the yellow vests sweep through paris again in another round of anti-government protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the sixth consecutive weekend of action as dozens of injuries and arrests are reported also ahead. i. pro-capital on independence riots flare in barcelona leaving dozens injured in protest of the government meeting in the city which coincided with the anniversary of a heavy police crackdown. sacked for refusing to sign an oath to a school therapist in the united states texan all for it is over a mandatory pledge which is enforced in a dozen other american states. particularly 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. life news twenty four seven this is r.t. international from moscow with me calling right now one am on sunday here this is your news for this hour or so clashes again on saturday with yellow vest protests throughout the french capital across the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the latest anti-government notches. below the i.

they say that they made a hundred forty two arrests in paris once again riot officers were out in force using water cannons and tear gas to do but get reports. from 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 just look like they were trying to push towards the island we're not sure dumb the thing this 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 those 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 one thousand two hundred and twenty five police officers were being mobilized today and security offices for all fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and that's because many people who want the protest this weekend would have died down there would be fewer protests this and they certainly all feel protests isn't 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 these police forces are coming in for a few are many people saying the reasons behind that is some additionally seans are actually happy with what's being offered by the government including an increase in one hundred of one hundred euros of those on a minimum so. also new social contribution plans 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 current policies led by emanuel might call 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 pat for approach asked. my . 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 worth their weight in gold particularly after being take asked.

as you can see tear gas is being fired by the police. this cheer gas going everywhere now tear gas is an irritant sickly for your eyes 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 if we see the 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 those gloss bottles the stones the tear 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.

violence flared in barcelona on friday with pro independence protests and spain's catalonia region leaving more than sixty protesters and police officers injured. about all stems from a government decision to relocate the weekly cabinet meeting from madrid to the catalan capital a stand simply as a conciliatory gesture of unity but it also come in sided with the first anniversary of the heavy handed police crackdown on independence supporters a journalist in barcelona talks of through friday's renewed protest the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that as pederast senses that already and lizzie and he

also want to do it here in barcelona and people took it as approval kishen 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 behind me you have signs of leave it at that this is politico's which means these libor rates the political prisoners still nine of them are held in detention and basically you have all these 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 he said what seven which is that for you eighty leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. first of all parties had agreed to a quote effective dialogue and independent referendum held in october last year it

was deemed illegal by madrid which then arrested catalan leaders for rebellion and sedition the spanish prosecutor recently claimed that former catalan president collars pushed him out spent more than eight million euros on that referee. which the man calls those accusations bizarre a spanish history academic of britain's newcastle university says politicians are misreading the mood of the people. trying to work through. the mind. and. do you see many ways. not wrong 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 get. 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 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 dave lindorff who is the 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 for of 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 an every year thing in terms that's made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke on despite that it's unclear how long the situation will last but president trumpet also stressed that it could last a long time isn't back at the reasons for previous shutdowns in d.c. .

can developments ahead hot on the heels of the u.s. defense secretary's resignation now a high ranking american envoys also critic of a president trump plan syria pull out the details on that more after

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the one percent. nor middle of the room. welcome back the u.s. envoy to the anti eisold coalition has reportedly resigned over donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria brett mcgurk resignation if confirmed comes just one day after defense secretary james mattis also announced he's going to step down early next year in protest over the planned military pull out a number of prominent role makers both democrat and republican have criticized trump's decision to get out of syria the move has been backed by some key players

in the region including america's nato ally turkey. that there was the trump told us during our conversation will you call your direst from here of them before and after this will clear them as long as you give us the support in terms of logistics and how they started to withdraw all they have. other u.s. allies involved in the syrian conflict are not on board with washington's plans though troops decision has been met with anger among kurdish forces in the region with family members of the fighters appealing to the u.s. to reverse the withdraw mothers and wives of the soldiers and the armed opposition the syrian democratic forces have been gathering near an american base in aleppo province one zero zero zero zero of america turned his back on us as we continue to fight indeed. it was our airline company and why did they leave i said this time. we went to the airfield they promised tires that they would not leave and

now they've sold us out. well tensions are already rising in northern syria with turkey now having an offensive against the kurdish forces which currently control the city of miami beach a representative for the syrian democratic forces told russian media that they are ruling out handing the city back to the syrian government to prevent the launching a similar operation to the one ankara carried out after the liberation from islamic state back in twenty sixteen. we do not support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against the syrian democratic forces the 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 that we expect them to

live up to those commitments. that i'm from on base maffei to thank and their taxes threat with costs gone to find together the americans and the collison again they talk to me until there was trouble from the surrounding advantages is complete it this is sara and territory. but this year we noticed more movement from the euphrates shield along the front line as turkey before its military operation on a free and 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 a man is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint working over there for him this is one of the as the four measure it did one of the issues for us to work together with. a part of syria and two we don't support separatism much you want an agreement to be reached on stuff in this tradition as part of a free syria. well let's now bring in political analyst has an ali i welcome to r.t. can we just talk first of all about these resignations in team trump you've got the shock of james mattis the defense secretary leaving the military men in that job don't just usually walk out the door now there's a u.s. diplomacy veteran also following him out of that door how damaging is those resignations to trump. well i think they they create more and more earthquakes

within the whole trump presidency and expose how weak and volatile it actually is irrespective of all the rhetoric and all the noise the reality is that trump and those immediately around him don't really have a clue what they're doing. they have made all of these grandiose statements be they about syria be there about this war the you know the earthquake that launched on the middle east by the recognition of the declaration of jerusalem as a capital of so called israel all of these things show that this is someone who doesn't really have a clue about how to operate on the on the only global platform and i think that people that matters know there's a beginning to realize that and saying this man is damaging everything having said that. trump saying that america is going to withdraw from syria this is actually a good thing america has no place being in syria part of

a problem it always has been part of the problem. after all it's american allies and arguably elements of the american administration of the american security apparatus that are responsible for organizations like. of course the the white helmets and other such groups so it's good that america leave syria and let syria sort itself out along with its true a less like russia and iran so you know buying donald trump's assertion that the us had won the war against eisel and. this is now the second time that america has apparently won the war against which is when i when i hear donald trump say this i have a picture of a guy looking in a mirror just punching him self in the head and saying i'm winning and winning this is the thing america cannot win the war against because that is part of the american administration it's the american project to destabilize the middle east

america can't defeat that much because that would require it to defeat itself so really when trump says all of this it just shows how stupid he is or arguably how stupid he thinks the american population in the rest of the world what is it that people are missing then here because donald trump says that local powers like turkey can handle this on their own now but the veterans who are now leaving his team his defense secretary and his anti eisel envoy is now leaving now these are people who know what they're talking about so what are we missing here there seems to be very real concerns among the kurds if the united states pulls out so on the one hand donald trump's making good on pledges to leave foreign wars on the other hand there's a significant group of people in that part of the world who are now more fearful. well of course i mean america has made all of these promises to the to the to the oppressed kurdish people and i feel for them these are the same promises that were

made to the kurds and up and if people cast their memory back to around ninety ninety one when you had the first gulf war america made a promise to the iraqi people an implied promise saying that look you know if you want to rise up against that we're not going to you know stand in his you know we're not going to allow him to use weapons and this that and the other and so the people in both the northern parts of iraq the kurds and also the people of iraq in the south the shia are they rose up and they were brutally massacred because america cannot be trusted america is two faced america doesn't know how to spell honesty talk the talk but it certainly does not walk the walk america has never wanted any agreement that it's signed on to i mean you just have to look at d.c.p. you know you have to look at the nuclear agreement that is there is in the process of being decimated with russia. by america by americans are against and it's. it's a mentality of we are better than everyone else as many people are pointing out we

had to see any troops actually physically leave yet we'll have to wait to see whether we got any more resignations to follow as well ok for now but it has a has an alley thanks very much for joining us on r.t. . thank you very much. an american speech therapist is suing authorities in texas after being sacked from her job at a school for refusing to sign an oath that pledges to never be a part of any boycott movement on israel that's required by law or signed in more than a dozen states prohibiting the employment of people with anti israeli sentiments with the story has killed more than. 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 in 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 so it's 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 either 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 on r.t. new york. as you covered in the coming hour as you're watching aussie international .

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a while come to old football fans and the graces football teams on the planet. odds all the transcripts of the. protests and riots in france the government says these are the most violent protests in paris in the fifteen protests over the fuel tanks rising ballots in the whole country this organization has received over two million pounds of public money into stone but eighteen months has been engaging in a smear campaign against the legal position on the labor party. i'm afshin rattansi of our special season finale of going on to gravity many a team with legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger john thanks for coming on so the yeah ending with questions of parliament over a u.k. military linked foreign office operation there is attacks corbin and this channel what's your take on the.