yellow grass protesters are back out for week twenty three this time. of the country's wealthy donors. vos amounts of money to rebuild cathedral while ignoring the plight of struggling citizens. russia reacts to the sensational headlines. a report detailing why many of the twenty six thousand american election accusations it says are unfounded we scrutinize some of the claims on the investigation now believed to be. u.s.

presidential hopefuls bernie sanders and joe biden go head to head for the democratic nomination driving a wedge through the party. and facebook slams the door shut on some of britain's biggest far i'm groups branding them dangerous we've got reaction to the tech giant's decision. responsibility does make a difference and i completely agree with protect kids. from last year with me welcome to the program. it is the twenty saturday of anti government rallies and these so-called yellin for us to gather again nationwide is the first time since the. blaze with protesters anger directed

at amounts of money donated for repairs police in paris have used to gas and water cannon and one hundred eighty nine people have been detained. i i. i. live to paris to our correspondent shall and do bensky charlotte you've obviously been following this for the whole time how are today's protests pulling out and how has the not to fire influenced events. what we're now five months into the yellow vests protests and it feels like the tensions are just not

abating again fires in the streets of paris as the protesters not only burnt rubbish bins but also were setting finds him will cause it to move motorcycles and also again building barriers to try and protect them from the police now the police have been trying to disperse the crowds throughout the day using tear gas initially but they did bring water cannons later on water cannons and not just. water but also a blue liquid that liquid being used as a dive which i will temporarily affect clothing and skin to allow the police to be able to ascertain who the violent protesters are who are in the way of the will to come in and then to make those arrests you talked about the arrests a significant number around two hundred so far but on top of that there of also been more than seventeen and a half thousand proactive checks preventative checks by the police this means

they've been a key through people's bags deceive people potentially taking weapons into a protest to stop them from doing that now compare that to just a week ago when we only had fifteen arrests and less than six thousand preventative checks. that shows you how much stronger force is being used today since sixty thousand police force france of course major protests taking place here in paris but also in other cities we've been speaking to some of the of us protesters to ask them why it's still out on the streets twenty three weeks later. we have seen them at the plaza lebeau steel we wanted to protest peacefully solve them we moved. it is very important for me i followed the movement since the beginning since the seventeenth of november i am here because i care about from. we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more unstable we specially hope that the government will accept our demands.

well the process of a will for britain in paris in many places including the show and particularly not to. mention that the cathedral of course was in flames on monday evening on monday evening president michel was actually due to address the nation to give his way forward out of the yellow best protest this is after months of a big debate here in france where there were millions of people coming together giving their views on how they can improve france to try and tackle some of the issues that the yellow vest protesters have been bringing up week after week and that's mainly the high cost of living here in france but he canceled that address because of that fire and i can tell you witnessing that fire it seemed for a moment that there was solidarity across france all people just completely shocked by what was happening but that moment of solidarity has turned into an even bigger

division within twenty four hours of that fire when it emerged that hundreds of millions of us had been donated mainly from france is a wealthy. families many people started to questioning if you can raise that amount of money for the reconstruction of a building why we cannot much amount of money be raised in such a period of time to help the ordinary person in france who is struggling to live struggling to keep their head above water now the figures reflect that as well the latest figures from two thousand and seventeen showing that eight point eight million people in france are living in poverty that means they're living on less than around a thousand euros a month not a huge amount of money especially in a country where the cost of living does seem to keep soaring now president macron is due to give a speech at some point in the next few weeks to trying to lay the concerns of the

elevator but a draft copy of that speech which as i say was supposed to happen last monday actually suggested what he's looking at doing is tax cuts for the middle class is something that's not going to help perhaps the poorest households in france so will that speech will those ideas cut the mustard it seems really all of us protesters really will not have charlotte we're going to wait and see again our paris correspondent reporting for us there thank you charlotte. something else that appears to be on the protesters minds as the arrest in london of wiki leaks founder julian assange a face mask was seen added to the joan of arc monument in toulouse along with a yellow vest ballas with the songes name were also displayed for the french m.p. jack we are says it's no surprise people or i agree in the huge donations to cathedral. early how to. rule as just a moment of. national general but big problem from to ask you the

main. reason no shock right. yellow was carry on. are going on the most region because you know where you. ride for the go to millions of your rules even one billion euro and you cannot really broach the necessary resources to leave their big problem and it is the situation in which we are facing because of the. budget restrictions coming from brussels you know which has been lost for years and years now. the russian embassy in washington has fired back at the newly released live report on trying russia collusion is published i have to document called russia hysteria

a case of severe research phobia it's a detailed rebuttal of the allegations made against moscow and reaches the following conclusion the investigation didn't show any real evidence to back up claims of moscow's cyber attacks and attempts to subvert democracy all this time russia pointed to the obvious made up nature of these insinuations we call on our merican partners to finally disavow these allegations and join efforts to repair the damage to bilateral relations for the sake of our peoples and global security the report was finally released on thursday after almost two years of investigation much of it was heavily redacted it concluded that there was no collusion between russia and donald trump's campaign nine hundred twenty sixteen presidential election but it was more guarded when it came to trump's alleged obstruction of the probe. after the profit reports release some democrats wringing their calls for

donald trump to be impeached while republicans insist the president was exonerated well the point at least that's what so many media outlets now appear to be focusing on the division to us society instead of acknowledging that there probably speculations were roll should die off explain. trump is a traitor he's cronies are abetting him in his treachery and all of them are going to get what's coming for them this promise started to resonate across the airwaves of mainstream american channels even before the miller investigation became a thing and it started with this bombshell then senator jeff sessions met with the russian ambassador in the u.s. the controversial russian ambassador sergei q.c.'s a shameful picture of is an open question whether there was collusion cooperation between trump associates during the campaign and russian officials current and former u.s. officials say he's considered one of the kremlin's top spies by u.s.

intelligence some u.s. intelligence officials believe he's more than that breathing the same with a russian you were supposed to destroy not join them there was no redemption for sessions in the buna to i of the media and bassett a kiss like overnight got promoted to the rank of snitch and now here comes the facts the meetings were brief public and non-substantive the military team found no evidence of coordination between the trump campaign and russia in these chats the one spying master deflates back into a boring now former ambassador the next scandal reported to reveal a nother despicable truth about trump not only is he a lie himself but he lures others into his where big. deceit president trump is facing new scrutiny today over

a report that he told his personal attorney to lie to congress about his business dealings with russia we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation here's what buzz feed news is reporting that as a bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project congressional democrats calling for an immediate investigation declaring the trial must be impeached if the story is true this one was rock solid the report claimed journalists corroborated the allegation with their own eyes india's colleagues said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these document i'll just say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents we're very confident in our report the revelation was unprecedented but not in terms of factual value but because the military made an effort to personally very polarized the claim description of specific statements and characterization of documents and testimony on not accurate what do you think happened next any ideas buzz feed cocktail apologetically deleted

the article no instead it blurted out more letters and words and sentences explaining that while the initial reporting was incorrect at the same time it wasn't and you make sense of that and the final jam the infamous meeting between trump's former can pain manager and the leaker in chief julian assange don't will trump's former campaign manager paul man afford health secret talks with julian assange inside the ecuadorian embassy in london and visited around the time he joined trump's campaign the guardian has been told the military paid so much attention to this possibility it didn't even bother to look into it no where on its five hundred plus pages does the report mention anything. and this is just barely a handful of all the bomb shells and sensations and. nuked by the

mother reports it's still out there unfazed in arrogance as it tainting their fools who have so much invested in it over three years they've been spinning these conspiracy theory sorry they've been spinning these conspiracy theories in essence the scam. and their credibility that's the biggest consequence of all this and so they're just trying any way they can including the front page of the new york times reports shows depth of connection between trump campaign and russia and then they count up the number of contacts or alleged contacts with russians which i think are one hundred forty or something but a lot of that of course is on trump tower or it's you know the you know we have had this exhaustive twenty two month investigation with all of the resources of the f.b.i.

and the security agencies and and they didn't find it but i argue this is probably the worst moment for the u.s. media since they sold us the iraq war on the false narrative of weapons of mass destruction. the long awaited him of the report might not have hit on the alleged meeting between paul and ford in june in a solid but it did take a long hard look at the whistleblower and his alleged links to russia and the leak of more than twenty thousand democratic national committee e-mails and documents we've got station though provided no solid evidence as to how exactly the data was obtained or whether the song moscow ties even existed it comes hard on the heels of june in a song his arrest last week by british police as filmed by altie is exclusive video after ecuador terminated his near. the wiki leaks founder is now awaiting the fates with an extradition hearing expected early next month of the u.s. charges of government computer hacking and a glimpse of life inside those crime and confines. i read video of

a snapshot of how a song his life was for so long may be thoughts running through his head of what he's going to do when he gets out all simply trying to keep fit in this tiny embassy kitchen who really knows his poly boy goes in the. take. in case you missed it ecuador needed it spare room back a certain get out of the embassy and into the slammer for everyone's favorite we. could do was embassy is looking for a decent painted decorator in the london area after judas andras carried out like a. battering ram the whistleblower is the passions sometimes it's love sometimes it's hate you do not hear many people saying stuff like. i want to believe. he's a complex character

a man only truly understood by just two creatures on god's green power and discern this guy have you noticed there's always a can't just say now anyone who's been trapped inside a foreign embassies bridegroom for the last few years is assigned his famous publishing house documents on america's wars diplomats. politicians the us authorities keen to have a few stern words with him about it now this is where it gets a little bit complicated so try to keep up a staunch first of all asylum because the u.k. was considering extraditing him to sweden where he had been accused of sexual assault the way he could claim the i gave were actually part of a plot to extradite him from sweden to the us and would have agreement fate awaits him there did you follow that just rewind. offspeed if you need to it boils down to this as some just supporters see him as a champion of free speech taking on the american monolith those who don't like him

point to the allegations in sweden as a reason that evidence of war crimes is still evidence of war crimes even if the person telling you about them has a few shall we say easier secrecy is and even if the claim is in sweden a set up that doesn't mean washington house anyway here's a little secret the media is hiding from life is going to. ok did the tone hanks is always the hero so you just decide whether it's in the public's interest to see what the world's superpower is up to behind closed door as palmy deal with the roster. facebook and a number of british far right groups from the platform look at the reasons i'm here reaction along how stories after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to do exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. so when i say assets on their books terry they're referring to the bonds of a price of one hundred cents on the dollar but don't have a sale value in the market greater than maybe one penny on the dollar so again this is a portrait of dorian grey economy all these quote assets on the central bank balance sheets if you added up all of i think the central banks have something like fifty to fifty five trillion dollars of what they call assets that might be worth mcdonald's hamburger when they have no collateral value whatsoever worthless that's

a fact quite. welcome back to the program facebook has banned some of the biggest right wing groups under a new counterpoint to tackle hate speech online. individuals and organizations who spread hate or attack or call for the exclusion of others on the basis of who they are have no police and fees book under our dangerous individuals and organizations policy we ban those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission or are in the church in acts of hate or violence or the grievous band are accused of having far right or extreme views and have been become in the tories for promoting negative attitudes towards certain groups of being firmly opposed to increasing immigration the ban heads groups like the

english defense league the british national party and britain first here's how one of the organizations reacted. nine hundred eighty four is here who next why the so afraid of the truth we survived before the fascist facebook purge and we will continue to survive political and social commentator milan's our own media analyst neil wallis broke down the issues surrounding facebook's lotus decision. i'm very skeptical about a company like facebook group run by a bunch of. billionaires from silicon valley coming from the classic liberal elite. background then are they really the people we would appoint guardians of this sort of thing do we really trust their judgment are we meant to sit around and wait for laws to be implemented we need to tackle these people the methods that we use for tackling the likes of our own hard to ruin street. preachers and their

online. forums for doing all of their hate preaching we need to apply that same principle to the likes of the e.t.l. of britain first in the national front what this is really is an enormous bout of virtue signalling by an appalling company facebook and instagram who are using it purely. a fig leaf for the fact that frankly over the last few years they have an appallingly laughable policy about keeping evil people of social media the real truth of the matter is this these are not small problems we knew already it from twenty eleven and twenty twelve and as brave killed what was it seventy seven people wounded two hundred nine people in the norway terror attacks he had openly admitted and it was in the dossier that was came out in the court evidence and was held to be correct he met with the senior leadership team he

met with on rhetorical strategies the idea was to have these street gangs these radical people online to radicalize people online like terrorists why is it why is it that he has taken eight years since those socialist you would call them signal virtue signallers socialist labor movement youngsters kids that were slain in norway they're linked to either why did take an eight years. government's done nothing the tories have done nothing you know why they did no it's because under tremendous pressure of them ever before. a lack of social responsibility though you have created this. tensions in libya are again escalating as clashes returned to the southern part of the capital tripoli residents have reported that repeated shelling once or to pull this saturday of the past twenty four hours files of people have been falling against the falling support given to rebel leader general

don his offensive came after washington recognized the military role in fighting terrorism in libya present time by the commander spoke by phone and goes against the usual western stance on the libyan crisis crisis. president donald trump spoke on april fifteenth twenty nineteen with field marshal who leaf to discuss ongoing come to terrorism efforts to achieve peace and stability in libya the president recognizes field-marshal have to our significant role in fighting terrorism and securing libya's oil resources and the to discuss the shared vision for libya's transition to a stable democratic political system it's interesting because the conversation according to the white house happened on monday so we're just now getting this statement you would think that this guy would be seen as an enemy because the u.s. has been working and it's really played a part in libya's government in recent years but instead apparently trump has talked to this guy and he was actually allies with gadhafi back in the sixty's and

they overthrew the government in one nine hundred sixty nine and then he ended off he had a falling out and also in the cia came and rescued him he came to the united states in one nine hundred ninety became a u.s. citizen and lived in virginia right near the cia's headquarters and then all of a sudden he went back to libya in two thousand and eleven and he played a crucial role in overthrowing the government of gadhafi so he successfully overthrown philippine government twice u.s. taxpayers have paid for u.s. involvement in libya for all of these years and know all of a sudden we've got a government that's backed by the u.s. and the u.s. is also trying to work with the guy who is trying to overthrow the government of us has been involved in libya since two thousand and eleven so if they were going to pursue a stable democratic system one they've done that already. that north african country has been in turmoil since twenty eleven when the then leader moammar gadhafi was ousted and killed now libya has two rival governments one into brokered led by general haftar and the other in tripoli backed by the when the crisis escalated in

recent weeks following that offensive by half and his army on the capital according to the world health organization more than two hundred people have been killed and almost a thousand wounded we asked alexandra bruno an independent political analyst and libya expert what donald trump was hoping to achieve by speaking to the libyan general. i don't think he's interested in the market see nor do i think president drummer for that matter other european governments really care that much about democracy in libya i think what everybody cares about is stability in libya which is something that has evaded that country since the nato. vision and the facilitation. civil war in two thousand and eleven when they removed the gadhafi government the west is very concerned about the spread of terrorism and

the potential that waves continue to come from libya will bring terrorists into european territory. a state of emergency has been declared in russian siberia as massive wildfires spread across the tundra so far around three hundred people including dozens of children have been forced to flee more than one hundred buildings have been destroyed in twenty four hours as the crisis continues to blaze towards the borders with china and mongolia only thirty civilians have sustained burns and to remain in critical condition russia's emergency services say the fires have been put out in residential areas which lie east of lake baikal and investigation is looking into any fun. play is strong winds and increasing temperatures have made the blaze extremely difficult to get and control. news around for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines but do stay with us now for boom bust which is up next here on

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