we know that these efforts are made repeatedly they're not criminal every intelligence agency in the world she's a part of its function to make sure that. favorably to the country. weekend of yellow protests as hundreds of gather in paris against president we bring you our report from the streets of the french capital. vice president calls on european allies. to syria as washington gets ready to pull out while russia's foreign minister says the. only exacerbates the crisis.

for refugee. camp in the u.s. controlled syria. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international. have you with us. a wave of unrest swept france on saturday as hundreds gathered for the fourteenth consecutive weekend of vast demonstrations against president micron's government. then they move these are pictures of the protests in the cities of unarmed and tear gas clashes with the police and detained marchers were seen in both locations are trying to escape reports now on the events from part.

you might just be able to see in the distance that we've got protesters who are throwing what appeared to be rocks towards if you just turn the camera around towards this line of security forces over here this is being a pretty much a cat and game. game going on between the two with the police responding then with tear gas you might just see a couple more of those rocks landing there to wards the police forces as as they come in the protesters here thousands of them we've got some me he's burning an e.u. flag right in front of us here many of these illusions don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against the police and you can see now the. thing into would surface with what looks like here this pallets going off if i know you don't like to be grenades coming from the

protesters this is now the tear gas that's coming into the protest group from the police you can see those canisters being distributed in the air for an up and now you can see the tear gas now all across the floor hit just in front of all the leads in the center of paris that gas all around us in fact take all or look around in circling where we are the idea to move these protesters away some of them have been seeing the police getting closer and. closer to them some of the protesters that cooling might go on to resign that's of course we get quite a lot for people out on the streets in the yellow vests in particular and i want you to take a look around you can barely see down to would only lead as that smoke just envelops this well that gas already coming in already.

so we just got to try and move away from it because it really just pick out your throats in your eyes. you see people coughing. as a result of that to go. through all. of. the work. is really pretty nasty when it gets into is right this is now act fourteen thousands of people came out to paris many people had thought that this pops be the last. saturday protest of the chile zones but the ones i've spoken to say that's not the case many unhappy about the thousands of people who've been arrested this was all to. protest movement we've had about eighteen hundred people who have gone through the court system so far including

a couple of high profile cases including by the book suggested earlier in the week and every doing because one of the so-called leaders of the movement so we just bring you back to where the police line is you can see there that is one of the water cannons that they use and has actually been deployed during that huge plant of gas that we saw that just in the last few minutes now the government has offered this relations many concessions including a rise in the simic which is the minimum wage and saying that those who over time or have been issued pay social contributions or tax there's also this big debate going on but one thing this government has done to really anger many people out in the streets particularly this year asians is this motion at the moment that's going through that would make it illegal to come to a protest like this and to cover your face with some people if they were cool do you not be able to face up to a year in prison or

a fine of several thousand pounds so that's really and get the relations and they've just said to me that this is a movement that's been going on now for three months and they have absolutely no intention of finishing it show that you can ski auti paris. the french police union alternative has published a video on twitter showing violence by yellow vest protesters towards police officers were driving their car down the street discuss the issue of increasing violence with several of our guests. we understand that being in big cities means we sometimes have to let these bullies release their poison where they'll be heard he's anti republicans there will be protest on toll roads roundabouts and junctions blocking major economic centers in and around

cities but we have to ensure their freedom to do this. real frustration exists and there are real reasons to express anger sometimes not in the best way sometimes violently and there is a need to respond to that violence it's normal for the police to do their work i'm a law abiding citizen they can't just put the protests aside people expressing dissatisfaction in how things are developing but we can't back certain kinds of violence burning cars businesses can't work in such conditions all this is unacceptable and i have colleagues who work throughout the weekends who during the week have to perform extra duty the police are exhausted and can't take it anymore because the working conditions are inhuman on the one hand we have to be in place to guarantee the security of the rallies on the other hand we are public servants and have to be friendly with him and even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make

a mistake with. the topic of syria was one of the major discussion points during day two of the munich security conference in light of america's decision to pull its troops out of the country u.s. vice president mike pence floated the idea that european soldiers should replace them in the middle east right here peter oliver has more. the u.s. vice president's comments appeared to be a response to concerns that were voiced earlier on sunday by chancellor angela merkel that a u.s. withdrawal of troops from syria could lead to being a destabilizing factor in the region is then is it a good idea of the americans to pull out of sea remediate lee and so swiftly doesn't it make the possibility of iran and russia increasing their influence. it would appear that washington wants its european allies to take a more somber ground approach to syria when the us troops pull out of the north of the country to hammer this point home the u.s.

side pointed out the terror attacks that have taken place in europe in recent years were a sign that europe needs to be more involved on the ground in syria twenty fifteen one hundred thirty people killed in paris twenty sixteen eighty six killed a nice twelve killed and christmas truck bombing in berlin and twenty seventeen thirteen killed in spain so does it matter what happens over there hell yeah it matters it's hard to see that being palatable to angola merkel at all in fact most european nations especially germany have been willing to send troops to syria also even to engage militarily at all we heard also on this subject from study for all of the russian foreign minister he chipped in with his opinion of what mike pence that had to say was additionally blown the regarding various plans being made by the countries on syrian territory illegitimately and especially the plans to get even more illegitimate players involved i think these are counterproductive for

syria in all its forms of being discussed throughout this munich security conference so far at a number session said again throw off was taking questions from journalists and he bristled when he was asked about alleged atrocities committed by the syrian government 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 i answer you will write what you will and so do. away from syria the north stream to gas pipeline project is also being up for discussion here in munich in fact chancellor angela merkel devoted a large chunk of her address to the conference to that particular subject she said

she remained fully committed to the project also you said that she wasn't prepared to risk her country's relationship with russia over potentially scaling down or pulling out of north stream well one country that particularly wants to see north stream fail is the united states washington hates it because one of the reasons is anyway they want to sell their own liquefied natural gas to the european markets the problem is it's much more expensive than gas that is piped directly from russia into europe or mike pence the us vice president also had something to say on this he said that those countries that oppose north stream to a friends of the us 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. that's a if i give you up that no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but we received russian gas not only the d.d.r.

where i lived but also in west germany during the cold war and they don't see why the times today should be so much verse that we can no longer see russia remains a partner whatever the u.s. vice president thinks north stream too is said to see the gas flowing later this year and when it's fully operational will transfer fifty five billion cubic metres of natural gas every year from russia under the baltic sea directly into germany. geo political analyst and consultant. says the u.s. now wants its allies to take responsibility for syria. well i think that the united states are trying to shift the burden. onto the shoulders of the european governments and their armies to pursue their globalists interests in syria and america first is the motto again the u.s. wants to save of course resources and the europeans shall make the chop

but the question for me too there are europeans or should the europeans really have an interest in supporting those goals that the united states had curse you in since twenty eleven in syria. from the diplomatic discussions to what is happening in syria itself russia has reached an agreement with damascus to open two humanitarian corridors on the country's border with jordan the move will allow people trapped at the sprawling by refugee camp to leave the area we got an update earlier from a journalist in damascus. the main deal now is to make to establish a corridor beginning from tuesday to let people 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. the problem is that we are talking about a camp that is fully under control of. militias which are which are backed by us all do all you are giving all needed military aid to those fighters they can't or they can't arrive any aid to the. camp which suffers of severe how many tarion crisis 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 and 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 u.s. role in this case because. disk is fully controlled of militias that are backed by the us. the number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since the end of the cold war a new report by the charity save the children says one child in every five around the world now lives in areas affected by armed conflict. the fact. that a while one mother had up. don't want to get.

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not break every enemy you feel you need. for. the hurt. some four hundred twenty million children live in conflict zones and at least fouls and to die as a result every year since two thousand and ten the number of recorded cases of rights violations against children has almost tripled that includes cases of killing maiming abduction and sexual violence the increase comes despite many of the world's most powerful figures campaigning for the protection of young people in war zones. forces continue their advance bearing down on the city of benghazi. home to nearly seven hundred thousand men women and children prevent images of them a seeded children how many more children have to die the whole route the

humanitarian disaster that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children the death of children the destruction of hospitals all that is a massacre which needs to be condemned. our report today shows that right now almost one in five children on the planet living in conflicts and that's more than at any time in the last two decades. the consequences of living in these war zones catastrophic we estimate around three hundred babies are dying due to the consequences of war every single day well in twenty seventeen four hundred twenty million children of what i think we're living in areas affected by conflict that is an increase of two million on the previous year so what this is is really disturbing trend where more and more children are being caught up in conflicts the international system to ensure accountability breaking down so that when people

commit crimes against children they know they can get away with it so what we're calling on this for the government to stand up for children and wars and ensure that when people do you perpetrate crimes against children held to account what we're really calling for today is for the u.k. government protection of civilians in conflict started first of all the u.k. government needs to ensure the curator at the heart of all of that defense diplomacy and aid and that they need to use i say to some of the most powerful tables in the well at the u.n. nato to ensure that other countries policy. the report identifies afghanistan iraq syria and yemen as being among the most dangerous countries for children nobel prize nominee and peace activist kava kelly told us the international community needs to do more to safeguard young people. this children certainly can't be held accountable for their governments whether it's military were economic war and i think that because of greed and pride and

dishonesty countries all around liberal continue to wage war against the child their brain sort of the child should certainly be held countries could work together. much more effectively and so we have to take responsibility ourselves and then encourage other people to do likewise they must do everything they can to stop this war and to stop killing in staring. thousands of people have gathered in barcelona to protest against the ongoing trial of a group of cattle on separatists police said there are two hundred thousand people taking part but according to organizers the number reached five hundred thousand. people carried on flags and banners calling on political prisoners to be freed they

also held placards bearing photos of the imprisoned separatist leaders the trial of twelve started on tuesday in madrid supreme court they're being tried over the roles that they played in failed bid to break away from spain in two thousand and seventeen and. washington is continuing to ramp up the pressure on the venezuelan government on friday it hit the crisis stricken countries state owned oil company and five of nicolas maduro top officials with a fresh wave of sanctions united states sought to justify the move by repeating its claim that the embattled president is undermining democracy and continuing to violate human rights. the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venezuela essentials like food and medicine have already been delivered to the colombian border but nicolas maduro is refusing to allow supplies to cross into the country he is calling it

a cynical ploy by the trumpet ministration and an attempt to justify a possible military intervention venezuelan president also hit out of the colombian government which he accuses of blatant aggression. for our part our policy for colombia is peace and respect i cannot say the same about the government of the colombian president even to kate who has war plans against venezuela supported by the u.s. in pyar i am not exaggerating donald trump and even to kate in the white house announced war plans using colombia against venezuela. opposition leader white house says that he will mobilize thousands of volunteers to bring us aid into venezuela president maduro meanwhile is trying to open a diplomatic channel by inviting us special envoy elliott abrams for talks artie's came up and tells us some of the less flattering items on abrams resume. 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 though salvador has been a democracy that's a fabulous achievement yes the pro-u.s. candidate duarte 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 are 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 but now the civil war between the us backed factions and the marxist revolutionaries continued until nine hundred ninety 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 figures 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 is 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 dan cohen confronted abrams after a conference in washington asking him

a few questions he didn't seem overly keen on answering here's the video from dan's twitter feed. what do you say to people who are skeptical about you because of your history of using humanitarian aid to. the contras in central america. you have any comments about but there are a lot of people who are very skeptical. because i'm i'm i'm doing my job you are to what you can walk so i wish you would you what do you have to say about the. new court documents filed in the u.s. special counsel robert muller's russia proclaim evidence has been found which may implicate roger stone a longtime ally of donald trump the judge overseeing the case has issued a partial gag order after stone became critical about the case that stone has previously acknowledged having brief exchanges with alleged russian hacker goose or two point zero and wiki leaks which is thought to be the organization one referred

to in mahler's filing stone insists the communications were innocuous twitter direct messages which he has 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 stone denies any guilt a political commentator under a walker told us he is skeptical of the russia collusion narrative. always remember the system allegation near the center of this is where the donald trump colluded directly with the russian government to try to undermine democracy in america and

time and time again to reach really no evidence of that now look you know on the west i don't support the activities of the russian intelligence services who i think i'm proud to polling like bolt it is not true to say that donald trump or any of his colleagues have had any real evidence. that they were in any way involved in anything the reason told me election and the reason that the british voted for president is not because of lack of it is because hillary clinton's terrible and says president young of the european union those are the reasons why people voted the way they did the idea that vladimir putin said no matter how corrupt and dangerous he thinks he is the idea that he can make the election change in america is nonsense and that does it for me i will be back with headlines let's say thirty one and a half minutes stay with us you're watching our chief national. join

me everything on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see that. the job of journalists photojournalists a any type of videographers writing journalists is their job it's much more dangerous every year because so many people now see what we do as threats you know threats to whatever their narrative is whatever the propaganda is and you know the like anything. in our culture and in the iraq and afghanistan wars had to be sold to the american people and. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think and we got it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius

this is the quintessential american hero this is and we found a point around which on what is going inside we always are on the margins someone called the culture listening party because. we're starting last with is we're going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly the bees i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gonzo in a minute we may be completely different but the end of this journey. and on who you know. we can fight them.