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in the long awaited court decision now framed former boxing champion and sentenced to jail time for striking him for he thought the third at a yellow vests protest last month. it's nice prime minister is bundled up puppets at a heated debates in the e.u. parliament where he lambasted the blog for being out of touch with its people in europe faced with an economic crisis without precedent has withdrawn fifth from a procedure of this and its progress if you just come to its people my question for you mr constant is how much longer will you continue to be the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. reigning in photojournalists slams donald trump as he bashes iran on twitter using i've sold so she had taken our video agency. ruptly speaks

exclusively to her. terrorism we might protest against the street can be defined as social. coming to you live from moscow this is our to international welcome to the program . our friend a former boxing champion has been sentenced to thirty months and jail with eighteen of them suspended after hitting a police officer at a yellow vast protest in january christos doesn't care has expressed regret over his actions or these fronts correspondent charlotte ski has the story. 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 during that protest now back then after that video emerged one woman actually spoke out in his defense saying that he had only acted in response to herself being assaulted. they 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 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 there was actually a fundraiser set up for bet in jail that raised more than one hundred thousand euro

as far a fund raising page about 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 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 in moving 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 act fourteen of the chalet seans is set to go ahead this saturday. francis seeing another wave of yellow vast protests with demonstrators. going to the streets of paris to show their anger over police violence march was called by several activist groups to show their solidarity with people injured during the protests that have been engulfed thing 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 demonstration was held peacefully without incident. was spoke to fiorina early in year who was hit in the herder with a grenade in december and claims she's on the brink of losing an eye because of it here's her story that is told. we were on the seans always

a 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 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 it's estimated around three thousand people have been injured during the yellow first protest with some suffering serious wounds fear weanling yes things the current level of violence between the protesters and the police is far from normal. it was his will clear as a policeman i called to work every saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leavin people without ice hooligans were on the road and i was on the left who explained 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. at least prime minister has fired back at senior european officials that's after he was accused of being a puppet of his hero skeptic government during at hands exchange in the e.u. parliament earlier ages up a continent delivered to school saying assessment of brussels saying it's no longer in touch with its. 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 an ism and it is

progressive lost contact with its people it is so painful for me to see italy's political degeneration. progressively in this policy has lost its representative justification and 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 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 take a puppet there was some support for the italian prime minister in the chamber from british m.e.p. mr conti the determination of your government to resist the privileged power access of merkel and micron 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 the thought there's a little thing called briggs it going on as well political activists and billionaire george soros has also weighed and suggesting the e.u. could collapse like this union so as urged for e.u. forces to unite before the upcoming parliamentary elections before it's too late

financier compare at the current european leadership to the u.s.s.r.'s pollute the role saying been issuing irrelevant directives he also gave a stark warning suggesting euro skeptic parties might emerge victorious inmates ballot quoted them equal and devise a league party which is part of it in its ruling call ition but if you are peons are eager for change. italy is not there anymore dall someone green get put on the table in the g seven and. they steal please don't don't speak don't say anything because you are like a dog just stay on the cheer now dolly is speaking italy is saying italy has a brain as are we saw italy is a power and europe we are an example for the new europe the europe of the people of

the wheel of the people and not the europe of the europe that's the europe of the elite now they are very angry about 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. your special envoy for the now as well or. has had to face accusations of lying and in appearance before the house foreign affairs committee spoke about washington's af or its to install opposition leader. 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 fail to

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 that is a ridiculous question and i guess our no no i literally miss i will make you happy yes i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question or mentally 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 and make believe that

this never happened because he did hearing also touchdowns and as well as for ing that brown's was act asked whether the dad had been discussed with the opposition and whether as well i would not be repaid he replied negative theme adding that the opposition promised to pay all illegal debts and then this an ad from china has stopped giving new loans to as of the nestle and government antiwar activists richard backer told me earlier about the ties between washington and the opposition . is the united states telling russia there that's. why when all is not become. the real president and he produces the content president now. why would be united states speaking in that way i don't prepare. why dog has already hired

a team of washington lobbyists and what can we make of that i don't quite know what we're going to be really this week of so i mean you that you're training for the sort of the thirteen years by various branches of u.s. government repairer broke. down in yugoslavia and nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand. trying to repeat. in regard to change in. cuba they try to. and so the lobbyist plays a role trying to pressure the. image of these lackeys of washington lackeys of imperialism the session didn't go down and tardily without a head it was interrupted several times by protests from antiwar activist code pink national code director ariel gold who was so restless at the hearing. thank you for the opportunity to testify on our efforts to restore democracy venezuela

oh no no you. know you still said let me. write that because that is what it always was communicable diseases that are easily preventable or resurgent once again. may i remind you. in supporting the struggle for freedom in venezuela your connected criminal you define congress like the congress your first review reminded you that bridge was closed three years i think it's really despicable that elliot abrams has been appointed to this position he has shown through his record to be deceitful conniving and manipulative so as he started to speak i just could be foreign affairs committee don't listen to this war

criminal elliott abrams from promoting the disastrous invasion of iraq to opposing the iran nuclear deal to his criminal involvement in the errant cow contra scandal has shown how much he wants to go to war and this is putting venezuela in a really dangerous situation most likely plunging the country into a bloody civil war and this is not what the people of venezuela want the majority of venezuelans to not want u.s. military intervention and yet we're in this dangerous situation where it's a real possibility. and the rain in photographer has lashed out at donald trump after he allegedly used her photo. protests and then iran bashing tweets.

the photo was used without permission and that was a great shame for her u.s. president published the tweet and both thought see an english on monday as a rainy and marked the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah you know them euric and down to donald trump saying her photo shows shouldn't be abused by men in washington our video agency were up the 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 patients who 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 only area issue until lengthy instagram post in which she slammed truong and his policies saying u.s. sanctions are devastating the lives of iranians. to eat 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 it felt like my family was in a prison because we could not even visit each other in another country when you do him and 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 they can legal complain to or any other thing. big documents or claim to reveal a u.k. based contain group was asked to come up with

a plan to try to get could stripped off the world cup in twenty twenty two firm allegedly proposed to run a p.r. blitz to spread negative news about the gulf kingdom and returned for a half to feed the groups had it by a prominent u.k. based strategy has the rand former british prime minister david cameron successful election campaign. 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 it. 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 comparing 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 washed. group so initially 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 has had to support 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 found they he is 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 they also suggested that the city of 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 answering 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 is some cover of a clear boy want to be qatari prince who lives in london.

it's kind of weird we have reached out to hollywood i'll hire you for comment but we haven't heard from him yet according to the lawyers for cross protect never to cope with the contracts so that's what we're led to believe is the case there were is not entirely clear whether the coroner. involved the court because sort of not so we're still unsure but there is no direct evidence that such a legit attempts to hire a political strategist 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 we contacted c.t.f. partners about the matter but their response failed to shed much light with ask

them for further clarification also contacted fifo for their reaction and they told us that they have no comment on this story. katy perry is now at the center of a racially charged controversy i should design being sold under the syngas label has been removed from shelves after ike use ations that resembled black face make up according to perry the shoes were envisioned as a nod to more than art and surrealism online backlash was not long in coming. oki can we just make this a rule that any product or service or person that is not black will not create promote or imply any combination of black and fees can we just make this a thing the usual offense mongers are complaining that caterpillar ists new shoes line is racist because the black shoe looks like black face but they would also

have complained if there was a white face show. it's dissing friess for beige and black also being removed from shelves. 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 gucci was taken to task over a polo neck sweater which some people say resembled a blackface costume and then december prada was through a line of monkey chains out for consumers complained they look like caricature of black people earlier i spoke to a video artist ramon j. gone and media specialist cameron thomas to get their thoughts. i don't believe there is a clear like of sensitivity to issues that are particularly jarrin and hurtful or offensive at 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 press and to

denounce states are particularly tone that when it comes to racial issues and it's very very important that our rulers artists and filmmakers and creative. designers as well it's very important that we start listening to what's happening and not unlimited and we need to respond to the current political set of the errors with our creation in terms of the issue it's an overreaction 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 old 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 with then you know within the culture that that influence is a huge reaction some of these things are designed in europe where you know

blackface is still a thing in amsterdam and another learned some and it's still a controversy every year but it still happens whereas in the u.s. is like no that is not ok you know katy perry had these shoes in august it was nine different colors it was white piece it was black face it was gold plate gold piece it was red face the shoes that look clearly like you know iconic you know i was going to america and or black artists and designers we should do much better than the politicians that are creating what i am define as the politics of other groups in this country and and overseas as well that we should not be mimicking the same mistakes and gaps that our politicians. that are supposed to represent us as citizens are making or money too late in the krauts with those kind of. racially charged statements we need to lead the way forward to create connections

to understand each other it you cannot as a brand you can't move against the you can't move against social media you can't move against the you know popular culture and what they're feeling right now and it we need to elevate the conversation and now it's racial issues about what the politics of this country are what we're doing is we're spent in circles we're creating more controversy and we're honestly be manipulated by with all due respect to my colleague p.r. firms you've got to dig down into the you know the the motivation and psychology of the fashion designer you know maybe they are maybe they are creating these lines to create controversy.