the death toll of. the russian. french police arrest a key figure in the ghetto movement. with some of the. century. old necessary means to ensure. mainstream media.

international. welcome to your program. the number of people now known to have died in a tower block collapse in the russian city of mike has risen to thirty eight rescuers say there could still be more bodies under the rubble it is thought that a gas explosion originally caused the tragedy artie's ego standoff has more the official day of mourning has really underlined how the city came together faced with the tragedy a makeshift sporadic memorial grew by the hour and it seemed as an endless stream of people came to stay in silence and commemorate all those affected by the tragedy but firstly of course came those who lost their loved ones in the blast the national crossing it goes into but you will about. it should little enough to shoot or shoot. you know cuomo it can be seen if you can find to hear it in your

mind to look closely you back to go. to church going to show. them just. picked up the phone to conceal the bitch not. you're. not there to make those if you're just close you listen to. this the likelihood of a forcible slipping but really all sorts of people flock from all parts of town touched and moved by the grief others what you. like to. see is kind of that supply chain gangs my boss' boss said i'm not pushing for those who have been moved by the grief of people collected donated more than seven million roubles to those who lost something in this tragedy the search

and rescue operation is still ongoing of course as you can clearly see behind me rescuers in fact working the conditions got a threatening their own lives and in fact the only couple. symes they had to make the pause and take a break is when that threat would become too grave for them so the first dismantle some of these structures that were literally about to fall on their head but the search and rescue operation is said to go on at least until every missing person is accounted for. of course though some have survived one a ten month old boy was found alive under the rubble on wednesday morning here is his story.

but. one of the rescuers heard a child crying we stopped all the machinery to listen in we were saying to keep quiet and the baby was reacting and kept silent we started asking where are you and there was a noise and we started working there but there was a risk of further collapse we were afraid if the child was crying for help. i could have shown him immediately where my son probably was but we weren't allowed at the site i managed to get there and show the rescuers the place i got acquainted with one rescuer who later called me to say that they'd found my son. stephen a film it's just like. in the bullshit fashion police in

a mask is just a. little is the first and last. term . police have arrested a key figure in the yellow vest protest movement officials say they've charged with organizing an undeclared protest carrying a weapon. i. and besides the yellow vests figurehead of the participants were detained for identity checks one month ago the french prosecutor's office launched an investigation into mr absolute who called on people to enter the palace one of the co-founders of the yellow vests says the arrest of mr delay is until. we've

always fought for fundamental rights in our country we've always fought and today we're realizing that our fundamental rights are being trampled on right in front of the plaster la concorde is to remind you that yellow bus movement began as local protests against high fuel prices but turned into a nationwide uprising against a manual microns presidency consuming riots with the most violent france has seen and half a century with thousands of people blocking roads and clashing with police all across the country and reporting from the thick of it right on the front line our correspondent shot at two thirds. so i did street to the entrance of the ellie's a bit like you can see. by the police that's how the protestors were trying to enter into the streets to get clearly said seriously elissa.

i i. i. i. think my eyes right now not because we've just been in the makes all of this to you guys as you can see a nice rack is really hard to pin them and at the moment they are just burning uncontrollably. at least coming and having to move not this whole being pushed up the street seems that you got through to protest this it really is absolutely crazy here on the streets of paris.

i believe last week there are about five thousand six hundred police officers here this weekend eight thousand in paris alone they go more to gas they're being deployed at these protests as detroit clear the much of that street where they would causing damage around us just took a look at this this to gas going everywhere. rubber bullets being deployed. very close to us. she is streaming down my face again as a result tear gas i can't tell you how many times that we've been gassed in previous protests the police have generally try to hold back from deploying tear

gas and even when they've had all jacks pelted out them by the protesters they've held back until they feel it's too much today when things have been thrown at them they have been responding immediately and it's not just tear gas it's rubber bullets it's our water cannons and of course we have all made vehicles on the streets in paris the first time since two thousand and five this is a rubber bullet that's going to put it in my hands so you perhaps my cameraman alex can get a nice close up look at it for you it's pretty big it's a little bit spongy at the top the point is the the navy's quite large the idea it's not meant to have secrets. do you like a new move. believe me this is going to hurt and it's pretty scary having these things flying all around you. taiwan has expressed its discontent after china's president warned that beijing

would use all necessary means to ensure reunification and reserve the right to use force tensions have been rising since the election of a pro independence counted as president of taiwan in twenty sixty. surely used to fight chinese we are willing to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity and the greatest efforts because peaceful reunification is in the best interests of the comparator it's across the street and the chinese nation but we may no promise to renounce the use of force. taiwan will definitely not accept one country two systems china has to respect the twenty three million taiwanese peoples persistence on freedom and democracy instead of interfering with taiwan stories of democracy polarizing taiwan society and luring talents. tensions between china and taiwan have existed basically since the people's republic of china was founded in one nine hundred forty nine in one

thousand nine hundred two both sides agreed on the so-called ninety two consensus it gives taiwan the right to have its own government while its territory is considered to be part of china however both china and taiwan have rather different interpretations of the agreement in fact also of the entire concept itself on december thirty first president trump signed the asia reassurance initiative act which allocates one point five billion dollars for increased u.s. engagement across the indo-pacific region the a riot act is also directed toward enhanced political economic and security ties between taiwan and america that includes additional u.s. weapons sales to the island meant to counter a possible threat from mainland china. if on the scale of weapons by the united states to taiwan is a serious violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations which songs of the relevant acts seriously violates the one china principle and grossly interferes in china's internal affairs chinese strongly

dissatisfied and opposed to the us insisting on signing used into law and we have made some complaints with the us asia pacific policy specialist group things taiwan would be more open to working with china if it wasn't receiving such hefty military assistance. china would ideally like of the u.s. does not sell arms to taiwan and lower the level of diplomatic support because it believes in that in those circumstances that the taiwanese would be more forthcoming in taking a more constructive attitude in deepening relations with beijing the threat that the u.s. sees is primarily in the maritime theater as the chinese navy becomes more modernized and has to push the u.s. navy back and create ten and empty access bubble in its in its per

free. so with twenty eighteen all wrapped up now we've been surveying the mainstream media's coverage for highlights it's artie's really a patrol co-found out of coverage looks pretty much the same throughout the year. i know way too much about your news watching experience last year how come easy you don't need superpowers for that look. this president could be impeached i do not think the president will serve out his term resignation resignation a huge incentive for president trump to resign it would be the beginning of the end of the term presidency ending at the end then you say exactly the same thing last year. walls closing in the walls closing you know this is going to be the achilles heel dykeman's could lead to trump's impeachment is still there may get america

great again prompts impeachment. on this. this which is scurrilous i tried to put a hex on president literally multiple times donald trump has plenty to be scared. and so he is running scared yeah right probably another beginning of the end or speech meant. a bit at some point a friend called you and they were like. no no. no bro but i have a look now. don't trump is cool control the sea with several of these statements on the wildfire as the president confuses their the number of missing people he visited the town of paradise california pleasure a couple of times he put those tweets at the worst possible time when people's lives are being compromised he was playing politics and elected officials say he doesn't really understand what's causing the fire when america lost two very dear

and important people for the nation here's some of what you must have heard on the news president truck is not invited trump is facing backlash for his tweet on senator mccain's. was it it who had repeatedly mocked and diminished mccain during his life was initially unable to offer up a single kind word descendent really well this is no night for name calling it's been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes president opposite to attend the state funeral for president george h.w. bush on wednesday but does the forty fifth president feel like he's really part of the president's. ok that's really what you want to talk about. so it's been a year of all kind of scoops from news on trump to news on trump well at least there are other shows on the box. the beginning i honestly want to do this again from nightmare no problem with the president switching about

a month before everything's falling apart sometimes i wish i had never been president. were old were you when the president. i think we can arrange that. and you're kidding me so me tell me. sincerely jay yes why didn't i get my book. can you explain to me why one for holidays going on i seriously did it do you know actually i wouldn't be surprised if one of you out there have been trumpet ties to buy a dream of being sucked into the matrix of trump t.v. . you are growing. now with. no you can talk about.

a very warm welcome back to all our viewers time for a quick recap of our top stories today. veteran porn star describes donald trump. janet taylor in great detail. having a total of two thousand four hundred thirty calories worth of food for dinner makes trump feel a old president. and newly discovered ten centimeter long shiny blind worm species is named to do more fairs donald trump i after the u.s. leader. be sure to stay with us for some of your favorite donald trump classics that's coming up next. season. down the hall into the.

sun there for cosmopolitan and donald trump you just don't get more new york. you're fired you're fired you're all fired. you should've put more stress so much said. that. still to come here at the international in the mix of your stories are some old disney classics have been criticized for providing role models twenty boys who were dressed as old just a month. old make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round certainly the one percent. we can

all middle of the room sick. you know world big partisan movies. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. are going to join us today for the program over the next few days we are looking

back at some of the stories that we brought to you in twenty eight. the rise of the me too movement with a number of celebrities named and shamed for inappropriate behavior and in its wake classic films also came under a fog greater scrutiny including some disney cartoons. with the p.c. simply gone too. did you spend a blissful childhood happily enjoying disney classics well in case you missed it they tend to fall into monsters so. how can we just down by and watch the prince kiss snow white without consent runs out the six steps to little mermaid giving up her voice for the true love of

a man i want we say cinderella save yourself you don't leave no prince these are some of the criticisms from not just as christian bell and keira knightley who have unwittingly become a figurehead of a movement that suggests that we love. and can prove some classic stories apparently bella and might leave refused to let their kids even watch some of these old classics what on the street is not the only one a lot of people think about this stuff but really really really hard although perhaps not hard enough maybe the prince should have got permission but then it's not right with the lying that nobody wrote saying the world's long departed can we still hold one of the very people in the way. the little mermaid may have given up her voice but that was an aerial decision so let's just let her do her thing and telling cinderella to save herself so the work message to all those trapped in domestic servitude around the world is to just help yourself and ignore any princes

who want to help looking at you mochel the modern day disney princesses tend to get the p.c. seal of approval although if we try hard enough i'm pretty sure we can run those two let's have a try shall we but you know my little girl to find some parents and sets out across the ocean or just some logs with a tidy little chicken that is not a good example and in the interests of animal welfare did anyone else the chicken if it wanted to go frozen. finds one closed doors for years after the magic incident and then please to the top of the mountain oh you mean the one that is a terrible lesson in how to treat p.t.s.d. as ever i see why my house is the solution to keep your kid. blissfully ignorant to the company if he ever reality reducing all except story lines that ought to mean. two thousand years. every. month to get her but. providing poor role models isn't the only

thing disney was accused of in twenty eight scene the copywriting of the catchphrase of one disney classic has led to accusations of colonialism and cultural appropriation. the phrase a tartar was made famous by the one nine hundred ninety four film the lion king a new version of which is being released this year a zimbabwean activist has launched a partition to remove the trademark from disney he claims the phrase belongs to african culture and cannot be used by a foreign company the petition was launched in late december and almost one hundred eighty thousand people have signed it so far now could have a title comes from the swahili language it means no worries or no troubles it was trademarked by disney in two thousand and three for use in clothing and footwear ideas and he has never denied the origin of the phrase though the company still has not commented on this large petition back in december though we discussed this

issue with our guests. so i was seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this is another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capital is wants everything capital is need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for their use of you want. to seriously anti-capitalist am 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 there are 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 sharing the one thing that disney did do is maybe the 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 a 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 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 this isn't the 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 for people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this

is why cultural appropriation. thanks for joining us today here on r.t. international my colleague on your fama will be here at the top of the aisle with more of those day stories before andy the max kaiser and stacy her but take a look at what twenty nineteen may hold in store a special edition new year special with a cause report that's next on the street. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. more somehow i want to be reps and i. have to go right to the press to supply them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the wives about how. they sit. their breath for a single purpose. they have a superman. and they start training very young can. take months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty

five percent of global wealth you longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one to one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only.

hi i'm max cause of this is the concert for a new inner span different fantastical multi episode drill down into twenty nineteen predictions also twenty nineteen will be sobering ten years of the kaiser report over one hundred eighty five million people have been in a hotel room or walking through an airport when the cars reports them playing in the background stacey did you add them all i got forty million of them and they love the show. well that would make a perfect book and because you know in the last episode on january first twenty one thousand we did mention this could be a year of the stock market crash we started on the stock market crash and we could . be very poetic when that well i also said that this year you know we're going to change up a little bit just slightly you won't notice too much difference but one thing when we made gonzo and when we made that series one thing that was quite remarkable to

me of traveling across america. is that is so peaceful and calm and quiet and an hysterical much of how one feels about the u.s. or global economy but certainly politics and then the next episode of our three part january you know new year sort of special we're going to talk about politics but right now you know it's so hyper active and extreme and everything's about to fall apart and and you know breathless sort of oh my god oh my god everything's changing whereas what we found when we traveled across america is people outside of the beltway are not unhinged like what you see on twitter and cable news yes well you know across america.