i think. your. violin tear gas in the french capital mark a third straight weekend against falling living standards on what protesters calling free sing the press of governments. coming off the program this hour

with this well a in the throes of a humanitarian crisis it's all position a leader says he's not ruled out calling for a u.s. military intervention against president maduro. time and we would do everything possible once again this is obviously a very very controversial subject we will do what's necessary. a primary school in england draws the ire of parents for teaching children same sex relationships analogy bt writes. they should learn about debt to old age not right now because. of the fall of the league and the like that to you if you want to teach and we can teach them a home. life from moscow to the world this is your artsy international mind as you know neal

hello and welcome to the program our top story. a thirteenth consecutive weekend of yellow vest rallies and friends to send it into horror with a protester losing his hand amid clashes with police video agency ruptly filmed the moments immediately afterwards just a warning you may find the following video the stress. was. you. know you. need to remove the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg who tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off well the situation seems to be something that we've seen for many weeks here in paris clashes between the police and the

protesters with gas being used to disperse protesters and also grenades also being shot into the crowds but of course the protesters are normally the ones who do start off these scuffles by throwing projectiles such as rocks and broken glass to wards the police but what we've seen today is it seems one of the protesters one of the shell asians who's actually photographing the event for the social movement actually had a his hand blown off in a grenade on television one man volunteer medics were first at the scene two of ours rushed up to help him due to the general commotion another team of medics surrounded him to wall him off when a person is in that condition he needs to breathe properly you don't want crowds gathering around watching and filming that would frighten the injured person even more. but this is not the first time we've seen injuries like this since the movement started back on november seventeenth basically back on december tenth

improved protested that actually picked. up and it exploded as he held in his hand there's also been many other injuries in these protests including more than a dozen people who have lost their lives since the start of these protests and the figures suggest that some one thousand seven hundred plus chelation ones have been injured in some method or another and also a thousand. police officers who've also been injured as a result of these protests but despite all of those injuries the protesters say they will continue coming out to the streets are demands remain in place that's why we are marching we're demanding better salaries and conditions in france. we're here because we don't want to be subject to government decisions without having a say we have one group the elite of them who decide whether we have the right to not what we have to pay for our message is the same this marsh we want a better life so what has the government done to try and stem these protests well

president michael gave a big speech back in december where he announced that the minimum wage the simic would rise by one hundred euros a month he also said that people who are in bonuses for the end of the year they wouldn't have to pay social contributions and that the new tax and people who over time would be in a similar situation no tax no social contributions on that and the government is in the middle of a national debate across france getting people together to air their concerns to talk about the things that matter to them so the government can decide whether to make the changes that people say or not however have said this isn't enough for many well that the offers the concessions being given by president might go on with too little too late and that's why they've kept coming out to the streets and now we're hearing that the protesters are going to change tactics permanently the government is becoming more and more repressive we denounce the extreme violence

and the use of excessive force the authorities not seeking compromise but passing laws that limit our rights so we have collectively decided not to declare the time and place of demonstration some powers from now on rule not be the partners in crime with the government there is the mention there of a law to limit right so what these relations are referring that series what's known as the anti who it was just gust recently by deputies the m.p.'s in the lower house in the national assembly and they've approved that now that law is going to move on to the senate before it goes on the statute books but that law would essentially limit some of the individuals from going to protest if they deem to be a public threat also part of the rule. is the idea that if you cover your face going into a protest even with a simple scarf you could be liable to up to a year in jail and a fine of fifteen thousand euros so many people claiming that this new law which is set to pass in the next few weeks here in france is actually contra against their

civil liberties. this will live in direct to front political analyst nicolo markovitch for his technical welcome back to the program we were just looking at images there blurred out a man losing his hand today grew some imagery how would i put a freak accident or a consequence of excessive police force do you think this is a consequence of direct police force don't forget that france is one of the only countries i think it's actually the only country in europe using a grenades with mace with against protesters whereby you have twenty five grams of t.n.t. in them that means there is an explosion we've got more than twenty limbs or eyes who have been blown out since the beginning of the demonstration we're trying to beat two thousand protesters who have been attacked and we're been wounded and definitely this is due to some of the measures that the macro's regime police are

using these these grenades are extremely harmful they've been denounced by a lot of of the demonstrators of groups amnesty international denounce the usage of these these grenades and we don't know why the french police are still using them and there are different ways to curb the demonstrators or at least that's the violent ones and using grenades is definitely a sign that wants to use harmful measures against the demonstrators he wants the yellow vests released this statement saying that they wouldn't at nine twenty future protests would be held they say in a bid to avoid police violence how do you first see that working. i think that's this is what is the difficult for the government today in france to deal with is that the yellow vests don't have a give and i would say chief or head they can do whatever they want and they've tried to play by the book and they've had to go into where we want demonstrations possibly before and that in the perfect universe and they did that and now they're

the result is that they're getting violence against them so now they said they're not going to declare anything they're not going to want the police not going to weren't interested really when they're going to do this because they don't feel that the macro and the government are wasn't willing to back up with them and demonstrating in france is a right it's a social right and there's no reason why the should be all this violence there are some who are who are violent or people who are violent who infiltrated the you'll get the police are not stopping them for not arresting them they're letting the situation to generate because they want to show the government wants to show violent images. on the news at but what they are you going to what they are cynically they will do france's lower highest has passed the bill introducing one year prison terms for demonstrators covering their faces if that becomes law do you think it will deter those yellow vests years. no it's the contrary is the contribution me i've seen a lot of just ordinary people who are going out to demonstrate who are peaceful

people who cannot stand anymore to have the only answer from the government being violence the cancer down the mace the pepper spray the can't stand the grenades the can't stand all of the oppression from the government and if tomorrow they cannot cover their face because police fire tear gas at them what type of democracy is this i think on the contrary this will be more people to the us don't forget that the all of us are still extremely popular in france today there are those who go to the demonstrations there are those who want internet or making a lot of videos going viral about what's really going on in france today that's what still extremely popular you can imagine that this bill could enable police to impeach people from going to demonstrations because there is a doubt that the might troubles to the demonstrations this is minority report we're going to arrest people send them to jail because we think that maybe they may commit a crime this is crazy and this is really what is written into our so no i think this is just showing the tyrannical side over today and i think it's going to be

more central to the streets to the internet to the social networks to denounce the system until until he leaves nick and i thank you very much for your take this hour thanks for joining us on a saturday as well next summer which political unless i get on the program from the . tensions between venice well as beleaguered president and the leader of the opposition are rising one up the ante on friday by telling the a.f.p. news agency that he's not ruling out calling for a u.s. military intervention against nicolas maduro. but i mean they know we would do everything possible once again this is obviously a very very controversial subject making use of our sovereignty and within our jurisdiction we will do what's necessary. opposes trained as agents of foreign governments of the united states introduce sources of unrest of internal chaos to dismember the states in venezuela they have driven us to the point that

libya was taken over syria was taken to the point of an armed opposition they have attempted that but we have not allowed them to and venezuela is at peace. military intervention is actually one of the main talking points between both venezuelan president nicolas maduro and the self-proclaimed president one guy i don't know what juror has already denounced the u.s. as imperialist and his exclusive interview with our team and he's also visiting many military bases across the country is encouraging the troops to remain loyal and he's overseeing the armament of people's militias there now on the other hand why don't has he hasn't ruled out authorizing the u.s. to intervene and he's been trying for over the past several weeks to encourage military officials to defect and a very limited success and that's because many people in venezuela don't think inviting the u.s. was why does that idea that washington believes model must go its reaction stems from its pivot to doctrine of overthrowing regimes and democratic systems that

don't like having their arms twisted the humanitarian aid is a big lie it's the worst possible diagnosis of the situation we've seen that is no humanitarian crisis the us is trying to frame the situation in a way that would allow it to invade venezuela this won't happen we won't let it happen the army and civilians are united and determined to defend the country sovereignty and territorial integrity. now why don't the us say that this humanitarian crisis. it is very real except what aid means is actually a point of contention between the parties the venezuelan government claims it intercepted an arms shipment from the us earlier this week and it there there was reportedly assault rifles ammunition communications equipment flown in from miami as as a result the military has blocked roads leading into the country from colombia one of the u.s. allies and it's these reports the red cross to stress that humanitarian aid needs

to stay non political race humanitarian aid can never be a political issue we cannot divide a population on the issue of him in the terran house because humanitarian aid is always neutral that this is a difficult moment when it's civil society to appreciate this kind of work which is aimed at people in need you know with the lines were drawn starting several weeks ago when announced his claim to the presidency the washington based organization of american states immediately supported. and followed in the u.s. his footsteps but countries like russia china mexico cuba they quickly reacted in support of the duros government now most e.u. countries also decided to back why don't the dural refuse their ultimatum to hold another presidential election and u.s. national security advisor john bolton called on these pro governments to switch sides doubling down on the bad that doesn't make it to good that there is still

time for russian others to join the community of responsible nations and recognizing why do the national assembly and the path to freedom and prosperity in the desert now although no one has yet to take bolton's advice the situation is definitely getting more tense and any changes in international legion says are certainly going to influence the domestic situation there. well the international monetary fund said on thursday about it is holding talks with member states and whether to recognize one wind was venezuelan president it follows reports that the self-proclaimed leader was considering asking the global financial body for a bailout a spokesperson for the i.m.f. said a consensus must be reached before any loans can be issued to the country the countries are still establishing the position in terms of recognition sudha proof that process is ongoing so as i said we are watching that closely. well the i.m.f. has one hundred eighty nine members and is supposed to help ensure financial stability

amongst them while promoting sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction one key function is to provide bailouts to indebted recession hit countries in exchange for structural reforms. well the light of events in venice what the links recently drew attention to a document it published in two thousand and eight which it calls the u.s. could manual it details washington's use of global financial institutions like the i.m.f. like the world bank to advance its agenda and wage quote on conventional warfare against its rivals. if properly authorized in coordinated u.s. army special operations forces can use or coordinate for other agencies to use measured in focus financial incentives or disincentives to persuade adversaries allies and surrogates to modify their behavior at the theatre strategic operational and tactical levels such application of financial power must be part of

a circumspect integrated and consistent unconventional warfare plan. a wall street analyst michael hudson thinks there's nothing new in the u.s. pushing its interests through international financial institutions the world bank has always been run by the u.s. military from mcnamara to all of the subsequent people and the i.m.f. functions basically it's a little office out of the pentagon basement where the wiki leaks thing only confirms what people have been saying for the last fifty years of course who are going to be i.m.f. are tools of this leak department or foreign policy the united states from the very beginning insisted in having betoken work over all i.m.f. and world bank decisions so that they could prevent any alone that was against us foreign policy that was built into the articles of agreement that's been the case

since one thousand forty five and none of this is no. sportswear giant rebuts the latest campaign aims to celebrate women who've changed the world in russia it features a prominent feminist and the slogan urging women to sit on men's faces something that didn't go to. this is horrible maybe funny on twitter but out of context it makes me want to facepalm it's all hype and harmful nonsense because like this people have a problem with family. gender equality school reaching warded through degrading one of the sites is not cool by the way i'm the

man who can throw eggs at things. unfortunately after photos went public it became clear that some of the content is not appropriate to postpone or official account due to social media age restrictions. and surprise traffic jam by this by the passive pop that the one now on carrots in this case everybody screaming louder it just. fluff i had this reaction feel how scared of gender equality to have to be to get so angry about it. face not being the best choice of words in this context i have to say it's certainly creating a lot of amusement. now if reebok's advertising is looking for this it's a. lot of work it's got it. let's not kid ourselves advertising

is not meant to educate people i do ties it is meant to sell products they. it's a great show we say way colter breaks into its advertising a message all. find approval from people but basically at the end of it all they're interested in moving products up scholz parents in the u.k. or pulling their children out of primary school over classes on same sex relationships more not after this.

but politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. let you go right to the pros it's like the full story of the people. interested always in the last. question.

hello again a teacher of a primary school in england second biggest city say's he's been receiving threats for teaching pupils about same sex relationships his initiative which has seen some parents pull their children out of school in protest has triggered a broader debate in the united kingdom looking at the controversy as polly boyko. what happens if you fundamentally disagree with something your kids are being taught at school is a question that some of the parents of peoples at this priming him school have been confronted with money lula hopes are another succumb both of them mostly name got some tissues on the white damn but i'm getting more fat is an award winning deputy head teacher he is with the queen he's been shortlisted for the world's best teacher award for developing a diversity program the no outsiders program involves talking about relationships

and highlighting the l g b t community in other words telling children so much younger than eleven that it's ok to be gay it's something that i'm good some of the parents whose kids are at the school is not for the opening appeared for the reception kids. promoting homosexuality they should learn about yet old age not right now because they can easily get you can learn stuff did teach your kids enough money to stay with boys and boys who think that's not a good thing this was a quality leader with a like it's because if you have to obviously clearly say you can't discriminate against religion and whatnot that's what they're doing it's ninety nine percent muslim it's not about being muslim that the jewish community the other communities the christian communities they're all have issues around the way things have been going some four hundred parents have signed a petition calling on the school to stop the no outsiders program and earlier this

week the route between school and parents escalated to this. whole. thing. that this area. birmingham is predominantly muslim and being gay is forbidden in islam the school's reading program uses books about l. g.b.t. issues this one is a story about a family with two moms another a fairy tale about a prince falling in love with another prince the parents may not like it but the government's own watchdog has classified this school outstanding as the top model a school can get and much of the praises for the way the children here are taught about the ukase equality laws which could be why the school says it will not by now

so parents pressure deputy head andrew more fat who's openly gay himself had to resign from a previous job after a similar route with christian parents at his former school despite the controversy the teacher says his diversity program is not going away we have to ensure we safeguard and protect them from all possible forms of harm including homophobic or transgender bullying we have no plans to change their curriculum and no outsiders remains an inch a group part of the drive for excellence in light of this some parents have chosen to remove their kids from the school and opted to pay for private tuition this is around about a small school but is exposed a big clash between a religious community and the diversity that's part and parcel of modern day britain. ortiz polly barker reporting from birmingham well there is another school in england that's also find itself in the media spotlight after it decided to drop

a player but charles darwin following complaints from christian purred. charles darwin had all of the world so we've made a comedy musical about his life but boring i hate to say no he's not.

it's must be telling for the latest slice of red ducted tonight we join lee and co and moments this is our to interest. thank you. thanks.

a. lot that. goes to the comedy film where americans and americans covering american news are called for in a drunk's stuff let's get this out of the way everyone's talking about the state of the union so here is my in-depth analysis of president donald j. trump's state of the killings. that i covered it and i was wrong so we also have more honest than the state of the union. now let's move on to some religion so i know i covered the u.s. backed coup in venezuela last week but the problem with our country's on go and destruction of other countries is that it keeps developing so now i've got more breaking news on that there was a cool if i do it again or go one of the ok. guys guys because even if you guys

will. tell you they were there yes i was going to do it anyway. all right last week i said one of the big reasons we were working to tear apart venezuela with i.m.f. regime change puppet one guy why go is because we want their oil they have the largest oil reserves in the world now i don't have clear proof we want their oil but it's a hunch you know just. kind of like if you put a balloon in a room with a porcupine you're like i have gone chill paul the whole way. i don't have any quotes from top trump administration officials saying we're going to take their. oil you know you would never have someone like trump's national security advisor john bolton just admit it will be great if we could get american oil companies in there i think we're trying to get to the same end result here you know venezuela is one of the three countries i called the troika of tyranny it will make

a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. you're not supposed to say you know. for like twenty years we've been trying to destroy even as well and our government always says we want to help the people all we care about their democracy they have a lot of inflation and that's why we need to send our happy bombs. parade right and they never just go yet or like hundreds of oil there and we wanted you know when we were trying to keep the cookie monster under wraps or oh no i'm wrong i'm right. also it's amazing how like matter of fact he is a us backed coup often in in terrible violence with tens of thousands of innocent people killed it's horrific someone did.