oh. i. i i. i i. i. feel. like i'm. in. the hunt for russian continues as a b.b.c. reporter asks a freelancer in france to find any possible link between the kremlin. movement. she

says. also this hour central brussels is a. major port in yemen is hit by an air strike despite a u.n. brokered cease fire one new report says the death toll in the conflict has been grossly underestimated. people killed dozens more injured offer a gunman opens fire on a crowded christmas market in the french city of. suspect is later killed by police . here are. very welcome with us this. the

b.b.c. has confirmed to r.t. that it was reasonable for its news team to hunt for any connections between russia and the yellow vest movement in france as after one of its reporters said her editors were demanding blood over the issue it's all over looks into the story. over the last five weeks we've seen france and gulf 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. 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 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 their 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 plea 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. no of course they're not behind they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. of course the. difference we never happier but everything. we asked b.b.c. russia or 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 criticised the b.b.c. accusing it of acting in a cynical manner 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 completion of facts that employees of their television and radio companies are doing journalist brian macdonald 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 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 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 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. has been gripped by a fifth consecutive week of civil unrest the yellow first movement began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs now evolved into a revolt against the will thirty of president to mine all mine. i. mean. it was.

i. was. more than one hundred arrests were made at the latest protests in the french capital tens of thousands took part in one easy close to twenty years well. it was also a scandal in the meantime after france three television photoshop the yellow vests protest the sign from out to simply saying mccrum channel insists what it did in the report wasn't deliberate it was simply a mistake following the most violent protests that the start of the month the french president finally yielded his promise to scrap unpopular planned increases in fuel prices he also raised the minimum wage but that hasn't diffused some of the anger on the streets it was just over a month ago of course that one man posted a video on facebook calling on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol that video very quickly went viral chalking up millions of views. well to

certain issues. 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. and we spoke to the inspiration behind the yellow vest movement you told us why exactly people are still protesting despite micron's concessions. so let's assume these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people who benefit from what we're trying to now it's 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 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 find measures to resolve it we are on the streets in

the wind in the cold not from pleasure that 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 it up because they are determined. clashes also erupted in the belgian capital on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for an anti margaret rally. was i i. i. i i. i i i. i i. i i protest this trying to enter some key e.u. buildings police used water cannon and tear gas to push them back in

a stray sion comes in the same week belgium sign up to a un migration deal documents was agreed to by more than a hundred sixty un member states at a summit in mara catch on monday names to find a common lobel approach to migration critics though say it will limit the ability of countries the shape their own migration policies former deputy speaker of the bell. parliament load one of those thinks that the problem is far more complex than what appears on the surface. this is something that has been going on 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 big preschool companies to get away with murder by evading your taxes and so on the money security. to me is that mean reason why people then 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 that people face from the moment so what you have is really the story of people so that it doesn't focus on the real issues that really affect their daily life. in other headlines in the yemen or any port city of hard data and a few other areas as well there have been astronauts reported the saudi led coalition which supports yemen's government has not commented on the reports so far at least they do come though just days after yemen's pro-government forces reached the ceasefire with the rebels in the data truce was agreed during u.n. backed talks held in sweden the first of their kind in over two and a half years under the ceasefire terms the warring sides were to halt hostilities and withdraw their forces from data that's a strategic port city that also serves as the main entry point for humanitarian aid to the country the truce was meant to be taken into effect straight away clashes

that have continued that's why it's been put off till tuesday the u.n. is warning that the humanitarian situation in gehman is the to orating 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 the nearly sixty thousand figure is six times greater than the normally cited ten thousand dead and draconian one of the researches behind the report feels the crisis in yemen has gone largely on the reported despite 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

this fall of fisher figure seems twenty sixteen and still many newspapers and media outlets are still using that has that 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 you to do it behind those figures on the tragedies of individuals and families as well of course here is one such story. rabbit can hope it's his it was my dogs oh never forget my proofs.

that i do so was suffering from diarrhea quick to poor we didn't have the money to afford to transportation and treatments we couldn't even afford to have a trip you see we say thought. god i have no money that's why my daughter starve to death i pray to god that other children survive. the death toll from tuesday's terrorist attack in strasburg has risen to five we'll have more of that story analysis still to come after a short break. president

trump indeed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know faith news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in new facts and information and if that trust is

fundamentally shaken and the independent media are criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. welcome back to the weekly. died of gunshot wounds after tuesday's terrorist attack in strasburg bringing the death toll to five a gunman opened fire on a crowded christmas market before fleeing today might not followed ending 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 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 of people and we couldn't even get back home so we ended up being stuck here. according to bystanders the terrorists shouted god is great in arabic as the shooting began authorities 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 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 and we heard from members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum they agree that europe's current antero policy needs review and. we kept one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every day and 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 readers of the we have to stop the war should we do this we have to really degrade the serialised view through the suburbs of paris and brussels. and the week of two to two to work together with the moderate islam to the week of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve the middle as more as 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 she just does pool just me but the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace with. the u.s. national security advisor has criticised the russia and china as activity in africa

john 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 simply what the united states itself needs. so with bolton heavily critical of the role of russia and china in the area as the f. has taken 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 there 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 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 but 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 of 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 stationed in fifty out of fifty four african nations it has thirty four minutes. he cites 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 dad american money good thing well it turns out not so much our new foreign assistance strategy will ensure that all u.s. 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 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 want china and mase want a russian it's all us everyone china russia or all of france has it all as they can

really country to number one the infrastructure of development and also to gave technology to grow their agricultural their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high no simply an album and the other all of this continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life distinct or ponting to russia or to to china for some of the you know allegedly bad behavior that doesn't really help the pick so it is up to the africans will decide if. a young boy and devoted fan of football star lynell messi has been. forced to flee his home for a second time offer threats from the taliban in front of the seven year old offer a picture of him in a homemade misuse shirt made from plastic bag went viral his family now though fear

for his life after his fame would lead to the unwanted attention. as i think. that this is less than half. the i. think. but it is going to get out of the supermarket have. forgot a little bit about that. it's

just. that you just tell us. the last chance to start something it's just going to slot machine should. i say. this or. that. those are the headlines for this hour join us again a five year muskets time for the latest updates up next the documentary channel the get up on touch down if you're watching us in the u.k. or on of course it's ghost war we'll see you next hour.

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