i. feel. like i'm. in. the hunt for russian. news. in the kremlin i like yellow best movement. she says.

central brussels has brought to a standstill. against the new un migration back to major ports. and major ports in yemen and. the u.n. cease fire while a new report says the death toll in the conflict has been grossly underestimated and. people are killed. on a crowded christmas markets in the french city of strasbourg. police. the weekly roundup of the news here in our national review very welcome with us this. the b.b.c. has told r.t. it was reasonable for its news team to hunt for any connection between russia and

the yellow vest movement in france that's after one of its reporters said their editors were demanding blood over the issue these are all of the investigate. 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 when my call. 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 to ban everything life is so expensive possibly the russians behind it right and it seems as though the british national broadcaster the b.b.c. has already made up its mind who to point the finger of blame marked 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 suggest 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 that nope no joy there either prompting the b.b.c. journalist to double down clean 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 all they have to 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. you. know. we know of course they are not behind the man they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. of course the. difference we never happier but everything. we did ask the b.b.c. russian service if they're still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and also whether the correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle they declined to comment meanwhile the russian foreign ministry has criticized 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 an unbiased and independent approach and

this professionalism as they would be to me of the media or old i have a question for these very british regulators of the media space and the public how do they evaluate this kind of compilation of facts that employees of their television and radio companies are doing journalist bramah dawdle told us is not surprised by the b.b.c.'s take 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 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 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 in 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 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. it's been gripped by a fifth consecutive weekend of civil unrest the movement began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs low balled into a revolt against the author of president's. it was. complete. with me as was. i i was. more than

a hundred arrests were made at the latest protests in paris tens of thousands took part in the rallies across the country meanwhile there is a media scandal after france three t.v. photo shopped a yellow vests protest the sign from micron out to just saying 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 hulett is now promised to scrap some unpopular plan increases in fuel prices he also raised the minimum wage a lot though hasn't diffused some of the anger on the streets. it was just over a month ago now that one man posted a video on facebook calling on protest this to take up the yellow vest as a symbol the video quickly went viral chalking up millions of views we're going to says it is with the 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. we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow bus the movement 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 would 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 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 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. for the french have 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. a clash is also up there in the bells and cowboys on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for protest. thank you was the they. i. i i. i i. i i. i the protesters trying to enter key e.u. buildings with police using water cannons and tear gas to push them back demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to a un migration deal what was agreed by more than one hundred sixty u.n.

member states at a summit in america on monday thanks to find a common global approach to migration critics though say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament lode vitalist thinks the problem is far more complex than what appears on the surface. this is something 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 only big school companies who get away with murder by evading your taxes and so on the money there so security. to me is the main reason why people then focus on these issues i mean the problem is there nobody is going to deny that the program exists but among other things it's not

even the big the biggest problem that people face from the moment so what you have is really the story of stirring up people so that they don't focus on the real issues that really affect their daily life. and here in the port city of her data and a few other areas have reportedly been hit by ass strikes the saudi led coalition which is. supports yemen's government has not commented on the report so for it to come just days after yemen's pro-government forces reached a ceasefire with hooty rebels in hard data a truce was agreed to a un 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 our data a strategic port city that serves as the main entry point for humanitarian aid the truce was meant to take effect immediately but clashes have continued it's reportedly been put off till tuesday the u.n. is warning of a humanitarian situation in yemen is that 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 twenty sixteen has reached sixty thousand that figure is six times greater than the normally cited ten thousand casualties and recording of the research is behind the project fuels 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 people are provided by the un this is all of the show figure seems twenty sixteen and still many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has there you know if 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 through to do it. behind those figures. of individual families there is one such story. you. can hope. it was my dogs oh never forget my.

daughter was suffering from diarrhea quick to school we didn't have the money to afford the transportation and 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. the death toll from tuesday's terrorist attack in strasburg has now risen to five people a lot more on that after this short break. if we have a new trade or their arrangements with china that may build a new foundation for war stable relations i think broadly the there's of us as

a problem in accepting the rise of china no matter what they do. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back to the weekly here on r.t. international a man has died of gunshot wounds after tuesday's terrorist attack in strasburg that brings the death toll to five a gunman opened fire in a crowded christmas market before fleeing a two day manhunt followed which ended in a gunfight with security forces during which the suspect was killed. lots of people running they 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 shoot in and people couldn't even get back so we ended up being stuck here

. according to bystanders the terrorists shouted to god is great in arabic as he began shooting you say he was a local and was probably radicalized in prison his father said his son supported islamic state believing its militants were fighting for a just cause it's also been revealed he had severed several criminal convictions and was on the french watch list of possible extremists. the always considering the target the perpetrators way of parading his profile and the testimonies of those who how to humor. 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 and we heard from two members of the european parliament from quite different ends of the political spectrum they agree though that europe's current active 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 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 the virtualize the youth 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 straus book with the e.u. having opened its borders this free such relation 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 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. about the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace. and u.s. national security advisor has criticized the russia and china as activity africa john bolton was unveiling a new policy which she says will benefit the continent. across the continent russia advances its political and economic relationships with little regard to the rule of law or are accountable and transparent governance. it 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. 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 so with bolton have been critical of the role of russia and china in the area more and together there for us taking 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 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 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 does and gentleman man who and they'll do 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 want china ney's want a russian it's all us need everyone china russia or all of france as it all has the kind ready country 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 and now the simply album and the other all 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 who decide if holy was. a young boy who's a devoted fan of law and all messi has been forced to flee his hung for a second time offer threats from the taliban the group confronted the seven year old offer a picture of him in a homemade messy shirt made apply from. bag went viral his family though now fear for his life after his fame led to unwanted attention. that. this is

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it's been blamed on. the deplorable norms of public discourse have shifted. and it's not just in the united states where. it's but also in the u.k. france and other countries with seemingly established public. he's still the west becoming wild again well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael stipe for the former deputy assistant secretary general for strategic communications at nato and

currently managing director at oxford in the lake of mr stuff for the it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time pleasure to be on a thank you i know that in your current capacity you are advised clients on the situation in the middle east which is usually thought of as a far reese keer and more unpredictable region than the stable and civil western world but given the events in france the veil very violent protests there as well as the orderly brax of negotiations don't you think that the your clients are perhaps more perplexed figuring out what's going on in their own neck of the woods . well that's an interesting question. i like the way you called it the old west becomes the wild west well i still wouldn't think that it's so easy to compare like that we we had often let it go we come we advise clients all over the world and it's quite difficult to compare one region with another but i would not say that it's more unpredictable in western europe or the west than it is in the middle east the middle east i know we want to talk about europe but the middle east is an

extremely unpredictable area at the moment because you know everybody thought of the gulf was such a stable area and you know we have lots of very good relationships with the gulf and gulf governments but what happened recently as you know with the crown prince of saudi arabia and the. killing you know whatever whatever one concludes out of this means that the gulf and and the kingdom of saudi arabia such an important country is somewhat unpredictable situation at the moment so i think. you know i think i think as far as the west goes ok so you want to talk about europe. it's true that things are very unpredictable now in the west and today we just got all this new stuff about the brakes it vote and as you say it's fundamentally based on this populist wave that we're facing now in one of your interviews you advise businesses to maintain a so-called horizon scan about.