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a large protest gets on the way on the streets of brussels. oh. i believe. and in the stories that we care or not some violence marks the fifth consecutive weekend of protests in paris the french president had called him demonstrators not to take the streets off for a terror attack in strasburg. or people were killed and the dozen injured in that attack when a gunman opened fire on a crowded christmas markets the suspect was like to killed by police. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia pose a significant threat to u.s.

national security interests. how washington unveils a policy in africa to come to russian and chinese influence on the continent u.s. national security adviser claims that america's previous approach was ineffective. by the well. on the latest news and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days of watching the weekly here on r.t. international now clashes have erupted in the belgian capital today after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for an anti migrant protest. was. was i. do

eco. or some of them did try to enter king in buildings but police used water cannon and take gas to push them back the demonstration comes in the same week that belgium signed up to a un migration dale that document was agreed by more than one hundred sixty un member states at a summit america on monday it aims to find a common global approach to migration critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament noted finnish thinks that the problem is far more complicated though from what appears to be on the surface this is something that has been going on for the us for the last two years already basically what you see is people who are indeed afraid but who have been told that their loss of social security and jobs is to be blamed on migrants and not on all three how big three schoolgirl

police will get away with murder by trading or taxes and so on the money there so security now that to me is the main reason why people damn good folks focus on these issues i mean the problem is there nobody's going to deny that the group exists but among other problems it's not even the big the biggest problem that people face from the moment so what you have. new story of stirring up people today don't focus on the real issues that really affect our daily lives. meanwhile saturday brought her new violence to paris with take gas arrests and clashes once again seen on the strange showing 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 now snowballed into a revolt against the authority of president emanuel macro was

complete look i was . was i. was the tear gas leaves this area of the seans allee's a 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 or rocked 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 here 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 this subsidy at least anyway 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 our t. france who is here on the show was taken away for some medical treatment. that was a little he was going to get out of it however this has been a much smaller scale demonstration of what we've seen in the previous weeks i don't know. about it because it all gave them a very difficult i. think

. we're following the most violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually deal with it he's now promised to scrap unpopular plan b. increases in fuel prices and would also raise the minimum wage that hasn't the fused some of the anger on the streets when 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 quickly went viral chalking up millions of views well to 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 without. which we spoke the inspiration behind the l.f.s.

movement and he told us why people still protesting despite concessions. that these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people benefit from what destroyed announced not all of the people are paid minimum wage there are people with a slightly higher wattage he targeted a small majority unfortunately this is not the whole population and these measures are really smart kids. 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 debt than 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 the french have come because they could not stand this is lasted for years not only mycroft although here course did nothing to save the situation so

people are on the streets not giving it up because they are determined. well 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 them followed ending in and 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 if. there was a mo 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 government shouldn't it people couldn't even get back home so we ended up being

stuck here it is reported that the gunman shouted god is great in arabic as he started shooting thora he said he was a local who'd been likely radicalized in prison his father to you said his son supported islamic state believing is militants were fighting for a just cause and it's also been revealed to you 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 they both agree though that europe's current anti terror policy does need reviewing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we're doing every day

and does good is good and bad because we are 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 the readers know that there are those who have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade their virtualize 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 miles 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 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 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 just. because we bought the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace. now the us national security advisor has criticised russia and china's activity in africa john bolton is 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 or 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 don't fall when china talks about cooperation with africa china's focuses more on what africa needs such as agriculture modernization and accelerated industrialisation but the related statement made by the u.s. concerned some people the united states itself needs so with bolton and have any critical of the role of russia and china in the area where it has taken a closer look at america's invasion. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 they does and gentleman man who unveiled 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 ney's 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 agriculture and their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high malice simply elegant the other all out of this continent it doesn't

really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life just think of pounding 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 they were off ice to come this hour on the weekly a key port in yemen has reportedly been hit by shelling just days after a truce between government and rebel forces was breached we'll have the details just off the break. when we all make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million. backs geysers financial survival they say money to develop. this is a central plank support diagramming kind of carbon right now so stop the. if we have a new trade arrangements with china then maybe build a new foundation for wars they will relations i think broadly the there is a us has a problem in accepting the rise of china no matter what they do. we

can hear a nazi now in yemen the port city of the data and a few other areas have reportedly been the target of an airstrike the saudi led coalition which supports yemen's government has not commented on these reports so far but they do come just days after yemen's pro-government forces reached a ceasefire with who threw rebels in head the truce was agreed during u.n. backed talks held in sweden the first of their kind into nafi under the ceasefire terms the warring sides. were to hold hostilities and withdraw their forces from her data the strategic port city that does serve as the main entry point for humanitarian aid the truce was meant to take effect immediately but as clashes have continued it's reportedly been put off until tuesday the u.n. is warning the humanitarian situation in yemen is deteriorating by the day

a terrible tragedy is unfolding in yemen and it's getting worse millions of people are starving sick desperate they have one message for the world this war needs to stop. meanwhile a new report by the arms conflicts location and event data project claims that the number of yemenis killed since twenty sixteen has reached sixty thousand that figure is six times greater than the normally cited ten thousand dead and their carbone and one of the research is behind report feels the crisis in yemen has gone largely underreported despite its huge scale. from what we could see in reporting at least there has been a very kind of a generally lazy attitude in using. that ten thousand figure provided by the u.n. the salt fish are figure since twenty sixteen and still many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has you know

a figure which significantly downplay the devastation we know already there are pockets of reported in several areas and eighty five thousands of people may have also died because of malnutrition and disease is connected to to do it. in other news the british prime minister tourism a was battling for her breaks it deal on two fronts this week she tried to win over skeptics in westminster and then sought to renegotiate terms in brussels with a look then at how she fed his answer to see. what a week or two. recently 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 the prime minister consider to be most important playing poem interest college games in this place for protection 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 the government have 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 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 he knew 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. and 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 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 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. of commons. that there was a deep mistrust. when it comes to. future relations. we have to bring don't decide on 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 very angry when you responding to some cogent 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 and when he used that particular phrase even talking about the general level of debate well whether these are robust discussions as theresa may has this cry. they're 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 it's

a for them for two reasons and also for president micron's we've seen with those yellow first protests so you can get an alternative look now at their predicament. and the latest episode of. crisis time for europe's oldest rivals in case you missed it made in money grown may be looking directly at santa and that. britain and france have been trying to outdo each other for over a millennium and resit turning into an indescribable unless it hasn't gone unnoticed at the other end of the year in town france's president emanuel macron has stepped in to say you think that's bad hold my beer in his case it's probably a golden goal it's a live one you can see nine chateau margaux m.n.m. true to their tradition of anglo got it right evil or are attempting to do their jobs into very self consciously contrast ing ways yellow vests verses brags that pass. get his own people and mase to stop her and 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 asking people what they want and then trying to make it happen sometimes it record them must be pretty unique in recent democratic history because the british government's trying to fulfill its promise for a 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 or may or micro the french leaders take in the more traditional and the. honest approach to politics and pretty much ignore the people which generally work but also carries the risk of having your capital city set on fire every weekend micron's ability to alienate the people is giving mary antonette offer 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 cold in the

room and forgot to use the word sorry this just aerial approach doesn't go down too well in front brakes and how to clean so it's pretty much ok we don't touch money talking down to that surely that must be one thing which links the braggs it results on the barricades being arrested across wrong. it's not austerity or inequality or ineptitude or anger or a very my gratian or high costs or even low wages rasher of course has been drained for being behind both finally some political unity in year. that now young boy and devoted fan of football star messi has been forced to flee for a second time after threats from the taliban the group confronted the seven year old after a picture of him in a homemade messy should made from

a plastic bag went viral but his family and i fear for his life after his fame led to a wanted attention. that . says much of. what it was going to going to be to put. together.

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