sweep through again another round of protests. to disperse crowds. also ahead. leaving dozens in protest at a government. for refusing to sign in. the us.

you go to work to work you don't go to work. you should be able to have your own political views. shaking hands is something more than just a social gesture. of the country's citizenship. it's a sign of friendship if you don't want to be friendly if you don't want to make. if you don't want to be. checking in with us this weekend welcome to. the international with me calling the saturday night at. nine pm in paris starting this evening clashes of again erupted . this saturday with yellow best protest happening throughout the french capital

more than twenty three thousand people gathered in total for anti-government marches across the whole country. by am. delighted. if. you're. more than a hundred forty arrests of reportedly been made during the day in paris police using water cannons tear gas shot to do bensky reports. well chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just think a look over here see a gas raining down as the protests this looked like they were trying to push through woods the island were not for the famous cathedral is situated they were throwing projectiles at the police and then the police responded with this tear gas

this is one of many clashes we've already witnessed today in paris as usual is come out for a six day we also saw many people injured in some of those clashes including somebody who appeared to have a broken nose and injuries on the leg as they were trying to run out a form of the tear gas in an area where they had been cattle jane and these injuries largely due to the fact it seems that the crowds were pushing people away i just take a look behind you see some of the special mobilized police units who are out in force as some one thousand two hundred and twenty five police officers were being mobilized today and security offices full fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and that's because many people who watch the protests this weekend would have died down there would be. fewer protests

this and they certainly all feel just as in what we've seen in previous weeks but there are still thousands of people here on the streets of paris as you can see just crowds trying to move away as those police forces are coming in for a few are many people saying the reasons behind that is some of this really shows are actually happy with what's being offered by the government there is a kluge an increase in the one hundred of one hundred euros of those on a minimum salary also no social conjuration lands new taxes for those who work extra hours and of course scrapping the fuel tax in january the hike that was due to take place which of course was the start of these protests back in november but many people hey say it's just not enough they're not happy with the government and as such we're seeing people again out on the streets of paris ready to show their own anger their own ease with the french government's come policies led by emmanuel might call the ready we've seen some of those tensions between the police and the

protesters so we thought we'd give you an inkling of what we do to try and stay safe we were on to the streets when we were in these protests and that we were covering them so take a sneak look at what we do see you path for a protest. if there's 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 ticked asked. by you can see tear gas has been fired by the police. this cheer gas going everywhere now tear gas is an irritant sickly if you're always you know it's 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 if we see the crazy on the streets of paris rubber bullets being deployed each 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 those gloss bottles the stones the to 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 it's trying to keep my cool area safe where this fast. 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. ballance also fled in barcelona of the past couple of days with pro independence protests erupting in the catalonia region leaving more than sixty protesters and police officers injured.

although it all stems from a government decision to relocate the weekly cabinet meeting from madrid to the catalan capital offensively as a concerned gay tree gesture of unity but it also coincided with the first anniversary of the heavy handed police crackdown on independence supporters a journalist in barcelona talked us through friday's renewed protest. the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that as pedro senses that already and the lizzy actually also want to do it here in barcelona and people took it as a provocation because only one year ago cuts alone and 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 science of the bed at first is politico's which means these libor rate the political prisoners still nine of them are held in detention and basically you have all those people you have young people protesting and still trying to remember what

happened here one one year ago so a people took out of the streets not only here in the center but also of the blocked eighty seven seven which is the freeway leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. while the earlier of all parties had agreed to a quote effective dialogue and independence referendum held in october last year was deemed illegal by madrid which then arrested catalan leaders for rebellion and sedition the spanish prosecutor recently claimed that former catalan president colors switch to more spend more than eighty million euros on the referendum which of course those accusations bizarre spanish history academic britain's newcastle university says politicians are misreading the mood of the people. trying to work. on a chance the mind meant. and there.

was not. so many ways. the government cannot control everyone in. the crew stand on the spanish and we can. see in the elections in december last year. was somehow symbolic to both spanish and the current government of the current government because they haven't been able to do much good last year. a partial shutdown of the us government come into effect after the senate failed to approve billions of dollars for building a border war with mexico as demanded by donald trump we're going to have a shutdown and there's nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last logged which is the third

time that washington shut its doors this year nine federal departments of stop their work with almost four hundred thousand employees staying home hundreds of thousands more will work without pay for now until an agreement can be struck they've laid off who's a founding editor of the online news web site this can't be happening thanks it's all a bit of a gimmick. it's 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 it started hurting the the government's ability to pay its debt on time as happened one time with this but 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 an every year thing and trump has made it more

so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke well despite that it's unclear how long the current situation will last but president trump deadliest stress that it could last a long time has in a back of the reasons for previous shutdowns in d.c. .

an american speech therapist is suing authorities in texas after being sacked from her job at the school for refusing to sign an oath the pledge is to never be a part of any boycott movement on israel that's required by law signed in more than a dozen states prohibiting the employment of people with anti israeli sentiments with the story. the first amendment of the u.s. 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 one speechcraft just

refused to sign the oath and was fired she says this violates her rights and she's taking it to court it's a baffling that they can sew this down our throats you know and decide to protect another country's economy versus protect our constitutional rights 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 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 of views 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 by this 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 shaking hands to cement your citizenship a new danish law is being accused of targeting muslim immigrants we'll explain why

when we come back. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies 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 back and 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. alone get the hunch shake is supposed to be a simple friendly greeting. this week it's called something of a fallout denmark's adopted a new lower obliging people to shake hands as part of the ceremony to become a danish citizen are supporters of the law insist it's a national custom minutes and integrity part of being danish the reason it's causing consternation is because of claims that it targets muslims for whom physical contact with non-family members of the opposite sex is forbidden for religious reasons some danish mares are refusing to comply it's against my ideology

and conviction to have to force the people to have boards. and it's a subject which fired our reaction when we discussed it here on r.t. with both sides of the argument saying it boils down to respect. 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 you to shake hands well from a shaken hands get in the modern world use this nonsense we don't shake hands it doesn't tell you 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 of the job enjoy it is going to play to the gallery are going to talk to you about individual freedom human rights. to the gallery. does that 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 durham or are on the point is the central point is this that it's about individual responsibility it's about human rights and it's a part stopping bigotry and this a lot 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. a danish 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 out there scar mohamad ease always doing it 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 it make you less of a human being doesn't stop them 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 then perhaps look no further than the sweet shop with producers of the triangular treat toblerone who've declared the chocolate favorite of now being compliant. certification did not result in any change to our beloved traditional original recipe its production process essentially meets the criteria anyway.

this does not take place in europe it is therefore certainly pure coincidence that the depicted known chocolate variety is now certified as how. chocolate becomes. everyone who claims to be a pullman's to this lamaze asian of europe must of course refuse to buy. food his next move. hopes are fading for nine people who were trapped in a mine in central russia after a fire broke out on saturday morning at a depth of three hundred forty metres eight people did manage to escape the mine located near the city of skin the region a representative for the mining companies admitted that the chances of getting the remaining workers out alive is extremely low

a rescue operation has failed to reach the trapped miners after six attempts to two immense heat and thick smoke and initial reports suggested that a methane explosion caused the fire but that's since been moved out. russia's investigative committee is looking into whether safety regulations have been violated. a group of indigenous people from argentina's patagonia region assuming some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies for environmental damage than the poaching tribes say that contamination from fracking sites threatens their lives and wildlife across the epic landscape. as it does your legal eagle a good current ecological situation in florida 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 in energy firms have taken advantage of legal loopholes to come here in the big day and night leah's they can put this on deadly menace over us. it is available e.c.m. as it despite the region's natural richness the people here are very poorly in energy companies come blunder and contaminate our leathers and able to fortunes they make are kept for themselves and the people they pay off to cover this all up on the mean and. the way vizio oil companies operate is pure environmental vandalism demonstrates how little control local authorities truly have.

in the 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 and then we'll be able to keep our lands and safeguard our health but most importantly we want to save our identity and culture. he has approached the energy companies for comment on this so far they've chosen not to offer us a statement we'll let you know if they do of course like by that you're also news for now that i'll see more of your headline news and analysis and also video on demand the next update from me on the team here in just over half an hour's time off your latest kaiser report.

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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report here is a little known fact i did you know that all the fed chairman going back to paul volcker subsequently been shorter he was six foot seven and then every subsequent fed chairman has been shorter with janet yellen clocking in at something like five point six why is this important let's talk to stacy herbert well jerome powell is the chairman of the federal reserve bank of america and he did raise interest rates by twenty five basis points this week despite all the tweets badgering him from donald trump the president of the united states who is telling him he's going to sink the economy of course that is s. and p. five hundred has had the worst basically the worst december since one nine hundred thirty one since the great depression and everybody's quite upset the power put is much further out of the money than it was under previous fed chair's that's what hurt psychology miller table back the investment firm in new york says how will

traders possibly survive as the euro heads right getting back to my discussion about the height of chairman so during that time starting with volcker when interest rates the short term rates for the high teens approaching twenty percent when reagan was president they've gone down every single year really culminating in janet yellen now this new fed chairman powell is in place and he's saying that we're going to go back to well he describes it as getting rid of the put that the federal reserve bank under greenspan or bernanke or janet yellen they were constantly bailing out markets by making rates cheaper apparently powell is saying that he's not going to go if you don't talk with that he's not down with that and everybody was admonished him about raising raise the problem is that stock markets have been selling off we've seen the worst stock market sell off since one thousand thirty one for december. and people were expecting otherwise the.