[000:00:00;00] from from . i. mean headlines that shapes this week the yellow vests of swept through paris again in another round of antigovernment protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds during a sixth consecutive weekend of riots and almost one hundred fifty arrests are made . as the bloody move putin has shared his stance on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis breaks it down much else it is here in the media. a secret project by u.s. democrats to test online tactics during a state election has been revealed in a new york times report it's claimed that they used the methods of an old adversary

as much maligned russian. good evening to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. paris saw clashes again on saturday amid a fresh wave of yellow vest protests throughout the french capital cost the country more than thirty eight thousand gathered for the sixth weekend of antigovernment marches. oh i. i i. i i. i i police reported making one hundred forty two arrests in paris offices were once

again out in force using water cannon in tear gas r.t. correspondent charlotte dubin ski reports. well chaotic scenes. outside the hotel de ville in paris just think a look over here tear 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 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 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 those police forces are coming in for a few or many people saying the reasons behind that is some of the solutions are actually happy with what's been 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 only ease with the french government's current policies led by emmanuel mack while. you are shocking scenes of being captured of police drawing a gun on rioters before being forced to flee protesting tax these three offices with stones and over the objects offices left on their motorbikes there. are forty thousand launched an investigation into the. the demands of the yellow vest to be broadcast of us right around the world but some of the coverage in france itself or that's come in for criticism why well here's an example national channel france three was slammed for censoring a broadcast after appearing to change the plaque card of one protester placard

initially said macron out but the last word a key word of course was deleted this prompted accusations of deliberate doctoring on social media the channel though says it was just a mistake we spoke to the protester who sign is at the center of the controversy. so much i was shocked like many others this censorship by france three karsa shadow on the media in general the process to 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 ows 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 yellow vest demonstrations they call for planned fuel tax hikes to be dropped then grew into wider anti-government protests some though alleging other potential sources of the

discord including russian ones we went to the streets of paris to look for would be agitated. by you in paris to make people protest. you know. when your chest. your chest. who does it that you just thank you we showed. 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. give you this story. has surfaced once again this time. the new york times reporting

a group of democratic party members under took a secret project tactics during an election in the us this took place in the state of alabama last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns with details. for years the public you me were barash by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily they 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. use for it's

pretty alarming weather 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 dissin from asian campaign in alabama of all places through france taliban both come 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 as a source are 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 tea and this on this deplorable and dirty tricks turns out it was all of fake psyop orchestrated by a group of c. 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 adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the

russian influence campaign so when a democratic group is all but who are spending one hundred grand on this information on lies framing and defaming someone it's just one hundred grand pocket change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune crime against america and god i've always been suspicious that the 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 makes 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 accounts link to it says that this was for engaging in coordinated in authentic behavior of the people whose account was reportedly suspended earlier denied involvement in any campaign to influence the public during the alabama election. russia's economy and education through to the threat of a nuclear war putin is fielded a wide array of questions from journalists this was on thursday during his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media so if you put together some of the key moments.

the news news that she would. like to go to the you 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 this 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 you are in the 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 but they are still there now and what is the presence of american troops needed in syria you but you can i don't think so but let's not forget that presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it will be there with the u.n. security council you know with the syrian leadership if the u.s.

plans to withdraw the masses the right decision. will block just tell me this who set 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 of 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. because she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a lie however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack the russian if it was not script 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 fred 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 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

problems but in the. i mean it was a huge issue when will you marry in the form and whom. 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 flesh was bothering with the russian flag can't bother anyone but i want to refer to kipling's who said when everyone is then the great game is finished the at the breaks there will be a meeting whenever i'm all done for you this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us and there would be yet tells you how. you would not see me off. during that big q. and i journalists were keen of course to get their questions to the president and

resorted to all kinds of ways to grab his attention. i. think. i should just. now the remake of the animated classic the lion king on its way next year disney has come under pressure to drop its trademark of the phrase economy that's amid allegations of colonialism

will be digging deeper into the debate after the short break. 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 the fueling costs glenn 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 that bill is actually being paid for by the people of yemen not the people of yemen who died under saudi arabia's and the immorality is indiscriminate bombardment of the country. i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically go through. move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working so well so i believe that we will have pretty much no biologically old people because we will have

a much greater number of we'll be able. to arabia his violating the u.n. brokered cease fire in yemen in a blatant manner and continuing mass bombing campaigns that is according to claims from humans who three rebels although riad insists it's the rebels who are the ones breaking the truce the cease fire agreed by the side in sweden came into effect on tuesday so do warplanes continue to fly into the day over the past forty eight hours they have conducted for rates on the provinces. and margaret. the head of the u.n. team monitoring yemen's ceasefire arrived in sanaa on sunday and retired dutch major general patrick kemet traveled from the southern city of aden where the

country's internationally recognized government is in exile from sonar which is mostly held by the who thinks the theme of headed to the port city have had a flashpoint for fighting. comes as the yemeni war is increasingly making u.s. media headlines of human rights watch told r.t. is worlds apart program that american political infighting is finally bringing the four year conflict to 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 a friend or fun 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. that really does mean are there work to figure out whether a top level briggs it debate in the u.k. parliament today the comment you were asking whether opposition leader jeremy corbett much as stupid woman during a moment with the prime minister to resign may you can have a look for yourself. it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal. would reduce

sauce to for our country i know responsible government would ever allow a kind of christmas i know this not to miss talking down the chimney on the terrace mistreating the sun lounger right. it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiate. the climate is subtle to bring an acceptable deal but it's the wrong time of the gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on new deal he's got an easy also cut to. cut the i talk about you. know i am sick. of. this kind of missile domestic language must not be tolerated. during prime minister's question time to date on the thread to those who i believe were seeking

to turn the debate about a national crisis facing our country into a time to mind as stupid people i misspeak i ignore use the words stupid woman about the problem is still cool anyone else and i'm completely opposed to the use of sexist old misogynist language in absolutely any form. just look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not woman. the phrase no problem oh no worries is familiar in many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of a trade involving entertainment john disney now you may know the phrase from this

film. siren. of. since the lion king came out in ninety ninety four a generation has grown up knowing i could know my turn to the phrase was trademarked by disney to protect its merchandising but the studio now stands accused of colonialism in the remake of the film to be released next year a petition has been launched by as in barbara an activist to get disney to drop its copyright claim it's been signed by more than one hundred sixty thousand people they say the phrase belongs to african culture is these trademark dates back to two thousand and three for a tartar to be used on clothing and footwear and the studio does not deny the swahili origin of 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 has fired up 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 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 in sydney that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are just looking for a reason to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sheridan to the one thing that does the did do is davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did he's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa 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 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 tell you something right now where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like recruitment tata disney also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried to 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. of those who are for you in half an hour see that. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abusers who started going after the users in the prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was

a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. sentences for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. yes

. so you know in us. a lot of people like to use were to let go smaug very good analogy but when we have soul towers on every to every big building when we are going to put these five g. generators on every light pole on every street it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller and tell i ended up winning it in a box and then in a shielded my own way the same person that was helping us to shield found the right material to hold back that particular frequency that was coming in and burning my skin and we dealt a room it looks like

a little foil but it's not it's three layers thickens cut like a very very fine chicken wire in the middle of it there were days that i didn't know it the sun came up the sun went down in a christmas came around we had christmas inside the cellar room as we like to call it. which is you know pending on how you look at it could've been really sad but we made the best of it. having christmas in here meant a lot to all of us it was so many events so many school events so many things that my wife could not to she even missed her daughter's graduation in college it was three four hours away she couldn't take the drive and she could stay overnight. and you know the kind of thing you know really tell people because one don't think you crazy to the guest room to stand and that's why i bother so