i. think this week. the yellow vests sweep through paris and another round of antigovernment protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds during a six consecutive weekend of riots with almost one hundred fifty arrests. president vladimir putin. of nuclear war the ukraine crisis. and much else besides in his year. with the media. secret project by u.s. democrats to test. is revealed in a new york times report it's claimed they used the methods of an old adversary those much maligned russian. no

problem becomes a bit of a headache. accused of colonialism a trade what he leave. feedback to the fact. that everything is meant to be come out of the culture does not belong. that's trying to. obviously i think it's pressure. people are just looking for a reason to be offended. it's been a busy week for you well what headlines international that's our roundup some of the key moments to the week. again on saturday and had a fresh wave of yellow press protests throughout the french capital across the country more than thirty eight. thousand gathered for the second weekend of

antigovernment might. have. ended her life. if. your. city. police say they made a one hundred forty two arrest and once again the ride officers were out in force using water cannons and tear gas surely do but you know. well chaotic scenes here and she's outside the hotel to feel in paris just thinking look over here she had gas raining down as the protest this looked like they were trying to push towards the island we're not saddam the famous cathedral is situated they were throwing project shows at the police and then the police have responded with this tear gas

this is one of many caches we've already witnessed in paris as is 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 legs as they were trying to run out from the tear gas in an area where they had been cattle jane and those injuries largely due to the fact that 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 and security of this fall fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and that's because many people watch the protests this weekend would have died down there would be fewer protests this and they certainly all feel protests. 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 far fewer many people saying the reasons why guys some of these really shows are actually happy with what's being offered by the government there is a huge increase in the hundreds of one hundred euros in those on a minimum salary also new social contribution plans new taxes than 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 the 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 home seize led by emanuel might call. the yellow vests i mean broadcast around the world but some of the

coverage in france itself may come in for criticism one french t.v. channel came under fire for its broadcast after appearing to change the placard of one of the protesters it initially said. over the last word was somehow deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel though said it all happened by mistake so we spoke to the protester who was at the center of the controversy. many others. media in general. journalists politicians and the financial elite this kind of censorship situation people would say we were right in criticizing the media manipulate. i've heard from many people there was. a backlash. everywhere i thought this through and decided to file

a complaint to the country's media watchdog. the original demonstrations called for planned to be dropped and then grew into a wide government protests some of the other potential sources of the discord including one so we went to the streets of paris to look for would be entertained. by you in paris people protest. you know. who does it that you do just. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow saturday.

here here. is. russia's alleged online meddling house arrest once again but this time moscow can't be blamed the new york times is reporting that a group of democratic party members undertook a secret project to test the online tactics during an election in the u.s. it took place in the state of alabama last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns. for years the public you me were barash by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily he told us of malicious programs of evil software soulless slaves puton an existential threat to america take the alabama election a year ago russian bartz the media reported interfered medaled corrupted

on behalf of republican candidates roy moore so surprise a tougher supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still russia. is for it's pretty alarming when a guys lives in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian it everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office one might wonder why on earth russia would bother with the massive dissin from asian campaign in alabama of all places to fence taliban of government as juicy a target room or himself was clueless about it had no idea why this was happening so as is republican tradition he blamed the democrats for setting him up the democrats as a source or tradition change the subject and insulted him maybe more should check

with putin who shares his views on depriving people of their civil rights here is where it gets really good the new york times did some digging and found a report titled the alabama project and figured out those weren't putin's bots at all they were faked dressed up to look like russian bots. we orchestrated and a labrat false flag operation that planted the idea that the more campaign was amplified on social media by a russian but that i've seen some dirty stuff in politics all over the world but this this is platinum tear this on this deplorable and dirty tricks turns out it was all of fake psyop orchestrated by a group of i.t. experts who wanted to help the democrat win by cheating by lying and by

defrauding millions of voters in an attempt to frame the republican is being helped by russia the guy who allegedly financed all of this is billionaire reid hoffman co-founder of linked in and apparently a guy with a really faulty moral compass often comes with the money my experience now here is the kicker and lighty is telling people shouldn't worry it's only one hundred thousand dollars peanuts when it comes to elections whatever world the democrats live in a hundred grand is change. joe trippi a season's democratic operative said it was impossible that one hundred thousand dollar operation had an impact on the race journalists no longer report the news they report their opinions same new york times when talking about how alleged

to fake russian facebook accounts spend the same money hundred thousand dollars on advertising on a national campaign the disclosure adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the russian influence campaign so when a democratic group is all but who are spending one hundred grand on this information on lies framing and defaming someone it's just one hundred grand pocket change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune crime against america and god i've always been suspicious that the russians bought in there it was slim z. and was probably made up simply because that's the kind of saying that the democratic party does they make things up in order to create the basis for an

attack on the right wing and on the conservatives this is in the character of the democratic party and in the lack of character i should say and it's it's a criminal element that has taken over the democratic party the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped after the alabama coast came to light facebook suspended five accounts linked to it it says this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior and one of those whose account was reportedly suspended and i had any involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election. economy and education possible nuclear war world domination president.

during his fourth annual q. and a with the media. or. are leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with concrete steps that we will let them not say later that we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to seek your balance to ensure a security. concern in the us withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the us has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing

their troops the only certain they are still that now is the presence of american troops needed in syria you pushed you quite don't think so but let's not forget that presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it will be there with the un security council you know with the syrian leadership if the u.s. tries to withdraw the masses the right decision. will block just tell me this is the blockade between the on the us and the rest of ukraine and it's going to russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities if they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own they shoot at those they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die though we provide humanitarian support for those living national but only not to let those people starve to death but. i'm sure you will be because she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a lie however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case

of saudi arabia is that this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack the russian if it was not script help all they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one. to halt workers growth at any cost. in my view. relations are at a stalemate is in the interests of both of our countries to get out of this stalemate are we interested in me stalling our relations with the u.k. yes we are and so is the u.k. . many western politicians an expert and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do i just want to know if you really want this was a real end of your foreign policy. concerning ruling the world we know where the headquarters are located of those who want to do this and it's not in moscow you can connect this to defense spending the u.s.

spends over seven hundred billion dollars on all russia only forty six billion of them in about all do you really think that our aim is to rule the world with the us that this is just a cliché that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problem in user but in the. approach that was in egypt when will you marry in the home and home. these are two different questions are you married. yes so he is married and wants me to suffer the same. first of all do they cannot and then they said my flesh was bothering with the russian flag cannot bother anyone but i want to refer to keep playing who said when everyone is there the great game is finished the at the great there will be a meeting where everyone will die this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us in the world yet how's your health. do while you would not see me off. but having spent several hours

fielding all those questions from the journalists and wasn't quite done after the marathon q. and a you sat down for a face to face meeting with an aspiring blind reporter. hello how are you. i would like to ask you some questions did you always dream of becoming president or before you wanted to be for example an astronaut. honestly i never dreamed of becoming president and i had no intention . probably at first it was very difficult can you describe your first days as president. yes it wasn't easy these were very difficult years for the country as a whole through a balancing with survival that was a very difficult situation with the economy and security as well. what was your

most memorable day as president. it is very difficult to say but we just talked about this has to be. the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup do you make. use of these which was a secret but i can share it with you i wish all our wishes will come true may attach to you of course. you are very handsome. thank you very much. during the big. of course question so the president. resorted to wall sorts of ways to grab his attention.

sad to say that it wouldn't be the first time there are hundreds of millions of

dollars if not billions of dollars that are lost in the pentagon. completely surprised that three hundred twenty one million dollars in fueling costs. i'm very . emirates have to pay that bill. bill is actually being paid for by the people of. the people of. saudi arabia's. country. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic. very critical.

for the weekly here. a powerful tsunami has struck. at least one hundred sixty eight people died. almost seven hundred fifty people have been injured at least. according to the latest information hundreds of buildings along the coast. being destroyed it's believed the tsunami was caused by. following a volcanic eruption of nearby mt. the death toll could still rise further at the moment we get the updates you get them to. the phrase no problem or no one is familiar in many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of

a trademark row involving disney you may know the phrase from this movie. since the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred ninety four generations growing up knowing. the phrase was trademarked by does need to protect its movie merchandising the studio's been accused of colonialism and with a remake of the film to be released next next year i should say petitions being launched by a zimbabwean activist to get does need to drop its copyright claim has been signed by more than sixty thousand people who say the phrase belongs to african culture now disney's trademark dates back to two thousand and three for a target to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny this were heli origin of either the phrase or the names of almost all the lion king characters although it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself of the case though has

fired up some opinions. so i we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this as another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capitalist wants everything capitalist need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that's used to be looked at and i'm not necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out in sydney that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are just looking for a reason to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sheridan to the one thing that does the did do is davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did he's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa causes in

africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars not everything is meant to be commodified and culture is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it at the end of the day disney is a global company so it's not to say that they can't appropriate or use phrases from other cultures let me say something right now where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like requirement tata disney also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is culturally sacre to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. invention on. deception in germany where

a top journalist from the respected spiegel newsmagazine has been sacked for making up stories for years lifting the lid on old korda. when it comes to trustworthy journalism the mainstream media might tell you there's no alternative. meet one of their poster boys of honesty class for lotus work for one of germany's most respected newsmagazines der spiegel he was even named cnn's journalist of the year back in two thousand and fourteen for a story about prison inmate care the report takes the poets you can the interesting approach to a major social problem glossary lutes is spain's pictures in the reader's mind the food like a film. well an acting career might have been better suited for real odious because

the paragon of modern journalism seems to have faked his way through his seven year career of the sixty articles we know der spiegel published reloading us admitted fourteen contained fake news and a story about a young syrian boy he made up quotes and locations the tale of a guantanamo bay prison or a complete fabrication it was only after his colleague revealed his doubts over a story they were working on together about the us mexican border that the truth came out the. first there were just like little mistakes that i paid attention to things that seemed suspicious a vigilante group that doesn't allow you to take pictures of them but they tell you unbelievable stuff even admit to their crimes like that they detained mexicans and crossed the mexican border with weapons were no went through the ringer with his managers trying to bring his doubts forward imagine challenging the legitimacy of

an award winning western journalist praised by c.n.n. itself and if you're thinking this is a glitch in the mainstream media think again all these outlets have parted with journalists after they fabricated stories some more award winning journalists but awards in journalism are a whole other matter take journalist. he faked his own death with the help of the ukrainian secret service attempting to pin the blame on russia for an assassination it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime that can't go with killed due to his professional activities he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia you know it was it was one of the biggest fake news stories of the year but he was even given the time award for journalistic bravery if the mainstream media insists you should question less you might want to take a second to question more donald quarter r.t.

. we wanted on the top stories of the week here on our international it's been a busy one for us here in moscow we're back with more and off. imagine being six thirty five and you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of getting fixed circular t.v. you're going to have to stop doing all this in this kind of you lose the minutes let's be frank my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up

winning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field on my head in my head. it's like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that wireless access point out there says continuous on say with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. all our. bottom.

hello and welcome to worlds apart it's to forth here into the war and it is finally on the front pages of american newspapers not because this suffering there reached catastrophic proportions that happened here is ago because the saudi question became part of the political infighting in washington just suffering only a matter when it's politically expedient to discuss them now i'm joined by our wits and executive director of the middle east and north africa division of human rights watch mr watson it's good to talk to you thank you very much for granting us some time. now i know you've been trying to raise awareness of the conflict in yemen for quite some time but it's long been a bit of an orphan war overshadowed by everything else going on in the region is that finally changing now.