headlines the shape this week. the yellow vests sweep through yet another round of government protests police used tear gas to disperse the crowds during a six consecutive weekend of riots almost one hundred fifty arrests made. president vladimir putin shares his stance on the threat of nuclear war. and much else besides in his year end q. and a with the media. a secret project by u.s. democrats to test online. is revealed in

a new york times report it's claimed they use the methods of an old out of those much maligned. no problem is a bit of a headache. accused of colonialism for trademarking this wiki leaks phrase hakuna matata. animated feedback to that. not everything is meant to be come out of the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money obviously i think it's on the surface pressure we live in a world people are just looking for a reason to be offended. it has been a busy week for your worldwide headlines when oxy international let's run down some of the highlights with the weekly thanks for joining us. so. the clash was again on

saturday amid a fresh wave of yellow press protests throughout the french capital across the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the sixth weekend of antigovernment match yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. q. three of the. police say they made one hundred and forty two arrests in paris once again right officers were out in force using water cannon and tear gas shot to do this well chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just think a look over here see a gas raining down as the protest is 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 have responded with this tear gas this is one of many caches we've already witnessed in paris as usual has 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 there's 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 as some one thousand two hundred and twenty five police officers were being mobilized and security offices full fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and that's because many. you know what

the protests this weekend would have died down there would be fewer protests this and they certainly all feel just 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 he were many people saying the reasons why guys some of the city shows are actually happy with what's being offered by the government there is a huge increase in the one hundred one hundred euros of those on a minimum salary also new social consciously she demands new taxes in those who would get extra hours and of course scrapping the fuel tax in january that like that was due to take place which of course was the start of these protests back in november but many people here say it's just not enough they're not happy with the government and as such we're seeing people again until the streets of paris ready to show their own their own ease with the french government. led by emmanuel

michael the demands of the yellow vests are being broadcast of viewers around the world but some of the coverage in france itself has certainly come in for criticism one of french t.v. channel came under fire for censoring its broadcast after appearing to change the placard of one of its protesters initially read back run out but somehow the last word ended up being deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel though said it all happened by mistake we spoke to a protester whose placard was at the center of the controversy. so many others this censorship by france three in the media in general the processes start to think that journalists are in cahoots with politicians and the financial elite this kind of censorship doesn't help the situation people would say we were right in criticizing the media they manipulate i've heard from many people who said there was shocked as well as

a backlash online at twitter facebook everywhere i thought this through and decided to file a complaint to the country's media watchdog. the original yellow fest demonstrations called for planned fuel tax hikes to be dropped but then it grew into a wider set of anti-government protests some of the other potential sources of the discord including russian ones so we went to the streets of paris to look for would be agitated. by you in paris make people protest. you know. what is it that you're doing. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow saturday's.

story. online meddling house. 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 online 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. years the public you we 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 rather. choose for it's pretty alarming when a guy's lips in a fluent russian or speak 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 a massive disinfo mation campaign in alabama of all places to first salad value of the band as juicy a thug and roy moore 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 has also 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 and 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 think 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 paul could change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune crime against america and go on i've always been suspicious that the russians bought in there it was flimsy 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 case came to light facebook suspended five counseling to it says this was for engaging in coordinated in north and take behavior and one of those whose account was reportedly suspended earlier denied any involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election.

from russia's economy and education to possible nuclear war and world domination president vladimir putin fielded a wide array of questions from journalists on thursday during his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media and we rounded up some of the key moments. or . as. the u.s. is now 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 an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with them but merely to seek your balance to ensure a security. concern in the u.s.

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 but they are still there now and what is the presence of american troops needed in syria but you can i don't think so but let's not forget that presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on before neither with the u.n. security council you know with the syrian going if the u.s. tries to withdraw the masses the right decision. will block just tell me this who set the blockade between on the us and the rest of ukraine that's going to russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have been 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 that but only not to let those people

starve to death. for sure you will be shot he was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a libel war however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that where this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack russia. if it was not script they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold 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 and experts 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 cliche that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problem but in the. uk it was in you just when will you marry in the home and home. with him but as you know 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 flash was bothering with the russian flag can't 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 questions from all those journalists put in wasn't quite finished. after the marathon he sat down for a face to face meeting with an aspiring blind report. 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 you could. honestly i never dreamed of becoming president and i had no intention. probably at first it was very difficult for you can

you describe your first days as president. yes it wasn't easy these were very difficult years for the country as a whole we were balancing with survival there 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 it's a big press conference the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup do you make a wish i mean you're. used to this 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. the big. questions for the president and most of them resorted to all sorts of ways to get his attention.

to you. today. you. sure. are plenty of stories still to come here on the weekly including hourly updates now with the powerful struck in the. latest death toll at one hundred sixty eight expected to rise and we are back in just a. i

certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically. move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working so. i believe that we will have pretty much no biologically old people even though we will have a much greater number of chronologically old people.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome to the program here on our updates now regarding indonesia a powerful tsunami has struck the region leaving at least one hundred and sixty eight people dead. seven hundred fifty people have been injured at least thirty are still missing that's according to the latest information hundreds of buildings along the coast around the some strait have just been destroyed now it's believed the tsunami was caused by undersea landslides following a volcanic eruption at nearby mount krakatoa and the death toll could still rise

further at the moment we get the updates here on r.t. we will pass them straight along to you. the phrase no problem or no worries is familiar in many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of a trademark wow involving disney you may know this phrase from this movie. the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred four generations grown up knowing. the phrase was trademarked by does need to protect its movie merchandising for the studios now being accused of colonialism with a remake of the film to be released next year a petition is being launched by zimbabwean activists to get disney to drop its copyright claim it's been signed by more than sixty thousand people saying the phrase belongs to african culture now it is news trademark dates back to two thousand and three for her to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't

deny the swahili origin of either the phrase all the names of almost all the lion king characters although it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself of the case certainly fired up some opinion. 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 if you look at it and i'm not necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out the answer me 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 date 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 pill pile of franchise i think it's a forty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like recruitment 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 and deception in germany where a top journalist from the respected spiegel newsmagazine has been sacked for making up stories for years the old quarter takes us through what's been discovered 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 paints pictures in the reader's mind that in 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 tanko with killed due to his professional activities he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia you know it was really 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. . and of those are just some of the news highlights from it this week here on the weekly on our international but many more waiting for you in about half an hour trying to. play. live. so. yes this is how the.

cut the to. play. cut. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the bridge eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from last year some with four hundred to five hundred

trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show. can afford to miss the one and only. to. do. that country call russia no one has ever no one has ever heard about that country never even heard about most school.