it's thirty years since the soviet system collapsed under it's hard not to see developments in the western world in a similar law it's always witnessing the final act of the cold war and if so what comes next. and the long awaited court decision f range former boxing champion is sentenced to jail time for striking a police officer at a yellow faster protest last month. it's these prime minister is brand puppets at a heated debate on the e.u.

parliament where he be lambasted it's the blog for being out of touch with its people. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has withdrawn to procedures and its progressive you lost contact with its people my question for you mr constant is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and demise of strings and the iranian foreign journalist slams the donald trump s q bashes iran on twitter using a photo she had taken our video agency abruptly speaks exclusively to her. as a mother being tweet my protest against the street can be defined as social. coming to life from the russian capital this is our senior national welcome to the program. our friends for boxing. champion has been sentenced to thirteen

months and eighteen of them suspended after hitting a police officer yellow verse protest in january christo of derringer has expressed regret over his actions archy's fronts correspondent. has the story former boxer christopher debt and was seeing it was captured on video throwing punches towards two members of the back to doing act on january sixth and the video of that incident went absolutely viral when it happened and it led to widespread man and looking for the man who had landed those punches on the during that protest now back then after that video emerged one woman actually spoke out in his defense saying that he only acted in response to herself being assaulted. the used tear gas against us and then started business with baton i found myself on the

ground lying cold up i was then chased by the police who tried to grab me another policeman from the rapid response called in turn up and tried to grab me he punched me in the face right in the teeth and then he have severe lung disease the slightest blow can cause them to see if that happens i die the books are saved 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 tear gas i've seen a lot of things i was tear gassed on the last day yes i want to dance on 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 could speak suggested that it was condoning violence against the police now we know that this is the latest trying to take place in france as a result of people being arrested during the yellow vest 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 this is a. this one of the unofficial leaders of the yellow vests he's due to go on trial for organizing an unannounced protest act fourteen of the chalet seans is set to go ahead a saturday. francis seeing another wave of yellow vast protest with the demonstrators taking it 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 the protests that have been engulfing front since november and to support one victim in particular a man who had part of his hand blown off by a crowd control grenade the demonstration was held peacefully without incident. always spoke to feel reno who was hit in the had with a grenade in december and claims she is on the brink of losing an eye because of it here's her story. we were on the seans elisa it was common first and there were very calm yellow vests around us then some who were going 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 thing that i remember because after that i fell and the grenade hit my head 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 read and system made it around three thousand people have been injured during the yellow first protest with suffering serious wounds. things the current level of violence between the protesters and the police is far from normal. for policemen a call to work every saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leaving people without eyes hooligans were on the road and i was on the left to explain to me why the policeman fired in my to berkshire it is not normal france is one of the oldest democratic countries in the world it is not normal that this is happen here. and city's prime minister has fired bagot senior european officials that's after he was accused of being a puppet of his he risk up to government during

a tense exchange and the e.u. parliament earlier is that good content delivery thing assessments of brussels saying it's no longer in touch with its citizens. the european project seems to have lost its momentum but we have seen the transfer of power has increasingly from countries to the union my question for you mr conti is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and in my own strings. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has withdrawn fifth alien to procedure in ism and it is progressive 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 become an oligarchy system where the real needs of society are ignored it is your government that is openly spiteful against other member states who are members of our european family it is the italian

government that a 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 at the challenges to the goals that rome wants to achieve his speech caused consternation in the chamber we heard from. the senior european parliamentarians and certainly no shrinking violet going as far as calling prime minister come to 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 access 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 and 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 it really is broke it's debt stands at one hundred thirty one percent of g.d.p. trying to put forward a budget 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 go 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 the midst of the commons 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 billion and george sarras has also weighed in suggesting the e.u. could collapse like this. sorry urge to force us to unite before the upcoming parliamentary elections before it's too late the compare at the current european leadership to the us the sars appellate bro saying is been issuing irrelevant directives he also gave a stark warning suggesting euro skeptic parties might emerge victorious and mase ballot claudia demi co an advisor to the league party which is part of these ruling

coalition believes you are peons are eager for a change. italy is not there anymore dollars that the someone bringing in put on the table in the g seven and the just they steal it please don't don't speak don't see anything because you are like a dog that just stay on the now dolly is speaking italy is same it only has a brain as are we saw it only it's a power any europe or we are an example for the new europe the europe of the people although we look at the people and not the europe of the europe or the europe of the elite now they are very angry about the dundrum government of the people they are very scared about that a new election in europe and in this case we are assured the people of europe will change the government of europe that now is. keep in the hands of few

people. and iranian photographer has lashed out at donald trump outraged he allegedly used her photo of a protest in an iran bashing tweet gala demo kerry said the photo was used without permission and that was a great shame for her the u.s. president published the tweet and both fast c n n on monday as iranians marked their fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah yod them i condemn to donald trump saying her photo shows shouldn't be abused by man and washington our video agency ruptly spoke spoke exclusively to the photo journalist. 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. you know the my area should tell lengthy instagram post and wave slant to trump and his policies saying u.s. sanctions are devastating the lives of her reign ends. in tweet my protest 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 and are forced to use 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 i felt like my family was in a prison because we could not even visit each other in another country when you have your hand the economic and social impact of the sanctions that affected people

including those who are not interested in political issues caused me to show a symbolical protest. it was not something like a legal complaint or any other thing. so katy perry is under attack over a sure to have racist overtones were a live panel to react to all that's coming up right after the break. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's what i think and the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. american hero this is it we've come a point from which alan is done so we always are on the bridge just an. old gun

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come back katy perry is now advice center off a racially charged controversy a shoe design being sold under the singer's label has been removed from shelves after accusations at resembled a blackface make up according to perry the show's war and vision and a nod to more than arts and surrealism. oaky can we just make this a rule that any product service or person that is not black will not create promote or imply any combination of black and feces can i just make this a thing the usual offense mourners are complaining that care to paris new sure line is racist because the black shoes looks like black face but they would also have complained if there was on their white face show. it's the same face for beige and black also being removed from shelves. katy perry isn't the only big name brand to be called out recently due to claims of racism earlier this

month the italian fashion giant could she was taken to task over a paula next water which some people said resemble it's a black lace costume and in december prado went through a line of monkey chains after consumers complained they looked like caricaturists of black people. well let's try to play have to bury mantilla video artist and filmmaker ghani and senior media relations specialist cameron thomas to discuss the story and more details welcome to the program here on our team for national it is really great to have you here in the studio now first of all what hear of you are the shoes racist and was it right to take them off shelves we're going to start with that you mr ghani. yeah i will wear this predator who.

hated her use or the browns i believe that there is a clear like a sensitivity to issues that are particularly jaron in her school or offensive of the moment in this country in the u.s. not only is black history month but it's also a. time where conservative politicians in this country including the person that did not say this are particularly tone that when it comes to racial issues and it's very very important our rulers are to this and filmmakers and creative sort of all sorts designers as well it's very important that we. listen in to what's happening and not mimicking and we need to respond to the current political savior terrorists with our creation leading the. lead in the politics and society we're not not back into this. moment of controversy perpetual controversy in our

groups that we're live in and so i believe that you know there is a solution to this it's part of creating teams that are they verse that are composed by people of all races and sexuality and gender but also that it needs to clue people who are made in the situations and in those teams they kind of be just tokens for for a you know saving the day when the disciplines are over see and say well we had we had enough we're going to marry can person and this seems we. know it has to be a this is you make there's a need to change but at the same time we know that there is a concern in cart for me as an artist which is the fact that i mean i think we're a filmmaker i'm not i'm also an artist and i'm a little concerned about blue correctness taken to the extreme or there in censorship which you know patients not in this one but in a patients could be problematic especially when social media is out there ready and . willing to hear what my colleague asked say about. alli to pass down to mr

thomas out what's your take on that do you think as a right to take this product these particular issues options out you know what i think i think as a brand it was the right reaction. but in terms of the in terms of the issue it's an overreaction. you know this the shoes come in one colors the shoes didn't come out last week. this is an issue that's really feeding into a bigger issue a black face that's coming out of virginia. and i think in the in the communications feel i think we call this i think we call this moral panic you know so when a bigger issue is framing all kinds of other smaller issues within you know within the culture that that influence is a huge reaction and then and that's really what this is about you know katy perry

had these issues in august it was nine different colors it was white face it was black face it was gold plate gold face it was red face. you know so it's really i think i think this is really a race as social media response as social response. you know based on a bigger issue of black face coming out of virginia yeah that the question is why. this did not attract the same level of outrage i see mr ghani want to add something please go ahead you know i was just wondering i mean i read that sometimes again what i defy and in all the people the finest the politics of our race that we live in fueled by social media created in occasions over reactions but that the case in point i mean the shoes that look clearly like you know iconic you know i was going to america or black i mean that's that's where people get offended so i wonder

what's your take on art in terms of its what brand should be doing because i think that the conversation is to move forward and say well this has happened this is a gas that is a p.r. crisis that needs to be dealt with katy perry has said the right thing but what should be done in terms of p.r. and also in terms of the design teams for this not to happen. here is we really got to be sensitive as brands you really got to be sensitive in these times and you know when you have. social media response and reaction negative reaction to katy perry is this has you got to do what they did and that is you know do the right thing do the right thing re evaluate and you know come out come out with maybe a different different spin and. that you know as a p.r. person that would be what i would recommend to my clients i mean you cannot as a brand you can't move against the can't move against social media can't move

against the you know popular culture and what they're feeling right now and i had a question then i've got a question now you you when you were just mentioning different brands and now well we've seen the same situation happening to good cheese and prada now katy perry why do you think fashion designers keep making this mistake. that's a good question you really get you've got to dig down into the you know the the the the motivations psychology of the fashion designer you know maybe they are maybe they are creating these lines to create controversy. and you know in marketing we call that disruption. you know so it if they're doing it for that case that for that reason then they will continue to do that. but i doubt that he's you know the intention to create controversy i mean this all these cases seem to be real blatant mistakes on on one certain things in this country just on flight some of these

things are designed in europe where you know blackface is still a thing in amsterdam and internet allowance and and it's still a controversy every year but he still happens whereas in the us is like no that is not ok so i think we live in a global culture right now where a lot of things that are ok in certain places are not appearing on there is in this design or sometimes not in places where there is no sensitivity to us as issues the way there is sensitivity to the issues in the united states particularly because of politics right now that we live in and the press and do not say it's leading that politics of outrage and fake news and control are always in place for this yeah. you know the other thing that just comes to mind is it's unfortunate that we don't have a person of color in this conversation i mean we you know we're two white guys white privilege you know sharing opinions about blackface and. you know and that that's

really maybe another nother reason why things are so polarized you know in the case of black face i mean we should be asking black we should be asking someone of color what they think about this issue. i completely agree this is a kind of metaphor of what happens in a lot of these themes there's a lot of white people talking among themselves is offensive is that well maybe you should have somebody in the team that actually feels this things truly in generally because they've heard them all their lives and again going back to us and earlier i can feel very offended and very sensitive about issues when it comes to the eligibility community community because i think we're a filmmaker you know i don't want to be hurt in those creative teams that i work with when i work not retiring and i think the same position. and plays needs to be happening in design teams and clearly they don't seem to have. a lease in this case neither product nor gucci seem to have many and i'm going to marry them peoples and

positions of power in the system making because this keeps happening all right thank you so much for sharing your views with us here alive hunter national that was experimental video artist and filmmaker ghani and senior media relations specialist cameron thomas thank you. thank you. all right you're watching aren't internationale that said for now but we'll be back was more news right at the top of the hour. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've mattered the u.s. has over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise west year some with four hundred

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