june. thirtieth if you choose to go this way to snoop on what to do with because there's the girls who. are your supporters to your solution shouldn't feel you should book door for the one who's doing business. was. a long awaited court decision no french former boxing champion of found on through jail time. it's a race prime minister a is grand poppets at a heated debate in the e.u. parliament where he lambasted the block for being out of touch with its people.

europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent is withdrawn fit for the procedures and its progress of the last contact with its people my question for you mr conti is how much longer will you continue to be the puppet on salvini and demise of strings and the way in photo drawing a list slams donald trump pasty bass as a run on twitter using a photo she had taken our video agency ruptly east big six lucidly it can be defined as social. coming to life from the russian capital this is our to international welcome to the program. our french former boxing champion has been sentenced to thirteen months and jail with eighteen of them suspended after hitting a police officer at a yellow vast protests in january chris self does enter has expressed regret over

his actions are to his friends correspondent charlotte dubin ski has the story. 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 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 battens 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 try to

grab me he punched 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 boxer 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 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's fire a fund raising page about page was later taken down after criticism that some people thought he could speak 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 being 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 those protests which of turn 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 osce 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 saying another wave of yellow vast protests with demonstrators . taking to the streets of paris to show their anger over prayer solidarity with people entering during the protests that have been engulfing front since the van bomb and to support one victim and particular a man who had part of his hand blown off by

a crowd control grenade demonstration was held peacefully without incident. and we spoke to. who was hit in the hads with a grenade and claims she is on the brink of losing an eye because of it here is her story but it is still. we were on the seans always the it was comment and they were very calm yellow vests around us and 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 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't read and says the mater's around three thousand people have been introducing the yellow vest protest with some suffering serious wounds here in the lean years things the current level of

violence between the protesters and the police is far from normal. policemen are called to work every saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leaving people without ice 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 happening here. it is prime minister has fired back at senior european officials after he was accused of being a puppet of his nearest skeptic government during a tense exchange in the e.u. parliament earlier edges epic on to deliver it discussing assessments of brussels saying else no longer in touch with it services. the european project

seems to have lost its momentum 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 demise strings. europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has withdrawn fifa li into procedural 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 is stop 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 those challenges to the goals that rome wants to achieve his speech caused consternation in the chamber we heard from t.v. 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 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 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 italy is broke its debt stands at one hundred thirty one percent of g.d.p. trying to put forward a budget that provided these things but 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 the midst of a common 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 the thought there's a little thing called briggs that going on as well political activists and billionaire and turgid sarras has also weighed in suggesting the e.u. could collapse like the soviet union soros urged forces to unite before the upcoming parliamentary elections before it's too late to finance and compare at the current european leadership to the u.s.s.r.'s played bureau saying it's been using irrelevant directives he also gave a stock warning suggesting euro skeptic part is might emerge victorious ballots claudia demi cohen adviser to the party which is part of a ruling coalition believes europeans are eager for change. italy is not there anymore dall someone bring it put on the table in the g seven and.

they steal please don't don't speak don't see anything because you are like a dog just stay on the cheer now delhi is speaking italy is saying it only has a brain as a we saw it only it's a power and europe we are an example for the new europe the europe of the people of the will of the people and not the europe of the europe or the europe of the elite now they are very angry about that the government of the people they are very scared about a new election in europe and in this case we are sure the people of europe will change the government of europe that now is. keep in the hands of few people. yes special envoy for vernazza were brown says had to face accusations of lying in an appearance before the house foreign affairs committee spoke about washington's out for its to install opposition leader door

as then as well as president but there were some tough questions one thousand nine hundred ninety one you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from congress regarding your involvement in the iran contra affair i felt i understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful vika responded that wasn't a question i went on with that that was not that was not a question yes or no do you think that massacre. was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch there is a ridiculous question of i guess our no no i will only miss i will make a yes i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not

a question do you feel that your parents actions in iran contra are permanently impair your ability to fairly and transparently deal in the region since we all know the outcome of what happened then do you feel that a major problem baggage that you bring to the table i don't. know i've been doing this job for two whole weeks i think is a fact of history we should not dig our heads in the sand or make believe that this never happened because he did. the hearing also touched on then as well as for ng dat was asked whether the dad tent and discussed with the opposition and whether the u.s. had warned russia that there is a chance that sloan's toobin as well would not be repaid he replied negatively adding that the opposition promised to paint all illegal dads and addition as that china has stopped giving new loans to the even as well and government well as this of this in more details with richard back her antiwar activist of the answer

collison who joins us live now welcome to our team now if opposition leader why dog comes to power will have an as well a pay back its debts to russia what is your take on that. well it's very interesting because it appeared that it's really not. in the united states howling russia there doesn't. it why hold it not because. the real president and the quantities and the content president not. but why would the united states be speaking in that way i'm going to pass. i got in front of my dog that resigned over two weeks after he'd been trained for serkin years by various branches of the united states government to get to the position that he's in today and without a doubt the u.s.

put him in that position so here we have the real exposure mosaic of this action at the united states next month why don't you is writing the opposition. well and the aberrants also said that if china keep supporting the doro they may not get their loans repaid i need them is he suggesting some sort of a blackmail. well again i mean it's amazing to have these people executed elliott abrams who the insult. has only been to the doctor to weaken he's already speaking on behalf of the opposition movement in venezuela i mean what could be clearer than the reality that this is in fact being run from washington and you know. this is really of course matter of blackmail and it's nothing to me to extort a change of political position on the part of china and russia colombia's president

i gather it was donald trump declared their intention to a soul of the crisis and been as well as what action should we expect from them. well i would say that it is very menacing i think that it's hard to imagine at this point that the attempt to overthrow which is fall is still very serious attempts at sea change in the who but that if it does fail then we could very likely see a u.s. colombia still but at least particularly the you don't think colombia and colombia they've been the largest recipient of u.s. military aid over the last fifteen or twenty years engaged in military action in other words in a new war in venezuela and that's why we didn't answer a question of falling for a national anti-war march in the white house and my sixteenth saturday march

sixteenth to oppose any new war in latin america or really anywhere particularly and in the worst examples where the. well i just recently revealed that one quite dog has already hired a team of washingtonian lobbyists and what can we make of that what why does he need one well this is a try and true. practiced by the opposition and companies that are being targeted i think in that state i don't quite know i have nothing really to speak for himself i mean he the new training for the senate for thirteen years by various branches of government the preparer overthrow to saying what was done in yugoslavia in nine hundred ninety nine in two thousand. and i just tried repeatedly in regard to change. in cuba they tried it in the rack

and it was a lobbyist plays a role trying to freshen image of the lackeys of washington a lackey that was curious and might say. all right thank you so much for bringing your insights here and our team for national that was richard bakker antiwar activists at the can't answer call ition. donald trump is taking heat for allegedly using the warco for an iranian photographer without promotions the story coming up right after the break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

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iranian photographer has lashed out at donald trump after he allegedly used her photo of a protest in an iran bashing tweet. the photo was used without permission and that was a great shame for her the u.s. president published the tweet in both farsi and english on monday iranians to mark their fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah. and damned donald trump thing her photo shows shouldn't be abused by man in washington or a video agency ruptly spoke exclusively to the photo journalist but. i have no twitter account and someone sent a picture to me i wanted to react at that time because of my patients to to cologne 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. area issued to a lengthy instagram post in which she slammed trump and he's policy saying us ancients serve devastating the lives of the rain ians. but 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 do 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. at least six people have died in antigovernment protests in haiti the protests have been known go wing for almost a week there is anger over rising prices economic stagnation and corruption the demonstrators are demanding the president of the island nation step down. as despair stem cells set fire to cars and looted stores in an expression of mounting frustration over what they see as a growing social inequality. was now live to william robinson professor of sociology and latin american studies at the university of california santa barbara welcome to the program here on our national so the protest in haiti

are turning more and more violent was behind the and could the president be forced out. well very possibly haiti is facing a cripple crippling socio political and economic crisis it's getting worse as you pointed out in your news segment hunger is rising inflation is meaning that food is out of the reach of the increasingly out of the reach of of poor people unemployment has a red is high and it's is rising what sparked this particular round of protests though is that venezuela has been providing funding and oil under favorable terms under the petro creevy fund and it was revealed that the prime minister jovan almost say this has been embezzling funds for the last few years he's been in power he's entering his third his third year now that was simply the spark that lit the fuse and i think these protests are going to continue they're going to intensify the country is reaching a breaking point and it can simply the status quo cannot continue as it's been

let's remember that the previous prime minister tried to hold on to power and it was a mess uprising three years they were there when there was not job more say so now he is his prime minister so i think this is going to get a lot worse a lot worse before it gets better while just across the sea even as well is also seeing opposition protests why haven't the protests in haiti received the same backing from washington. well of course because the haitian government is a close ally of the united states it's as simple as that united states is pouring to destabilize and overthrow the venezuelan government for for the last twenty years and at the same time it has been propping up in a leet far right wing government incredibly corrupt government which rules over a social order which benefits a tiny minority for the last thirty forty fifty years so that's nothing new i mean it's not i'm not any surprised but it does demonstrate the complete hypocrisy and double standard of u.s. foreign policy towards the region and towards these two countries so the current

haitian government is primary but the u.s. has intervened in haiti many times in the past including military as that and the courts this time i don't think so but you can never rule that out you're absolutely right eighty has gone through nearly three decades now of constant foreign u.s. led intervention we can just mention the one thousand nine hundred two coup d'etat which overthrew the first truly popular president under a truck for trying. to steed and then the two thousand and four cooled it again overthrew him in both of these coups the u.s. was involved the u.s. backed the ousting of this popular government then the two thousand and sixteen elections the international community but led by the united states supervised those elections in a way that legitimated the fraud so you can never rule out us into more or we can take that story back to one hundred sixty mm to the earlier parts of the twentieth century u.s. marines invaded and occupied for years so we can't rule that out but i don't think

at this point we're going to see direct u.s. intervention in terms of troops but the u.s. is already intervening behind the scenes and has never stopped intervening maybe as one of the most intervened country maybe the most intervened in the whole western western hemisphere all right think it is and what it could. thing don't even bring say but again the intervention would not be to overthrow this regime like it's doing in venezuela it would be to prop it up and to suppress the popular protest against its supported regime all right thank you so much unfortunately we do run out of time that was our william robinson professor of sociology and letting american studies at the university of california santa barbara thank you are you watching are an international we will be back with more news right at the top of the hour.

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