i bronzes yellow vests movement shows no sign of letting up in twenty nineteen holding nationwide protests against the government over the weekend. in the stories of the week funerals were held for the victims of the tower collapse in the russian city of magnitogorsk which kind of thirty nine lives and germany's interior minister demands tougher laws on the solemn sea because after a migrant gang brutally attacked local residents including children also to come america's government shutdown enters its way because the rabbi overfunding donald trump's border wall intensified.

hello there the latest news and look back at the stories of the last seven days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international. now any hopes the french government had that the yellow vest protest would be confined to last year were dealt a blow on saturday at least fifty thousand people once again took to the streets across the country minor scuffles erupted in the capital as protesters set up barricades on fire and call for president to resign. the was was was. was. was. initially out of

a composite all can more or less you things were calm at first people were told they needed to declare their gatherings to authorities and that would guarantee our safety we declared the gathering spot where was our security things got out of hand everywhere they used tear gas on us it looked like a civil war they charged us used pepper spray journalists trying to take cover inside building lobbies were thrown out it's a hostile situation and it's terrible in any case what's apparent is that this movement is still here it's not losing steam into twenty nineteen it's still going on so then the movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite a government climbdown over fuel tax increases this weekend's protests comes just two days two after the yellow vests sent a blistering letter. you do not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing false measures measures that the people of france reject when will you understand that you and your people are no longer credible and that you have lost

the confidence of those who believed in you and in your movement nineteen months ago well with disturbances growing in money macron has now condemned the yellow vests on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of maize on the feeble east at the reforms macron is trying to push through or act of touch with the public. he said that they will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not to reforms that your friends are demanding today you know is the king of european sovereignty which the french don't like so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know european the searcher and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that the luck of all as been elected by chaunce but he's not having a huge ledger it to me that he needs to implement what you wish just because you

know. seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose where protests spreading from france to other european countries probably breaks it demonstrators in london have now also adopted the yellow vest as a symbol a rally in the city on saturday resulted in clashes leading police to make several arrests and convince the thirteen year old girl. was. was she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstrations which did see protesters holding smoke from police they marched across the capital broken bridges and disrupting traffic about one hundred people to protest and where in the characteristic high visibility jackets they all shouted insults british prime minister theresa may and called for a new case the media exit from the view. was the

last day twenty eighteen when a suspected gas explosion tore through a block of flats in central russia dozens of people were killed many nestle as their homes collapsed in the early hours of the morning. should double which in secret formula but the shot in the office might be it probably didn't meet the defense of the game or should see me to dump a stick at a match up of a shot so when the service took a serial data mammal number washboard to slice provides clue should you wish called a creature alabama to proceed to a competitive she was kind of a kid who sort of presidential run up in creature which is seen a machine a creature al gore spicy to his nervous system still a specific. pseudo

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count from this building collapse that the recovery works went on for around seventy two hours in total almost nonstop throughout the day and night pausing only for safety as you can see behind me some of the balconies and the roofs are in a state of total destruction and we're not allowed to go any closer for fear they may collapse as well but residents fled this disaster scene with only the clothes on their back perhaps a few documents or cash they didn't have time simply to grab anything else they were allowed intermittently to go back to the scene to pick up any other possessions that may have left behind. on the. smart and there's the point when they are innocent of all i see it was. just a child some deed on and on bush so wanted to be sure to just let you have it when you're could you are sure what their own and as you spoke to these people more and more stories emerged one shots example the family a mother and daughter who slept just as a one off in

a different room they would have stayed normally the father stayed on the couch tragically that was the first part of the building to collapse she managed to get away with her daughter the father tragically was not so lucky another story to come out of infant boy who was buried in the rubble here just behind me he was heard crying by emotions he workers who rushed to the scene managed to get him out after more than twenty four hours in these freezing temperatures p.c. has been taken to moscow and now despite his multiple serious injuries his condition is described as stable many of the people we've spoken to the witnesses at the scene those who were directly affected by this tragedy are saying they're also pleasantly surprised by how people have come together offering their support for the political news in. the squad to. give them the need to this time so much i mean it's. to. sit up

a room. with a double scared to shut up over the solution of my mentor told me see. most of the prison lights and the. one of the sons of the children in version could have been pulled over and we saw a pile of flowers of candles soft toys and i was getting bigger and bigger as many of them quite emotional in tears coming here to express their condolences there simply is offer support for those affected by this of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk. and hawkins reporting there donald trump says not much headway was made on saturday in terms of breaking the deadlock over funding his border wall which has seen the government and shut down for over two weeks neither the white house nor the democrats look like backing down. we are committed to keeping our borders safe we're in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund border security situation look you

would accept even. the president over the. line down the line you have no deal with it's not who we are it's a nation i'm very proud of doing what i'm doing because we're going to go in there really some of the. i don't want to shut down i call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and for the safety of our city to keep the government closed for a very long period of time. so we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country i absolutely know we can do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it. the democrat controlled house of representatives passed bills to fund reopen the federal government but the bills don't include funding for a border wall prompting donald trump to veto the legislation while senior senior

democrats decry the notion of the border as an american u.s. president does argue still that his idea spread support to hammer home to his stance took to instagram posting this statement of intent and he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. and the standoff over the war looks likely to intensify today with the democrat bails on getting the government running again getting to that republican controlled senate where they are likely to face hostility we discuss the boardwalk she would not draw from the conservative group american majority and also a robot patil

a he's a civil rights attorney also understand the president has absolutely no no leverage in this situation he's already made his position position clear they should negotiate this last february during the last government shutdown there there's no reason for nancy pelosi to move on this unless the president is willing to make a deal on daca make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform basically nancy pelosi has him bent over heard me right now she can demand whatever she wants we're a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present to have donald trump cannot back down on this i mean his base is expecting him to fulfill this major campaign promise and i know it doesn't seem like a lot of money i think we're not even really talking about the money because five point six billion in a four trillion annual budget doesn't really mean much at all so this is really a showdown between his trunk going to get his wall or democrats going to deny him that and also you know at a certain point we have to acknowledge the left base inside a democratic party does not want to see a secure border is more favorable towards open borders and not really fixing our

immigration policy so i think if they want the wall that should be telling the president to do is bring back the chuck schumer legislation from two thousand and thirteen that passed the senate sixty eight votes to thirty two votes in the house republicans killed there could have been a border wall for the last five years of working for the freedom hawk caucus and some of the extremists in the republican party that supporting it so for the current laws. what we need to see the c.b.l. score for was actually wall will save that's what i mean it's the it's a funding mechanism so we know exactly how the eclipse is getting paid for it would be a concrete and universal comprehensive plan all immigration reform not simply say we're going to stick still slates and in the desert that's going to probably need a real plan for this a lot of trans base is willing to compromise we understand that these dark of these dreamers they did not come here they were brought here they did not come of their own volition we understand that there's a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of trauma space they understand there has to be some legal status maybe even potentially a path to citizenship i think people are willing to negotiate but on the same time

if there is not funding for a wall in return for a path to citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation and this at some point we all know that politics is the art of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump is dead here is my non-negotiable nancy pelosi have to come up with something that says what we'll give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises. still to come here in the weekly the german interior minister has called for tougher deportation always after a gang of migrants attacked passes by we'll have a look at that and more detail plus of the stories just after the break. you know world a big part of the group

a lot and conspiracy. 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. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rate you look at that you say oh that country southie the country is not healthy well looks like the health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america.

again welcome back to the weekly nag gemini's interior minister he's demanding tougher laws on the side because after a migrant gang preaching the attack passes by including children. more not i've been asked for months already to make the deportations more effective in germany and that's why we've been working for weeks at the ministry of the interior to prepare a constitutional amendment for a more efficient deportation system so violent offenses are increasingly worrying me whether they are done out of xenophobia or whether they are carried out by foreigners and asylum seekers a state governed by the rule of law must decisively combat both that is our basic position a person who randomly attacks innocent passers by demonstrates that he does not seek the protection of our society the perpetrators can expect no understanding in

our country but only the full force of the law currently deportation is not legally possible but we're working hard to change that well those statements came after a group of migrants attacked local residents in the german city of amberg twelve people were injured including a child police arrested four suspects who were reportedly from afghanistan and also iran the current law forbids deporting minors and people whose lives will be endangered we asked locals they what they think about the issue. they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should act like they have to do a note to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back to pencil. it's their mind this is ok they have. been through a lot so in the war in afghanistan they need help i think we have our laws we don't have to change the laws hey think we are right doing it. right now they deserve

a second chance well however some people do also think the interior minister is exploiting the issue for his own political gains. i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to am bag but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far z. hoffer is using the amber consistent a fact to lead to tighten asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism we have a constitution that is very strong on human rights you cannot ever under the german constitution give part someone to the united states when he is facing the death penalty he has guests and if they commit crimes then they can no longer be our guests so what is the all of us should be doing is to actually work with countries. to enable us to deport people when we have the promise that they

will not be tortured like in cia rendition sides or on the threat of the death penalty in fact what he's doing it is fear mongering and so he is scaring those people that are willing to integrate while he should be targeting the radical islamists that his government has let into our country. meanwhile on tuesday a fifty year old german man slammed his car into a crowd of people in the german city and s. and injuring eight the majority of the victims were migrants from syria and afghanistan is reported the driver made xenophobe comments while the police were trying to arrest him the man reportedly has a mental illness. a former u.s. marine was detained in russia on spying charges this week paul whelan is a citizen of britain canada ireland and the western media speculation is rife to that he was seized by russia to be used as a bargaining chip for a possible prisoner exchange russia's deputy foreign minister has rejected that

speculation. has more now on the story. haven't they god as get rather used to hearing about russian spies getting caught in america we have the hybrid warfare that you're seeing with russia which is very much forefront inspired master this is the one thing this is a hard and fast rule of trading when you when you go and. particularly coming out of the soviet union or russia they will accuse of being a russian spy has pleaded guilty in a us federal court this time the case is the exact opposite paul whelan an american national and former u.s. marine was arrested in moscow in perhaps the fanciest hotel in the capital but who would have known when the news broke that as many as four countries would end up saying he's our guy about mr we were in the embassy of our land in moscow has requested consular access to an irish citizen currently detained in russia we are

extremely worried about pool we have offered consular assistance consular officials are aware that a canadian citizen has been arrested in russia ambassador huntsman expressed his support for mr whelan and offered the embassy assistance however when it comes to the canadian passport. the suspects brother couldn't even say whether he still has it or not i don't know i know that he was once a canadian citizen so he may still be and i know that he is an american citizen right now strange but that's how it is paul whelan is in detention in moscow having been charged with espionage although his family is sure the reason he went to russia was just a wedding party the american ambassador had been given permission to see the spy suspect and so he did mr whelan's lawyer is seeking bail for his client but don't forget several countries have lined up to help him out so while u.k. officials are waiting for the green light to get access to the alleged spy their

top diplomat has spoken out but our position is very very clear which is a very straightforward point that individuals should not be used as forms of diplomatic leverage and. you know we need to see what these charges are against him i understand whether there is a case or not but we know ruling out any theories as to what at this stage as to why this might have happened there are very few details on the case that we know off for now there hasn't been much reaction from senior officials either but journalists around the world are old all over the story and speculation is rife he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal of cash plenty of time to be swapped with. what's most likely as we'll as a pawn in russia's play to get back one of its spies after maria patino here in the united states the rehab boot do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation was revenge in some way by the russians as you've just heard many are

linking this case with the case of maria bhutto she was arrested in america in july and eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring against the u.s. with the russian government official and at least one other person without notifying the attorney general however the fact is the charges brought against maria buthe and paul whelan are completely different. well earlier this week the washington post had published an article about mr leland's detention and in it a former cia official john saw a fish as his dad's a bad weed in being a spy saying quote we don't send in random americans with diplomatic immunity to collect low level stuff we asked legal media and this loyal to his reaction he says that we only use according to this people with diplomatic immunity when you look at this as far as the illegality of it what is the role of the diplomatic community

how does that work or does that in any way interfere with spying and vice versa you're not going to see a lot of people address this and you have to see a lot of people in american media in the american media speak to this particular point we must assure that all individuals in all countries are recorded their rights that are that are available to them what's fascinating is that you will see american mainstream media in particular that does not have necessarily some of the best newsrooms some of the best. let's say experts available who will have to feed their twenty four seven media. monster you have to feed it you have to give it something you're going to talk to anybody who's ever been remotely work with the cia was in the cia drove by the cia knows somebody who was in the cia so all our time you're not going to see some of the best varying of the experts. in other news

this week clashes between protesters and police are up to in jerusalem after demonstrators took to the streets demanding the release of five israeli teenagers held on terrorism related charges but the. one of the protesters was reportedly arrested the violence happened in front of the israeli prime minister's residence five students were recently detained as part of a terror probe and seen palestinian violence. so iran has expressed anger after china's president ordered all necessary means would be used to ensure reunification and also reserve the right to use force tensions have been rising since the election of a pro independence candidate as president of taiwan in twenty six days. before actually chinese don't fight chinese we're 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 make no promise to renounce the use of force on my luck or i'll try one 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 where polarizing taiwan society can lure in talents. tensions between china and taiwan have. existed since the people's republic of china was founded back in one nine hundred forty nine in one thousand nine hundred two though both sides did agree on the so-called ninety two consensus with what with its one country two governments policy however both china and taiwan do have different interpretations of that agreement and the concept itself now in december the thirty first president trump signed the asia reassurance initiative act which allocates one point five billion

dollars for increased u.s. engagement across the indian pacific region the act is also ended improving political economic and security ties between taiwan and also america and that includes additional u.s. arms sales to the island meant to counter a potential threat from mainland china china though has strongly condemned washington's actions. for this really work by the united states to taiwan is a serious violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations social for the relevant acts seriously violates the one china principle and grossly interference in china's internal affairs charlie strong a disservice fired and opposed to the u.s. insistence on signing moved into law and we have made solemn complaints with the us asia pacific policy expert thinks that taiwan would be more open to working with china if it wasn't receiving hefty military assistance from abroad. china would

ideally like of the u.s. does not to taiwan 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 trip that the u.s. sees is primarily in the maritime theater as the chinese navy becomes more modernized and is able to push the u.s. navy back and create ten and empty access bubble in its in its per free that's how the weeklies like in say fast today here in r.c. we're back again in. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes

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