i. had lines that shaped the week the first swept through paris again another round of antigovernment protests police used tear gas to disperse the crowds six consecutive weekends of riots with almost one hundred fifty arrests made. president vladimir putin is shared his stance on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis brigs it and much else besides in his year end q. and a with the media. project for us democrats the test online tactic steering a state election has been revealed in

a new york times report it was claimed that they used the methods of an old and the seri those much maligned russian. watching the weekly here are not. clashes again today amid a fresh wave of yellow vest protests throughout. the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the sixth weekend of anti-government marches. i.

police reported making one hundred forty two arrests in paris riot offices but once again out in force using water cannons and tear gas to shell the d.b. schema explains. 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 protesters look like they were trying to push towards the island were not for the famous cathedral is situated they were throwing projectiles at the police and then the police responded with this tear gas this is one of many clashes 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 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 these police forces are coming in for a few or many people saying the reasons behind that is some of the sheerly seans are actually happy with what's being offered by the government. an increase in one hundred of one hundred euros of those on a minimum salary all. so no social contribution and no taxes for those who work

extra hours and of course scrapping the fuel tax in january like that was 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've seen people get 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 mack all. the more shocking scenes have been captured of police during a riot is before being forced to flee protesters attacked the three officers who stole other objects. i was just saying removing one of the motorbikes on the ground such is the. forties have launched an investigation into the and. the demands of the yellow vests have been broadcast the view is right around the world some of the coverage in france itself those come in for criticism why well here's an example the national channel france

three has been slammed for censoring its broadcast to it appeared to change the pluck order of one of the protesters it initially said macro out but the last word in is a key one was deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel those said that it happened by mistake we spoke to the protester who signed that the center of the controversy. so i was shocked like many others this censorship by france three cars 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 they manipulate as i've heard from many people who said they were shocked as well as a backlash online or twitter facebook everywhere i thought this through and decided to file a complaint to the country's media watchdog. the original halo vest demonstrations

call for planned fuel tax hikes to be dropped then grew into wider antigovernment protests some though been alleging other potential sources of discord including russian ones we went on the streets of paris to look for would be and you take this . by you in paris to make people protest known the. norm not need to see when your chest i see. your chest and when you pretty good is it that you just think he would. move. you the first just the news in your mouth the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturdays immediately she's a. week with the solution stuff which is a. little get your

story. russia's alleged online meddling has surfaced once again but this time moscow can't be blamed the new york times has reported there's a group of democratic party members undertook a secret project to test online tactics to an election in the united states it took place in the state of alabama last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns with more his ninety's. for years the public you we were barrel by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily he told us a malicious programs of evil software soulless slaves putin an existential threat to america take the alabama election a year ago russian bought 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 country's russia but still the outreach a card is for you it's pretty alarming weather guys slips into fluent russian. or speaks fluent russian russian it everywhere year later it's moving closer into 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 both up on as juicy a target room or himself was clueless about it had no idea why this was happening so as is republican tradition he blame 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 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 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 pocket change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune a crime against america and god i've always been suspicious that the russian 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 a 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 accounts linked to it says that this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior. one of the people whose account was reportedly suspended earlier denied involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election. from russia's economy and education to the threat of nuclear war 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 put together for you some of the key bubbling. but he's lost the. war. as 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 some 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 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 the only certain they are still

there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria but you can i don't think so but let's not forget the presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it will be there with the u.n. security council you know with the syrian leadership if the u.s. plans to withdraw from us is the right decision. they will block just tell me this who set the blockade between hamas and the rest of ukraine but it's going to russia you know it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have in 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. we provide humanitarian support for those living nationally 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 little boy 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 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 the 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're already won this was a real and you have 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's 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 problems but in the. uk it 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 can and then they said my flash was bothering me and the russian flag was there anyway. but i want to refer to kipling who said when everyone is then the great game is finished the the great there will be a meeting where everyone will die for you this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us of the year how's your health. do while you would not see me off. during the big q.

and a earlier journalists were keen to get their questions to the president time resorted to all kinds of ways to grab his attention. suggests. i. should just. politicians to finally sing a national folk. college apologizes for using it we'll be putting the show up for debate after the break.

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sports i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back danish politicians have a defiantly sung a national folk song about a blonde girl after a foreign teacher forced the top university to apologize for using it. the non danish teacher at the copenhagen business school was offended by the song for associate in denmark with a young blonde girl the university said to have probably apologised adding it would

not be played again although some major report the college has not actually banned its use regardless the case has split society a professor at the college was among those who sang the song at a gathering but now says the offended teacher has raised an important issue for discussion but any politicians seem to been furious at what they've seen as p.c. culture gone mad come on this song is about the essence of being then ish it's a pillow for culture we should never bow just for it. to time to find out whether it was a joke unfortunately it wasn't stop it just stop if we're no longer allowed to sing all songs then the party stops it is start really out of proportion we have come so far in the discussion of identity and develop a culture that our society has fallen apart. the song in question was written by kai hoffman back in one nine hundred twenty four since then it's become one of the

most popular traditional songs and is performed in schools and universities right across the country various national singers of also perform the tune which is considered by some to be a danish anthem and it's not the first time national classics have been banned due to offensive content to school in the u.s. city of philadelphia scrapped the book the adventures of huckleberry finn due to multiple uses of the n. word and the christmas hit song baby it's cold outside that was barred by us radio stations just recently for suggesting sexual assault. something to discuss let's do just that with political commentator north or even from home political and social commentator mo ansal very good evening to you both even see first it was suggested the university certainly apologize for the song being sung suggestion they banned it's not quite clear at this point but they certainly apologized do you think that was right because one foreign teacher took offense. i think the only people who

think it's right is this university of copenhagen school of business because everybody here is outraged about this political correct this question i mean the minister of justice has said he wrote on twitter immediately this is a joke this is lunacy and then in the parliament they actually sang the song to protest against what the university it so i mean on social media there has been a lot of commentators a lot of people here who have been just been joking about it because nobody really takes it seriously so i think the only one who really takes it seriously seriously is this head of the school and the song is about is a kind of love declaration for the internet and it is a metaphor i mean when we talk about a young blonde being his girl it's a metaphor because there's nothing as beautiful as a girl in summer dress here in denmark with her long run hair blowing in the wind and this is what it's all about it's

a metaphor it's not that everybody here has to be a blond girl to be accepted as a person or to be a citizen in the society it is a metaphor and i think i don't understand why this guest. researcher professor that has been so offended by the song is so offended it was a chance for her to get to know what's in his culture's all about and this is what we are discussing right now and and here let's let's bring more on so remote can you understand the offense that was taken and also what what's your opinion on the response of the politicians who are basically saying in defiance. we've got to put things in context firstly i mean denmark over the last probably decade decade and a half have tried to model themselves to implement some of the most draconian and toughest anti immigration policies in the western world this year early this year. well i think eight danish ministers launched an initiative to try and seek to

dismantle the ghettos over the next twenty years and denmark has a real problem with integrating whether it's assimilation projects where this integration of tolerance projects all the attitude towards immigrants people coming from war zones people escaping conflict and torture and those who are genuinely not and who are generally asylum seekers refugees so first we've got to get the context right the cultural milieu the backdrop if i was a teacher in a danish school and i was being asked to indoctrinate my kids with a song saying. denmark is a young swedish. young danish go with blonde hair i think i would have a problem with that i think many countries especially in the u.k. whether it's the discussion around people. like politicians might that might have stuck to directed in the honor university and we say well do we want these things do we want these. races tropes old colonial attitudes not inclusive attitudes

people want to live in diverse multicultural blended societies nowadays and some of these old things we have to be prepared to look at them now. you're asking me about the fence i like simonis a metaphor and poetry and i don't have a problem the offense issue really no no i mean there's no link between denmark's ability to integrate people and this song this is a song that is hundred years old it's part of being a scorcher it's part of our cultural heritage and i think it's horrifying that we're now we have to erase our past you asking us to raise our past and our cultural identity to integrate people i don't really think this is the right way to integrate people to integrate people they need to understand what does it mean to be dangerous it is a. meeting place so i mean i don't see any i'm not quite. well that's correct no i mean you i mean i mean you don't have to abolish or

to abandon your car your cultural heritage to integrate people i think this is really a wrong track i mean i mean this is about identity and you cannot say that to integrate people we have to abandon ourselves i mean we can't do that. that's absolutely fine and i don't think there's any argument that says danes or finns or swedes or anybody in any country in europe where they're from poland and of moved to britain as many hundreds of thousands poles have done no reason ask them to change the culture or leave their culture behind in modern enlightened societies we're tolerant and inclusive people should be able to come to denmark and feel included in so much but don't forget you're not actually allowed to come to denmark and be integrated or welcome in society unless you already speak danish the your citizenship tests and your we have. our very own harry. but we have to i mean we are allowed to decide for ourselves what

kind of people we want to let in into our country we have to we have to make a law say people need to speak against to enter this country i mean i think this is an attack against cultural identity and i think this was the chance of these are the kind of these are the kind of ridiculous tropes these the kind of ridiculous tribes no no no you have your point. and he did your point your point is that these are part of you and it's a great danes called you you need to know what it's all about this is the kind of help you say it is leave us i'm around. they need to know what is things kocher and this is part of our cultural speech here to have blown out ok i'll bring it launched danish girl he represents who represent us i represent an idea of what should be look i understand. i'm educated so i thank you you thank. you know the one if the point is this the point is this i tell you get your pulled your

horrified we're raising your culture the point is this culture change to change there are migration migration flows around europe and ultimately you are going to have to give way to the new generations who are coming and saying we want integrated blended multicultural society this. song said yesterday or. today our history i mean people here larry we'll get today's news where yesterday's news hour don't want to sing songs of yesterday we stopped to let you know that we don't want to sing songs of yesterday we want to sing songs of stay out of tomorrow or tomorrow and tomorrow i mean we have a past we have a history and to know who you are you need to know your history and what i'm we're very afraid about about this political discussion but it will correct discussion is that a to stickle freedom is under threat because now you can write a song without you know trying to erase your past i'm really not really going to take that i am. really going to.

just let momo to make a point that he's clearly enthusiastic to ya. she doesn't make a point look if you want to talk about article ten one of the european convention on human rights which is the right to free expression article tend to put limits on freedom of expression right under certain areas now if you will have a better integrated more tolerant civilised society we do put limitations on free speech or hate speech isn't free speech but the irony is this in denmark you've been trying to detach yourself from the european convention on human rights and it's a problem that europe ears a problem with this and the rest of europe has a problem because that enshrines your civil rights denmark is going hard right and the far are using these opportunities to explore we mrs. fractions in society with a trying to cause division they're trying to divide denmark into those who want to integrate those who don't for immigrants to white lawns danish people and this kind

of supremacy this kind of or steer this this kind of inequality in society is taking us down the wrong road if we want to have civilizational freedoms tolerance if you want to have some kind of peace that we need to let people be integrated whatever their identities are so i'm not saying england should be a british asian face or a white face or a black face we are multicultural now and we are diverse societies and you need to get your head around that we need to stop the idea that the far are going to be able to exploit this and create weaknesses these are the old fjord men arguments these the arguments that. are made about that the fear of blended society more integrated with population flows from around i say something populations. are just inches point populations are just inches point populations are going to change we're going to have more integrated societies whether you like you or not that's going to be the way the future and we'll sing songs about other even well there are many people who really disagree with you because we have a past and i mean we have the right to cherish our past we had the right to to have

his culture and people in a very well.