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there's enough as i must. get out of. my body and we've. already been. in the thought of getting up there. i. yellow vests rally sweep across france for a ninth consecutive weekend once again causing. some to come this hour.
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three people were killed and forty seven injured as a launch explosion destroys a bakery in the center forties blame a gas leak. and in other news a top biathlete refuses to shake hands with a winning russian rival because he previously was banned for doping. keeping up the pressure on the french government thousands took to the streets for a ninth weekend in iraq.
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oh. of course tensions are rising here the up to three or three in paris one of the protests in the city one of many protests taking place across france they officials think is saying thirty two thousand people taking part in those figures that some lower than the fifty thousand took politician in the last weekend but the yellow vests movements have often just speeches those official figures saying that they only show a small proportion of the people who are out on the streets we have had violence here in new york to creoles our. her outlook for. the. world. because. there's water cannons now in full force trying to push protesters away.
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that water cannon and tear gas plumes coming up from the ground we've seen the protesters throwing a projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to gas that's just being dispersed those flush pools and those t. cast ballots as well as what looked like to be sun can aides and a mobile police force now you can see running in the hole dressed in black you could just see behind me that is that. small of five has just appeared been coming along people reveling around that as that there are gas cans in the air that tear gas is just moving we can hear it now and people are moving towards why we have to
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move as there is tear gas of being out pushed down there are about five thousand offices taking part in the security of paris today eighty thousand across france people i've spoken to the chelation all say yes this is act nine this is the ninth consecutive weekends but this is not going to stop this is going to continue. to appease the protesters the french president initiating a three month long national debate some of likened it to what louis the sixteenth did just prior to the french revolution or allowing people to wear grievances back then didn't exactly help quell discontent the even though the current government says that it wants a discussion there are certain subjects that appear to be off limits those who think a few thousand people can make us question our institutions are wrong but about nicole always of course is going to the debates and not adopted unity for people to
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offload all of their frustrations nor are we questioning what we've done in the past eighteen months shit but we're not replaying the election acumen to do what. my can still insists that he will push forward his unpopular tax reforms to get the country's faltering economy back on track the national debate starts next week but a recent poll shows only forty percent of citizens are actually willing to take part in all of us members on the streets of paris whom we spoke to so national debate is not what they're asking for. because in the nascar sort through this national debate is above all a national masquerade the government has already announced that after this debate you will not go back to previous politics the fact that the government remove certain issues from the debate shows it's not a real one the government doesn't want to face a fresh election campaign because it knows it will get him interested in there you go on the venice from that idea of a national debate is good but the way the current government wants to arrange an appliance is completely inappropriate. no one wants the national debate he's
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proposing not us not the yellow vests not the french people we are waiting for him to resign so we can say goodbye micio mccrone. meanwhile yellow fever is spread to the u.k. as well hundreds there of demonstrated in london demanding an end to austerity and calling for a general election nanny were wearing those bright jackets as a symbol of protest the first of come to symbolize a whole range of other causes as well to explain all his police work. the brits love a french fashion trend and the very latest is the yellow vest this weekend left wing activists to staging a demonstration in london demanding a general election and calling for increased public spending it doesn't matter which way you vote in the referendum you need to write the story governor what we need now is a general election and those there would say we'll be doing it in solidarity of the of the social process everybody is going to wear these yellow high fees jackets
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which are the jacket choice for people trying to bring down governments please do tom please do. but there is another british incarnation of the yellow vest trend see if you can spot the difference you're good we will hold you under. these yellow vests appeared to be in favor of a hard core no deal version of bragg's it in recent weeks they've started staging small regular protests in westminster where they referred to the prime minister as a traitor they've also become known for the heckling of politicians and journalists near paula meant that we have to be absolutely i do object to being called a nazi actually. for the greater scrutiny just try just feel sorry for your parents rosa is wrong you were born you are dearest little bawling.
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her. it's now emerged that one prominent self-styled yellow vest leader is james god he's a supporter of the far right english defense league priests islamophobia comments online and live streams a lot of his so-called political activism good god uses crowd funding to collect donations from supporters but after the uproar over the group's intimidating behavior in westminster last week facebook and pay pal have removed his accounts updates. on his twitter feed claim he's been silenced and he won't answer r.t.s. requests for an interview he has put up an alternative funding page online with a message saying that now more than ever it's important to be heard so unlike in france here in the u.k. it looks like it's a case of two causes keen to claim one vest the original yellow vest movement mushrooms organically and spontaneously across france in response to popular tax
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hike whereas in a way the symbol of the yellow vest here in the u.k. is still up for grabs the left wing incarnation is moderate its aligns to groups like the people's assembly and the stop the war campaign although they repeatedly stated aim is none other than bringing down the conservative government in favor of a labor one then there's the right wing yellow vests a group that on the surface just appears angry that the brags that they voted for could be slipping away from them and also appears to contain members with far right sympathies who might be joining these yellow vests in order to legitimize their views whatever you make of the movement it appears that they're trying to capitalize on a french fashion one that appeared effortless in france but is looking a bit try hard here in the u.k. . a spokesperson for u.k. to austerity group told. us doesn't have to be about just briggs it. so it takes
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inspiration from the french movement which are taken on the french government for similar reasons the demands they're making are similar to what we've been campaigning for years on around housing austerity public services and the rest and they are winning there whether you voted leave or remain is irrelevant the fact is that a stereotype is literally killing people in this country it has reached detrimental levels and we need this tory government now and that's something that should unite us the far right we're trying to use that anger and mobilize it gets refugees and migrants and ethnic minorities are not welcome in our demonstration and we will make it clear tomorrow that we have campaign against the racist scapegoating by this government we support refugees we were involved in the convoy to cali a few years ago and that is where movement stands for. so to more news from paris now where three people have been killed after a large explosion ripped through a bakery in the city center forty seven others were injured ten of them said to be
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in a critical condition. was . there a. gas leak at the bakery suspected to have caused the blast the incident occurred just before nine am in the morning local time two firefighters killed had been responding to the report of a gas leak they were caught up in the explosion the spanish foreign ministry confirmed the third fatality was a female spanish tourist two hundred firefighters and one hundred policemen were deployed to the scene we spoke to witnesses of the incident who just went to the building step to shake hands and smashing glass everyone looked at their windows
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and a lot of window panes had been smashed about fifteen minutes later there were police men in the courtyard just saying been an explosion need to evacuate everybody out and that's what happened to us we saw that our window was completely open. from the sound. it was a massive sound i mean it's it was for me from my experience it's like a bomb ask you know what's happening. what's happening like after that. biathlon star has refused to shake hands with a russian rival who came back from a doping ban for his first world cup stage with the one time world champion martin for carter france blanket alexander logan of who completed a two year ban i can two thousand and sixteen want to correspond because of explains. this world cup stage victory is the first big win for alexander log
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enough since he ended his two here doping disqualification but for the russian the moment is somewhat shadowed by the reaction of people he beat in the race for them the fact that he was a cheat still wrangles i'm not happy that logan offers one i'm ok with the fact he's allowed to compete now but he won't get my respect as he's never apologized for doping we need to be fair his victory is a disgrace. himself could have apologized in front of the biathlon thermally if you use drugs there is no place for you here but if you show you progress about what happened people will find it much easier to trust you logon of fans have been pointing out that the athlete served his sentence he himself says he's ready to personally talk this thing over with any of his fellow athletes you're going to. as i keep repeating and i say that to everybody open for dialogue with anybody or
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fleet and i'm ready to answer all of their questions face to face his full story basically revolves around the fact that right before the sortie lympics in twenty fourteen one of his former doping tests came out positive he got caught taking the same drug that brought down disgraced cyclist lance armstrong's reputation throw poet and a stimulant which basically boosts an athlete's insurance biathlon legend all of beyond dalen is one of those who says logging of should be given a chance to start with a clean slate excuse the pun he's already served his punishment we have to respect his comeback however many from the biathlon family didn't like his victory logan teammates in fact also have offered support. on. the most awful. lot of.
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one of the. most of us. and frankly this is not an uncommon situation many athletes resumed their careers in spite of hostility towards them following doping scandals and many proved that even having cheated once it doesn't mean the person will repeat their fence. sports lawyer lucinda loney believes that there is no justification for marking four counts behavior. the older athletes have to expect and respect. his personality and that he's doing well exceptionally well now and i think it's it has to do with respect to such behaviors cannot be justified icing everybody knows that all the press and to media as day or
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a little beat. against russia actually and perhaps nobody has the real yeah let's say power to to say something or the the braveness to say well let's stop here he served his ban. we have to accept and respect team and the latest plugin designed to fight fake news has come into question itself explain all after the break. every major bank in the world if they were accounted for in a generally accepted accounting principles according to the rule of law they would
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from something that's become a new crusade the latest weapon to appear in the bottle is a plug in is called news gaunt it ranks websites according to perceived trust within a space can the plugin itself be trusted and if a trunk it takes a look. and casey didn't know the words plug in don't only refer to do in this but the one word option is actually a handy extension for your internet browser and now there's a great plugin to help you navigate through the world of fake news it's called news guard it won't paying up fake news alerts like the anti virus software when you click on a story link for now news guard provides descriptions for news sources not individual articles or stories right here you can see what it looks like
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a green red racing's signal if the website is trying to get it right or instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes full of propaganda so there's a whole rating system with as many as nine criteria stuff like the responsibility of journalists or telling apart news from opinion to name a couple so who are the champions in being as green as you can get the new york times or the washington post with a perfect record for all nine categories despite having been caught for publishing lies and it wasn't a one off news guard will tell you they're nowhere near being repeat offenders now someone would definitely call that fake news so technically what makes the alert switch from green to red or vice versa. we use humans not algorithms to identify unreliable needs because we believe what should be done with transparency and accountability i knew it it's up to human beings paid on job opes one of the
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news guard's biggest investors formerly of the wall street journal was blamed for turning out fakes the news guard advisory board is also worth having a look at it features a scheme to men like the former director of the cia and n.s.a. the first secretary of homeland security and the bush administration barack obama's former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy by the way where church stengel once said i'm not against propaganda every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and i don't necessarily think it's that often but these folks running the show it's pretty easy to guess if our team falls into the red or green territory so go download that plug in asap and always be cautious when you read r t or anything else news guards turned tomato red eyes just for fun downloaded the app in preparation for this interview and i looked at l.a.
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times dot com which is the website of the los angeles times which gets a green rating which means that the website is considered trustworthy and print yeah usually prints true and verifiable information now i'm personally suing the los angeles times right now for defamation and lie because they printed lies about me so i know that the rating is not one hundred percent reliable for first hand so that was my fact that was my test the leadership of the of the news guard is unfortunately people who have kind of a fraught relationship with the truth in the past and who have way too many ties to the establishment and particularly to do what we would call the deep state here in the united states to see former cia and n.s.a. people i would say are pretty much like the last people you would want to see. create this kind of app. free speech and historic prose police the news guard is
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merely a tool to support pro-government media in the west the main thing that i think makes news different or at least what they're promoting as different is the fact that they're not relying on facebook or google's our they're saying that they are a team of letterman journalists who has their judgment that they are in the radar when you really start to look at news garden see the need in order to get their associated with it and also just looking at the judgments they have put out for different websites it's pretty clear that the websites that there are proving out an establishment that seems to be serving the western military industrial complex you know the council on foreign relations you've got former cia margaret you've got former bush members and that's why you're going to see these unfavorable ratings tourists and news voices or somebody like r t who challenges the american narrative . that fights we know they can end up messy and so does an israeli newspaper no
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police stations are always telling us oh we can have everything at the same time we can have peace and democracy blah blah blah in a close close knit situation during a war situation that's not true is that instead of telling people what you can't have everything and then failing to deliver on everything in the family care and say ok you can have peace like some kind of peace you can have some kind of democracy you can have some kind of justice in the short term but unfortunately we cannot feel everything at the same time so someone has to make a choice. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be found in this book laced the prophet conviction if you had any interest geisha out there what bill see is trip
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a former boss of britain's secret intelligence service on my six and former head of u.k. armed forces has said will risk the security of the united kingdom coming on the show is it time for britain's head of state to end the brics that chaos we ask the lord clarke register for many britons of all chancellor and keeper of the queen's conscience whether it is time to step in amidst the arguable constitutional chaos and britain joins the jail a joint as thousands today march across europe we ask the head of people's assembly against austerity of neo liberal economic policies are bringing europe to the brink of destruction. the honorable gentleman said that in recent months it has been nature that there was a stick in my car important bricks it matters and keep dollars of all coming up at today's going underground the first of all the b.b.c. world service trust operative goes on a shuttle three day hunger strike in an attack from jail on monday so what actually is the b.b.c. world service trust now renamed b.b.c. media action which described her role as junior and purely administrative they have
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helpfully made this video to page programs giving ordinary people the chance to ask direct questions of their leader has kept them running in eight countries yes thousands of garri rachleff work for that organization funded by the u.s. state department in the u.k. foreign office as u.s. election contender bernie sanders explained to the american people it was those organizations that successfully overthrew a democratically elected iranian leader in favor of a brutal dictator you see the guy right cliff's previous employer b.b.c. media. doesn't so much counter neo nazi ism in say nature back to crane as condemned places after nato in u.k. annihilation hold recently here. just because because it's partly true in libya the forty six do not any kind of media wonder why that is and presumably she doesn't mean media independent of the us state department in the british foreign office according to the iranian government former u.k.
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foreign secretary boris johnson let the cat out of the bag about cigar iraq cliff when you look at what nasa needs it was a gory rapley it was was doing is just you know she she was simply teaching people to do them as i understand johnson now says that wasn't true but even if you think now this is a guy radcliffe was training journalists to attack the iranian revolution maybe you should listen to what the un says the un working group on arbitrary detention has been explicit it formally called in as the ins a guy reactive same egypt release back in october except of course it is the same un that says to resume is holding wiki leaks founder julian assange in arbitrated tension in tiny west london rooms for six and a half years with no access to hospital care without the risk of torture what does to resume say to that in relation to. any decision that he's taken about u.k. action in relation to him were he to leave the ecuadorian embassy would be a matter operational matter for the police to resume a they're doing
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a pretty good imitation of an iranian politician arguing for good to do in defacto imprisonment i mean as a means of garri ratcliffe or perhaps she is just too disorientated by britain's former head of m i six and head of britain's armed forces writing to m.p.'s not to vote for a deal defeated on legal advice defeated on time table defeated on a finance bill and found in contempt of parliament itself some mainstream u.k. media claims the crises she faces are unprecedented in modern political history joining me now is the man who was lord chancellor under margaret thatcher and john major and who now holds the oldest surviving office of state. in scotland lord mci . lord makai welcome to going underground said tell me about the last time you saw a government that could have these problems even getting a finance bill through parliament let alone heading for a defeat over legislation that took two years to prepare for. don't recall during my time and i think quietly but of course there are.

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