please. please. please . please. please. please please tear gas and water cannons are called into action in paris as anti-government yellow vests rallies are staged for a tenth consecutive weekend across france that is despite president launching

a national debate to placate the protesters. u.s. president trump addresses the nation with a border security proposal which he says could end of the government shutdown but the democratic leadership in congress says the offer brings nothing new to the table. special counsel robert mueller casts doubt on an incendiary new buzz feed report claiming donald trump told his lawyer mislead congress the u.s. president has forcefully rejected these allegations. to a jail cell speaks to a friend and former colleague of an american born iranian journalist detained in the u.s. saying her freedoms are being abused and the press t.v. anchor is a material witness in a case which has yet to be made public. she is an american john the next and she is being detained without charge without information it's truly very consigning.

broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is r t international in trying times glad to have you with us. now a tenth consecutive saturday of yellow vest protests have taken place nationwide in france over what they call rising living costs and the government policies that is despite president micron's efforts to quell the unrest by launching a national debate which he has promised will result in a new social contract tear gas and water cannons were again deployed by police to disperse the demonstrators. who are seeing the first tensions here in paris today as act time is under way of the. over in the distance you might be able to see the water cannon they trying to

disperse the protesters no way from this area we did see protests is actually trying to break down some of the traffic lights and we've also seen tear gas being displaced it looks like there's some people down on the ground a little bit further over that boy it sure looks like a potentially could mean she is not you can see the protesters are trying to throw back at the tear gas the pellets now she would say the police. official figures from the interior ministry say around seven thousand people are out in paris today taking part in this tense weekend of protests but the sheer lesions of all students just speech egypt those figures from the ministry over the interior well as we can see there is anger out on the streets now let's take a look back now at that anger that's been bubbling over that since november seventy . no the course is the right

one and we don't come to change it just because the wind is blowing. i will not concede anything to those who want to struction and disorder. i. take my share of responsibility. as you can see some damage to a vehicle that protesters trying to throw projectiles to wards the police and somebody that being dragged away looks like they've received an injury as

a result of something that's been hit and then you can see just chaos ensuring as a trying to get somebody injured out of these crowds for the moment there's also a feeling months of violence against journalists in these protests and it was actually a protest underway today against that violence i can just hear behind us something sounding like it's being smashed up i mean really has just gone from total cohen to chaos in just a matter of a moment. her this protest was meant to be in tribute to the people who have joined in these protests since they began and also been injured in these protests and it looks like it could be even more injuries today. one of the yellow vests movement leaders shared his view of the current situation

in the country with our two friends. and there are more protesters compared to last week as the number of people grows every time as from across on we still have not seen any change things are continuing just like before we have not received the response that we were expecting whether there are national debates or not he still doesn't want to answer our main questions the question of rubber bullet used by law enforcement has become a topic of discussion we need to talk about it because there have been lots of seriously wounded people there's not much information about it on t.v. these rubber bullets have been frequently used for unknown reasons there were reports last week of people being shot by rubber bullets when they hadn't done anything as it was. donald trump speaking from the white house has presented a proposal he says could solve the current crisis over government funding the shutdown in the u.s. is now in its fourth week sponsored by disagreement over border security trump

offered what he calls a cover to democratic leaders eight hundred million dollars in urgent humanitarian assistance. eight hundred five million dollars for drug detection technology to help secure our ports of entry. an additional two thousand seven hundred fifty border agents and law enforcement professionals to physically secure our border the plan includes five point seven billion dollars for a strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall the president promised that he would have a major announcement today and there were some details about at least beforehand and that was that he was going to provide to three years of protection for darker recipient here in the united states now that is what he mentioned in his speech he

is still asking for that five point seven billion dollars in border wall funding however his language on that was a little bit different this time around he mentioned that he wasn't looking for a wall to cover the entire southern border however he does want structures in certain areas and he's asking for more in terms of border security and a lot of different areas now house speaker nancy pelosi has already responded she released a statement and said that she does not accept what trump called a commonsense compromise unfortunately she's proposal is a completion of several previously rejected initiatives each of which isn't acceptable and in total do not represent a good police effort to restore certainty to people's lives it is unlikely that any one of this provision saloon would bust the house and taken together the nonstarter so it looks like in the next week we could see some what is lation presented by

trump and the republicans and we could also see some legislation presented by palosi and the democrats however it remains to be seen exactly how they're going to come together or if that is going to happen we asked conservative commentator john griffin and independent political analyst alice andro bruno to comment on trump's plan. trump speech was completely aimed at his base he knows he's not going to win over democrats in this climate continuing on with the russian gauge investigation and so on whether or not it is true that's another matter but immigration has become the issue that the vij democrats from republicans so he is counting on securing the vote of those who voted for him in two thousand and sixteen in two thousand and twenty and he's not going to relent to the hall he has already made a number of compromises in the language which is history if you were

a wind back just twenty years ago you had newt gingrich sitting gaged in a series of five separate shot all in sequence in order so that's what we're what really concerns me the shutdown becomes a threat to our credit. donald trump has firmly rejected a damning new report by buzz feed news which claims instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about a planned a business deal in russia cohen is among those being investigated in a russia collusion probe investigation itself is being led by special counsel robert mueller who the president thanked for his office in a statement disclaiming the buzz feed article. i think that. the. great you are god it was a great journalist and i appreciate that you found coming out. i

think was very appropriate so i very much agree. all right the report detailing cohen's alleged confession to special counsel election meddling investigators has caused a sensation in the media it was branded a bombshell article and immediately led to talk of impeachment. president trump is facing new scrutiny today over a report that he told his personal attorney to lie to congress about his business dealings with russia we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation here's what buzz feed news is reporting that i did bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project congressional democrats calling for an immediate investigation declaring the trunk must be impeached at the story is true the media quickly picked up on of the story despite the fact that the whole piece is based on anonymous sources or washington correspondent dan cohen take up a story for us buzz feed news released a major report alleging that u.s.

president donald trump has received ten personal updates from michael cohen and encouraged planned meetings with russian president vladimir putin president donald trump directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie to congress according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter and even as trump told the public he had no business deals with russia the sources said trump and his children if the and donald trump jr received regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project a michael cohen is the former lawyer of donald trump he was sentenced to thirty six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to lying to congress. about the trump tower plan he's also admitted to campaign finance violations tax evasions and fake fraud and of course he's a key figure in investigating where the so-called russian collusion probe and the

two journalists wrote in their article that they didn't actually see the court documents or any evidence that they base their reporting on rather they were briefed by two anonymous law enforcement officials and jason leopold that one of the authors of this buzz feed article has a history of fabricating sources regarding the cohen story today leopold told m.s.n. b c that he had actually seen the evidence showing that trump instructed michael cohen to lie to congress and it's a total contradiction to what's written in the article and what his co-author has said i don't think that we've had that we haven't seen that but i will say that i'm very confident that your colleague said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents we've been i did say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents we're very confident in our report buzz feed has problems all the way around not to mention the people who actually write for it. the authors have real credibility problems they can't get

their story straight and their sources whatever those are named an unknown which we've gotten used to in this country is being credible so maybe this is been manufactured to give some interest and relevance to to to that continued testimony by this perjurer by this liar by this guy you can't form a sentence in the english language without indicting himself over it i mean a loss as to the excitement over this there's there's no there there on top of which the president through his counsel denies it flatly so you know if there's evidence it's hard to say that you deny something if there's evidence for it did journalism it's groups of people who slap together a website you get people who are paid to reap. court who are wrong including one of these fellows who has a bit early pitted later on and who perhaps allegedly his own may call into question his veracity and nothing's ever done you have a new it's

a journalistic force and sachems of the american people who don't care whether this story is true they like the story because it makes trump look bad and if the story makes trump look bad they like it we've seen some democrats promise that they will investigate the report calling the allegations against trump quote among the most serious to date some have even gone so far as to call for president trump's impeachment so we'll have to see how this one pans out. an american born journalist who who works as a news presenter on iranian state t.v. has been arrested in the u.s. as a material witness in an undisclosed case a court order revealed on friday that although she has been detained she's not been charged with a crime. generation

seems ok bad. she was not happy. the staff had certain doubts her restrictions were there just as i was stretching when not being accounted. for her head scarf had been removed against her will. we are concerned by the arrest of a journalist for iranian state t.v. marzieh hashemi we have serious concerns about her detention and we urged american authorities to clarify the situation. she's a famous journalist she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs hosiery is a very clear affront to freedom of expression

a political abuse. of an innocent individual. i believe the united states should be sure even if you go through the giving the. r.t.i. spoken exclusively to a close friend of the jail iranian t.v. anchor she shared her concerns about the legality of mars here hush amy's detention and the conditions she is being subjected to in custody. the only information and contact the family have had with my z. is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received wiring information from him as he told her daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was her job a veil covering such as what time wearing at the moment that was taken off against her will the mug shot was taken without her job on that she was given only

a short sleeved t. shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code her that she that she was and that she had gained another t. shirt just to be able to cover some of her hair she also told her daughter that she wasn't in absence given adequate food because she was not given allow muslim option or a vegetarian option on tuesday the only conversation they've had with her she told her daughter that she only been able to eat a cracker or some bread that came with that food since being detained if they had questions about four miles here in regards to an issue she would have them that is what her son has said the children have been subpoenaed as well and they have no idea why you can imagine how worried they are for their mother and how nervous they are about the situation my see is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she has been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. well according to

the court order which was issued by a u.s. district court in washington d.c. has shown me must testify before a grand jury investigation after that she will be released however many are still concerned by the detention including a number of human rights groups there's a grand jury investigation nobody knows what it's about and she's being held as a material witness which means that she's not the person accused but they think that she knows something about a crime. i'm a felony a very serious crime and it's serious enough that a judge has authorized her arrest so whatever is happening it is under the supervision of the judge what's disturbing is that two of her children were also subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury here in washington d.c. so what could she possibly have been involved in that her children also would know about she has the rights to do journalistic walk for whichever outlet she chooses

to do in any part of the world that she chooses. and she also has the right to travel freely as a journalist and as a citizen throughout the united states that she's a journalist on this we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is a crime you know i have no other oncet to that that the children i have a cat is a she's a austin for information as to why she is being to tell you that there's something very dark going on in the united states at the moment you know there's islamophobia there's this anti iran sentiment there's this anti media anti journalism sentiment unprecedented times in the united states and i said that my friend i'm a journalist and she is a fiery journalist as has been victim to that and it's unacceptable and the lack of information is unacceptable and the family is demanding to know what is going on with that mother that grandmother that you know she is

a sister as she was traveling to the united states to. see her ailing brother she has the right to do so without favoring detention taking an internal flight. we need fighting this week in libya's capital tripoli has left thirteen killed and fifty two wounded including children this is according to the libyan health ministry. the shooting that broke out by forces allied with the government and a group called the seventh brigade in august two thousand making by. clashes killed one hundred seventeen and injured more than five hundred people u.n. mediation managed to secure a ceasefire agreement which now seems to have collapsed sadly a journalist working for artie's video news agency ruptly has been killed in the violence mohammad bending. started working with ruptly in two thousand and sixteen and produced about thirty stories for the agency here are some of the last images mohamed captured during his reporting along with

a recap of recent events in tripoli. ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin khalifa who lost his life during clashes in tripoli over the past three years he worked with us to deliver high quality reports in difficult circumstances we send our deepest condolences to his family. seventy three people have been killed and dozens of

others badly burned in a pipeline explosion north of mexico city. the blast is one of the deadliest explosions in mexican history it is believed to have been caused by thieves who were trying to siphon off fuel oil had reportedly been spilling out for several hours before the blast happened officials say hundreds of people were at the site filling up plastic containers now the nation's president is promising a crackdown on fuel after. the car has exploded next to a courthouse in london dame northern ireland to this according to local police but no one was injured and the area has been evacuated since minister for foreign affairs and trade simon called vanny condemned the explosion and to characterize it as a terrorist attack we'll keep an eye on this developing story for you as more information

comes into the newsroom. international olympic committee has allegedly withheld key evidence that could have been crucial for clearing the names of russian athletes banned from the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics those are the findings by the lawyer of alexander led golf and the athlete who was banned by the i.o.c. from participating in the olympic games but then later managed to regain his status we spoke to lagos a lawyer about the case and the i.o.c. is handling of the that it's. more of the results of my trial. that i see. the blood samples that we are not tested by. i asked do you already. count the chain of custody in which each chain of custody on the song

is not to try it and i don't want to. you know if it is possible what dr richard were told us or made it clear leave it all of us under the right in the. letter. in the night about two pm the representative of the i.o.c. repeat it. claimed that they had no. blood tests and. shaved off cassidy's not know of. after the procedure i have to go to counseling nation of blood samples were tested negative and and a chain of custody we can see record most of more of the hottest. which are entered who are to moxon's creches arrived at the level of

authority during the daytime process that process was in a very short period about sixty million or ninety minutes so it would have been absolutely impossible to tell. as doctor watching or told us so if profile coming out of the way that i see you would have disclosed these facts which turns it was initially from the beginning you know regular procedure it would have been buried and it didn't since appropriate publication of the second order he sent out to south and sixty million that most of the athletes mentioned in the so-called duchesse list are innocent grigory a call for the former head of moscow's anti-doping laboratory has accused russia of having a state sponsored doping program later the mclaren report done at the request of the world anti-doping agency examined his allegations the revelations that led to russia being banned from last february's games in south korea with the only option

being to compete under a neutral black. russian skier alexander was accused of a tampering with anti-doping samples during russia's sochi olympics and was banned from taking part in the following games however in february two thousand and eighteen the court of arbitration for sports overturned the ban saying there was insufficient evidence later that year the i.o.c. appealed the court's decision this appeal to uphold bans on twenty seven athletes was thrown out by a swiss court again just this saturday meaning cross country skier alexander earlier called will really tame his gold medal from the sochi games five years ago christophe we should mention again says that he and his colleagues have proven that roger cossack testimony was false. mostly it is reportedly made. a lot from costly. consultants to.

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