i. i. i i. i. i. i i. the hunt for russia continues as a b.b.c. reporter asks a freelancer in france to find any possible link between the kremlin and the yellow vest movement. she says her editors are demanding blood. of the south central brussels is brought to a standstill by

a right wing march against the new un migration pact. a major port in yemen is hit by an airstrike that. brokered cease fire in place one a new report says the death toll in the conflict has been grossly underestimated. i. am five people were killed and dozens more injured after a gunman opens fire on a crowded christmas market in the french city of strasbourg the suspect was later killed by police. and other thanks for joining us on a weekly rundown of this week's top stories here and. thanks for choosing us this. for the b.b.c. has told this channel that it was reasonable for its news team to hunt for any

connection between russia. and france after one of its reporters editors were demanding blood over the issue of peace all of a. 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 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. report is just that russians amongst the yellow vests must be easy to spot because of all they're eating maybe the protestors 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 really 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 of course they are not behind they say the russians are behind their u.s. presidency as well so you know. of course the. difference we never happy about everything we asked b.b.c. russia if they are still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and also whether correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle they have declined to comment meanwhile the russian foreign ministry has criticized 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 and unbiased and independent approach

and is 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 donal 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 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 supposed to be interfered 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. paris has been gripped by a fifth consecutive weekend of civil unrest the yellow first movement began as a protest against fuel tax hikes and high living costs that's now snowballed into a revolt against the authority of president emanuel micro. the was.

more than one hundred arrests were made at the latest protests in paris tens of thousands took part in rallies across the whole country i mean while there is also a media scandal after france three t.v. photo shop the yellow vests protest the signs which had written on it to saying just a channel and sists 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 is our promise to scrap unpopular plan increases in fuel prices and also raise the minimum wage that hasn't diffused some of the anger on french streets it was just over a month ago that one man posted a video on facebook a little protest this to take up the yellow vest as a symbol that video quickly went viral 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 vest to show that you

are with us with our movement. and we spoke to the man behind the inspiration for the yellow vest movement he told us why 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 will 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 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. that the french have come because they could not stand it this is

lasted for years not only mark wrong although here course did nothing to save the situations people are on the streets not giving it up because they are determined. that the class is also upset in the belgian capital on sunday after more than five thousand demonstrators gathered for an anti migrant protest. why god i i i think i was i was i was. thirty i. was protesters tried to enter key e.u. buildings police whose want to kind of and tear gas to push them back demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to a un migration deal that document was agreed by more than one hundred sixty un

member states at a summit in america show monday and aims 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 bells in parliament lode vanos thinks the problem is far more complicated than what appears on the surface. this is something that has been going on for the last two years already basically work you see people who are indeed free but who have been told that their loss of social security and jobs is to be blamed on migrants and not on big police who get away with murder by evading your taxes and so on the minute the security. is that mean reason why people then focus on these issues i mean do 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 too that it doesn'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 hit by air strikes the saudi led coalition which supports yemen's government has not commented on the report so far they do come just days after yemen's pro-government forces reached the ceasefire with the rebels in the city the truce was agreed 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 the data it's also a strategic port city that serves as the main entry point for humanitarian aid the truce was meant to take effect immediately but as clashes have continued it's reportedly been put off till tuesday the u.n. is warning that 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 sick desperate they have one message for the world this war needs to stop meanwhile a new report by the armed conflict location an event data project claims the numb. of yemenis killed since twenty sixteen has reached sixty thousand that figure is six times greater than the normally cited ten thousand dead and born in one of the researches behind the report 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 attitude in using. that ten thousand figure provided by the u.n. the small fish are figure since 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. 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 individuals and families as well is one such story. rather can hope like to tell us it was my divorce oh never forget my.

daughter was suffering from diarrhea quick to support we didn't have the money to afford the transportation 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 churches are vying. for. a man has died of gunshot wounds after tuesday's terrorist attack in strasbourg bringing the death toll to five a gunman opened fire at a crowded christmas market before fleeing a two day manhunt 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 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 was getting over the someone told us there was a gunman shouldn't it people 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 he started shooting or thought to say he was a local and was probably radicalized in prison his father says 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. if you will be considering the target the perpetrators way of operating his profile and the testimonies of those i had him yell allahu akbar under 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 different ends of the political spectrum agree though that europe's current that it our policy needs review. we give one minute of silence for the victims as we do recently. as we were doing every time and this is good 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 with us we have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade the last you through the suburbs of paris and brussels book 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 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. in. the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace with. us national security advisor has criticised the russia and

china's activity in africa so 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. 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 guys they have takes

a closer look at america's own vision for the region. 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 its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's debt 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 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 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 african's own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money bad 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 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 maize want a russian aid or us need everyone china russia or all of france as it all as they

can really contra be able to number one the infrastructure development and also to gave technology to grow their agriculture and their manufacturing base that's something that command a moral high no simply elegant the other all out of this continent it doesn't really know how these people to grow their industry to earn better life just think of ponting 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. in the u.k. fifteen activists were found guilty last monday of intentionally disrupting a flight from london stansted airport they managed to prevent a charter flight deporting failed immigration applicants from taking off the

following video shows the protests in march last year. i believe the activists known as the fifteen cut through the airports perimeter fence and surrounded the plane the illegal immigrants on board were set to be returned to nigeria gone a. jury reached a guilty verdict following a nine week trial since the charges were considered terrill rated technically the activists could face life imprisonment the group will be sentenced at a later date we spoke to one of them after the hearing along with fourteen other people twenty eight last year cut through a fence and. gained access to a very remote part of the. ground a plane that was due to poor around sixty people to nigeria and ghana later that night we were there for about ten hours and we have actually come out and then arrested we don't know what's going to happen but what we do know is that this

charge should never have been brought against us it should never been us should of been the home office it should be in that building just over there this is simply an anti terror piece of legislation that's what it was in for and the fact that it's been used against peaceful protesters is remarkable it's nonsensical we need to continue the fight against a brutal secretive barbaric barely legal charter flights the ones that we. that we targeted and. i guess that's the thing that's that's enough right now that's that's what's at the forefront of our mind. their reasons for pursuing conviction of the stance that fifteen. these people place themselves the flight crew. and police at serious risk of injury even death due to their actions on the earth field the c.p.s. walk to the police to build a strong case which reflected the criminality of the defendant's actions regardless of their motivation and many public figures in the u.k.

including some m.p.'s have been backing the activists and calling on the government to stop the deportation flights they believe activists should be spared prison and while the protesters find themselves on the wrong side of the law some see their campaign is just the fides we put the issue for discussion with political commentator david vance and george barter who's a social justice campaign. here we heard of one bunch of lawbreakers because another bunch of lawbreakers are being deported i'm not sure what the problem is here it's not a question of taking a sledgehammer to break and not as a question of enforcing the law the fact is that they set out to break the law of which they were fully aware in this country if you break the law you pay the consequences thirteen of the people on that flight are still in this country and the number of already being given indefinite right to remain we have a crazy system in this country where so-called hostile environment was intentionally created by the previous home secretary theresa may who is now the

prime minister and part of that has been you know these barely legal flights that are clearly brutal and uncompassionate and many of the people on them still have opened up here to these people acting to prevent people illegally being taken out of the country to horrible situations it's quite clear given the countries from which they come from but if they were seeking asylum which of course they're not there because they've been defined as on documented immigrants i.e. illegal immigrants that are simply not a lot of the arsenal is available safe country if i can finish my point i'd like to finish my point place so so they these. people are quite clearly and i'm sure george understands this they are illegal immigrants and i agree with george and one which is are they wrote a description that this country takes so long to remove these people who should not be endace country in the first instance of the problem is that this system is so shot through with racism and brutality in failure that there are many documented

cases of this absolutely put aside these actions and you are ignoring the fact that what is happening also honestly proves that these people were right that these were illegal deportations these people have been allowed to stay because they since this nonsense in the first place and the idea that these people were injuring people or endangering anybody is just absurd you cannot agree with them if you like and resent them holding up other people to protest as well enjoy the day after all the kind of hole a three hundred fifty three foot hole for a fence chained themselves to a seven six seven plane the authorities are saying that endangered life they think they should have been arrested as they were and probably charged with aggravated trespass and then they have their day in court to make their case as to why they were acting to prevent further harm and the problem in this case is that the judge effectively prevented the jury from considering their motivation and so these people are being charged an irony or that was joint into deal with terrorism and whatever your view of the what these people have done it was clearly not a terrorist act they were quite clearly a word of what they were doing annoyed they have been fined guilty george comes on

to cry and whine about it here's a bit of advice george obey the law and they won't be any problems just like those who came here illegally and of not been rightly fighting to have been here illegally should also have obeyed the law the fact that david seems to ignore is a the fact that these people it has been proven since were not all. should not all of been tamed and deported because they've been allowed to stay sent and what else i think is incredibly important is that all the decent things that we have in this country did not come out of the generosity of power the raise. the law has changed over and over to become a more moral and decent and democratic thing is because people have broken the in pace for principled ways in the past what i'm saying is not that they should people no one doesn't demming allowed to go home they broke lower and they knew it but they should have been charged with aggravated just by us which is what they did they cut through a fence that's not justice process aggravated trespass and they were prepared to

face the charges for that instead they were charged with anti terror charges yeah and on the thought be the case that might stop other such people breaking into our ports shuttling themselves and to cherish and endangering human life so quite frankly regardless of how you want to call it the penalty they pay has the right one come up to half past six in the morning here in moscow will be back at the top of the hour with the latest updates up next their state sued for worlds apart. my son in this doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one

in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. you know world of big part of the 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.