numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivable. for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and the issue in ways you can save by day as you're walking out of this is just it doesn't get easier. to rob people also get a rookie called in for just twelve euros fifteen months. behind russian madness continued to the b.b.c. also a freelance reporter in france to find any possible link between the kremlin and the rest movement. she says her relatives are demanding some blood.

central brussels is to a standstill by a right wing march against a new un migration. in yemen the port city of how data is reportedly hit by an aerial bombardment days after u.n. brokered truce was reached as a new report says the number of those killed in the conflict has been grossly underestimated. and four people killed a dozen injured invited attack when a gunman opened fire in a crowded christmas market the suspect was later killed by police.

the latest developments and i look back at the last seven days you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and still with me. welcome to the program. the b.b.c. has told our team it was reasonable for its news team to hunt for any connection between russia and the l. of s. protestors in france after one of its reporters said her editors were quote demanding blood over the issue peter oliver investigates over the last five weeks we've seen france engulfed by violence as people come out on to the streets to say they simply can't afford to live on the french president's money well michael i. but there's also a standard trope that's being rolled out all of the problems here in france taxes people's character really managed to debate everything life is so expensive must be the russians behind it right and it seems as though the british national

broadcaster the b.b.c. has already made up its mind of point the finger of blame asked not the french government not french taxes but the kremlin text messages between a b.b.c. russian journalist and another reporter apparently show who the broadcaster thinks is at the heart of this well maybe some russian business is capitalizing greatly on the protests when that doesn't get much traction the b.b.c. report is just that russians amongst the yellow vests must be easy to spot because of all they're eating maybe the protesters eating cutlass a mass since that doesn't get the response that was sought probing continues maybe the far right to ring leaders there nope no joy there either prompting the b.b.c. journalist to double down clearly desperate by this point i'm looking for angles yes the editors demand some blood we asked the b.b.c. to respond to these potentially embarrassing revelations this is what they have.

say as the french foreign ministry had spoken publicly about media reports of a possible russian influence in the protests it was perfectly reasonable for a correspondent to raise the subject however in the end her reports made no mention of a possible connection with russia at all we stand by our impartial independent journalism i spoke to some people here on the streets of paris and asked them if they saw the shadowy hand of the kremlin behind these demonstrations everything's possible nowadays. that. we know of course they are not behind they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. of course the. difference we never happy about everything. russian foreign ministry has expressed the anger against the b.b.c. . acting in a cynical way. the cynicism of journalists is amazing we're talking about a company that has propagated all its life and unbiased and independent approach

and this professionalism as they would be to me of the media world i have a question for these very british regulators of the media space and the public how do they evaluate this kind of completion of facts that employees of their television and radio companies are doing. brian but told us he's not surprised by the b.b.c.'s i'll go on the story. it's quite clear here that you know they've gone for a very very tenuous link between entirely homegrown french protests which are actually nothing to do with russia in a desperate attempt to find some kremlin angle to kind of you know fulfill the agenda that they feel they must do at the moment which is to get as much money as they can i suppose you know for the idea of fighting some him for war with russia i just off the top of my head i can mention things like you know montenegro's you know nato vote recently was supposed to interfere some idiots is the only word i can use in britain or actually trying to say that russia was responsible for brics

that now c'mon you know i mean there's been on the table well i mean your skepticism in england been on the table for them particularly for you know twenty five or thirty years long before when vladimir putin wasn't even a politician i mean you see now you know in america they've tried to make it look like russia was somehow responsible for electing donald trump so this is just the latest in a litany of you know. reaching like this i mean. they brought a new wave of violence to power with take ass and clashes once again seen on the streets during the latest yellow vest protest it was the third 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 my craw. with. the ethnic i.

the it with. the war then one hundred a rest were made at the protests in paris and r.t. correspondent. in clashes on the shores elisei around sixty six thousand took part in rallies across the country meanwhile there's a rising scandal after france three t.v. photo shopped a yellow vest protesters sighing from out to say just micron the channel insists what it did in the report was simply a mistake and not deliberate. following the most violent protests at the start of the month the french president eventually did he's not promised to scrap unpopular planned increases in fuel prices and will also raise the minimum wage that though hasn't diffuse 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 the video quickly went viral chalking up millions of views. the letter says it is the billiards we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november could you put on your yellow vest to show that you are with us with our movement with respect to the inspiration behind the el of us movement and he told us why people are still protesting despite concessions. so let's assume it's these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people would benefit from what astronaut 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 small 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 benefits this is not fast the

poor pay more debts and the 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 from pleasure. that the french of come because they could not stand it this is lasted for years not only mark wrong over here force did nothing to save the situations people are on the streets not giving it because they are determined i have also wrapped in the belgium capital on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for until i can protest. was. i.

i. i i i the protesters tried to enter key buildings police used force account and take out. to push them back demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to a un migration deal that document was agreed by by more than one hundred sixty un member states at a summit in america cash on monday it aims to find a common global approach to my question but critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament noted analyst thinks the problem is far more complicated than what appears on the surface. this is simply has been going on for the us in the last few years already basically what you see is people who are indeed afraid but who have been told that their loss of social security or jobs is to be blamed on migrants and not on all three how not big preschool companies who get away with

murder. taxes and so on the money there are still security. is the main reason why people don't. focus on these issues i mean the problem is there nobody is going to deny that the group exists but among others it's not even the big the biggest problem is from the moment so what you have is really story of people too that they don't focus on the real issues that really affect their daily life. in yemen the port city of her data and a few other areas have reportedly been the target of an air strike 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 with the rebels in headed data the truce was agreed at during u.n. backed talks held in sweden the first of their kind in two and a half years under the ceasefire terms the warring sides were to halt hostilities

and withdraw their forces from her data a strategic port city that serves as the main entry point for military an egg. 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 seek desperate they have one message for the world this war needs to stop. meanwhile a new report by the armed conflict location and event data project claims the number of yemenis killed since at twenty sixteen has reached sixty thousand that figure is six times greater than the normally cited to ten thousand dead andrea carb only one of the researches behind the 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 un the soul of the show figure seems 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. behind those figures are the tragedies of individual families here's one such story .

you. can hardly tell us it was my divorce oh never forget my. daughter was suffering from diarrhea which we didn't have the money to for transportation treatments we couldn't even afford to have a trip you see. i have no money that's why my daughter starve to death i pray to god that the children survive.

that the person has died of his injuries from the terror attack in strasburg earlier this week bringing the number of victims to five a gunman opened fire in a crowded christmas market before fleeing a two day manhunt followed and dying 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. the scene. 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 at 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 an arab because he

started shooting authorities say he was a local who had likely been radicalized in prison and father said his son supported islamic state believing its militants were fighting 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. the always considering the target the perpetrators way of operating his profile and the testimonies of those i had him yell allahu akbar and to terror police have been called into action terrorism 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 that europe's current anti terror policy needs reviewing. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every day and this is good in 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 reserves or the 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 the middle 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 mosque yesterday was well known to the police so why wasn't he detained in advance we discuss that haron 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 she. says we bought the clan we all front and we want france to live in peace. still ahead washington unveils its new plan for africa criticizing the presence of russia and china there more on that story right after this break.

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welcome back to the weekly u.s. national security adviser has criticized russia and china's activity in africa john bolton was unveiling a new policy which he says or 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. 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 some people the united states itself needs. with bolton heavily critical of the fall of russia and china in the area where gas death has taken a closer look at america's own vision. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and 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 stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interests it's interesting 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 realize this highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment aging 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's more than makes up with guns american troops are stationed in fifty out of

fifty four african nations it has thirty four. literally 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 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 really come to be able 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 no simply an album and the other all of the continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life just think of punting 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. and play i'm devoted

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