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a new wave of power. in the city during yet another day of protests. demonstrations. protesting. costs quickly snowballed into a revolt against the french president. was it a. complete look i thought 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 arc de 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 deploy to gas was also a water 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 anyway tactics that have brought every single one of those yellow vest demonstrators into one little corner here there are a number of people that are acquiring medical attention we saw one of our colleagues from on sea front series here on the show on sunday say was taken away for some medical treatment. and that that was a little he was going to get i don't want to go however this has been a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks

the. money. involved people from both the movement and the the. after the most violent protests at the start of the month the french president eventually yielded promising to scrap the fuel price hike to increase the minimum wage that 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 the video went viral receiving millions of views. well to such an issue we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november you know put on your yellow vests to show that you are with us with our usual jeb bush also. we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vests he told us he's not satisfied with my crohn's concessions. that these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people who 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 the poor pay more debts the rich with zero taxes this is disproportionate this is the

beginning of payoffs we should for measures to resolve it we were on the streets in the wind in the cold not for a pleasure. for the french of come because they could not stand 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 it 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. i saw a lot of people running it were terrified children were crying so i realised 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 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 because he opened fire on the crowds authorities say he was a strasbourg local likely radicalized in prison his father said he backed into the mix state and believed it's 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 his profile and the testimony of some of those who how to. police have been called into action. 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 policy needs reviewing. we give one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing and this is good to get in but because we were doing the work of the i don't of this monday so that means we have to change policies to find the source of the terrorist move and to talk of the sources of the reasons for that we have to stop the war should we do we have to really degrade the alleged. all through the suburbs of paris and brussels. and we have to. work together with the moderate islam to the week of two 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 and 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 and 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 tourism a was battling for breakfast a deal on two fronts this week if you try to win over skeptics in westminster also

in seeking to renegotiate our terms in brussels with a look at how she fared as a correspondent and asked us to track. what a week for theresa may it really was the best of times it was the worst of times unacceptable it is. as 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 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 in the house and her own. appear to have no confidence in a prime minister not government already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of this policy a. parliamentary policy those calling for them to be.

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 plough 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 u. and despite all this moving around not a lot of results seem to be getting produced hunger bowl 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 what it was difficult was it in the malcontents at home or was it in the hugo 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 bracks 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 progress of protesters trying to block a bridge in westminster so the british people that to resubmit is trying to do her best for 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. second bush took. the oath of commons. that there was a deep mistrust. when it comes to the huge. future relations. we have to bring don't decide on which this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not and did of 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 you looked very angry when you responding to jump earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you mentalists well first of all i had to rip us to 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 particular phrase even talking about the general level of debate well whether these 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 it's a reason why you might not have the easiest of weeks to see the negotiations have a move of the european commission president drunk or drunk.

good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to with the final press conference off the today show. if they haven't checked. thank you very much. as we've seen it's been a particularly tough week for two european leaders the french president in one. of the yellow vests protests and seen his ratings drop dramatically while produce prime minister theresa may face challenges over. well taking a look at both of those stories his police work its crisis time for europe's oldest rivals in case you missed it maybe in my own maybe looking dining room. that. britain and france have been trying to outdo each other. and raise it turning into an indescribable less. unnoticed at the the end of the year france's president

has stepped in to say you think that's bad hold of it in his case it's probably a nine hundred fifty nine shots i'm going to add to the tradition of anglo got it right hillary are attempting to do their jobs in two very self consciously ways yellow vests brags it pass. his own teeth and mayes. conservative colleagues ultimately though the outcome is the same their heads on the chopping block not literally there anymore so what can be learned from these two jolie journeys towards political suicide to reason may has suffered the side effects of people what they want and then trying to make it happen sometimes it referendum must be pretty unique in recent democratic history because the british government is trying to fulfill its promise pretty bad time to start if you ask me it should be self evident by now the vote is almost always choose the wrong thing

like greg said oh man a oh my best friends need is taken the more she was but also carries the risk of having your capital city set on fire every weekend micron's ability to alienate the people is giving marion to announce all for of cake a run for its money sure he through there is angry crowds calling for his resignation a few extra heroes and scrap the tax on fuel but he also didn't sound golden room and forgot to use the word sorry this just aerial approach doesn't go down too well in front of fritz and the heat so is pretty much ok with untouchable who needs talking down to them surely that must be one thing which makes the brags that results on the barricades are wrecked is a cross wrong. sterritt see or inequality or ineptitude or anger over immigration or high costs or even low wages russia. has

been drained for being behind. finally some political unity in. the u.k. group of activists who resorted to extreme measures to stop a plane from taking the group has been convicted of more details on talkin about. the. president. 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 british way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus. you know news and news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in facts and information and if that trust is

fundamentally shaken and the independent media criticized then i think that's a problem from a communications perspective. movement is going. right for. me full stop. fifteen british guilty intentionally disrupting a flight to london. they stopped the charter plane carrying failed immigration

deportation from taking off the following video shows their protest in march of last year. the activists known as the stansted fifteen. of the plane documented immigrants on board were to be returned to nigeria and sierra leone a jury found the protestors guilty after a nine week trial now since the charges are considered. technically face life imprisonment and the group will be sentenced at a later date and we spoke to one of them. along with the people on march twenty eighth last year i cut through a fence. gain access to a very remote part of the. ground a 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 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 that 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 in. the forefront of our mind . all the reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stansted fifteen. these people place themselves the flight crew airport personnel employees 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 in the u.k.

many public figures including m.p.'s have backed the activists and are calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they say the activists should be spared prison and while the protesters found themselves ultimately on the wrong side of the law it's clear that many see their campaign as justified we heard from political commentator david violence and george barda a social justice campaigner here we heard of one bunch of lawbreakers when jing 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 enforcing the law the fact is that they set out to break the law of which they were fully aware and 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 is 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 open their pay you 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 but if they were seeking asylum which of course they're not that because they've been defined as on documented immigrants i.e. illegal immigrants found in play not a lot of the our society is a little stiff 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 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 as 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 there won't be any problems just like those who came here illegally and of no been rightly find to have been here illegally should also have obeyed the law the fact that the 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 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 these 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 just by us 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 and if that be the case that might stop other such people breaking into our ports shuttling themselves and and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the penalty that pay has a right one. an abandoned fort in the seal northern capital some petersburg has been converted into a maritime rescue center there was a purpose for all the different from the one used to have.

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