the first 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. also this hour on independence riots flaring barcelona leaving dozens injured in protests that are government meeting in the city which coincided with the anniversary of a heavy police crackdown. and sacked for refusing to sign an oath to israel a school therapist in the united states texan or thirty's over a mandatory pledge which is the force of u.s.

states traditionalists. doesn't sound like you go to work to work you don't go to work. you should be able to have your own political views outside of your work. either thanks for joining us on r.t. international live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins tonight welcome to the program and we do have some breaking news coming in from indonesia where it's tsunami has struck the country according to the country's disaster management agency powerful wave has killed at least twenty people injured over one hundred two people or so far reported missing in addition dozens of buildings along the coast around the sound are straight have been destroyed it's believed right now that tsunami was caused by undersea landslides that followed the volcanic eruption at nearby krakatau. so the death toll is likely to rise at the stage we'll bring you more

information as it becomes available. paris saw 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 marches. have the effect that if. have. if. if if if if if if if if if. if if you. really say they made one hundred forty two arrests in paris so once again the officers were out in force using water cannon tear gas devinsky has this report. but chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just think

a look over here see a gas raining term as the protests just look like they were trying to push through woods the island we're not saying this because the drill 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 legs as they were trying to run out 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 some one thousand two hundred and twenty five. police

officers were being mobilized today and security offices are all 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 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 shows 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 and not happy with the government and as

such we're seeing people again out on the streets of paris and ready to show their own anger their own ease with the french government's current policies led by emmanuel much more 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 what we do see you pass for a protest. thank you 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 a would there waiting gold particularly after being ticked asked. was how you can see the tear gas is being fired by the police because this chilly gas going everywhere now tear gas is an irritant sickly if you're always you know it's your mouth and your lungs and it's effects kick in after about thirty seconds 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 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. because. when things turn particularly nasty the police have been known to assure. 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 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 on capitol hill sensibly as a conciliatory gesture of unity but it coincided with the first anniversary of a heavy handed police crackdown on independence supporters journalists in barcelona talk to us through friday's renewed protests or me the cabinet meeting it's held in madrid that as pedro sanchez it 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 that were seven which is that true way to leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. on thursday all parties how to agree to an affective dialogue and independence referendum held in october last year was deemed illegal by madrid which was which then arrested catamount leaders for a belly and sedition the spanish prosecutor recently claimed that former catherine president carlos was your most. went more than eight million euros i'm afraid and he's all such claims bizarre. i was spoke to

a spanish history academic at britain's you girls you class the university he said the politicians are misreading the public mood. the cats the. only chance the mind. and the. deal so many ways expect the government cannot control everyone in. the crew spanish and we can. see in the elections in december of last year. was somehow symbolically meant to 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. 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 donald trump 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 shut its doors this year nine federal departments have stopped their work with almost four hundred thousand employees at home hundreds of thousands war will work without pay for now at least until an agreement can be reached they've laid off a founding editor of the online news web site to this can't be happening thinks 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 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 thing and trump has made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke. some play if i'm out just how long the situation will last president trump on it i was stressed he was prepared for it to last a long time is a quick look back at some of the reasons previously for shutdowns in d.c. .

an american speech therapist is suing all thought he is in texas after being sacked from her job at a school well because she refused to sign an oath of projects to never be a part of any boycott movement on israel as required by law sign over a dozen other states prohibiting the employment of people with the sentiments looks 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 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 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. post on the heels of the u.s. defense secretary's resignation another high ranking american envoys that we also know the president trumps planned syrian troop withdrawal a lot more a lot more after this short break. and. it's sad to say that it wouldn't be the first time that there are hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars that are lost in the pentagon's

bookkeeping so to be honest i'm not completely surprised that three hundred twenty one million dollars in refueling costs went missing i'm very glad that saudi arabia and the emirates have now promised to pay that bill but i think there's no avoiding the reality that the bill is actually being paid for by the people of yemen the people of yemen who died under saudi arabia's and the immoralities indiscriminate bombardment of the country. join me every first week on the elec so i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back to the program the u.s. envoy to the anti eisel coalition has reportedly resigned over donald trump's the

situation to withdraw american troops from the country brett mcgurk resignation if confirmed of course comes just a day after defense secretary james mattis also announced he's going to step down early next year to protest over the planned military pull out a number of prominent lawmakers both democrat and republican have criticized trump's decision to get out of syria a move though has been backed by some key players in the region including america's nato ally turkey. so that there is the trump told us during our conversation will you call your desires from here. before and after this. 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 trumps the situation has been met with anger among kurdish forces in the region with family members of the fighters appealing to the u.s.

to reverse that would draw mothers and wives of the soldiers and the armed opposition the syrian democratic forces have been gathering near an american military base in aleppo province. and there could turn despair going to us as we continue to fight india is or it was our airline vanny. why did they leave i said this day. we went to the airfield they promised that they would not leave and now they've sold us out. intentions already rising in northern syria with turkey now vowing an offensive against the kurdish forces which currently control the city of man but representative for the syrian democratic forces told russian media they aren't ruling out handing the city back to the syrian government as to prevent turkey launching a similar operation the one i encourage carried out after the liberation from islamic state back in twenty six thing.

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 that 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 gone to find together the americans and the collison again they talk to me until they have a struggle from this around their validus is completed 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 free and 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 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 of 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 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. to keep the turks away as well the turks are not going into monday's 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. 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 as patagonia region some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies for environmental damage the tribes say that contamination from fracking sites threatens their lives as well as wildlife across the whole landscape. does it does your legal eagle good current to make a logical situation 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 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.

it is available easy i'm as it despite the region's natural richness that people here are very poor having is the energy companies come plunder 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 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. has approached those energy companies for comment so far that shows a lot to offer us that. can i just come back to our top news story there we just want to give an update on that tsunami which has struck off the coast of indonesia the death toll has now more than doubled that's been officially confirmed according to the country's disaster management agency be powerful wave has killed at least forty three over five hundred casualties now confirmed there in addition hundreds of buildings along the coast around the sundar strait have been destroyed it's believed a tsunami was caused by undersea landslides following a volcanic eruption at nearby mount krakatoa the death toll could of course still rise further we'll stay on top of this developing story and keep you up to speed as new reports come in. and that's it from the team of myself for this hour up next

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