i. i i. i i. i. feel. russian continues as a b.b.c. reporter asks. to find any forcible link between the kremlin. movement and she says her editors are demanding. central brussels. right wing march against the new pact. a major port in

yemen by an airstrike despite a un brokered cease fire on a new report says the death toll in the conflict has been grossly underestimated. and five people were killed in a dozen more injured offer a gunman opens fire on a crowded christmas markets in the french city of book the suspect was later killed by police. three am here in moscow joining us this hour. 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 this after one of its reporters said at it as

work demanding blood over the issue is all over investigated. 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 michael i. 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 p.v.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 some 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 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 what 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. 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 we did ask the b.b.c. russian service if they're still looking for a connection between moscow and the french protests and also whether the correspondent was was under pressure to pursue that particular angle they've declined to comment meanwhile the russian foreign ministry has criticized the b.b.c. accusing it of focusing in a cynical manner 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 their television and radio companies are doing journalist product all told us he's 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 have seen 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 some idiots is 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 paris has been gripped by a fifth consecutive weekend of civil unrest the universal movement began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs it's now evolved into a revolt against the authority of president to model mark on himself. was. complete. the was. more than one hundred arrests were made at the latest photos soon paris tens of thousands took part in rallies across the country while there's

a media scandal as well after france three t.v. photo shop so yellow vests protest the sign from out to say just marker on channel insists what it did in the report was simply a mistake and not the liberal. or following the most violent protests that the start of the month the french president eventually yielded he's promised to scrap the popular plan and increase in fuel prices it also raise the minimum wage that though hasn't diffused some of the anger on the streets. it was a just a month or so ago that one man posted a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol the video went viral very quickly chalking up millions of views with the truth as it is with the value of we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november put on your yellow vests to show that you are with us with our shorts. and we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vest

movement he told us why exactly 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 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 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. 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. plasters also

robson of belgian capital on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for a protest. was . i. i i i i. was. the protesters trying to enter key e.u. buildings police used water kind of and tear gas to push the crowds back the demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to a un migration pact that document was agreed by more than one hundred sixty un member states at a summit americathis on monday it aims to find a common global approach to migration critics though say it will limit the ability

is of countries to shape their own migration policies former deputy speaker of the bells and parliament lode violinist 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 three but who have been told that their loss of social security and jobs is to be blamed on migrants and not on how to handle big school companies who get away with murder by evading 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's going to deny that the group 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 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 hard data and a few other areas have reportedly been hit by as strikes the saudi led coalition which supports yemen's govern. has not commented on the report so far they do come just days though after pro-government forces reached a ceasefire with the rebels data the truce was agreed during the un backed talks held in sweden the first of their current in two and a half years under the ceasefire terms the warring sides want to halt hostilities and withdraw their forces from the data a strategic port city that serves as the main entry point for humanitarian aid the truce was meant to take effect immediately but as the clashes have continued it's reportedly been put off until tuesday the u.n. is warning that the humanitarian situation in the country is the to orating. 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 and meanwhile a new report by the armed conflict location an event data project claims the number of yemenis killed since twenty sixteen has reached a nearly sixty thousand figure is six times greater than the normally cited ten thousand casualties and draconian one of the researches behind the report feels the crisis in yemen has gone largely on the reported despite its huge scale. from what we could see in reporting at least there has been a very kind of a generally lazy attitude using. ten thousand people are provided by the un this fall fisher figure seems twenty sixteen and still many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has that 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. boy in those figures of atrocities of individual families it was one such story. rather con hope it's hideous it was my daughter oh never forget my to. do so was suffering from diarrhea quick to poor we didn't have the money to afford her transportation and treatments we couldn't even afford to have a trip you see we say.

i have no money that's why my daughter starve to death i pray to god that the children survive. the death toll from syria's those terrorist attack in strasburg has risen to five more on that after this short break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building

a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the program a man has died of gunshot wounds after tuesday's terrorist attack in strasburg

bringing the death toll to five a gunman opened fire on a crowd of christmas market before fleeing today manhunt following ended 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 realised something terrible was happening and people said there was a shooting right next door so i ran to. see. that it was in 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. according to bystanders the terrorists shouted to god is great in arabic began shooting authorities say he was

a local and was probably radicalized in prison his father said his son supported islamic state believing it's what isn't fighting for a just cause it's also been revealed he had several criminal convictions 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 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 quite different ends of the political spectrum they agree though that europe's current idea tera policy needs review and. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every time this 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 reserves with us 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 the meddlers 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 mosque 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. to plan we are front and we want france to live in peace with. the u.s. national security adviser has criticised the russian and chinese activities in africa and 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 or 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 to move on 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 so with bolton highly critical of the role of russia and china in the area morag as they have has taken a closer look at america's own vision for the continent. 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 start 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 us 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 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 ney's want a russian aid or 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 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 a light dusting propounding 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. a young boy and devoted fan of football stop messi has been forced to flee his home for a second time off the threats from the taliban the group in front of the seven year old after a picture of him in a homemade messy shirts made from plastic. went viral his family now fear for his life after his fame led to unwanted attention. and sad. that this is less than half. the. kind. of going to going to see better movie had

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secure. all. the false id. st. december the nineteenth twenty fourteen ninety nine percent of holders approve the sale to general electric a trial for patrick crone who will distribute billion euros between the three days later the company pleads guilty in american courts it recognizes all charges of corruption of which it stands accused this is the conclusion to several months of political scandal and the end to years of judicial pressure on one side defeat masquerading as a victory three quarters of the group is sold and on the other

a confession and admission to a decade of corruption as if the applause of one day was a condition for reaching a legal compromise on the. did the sale influence patrick runs impunity along with other senior group executives why did no arrests follow. if general electric had made the largest acquisition in its history and if patrick cronin. and it's to rid himself of all his problems before retiring what of fronts. added industry its economy and its sovereignty nevertheless been preserved by our want to borg. was it a total partial american victory was the alliance with the french state in a delusion all.