i. look. at. the headlines that shaped this week on r.t. international sweep through paris again in another round of antigovernment protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds during a six consecutive weekend of riots almost one hundred fifty arrests are made. president vladimir putin shares his stance on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis and the brics and much else besides in his year end to q. and a with the media. a secret project by u.s. democrats to test the online tactics during a state election is revealed in

a new york times report it's claimed they used the methods of an old adversary those much maligned the russian. no problem becomes a big problem. accused of colonialism for trademarking the swahili phrase hakuna matata on the program we hear some animated feedback. that everything is meant to be come out of the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money off obviously it's a lot of the syrian pressure we live in a reach people are just looking for a reason to be offended. because a week it has been here on the international for your worldwide news headlines let's run down some of the top highlights with the week. so power. so clashes yet

again on saturday amid a fresh wave of yellow vest protests throughout the french capital across the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the sixth weekend of anti-government marchers. five. years ago. if. your. city. police say they've made one hundred forty two arrest and paris once again right officers were out in force using water cannons and tear gas a shell a duplex could not report. 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 thing this cathedral is situated they were

throwing project shows 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 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 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 and security offices for all fewer than what we've seen in previous weeks eight thousand last week and that's because. so many people

who want the protests this weekend would have died down there would be fewer protests this and the sunni 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 far fewer many people saying the reasons behind that is some of the solutions 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 here 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 mak all the demands of the yellow vests are being broadcast of us all around the world and some of the coverage in france itself are certainly coming for criticism one french t.v. channel came under fire for censoring his broadcast after appearing to change the placard of one of the protesters it initially said not drawn out but then the last word was deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel though said it all happened by mistake but we spoke to the protester who's placard was at the center of the controversy. so much i was shocked like many others this censorship by france three cast a shadow on the media in general that 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 you see we were right in criticizing the media critic they manipulate and i've heard from many people who said they were shocked as well there's

a backlash online at twitter facebook everywhere i thought this through and decided to file a complaint to the country's media watchdog. original yet. to be dropped but volved. government protests some other potential sources of the discord including russian ones so we went to the streets of paris to look for would. post by you in paris make people protest. you know. what is it that you do just. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow saturday's.

this time. the new york times is reporting that a group of democratic party members undertook a secret project to. election in the united states it took place. by employing methods allegedly used to influence. here's our. for 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 atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still. choose for it's pretty alarming when it 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 a massive disinfo mation campaign in alabama of all places to fence taliban of the van as juicy a target roy moore himself was clueless about it had no idea why this was happening so as his republican tradition he blamed the democrats for setting him up the

democrat 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 cool with spending a 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 go on 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 a 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 accounts linked to it and says this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior by one of those who is a count was reportedly suspended earlier denied any involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the election. from russia's economy and

education a possible nuclear war and a world domination president vladimir putin feel little while their way of questions from journalists on thursday during his fourteen and you all q. and a with the media so we rounded up some of the chemo so it was removed. but it's also. the news news of. the. war. the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with concrete steps but let's not say later that we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to seek your pilots to ensure a security. concern in the u.s.

withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the u.s. 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 because of what is the presence of american troops needed in syria i don't think so but let's not forget the presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed with either with the u.n. security council nor with the syrian leadership so if the u.s. plans to withdraw is the right decision. they will block just tell me this is the blockade between us and the rest of ukraine and it's going to russia you know at the. it's done by the ukrainian authorities and 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 national but only not to let those people starve to death. because she was

assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a lie will bore however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that what 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 hold workers growth at any cost. in my view. relations are at a stalemate it 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 any 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 million of them in about all do you really think that our aim is to rule the world or the us that this is just a cliché that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problem but in the. ok that was when will you marry whom and whom. 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 there anyway i want to refer to kipling who said when everyone is then the great game is finished the at the great there will be

a meeting whenever. this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us in the war yet how's your health if. you would not see me not. having spent several hours fielding questions for all the journalists like i put in wasn't entirely done after the marathon q. and a he sat down for a face to face meeting with an aspiring blind reporter. hello how are you. here but. 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 this happened by chance. and probably at first it was very difficult for you can you describe your first days as president they were 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. last what was your most memorable day as president. it is very difficult to say but we just talked about this at a big press conference the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup how do you make a wish and in your. used to this which was a secret but i can share it with you i wish come true actually you of course. you are very handsome thank you very much. during the big journalists of course where you got a question for the president and it was awarded to will sorts of ways to get his attention.

it's a simple. you . should. come here on the international law with a remake of the animated classic the lion king on its way next year i do not want to pressure the trademark of the phrase. about allegations of colonialism or trying to address that.

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this is. the sunday program. of the phrase. many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of. disney you may know the phrase from this movie. since the. one nine hundred ninety four generations growing up knowing. the. need to protect its movie merchandizing the studios being accused of colonialism with a remake of the film to be released next year

a petition has been launched. to drop its copyright claim it's been signed by more than sixty thousand people who say the. back to two thousand and three four had to be used on clothing and. the studio. is all the names of almost all the. although it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself. as some of. 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 reasons 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 d.v.d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did these made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney is donated to an african cause is 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 thing that specially 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 pub 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. investment bank goldman sachs is facing criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars from a state investment fund and other financial services giant says the former government in kuala lumpur is to blame claiming it lied to the bank here's daniel bushell investigating whether the company will face any consequence the indictment states goldman sachs not only got ridiculously inflated fees of six hundred million dollars for helping start malaysia's corrupt national wealth fund were in coalition

leader anwar abraham says the wall street bank must be complicit in the whole affair probably the most stunning financial scandal of the decade is the failure of governance and you allow the leaders to pull this one is much a bottom up and they were. complicit to the. international financial institutions and blew a sexual course and then instead of investing it in the nation prosecutors say the funds cash was blown on a five year spending spree from beverly hills mansions to a rare twenty two carat pink diamond seethrough grand piano gift to australian supermodel miranda kerr a quarter of a billion dollars on this three hundred foot mega yacht called the equity and bankrolling hollywood hit the wolf of wall street about oh the irony but in crimes on an industrial scale the real question is this. this legal. absolutely. defendants deny the claims and goldman blames those malaysia crimes on

a few rogue individuals notably goldman's then celebrated star partner in life but at the end of that six five years spending spree in twenty fourteen indictment points out goldman actually promoted him worse liason his guilty plea notes others at the bank helped him conceal bribes what he did even quote very much in line with the culture of goldman sachs that culture thrives thanks to what's called the river . door where goldman chiefs worldwide made lawmakers and regulators and vice versa to get elected donald trump railed against goldman as a villain the symbol of the corrupt us establishment but as soon as he got in he filled his team with goldman exacts like gary cohn as chief economic adviser goldman gave cone a living presence free broyard a senator elizabeth warren dubs it of a quarter of a billion dollars kerry cohen picks out the sacks full of mining goes into government and rewrites the tax laws marriages to cram it through and pointed

called once again show savvy investor u.s. senators railed at goldman selling ordinary american products they knew would fail them betting on their failure practices that contributed to the two thousand and eight world economic crash then treasury secretary hank paulson nevertheless handed goldman a ten billion dollar bailout paulson just happened to have been yes you guessed it goldman sachs chief the evidence shows that goldman repeatedly put its own interests and profits ahead of the interests of its clients and our communities when the system finally collapsed under the weight of those toxic mortgages goldman profited from the collapse using a fictitious exchange rate in two thousand and one gold magically disappeared greece's debt so it could cheat its way into the e.u. the bank is said to have trials at an eye watering three hundred million dollar fee in fact greece's debt actually rose and was handed to its citizens suffering to this day the great trick was arranged by this man who infamously said the bank is

doing god's work promoted to goldman boss blankfein reportedly met privately with the disgraced merchant at the head of goldman malaysia malays whole scandal is now spawned a best selling board game clip hopefully to goldman sachs is one of these high level finance capital companies in the us that is very close knit group close to the leaders of power on both sides. of the political aisle if they can get away with what they get away not in states they can certainly get away with it elsewhere what's going on in malaysia is just the tip of the nice birds going on everywhere they just haven't been caught any other places it's criminal it's the biggest criminal white collar criminal love event i think. of the last century maybe even greater we are on the verge of a of another crisis here financial crisis that will make the last one pill in comparison and the goldman sachs and people and businesses like them are at the

center of the cause of this war there are just some of the news highlights from the past a week karen r.t. international though your weekly program or tons in about twenty five minutes you can try to. imagine being six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone and your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you start getting headaches or getting fatigued going to have to stop doing all this i mean this is how you live i mean it's must be frankly my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up running it in

a box. very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard shirt my skin burned and that wireless access point there just continues on today with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electrodes. oh and it's getting worse. now it's all down to feel. yeah sure. that our study. shows they are some others. so mostly cool steam yet.

so much of the mainstream.