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the people of. saudi arabia's. yellow vests sweeps through paris again in another round of anti-government protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds on a six consecutive weekend of action as dozens of injuries and arrests are reported . i. i i i. i i i. also ahead independence riots flare in barcelona leaving dozens injured in protest at a government meeting in the city which coincided with the. police crackdown. sacked for refusing to sign an oath to. school therapist in the united states. over
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a mandatory pledge for an overhaul of u.s. . that's wrong doesn't sound like you're going 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. here in moscow you want your teams and the life of me. welcome to the program. now clashes again on saturday with the best protests throughout the french capital across the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the latest anti-government marchers. i. was.
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if. police say they made one hundred forty two arrests in paris once again right officers were out in force using water cannon tear gas sort of the risky was this he's got this whole. chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just thinking look over here tear gas craning down as the protests just look 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 have 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
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a form of the tear gas in an area where they had been cattle jane and there's 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 who are being mobilized today and security offices for all fewer the more 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 they're all 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 the. is some of this really shawn's
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are actually happy with what's been offered by the government including an increase in a 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 come policies led by emanuel might call ready we've seen some of those tensions between the police and the protesters so we thought we 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
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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. q thank you. thank you thank. you thank you. thank you. 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
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are wood they're waiting gold particularly after being ticked asked. was if you can see tear gas has been fired by the police. this cheery gas going everywhere now tear gas is an irritant to particular 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 is a city crazy on the streets of paris rubber bullets being deployed each t. 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
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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 trying to keep my cool area safe where 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 .
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so that's the basics of the kit now we are all set for the next act. but it was also heated in the barcelona on friday with pro independence protests in spain's catalonia region leaving more than sixty protesters and police officers injured. was them from a government decision to relocate the weekly cabinet meeting from madrid to the council on capital offense sublayers a conciliatory gesture of unity coincided with the first anniversary of a heavy handed police crackdown on independent supporters journalists in the region
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talk to us through what happened on friday. burma the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that has pedro sanchez that already and that is the a he also wants 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 the bet at the purser's politico's which means greece libor rate the political prisoners still nine of them are held in the tension and basically you have 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 they blocked eighty seven seven which is the freeway leading to the airport so many people were
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blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. on thursday all parties have agreed to an effective dialogue and independence referendum held in october last year was deemed illegal by madrid swished been arrested cast leaders for a billion and sedition spanish prosecutor recently playing with mcafee president carter's persian war spent more than eight million euros on the referendum which one wins those claims bizarre. a spot of history academic at britain's newcastle university says politicians are misreading the public mood. the caps the. trying to work through. the mind be consented to meant spanish. and the. deal so many ways was expected. the government cannot control everyone in.
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the crew stand under spanish and we can. see in the elections in december last year . it was somehow symbolically very important to both spanish and the catalan government and the current government because they haven't been able to do much in the last year into legislation. a powerful tsunami has struck in the knee in indonesia leaving at least forty three people dead according to the country's disaster management agency the wave has injured close to six hundred in addition hundreds of buildings along the coast around the cinder strait have also been destroyed it's believed the tsunami was caused by undersea landslides following a volcanic eruption at nearby krakatoa death toll could still rise further we'll stay on top of this developing story and when you updates as they put the covetable . and in other headlines a partial shutdown of the u.s. government has now come into effect that's off the senate failed to approve
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billions of dollars for building a border with mexico to monitor by i don't trump 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 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 and this is the third time washington shutdown stores this year nine federal departments have stopped their work almost four hundred thousand employees are at home hundreds of thousands more will work without pay for now at least until an agreement can be reached they've lindorff a founding editor of the online news web site this can't be happening thanks it's all 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
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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 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. and some clear how long the situation last funnelled president stressed he was prepared for it to go on for a long time let's take a quick look back now at the reasons for previous shutdowns in d.c. .
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an american speech therapist thought he's in texas after being sacked from her job at a school well because she refused to. be a part of any boycott movement on israel that's required by law or signed in over a dozen states which prohibits specifically the province of people with the sentiments kellam open with more. the first amendment of the u.s.
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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 will board you we've been hearing what locals have to say about it think it's a little bit odd it's ridiculous seeing the line that's wrong doesn't sound right
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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 yes 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
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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. the u.s. envoy to the coalition has reportedly resigned over don't trumps the solution to withdraw u.s. troops from syria reports of resignation comes just a day off the defense secretary james mattis also announced he's going to step down early next year to protest over the planned military withdrawal of president trump shared his reaction to the news on twitter. a number of prominent lawmakers both democrat and republican have criticized the president's decision to withdraw troops from syria the move has been backed by some key players in the region that includes america's nato ally turkey.
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so. the 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 they started to withdraw they have. other u.s. allies involved in the syrian conflict are not on board with washington's plans the drums 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 withdrawal mothers and wives of the soldiers in the armed opposition the syrian democratic forces have been gathering near an american military base in the province of aleppo. and their kid turned his back on us as we continue to find . it was our airline vanny and. why did they leave us in this day. and night we went to the airfield they promised that they would not leave and now they've sold us out. attentions are already rising in northern syria with turkey
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malveaux are going to fence of against the kurdish forces they currently hold called the city of man bitch representative for the syrian democratic forces told russian media they are ruling out hand in this city back to the government that's to prevent turkey launching another of offensive to the one ankara carried out after 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 dash we expect them to live up to those commitments. that i'm from on
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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 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 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
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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 it is one of the issues for us to 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 measures is very very important strategically. to keep the turks away as well the turks are not going into monday's as they have
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threatened to do so giving it back to us 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's patagonia region are suing some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies for environmental damage the tribes say that contamination from fracking sites threatens their lives and also wildlife across the epic landscape.
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does it does your legal league good current 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 lands 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 despite the region's natural richness that people here are very poor having is the energy companies come plunder and contaminate our leathers and able to fortunes they make a market for themselves and the people they pay off to cover this all up in that one i mean and. the way
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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. well as he did approach those energy companies for call but so far they've chosen not to offer us that one. good that's a pretty one myself for this our next up it's a documentary shall see life savers and of course we're back at six am moscow time with the latest the global news updates will see the.
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i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically all by logic will move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working so well i believe that indeed we will have pretty much no biologically old people even though of course we will have a much greater number of call of if we old people. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want us. to go right to be pressed to supply them the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city.
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i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would speak. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you looked. at the glory like. you know to simulate it to still give out food for the stuff. that you don't really feel like a human being in that. and then. that guy just came over to me saw me and gave me no change at this book.
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continue those who. are doing just. what i wanted to do with how do you know that you're helping the world be better i would say that would be to me one of the things that has impressed me the most is how you get the energy from where we need to get to but. i want to do something for the earth when i came on board it was my first time at sea it was my first time in the galley. so i had a lot. of this is the something. i just love it i just love it. i don't think i love. the crew. i just love the whole thing and being at sea i feel more time.
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on a ship at sea than i do on live show. the life that i spent forty five years in the navy i retired in the summer of two thousand and sixteen so one year ago and i asked her why i left that mystery going at sea but i didn't want to just go and see for fun because i do have a sailing boat but i needed a mission. that's. going to see anything like this in my life to what you. know yes. yes
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