you know. i. mean the headlines this week the yellow vests of paris again another round of anti-government protests police have used tear gas to disperse the crowds during a six weekend of riots with almost one hundred fifty arrests made. his stance on the threats of nuclear war ukraine crisis. in his q. and a with the media. and a secret project by u.s. democrats to test online tactics during a state election has been revealed in the new york times reports claim that they

use the methods of an old. much maligned russian. joining us this is the weekly here on r.t. . again today amid a fresh wave of yellow first protests throughout the french capital. thirty eight thousand gathered for the sixth weekend of anti-government marches. i. reported make. one hundred forty two arrests in paris riot officers who want to get

out. and used water coming to get us shoved a bit skeptical. 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 we're not madame 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 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 leg as they were trying to run out form 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 just take

a look behind you see some of the special mobilized police units who are out in force 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 want the protest 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 additionally seans are actually happy with what's being offered by the government there is a clearly 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 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 mack all. the while shocking scenes of it come to the police during a gun before being forced to flee noticed a tax three offices with stones and the objects that are motorbikes on the ground forces of investigation into the incident. the demands of the yellow vests are being broadcast of us right around the world but some of the coverage in france itself or has come in for criticism national channel france three was slammed for censoring its broadcast after appearing to change the plaque on the one protester

now a placard initially it said drawn out sparked the last word the key word was deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel though said it was just a mistake we spoke to the protester who signed has been at 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 us it 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. or the original yellow vest demonstrations call for planned fuel tax hikes to be dropped then grew into wider antigovernment protests been urging other potential sources of discord including russian ones so

we went to the streets of paris to look for would be agitated. are you in paris to make people protest in the. uk. you know. when your chest. and your chest. who does it that you just thank you we. move all of here to you the first use the news in your mouth the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturdays. we always. get this story it's. alleged to meddling a surface the game but this time moscow can't be blamed new york times has reported

that a group of democratic party members undertook a secret project to test online tactics to win an election in the us it occurred in the last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns details his artie's. 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 a tougher supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still rather. choose for it's

pretty alarming whether guys lives 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 dissin from asian campaign in alabama of all places to fence taliban of 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 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 in politics all over the world but this this is platinum tea and 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 as 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 seasoned 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 ads to be 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 a 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. but after the alabama case came to light facebook suspended five accounts linked to it says that this was for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior or 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 through 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 have put together some of the key moments we. 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 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 the only certain 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 the u.s. plans to withdraw from us is the right decision. they will block just tell me this is the blockade between you on the us and the rest of ukraine but it's going to russia you know 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 but. i'm sure you will be because she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a libel 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 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 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 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's only forty six billion 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. ok that was in egypt when will you marry in the form and home. 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 kipling who said when everyone is there you just the great game is finished the at 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 in the year how's your health. do while you would not see me off. during the big q. and a journalist working to get their questions to the president and resorted to all kinds of ways to grab his attention.

please please just an imperial incidentally. the saloon. i. should. with a remake of the. depression its trademark of the phrase. delegations of colonialism will be digging deeper into that debate this break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. and it's sad to say that it wouldn't be the first time that there are hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars that are lost in the pentagon's bookkeeping so to be honest i'm not completely surprised that three hundred twenty one million dollars in refueling costs went missing i'm very glad that saudi arabia and the emirates have now promised to pay that bill but i think there's no avoiding the reality that the bill is actually being paid for by the people of yemen the people of yemen who died under saudi arabia's and the amerada indiscriminate

bombardment of the country. welcome back the phrase no problem no worries something familiar in many languages but the translation is that the center of a trademark it evolves and. you may know the phrase from this film. sirens believe. that it was. actually out of. this is the lion king came out in ninety ninety four a generation has grown up knowing who mozart or the phrase was trademark by disney to protect its merchandising the studios now stands accused of colonialism the remake of the film to be released next year a petition has been lost by a zimbabwean activist to get does need to drop its copyright claim it's been signed

by more than sixty thousand people who say the phrase belongs to african culture is trademark dates back to two thousand and three for whom it are to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny the swahili origin of either the phrase or the names of almost all the lion king characters though it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself and the case that has fired up opinion. why 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 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 sharing the one thing the disney did do is davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs disney's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and 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 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 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 pug franchise i think

it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like recruitment tata this me 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 quarterly sacre to people specifically in mexico who make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is why cultural appropriation. saudi arabia is violating the un brokered cease fire and yemen in the most blatant manner and continuing massive bombing campaigns in the country that's the claim coming from yemen's who the rebels are the riyadh insists that the rebels are the ones themselves breaking the truce the cease fire agreed by the sides in sweden came into effect tuesday. so do warplanes continue to fly and turn the day over the past forty eight hours they have conducted for to two rates on the provinces of solder jorth and mario

on the head of the u.n. team monitoring him and ceasefire arrived in son are on sunday a retired dutch major general patrick cabot traveled from the southern city of aden where the country's internationally recognized government is in exile and son are which is mostly held by who thiis callate and his team are headed to the port city of head data a flashpoint for fighting. human rights watch has spoken to ati's worlds apart program about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in yemen at the u.n. warning that it may become the worst famine in the world in one hundred years here whitson executive director of the rights groups middle east and north africa are part of sana boy the us political infighting is finally bringing the four year water public attention. 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 why all the attention now starting with the attention on

saudi arabia garnered by. murder and the international attention that created which caused an increased focus on saudi arabia and its role in its policies not just to best to cleave but abroad as well the more their international supporters like the united states and the united kingdom pull back from their support of the saudi coalition that will create not only military pressure on the saudi coalition but also political pressure to come to a political resolution and do you think the the saudi authorities really care about the political pressure they do care and they can't act alone and they do need the international support the international legitimacy the international cover that the united states and united kingdom in particular have provided to them in this war. the fall of the liberators so be hard at work to figure out whether a top level bugs debate in the u.k. parliament featured a new soldier this is the comment people are asking whether opposition leaders

would be cool but mothers stupid woman during a moment with prime minister to reason may have a look you saw. it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal no deal would read his ass to for our country and no responsible government would ever allow it i know it's christmas i know it's not to miss talking down the chimney on the christmas tree these wasn't found the right thing. it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation was the prime minister that style to bring an acceptable deal but it's the right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's got an easy also understood this to you. guys cut the i talk about you. know i. know.

this kind of missile domestic language must not be tolerated. during prime minister's question time to date i referred to those who i believe were seeking to turn the debate about the national crisis facing our country into a time to mind as stupid people i misspeak i did not use the words stupid woman about the problem is still all anyone else and i am completely opposed to the use of sexist or misogynist language in absolutely any form. it doesn't look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not woman. i. i. i.

ok thanks thing without say a day is coming you i had often are. i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically oh. i love the good old me if your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working for well so i believe that in big we will have pretty much no biologically old people because we will have a much greater number all call of equal old people. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that.

imagined six thirty five if you have a but career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you started getting headaches or getting fatigued you could have to stop doing all this and this is how you look at the minutes must be frank my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up running it and the box. around it that very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure my skin burned and that wireless access point says continues on saying 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.

off. cloned welcome to worlds apart it's stiff fourth here into the war and it is finally on the front pages of american newspapers not because the suffering there reached catastrophic proportions that happened here is ago but because the saudi question became part of the political infighting in washington does suffering only matter when it's politically expedient to discuss that i'm now joined by sara whitson 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 is the warning to yemen finally getting the attention it deserves it certainly seems like it in the recent congressional review resolutions are an indication that the u.s. congress is finally focusing on the war and yemen and america's role in the war and yemen and with the attention that it deserves so i do think there will be a change come january with the congress now controlled by the democrats how do you explain this sudden interest conflict has been really a confluence of disasters for quite some time i think the united nations declared to be the worst.