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french president had called him demonstrates is not to take to the streets for a terror attack but. how how. in the dozen injured in that attack as the gunman opened fire at a christmas the suspect was like to kill by police. the predatory practices pursued by trying to and russia pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interests in washington and new policy in africa russian and chinese influence on the continent for the u.s. national security adviser in the americas previous approach was in effect to. feel. welcome to like just about a month and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you what . in a weekly here an r.t.

international. now saturday brought a new wave of violence to paris with tear gas arrests and fierce clashes in the city during another day of yellow vests protests it was the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations what began as a movement against hikes in fuel prices and high cost of living is now snowballed into a revolt against the french president emanuel macro. no. complete look up 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 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 france who is here on the show and so they say was taken away some medical treatment was that i don't know say i didn't know he was going to gaza however this has been

a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks the. money there could. involve people from both the limited edition of. the. well after the most violent protest at the start of the month french president eventually yielded he's now promised to scrap planned increases in fuel prices and also raise the minimum wage that though hasn't stopped the demonstrations. it

had was just over a month ago one man posted a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vests as a symbol that video went viral receiving millions of views were through social 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 movement. where we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vests and he told us that he's not satisfied with macros concessions. so let's assume 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 that if this is not fast the poor

pay more debts and are rich with zero taxes this is disproportionate this is the beginning of chaos we should for measures to resolve it we are on the streets in the wind in the cold not for a 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 in because they are determined. but earlier this week in france four people were killed in a dozen injured in a terror attack in strasburg a gunman opened fire at pedestrians close to a christmas market and then fled a two day manhunt then followed ending in a gunfight with police during which the suspect was killed.

i saw a lot of people running they 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 it was a mo way to the city center with the road was blocked and we couldn't go further someone told us there was a gunman shouldn't people couldn't even get back home so we ended up being stuck here. when 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 he'd likely been radicalized in prison his father said his son back to islamic states and believed his militants fight for just course it's also been revealed see he had an extensive police record boredom is on the french watch list of possible extremists. considering the target the perpetrators way of parading his profile and the testimonies of those. bar and to terror police have been called

into action terrorism has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us in a dramatic fashion but the threat is still very real we did hear from two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum although they do both agree that europe's current anti terror policy does need reviewing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as you were doing every day and does good is good and bad because you 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 the readers or that there are those who have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade their virtualize due to the suburbs of paris and brussels. and we have to do to work together with the moderate islam to the work of two to establish

some long term goals and try to achieve them marial 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 relation of people has brought 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. about the clan we are france and we want france to live in peace.

now the british prime minister tourism i was backing her breaks a deal on two fronts this week as she tried to win over skeptics in westminster while also receiving to renegotiate terms in brussels the look at how she fed his anisette york and what a week for theresa may it really was the best of times it was the worst of times. thank you hey this prime minister can't even do a job because of the civil war this government mr speaker is an embarrassment what does a prime minister consider to be most important playing poem interest college games in this place or protecting jobs and businesses by pulling the brakes the vote the prime minister must now concedes that a deal is the house and her own party appear to have no confidence in her prime minister and our government have already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of this problem

a way that the 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 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 hunger bowl 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 you reason what what was it what was bit more difficult was it in the malcontents at home or was it been the euro 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. 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 to reset 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 progress of 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. that there was deep mistrust. when it comes to the. future relations. we have to bring don't reach 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 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 particular phrase 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. while trees and i did have a difficult week it does seem that the negotiations didn't dampen the mood too much of the president of the european commission. i.

was. that afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to with the final press conference i'll start today because of the bold enough they haven't checked. their motives. to shoot me. thank you very much. so have few here on the weekly washington unveils its new plan for africa criticizing the presence of russia and china there we've got the details just after the break. 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 the 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 criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. 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 the u.s. has a problem in itself in the rise of china no matter what they do. welcome

back the weekly now america's national security adviser has criticized russia and china's activities in africa john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. policy for the continent which he says will benefit 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 bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands to move on when china talks about cooperation with africa 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 but with bolton heavily critical then of russia and china's role in africa mode of gas they have now takes a closer look at america's own vision for the continent. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of 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 if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the u.s. or china look at this realize 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 of 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 tromp one 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 dad 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 vance's 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 the 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 mase want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france has the kind ready country to number one the infrastructure of development and also to gave technology to grow their agriculture and their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high malice simply elegant the other all of this continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better light dusting propounding to russia or to to china for some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help the fact that so it is up to the africans will decide if they were off.

fifteen british activists have been found guilty of intentionally disrupting a flight in london stands there port they stopped from taking off a charter plane carrying failed immigration applicants for deportation the following video shows that pride test in march last year. well the activist known as the stansted fifteen cut the airport's perimeter fence and surround the plane the undocumented immigrants on board were to be returned to nigeria and also sierra leone a jury found the protestors guilty after a nine week trial where since the charges are considered terror the activists could technically face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced to the later date we spoke to one of them after the here along with fourteen other people twenty a flash. through a fence and. gain access to a very remote. tight ourselves around

a plane that was due to poor around sixty people to nigeria and ghana later that night we were there for about ten hours we have actually come out 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 been us should be in 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 in for and the fact that it's been used against peaceful protest is. remarkable it's nonsensical 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 me that's enough right now that's that's what's at the forefront of all my. response to the authorities in the u.k. laid out their reasons for pursuing the conviction of the stance that fifty. these people placed themselves the flight crew airport personnel and police 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. many public figures in the u.k. including m.p.'s have backed the activist in a calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they also say the activists should be spared prison now while the protesters found themselves in the wrong side of the lord is clear that many see their campaign is justified we heard from the political commentator david vance and also george barda he's 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 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 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 had 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 the 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 and of no been rightly find 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 tamed and deported because they've been allowed to stay sent 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 doesn't demming allowed to go home they broke the law and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated jasper's 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. the but we had here earlier this week. more stores and the

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hello and 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 don't trump continues writing 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 stop for the former deputy assistant secretary general for strategic communications at nato and currently managing director at oxford the middle mr stuff for the it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time pleasure to be excited thank you i know that the new your current capacity you are advised clients on the situation in the middle east which is usually the.