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protesters are back out for week twenty three this time widening their. money. while ignoring the plight of struggling citizens. russia reacts to the sensational headlines borne out of the report detailing by many of the. collection accusations are unfounded. some of the other bombshell claims in the investigation. plus u.s. presidential hopefuls. go head to head for the democratic nomination.
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and facebook slams the door shut on some of britain's biggest far right groups branding them dangerous. to protect kids. watching antti international live from our studio with me welcome to the program is the twenty third day of anti-government rallies in france as the so-called again nationwide the first time since the. blaze with protesters anger directed at the vast amounts of money donated for peds police in paris have used tear gas and water cannons and two hundred forty nine people have been detained.
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i. i i i. i i tensions once more on the streets of paris with fires burning across those streets as well yellow vests protesters who are now five months into this protest every saturday they've been out on the streets this time burning cause motorbikes and also been forming barricades as a way as trying to prevent the police and the gendarmes getting close to them some sixty thousand police officers were deployed across france today a significant number here in paris to try and keep those tensions down to try and keep a lid on any problems but it doesn't seem that they managed to do that we saw many
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scuffles between the police and the protesters and in the end the police resulted once more to using tear gas and also water cannons including water cannons which we saw for the first time today with a blue liquid this liquid being used to temporarily dye people's clothes and skin if it hits them with the aim of allowing police to more easily identify people that they believe are troublemakers to arrest them well these protests as i said to be going on now for five months twenty three weeks it started over a fuel tax hike but it is why didn't out become so much more and more now about the cost of living here in france and the difficulties that many people find the men not able to survive on the money that they're getting we've been speaking to some of the out of us protesters to ask them why they're still out on the streets because we have seen them at the plaza blue. still we wanted to protest peacefully
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so then we moved on with 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 france. we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more in stages of all we specially hope that the government will accept our demands it. well the protests in paris were forbidden at several locations including the sean sillies a which has become a regular place where they not allowed to protest any longer after that structural march sixteenth but also to play at. the drop in and around that following that fire at the cathedral all monday night now when that happened president michel had been due to address the nation to talk about what measures he wanted to put in place trying to lay the concerns all together best protesters this follows months of debates in two weeks across france with people telling the president and their
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representatives what their problems are and why they're struggling to survive but he canceled that because the fire and it did seem for a moment that they were going to be solidarity here in france as everybody stopped what they were doing and watched that fire burning that iconic building in france but within twenty four hours seemed to be a moment of solidarity has turned into an even bigger division when it to merge that some hundreds of millions of viewers had been raised for the reconstruction many people started questioning why such an amount of money could be raised in a short period for a building and not for the french people the everyday citizens who are struggling to survive and been telling their government this for a very many months if you just look at the figures eight point eight million people live in poverty in france at those latest figures from two thousand and seventeen and that means that they are living on
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a roundabout at less than one thousand euros per month that includes some families and many people just say look it's not enough now president matt corn is due to address the nation to outline what he would like to do to stop these protests but a draft copy of his speech which was leaked last week suggested one of his big initiatives is going to be to provide more tax cuts for the middle class will cut the mustard with the l. of us protesters who are looking for a rise in the income for the lowest paid workers well we have yet to wait and see. something else that appeared to be on the protestors minds is the arrest in london of wiki leaks founder julian a spanish phrase moss was seen added to the joan of arc monument in toulouse along with a yellow vest banners with his songes name were also displayed international affairs on this day a cool of the chip thinks many people offer straighted over the size of donations
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and at a time of growing inequality. they're shocked by the fact that in one might. the very rich people can give more than one billion euros to rebuild. it's not a problem they're giving money to rebuild the problem is that all these people making very very rich these last fifteen years ten years ago we had three timeless billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the opportunities given by the european union and the french system this is by now. send their money away in awful countries and. the shocking for the universe is a that money that they're giving by make people to the very kind it should have been already in the in the hand of the state. the russian embassy in washington has
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fired back at the newly released a live report on russia collusion has published a hefty document called russia gate hysteria a case of severe research it's a battle 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. and lower paul 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 china's cal paying twenty sixth presidential election but it was guarded when it came to trial obstruction of the probe after the reports released. democrats
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there cause for donald trump to be impeached while republicans insist the president was exonerated pointedly said that's not so many media outlets now appear to be focusing on the division it's brought to us society instead of acknowledging that they're proving speculations will run. off explains 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 sergey it's a shameful picture that is an open question whether there was collusion cooperation between trump associates during the campaign and russian officials current and
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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 the 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 each 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 web of deceit present troposphere. new
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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 and the is a colleague 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
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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 form i can pain manager and the leaker in chief julian assange don't hold trump's former campaign manager paul mann 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 of the sort and this is.
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just barely a handful of all the bombshells and since asians in are you open is nuked by the minute reports it's still out there unfazed in arrogance as it training their full suits them so much invested in it over three years they've been spinning these conspiracy. sorry they've been spinning these conspiracy theories in essence the scare of. 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 will report 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
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f.b.i. and the security agencies. 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 report mike does not have hit on the alleged meeting between point. 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 documents the investigation though provided no solid evidence as to how exactly the data was obtained or whether. even existed it comes hard on the heels of arrest last week police as films exclusive video. right here seven years stylin it's london embassy the wiki leaks founder is now awaiting his fate experts are hearing a spectator early next month charges. and
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a glimpse of life inside those crammed confines. i read video all of a snapshot of how a soldier's life was for so long maybe thoughts running through his head of what he's going to do when he gets out simply trying to keep it in this tiny embassy kitchen who really knows his probably because quite unique take. in case you missed it ecuador needed it spare room back so it's 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 julian assange 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
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believe. he's a complex character a man only truly understood by just two creatures on god's green earth pamela 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 a scientist famous publishing house documents on america's wars diplomats. politicians the us authorities a cue 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 whatever green fate awaits him there did you follow that just rewind. speed if you need to it boils down to this as john just supporters see him as a champion of free speech taking on the american monolith those who don't. like him
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point to the allegations in sweden as a reason that evidence of war crimes is still evidence of war crimes even if the president telling you about them has a few shall we say easier saying chrissy is and even if they claim since we didn't assess up that doesn't mean washington one house anyway here's a little secret the media is hiding from me though life is complicated i'm told hanks isn't 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 was a pommy deal with the rest. because and a number of british far right groups from the platform we look at the reason it's not a reaction amongst all stories after this break. in
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a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves.
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we can all middle of the room. welcome i haven't brought them facebook has banned some of the u.k.'s more controversial right wing groups under a new category 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 facebook under our dangerous individuals and organizations policy we ban those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission where in the in acts of hate or violence all the groups banned are accused of having far right views and have become notorious for promoting negative attitudes towards certain groups all being firmly opposed to increasing immigration the heads groups like the english defense league the british
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national party and britain first here's how one of the organizations reacted. one thousand nine hundred eighty four is here 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 and a listener while this broke down the issues surrounding facebook's latest decision . i'm very skeptical about a company like facebook group run by a bunch of jumped up billionaires from silicon valley coming from the classic liberal elite. background there are they really good 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 aroon street. preachers
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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 and the national front what this is really is an enormous buyout 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 from twenty eleven and twenty twelve and as brave who 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 e.t.l.
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senior leadership team he met with e.t.l. on rhetorical strategies the idea was to have the street gangs these radical people on. line 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 their link that you know why did take an eight years government's done nothing the tories have done nothing you know why the right did now is under tremendous pressure ever before. a lack of social responsibility though you have created. a state of emergency has been declared in russia siberia as massive wildfires spread across the region so far around three hundred people including dozens of children have been forced to flee or the one hundred buildings have been destroyed in twenty four hours as the crisis continues to place towards the borders with
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china and mongolia nearly 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 like east of lake baikal in investigation is looking into any foul play as strong winds and increasing temperatures have made the blaze extremely difficult to get under control. as your news random for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines but to stay with us now from going underground which is up next here on r.t. international. join me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. we came here where you were before you came here when you live. in many u.s.
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states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent off two years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. this have to get to class as i live eat here good for yourself in. need no. need. i d. . be young.
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and we have many things in this world and this isn't enough for everyone and why some people's minds so take our thing all the power just for themselves and to see other human. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide. looking to your pension account. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report.
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i'm after a time when you're what you're going underground and while we're away we'll be screening some your favorite episodes of the season coming up in this show is britain at risk of an imminent terror attack we speak to the president of syria's media adviser dr patricia bonn about raising may just citizen to resettle white helmets in the u.k. and this britain confirms there will be no post trade deal with turkey or japan we speak to a foreign trade minister who did successfully sign a deal in time for the twenty ninth of my goal is simple coming up in today's going underground but first forget last night's also because as britain being acting better than any hollywood star acting in a way that will damage post brecht's it trade deals acting like it owns land to
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rent to the usa for torture and mass killing diego garcia lives seven degrees south of the equator in the middle of the indian ocean. with all of the surrounding oceans beneath the local m.w. are has plenty of opportunities for sailors to enjoy the footprint of freedom well today the world court gives its view on an aspect of what amounts to a very british footprint of freedom performance there's a deep embarrassment in the farm office about the lines and ocracy this room this is the way in which the armies were never told it was just action taken to remove secrecy surrounding wilson jones or the secrecy surrounding the bones. and of course the ultimate secrecy of the way that it has been used for extraordinary rendition the leader of the british labor party is talking about a disputed us military base coming under scrutiny today by the world court as to whether it belongs to misha's not the u.k.
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let alone the usa britain you see had a plan for the che go silence it was a plan that hinged on shameless exploitation of a five year period one nine hundred sixty to one thousand nine hundred fifteen every single. women own child was forcibly removed in secret from that islands and none persons been allowed to turn for the last fifty years to go since have lived in poverty but why the purpose of the sonic station was to facilitate a lease the leasing of the largest island in the chicos archipelago vehicle garcia to the united states to allow the construction of an enormous military base. the peace it means to see. we know north and turn for the next in the chicos archipelago own dick spill in the speed of the u.k. government received a cash discovery of eleven million pounds on plot us nuclear missiles yes the
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ethnic cleansing of an entire people is one of the prices britain paid to base nuclear weapons in scotland it would be for u.k. pm david cameron to launch an inquiry into alleged torture permitted by a blairite labor foreign secretary now president of the international rescue committee has covered on this channel nearly a decade ago the u.k.'s intelligence service was given the green light by a former gov moment government minister to interrogate terror suspects in countries known for using torture tactics and that comes from information released by security sources involving david miliband who was britain's foreign secretary into a few months ago critics say his actions amount to sanctioning torture that's something miliband denies miliband on the anti jeremy corbyn side of things on foreign policy may not have been complicit in torture but today the u.k. seeks a trade deal with india which participates in today's world court hearing it is after all indian company tartar that owns jaguar land rover which claimed that bracks it was behind its decision to sack four and a half thousand workers india it seems though is not on britain's signed marcia's
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has been and continues to be the sovereign nation for the cheek was. india didn't support britain's stance on syria in the voting with russia and china are indicating as strikes against president assad were illegal something on next guest agrees with all the u.k. media appears more interested in alleged rice's brides in syria well joining me now from moscow is president bashar al assad's top media advisor talked about the initial bond with a thanks for coming on the program donald trump says he wants the troops back but i understand that there is evidence that u.s. soldiers have continued to fire at syrian soldiers they know this. is a theory that claiming to be thought i think that there is an up and thought they call money. casual. hundred sudan casualties and you know i would like the last one.
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