thank. you our it was. a yellow vests protester loses his hand in clashes with police and the anti-government movement takes to the streets for thirteen consecutive weekends. plus of the week's top stories but as well as opposition leader says he hasn't moved on calling for u.s. military intervention to overthrow president material we spoke exclusively with

both america. and to syria struggles to rebuild after eight years of war our team looks at the trauma suffered by the country's child. labor sometimes my beloved simply can't stand. and very well welcome you watching the weekly here at r.t. international with me and great to have you with us. for france has been hit by a thirteenth weekend of yellow vest protests with clashes again breaking out in the capital one activist heads most of his hands blown off by a crowd control grenade artie's ruptly video agency recorded the aftermath we should warn you some of the images are disturbing.

it to me is the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg and he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction and the grenade went off our sister channel r.t. france spoke with the father of the protester who lost his hand. on our suzi we stayed in the hospital and to late night to find out what's going to happen with him he's lost everything from the wrist down then we met the ophthalmologist to talk about his eye he's only wasn't affected too much the some superficial wounding but his hand is gone we'll file a complaint and then see what happens if his mum does on a sunday and yesterday sebastian basically lost his hand in front of the national assembly he's crippled and he's

a plumber he needs his hand to deal with basic daily stuff he's lost it because i don't know if you understand how symbolic it is but sebastian lost his hand in front of the national assembly the house of the people and the government hasn't said a word they are concerned about the fact that the house of mr feraud the president of the national assembly was burned but is just material resources while in front of the second residency of mr for iran the president of the national assembly a person has lost his hand although the arson attack mentioned there on the home of the head of the national assembly wasn't directly linked to the protest as similar tactics were used on saturday with several cars that's on fire the l a vest rallies began last november ever rising living costs and quickly morphed into a broader anti-government protest campaign of ours he's estimate that more than fifty thousand people rallied nationwide on saturday four thousand of them in paris .

so what has the government done to try and stem these protests well the president gave a big speech back in december where he announced that the minimum wage the cynic would rise by a hundred jews a month he also said that people. bonuses for the n.b.a. they wouldn't have to pay social contributions and that new tax and people 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 protest isn't 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 demonstrations and powers from now on. the partners in crime with the government there was the mention there of a law to limit right so what these relations are referring that series what's known as the anti who can know 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 protests if they deemed to be

a public threat also part of them who is the idea that if you cover your face going into a protest even with the simple stuff 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 but i'm against this law because where is the proof that these are real hooligans the government can choose who's a hooligan and who's not going to say quote. laws against the marchers is to stop people rally and to scare people. with this war against the rioters crazy question i find it a bit appalling i guess it's a complicated issue will they detain the real rioters that's the real question or will they just pick up any little gas i've seen 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 that if tomorrow they cannot cover

their face because police fired tear gas at them what type of democracy is this as this bill could enable. people from going to demonstrations because there is a doubt that they might bring 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 just showing the tyrannical side of mt today and i think it's going to be more preferable to the streets to the internet to the social networks to denounce the system until until he leaves. and as well as self-proclaimed interim leader one quade has blamed the country's ongoing crisis on the vanity of the madeira government's mystical i dos spoke exclusively to r.t. here's a short extract from that you. and me and other innocent and. millions of in the skip support and nicolas maduro how are you planning to win them over let them hear is out all we want is to be heard and for our plan for the country's restoration to

be heard a future we're building together i've told you that recently just a few days ago we had a meeting with ministers who worked on the chavez not to robot on the chair of us today youth function members of a student movement were in attendance to let them hear as now let them hear is in the future but politics is notoriously full of good intentions what if you fail to make good on your promises to politics and life first and foremost it's about being attentive and then you can come good on those deeds actions on the delivery of humanitarian aid the protection of our a. the protection of our citizens the protection of newborn babies who should not have died in and so article a few days ago because the vanity of some people and there are only a few of them who don't even recognize this is a crisis which is recognized by the un and many other organizations. well also this week we spoke to venezuela's president nicolas maduro he pledged to resist washington's push for regime change you can watch the full interview. there will be

no war or military intervention he then is well out of it but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't get ready to fight for our land use every media outlet to urge the entire world heads of state heads of government or world leaders social movements and the international community to denounce the absurd steps donald trump is taking against venezuela and to stop him threaten us with a military intervention venezuela has not surrendered and never will what's donald trump sconces belli against venezuela what is it do we have w m d's are we a threat to u.s. national security you know what the cost is bally's here then is a well an oil and as well as resources gold natural gas diamonds or water our material wealth the twenty first century and is not the time for cannon fire and military threats no the twenty first century should be a century of dialogue civilized behavior politics respect for diversity peace

peaceful coexistence and finding peaceful diplomatic solutions to international conflicts dielike is the most important thing for venezuela it is a remark to. most western countries now recognized as interim leader venezuela but in so recently he was almost an unknown figure as if trying to explains they've made him the new interim president but haven't learned how to say his name. in a present one one guido ok mr pompei oh my i have issues with spanish so you know. what you don't know it's probably not about the language it's just that a little while ago very few people knew who. why do was even in meant as well. i had never heard that name before the first time i had about him was in social media when he declared himself president. i heard the barge one grade just recently

supposedly he's the other president of venezuela which i honestly think is a joke. whichever way during the first time i heard about why go was two years ago . i don't own this short while ago and when this political situation started. for those abroad who loathes nicolas maduro there's an easier last name to say lope is if you've never heard of low poll the low because some very important people will definitely have. venezuela should allow lippold alone a political prisoner and husband of toting out of prison immediately this man's political ambitions have arranged for a mayor of caracas to the president's office his wife has made friends with world leaders as if she was part of let's say the g. twenty herself so why do we keep on hearing we've recognized why and why go as the new president instead of we've recognized loophole the low because first of all

he's now under house arrest after being in all kinds of trouble with law enforcement but even his wife says that doesn't stop him from pulling the strings at home he works with all of the opposition everyone he speaks with her on going door who is now president and all of the members of popular will and members of all the parties the big ones and the little ones he's taking charge of uniting the opposition why dose says they're always in contact and always see eye to eye while even the american media is hinting mr why don't you could just be a pawn in someone else's hand according to the opposition party though he makes his own decisions your polo has been imprisoned for almost five years now so communication with him it's very difficult we have to stick with him so he's funny so i mean basically. gives ideas decisions are being made by one and the rest of the somebody perhaps for those who are trying to overthrow

a government because of how authoritarian and corrupt it is admitting the whole show is being run by someone who could be a full on state department puppet is kind of dodgy we can leaks has spilled the beans on exchanges between us diplomats with step by step descriptions of how leopoldo lopez should rise to power by the way speaking of scandals low prices wife was all over the news when a mountain of local cash worth sixty thousand bucks was found in her car. this money is to pay for my grandma who is hundred years old and has been hospitalized three days she has no insurance and a country word takes a suitcase full of all of our bills to buy a coffee no one out there protesting in the street has that kind of money so maybe someone like juan guardia without the awkward baggage is an easier sell. at least half of young people in syria have grown up knowing only war and many are

living with severe trauma as according to a report by the international charity unicef and aussie crew met with children who grew up in areas controlled by extremists he can watch the full show on our website r.t. dot com here's part of it. this way of. looking at the. clip is condemned. it's. not about. or as i'm ok. and i'm going to fuck with russia. as i don't want to write anything at all in agreement about that. along i seventy there's a later. she's done. this

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award a small swore whether the board. still would. meanwhile in iraq many youngsters have grown up in similar circumstances a group of russian children who spent time in a prison with their mothers have been brought back to moscow to this video from the russian emergencies ministry shows them arriving at a moscow airport there are twenty seven children in total aged between four and thirteen the exact details of how they ended up in iraq are unclear but it's believed that many of them were brought there by their radicalized parents all of them are being resettled in homes of their relatives. there's an unusual edition

on donald trump's list of the big threats facing america in twenty nineteen you can find out what it is after the break. you know world is a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race is often spearing dramatic developing the only relief i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back not during his highly anticipated state of the union address on tuesday donald trump outlined some of the threats he believes america is facing among them illegal immigration terrorism and socialism under the income inequality growing to continuing to grow in the us the left wing ideas do seem to be on the rebound the scale of more pain reports. now those who watch donald trump state of

the union address would have a hard time missing one particular moment the topic of socialism america will never be a socialist country. not mild words at all and it's not the first time the trump has raised the specter of socialism all nations of the world should resist socialism. and the misery that it brings to everyone. but the socialists they say that he's just afraid of their rising popularity i thought it was fabulous because it shows that we've gotten under his skin he has no vision for this country everything is about what he doesn't want everything is about the boogie man and they've got a point after all bernie sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the country but.

it's not only republicans that are fearing the rise of socialism you've also got the establishment in the blue corner concerned as now at this point a majority of democrats say that socialism is the way forward for america where we can say one of the things that is to ensure is that democratic socialism is the say in the for her to be right now. and that is your vision perhaps but. i do accept any station of the party presented by the republicans truck media going as far as printing guidelines on how to inoculate your children against the rising ideological danger.

so we decided to go out to the district here in new york that elected alexandria cacio cortez the rising star of democratic socialism and we decided to see how people here feel about the ideology that went pretty far in defining the twentieth century and why do you think people here voted for her i think they voted for her because she was pretty she would have her because he's charismatic and i think they also voted for because of the change from the guy that was in it before who's very much like embedded a lot of people are afraid to show up so i mean anything to rear away from what trump is doing i think to feel people feel more confident about what's going on you know trump recently said the usa will never be a socialist country do you agree with him. i guess so yeah i think he's right. i don't see that happening in the states being great now we know anything that comes out of his mouth is a complete obviously bizarre world so if he says america will never be so it was going through i feel very good nor going to miracle will become a socialist country are you afraid of socialism. will. to some extent year i don't

think it will be appropriate for this country a lot of little too much pot it's only because i could be afraid of it no no we also got a chance to speak with journalist dan was there dan can you tell me is socialism no longer a dirty word in american politics was a dirty word still in certain quarters but it's more acceptable now in other quarters and it was a few years ago next to bernie sanders and. alexandria ocasio cortez now do you think it is possible that bernie sanders might run against trump there saying he's the most likely to be trump is it possible that we could get a trump versus sanders ticket in the upcoming election i think it's very possible but i don't watch for the predictions but i think it's very possible yes and is that something the democratic party leadership is afraid of the thing they're at they're terrified of that i think that if that happens every democratic politician in the country would running for cover. as a member of sanders is not

a democrat just as trump is not really a republican so we'll have to have a non-democratic versus not republican and everyone in between just just hiding their head in the sand and trying to forget your what's going on for a long time it seemed like the s. word was almost profanity and we see the establishment trying to stoke up the same old fears once again however it seems like in twenty nineteen socialism is back on the table for debate caleb mop and r.t. new york. russia's ambassador to the us sun down with r.c. this week to speak about the stumbling blocks existing between the two countries and one of the areas where the interests do allow for close cooperation cooperation . i and i have treaty is dealing with the security of european countries and the russian federation and their physical did with the security of the united states for me it's clear if united states decides to deploy. in europe it will be

a crisis of security for european countries of course we will fine solution we will fine. we'll all home much united states did solve degrees in that region and we are a dear to cooperate together we are looking very attentive to lead the situation in this country because. such countries like. i was because. they're three germ and we see some. troops appeared on the border between alliance and we're going to stand and of course we are very much concern what is going on. we are highly appreciated all efforts are made by united states in these regard and we already took operate together to find a solution how to from one side to dismantle nuclear program of north korea and at

the same time to eastend and to ease sanctions against the government of north korea. i don't understand why russian from so why germany or other western countries have to be punished for these economic project it's not position of the russian federation but it is position of other western the european countries who can see there that this project is very useful. there is nothing policy in sight of this. project. thanks for joining us an r.t. international this hour we will be back at the top of the hour with the latest to see that. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see that.

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the welcome to the part two decades after hugo chavez won his first election his boley berry and revolution is screeching to a halt it's runaway inflation and unemployment higher than ever millions are believed to have left been used and while the world powers are now locked over what their president may do or should go to the bigger question is where should the country move from here to discuss that i'm now joined by rafael ramirez close ally of president chavez and a harsh critic of both president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader. mr

ramirez it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you think is my push in many western media you're referred to as either former oil czar or hugo chavez says dr had man i wonder how do you personally see yourself now. and hearing your oh but i cannot disclose her because. when the swell up i used to be. with. the most important post in. our. now i know that you had a major falling out. with president maduro in two thousand and seventeen you accused him of incompetence and the supreme power he accused you of corruption but if we try to put those personal grievances to decide what do you make all file

what's happening in and around venezuela right now. everybody i sure that everybody sec read that our country faces a very deep. crisis in the political economic and also in the saucer size in the political side that we have now. president. mr way though. of. constitutional we have a problem in the political. of these two guys in the economical size that we are confronting. more than one point seven million percent. of the supply of medicines the food they were lewisham all saw the gore may have to destroy. or which is the most important.