for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. close. enough for just twelve euros fifty a month. after weeks of violent yellow vests demonstrations from start their own protest over a working conditions. over time. also ahead on the program this hour the sentencing of. former national security advisor for lying to an f.b.i.

investigation into alleged russian pollution is the lead once again we look at how the case is tainted by words like. the first journalist to report on alleged russia collusion blockbuster planes made by a key source our quote likely faults. till breaks in the british prime minister continues to face fierce opposition to her proposals contingency plans envisioned more than three thousand troops on standby in the event of a. divorce from the. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know me alone welcome. with weeks of

protest still being felt in fronts the police officers have started their own protest against paid overtime and dangerous working conditions it at least one terminal in the french capital main airport officers are causing long lines at passport control by staging a slow down protest let's go to to do been skewed he's been following developments during the yellow vest protest the french government did nothing for weeks and then did something to placate the protesters in terms of the police officers this time around is anything being offered. yes absolutely there's already concessions being offered to the police officers and all come to that surely what we've seen over the last few weeks in france is this yellow vest prove testes yellow dress movement that have taken over the country and at times

been violent and now it's time for the police and they describing themselves as the yellow as the protesters and they describing this is suggesting that this protest could go on a lot what they're unhappy about is what they see are. conditions and the incredible amount of time that they've done over the last three years it's already topped more than twenty three million hours and that's been increasing as the police officers have been deployed to those protests don't forget eighty nine thousand out the height of this it around december eighth and of course because there's now reinforcements being sent to sensitive security sites and to christmas markets and protests in the wake of attacks in strasburg well the police unions would discussing on tuesday night with the interior minister what could be done to try implicate their members but so far nothing has come out massively concrete

apart from some small offerings and union. say that the police. officers in the country. at the end of. the not. even considering the social and professional obligations of our colleagues when they are not in uniform they become yellow vests because we are middle class or even lower because of our salaries our origin that's why some colleagues feel that they are yellow vests because of the yellow vests really resonates with police. well it seems so for what's being offered she the police unions is a three hundred euro bonus this to be paid for those offices being deployed to protests across the last few weeks in france will love be enough well it seems

naught because that's already been essentially approved to be put in the new two thousand nine hundred budget by the national assembly yet today on wednesday some police unions and police officers are on strike what they're doing is not necessarily protesting outside the building but continuing what they describe as being a slowdown only responding to emergencies cool's those talks which ended on tuesday night without any agreement between the interior minister and the police unions are continuing today on wednesday let's take a listen to what the interior minister kristina christopher cast had to say. the state currently owes almost two hundred seventy five million euros to its police officers for over time not in recent months or years but for decades we cannot have debt at that level that well the three police unions involved in this say that they want much more and they want the police budget which is due to be

reduced in the two thousand. in one thousand to be increased so that it can combat those working conditions they can happen if money to hire more desperately needed stuff they say for the moment there's talk continues and it looks like the slowdown is already causing problems at some airports in the country. bring us the very latest from porousness our charlotte. ok let's head stateside where sentencing of the first white house official over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign has been delayed once more trump's former national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the f.b.i. but i've been explains those words like treason and meddling is what flynn is really guilty of. general michael flynn the only senior member of the trumpet ministration to be charged with

a crime by the special prosecutor it was supposed to be a smoking gun the judge didn't mince any words when describing it i'm not hiding my disgust my disdain for this criminal offense all along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country when serving as the national security adviser arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for arguably you sold your country out however the judge took it back i feel terrible about that the government has no reason to believe that the defendant committed treason is actual crime with telling a lie to the fed but that's not what the media has been feeding us. it's it's funny because history is a witness tampering not only is possibly treason but mike flynn is what people thought about when they're thinking when he's talking to people who might have gone along a treasonous path to him how many trips did michael flynn take his place anthony bourdain of treason no treason no sinister connection to foreign adversaries what happened is this in december of two thousand and sixteen as the f.b.i.

was preparing to wrap up and conclude its collusion investigation at that point michael flynn had a conversation with russian ambassador. now you'll recall that as far as the media was concerned he wasn't simply an ambassador but a super spy master remember back identified by c.n.n. as a top intelligence gatherer to our spies master in washington d.c. and who we know is the chief spy i met actually a lady so course the f.b.i. had no choice but to talk to flynn about that conversation but the way their interview with him was conducted was rather strange no lawyers were present the white house counsel was not informed lynne just sat down with the f.b.i. and at no point did they tell him that what he said could later be used against him in court you know you guys investigation of a guy who pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. he should have been warned you shouldn't should have been told you can have a lawyer. think of the state of affairs we've ended up in that's nonsense i'm very proud of the way the f.b.i.

conducted itself in agile flexible thoughtful pursuit believes where you'd want to steer the f.b.i. broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambush plans the only reason that they did it was the terms of ministration and they thought they could get away with it at the time the f.b.i. did not see any wrongdoing general flynn pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the federal bureau of investigation even though the federal bureau of investigation agents did not detect any deception during flynn's ince of you what michael flynn apparently said is that international tensions shouldn't ask following obama's sanction and sacking of the diplomats however michael flynn told the f.b.i. that he couldn't recall the details of the conversation general michael landon oh the horror he sat at a table with russian president vladimir putin and he's supposedly met with a group alleged to be nazi sympathizers and he supposedly kidnapped someone on behalf of turkish president and while we're at it let's mention that his son is

apparently part of the investigation plans name has been dragged through the mud at the end of the day however the f.b.i. only found one thing to hold onto a lie. r.t. new york. intriguingly on the same day flynn sentence was delayed one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trump russia dossier has stated it contains claims that are likely faults michael isikoff believes it's most salacious i can say sions will never be proven. when you actually get into the details of the steel dosia the specific allegations we have not seen the evidence to support them and in fact there's good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely folks when the on corroborated claims first came to in the media it was treated like a bombshell revelation. reminds us sometimes it takes only one spark one report from one or a handful of journalists from

a big outlet to really send the media world into overdrive former british intelligence officer behind the dot ca that contained explosive allegations about president donald trump he also addressed the dossier of alleged dirt on donald trump in russia the report included unsubstantiated claims that russian intelligence compiled a dossier on mr trump during visits to moscow what a good example was when the chief investigative reporter for yahoo news michael isikoff made a bombshell out of the infamous steel dossier that was a big one remember with the p. tape aka the golden shower compromise with plenty of alleged collusion evidence back in january twenty seventh seeing hours and hours of airtime on these steel memos bombarded t.v. screens to tell the world a story of collusion plus its thanks to the dossier for one that the f.b.i. secured a warrant to spy on donald trump's advisor pretty serious stuff the dossier was

full of claims that could have been seen as good collusion or proof the most notable alleging donald trump's former attorney michael cohen traveled to prague to fix and coordinate all that campaign scheming together with russia and the so-called p.t. was perhaps part of it too with the most bizarre claims that russian security services had blackmailed trump with recordings of his dirty deeds in a moscow. hotel this wasn't just something that randomly came from donald trump the president pretty much repeated a crucial statement by the author of the dossier himself revealed in a court hearing chris steele said the following was supposed to happen as a result of the dossiers publication based on the advice party switchers the democratic national committee and she could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to chinese the validity of the outcome of that election so if she

didn't pay for it it was done through one of the klinefelter going is asians only with a specific purpose to find some kind of legal ground to challenge the results of the twenty sixteen vote this just tells you how deeply stuck in partisans are in the washington d.c. swamp of these partisans lean towards democrats and specifically towards hillary clinton and barack obama this is really an unbelievable literal smear campaign for which grave damages have occurred in the relations between russia the united states to the trump name to the trump family it's cost a lot of money it's cast as bad light on the american system of justice which is supposed to be blind in a good sense and there ought to be a real investigation of how this happened and of why it's gone on for so long and people need to be held to account here this is an outrage. let's talk a little bit of break said why not the british government is ramping up preparations for a no deal brags that those trees amaze withdrawal plan continues to face opposition

from peace know the deal cannot be adopted if it doesn't receive necessary support in a parliamentary vote scheduled for made january and while its adoption is in question the u.k.'s breaks it secretary say is a no deal so norio is now a series option on the table. the government's priority remains to secure a deal but we need to recognize with fourteen weeks to go that a responsible government is preparing for the eventuality that we leave without. more than three thousand troops will reportedly be put on standby as part of the no deal contingency plan other measures include securing medical and food supplies during the coming weeks families and businesses will also receive official guidance on how to prepare for a possible chaotic divorce from the european union artie's challis edwards dashed in london as more. well if you're struggling to keep up with all the latest

developments you're certainly not alone and one thing that we can all actually agree on and keep up with is the fact that to resume a deal probably won't make it through parliament in january and today the cabinet use its last meeting before breaking up for christmas to agree to ramp up no deal preparations even though it's still certain still believes that delivering the deal that the prime minister did agree in brussels is still the government's top priority having said that bracks that is just one hundred days away now so ministers are now preparing for a no deal let me just talk you through a bit of those preparations we're hearing that all u.k. citizens will be sent information about how to prepare for a no till breakfast think of it maybe like a survivor sky two a no deal but most worryingly the defense secretary gavin williamson he's saying that three thousand five hundred troops could be put on the streets on standby to help the u.k. deal with the impact what we are doing is putting contingency plan to close and

what we will do is have three and a half thousand service personnel. readiness including regulars and reserves you know which support any government department on any contingencies the minute across the channel the european parliament's negotiator has sounded the alarms as well over a no till breakfast and those like jeremy hunt who glorify no deal broke so they're totally responsible it's not the job of politicians to make the people the lead poor removed to tease rose and make loads more uncertain there's no such thing as a man has no deal it still doesn't look too hopeful for the prime minister especially given the fact that the e.u. told her categorically that they would not be renegotiating her deal and they would not be doing so under any single circumstances so now many people are telling theresa may urgent a reason may to stop running scared and hold the vote sooner rather than later. nation on the fault of the british government to try and scare the people into

putting pressure on their m.p.'s. to vote for mrs may's absolutely abominable deal . she still thinks she still has to believe that she might get some kind of slip concession from brussels to enable succumbs to back a drug deal but i did see it happening she still wants to cling on to the illusion icing the deal. but i don't think it will happen i think would end up getting on with the deal two of the world's biggest oil companies find themselves linked to a billion dollar corruption scandal and night jury we've got the story of plenty more like seconds. what is the pin that's going to pop the global bubble back in two thousand and

eight there was a two thousand and eight subprime crisis. today i think we can safely say that the bubble will be popped but the collapse of deutsche bank. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back to our two international a bunch of documents reportedly from the u.k. funded think tank integrity and mischa tive of a park that revealed the propaganda sites links to nato among the revelations are suppose its efforts to infiltrate european media and everything would be a pages in russian monarch taking us through the story vis our polling boyko it's got a cozy sounding moralistic name the integrity initiative it's part of the u.k. based institute for state craft charity it's purpose to counter all that kremlin discern from flooding the globe leaked documents of showing the noble crusade receiving from. from the british government's foreign office and the latest leak

has revealed some of those who were paid by the info wars unit. two thousand five hundred pounds a month not bad his day job is at the atlantic council and nato backed think tank ties to nato seem to be a good indorsement if you want to get paid by the integrity initiative apparently ties to our channel can also get you the gig remember liz was a presenter of variety over in the us who resigned after this newscast i'm resigning she received a three figure sum from the group for an article titled inside where she compares the channel to isis we've contacted both the integrity initiative and the institute for state craft over the payments but so far there's been no comment while the u.k. foreign office which has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the program had this to say these are true for state craft an independent charity was hired several weeks ago and numerous documents were published

a number of news channels the russian state media campaigns objectively clear this is just another example of russian just information intended to confuse audiences and discredit an organization which is working independently to talk of the threat of descent from asia the integrity initiative has been caught three tweeting stories that explore conspiracy theories about the u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn despite receiving funding from the foreign office some including wiki leaks have question the veracity of some of the leaked documents the statements from the british government that have been sent to r.t. in response to repeated questions about integrity initiative appear to have struck a nerve although that's by no means proof that the documents are real for the most part the mainstream media here in the u.k. has chosen to ignore the british government funding and russian networks. nori except for one aspect of it one u.k.

foreign office minister has now demanded a thorough investigation of the charity's criticism of the labor party on calling for a public inquiry into the integrity of this and similar information war that is being funded by our government as for the rest of the integrity initiatives and the russia work there is the afa lady said to the group say they're merely defending democratic institutions and fighting the good fight polly boyko with the story well we discussed it with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger on artie's going underground at the full version of the arts will be your this coming saturday i've never known the such a group test scripts. as the the the the elevation. of russia and china and the perceived enemies to. the kind of cold war status they had when i was a child having grown up on the cold war i find it quite difficult to believe that

journalists some of them distinguished in their own money but all of a million journalists distinguished in their own right. should go alone should allow them so to be in. by the british government at a time when there is. a litany of law is about. russia about china about so many issues. and like to turn attention to potentially one of the biggest corruption cases in corporate history a judge in milan as roulette oil giant shell and please any were fully aware that the purchase of a nigerian oil field back in twenty eleven would be a source of massive fraud in the african nation the two firms have consistently denied the accusation since an international scandal broke last year. the

management of oil companies and he and cho were fully aware of the fact that part of the one point ninety two billion dollars paid would have been used to compensate nigerian public officials who had a role in this matter and who were circling their prey like congress sharks the oil firms face a corruption trial over a one point three billion dollar purchase of the vast oil field in nigeria some seven years ago a report by a prominent anticorruption group alleges that the bulk of the money went to a former oil minister and people connected to his ownership of the property it also saves the country will be six billion dollars out of pocket in lost revenue following the deal both companies insist their actions were absolutely legal and correct even when we believe transactions are legal people will seek to hold you to account if they see them as unethical schellas face in exactly that situation with court action and investigations over a nigerian oil bloke called o.p.l.

two hundred forty five with hindsight it is not one that we would want to find ourselves in the again we wish to confirm the correctness and compliance of every aspect of the transaction in respect of o.p.o. two four five concluded and twenty eleven both with a political and global industry practice a lot of figures in this story putting an end to some sort of context and yuri's entire national health care budget is less than the sum of this alleged bribe half of the country's population of eighty seven million live in extreme poverty that's more than any other nation on earth and roland on the corruption investigator say's that international companies exploit nigeria is not true resources without giving anything in return. and if you don't. share in you. heavily involved in bribery and

corruption this is he in nigeria nigeria is not producing country and syria is just as simple as an oil you shield what you call. because there is no one refinery in nigeria that is walking on the however you feel. for in the mission you process and companies they come to nigeria and. explore the ari is charted over to the refined oil we don't produce it that is the truth about my dear i. living on the belgian prime minister has resigned following the collapse of the ruling coalition over the signing of the culture of racial un migration part. at this stage i make the decision to resign and my intention is to go to the key it makes you free the government fell apart after

the prime minister ignored from conservative and right wing coalition partners not to adopt the un agreement. took to the streets of brussels over the side of. more than one hundred six the un member states they've already signed on to the pact it is to find a common global approach to tackle the migration crisis that's who those who follow it say but critics there of the view it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own policies under the law for on checked immigration the u.s. was the first to oppose the pact soon followed by

a street in while some european countries have also shown fierce resistance the leader of the belgian people's party thinks signing the pact was a musher of principle for the prime minister. so the manager for use he would it was a. question. i told mike we should at least for the end of the year which was the same issue alliance the largest party but we decided to make also in south america of principle wrong the signature of this motion. filed by civil but understood that there was absolutely no support from the opposition parties to maintain these go for them even induce the conditions. what should be the fate of confederacy statues in the

american side watching the hawks examines the battle in played out next this was our team you know. well you know the pirate thing we kind of adopted because we were called pirates all along. i've been there in this mall of all the steps that are pulling here and you can. talk to. the level of talk to be told already ninety percent of the dot and you won't because.

you come to fifteen school seventy five tons and they do it several times a day with a big fleet no you get an idea of why. we have to understand we. just. be witness. to the hours. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have enjoyed. gradings and salutations well this weekend spend russia russia russia.