i explore you can be. what i think is this is the found that is all come from. a long awaited cool decision a french former boxing champion has been sentenced to three years in prison for striking a police officer at a yellow bus protest in january. italy's prime minister's branded a puppet to the heated debate in the e.u. parliament where he lambasted the blog for being out of touch with its people. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent this was drawn fearfully procedure it is and it is progressive the last contact with these people my

question for you mr cantor is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and. under an iranian photojournalist the trump a c bashed around on twitter using a photo that she'd taken on the way to roughly spoken exclusively to. my protests against the street can be the finest so sean. thanks for joining us this hour this is r.t. and. a french former boxing champion has been sentenced to three years in prison after hitting a police officer at a yellow vests protest in january christopher deaths injuries express regret over his actions artie's france correspondent charlotte do pinsky has a story. he was told he would have a sentence of three years two of those he's expected to spend in prison one year

has been suspended now the former boxer christopher debt and was seeing it was captured on video throwing punches towards two members of the back to during act eight on january sixth and the video of that incident went absolutely viral when it happened and it led to widespread manhunt looking for the man who had landed those punches on the gendarme and during that protest now back then after that video emerged acted in response to herself being assaulted. the used tear gas against us and then started business with battens i found myself on the ground lying cold up i was then chased by the police who tried to grab me in the face right in the teeth and then he keep me have severe lung disease the slightest blow can cause them to tear if that happens i die the books to save my life if he hadn't done what

he did i would have died on the spot in court on wednesday the former boxer was described as having brought shame to the world of boxing and he himself the father of three described his own shame for his actions back on january fifth he did of course hand himself into police after that video went viral and just before he handed himself into police he made this video which was posted on facebook describing exactly why he'd hit out the police. i saw the repression that was i saw the police gassing us i've seen the police hurt people with flash balls i've seen people hurt assume pensioners get gas i've seen a lot of things i was gassed on the last day yes i want to dance in the riot police was gassed with my friends and my wife i was gassed and for a moment the anger came up in me yes well i reacted badly i reacted badly but i was

defending myself and well after that video was released on you tube it was actually a fundraiser set up for bet in jail that raised more than one hundred thousand euro as far a fund raising page at that page was later taken down after criticism that some people thought it could be suggested that it was condoning violence against the police now we know that this is the latest trial to take place in france as a result of people who have been arrested during the yellow vests protested been going on now in france since november seventeenth already around one thousand eight hundred individuals have received convictions for various crimes they've been committing during the protests which is turned so violent a times that people describe it as being the most violent riots a move that half a century here in france and it remains the prime minister said just a few days ago that another around one thousand four hundred still awaiting their

trials for those acts that they've been arrested for in regards to the best movement meanwhile of course we're still waiting for quite a big trial to come up in the next few days is of. this one of the unofficial leaders of the yellow vests he's due to go on trial for organizing an unannounced protest christopher debt and of course starts now those two years behind prison and that one year suspended act fourteen of the chalet seans is set to go ahead a saturday. france is seeing another wave of yellow vests protests with demonstrators taking to the streets of paris to show their anger over police violence and march was called by several activist groups to show their solidarity with people injured during protests that have been engulfing front since november and also to support one victim in particular money that part of his hand blown off by a crowd control grenade demonstration was peacefully without incident. we spoke

to fear linea who was hit in the head by a grenade back in december she claims that she's on the brink of losing an eye because of it here's a story but it is still there we were on the chandeliers the it was comment first and there were very calm yellow vests around us then some who have been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it policeman started to shoot to help firefighters to get through and it was the last one that i remember because after that i fell and the grenade hit my hand my eyes still in great pain and will be removed in the next operation talked to said it can be seen it is painful to touch it i can't move it and i can't read. just about it is around three thousand people have been injured during the all of us protests some of them suffering serious injuries to her in a linear way thinks that the current level of violence between protesters and the police is far from normal. it says. policemen are called to work every

saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything explain to me why the policeman fired in my to pression it is not normal france is one of the oldest democratic countries in the world it is not normal that this is happening here. italy's prime minister has fired back at senior european officials after he was accused of being a puppet of his hero skeptic government during a tense exchange in e.u. parliament. delivered a scathing assessment of brussels saying it's no longer in touch with citizen it's momentum but we have seen the transfer of power is increasingly from countries to the union my question for you mr cantor is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and in my strings. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has withdrawn fifa legal procedure as i'm and it is progressively

lost contact with its people it is so painful for me to see italy's political degeneration. progressively this policy has lost its representative justification to become an oligarchy system where the real needs of society are ignored it is your government that is openly spiteful against other member states or members of our european family it is the italian government better start the european union from being united against madeira and you know why it's come under pressure from the kremlin under pressure from putin that is the truth it was quite the debut speech at the european parliament in strasburg by the italian prime minister just said picante outlining the future of the european union as italy sees it and also looking challengers to the goals that rome wants to achieve his speech caused calls today should in the chamber we heard from give off start the senior european parliamentarians and certainly no shrinking violet going as far as calling prime

minister. a puppet there was some support for the italian prime minister in the chamber from british m.e.p. mr concert the determination of your government to resist the privileged power axis of merkel and macron and indeed to resist the pressures of the european union elites on show here today you deserve applause for that the european union top brass and rome have been going back and forward for a while now big arguments last year over the budget that was put forward by the italian government it included things like tax breaks for low in middle income earners a lowering of the retirement age and a multi billion euro universal income plan all of the good stuff big problem is italy is broke its debt stands at one hundred thirty one percent of g.d.p. trying to put forward a budget this provided these things well it's just against the rules of being part

of the european union eventually did cave in to brussels but they got to come back and back for more we've heard from the deputy prime minister. he's also the interior minister of italy he described it mr comments as shameful and he said that at the upcoming european elections those that have supported brussels bureaucracy well they may well find themselves ousted by the people at the ballot box but spare a thought though for some of those at the upper echelons of the european union structure at the moment they've got poland and hungary certainly not playing the game the way they would like it to be played in brussels italy i think we can definitely say are in that group as well and with all of that there's a little thing called briggs it going on as well. political activist and billionaire george soros has also weighed in suggesting the e.u. could collapse like the soviet union he says it's too late financier compared the current european leadership to the u.s. ceasars politburo saying it's been issuing irrelevant directives you also gave

a stark warning suggesting euro skeptic parties might emerge victorious in may's ballot cloudier domingo an advisor to the link party which is part of italy's ruling coalition believes that europeans are eager for change italy is not the only more dog that the someone put on. the list the steel believes that don't speak don't see anything because you are like a dog that just. now delhi is it only is see it only has a brain is a wheel saw all eat only is that power any europe but we are an example for the new europe europe of the people there we looked at people and not the europe of the europe. europe of the elite now they are very angry about the government of the people they are very scared about that

a new election in europe any this is we are assured that all of the. keep in the hands of a few people. and iranian photographer has lashed out at donald trump after he allegedly used her photo of a protest in an iran bashing tweet the other more harry said the photo was used without permission and that it was a great shame for the u.s. president to publish the tweet in both farsi and english on monday as iranians mark the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. bank shar and other malware they can then donald trump saying that a photo shows shouldn't be abused by quote men in washington on video and see roughly spoke exclusively with the photojournalist. but. you know i have no twitter account and someone sent a picture to me i wanted to react at that time because of my patience it took a long time i did not expect this picture to become viral because i was thinking

that i had taken better pictures wow sometimes things happen in a way that we do not expect. other moira issued a lengthy instagram post in which she slammed trump these policies saying u.s. sanctions are devastating the lives of iranians. as a man being to eat my protests against the street can be defined as social to be more precise there are always people who can travel to iran for different occasions like wedding parties or funerals in our forests years face time in order to be in touch with their families so it is clearly painful to me and it also affects my personal life my family is in us and we haven't seen each other for four years because of the travel ban and it felt like my family was in a prison because we could not even visit each other in another country when you do hand the economic and social impact of the sanctions that affected people including

those who were not interested in political issues caused me to show a symbolical protest it was not something like a legal complaint or any other thing. a meeting this being widely seen as an iran summit kicked off wednesday in warsaw with representatives from more than sixty countries in attendance has been joined hosted by the united states and poland but not everybody has been keen to take up an invitation some high ranking european officials for example stayed at home use foreign affairs chief federica margaret mead out there the same goes for other top e.u. politicians france germany and britain only sent lower ranking diplomats despite the meeting being of originally planned for foreign ministers considering that fact the iranian foreign minister said the meeting would fail to result in anything meaningful. the world's worst or conference i believe it's dead on arrival dead before a robot i don't think it would do anything it's another attempt by the united states

to pursue an obsession with iran that is not well founded the news being linked to the e.u.'s recent trade mechanism coming into force that allows european companies to continue to trade with iran despite the reimposition of sanctions by washington mechanisms been criticized by the u.s. although it hasn't taken any particular measures against it e.u. insists its undertaking helps ensure the survival of the twenty fifteen uclear deal with around political analyst and commentator shabir has anally feels that the u.s. attempts to prevent others from cooperating with iran a worthless. what it's doing with this war so conference is trying to build a coalition of people that will of entities that will essentially bend the knee to washington and its allies and not do business with iran and further try to isolate iran i don't believe this is going to be successful america has lost its relevance this is a means by which it's trying to get relevant and i don't believe it's going to have

any success it will just be a complete waste of time especially given that many key decision makers are not even bothering to attend and what countries are attending are not sending the right level people they're sending a lot you don't see junior people as opposed to senior people so no one really sees it as anything particularly important it's a means to turn an actual regime change or work on a pathway to create regime change in iran and again america's me trying this for forty years and again it's going to fail. syria is demanding action from the u.n. security council damascus accuses the u.s. led coalition of killing sixteen civilians and injuring dozens more in a bombing raid on the border with iraq of the wages rep to film the aftermath of what appears to be in a combination of as strikes and shelling guess d.m. takes a closer look at. syria again is accusing the united states of war crimes on living fabric twenty nineteen the u.s. led coalition committed

a new crime against innocent syrian civilians is were playing targeted a civilian camp in the village of who's in the countryside of the governorates of there is or sixteen civilians including seven children were killed and seventy civilians most of them women and children were injured syria again calls on the un security council to stand up against these crimes and attacks and to shoulder its responsibilities in the maintenance of international peace and security here is what happened. in syria is a small village which happens to be one of the last islamic state all claims. in syria and it is in the firing line the u.s. led coalition its troops and allies on the ground are pressing it from all sides and the media's there to watching this isis village burton final push to defeat isis in the villages their last remaining stronghold in northeastern syria days away from victory days before they saw the end of the caliphate the problem and

a serious one and that is that aside from the five six hundred isis fighters there are hundreds upon hundreds of civilians innocents whom the terror group was holding hostage using its human shields liquid you can see the coalition killed a lot of fun and they killed a lot of fatherless a lot of children but this time the u.s. led coalition hit a mosque and the coalition has a rule never to hit mosques they're protected except when it stops being a mosque because the pentagon says so this mosque lost its protected status when isis deliberately chose to use it as a command and control center lot of first time they hit the mosque which stopped being a mosque packed with people the incident near aleppo springs to mind yes the coalition takes all reports of civilian casualties seriously investigates for months or years

writes an apology note when everyone's forgotten and moved on almost always the terrorists fault yes the u.s. is fighting terrorists in syria but it was never invited to it invited itself then to be able to say good job boys we beat isis it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate . but i want to wait for the official word and i want to. too early we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly now we've won it's time to come back you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know they're running out we'll come back if we have to. china has dismissed claims made by the wall street journal that its diplomats held talks with

the venezuelan opposition is branded the report fake news journal claims that china met with representatives of one in an effort to protect investments in the crisis stricken country china has been holding talks we burn as well as political opposition to save guard is investments into trouble latin american nation in fact the report is false it's fake news independent political analyst our sandra bruno thinks china is not actually that worried about a change of government in venezuela. i wouldn't be surprised if the chinese had met represent is a white dog. nevertheless. the implications of the article from the wall street journal is that china is trying to protect its investments in venezuela and that's where i find the issue troubling and perhaps cause for suspicion over the article because china doesn't need to worry about

a different government or right wing government coming in venezuela to protect its investment china has investments throughout south america china is using its soft power trade and loans for infrastructure projects in particular to fill in where the west has failed really and where do you need states in particular has failed. leaked documents are claimed to reveal a u.k. based campaign group was asked to come up with the plan to try to get cats are stripped of the football world cup in two thousand and twenty two now the firm allegedly proposed to run a p.r. blitz but negative news about the gulf kingdom in return for a hefty fee to groups headed by a prominent u.k. based strategist who ran former british pm david cameron successful election campaign alexey oshinsky picks up the story. it's almost a tradition now that every time a major football tournament is to take place scaremongering about the host country

gets into full swing unless it's a country like germany of course in less than four years qatar will become the first middle eastern state to host the world cup and everyone's got something to say there are even whole books written about it qatar has won its right through foul means the tiny middle east country of qatar may have won the right to host it due to a secret campaign to sabotage rival bid sunday times newspaper is alleging that those involved in katter's world cup bid team ran a kind of secret black ops campaign designed to sabotage its main rivals bits this time however it may have gone beyond just bad headlines newly documents seen only by the guardian newspaper and the spin watch competing groups suggest that a famous political strategist company c.d.f. partners was speech to a contract to make sure qatar's dream of welcoming the world's best footballers collapsed how by spreading negative stories about qatar in the mainstream media

associating dollar with terrorism running fake grassroots campaigns and social media and lobbying friendly politicians journalists and academics we have a chance to talk to professor david miller from the spin watch group seriously this is the other techniques of the p.r. world isn't this deception as many puting social media trying to propose the problem with the qatari government as it is supports terrorism and extremists in the muslim world now of course this is a set of techniques which they've used before to try and suggest that the country should isolate which are based on nothing very much the c.t.f. partners company both a major success in political campaigning it led the u.k.'s conservative party to an unexpected general election victory in twenty fifteen it's. and they hear this sir lynton crosby was awarded night hood from the van prime minister david cameron so

there is little surprise that somebody would hire these company for a job probably just as difficult to put direct pressure on sci fi to reverse its decision about holding the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar here's a quote from the leaked documents we would identify all potential allies in the media politics industry academia and government should reach out to them going a deliberate attempt to inform and motivate them about the need to reconsider cattles hosting of the world cup in twenty twenty two below suggested that the c.t.f. partners company was interested in that job not only given it and name project ball detailing the concrete plans to fulfill it but even putting a price tag on it three hundred thousand pounds a month with the overall price for the contract exceeding five million however in a statement to the guardian it denied and tearing into that contract it is legitimate for one party to use the services of people or entities or clients to

put important information into the public domain and in fact two men are the big question is who was the client both the guardian and spin watch point at qatari opposition figure. who is based in london and has a history of organizing events against the ruling powers of three hundred thousand pounds a month for a p.r. contract for this client to. want to be qatari prince who lives in london. it's kind of weird we have reached out to hollywood all hail for comment but we haven't heard from him yet according to the lawyers for cross protect never took up the contract so that's what we're led to believe is the case so it's not entirely clear whether the coroner. in. so we're still unsure but there is no direct evidence that such a legit attempts to hire political strategists to discredit host countries of

a major tournament have existed before but ask yourself would you be surprised if it ever surfaces considering that every time the world is about to enjoy a feast of football the media and politicians are having a field day. reporting from moscow. but we did contact c.t.f. partners about the response failed to shed much light so we have asked them for further clarification we also contacted fee for reaction they told us they have no comment on the story. and finally this hour the us state of north dakota is seeking to restrict access to public records related to police and government operations it comes after a number of law enforcement abuses were exposed kelly morgan has the details you're a member the protests out in standing rock in response to the dakota access shale oil pipeline it seems like old news but two cases are actually pending how

horrified they were when they saw the government's response to peaceful protesters . well critical legal information about what actually happened during those protests may soon be unavailable to the public a billion animists lee passed by the north dakota state senate would forbid the

publishing of information and records related to quote critical infrastructure that term might sound vague but pipelines are actually included and now they say that this new law is necessary because of cyber security but it's going to be a big relief to police and other law enforcement agencies that actually comply. about the release of such information in a document that was made public via records request however they were far more critical and emails that were leaked one non credentialed media group involved in high profile actions would request publicly available records to a done a fine law enforcement agencies and persons involved i'm still doing some checking on the legality of everything and what i'm forced to release is there a preemptive way to prevent the city of bismarck from disclosing any law enforcement product produced by bureau of indian affairs personnel leaked documents also show that a private security firm noticed tiger swan was heavily involved in the crackdown on

the protesters documents show them referring to the protesters as jihad us and insurgents since the movement generally followed the jihad this insurgency model while active we can expect the individuals who fought for and supported to follow in post insurgency model after its collapse but despite all the bad press and protests the dakota access oil pipeline is moving forward trump signed that on his fourth day in office to kota excess but. again subject terms and conditions to be negotiated by us. and if the new north dakota law sealing records actually goes forward we may never know the full story of what happened when protesters got in the way of powerful oil companies kaleb up and r.t. new york. you're watching our t. international as always we appreciate your company as well from a for this saving stick around though between

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