist come and tell you this is not acceptable this is racism or something like that this is homophobia so but there is no one coming for old white men for some people the phrase old white man seems to be some kind of a patent salt but it's not and we wanted to show that humanity has achieved a lot of things and you 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 while we have the reaction you were regarding to there are some critics in the mainstream media say it's racist 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 and. you come you will produce with that but the message is still

clear in our not they are not all bad allegations of discrimination and anti immigration sentiment dog the police in frankfurt to have five officers in the city are under investigation for allegedly infighting hatred so after a probe into far right extremists they exposed 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 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 understaffed

if there was a persistent effort by the government to reject those radical right wing extremists from our police and security forces and they would have already succeeded but there are 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 across the significance of the government you would not seek streaming in the police force but i think that it's also called the left wing parties that they've made in the past who just generally. condemn members of the police it's nazis and i think the right forward is to work together with anti crashes and progressive unions fight those extremist elements within the police corps. says it's hopeful to have

a mechanism in place to support iran by the end of twenty eighteen to help ease sanctions imposed by washington the u.s. and the middle eastern nation have been in dispute over two issues for years to ron's nuclear program and pistachios and he 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 and 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 pissed ashu 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 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 there to three dollars. ninety one million dollars. one of the farmers told us you know obama really screwed the pooch on this one because hughes is 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. stache ago believes that she are. the things that you believe for

a. pistachio. the wonderful company made its fame and fortune after the fest and here on 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 a. around seemed to be paying off to keeping the u.s. as the leader of the not trade 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 the sanctions what was surprising about looking at the statue was this foreign policy dimension the note is interesting because it gives you a way into these kinds of hidden worlds of people don't usually think about and don't usually think are connected it seems the pistachio is an actual seat of discord in the two nations many confrontations. reminder now of that big story breaking in the u.k.

this morning a vote of no confidence has been triggered for the british prime minister it means at least forty eight members of two reason may's own party have called her leadership into question the votes will be held later this wednesday at six pm local time it's unclear when the results will be declared the prime minister was scheduled to meet with leaders of the northern irish do you people are see here the conservatives entered into a coalition with back in twenty seventeen in a bid to secure a majority government may have come under fire recently after she delayed a crucial vote on her break that deal admitting that she was likely face defeat or both remain as and leave it in the u.k. have criticized her handling of the brakes it process. well we'll be keeping a close eye on all of our developing news stories this morning for you and with that with the latest of the top of the.

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