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as a gunman opened fire and. killed by. crackdown on the right to protest. to which they were fully aware in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences. from considering them.

it's perfect here for the weekly on r.t. international running down of the top stories of today and of the week. saturday brought a new type of violence to paris with tear gas new arrests and fierce clashes in the city during yet another day of yellow vest protests it was the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations and what began as a protest against planned fuel price hikes and high living costs quickly snowballed into a revolt against french president emanuel macron. it was. beautiful thought it was was . was. as 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 and then just in a few seconds it went from zero to ten immediately and we saw police deployed gas we also will see cannon as well as well as the rubber bullets being fired at after five weeks of the police tactics being found somewhat lacking what we have seen here is well the subsidy at least any weight of tactics that have brought every single one of those yellow vests demonstrators into one little corner here there are a number of people that are acquiring medical attention we saw one of our colleagues from the front series here on the show on sunday say was taken away for some medical treatment was that i thought was

a little he was going to go i don't want to go however this has been a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks. was. not meet with. people of people gave them information up. was. i. after there was a violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually yielded promising to scrap the fuel price hike and to increase the minimum wage that though

has not quelled the protests it was just over a month ago that one man posted a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol of the video quickly went viral receiving millions of views without you so should or should. we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november put on your yellow vest to show that you are with us with our. we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vests he told us he is not satisfied with microns concessions so it's these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people who benefit from what restaurant or not not all of the people are paid minimum wage there are people with a slightly higher wage he targeted a small majority unfortunately this is not the whole population and these measures are really small he could do a lot more he should have reduced the salaries of the rich because they have

a disproportionate salary. these are rich who weighs benefits this is not fast the poor pay more debts and the rich with zero taxes this is disproportionate this is the beginning of chaos we should find measures to resolve it we were on the streets in the wind in the cold not for pleasure. the french of come because they could not stand it this is lasted for years not only mark wrong although here force did nothing to save the situations people are on the streets. not giving you because they are. four people were killed and a dozen injured in a terror attack in strasburg on tuesday a gunman opened fire at pedestrians close to a christmas market and then fled a two day manhunt followed ending in a gunfight with police during which the suspect was killed.

i saw a lot of people running it would terrify children were crying so i realised something terrible was happening and people said there was a shooting right next door so i ran to. the. 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 its people and we couldn't even get back home so we ended up being stuck here it's reported that the gunman shouted to god is great in arabic because he opened fire on the crowds authorities say he was a strasberg local likely radicalized in prison his father said he backed islamic state and believed its soldiers fight for a just cause it's also been revealed he had an extensive police record and was on the french watch list of possible extremists. considering the target the perpetrators way of his profile and the testimonies of those. and to terror

police have been called into action terrorism has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us in a dramatic fashion that the threat is still very real. we heard from two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum they agree though that europe's current anti terror policy needs reviewing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we're doing every day and does good is good and bad because we are doing the work of though this a lot of time this mandate so that means we have to change policies to find the sources of the terrorism and to attack the sources of their readers are the terrorists we have to stop the war should we do this we have to really degrade their virtual lives due to the suburbs of paris and brussels as those move in the wake of two hutu two to work together with

a moderate islam to the week of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve the middle as more as i think this was expected this is proof that this is a must terrorist has committed a crime that was relatively easy to commit i believe it is time to react the terrorist who carried out this mosque yesterday was well known to the police so why wasn't he detained in advance we discuss a heron stross book with the e.u. having opened its borders this free such a nation of people has bought allowed criminals to move about freely every time we have such tragedy we get back to the topic of border control and i think we should take back control of the borders and make the criminals afraid again because now they are not scared yet ordinary people are scared of going to christmas markets with their kids scared to go outside it is not enough to light candles to cry to say like they do all the time just. because we bought the clan we all france and we

want france to live in peace. british prime minister to resign i was battling for a deal on two fronts this week as you try to win over skeptics in westminster also seeking to renegotiate terms in brussels with a look at how she fared as and asked us to try. what a week four to recently it really was the best of times it was the worst of times unacceptable thank you hey what is prime minister can't even do a job because of the civil war this government mr speaker is an embarrassment what is the prime minister considered to be most important playing poem interest college games in this place or protecting jobs and businesses by pulling the breaks the vote the prime minister must now concedes that a deal is the house and the party appear to have no confidence in her prime minister no government already been found to be in contempt of parliament her

behavior today is just contemptuous of this problem a with the parliamentary party dogs of confidence here. following this but we now need to get on with the job of delivering bricks it for the british people and building a better future for this country one hand she managed to plow through that vote of no confidence that would triggered by her own party here in westminster but on the other hand she continues to be stuck in this massive deadlock when it comes to the biggest job she now has to get done which is bracks said and all of this while sort of jumping like a tennis ball from one court to another going from westminster to the e.u. back to westminster to the e.u. and despite all this moving around not a lot of results seem to be getting produced timetable ones with lots and lots of roadblocks getting in her way you've had a falling week. what's been worse. something of this

week chasing. one of the reports the oh you should believe everything he knew what was it what it was but more difficult has it been the malcontents at home or was it been the bullies over here negotiations like this are always tough the risk difficult times and as you get close. to the very end then that can get even more difficult what what drives me to can carry on doing this and making sure we deliver is that this is what's right for the british people well though that latest hurdle was in fact in brussels bound but also back at home it seems that for two recent may everybody is on happy with something at this point you know for some people are saying not her deal let's now move on to the heart bragg's it others are saying you know let's remain because things are going so badly at this stage others are saying let's have a second referendum because things are going so badly and you know we've seen earlier to deprogram protesters trying to block

a bridge in westminster so the british people that to resubmit is trying to do her best or seem to have a lot so lots of mixed feeling on this issue and that in its own right seems to be the biggest problem that brussels now has with all of this because they've been saying to theresa may we need you to stop being so vague we need you to go back and get specifics from the house of parliament. of commons. if there was a deep mistrust. when it comes to. issues for future relations. we have to bring don't disturb which this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not ended up being part of an exchange between her and the president of the european commission and ended up grabbing quite a bit of attention in the media very angry when you responding to her earlier today

what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you an endless well first of all i had a robust discussion with him because i think that's the sort of discussion you're able to have when you've developed a working relationship and you work well together when he used that particular phrase even talking about the general level of debate well whether these are robust disk. russians as theresa may has described them are actually going to end up leading somewhere remains to be seen whether they're going to end up being able to reach some kind of solutions or whether the u.k. is going to be launched towards a new deal breck's it's something that's increasingly being talked about remains to be seen and there's really not very much time left to see which one it's going to end up being. and while the reason may may not be having well the easiest of weeks it seems that the negotiations have not dampened the mood of the european commission president drunk or drunk.

afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to with the high school friends of the today's political symbol they do if they haven't checked. to suit me. now are still to come here on the weekly on r.t. international we speak with the father of maria that's the russian national accused of well ultimately just being a spy in the united states and he gives us insight into what life for the thirty year old has been like since her arrest in july and many other stories just.

president trump indeed has has he's 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 you know fate news and junk 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 ogg criticize then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. if we have a new. arrangements with china then may build a new foundation for war if they will relations i think broadly the there's of us as a problem. in the rise of china no matter what they do. top

stories of the day end of the week it was on thursday after months in a u.s. prison but russian national morea pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent she faces up to five years behind bars and could be deported to russia's foreign ministry commented on that last possibility. the deal was aimed at getting a shorter sentence in the hope that the judges would show mercy just to remind you of the chargers initially brought against maria included allegations of her being nothing short of a spy following her guilty plea prosecutors said they would seek a five year jail term she's already being kept in solitary confinement for months

a father is convinced that was played a role in her decision. for years and knew the conditions she's being kept and i having an impact if you have the chance to prove her innocence and justify her activity she would do just that this is very hard for her for almost three months now she's been discriminated against and has been held in isolation what she needs most disaster port 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 years 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 cools so we know what those conditions are really like. perhaps so no surprise then some here in russia see broadness case as political capital motivated it's kind of open now explains when maria boot no was arrested the media went wild

cue the james bond music and get out your decoder rings it turned out we have a real james bond seductress in real life and they had sexy photos with firearms a web of sex and lies and illegal kremlin agent she offered sex for access to an unnamed political group was likely in contact with russia's f.s.b. and something right out of a spy novel they scraped the barrel for everything even her phone cover which reportedly had putin's face on it received its fair share of air time and now after six months she's been in federal custody much of which in solitary confinement she has come forward and pled guilty to failing to register as a lobbyist for a foreign government yeah no spy stuff no sexual seduction not much at all they've got her for supposedly talking to some politically influential people this is what russia has been saying all along for those little when i heard about what's happening around i also told the chiefs of our intelligence that no one had heard of her only in the federal council had people who had her because she was working

as someone's assistant now prior to today's hearing the russian foreign ministry said that they would support her no matter what decision she made it seems like the buttin a saga is now drawing to a close she might be deported back to russia she might go to prison the next hearing is on february twelfth they're not just begun politically motivated this is an utter and total miscarriage of justice i work on chase street in washington d.c. k. street is the center of lobbying for the washington area half of the street is in registers half of k. street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why target maria because she's russian and they might be able to get some political leverage out of her the only reason this is not a. justice not row but another high profile case is now starting to unravel the chief financial officer of wow a technologies the world's leading telecommunications manufacturer has been grabbed

in canada over charges related to sanctions against iran trump openly admits that u.s. interests and negotiations are a factor if we think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever many i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary it is going to be dangerous to see is whether we have a federal investigatory body and a justice department that is launching investigations or asking things under the guise of being a yes where the government of the united states without the approval or support of the president or other members of congress. in order to achieve political purposes or do achieve other purposes so that's something we need to be careful of what we cannot do is to let people who act outside u.s. laws or or a subvert those in the name of protecting policies to run those we need to hold them accountable and fortunately we do have a system in the united states where people can be held accountable if the right voices speak up you can bet that those who follow world events and geopolitics are

rapidly rereading trumps of magnum opus the art of the deal they are scanning pages to see if they can find the part where it says when all else fails grab a prominent woman caleb up and r.t. new york. fifteen british activists were found guilty of intentionally disrupting a flight service at london's stansted airport and stopped a charter plane carrying failed immigration up a conspiracy potations from taking off the following video shows their protest in march last year. the activists known as the stansted fifteen cut the ports perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the undocumented immigrants on board were to be returned to nigeria gonna and sierra leone a jury found the protestors guilty after a nine week trial. well since the charges are considered the activists could technically face life in prison but the group

a later date and we spoke to one of them after the hearing along with fourteen other people. gain access to a very remote. around a plane that was. around sixty people to. we were there for about ten hours we have actually been arrested and we don't know what's going to happen but what we do know . should never have been brought against us it should never. have been the ship in that building just over that this is simply terror a piece of legislation that's what it was. being used against peaceful protest is. remarkable. we need to continue the fight against a brutal secretive. barely legal charter flights the ones that we. that we targeted and. i guess that's the thing that's in. the forefront of my.

authorities in the u.k. laid out their reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stansted fifteen. these people place themselves the flight crew airport personnel 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. the activists on the call on the government to stop the deportation flights they say the activists should be spared prison and 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 von son george bada social justice company. here we have of one bunch of lawbreakers. 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 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 end 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 and i really or that was your point in today 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 there won't be any problems just like those who came here illegally on of not have 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 we're not all. should not all of been. 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 has a past 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 chair a crowd and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the penalty that pay has the right one there are some of the highlights of

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welcome to worlds apart it's been blamed on the advance of populism or the revenge of the deplorable but the norms of public discourse have visibly shifted over the last few years and it's not just in the united states where doing continues right in history with his misspelled tweets but also in the u.k. france and other countries with seemingly establish standards of public discourse is the old west becoming wild again well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael stipe for the former deputy assistant secretary general for strategic

communications at nato and currently managing director at oxford in the lake of mr stuff for the it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time pleasure to be on a thank you i know that the new york current capacity you are advised clients on the situation in the middle east which is usually thought of as a far riskier and more unpredictable region than the stable and civil western world but given the events in france the veil very violent protests there as well as the orderly brax of negotiations don't you think that the your clients or perhaps more perp.