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the fifth consecutive weekend of protests in paris. killed an adult an injury as a gunman opening fire of a christmas the suspect was later killed by police. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia are those a significant threat to u.s. national security in washington on new strategy to counter china's influence on the continent the u.s. national security adviser america's previous approach ineffective. and welcome to the weekly here on oxy international the sunday program now with the top stories of the day and the. saturday brought

a new wave 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 what began as a protest against planned fuel price hikes and high living costs quickly snowballed into a revolt against the french president emanuel mccrone. was. complete look i 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 arc de triomphe clearing out anybody who they deemed to be involved in the violence that

we saw a lot 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 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 don't say i didn't know he was going to be god i want to go however this has been

a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks. was. not meet new. people often but i gave them additional. after the most violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually he'll get promising to scrap the fuel price hike and to increase the minimum wage has not quelled the protests in fact it was just over a month ago that one man posted

a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vast as a symbol the video went viral receiving millions of views. well through social issue and we'll have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november. to show that you are with us. we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vests he told us he's not satisfied with concessions. so it's these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people would benefit from what restaurant announced 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 disproportionate salaries. these are rich in ways benefits this is not for us the poor pay more debts and are rich with zero taxes this is disproportionate this is

the beginning of payoffs we should for measures to resolve it we are on the streets in the wind in the cold not for pleasure. for 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 in because they are determined. 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. lots of people running it 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 on 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 its people and we couldn't even get back home so we ended up being stuck here. it's reported that the gunman shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire on the crowds authorities say he was a local likely radicalized in prison his father said that he backed islamic state and believes its militants 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 parading his profile and the testimonies of those who how to humor. 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 foreign policy needs revealing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing and this is good to get in but because of the work of though this. this monday at. least we have to change policies to find the sources of the terrorist move and to talk of the soldiers of the reserves with we have to stop the war. we have to really degrade the. bodies and the brushless as throws move. and we have to. work together with the moderate islam to the we have to to establish some long term goals and try to work to them. 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 it here in strauss book with the e.u. having opened its borders this free such a nation of people has bought a loud 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 are france and we want france to live in peace. british prime minister theresa may was battling for her record deal long two fronts this week as you try to win over skeptics in westminster also

seeking to renegotiate terms in brussels and with a look at how she fared as our correspondent and asked us here. what a week for theresa may it really was the best of times it was the worst of times and acceptable. as prime minister can't even do a job because of the tory civil war this government mr speaker is an embarrassment what is the prime minister considered to be most important playing parliamentary colleague aims in this place or protecting jobs and businesses by pulling the brakes the vote the prime minister must now concede that her deal is and the house and her own party appear to have no confidence in her prime minister and our government. already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of his politics a parliamentary party does have 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 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. that something this week. one of the reports. you should believe everything you reason what was it was difficult was it in 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 are 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 look that latest hurdle was in fact in brussels bound but also back at home it seems that for theresa 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 today the progress of protestors 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 said 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. that there was deep mistrust. when it comes to the huge. future relations. we have to bring don't do which this question of whether to resubmit 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 respond to show courage and earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you nebulous 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 you use that she could raise

even talking about the general level of debate well whether these are robust discussions 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 bracks 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 tourism may be having the easiest of weeks so it seems that the bricks in negotiations have been in the mood of the european commission president ford.

good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to with the i know it's kind of funny stuff the two days because of the bold enough they haven't checked. should wish to shoot me. thank you very much. still to come here on the weekly on washington turns its attention to africa criticizing other nations presence and tipitina's they will give you details just.

manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room sick. if we have a new trade arrangements with china that may build a new foundation for war stable relations i think broadly the there's of us as a problem in itself in the rise of china no matter what they do. the sunday program here on r.t.

welcome to it america's national security advisor branded russia and china's activities in africa as predatory practices john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. strategy for the continent which he says is aimed at the future prosperity of all of africa. across the continent russia advances its political and economic relationships with little regard to the rule of law are accountable and transparent governance it continues to sell arms and energy in exchange for votes at the united nations china uses broad's opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands. when china cooperation with african china's focuses more on what africa needs such as agriculture modernization and accelerated industrialization but the related statement made by the u.s. concerned simply what the united states itself needs

a lot without bolton being heavily critical of russia and china's role in africa but i guess they have now takes a closer look at america's own version for that continent. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of the africa promises john bolton this coming from a guy whose boss trump infamously referred to several african nations as something that i can't mention on there the predatory practices pursued by china and russia stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interest its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's debt colonialism almost financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own

good but if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this rely on this highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment beijing is raising entire cities with more to come china is willing to provide another sixty billion dollars in support of africa to government assistance investment and financing the financial institutions and enterprises the phrase actions speak louder than words is entirely a political here the chinese leader xi jinping has visited africa nine times during his tenure trump once sent his wife but what the united states might lack in tact it more than makes up with guns american troops are stationed in fifty out of fifty four african nations it has thirty four military sites thousands and

thousands of soldiers across the entire continent and a long history of military interventions china has. one base in djibouti russia has none american troops are there for african's own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money bad american money good thing well it turns out not so much our new foreign assistance strategy will ensure that all us foreign aid in every corner of the globe advances u.s. interest countries that repeatedly vote against the united states in international forums or take actions counter to u.s. interest should not receive generous american foreign aid john bolton eighty's and gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plan so much for financial independence africans good luck we need to move it to consider what really africa

needs it's not really what china ney's want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france has it all as they can really contribution to number one the infrastructure development and also to gave technology to grow their agriculture and their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high and now simply by albert and the other all of this continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life distinct or upon due to russia or to to china for some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help the fake it so it is up to the africans will decide if. fifteen a british activist to a found guilty of intentionally disrupting

a flight service in london stansted airport they stopped a charter plane carrying failed immigration applicants for deportation from taking off the following video show. the protest in march of last year. to the activists known as the stansted fifteen cut the ports perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the undocumented immigrants on board were being returned to nigeria gone and sierra leone a jury found the protestors guilty after a nine week trial. since the charges are considered terror related the activists could technically face life imprisonment and the group will be sentenced at a later date and we spoke to one of them after the hearing. along with the people. gain access to a very remote. ground plane that was. around sixty people. we

were there for about ten hours. and then arrested 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 that building just i was. simply a piece of legislation that's what it was. being used against peaceful protest is. remarkable. we need to continue the fight against 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. 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 and police as a serious risk of injury of 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 a calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they say the activists should be spared prison and while the protestors found themselves on the wrong side of the lore it's clear that many see their campaign is justified and we heard from political commentator david violence and george bought a social justice campaign. 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 a 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's now the prime minister and part of that has been you know these barely legal flights that are clearly you know 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 in 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 with an irony 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 their word. 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 being 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. 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 normal 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 lower and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated just by us which is what they did they cut through a fence that's not just trust us it's 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 all or such people breaking into airports shuttling themselves and to terror craft and be injuring human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the penalty that pay is the right one that's the weekly for this hour here on r t international we are back soon with more of the week's top headlines.

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