we will have a much greater number of people. the yellow vests sweep through paris again another round of anti-government protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds in a sixth consecutive weekend of action as dozens of injuries and arrests are reported. i. i i. i. also this hour on independence riots room barcelona dozens are left injured in protests at a government meeting in the city which coincided with the anniversary of a police crackdown. and sacked for refusing to sign an oath to israel a school therapist in the u.s. authorities over a mandatory pledge which is in force an overhaul of u.s.

states. particularly crossing the line. doesn't sound like 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. and for joining us here in our to international law. you are welcome to the program and we do have some breaking news coming in this hour out of indonesia at least twenty people are dead and one hundred sixty five injured offered tsunami hit the coast around the strait that information is coming from the disaster mitigation agency in the country it's believed right now the wave was caused by activity at mt krakatau which is an active volcano that erupted several times in recent months we'll bring you more information as that becomes available. a

power saw clashes again on saturday with the yellow vest protests throughout the french capital across the country nearly forty thousand gathered for the latest anti-government marches. fifty. five am fifty fifth. have. if. your. police say they've made one hundred forty two arrests in paris once again right officers were out in force using water cannon and tear gas assault lewinski reports . but 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 through woods the island where not saddam the famous cathedral is situated they were

throwing projectiles that 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 you lesions 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 some one thousand two hundred and twenty five police officers were being mobilized today and security offices far fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and. because many people who

watched the protests 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 this police force is coming in for a few or many people saying the reasons behind that is some of this really 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 salary 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

emmanuel 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. we were covering them so take a sneak look at what we do see you path for a protest. 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. thank

you. 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 would there waiting gold particularly after being ticked i asked. was are 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 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 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 try and keep my core area safe i where it's 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 are all set for the next act. of. violence flared in barcelona on friday with pro independence protests in spain's catalonia region leaving more than sixty protesters and police officers injured.

stemmed from a government decision to relocate the weekly cabinet meeting from madrid to the castle non-capitalist sensibly as a conciliatory gesture of unity it coincided with the first anniversary of a heavy handed police crackdown on independence supporters journalist in barcelona talk to us through friday's renewed protests or me the cabinet meeting it's held in madrid that has federal centers that already and i will see 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 behind me you have 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 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 a piece there were seven which is that three way to leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. on thursday all parties had agreed to an effective dialogue an independence referendum held in october last year was deemed illegal by madrid which been arrested castling leaders for a billion and sedition a spanish prosecutor recently claimed that former catherine president called us jamal spent more than eight million euros on the road for and he's called such accusations bizarre. i spoke to a spanish history academic at britain's newcastle university he says that politicians are misreading the public mood. i'm. trying to work.

the mind. and there. was no deal so many ways. the government cannot control everyone and. this is the truth and on the spanish and. on me since the elections in december last year. somehow symbolically. both spanish and the current government of the current government because they haven't been able to do much in the last year in terms of legislation. a partial shutdown of the us government has come into effect after the senate failed to approve billions of dollars for building a border war with mexico demanded by president. we're going to have a shutdown 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 this shutdown hopefully will not last logged and this is the third time washington has shut its doors just this year nine federal departments have stopped their work with almost four hundred thousand employees at home hundreds of thousands more will work without pay for now until an agreement can be struck they've been off 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 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 it started hurting me in 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 there's a long unclear at this stage how long the situation's going to last the president trying to stress that he was prepared for it to last a long time as a look back at 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 because she refused to sign an oath. be a part of any boycott movement israel that's actually required by law so i never dozen other states prohibiting the employment of people with sentiments that capable and looked into the store. 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 well 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 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 as a bill in the roster that would punish american companies were engaging in a boycott. 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 a 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 host on the heels of the u.s. defense secretary's resignation a high ranking american envoy is now also quit saying of a president trips planned syrian troops pull out. of more coming up after this short break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global will be loans to the old for rich eight point six percent market saw

a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. welcome back to art international the u.s. envoy to the anti eisel coalition has reportedly resigned over donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria brett mcgurk resignation if confirmed of course comes just one

day after defense secretary james mattis also an out is going to step down early next year as a protest over the planned military withdrawal a number of prominent lawmakers both democrat and republican have criticized trumps the surgeon to get out of syria the moves are backed by some key players in the region though including america's nato ally turkey. to trump told us during our conversation will you clear the direst room here. before and after this. as long as you give us the support in terms of logistics and how this started to withdraw all they have. other u.s. allies involved in a syrian conflict not on board with washington's plans though trump decision has been met with anger among kurdish forces in the region with family members of the fighters peeling to the u.s. the reverse the withdrawal mothers and wives of the soldiers in the armed opposition the syrian democratic forces have been gathering near an american

military base in aleppo province. and their kid turned his back when to us as we continue to fight indeed. it was our airline vanny and. why did they leave i said this time. we went to the airfield as it promised that they would not leave and now as they've sold us out. tensions are already rising in northern syria with turkey now vowing an offensive against the kurdish forces which currently control the city of man bit representative for the syrian democratic forces told russian media they are rolling out handing the city back to the syrian government to prevent turkey launching a similar operation to the one ankara carried out after the liberation from islamic state two years ago. 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 their validus is complicated this is sarah 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 friend threatened that manned beach would be the next target. as i said before our relationship is at 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 dish is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint work you are there for and this is one of the four measure it is one of the issues of work together. we are a part of syria and we don't support separatism what you want an agreement to be reached and soften this trade as part of a free syria. former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes 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 into monday's as they have threatened to do so given 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. a group of indigenous people from argentina spicer go to a region assuming some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies for

environmental damage the mapuche a tribe say that contamination from fracking sites threatens their lives and wildlife across the epic landscape. does it does your legal ego good current to make a logical situation where it is very serious and alarming on our community feels under threat because there's been a violation of our rights and there's uncertainty over our land going 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.

no it isn't i love the e.c.m. as it is by the region's natural richness the people here are very poor having is the energy companies come plunder and contaminate our land this and that but the fortunes they make are kept for themselves but as you know the people they pay off to cover this all up in that one i mean and. the way vizio 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 and 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. that approached the energy companies for

comment so far they've chosen not to offer us that. coming up next the naughty it's the cause a report said join us again at four am moscow time for the latest global news updates will see the. when lawmakers manufacture consent instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. to ignore middle of the room signal. is the way.

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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 the 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 hurts psychology miller tape back the investment firm in new york says how well traders possibly survive as the euro heads right getting back to my discussion about the height of fed chairman during that time starting in 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 tom.