the. headline story flushes tear gas the fourteenth weekend of yellow vests protests hundreds gather in chorus against president. what is happening in the french capital right throughout the day evening. coming up german chancellor angela merkel hits. the. line with russia as the project takes center

stage at the munich security conference. in moscow in damascus agreed to open to humanitarian corridors for refugees stuck in a tent camp in u.s. control. on seven pm this something evening here in moscow a very warm welcome to the program my name's. top story there's been an arrest the latest yellow vests protests in part this where hundreds gathered for the fourteenth consecutive weekend of action against present government policies police used tear gas and some protesters to. live fruits picture.

just after five pm meeting people have been streaming all fright the day down to the shoals only say they are to create so a lot of gas as you can see there we go there report earlier from our correspondent charlotte dubin ski let's check in. where i as you can see are the anger is creeping up here quite dramatically on the streets of paris processors that now are pushing over one of those buildings that you normally i close a lot of them picking up those portals assumingly with the aim of throwing it they go to war it's the police you see that tear gas now coming down to one just by the police coming in and taking over i'm just looking right now trying to apprehend some of those individuals who may have been trying those gas bottles i guess bottles now coming in the direction where we all are the police trying to take

control of the situation room not tear gas just punctuates in the and now here in paris is that violence is just ranting up between the police and the protests is what is act fourteen we have seen thousands of people over the last few months getting injured. people losing their eyes people losing their hands from grenades. and we're also seeing thousand arrested after excuse me a little bit difficult to look at because of the tear gas let's be coming our way you can see the individual now i looks like they are being arrested by the security forces are they do appear to be one of those individuals who picked up a glossy bottle possibly with the intention of throwing it to wards the security forces thousands of people arrested almost eighteen hundred around about have received that convictions so far the government has no think many concessions to

the other best protest as it is so i did see approach a moratorium on the high price of the fuel tax that was due to come into place in january there's been a raise in the minimum wage here and people are being told that overtime and bonuses will be taxed will have social contributions so for the moment the center of this protest continuing this is at fourteen we already know that there's going to be a demonstration to morrow on sunday and that's to mark the freemans calendar since these protests started while they may not be as many people out in the streets as they were doing act one way back on november seventeenth for the hard core supporters of this invasion this protest movement is nowhere near from finishing. evolve over in germany it is a day to the annual munich security conference with proceedings there dominated by talks on relations between russia and europe the russian foreign minister has

stressed the no uncertain terms there doesn't have to be animosity. from a sea of a bit of concrete to abandon speculation that this is interested in a strong independent and open european union president putin spoke about that not too long ago namely in november last year when he stressed that the aspiration for independence and some sufficiency and sovereignty in the field of defense and security is something perfectly natural. and there we see it as a positive thing from the viewpoint of the strengthening of the multiplier rooty of the world whether the e.u. will be allowed to do this is a whole other matter. what war nation in particular is they express their independence when it comes to energy and the project that they're working on germany under merkel the german chancellor speaking here at the munich security conference she gave her full backing to the north stream to gas pipeline which will russian natural gas from russia underneath the baltic sea and straight into germany if there are any questions about the future of the nord stream to in the or the

total north stream project well mrs merkel is fully behind it also the woman who is widely touted as a potential successor for chancellor merkel in germany is top job and it. she's already said that she's fully behind the north stream to project as well during her speech here at the munich security conference angola merkel said that she wasn't prepared to damage germany's relationship with russia over this north stream two gas pipeline the now many fewer people now i've come to the point of economic cooperation has been a lot of discussion surrounding it straight into and i understand petro poroshenko who is sitting here and saying where transit territory for russian gas would like to remain that and i was assured him over and over again that we will give him all our support and negotiate things so it remains that way secondly a molecule of russian gas remains a molecule of russian gas regardless of whether it comes through ukraine or by way of the baltic sea that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas it

cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming if no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but if we received russian gas during the cold war not only in the d.d.r. where i live but also in west germany that i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much why us how we can no longer say that russia remains a partner. while the c.e.o. of german energy giant winter shell is also throwing his support behind the north stream to. hype line he said that if germany or europe were to turn away from russian gas than russia may look to china as a potential export market and in his opinion that wasn't beneficial to anybody concerned one person though who's been speaking today in munich who isn't a fan of the north stream project is the us vice president mike pence basically the u.s. hates north stream two one of the reasons for this is that they want to export american liquefied natural gas to europe that however is much more expensive than piping it under the sea directly from russia mike pence said he supported those

nations in europe that are against north stream the united states commands all our european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream two. and we commend others to do the same or whatever the u.s. vice president thinks the north stream too will be operational later this year when it's fully working its expected to transport fifty five billion cubic meters of natural gas from russia to germany every single year. well at the conference circular fired back at one reporter on the day over there loaded question regarding russia's relations with the syrian president. a follow up question on syria this comes from josh rogin of the washington post how will you view ensure the assad regime stops threatening the region and stops

committing atrocities against their own people. well i think you what whatever my answer you will write what you want. from the diplomatic discussions to what is happening in syria itself russia has reached an agreement with the mostest to open to humanitarian corridors in the country's border with jordan the move well a lot of people trapped at the sprawling refugee camp to leave the area earlier i got an update from a journalist in the syrian capital. yesterday there was a convoy that delivered to the camp the main deal now is to make to establish a military and corridor beginning from tuesday to let pupil refugees to use discouraged or to move to the areas which they are under control of the

syrian government of course those people according to the statement of the agreement could get needed to be an aid as soon as they arrive to the first point the beginning of this corridor the problem is that we are talking about the camp that is fully under control of. militias which are which are backed by us all do all us giving all needed military aid to those fighters they can't or they can't arrive any aid to. iraq which suffers of cv how many tarion christ. this crisis is not regarded only short of food drinking water many reports they are talking about sexual explosion they are talking about human traffic this is not

the first corridor that. russia syrian government stablish ing in syria they were succeeded and they gave good results and should be part of. this plan but the main problem of course now is the u.s. role in this case because. it's fully controlled of militias that are backed by us. a summer evenings news continues after the break i'll be right here in ninety seconds time to stay with r.t. . you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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ok we're going to return to one of our top stories this hour of the munich security conference and all the goings on there enjoying the three day event world leaders stare at a lot of topics being discussed including the north stream two gas pipeline issues between russia and germany both supported by both countries but the united states has had its say over it now let's bring in russia a list and author martin mccauley for his take on all the time martin mike pence the. u.s. vice president he seems to be on a two pronged attack over nord stream to trying firstly to get germany to poland and rallying other nations to oppose it how far as washington prepared to go do you think. well it's got an important ally no insurance because a manual mccall is in fact saying that north stream too in fact may in fact

be a challenge to european security that europe will become too dependent when russian gas poland because he is strongly opposed to it denmark will not a low not steam to go through its territory so therefore he germany is strongly in favor because they've been in in favor. from the very beginning and the whole project is a nine point five billion dollar project so it's very very important for russia and germany and the americans in the past have been saying well sixty percent of gas comes from germany comes from russia that's quite untrue twenty five to thirty percent but the germans say they need it and france at present appears to be changing sides and it will be interesting to see the americans of course have always opposed it and they've said that they will impose sanctions on any company

involved in it and that is a warning to lots of companies and you find swiss companies have been involved in the south as well because the pipelines are going through the black sea and the swiss have come to the north sea as well and the americans would like them to stop doing that so therefore we're in a very interesting stage because a lot of this project could be completed already but the americans would like the germans to pull out and if the germans pull out then that's the end of the project you know certainly been a lot of pressure though until america does seem to be standing firm for now she reiterated berlin's determination to protect its own economic interests but is there still a possibility that germany could capitulate to american pressure. it would depend what the americans number with because normal relations between germany. had not been particularly good and you remember that when trump came into power. read him a lecture almost like

a church sermon about how to behave she didn't like the way was behaving and the language of usually and she she read in this lecture i did go she didn't like it from those days and she and he have not seen eye to eye and he would like to be able to impose sanctions on those companies and some of the most german they've been to which are involved now if they're good economic interest in the united states they may think twice about continuing the project so the americans also have a weapon of increasing change in zone say car imports to the united states on the c.d.'s and so on and they may not go that far but they could threaten to do that to the americans have a lot of what weapons in their own with which could embarrass the germans because remember that the second of the last three months german advance economic advance was zero this war that was mine is not going to be there for the german

economy a prison is in fact in a delicate situation and they don't want to germans don't want any pressure on the economy to bring down the rate of growth because they were completely into recession and very interesting just changing topic while we have you martin mike pence also called on europe to recognise f.m.'s whelan opposition leader one quite go as the country's president why does he need europe on site because it is a repeated statement from pat it's. well if you can he said there were thirty two countries which recognised one one as a jew to be president of venezuela but of course turkey. does a member of nato support. that russia and china support mcdougall a little more do or who is has support internationally supported president and the top military the americans know that there's no point simply

a move through potential well into the neglect that because that would result in civil war or disaster and therefore what the americans are trying to do is to convince the top military to defect president they're going along with because there's enough money there. and they talk military because they know they would face a court. civil rights were violations and america the beautiful program and all these things to live in the top military would stick with and perhaps american bronze age of human rights come over to why do and forget about all these accusations all these legal entanglements we can be involved in so therefore there must be a lot going behind the scenes so the americans at present are doing their best to in fact convince a majority of the top military and some of them have defected to convince them to change sides if that happens they're mature it will go just also what's being

spoken about by the u.s. vice president in munich today at the security conference mike pence again accuse russia violating the i.n.f. nuclear arms treaty hence why the u.s. is pulling out how worried do you think or otherwise european nations are by their security with this deal floundering. well they're the big losers here because the i don't deal in fact ensure that short range intermediate footprints would not be parked in europe and they would not be insulated if there's a nuclear war what they have said already is that at the end of this and it gives another six months to go because they don't want any american weapons any nuclear weapons on that tentative they don't want any. any nuclear weapons which would attract a russian country attack so therefore basically there are the most europeans would go along with the idea that we keep it as it is at present and we will not allow

the americans to place a new weapons in western europe because if they did that then russia would present a more more weapons now on the borders of russia and eastern europe. i was jumping from topic to topic martin there was no you tell us what that has all those questions are russia unless martin mccauley live on the program this are thank you. but if you. washington is continuing to ramp up the pressure as we've just been hearing on the venezuelan government on friday it hit the crisis stricken country state owned oil company and five of nicolas maduro his top officials with a fresh wave of the sanctions the united states sought to justify the move by repeating its claim about the embattled president has owned or mining democracy and continuing to violate human rights at the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venice with ascensions like food medicine have already been delivered to the colombian border but nicolas maduro is refusing to

allow the supplies into his country he says it's a cynical ploy by the trump administration to justify a possible military intervention the venezuelan president also hit out at the colombian government which he accuses of flagrant aggression. but. for our part our policy for colombia is peace and respect i cannot say the same about the government of the colombian president even dukie who has war plans against venezuela supported by the us him pire i am not exaggerating donald trump and even do kate in the white house announced war plans using colombia against venezuela. or president maduro is also opening a diplomatic channel by inviting elliot abrams for talks but us kill up my pen explains the united states special envoy for venezuela's record inside the america well that isn't very promising. elliot abrams the trump administration's new

special representative for venezuela has been assigned the task of restoring democracy in the country and he says he's up to it just look how well he did in el salvador from the day the president was elected in a free election to this day o'sullivan who has been a democracy that's a fabulous achievement yes the pro-u.s. candidate to war to a won the elections but how democratic was the situation there were human rights abuses and death squads everywhere in fact one of the worst massacres in the history of latin america happened around that time for. now if things got confronted about the gruesome details before congress 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 if i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question now the civil war between the us backed factions and the marxist revolutionaries continued until one thousand nine hundred two and slaughter by us backed forces also continue the death toll was as high as seventy thousand people but ronald reagan did not consider that to be a deal breaker the people bill salvador had another free election in march economic reforms are continuing and communist guerrillas are losing ground and none of this would have been possible without the economic assistance and military training and equipment that we provided so what have been the results is el salvador now

a land of prosperity and freedom hardly in fact in twenty seventeen el salvador had the highest murder rate of any country in the world it is not currently at war those three years only decreased slightly in twenty eighteen now somebody might look at this and say well that was decades ago why bring it up now well the fact that abrams wants to repeat his democracy restoration project in venezuela is certainly alarming and when asked about this before the us congress he didn't deem it necessary to give an answer would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes crimes against humanity or genocide if you believe they were serving u.s. interest as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i'm not going to respond to that question i'm sorry. on friday r.t. america correspondent down cowen confronted abrams after a conference in washington asking him a few questions he didn't seem overly keen on answering here is that video from

twitter. what do you say to people who are skeptical about you because of your history of using humanitarian aid to send weapons to the contras in central america . you have any comments about but there are a lot of people who are very skeptical. that you can settle on i'm i'm i'm doing my job you are to which you could walk and so i would say it would you what do you have to say about that. long time donald trump advisor roger stone has been implicated in the russia collusion probe into u.s. election meddling there me learn vest the geishas ses there is evidence from a separate probe into russian intelligence officers that still communicated with wiki leaks over leaked e-mails from the democratic party the list previously acknowledged having brief exchanges with russian hikers research for two point zero i'm looking leaks which is referred to in briefing organization warn still

insist that communications were not through this twitter direct messages which have already disclosed. the indictment alleges that beginning in the proximately the summer of twenty sixteen the defendant claimed publicly and privately to have been in communication with the head of organisation one about future releases of information damaging to the us presidential campaign of hillary clinton. roger stone was an informal consultant for donald trump's election campaign but he was charged with lying to congress obstructing justice and witness tampering he denies any guilt but as i'd spoken comments over the case judge on friday issue a partial gagging order so as not to jeopardize any future trial they call commentator andrew walker told me he's skeptical about the supposed evidence always remember the system allegation in the center of the case is where the donald trump colluded directly with the bush government to try to undermine democracy in america

and time and time again there is really no evidence left that i look you know on the west i don't support the activities of the russian intelligence services who i think i'm proud to poll the quick vote it is not true to say that donald trump or any of his colleagues have had very real evidence to the projects them that they would any way involved everything the reason would be a lection of the reason that the british voted for frags it is not because of lack of food so it is because hillary clinton's terrible and says president of the european union those are the reasons why people voted the way they think the idea of the plot to me if it's a matter how critics and dangerous he thinks he is the idea that he can make the election change in america is nonsense all right a quite extraordinary documentary next delving into what can come out of a war zone by pure human spirit syria telling though is coming up in moments.

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