then i think that's a problem from a communications for spending. a bit. low. blow the. palestinian teenager is killed and dozens of other protesters are injured during clashes with israeli soldiers in the west bank and gaza.

i'm france's yellow protest movement inspires protests in tel aviv where people are also upset about the high cost of living and. braces for a fifth consecutive weekend. kosovo announces the creation of its own a move that's left europe worried about some form of possible military escalation. and the british comedian has sent a list of topics he's not allowed to joke about before an appearance at the university a matter of respect or censorship but the issue up for debate. subsidy trivial for me to sign this document to be honest if you have to stop and go you know what they're all skinny not to be sexist how could they maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty and check out what your material is when you're worth. mediate and by virtue of what you're doing this subject matter.

in the spirit of lenny bruce and mort sahl and dick gregory. it is saturday december the fifteenth and moments off the eight am here in moscow let's get into the top stories for this hour. a palestinian teenager has been shot dead by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank it's happening during street protests after the israeli army sealed off that is the seat of the palestinian authority and this a code during a security operation. i'm .

going to talk. dozens more palestinians were injured during friday's classroom's demonstrations came off to forty palestinians were arrested by israeli troops in raids in the ramallah area the latest escalation of the conflict started off the two israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting in a west bank settlement and israeli prime minister gave a speech on thursday vowing to avenge the deaths of the two soldiers. our guiding principle is that whoever attacks us and who have a troyes to attack us will pay with his life i really mean we will find them because from including from my colleague spoke with palestinian politician mostafa barghouti he says israel is using excessive force. how can further escalation of

violence in ramallah be avoided in your opinion it can only be avoided if there is an early army gets out of our cities and if they remove the brigades kids and if they stop the attacks of the settlers on our civilian population that's the first step but then the second step should be immediate initiation of a process of ending the occupation and there's been no apparent progress if we look at the last six months of day of rage protests. is an idea to change strategy perhaps the palestinians have changed the strategy the palestinians have adopted the nonviolent resistance and the martians that are taking place in peaceful nonviolent all forms of violence have been excluded and we have agreed with each other almost that if you don't commit to nonviolent resistance but when each peaceful demonstration is miffed with the israeli army shooting the people and

killing them of course there will be palestinian reactions to that and in the form of resistance to occupation i don't think it will be a grave mistake to if we have to between the palestinians and israelis in this regard you have to remember that what we have here is palestinian civilian population in the west bank that is totally unarmed in confrontation with the israeli army and israeli settlers who are armed to their teeth thousands of palestinians gathered on the israeli border on friday and the latest march of return rally a local reporter it was that. here at shifa hospital the casualties have pranced from live ammunition explosives bullets rubber bullets and gas separate keysets as well as injuries by gas canisters that were fired on them this friday cons after to israeli soldiers were killed by an unknown thousand soon after the

israeli forces and now. city as a closed military zone prime minister netanyahu or did what he called absolute rate and didn't listen of homes for those who israel considers as tourists it's in ya league life thousands of jewish settlement homes that were built without an israeli prove it on palestinian homes in the occupied west bank. protests of a different kind were taking place northeast of the gaza or israeli border in tel aviv on friday the city sorts own version of france's yellow vest movement taking to the streets protesting high taxes and the cost of living. was. during writing. by. iraq iraq iraq.

hundreds of people took part in that demonstration blocking off roads in the city center and comes off the recent hikes in water electricity and food prices the demonstrators accuse the government of ignoring the fact that salaries are not keeping up with the city's cost of living and. look at what happened in france when they raise the fuel tax which here in his around the government is constantly taking a similar measure them from the first of january the cost of living will become the kind of the things rarely parliament member of the senate voted to raise their own salaries by five hundred shekels isn't it reasonable we want our government to take all these monopoles and older theo colborn ration and make a game that it's fair game i don't know that. i am the crisis upset and the phones that want to share everything they say this is inspiration from the

old. time for. me that. they think are. nothing. but they can see meanwhile paris is bracing for a fifth weekend of yellow vests riots barriers are being placed in front of stores along the shore to prevent vandalism all soldiers are patrolling the streets the demonstrations in france started a month ago. in response to a fuel tax hike and have seen some of the worst rioting in the country in decades. it was france's yellow first movement spreading to other countries one place where you might think it would well perhaps not get a foothold is the u.k. of course fuel prices that are very high have been for years upon a boy who explores whether a british revolt could be on the horizon and the latest episode of in case you missed. in frogs people hate the idea of we all were coming more expensive right and it's been expensive for you is these pleasant postures what about fall

victim to a laser on revolution or you have vests would never make it here surely. on the street across the nation and silent is forming these angry saxon liaison's are up to something. very. fast going on they appear peaceful but this army of finance warriors. do not have weapons now

but they can make keeping this revolution as. their interests guiding their bayonets and that machete as tools and machinery. tomfool me. oh my god there's another one. this conspiracy very straight to the very top. but france is a government in disarray i leave it out of touch with normal people the issue of immigration to minding the main. i get a vast revolution happening yeah. here's your media. i see.

it is our international cause of a host to clear it it's creating its own army turning small security forces into full scale military units because i was a disputed territory in the southeast of europe attempted to separate from serbia a decade ago latest decision has left us some parts of europe consigned as what i guess to africa. we like to think of europe as peaceful conflict less a place where differences a result in a civilized way but this place is different. with this vote today a new era starts for a country. from this moment if we have the course got the talk. europe has its darker aspects ethnic strife religious divides contested borders

cost of zero is all of that it is permanently on the brink of a new war it's just needs a spock the self-proclaimed government that wants to appear as strong as collate cashing in on is the right place for that you decide. the parliament of the republic. serbia which is sworn to protect ethnic serbs who live in kosovo is afraid very afraid that this new army will eventually be used to targeted spreader and the ethnic cleansing belgrade says that this can only mean one thing kossovo doesn't want peace

everything the president doesn't evidently does it all with the support of the us and britain is against the law serbia says even a military intervention is an option anything to stop this given that they would have to force their way past nato troops permanently stationed in kosovo give you an idea of how serious they are on the topic of nato the alliance has long wanted kosovo to join the process is already underway and even nato has called this move unwise while the transition of the kosovo security force is in principle and matter for kosovo to decide we have made clear this move is ill timed nato supports the development of the kosovo security force under its current mandate with a change of mandate the north atlantic council will now have to rigs in the level of nato is engagement with the kosovo security force why would that be why would many nato allies be against this new army because it risks war in europe

again no one in that neighborhood wants a repeat of the nine hundred ninety nine catastrophe no one wants to deal with ethnic slaughter with war crimes genocide and refugees and he's no one who has anything to lose now more than ever the government of course of him must engage with minority commune. he sees and coordinate closely with nato allies and partners as it begins the ten year transition of his security forces the u.s. will be there with you the united states has been added for years prodding and encouraging kosovo to raise an army despite every objection and why not if they do were american weapon manufacturers might have a whole new army to outfit tension generated could guarantee an american presence in the area for decades to come and there's also jabot china and russia which

support serbia and don't recognize kosovo all in all that fell save plan sell the firewood sell the matches convince someone to spark a fire and then be there to put it out. we discussed cause of us planned to create its own army with political writer diana johnston. lenny said they're going to make their army the first thing is that the u.s. ambassadors their journey will be there with you wherever that means which sounds like a good use cursive a little provoke a war because you know it is a be there with you this is simply a gesture to emphasize personal status as an american colony because the base there isn't a nato base it's an american base and and you look at his children their american flags all over the place. if it came to a crank or two in serbia and kosovo militarily. because

a course of the army wouldn't have a chance so it's still will depend on nato and the american army it can't have any significant military it's simply to try to attach it to the americans and the americans are willing to let the test itself to the united states. have been nothing about it i mean they've violated every possible rule if we go back to the beginning what is it we mean to us the kosovo liberation army which was no not really any interest is this is really all who would know and become an army but that's exactly what he's doing because her deny as it's a perfect country now is the same people. media organizations around the world have condemned a recent ruling by a spanish judge to seize the phones on computers of two investigative journalists

on the island off the york saying the move violates the right of reporters not to disclose their sources and journalists were covering the case of a local businessman tolo course sacha known as the king of the night was. once considered the island's most powerful figure but in march twenty seven tane he was arrested on multiple charges including bribery extortion and homicide officials say they seized the journalist's equipment to trace a leak in the ongoing criminal probe people working for various media outlets staged a protest out there in front of a quarter demanding the right to keep professional secrets be preserved and a letter to the head of the state prosecutor's office i denounce in the judge's ruling was signed by more than two hundred reporters. we spoke with a spanish journalist ignacio who says that if incidents like this are tolerated democracy is in danger. only she said to pressure the really dangerous precedent for journalists to rule the. press which by the way is.

the spanish contribution. might be some sort of warning for journalists who are really delving into the to. modern. politics and the spanish on the will to. pull off some people really. think reinvestigate understand. what lovely place year are the very first off the mark of each country. intelligence agencies are designed to protect their countries from potential threats and new the classified cia documents show that a project from the one hundred sixty s. was willing to explore some fairly off the wall if not an ethnically dubious ways to do just that.

the specific game of the research program was to examine the possibility of controlling the behavior of a dog in an open field by means of remotely triggering electrical stimulation of the brain. the electrode preparation itself offered some special problems with a dog that is not ordinarily faced with a rat as an experimental subjects such as infection of the electrodes site due to

a failure of the surgical. british comedian book to appear before students were shocked to find that he had been sent a behavioral agreement signed ahead of the gig the document was designed to quote avoid problems by signing this contract you are agreeing to a no tolerance policy with regards to racism sexism classism ages i'm able as i am have a phobia by phobia transphobia xenophobia islamophobia or anti religion or anti atheism constantine kissin was among five committees. jewel to perform at the event being held to raise money for the children's charity unicef at the university's unicef on campus society sent old performance the behavioral agreement which forbids any

jokes on racism sexism and homophobia they stressed that while the topics come be raised this must be done in a respectful way. however the university's student union says that it does not require external speakers to sign any form of contract before speaking at events adding that the organizer unicef on campus had been quote overzealous and unicef on campus itself you sued an apology given the unicef is it children's charity we wanted to make sure it was an appropriate event tool because we would never wish to impose that guest with have to agree to anything that they do not believe in we apologise for the misunderstanding and though the u.k. is a national union of students says it has no evidence that the universities are monitoring what guest speakers say there have been other cases in twenty forty in the comic laughs was banned from performing at cardiff university of the hundreds signed a petition complaining that it show trivialized rape unprotected sex and the

dehumanizing of women the following year activist and comedian kate smith waits performance was cancelled at her london university because of her views on decriminalizing prostitution ok to smoke weed came to debate the issue with legal analyst lionel. subsidy trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go well you know what they're asking me not to be sexist how could they then maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty eighteen and checked out what your material is i find it weird that we're presenting this as though somebody is paying sense that the fact is that by agreeing to come on your show i've agreed not to swear on it and if i didn't want to do that i could have not come on your show when you know your other guests are bound by the same thing if every time you see a cup of coffee you shout i hate coffee it's disgusting or you won't be working in a coffee shop next week now let me explain what the problem is imagine if i came on r t and my colleague here in entertainment comes out and you say do not talk about

this subject do not mention the word putin kremlin united states trump would say whoa whoa wait a minute hold it. we wouldn't say well those are the rules it's like yelling fire in a crowded theater or coffee in a coffee shop we would say wait a minute you're let me what i'm saying you can make your own decision about what is and isn't ok and there are absolutely things i'm sure that you wouldn't allow me to say on and i know there are you know in line all the same and so by coming on air of course we've agreed not to say those things are not you know it's not down to every comedian to decide what kind of stuff they want to do and if that means that they don't want to play you know there are shows that i know where the comedians perform to children and of course when you perform a show for children there are kinds of subjects that you don't go near because it's a children's show and personally i don't do those shows because i don't write the kind of material that suits those events and so i don't put myself forward we're not talking to them not a question you can't define races you can't define units of what he did say use

a dictionary we know we can't know no yeah you know i have many you don't want me to carry lying about you and the rest of absolutely all maybe you can please stop it you know we're talking about your you're being so dandy good british above the rules and looking it up in the dictionary that's not the issue the bigger issue is that instead of us saying wait a minute what rules wait a minute why kid they speak no we're saying excuse me why aren't you abiding by the rules look at how we're giving in our first of all don't break the rules instead of saying wait a minute he's a comic is this over eighteen what kind of a club is this i'm sorry but life's tough but i do think that the answer is that everybody is entitled to you know here's my radical opinion i think we're entitled to free speech i think they're entitled to say this is what we think the rules should be and i think everybody else who's involved in that should be entitled to

agree to disagree to say well actually i would like a change to this was something you haven't mentioned that i find to be quite problematic i think that you know we know that there are always going to be. limits in society about what is and isn't ok to be said in certain forms and certain platforms and that's absolutely fine what's the matter with us we're used to be tough we're becoming a bunch of little snowflake trigger of trigger warning then you heard and b it's listen to what we're talking about a comedian but by the way if there was no rules or what the heck was he being asked to sign we are losing our sense of humor we're losing our guts and our spine we're losing who we are removing our personality so keep it up comics keep it up you'll be out of a job in six months. the u.s. has ruled to ban cockfighting in all of us territories including on puerto rico where the sport has a very long tradition. if

this is an industry that represent more than eighteen million dollars in our economy and also more than twenty seven thousand new egg and indirect jobs and not so we're talking about how disrespectful is the comics if we couldn't balance the then we are approving another federal regulation without even consulting the people of the puerto rico or even the territories. and.

we're all going crazy everyone is desperate there are so many people who make a living off of this you know they're going to shut it down it makes me very sad. i believe that to be a tremendous overreach of the federal government which has not supported all the basic needs of the time it's really means a troubling that the terrorists were not given a proper chance even to see this issue we were not consulted in the drafting of this amendment or at any committee markup or as a congressional court and we have a pretend i'm a person people to me i'm american see this is a man and what i can vote in this war. this is not the first time something like this is happening i don't think there's enough resistance from the representatives of us overseas territory this is just

a direct suppression of the traditions the common people enjoy here in puerto rico does not have any voting members in the u.s. congress we have no one who can defend the interests of the island the government to puerto rican has approved almost no bills to defend this industry on the island that's why we are seeing ever growing dependence of the island on the united states and i know that american streets like calling this is nothing less than a legal dictatorship imposed by the u.s. congress on question recook this tradition of court fighting has existed since the sixteenth century people of puerto rico will continue to do this one way or another legitimately virtually all of us the program for this hour here on r.t. international there are plenty more of your stories to come your way at the top of the hour hope you can join us. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. well you. just read you'll find. somebody who i mean yeah i mean i mean. business models he was. the solution. to an investigative documentary. ghost war.

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