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paris the french president had called him demonstrates is not to take to the streets for a terror attack in strasburg. how how. many. people were killed and a dozen injured in that attack when a gunman opened fire on a crowded christmas market the suspect was later killed. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interests and washington a new policy in africa to counter russian and chinese influence on the continent and u.s. national security advisor claims that america's previous approach was ineffective.

so the welcome the latest development and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now saturday brought a renewed wave of violence to paris with tear gas arrests some fierce clashes once again seen on the streets during the latest yellow vest protest it was the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations what began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs is now snowballed into a revolt against the authority of president emanuel macro. it was. beautiful it was was . was. as the tear gas leaves this an 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 roped 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 was also 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 the 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 across the gaza however this has been a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks. was. not many. people. i. i. i. i. i. i we're following the most violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually guilded he's now promised to scrap unpopular planned increases in fuel prices and we're also raise the minimum wage that though hasn't

a few some of the anger on the streets 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 that video quickly went viral chalking up millions of views well to 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 . but we spoke the end to that man the inspiration behind the yellow vest movement and he told us why people are still protesting despite micron's 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 announced not all of the people are paid minimum wage there are people with a slightly higher wage it's 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 fast the poor pay more debts in 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 pleasure that the french of come because they could not stand it this is lasted for years not only mark wrong although here course did nothing to. the situations people are on the streets not giving you because they are determined. early this week in france four people were killed in a dozen injured in a terror attack in strasburg a gunman opened fire on a crowded 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. them away to the city center with but the road was blocked and was getting over someone told us there was a gunman shouldn't people couldn't even get back so we ended up being stuck here. but it's reported that the gunman shouted god is great in arabic because he started chasing authorities say he was a local who'd likely been radicalized in prison his father said his son supported islamic state believing his militants were fighting for a just cause it's also been revealed to me that he had extensive and extensive police record and was on the french watch list of possible. always considering the target the perpetrators way of operating his profile and the testimonies of those

who. are anti 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 heard from two members of the european parliament from opposing ends of the political spectrum although both did 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 time does good is good and bad because you are doing the work of though this is 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 the terrorists we have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade. you through the suburbs of paris and brussels. and we have to do

to work together with the moderate islam to the week of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve them marial is more 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 massacre 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.

we bought the clan we are france and we want france to live in peace. the british prime minister tourism a was battling for her breakfast deal on two fronts this week as she tried to win over skeptics in westminster whilst also seeking to renegotiate terms in brussels the look at how she fed then his and say. what a week for theresa may it really was the best of times it was the worst of times on . sceptical yes 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 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 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 is already been found to be in contempt of parliament

her behavior today is just contemptuous of this problem a way the parliamentary party does have confidence here ok. 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 tendre ball 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 the reason you take this 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 are what drives me. 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 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 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 a deep mistrust. when it comes to. for future relations. we have to bring don't discount which this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not and did 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 he looked very angry when you receive him to show cogent earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called

you mental illness 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 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 breck's it 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 so theresa may had a difficult week then but it does seem that the brics it negotiations didn't dampen the mood of the european commission president. who.

was. good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to with the fine old school friends are stuck for days because of the bold enough that haven't checked. it should be much. cheaper to shoot me. thank you very much for. your snow week here on r.t. still to come a washington has unveiled its new plan for africa criticizing the presence of russia and china that will have a look at the details plus of the stories to you just after this 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. you know feet news and jump news because one of the. democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media all criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. thanks guys or financial survival you know they say money to develop. closer to these if this is a central plank support diet goodmans i'm going to call them right now so you stop .

i. know again now anti migrant protests are currently underway in the belgium capital at the moment these are live pictures actually from brussels around five thousand people have taken to the streets there we are told the protesters are angry about the u.n. michael pack that belgians signed up to that talking it was agreed by more than one hundred sixteen un member states at a summit in ma to cash on monday designed to find a common global approach to migration but critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migrant policies to counter protests is expected later on sunday looking at live pictures here obviously a lot of police a present it does look like business perhaps until gas is being fired things like tensions rising slightly than if you keeping

a close eye on this story for. i mean while the u.s. national security adviser has criticized russia and china's activity in africa john bolton was unveiling a new policy this week which he says will benefit the continent 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 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. well with bolton heavily critical then of the role of russia and china in the area. now takes a closer look at america's own vision. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy 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 their 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 interests its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's dead 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 now the 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 africans own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money that had 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 they tease and gentleman man who and they'll do america's new africa plodded 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 and maize want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france has the kind really contribution to number one the infrastructure development and also to gave technology to grow their agricultural their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high morale simply elegant the other all of this continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life dusting propounding to russia or to to china for some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help the picture so it is up to the africans will decide if wholly well off. like when i go back to the

u.k. because fifteen activists with i'm guilty on monday have intentionally disrupting a flight from london stansted airport they managed to prevent a charter flight to porting failed immigrant applicants from taking off. following video shows their protest in march last year. the activists known as the stansted fifteen cut through the airport's perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the illegal immigrants on board were set to be returned to nigeria ghana and also sierra leone the jury reached a guilty verdict following a nine week trial since the charges are considered terror and the activists could technically face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced insulated days we spoke to one of them after the hearing along with fourteen other people twenty eight last year through offenses. gain access to a very remote. tied 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 been brought against us it should never been us should have been the home office should be in that building just over there 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 protesters 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 force right now that's that's what's at the forefront of our might as. well in response authorities in the u.k. laid out their reasons for pursuing a conviction of the stance that fifty these people placed themselves the flight crew. and police at serious risk of injury even death due to their actions on the

field the c.p.s. walk to the police to build a strong case which reflected the criminality of the defendant's actions regardless of the motivation. many public figures in the u.k. though including some m.p.'s have backed the activists and they calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they believe the activists should be spared prison now while the protesters found themselves on the wrong side of the law some see their campaign is justified as 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 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 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 but 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 are being charged and i really all 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. 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. 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 doesn't damage no to go home they broke lower and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated just passed which is what they did they cut through a fence that's not justice process aggravated transfers and they were prepared to face the charges for that instead they were charged with anti terror charges and if that be the case that might stop other such people breaking into our ports shuttling themselves and craft and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the parent either pay his or right one. he was an artist national just coming up to half past four with his sunday afternoon it was good to have you company there's pictures on the menu screen there are showing a protests going on in brussels at the moment an immigration packet was recently

signed between countries in europe will have about a more detail review of all the week's story coming up at the top here with. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often skeery dramatic developments only really going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you.

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