i know. i. over think it was. back. to. the hunt for russian madness continues as a b.b.c. reporter also a freelancer in france to find any possible link between the kremlin and the vast movement messages she says her editors are demanding some blood. central brussels is for a standstill by a right wing march against

a new un migration patterns. in yemen the port city of headache or simply hit by an air strike days after un broken truth was declared it comes as a new report says the number of those killed in the conflict has been grossly underestimated and in the stories that shaped the week. for people like killed a dozen injured after a gunman opens fire on a crowded christmas balkans in the french city of strasbourg the suspect was later killed by the. latest developments and a look back at the last seven days one. the weekly here are

a lot international with role and welcome to the program. the b.b.c. has told r.t. was a reasonable for its time to hunt for any connection between russia and the yellow vest 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 think. but there's also a standard trope that's being rolled out all of the problems here in france taxes people can't really manage 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 businesses capitalizing greatly on the protests when that doesn't get much traction the b.b.c. reports 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 the 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 to say as the french foreign ministry had spoken publicly about media reports of a possible russian in. truants 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 is possible nowadays. and 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. will be with the russia if they are still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and also whether the correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle but they declined to comment meanwhile the russian foreign ministry has criticised the b.b.c. accusing it of 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 rolled 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 the television and radio companies are doing journalist brian macdonald told us he's not surprised by the baby on this 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 russia was supposed to be interfered and some idiot

says the only word i can use in britain are 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's been on the table for eating 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 over in wave of violence to paris with take acid clashes once again seen on the streets during the latest yellow vast protest it was the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations what began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs has now snowballed into a revolt against the authority of president the manual my problem. was. i was.

i. was. more than one hundred arrests were made at the protests in paris and r.t. correspondent was caught in the face. and passions on the shores and around sixty six thousand took part in rallies across the country. meanwhile there is a rising scandal after france three t.v. photo shopped a yellow vest protest a sign from crawl out to say just a micron the channel insists what it did in the report was simply a mistake and not deliberate. following the most violent protest at the start of the month the french president eventually yielded he's now promised to scrap unpopular planned increases in fuel prices and also will 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. letters as usual. we'll 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 little chip. we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vest movement and he told us why people are still protesting despite crohn's concessions so let's assume that these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people with benefit from what restaurant 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 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 for a pleasure that the french have come because they could not stand it this is lasted for years not only mark wrong all those here force did nothing to save the situations people are on the streets not giving it because they are determined. clashes have also erupted in the capital on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for migrant protest. was. i was i. i.

i. i i the protesters tried to enter king buildings and. in order to cast a person back the demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to when you and my question feel that document was agreed by more than one hundred sixty un member states at a summit in america on monday it aims to find a common global approach to migration but critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies former deputy speaker one thousand pound note evidence thinks the problem is far more complicated than what appears on the surface. this is simply has been going on for the us of the last eight 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 get away with murder why is reading your taxes and so on the money there since security. is the main reason why people don't. focus on these issues i mean the problem is there nobody's going to deny that the group exists but among others it's not even the big the biggest problem that people face from the moment so what you have is really story of story not people so that it 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 her things that also had data the truce was agreed at ensuring un

backed talks held in sweden the first of their kind in two and a half years under the ceasefire tells the warring sides to halt hostilities and withdraw their forces from her data a strategic port city that serves as the main entry. the planetary date the truce was meant to take effect immediately but as clashes have continued is reportedly being 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 a vent data project claims the number of yemenis killed since twenty sixteen has reached sixteen thousand that figure is six times greater than the normally cited

ten thousand dead car bernie one of the researchers behind a whole lot feels the crisis in yemen has gone largely under-reported despite its huge scale. from what we could see in reporting at least there has been a very kind of a generally lazy activity you using for. that ten thousand figure provided by the u.n. the soul of fisher figure seems twenty sixteen and still many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has that you know it figure which significantly downplay the devastation we know already there are pockets of reported in several areas 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.

rather can hope it tastes it was my daughter oh never forget my two. daughters who was suffering from diarrhea which is poor we didn't have the money to afford her transportation and treatments we couldn't even afford to have a trip you see with cites or. i have no money that's why my daughter starve to death and i pray to god that the children survive.

so had that washington unveiled this new plan for africa criticizing the presidents of russia and china other moral lapse right after this break. now.

if we have a new trade arrangements with china that may build a new foundation for more stable relations i think broadly the there's of us as a problem in accepting the rise of china no matter what they do. another person has died of his injuries from the terror attack in strasburg this week bringing the number of victims to five a gunman opened fire on a crowded christmas market before fleeing a to date manhunt followed and then 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. i was on my way to the city center with a friend 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 it's reported that the gunman shouted god is great and big as he started shooting authorities say he was a local who had like being radicalized in prison his father said his son supported islamic state in militants 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. considering the target the

perpetrators way of operating his profile and the testimonies of those. 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 have only two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum they agree though that europe's current policy needs 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 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 the readers of the 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 it here and strauss 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 for. us national security advisor has criticized russia and china's activity in africa john bolton was and failing 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. 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 both in a heavily critical of the russian china and the area where gas death has taken a closer look at the americas and. 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 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 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 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 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 tease 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 want china maize want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france has the kind 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 condiment it doesn't really how this be. we're all there industry to earn but our life just finger pointing to russia. 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 only with. the round up of the week's top stories the

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a senior executive says happily in his private jet after just pulling off quite a coup. he has secretly initiated the sale of one of france's biggest companies. even so before landing into the bush he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions. eva take it or knows that a government member is waiting for him. to bow minister of the economy is demanding an explanation how dare he sell without consulting the state the deal must be cancelled the c.e.o.'s refusal threatens a social plan tensions rise and it's pointed out that the minister has already broken other bosses and their dreams and he will be next this is the last time he

will stand in this office or inside the ministry this is the coffee cup of a convicted man. two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated he lost in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his. it is also france's defeat. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french data. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances where the of a spy novel from prying eyes and public opinion in. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom

story begins in the city of bell thought this is where the company was blown in eighteen seventy two and since then it has literally shaped the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name alstom in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then else dumb has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest line up and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world. but for the people of bell fort else dome is so much more to feel it could cost you the social mental just wonderful wolf will the vault usually to teach the early city.