guys look what that does that you can convert music. to keep in mind though as it would mean to place. your. salon independence riots flare in barcelona leaving dozens injured as protesters decry a federal government cabinet meeting in the regional capital. for refusing to sign a pro israeli pledge a school therapist in the u.s. sues texas or thora g.'s over the mandatory oath but it's also in place for more than a dozen other states. ridiculous crossing the line that's wrong doesn't sound right you go to work to work you don't go to work for your outside life you should be able to have your own political views outside of your work. denmark besides the shaking hands is something more than just

a friendly greeting has been made part of the country's citizenship ceremony but not everyone sees it as a positive move. shaking hands is a personal choice there are all many members of the jewish community who would choose not to share of the opposite sex it's a soul and it's friendship if you don't want to be friendly if you don't want to mix in with a coach or if you don't want to be told a room problem. great to have you where there's this thousand day this is not international broadcasting to you live from moscow with me. our top story violence lies in barcelona as pro independence protests erupt in spain's catalonia region more than sixty protesters and policemen have been injured with escalating over a federal government cabinet meeting in the regional capital.

which flies less often barricades building extra police were brought in ending with at least thirteen arrests a local journalist bush is up to speed with events. burma the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that has federal centers that already and that is the actually also want to do it here in barcelona and people took it as a provocation because only one year ago catalonia declared independence so people obviously are angry because they want to be independent and they want to be separate separate from the hosting so as you can see a behind me you have a signs of leave it at this is politico's which means these libor rate the political prisoners still nine of them are held in detention and basically you have

old people you have young people protesting and still trying to remember what happened here one one year ago so that people took out of the streets not only here in the center but also they blocked a piece that were seven which is that three way leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. before it is hot hopes that relocating the cabinet meetings abbas alone would reduce tensions in council lonia previously all parties had agreed to an effective dialogue a year ago a castle on independence referendum was deemed illegal by madrid the region's leaders were arrested for bill rebellion and sedition a spanish history academic aggressions newcastle university says the politicians completely misread the mood of the people. have. heard more.

change the mind. and. do you see many ways. not wrong everyone. this is the first time that the spanish. since the elections in. somehow. and. the spanish have become a. government because they haven't been able to do much. more unrest in europe this time in france where the so-called yellow vests i once again out in force is the sixth consecutive weekend of nationwide protests against government policies and for journalists on the front line there's always the risk of being caught up in the action so it depends kate takes us through some of the basic precautions they take. i i and.

if there is one thing the french really know how to do it's protest at all t. we believe that the best way to tell a story is to really get to the heart of it and that's essentially what we try to do as a team in the protests. but this brings its own difficulties and dangers so how do we try and stay safe well firstly we always carry a medical kit now as well as the basics i think that these little i washed pods are

with their waiting gold particularly after being tear gassed. you can see the tear gas is being fired by the police because these cheery gas going everywhere now tear gas is an irritant sickly if you're always you know as your mouth and your lungs and its effects kick in after about thirty seconds now that can include difficulty breathing and chest pain it's a chemical weapon which is actually found from being used in warfare yet it's still used to control crowds to mitigate its impact we wear protective goggles like this and respirators and it really needs to be crazy on the streets of paris rubber bullets being deployed she is streaming down my face again as a result of tear gas i can't tell you how many times now we've been gassed with all the. gloss bottles the stones the take gas canisters and sometimes even molotov

cocktails flying about having a hard hat is very important. when things turn particularly nasty the police have been known to shoot rubber bullets now it may not look like a very much but one of these little guys can cause some serious damage and they can even be lethal so trying to keep my cool area safe i wear this fast it weighs around two and a half kilos and the idea is that if i get a direct hit it's going to help disperse the impact and hopefully reduce any injury . so that's the basics of the kit now we're all set for the next act.

a partial shutdown of the united states government has come into effect the senate has failed to approve billions of dollars for the border war with mexico demanded by president. we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat your day and call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approach so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long. well this is the third shutdown this year nine federal departments have stops there woke with almost four hundred thousand employees suspended hundreds of thousands more will work for free until an

agreement can be struck dave lindorff a founding editor of the online news website this can't be happening thinks it's all a bit of a gimmick. it's just it's all theater it's playing to the media the media is making a big deal out of it. and it really isn't a big deal unless it blew up into something that was going to last for a month or two months or something and started hurting me in the government's ability to pay its debt on time as happened one time with this but it you know it's becoming kind of a joke in the united states that you know this super powerful super rich country can't come up with a budget every year and it's almost every year thing that trump has made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke. when it's unclear how long the shutdown will last but president trump

earlier stressed it could be for a very long time so we took a look back at the main reasons for shutdowns in previous years.

speech therapist in the us is suing all florence he's in texas off to being sacked from her job at an elementary school for refusing to pledge she would never boycott israel this is required by law signed and i have dozens of states prohibiting the employment of people with anti israeli sentiments on these kind of open explains the first amendment of the us constitution guarantees citizens the right to criticize the american government however if you criticize a foreign government you might get in trouble and twenty six u.s. states government contractors are forbidden from boycotting israel in texas employees are required to sign an oath saying that they do not and will not boycott israel or engage in any activity intended to sow economic harm well one speech pathologist refused to sign the oath and was fired she says this violates her rights and she is taking it to court it's a baffling that they can so this down our throats you know and decide to protect

another country's economy versus protect our. writes and this isn't just a red state republican thing here in a liberal new york a similar laws in effect we are against the b.d.s. movement and it's very simple if you boycott against israel new york will board you we've been hearing what locals have to say about it think it's a little bit odd it's ridiculous crossing the line that's wrong doesn't sound right you go to work to work you don't go to work for your outside life you should be able to have your own political abuse outside of your work because people can do as they wish i guess and you know you shouldn't put that on employees to be the one way or the other you can have someone sign. an agreement for taking another country congress even has a bill in the roster that would punish american companies were engaging in a boycott we must continue to stand firm against the profoundly yes campaign to legitimize the state of israel through boycotts divestment and

sanctions supporters of the bill say that it would only affect major companies however some fear it could be used to punish individuals were this legislation to pass federal officials would have a new weapon at their disposal to chill and suppress speech that they found objectionable or politically unpopular if there was a law forbidding criticism of the american government we would see rioting every american is taught about the moral principles the country was founded on however there are many who feel that israel deserves a special layer of protection from those who might disagree with its rather controversial actions. r.t. new york. hunch a case suppose to be a simple friendly greeting but today it's causing something of a fallout denmark has adopted a new law obliging people to shake hands as part of the ceremony to become a danish citizen supporters of the lower insist it's a national custom under mentec will pontiff being danish the reason it's causing

consternation is because of claims that targets muslims for whom physical contact with non-family members of the opposite sex is forbidden for religious reasons some tomás are refusing to comply. it's against my ideology and conviction to have to force our the people to have body contact or this is a subject that's fired up lots of discussion we hosted one earlier on r.t. with both sides proclaiming it's all about respecting their respective traditions. it just shows how petty and vindictive the danish government is shaking hands is a personal choice there are many members of the jewish community you would choose not to shake hands of the opposite sex you can be vibrant members of society you can play an integral part in health and education as a lawyer in business be a good citizen without having. you know what for religious reasons i do not want to

shake someone's hand and therefore i'm not going to do that doesn't make you any less of a human being less of a responsible citizen and you want to live in denmark they want to shake hands well from a shaking hands get in the modern world use this nonsense we don't shake hands it doesn't tell us how it's going to be for us to the village guy go they finish go back to their country want to be forced it's a sign of friendship if you don't want to be friendly if you don't want to make similar coach or if you don't want to be tolerant go home i'm sure there's loads of places where you don't even have to shake hands but you can chop each other's hands off if you steal some the job enjoy is going to play to the gallery are going to talk to you about individual freedom human rights. to the gallery. and it doesn't necessarily make it possible that you won't be responsible citizen engaged in society played an active role just been able to practice your faith the fairy the fact that people have been forced to do this you've got dozens of men as of.

now you don't object moving to the north and the point is the central point is this that it's about individual responsibility it's about human rights and it's about stopping bigotry and this law pacifically designed to target just a muslim community is discriminatory and inacceptable if you read the articles if you take the time to do it rather than just play with a chip on your shoulder you'll see it's not just about muslims and secondly if you don't like to shake hands don't move to denmark or don't because. i'm an issue citizen and this idea that it's an attack on your human rights hormone grow up whatever you want to simulate whatever you want to sit in with western coach or but no they want to pretty the other people on this godmamma ease always diminish it wants to spread create division and then he accuses me of played to the gallery listen we shake hands in the west it's the way it is by not shaking hands does that

make you less of a human being doesn't stop me from contributing to society are making a positive contribution now i'm somebody who personally my own choices i do shit people can learn female but there will be people out there who choose not to touch their choice and if it's a question of faith and tradition look no further than confectionery bronze the world famous tobler in chocolate has now been declared to be.

the certification did not result in any change to our beloved traditional tribal round of original recipe which production process essentially makes the howling criteria anyway. islamization does not take place in europe it is therefore certainly pure coincidence that the depicted nine chocolate righty is now certified as. iconic swiss chocolate becomes hard to conform with islamic purity. everyone who claims to be a pullman's to this lamaze asian of europe must of course refuse to buy the time to say good boy i do know it's his next move but. still to come the u.s. wants germany to be careful of the him it gets to supply its new high speed

internet network or tell you who they're afraid of after the break. you know world big partisan movies. 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 bad 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 president trying to pass left the international community stunned following a sudden decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria however the move has been backed by a number of leaders including one major nato ally i'm saying to dump that the us the trump told us during our conversation will you clear the direst from here

quickly of them before and after this we will have them as long as you give us the support in terms of logistics and how they started to withdraw all they have. not all those parties of the conflict in syria are on board with the decision there is anger among the kurdish forces in the region with family members of the fighters appealing to washington to reverse the decision mothers and wives of soldiers in the so-called syrian democratic forces have been gathering there and the alleged american military base in aleppo province one zero zero zero all the american turned his back on us as we continue to fire into. learning to brownie. why did they leave. you know we went to the airfield they promised us that we would not leave and now as they've sold us out tension is already escalating in northern syria with turkey now vowing an offensive against the kurdish forces which

currently control among beach a representative for the syrian democratic forces told russian media they could be ready to hunt the town back to the syrian government to prevent turkey launching a similar operation in the province like it did after the liberation from islamic state back in twenty sixty. we do not support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against the syrian democratic forces so kurdish commanders have made commitments that they will turn over areas to local populations as they have been so tremendously successful in liberating those areas from dash we expect them to live up to those commitments. that i'm from on base maffei to thank and their talk is threat with costs to find together the

americans and the collison again they talk to me until there was trouble from this around them validus is complicated this is sara and territory. we noticed more movement from the euphrates shield along the front line as turkey before its military operation on a friend threatened that manned beach would be the next target. as i said before our relationship is a critical juncture either we must put it back on track or it will further deteriorate we have agreed essentially to normalize our relationship again question of man and it is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint work

you are there for in this is one of the four measure a good one of the issues that work together. we are a part of syria and we don't support separatism what you want an agreement to be reached and saw from this tree as part of a free syria. we heard from former pentagon security analyst michael maloof who thinks the syrian government will look to fill the void being left by u.s. forces. well i think that given that the u.s. is pulling out it's only inevitable that assad would. begin to move move his troops back in and is very very important strategically it keeps the turks away as well the turks are not going to mount beazer as they have threatened to do so giving it back to assad is very important and i think that that avoids the

potential for a major conflict between turkey and the kurds and so and also. turkish president everyone has pledged support now for assad so. this this is all beginning to offer an a whole new dynamic in that region as a result of the u.s. pull out. germany may block chinese telecom giant huawei from a government tender to develop develop a high speed internet network it comes amid rising security concerns over the company's possible espionage activity for beijing a u.s. delegation reportedly visited burlington held a closed door meeting at the german foreign ministry and courage in a boy caught software way the company has already been blocks from building high speed networks in the u.s. australia and japan the u.k. secret service chief alex younger has also voiced concern however germany's i.t.

watchdog has expressed skepticism due to the lack of evidence proving you are ways by activity for such serious decisions like a ban you need proof your first aka editorial director of the american institute for economic research thinks this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. the u.s. is is famous for its for its hacking and cyber surveillance of every political system in the world i mean so this is this is getting really out of hand and it's starting to be i must say deeply embarrassed seen for the u.s. on international economic stage but i think it's really sad because we're supposed to be in the middle of a trade truce but instead of just using the ninety days to come to a better understanding what the u.s. is doing is almost you know every forty eight hours another propaganda blitz against china is kind of a rhetorical bombast we're getting on a daily basis is actually having a tremendous human cost and it's also

a futile i mean yes china is a rising economic power if you want to call it power but actually what it really means is that we can as a world community get get richer and richer together and i think the u.s. needs to like come to terms with this and stop playing the bully on the playground . a clip of indigenous people from argentine patagonia assuming some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies for environmental damage then the pitch a tribe said that contamination from fracking sites such as that lives on the wildlife of patagonia. does it does your legal you go good current to make a logical situation in glasgow where it is very serious and alarming our community feels under threat because there's been

a violation of our rights and there's uncertainty over our lands getting energy firms have taken advantage of legal loopholes to come here in the big day and night leos they can put this on deadly menace over us. it is available easy a mass despite the region's natural richness the people here are very poor having is the energy companies come blunder and contaminate are less able to fortunes they make are kept for themselves and the people they pay off to cover this all up in the mean and. the way visa oil companies operate is pure environmental vandalism demonstrates how little control local authorities truly have.

it looks like i hope this will be a serious investigation with those responsible named and duly dealt with we are sure we will win this case show and then we'll be able to keep our lands and safeguard our health and the yard most importantly as they want to save our identity and culture. plus he has approached the oil companies for comments we'll bring you that as soon as it comes and all those other headlines for this hour we'll be back in thirty minutes with the latest. i know that my calling in and i know. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my system 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 and this for 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 a business it's just it doesn't get easier. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to press.