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to the streets of paris for a fifth weekend in a row despite the president making concessions. what else is the creation of a. raising fears in europe new military escalation. of the bush comedian has sent a list of topics he's not allowed to joke about before an appearance at the university. censorship we put the issue up with. trivial for me to sign this document to be honest if you have to stop and go you know what's there also could be not to be sexist then maybe it's about time that you said about the fact that it's twenty eight and check out what your material is when you're a comedian and by virtue of what you're doing this subject matter. braided in the spirit of lenny bruce and more soul and dick gregory.

just call three am here in moscow watching r.t. international live with me daniel hawkins review are you're very welcome with us this. paris has been gripped by a fifth weekend of civil unrest with up to one hundred seventy people arrested the yellow vest movement started as a protest against fuel taxes and snowballed into a revolt against the president my craw. it was going to look good but it was was was. was. is the tear gas leaves this area of the seans allee's a the famous streets in paris police are moving their way up towards the uk to

triomphe clearing out anybody who they deemed to be involved in the violence that we saw a rope out of absolutely nowhere it was incredibly peaceful throughout today and then just in a few seconds it went from zero to ten immediately and we saw police deploy tear gas which is in the air right now as we're moving into it and also a water cannon as well as well as the rubber bullets being fired certainly a very forceful move by the police in order to make sure that they take they took control of this particular area of the seans elisei after five weeks of the police tactics being found somewhat lacking what we have seen here is well they suffered a at least anyway tactics that have brought every single one of those yellow vests demonstrators into one little corner here right now it seems that it's over here it

seems that they've brought them into that particular area but this has been quite a while in the ventral afternoon that started off quietly and escalated really really quickly there are a number of people that are acquiring medical attention we saw one of our colleagues from our t. fronts who is here on the show and so they say was taken away for some medical treatment however. this has been a much smaller scale demonstration of what we've seen in the previous weeks. i. took. the how.

the her how. they were going to move. but. i was up. i. thought. rallies were held across france on saturday almost five thousand people took to the streets of although police used water cannon to break up that crowd with a small march taking place in lille being largely peaceful largest gathering was

a leone where more than thirty three thousand activists took to the city center demonstrations took place in mass a and in months where tear gas was used. the yellow vest protest movement against the government policies has moved outside of french borders now as well the belgian capital brussels was hit by demonstrations on saturday several hundred protesters took to the streets making a stand against low wages high taxes and social welfare cuts. meanwhile in italy yellow vests have been demonstrating against the country's current migration policy in rome they gathered in the city center to stand in solidarity with migrants and asylum seekers this comes as the italian government moves to eliminate humanitarian protection as one of its visa categories. the protests have spread outside of europe as well now on friday tel aviv saw its own version of the french government taking to the streets protesting high taxes and the cost of living.

i. was i was. i was i. was hundreds of people took part in the demo blocking off roads in the city center this comes off the recent hikes in water electricity and food prices demonstrators accuse the government of ignoring the fact that salaries are not keeping up with the city's cost of living. i must look at what happened in france when they raise the fuel tax but here in israel the government is constantly taking similar measures and from the first of january the cost of living will become even higher with these really parliament members who voted to raise their own salaries by five hundred shekels is that reasonable we want our government to take all this money

more than all those new york corporations and make came but it's fair game i don't know that. i have the price was the phone that one share everything they said this is inspiration from. oh god i'm thinking of me. they think i'm. nothing. but they can think of i was just a brief us protest on westminster bridge in the u.k. yesterday by pro bricks campaigners generally though what began in france hasn't spread to the british isles now with a slightly alternative look here's polly boyko and her latest episodes of in case you missed it. in frogs people hate the idea of fieldwork coming more expensive but in britain it's been expensive for you here is these pleasant postures would

never fall victim to a laser on revolution the other vests would never make it here surely. on the street across the nation and. is forming these anglo-saxon liaison's are up to some playing. very. fast going on and they appear peaceful but this army of high vans of warriors apparently did have weapons now

but because they're keeping this revolution as. their interests guiding their bayonets and their machetes as tools and machinery. bombs fool me. oh my god there's another one. this conspiracy going to great to the very top. but france is a government in disarray a leader of it being out of touch with normal people the issue of immigration dividing the nation. together invest revolution and i happen to. create it. who's your leader our. i see them.

kosovo has declared it's creating its own army turning small security forces into full scale military units that move however has found that can support among the long standing out eyes with the us being the only exception where i guess if takes a closer look at why most of europe is concerned. 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 our country. from this moment if we have the course got the talk. europe has its darker aspects ethnic strife religious divides contested borders

kosovo is all of that it is permanently on the brink of a new war it just needs a spock the self-proclaimed government there wants to appear strong escalate cashing in on ratings voters just love a good military parade where the cost of zero is the right place for that you decide. of it go to. your local. bar. 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 target its brethren ethnic cleansing belgrade

says that this could only mean one thing because of zero doesn't one piece everything the president doesn't evidently it 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. nation and kosovo should give you an idea of how serious they are on the topic of nato the alliances long wanted kosovo to join in 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 reexamine 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 that is no one who has anything to lose now more than ever the government of course of them must engage with minority communities and coordinate closely with nato allies and partners as it begins the ten year transition of its 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 a fell safe plan sell the firewood sell the matches convince someone to spark a fire and then be there to put it out. a dispute has flared up within germany's governing coalition over an abortion law we'll have more on that story others still to come after this short break. mind share that's where the playing field the battlefield of the twenty percent or so we're at war right now i mean so whether you know it trickles down to bullets and bombs and guns and stuff i mean that's immaterial we're already out war right now it's being played out in our collective unconscious if you wake up in the morning and you feel a massive headache it's because china and america are that war in your mind.

president trump indeed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on the you know free news and jump news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media are criticized then i think that's a problem from a communications perspective. the program russian national media could testify in an unspecified second u.s.

case that's according to new reports having spent months in an american jail on thursday she pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent the charges initially brought against maria booth that are included conspiracy to defraud the u.s. mainstream media though to put a sensationalist spin on it. she was never accused of that crime following a guilty plea the prosecutor's office said it would seek up to five years in prison with deportation also an option as the case dragged on maria is essentially been kept in solitary confinement for months her father believes this played a role in her guilty plea. the conditions she is being kept are having an impact if you have the chance to prove her innocence or justify her activity she would do just that this is very hard for her for most three months now she's been discriminated against and has been held in isolation what she needs most disaster porch we are waiting for the situation to be resolved soon and in

a way that is satisfactory to both my daughter and our whole family since november the twenty year she's been kept in administrative segregation which involves twenty two hours in the cell and as early as two hours outside during which time she can make all those so we know what those conditions are really like. international law attorney bruce marks told us both that i shouldn't me behind bars. beginning of this you know she was a russian spy well she wasn't a spy. the concept of a spy is somebody who's obtaining secrets from the government didn't happen at all this is a young girl she believes in the right to bear arms she met only with private people she has a relationship with somebody who used to be i think in the senate in russia mr torsion who strongly believes that as well we have a very technical law that says if you're quote representing a foreign government or official that you have to register and that's that the

technicality. that she violated and this is not the type of case that you would have thought would have been prosecuted would have not thought that she would have put in put in jail as long as she was if there was a technical violation at the most she should have been expelled from the country. a rift has emerged within germany's governing coalition over a longstanding law which bans doctors from advertising abortions should be scrapped at the new leader of the christian democratic union though says it should stay in place to get come about known as a.k.k. replaced the last week is known for strong conservative views of the law which states back to the nazi era says it puts doctors at risk of criminal charges for offering information about abortions. i k k took to twitter to say protecting life both born and unborn remains of utmost importance the party we spoke to locals

for their views on the controversial legislation. i think it's a really difficult decision. and and women do that because. i think masti they're desperate and not because yeah i can see and it is quite healthy to not promoted but to inform people about certain options they have but this is very important that doctors can really get this information to patients and it's hard to see read something into when i'm supposed to get a day would just have an abortion because it's so much fun dealing party member. arcelor believes the current continues a policy of previous us or a party will soon move to support a kick a is trying to pretend to be a conservative but she's just following in the footsteps of angela merkel and those

take conservative issues that she's bringing up our failing to convince and i believe that she should be tackling the real issues that she should be going back to christian democrat philosophy of the one nine hundred fifty s. which was that you also have to help poor people but you have to have an economy that works for everyone and those issues happen of all looked by the market government we have lots of poverty in our country and those are the values that people care about it and i could come candour will just continue the policies of angular merkel then the c.d.u. will continue to bleed voters and lose at the polls. a british comedian booked to appear before students was shocked to find had been sent a behavioral agreement the document was designed to avoid problems apparently and outlined with jokes needed sensitivity. by signing this contract you are agreeing

to our no tolerance policy with regards to racism sexism classism ages i'm able as i am homophobia by phobia transfer xenophobia islamophobia or anti religion or anti atheism constantine kissin was among five comedians struggle to perform at the event being held to raise money for the children's charity unicef the unicef university's unicef on campus society sent all the performers that behavior agreement they stressed that while the topics could be raised to be done in a respectful way. the university student union however said the agreement was overzealous later unicef on campus itself issued an apology given that unicef is a children's charity we wanted to make sure it was an appropriate event for the cause 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 so is this

a one off the u.k.'s national union of students seems to think so they say it has no evidence that universities are dictating what exactly guest speakers can and can't say there have been several other cases in the u.k. where comics have been stopped from performing or had their material censored double off for one was by and from performing at cardiff university after hundreds signed a petition complaining his show trivialized rape activist and comedian kate smyth waits had her performance cancelled at the london university because of her views on prostitution she debated the story with media commentator lionel. absolutely trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go what 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 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 comes out and you say do not talk about this subject do not mention the word putin kremlin united states trump we 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 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 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 units of what he did say use a dictionary we love no we can't no no yeah you know i have many you don't want me to carry. on and the rest absolutely raises a peek into me if you're hyper sensitive racism but that's not raises or yes it is

no it's not so of use they don't see the homophobic i don't see anything that in any way is sexually gratuitous what does that mean looking it up in the dictionary i'm not asking what the word racist means i'm talking about the context your application of it 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 you're saying can i let it go or get out of here should be rules listen to what we're talking. about a comedian there by the way if there was no rules or what the heck was he being asked this sign we are losing i said of humor we're losing our captain 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 president of ukraine has announced the creation of an independent ukrainian all the docks church marking

a historic split from the russian church president poroshenko made that declaration on saturday in kiev you describe spiritual independence from russia as a matter of national security for the country ukraine leader himself took part in a meeting of the so-called unification council alongside other religious leaders at the meeting leader of the new church was elected by the russian and ukrainian church is how to be under the same authority for hundreds of years and the russian orthodox leader patriarch kirill accused ukraine's government of interfering in religious affairs ference by the secular authorities of the ukrainian state in the affairs of the church has turned into brutal pressure on the clergy of ukraine's moscow patriarchate what we're now seeing is full scale persecution ukraine began formal steps to break away from the moscow patriarchate in october that was after the constant an opel truck seen by some as the highest authority in orthodox

christianity revoked eight centuries long act which united the two churches response the russian church severed all ties with constantinople. there's the headlines for the south join us again at four am for the latest updates. is the cause a report. every . month.

what politicians do. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press to see like them before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of college. for sure. prosecution. zone. where you. just read you'll find. somebody to seem to i mean young yeah i mean did a political pressure on the. business models used by american corporations.

the solution. is it is just somebody deleting. an investigative documentary. goes. on oxy. max kaiser this is the kaiser report there is a man. who well i predicted it exactly as it unfolded. so this we're not going to today look at the unfolding disaster in the u.k. nor at the one in france where of course has surrendered to the people because

all president of france must surrender to the people especially when the word is on the streets that the farmers are going to join in no president has withstood the farmers well since louis the sixteenth was it or whatever back in the french revolution days so i want to turn to our own emperor here because i like the way he's similarly melting things that our own in the you know the elite a sphere of how they talk about things that he makes everything so blatant the way he speaks like somebody from times square in one nine hundred seventy s. exclusive trunk says release of while away c.f.o. could be part of a broader trade deal with china more on huawei and in response to that edward wang of the new york times if trump said this undermines everyone who has said the arrest of mung hong's you was not political and it's strictly based on rule of law

and what to do o.j. officials and investigate.