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didn't wake to gas and it's the fifth consecutive weekend of. paris the french president called on demonstrators not the streets after a terror attack but. four people were killed in a dozen injured in that attack when a gunman opened fire on a crowded christmas market the suspect was like to killed by police. predatory practices pursued by china and russia those a significant threat to u.s. national security interests washington and new policy in africa to counter russian and chinese. and u.s. national security adviser claims that america's previous approach was ineffective.

thank you for the welcome the latest developments and look what's been happening over the last seven days to your weekly here on r.t. international my clashes have erupted in the belgium capital today after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for an anti migrant protest. was i. was. i was i was i. i i protest is there to try to and to keep the buildings police in school because as the store until gas to push them back demonstrators angry at

a u.n. migration the only belgians signed up saying that talking is agreed by more than one hundred sixty un member states at the summit america on monday and anxious to find a common global approach to migration like critics say will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies to counter protests as expected later on sunday. oh. the masses today brought a renewed wave of violence to paris with take gas arrests and fish face clashes once again seen on the streets there during the latest best protest it was the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations what began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs is nice snowballed into a revolt against the authority of present emanuel macro. it was. beautiful it was 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 deployed gas was also a 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 some medical treatment was that that was a little he was going to be god i wonder however this has been a much smaller scale demonstration there what we've seen in the previous weeks was. the teeth. of. the.

or following the most violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually yielded he's now promised to scrap unpopular plan the increase in fuel prices and would also raise the minimum wage to that though hasn't diffuse some of the anger as we've seen on the streets and i was just over a month ago that one man posts a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol the video quickly went viral chalking up millions of years. well through such an issue. 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. what we suppose the inspiration behind the yellow vest movement and he told us that he told us why people are still protesting despite my crohn's concessions.

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 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 who in ways benefit this is not fair 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. now earlier

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. 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 shouldn't it people couldn't even get back home so we ended up being stuck here. it's reported the gunman shouted god is great in arabic he started shooting

authorities say he was a local who'd been likely radicalized in prison his father said his son supported islamic state believing is militants were fighting for a just cause it's also been revealed see that 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. 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. what we heard from two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum although they did both agree that europe's current anti terror policy does need to review. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every guy does good is good and bad because we were doing the work

of the 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 wars in the middle east we have to really degrade their words realize the youth of 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 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 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 scad 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 front and we want france to live in peace. you're watching a weekly here in our international still ahead for you this hour washington has unveiled its new plan for africa criticizing though the presence of russia and china there we've got the details just after the break.

president trump indeed has has his 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 are criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. that

again now the british prime minister to resign may was battling for her breaks to deal haunting fronts this week as she try to win over skeptics in westminster while seeking to renegotiate terms in brussels with a look at the passion fed his. what a week for to reset me it really was the best of times it was the worst of times and acceptable 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 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 in a way 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 trying week. what's been worse. something of this week. one of the reports the oh you should believe everything you 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 euro bullies over here negotiations like this are always tough the wrist 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 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 a deep mistrust. when it comes to. for future relations. we have to bring don't determine 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 he looked 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 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 are 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. the u.s. national security adviser has criticized russia and china as activity in africa john bolton was unveiling a new policy 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 that 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 to expand 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. so i would vote and have any critical of the role of russia and china in the area has taken a closer look at america's invasion. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than

a strategy 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 start 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 dead colonialism almost financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own good well for mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us 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 the financial institutions and enterprises the phrase action. 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's 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 does and gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plodding so much for financial independence africans good luck we need to move it to consider what really africa needs is not really what china mase want a russian it's all u.s. everyone china russia or all of france has the kind of really country to number one

the infrastructure of development and also to give technology to grow their agricultural their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high morale simply by the other all of the continent it doesn't really know how these people to. their industry to earn better life just ponting to russia or to to china for some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help the pig so it is up to the africans for this holy war. following months of detention in the us prison the russian national rehabilitation this week pleaded guilty to the failing to register as a foreign agent she faces up to five years in prison and could be deported this report some claim that she is being used as a political port. 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 at that speed 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 her i also told the chiefs of our intelligence and 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 unregistered half of the street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why target maria wouldn't because she's russian and they might be able to get some political leverage out of her the only reason this is not about justice not at all but another high profile case is now starting to unravel the chief financial officer of wow a tech. knowledge of 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 of money 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 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 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're scanning pages to see if they can find the part where it says when all else fails grab a prominent woman caleb up and archie new york. now a young boy and devoted fan of the football star little messi has been forced to flee his home in afghanistan for a second time after threats from the taliban the group confronted the seven year old after picture him in a homemade messy should made from a plastic bag when viral but his family do not fear for his life after his fame led to amman to detention. that. this is a place that. was.

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