thank. you. french prosecutors say the man who fatally stabbed 4 colleagues a police station on thursday was an islamic extremist. nuclear talks between the u.s. and north korea breaking down just hours after getting started with accusing the american delegation of bringing it to negotiating table also ahead. a

brutal standoff the european capital as the government subsidies to meet the terms of. the u.s. government approved the sale of millions of dollars worth of anti-tank missiles to ukraine. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us our day deadly stabbing at a paris police station is now being investigated as an act of terrorism according to prosecutors the man who killed 4 colleagues on thursday was linked to islamic extremist networks earlier my colleague union o'neal discussed the story with our trees down quarter. yes you what the investigation has revealed the perpetrator was

in contact with several individuals likely to belong to the salafist an islamist movements in addition testimony indicates that he did hear to a radical vision of islam this knife attack was a catastrophe that shook paris to its core the assailant was a 45 year old michael harp and who had worked at a police station for 15 years and all that time the police who are tasked with preventing such attacks had no suspicions that harping would kill 4 of his colleagues with a knife he smuggled in. i . what exactly are the authorities actually saying about the attackers motives well

antiterrorism prosecutors are currently handling this case and they still don't have enough information to pin down the the assailants motivations exactly but they did reveal that the assailant converted to islam 18 months prior to the attack now of course the authorities say that that's not an automatic sign of radicalization but there's other information they also revealed that he had a radical vision of islam and was also in communication with solid islamicists which of course is enough to keep terrorist motivations on the table in considering the situation but so far the police haven't found any evidence as to anything pointing towards religious motives after they searched his house in the suburbs of paris you've been talking with some of the details a 45 i think you say. what else do we know about the attackers but. well his wife was arrested after he was shot dead in the police station up. the murder and she told authorities that harp and was actually acting doraine stern was hearing

voices in his head the night before this attack took place that have something to do with his motivations of course maybe but so far the authorities haven't connected all the dots to say for sure staying with paris police have attempted to remove hundreds of environmental protesters from a shopping mall campaigners from extinction rebellion movement along with yellow vest activists entered italy to the southeast of the french capital on saturday morning they called it a demonstration last occupation before the end of the world stories in the complex were forced to close as a result of the. ecuador is in the grips of mass civil unrest over soaring fuel prices demonstrations that began over the government's decision to end of fuel subsidies which is expected to cause prices of petrol and diesel to more than double.

i students and transport workers are leading a nationwide strike and the president is using emergency powers to deploy troops in an attempt to maintain order but there have been scenes of chaos as police clashed with protesters and there has been at least $350.00 arrests now the fuel subsidies cost the government more than a $1000000000.00 a year and quito says there is no chance that they will be reinstated does all part of the president's plan to cut public spending to meet the terms of an i.m.f. loan agreed to in march. takes a deeper look at the impact. the i.m.f. is the generous dessie and open handed and giving and seeing whenever a country's economy is in grave need my immediate priority for the i.m.f. . is to help members minimize the risk of crises

we focus on job creation we focus on productivity we focus on stability stability actually will be my my my key focus is to build strong key qualities so people fly 30 rules except far too often when they stayed places it's trust in the i.m.f. it ends up in scenes like these. people like like ours sure scrooges i don't know the facts she doesn't suit the charts are still. the last pictures we showed you are from ecuador a country that proves that the i.m.f.

does business the same way on both sides of the atlantic at the expense of the people the ecuadorian administration reached a 4 point $2000000000.00 deal with the fund in exchange for a forms abiding by its trusted playbook the i.m.f. marketed it in a non surprise fashion achieving their own last fiscal position is at the core of the authorities problem which will be supported by a 3 year extended arrangement from the i.m.f. well i've already kind of spoiled to you how this has turned out so far in turmoil in the streets and the state of emergency the authorities have voluntarily renounced their right to choose they must follow through with the tax for. form stripped the citizens of some labor protections and cause fuel prices to double measures wildly unpopular among the people well but these are the commandments of the sect of a stereotype and like with any cult it's easy to get in not to get out in

2002 the president of malawi a nation in africa said that the i.m.f. had forced them to sell the country's strategic grain reserves they did and as a result millions of people were exposed to famine when the drought hit something the i.m.f. outright refused to accept any responsibility for the causes of food shortages in malawi are complex including lapses in the government's early warning systems distortions in domestic markets and mismanagement of food reserves in more recent cases the i am of bailout programs for italy greece ireland and portugal ignited europe wide and to your sterrett in movements just when people realize that in reality the money comes not from the i.m.f. but from their wallets in ecuador just over 20 percent of the population support the reforms that came until with the funds billions because the i.m.f.

is a robin hood who got it all wrong and now gives to the rich and takes from the poor then the i.m.f. is given a credit to our country is under certain conditions on the. day they control the economy and they're going to go on which is about the goal of the i.m.f. what they are really following this trade to open the economy of whether just to make the. ecuadorian people in the future going to get access to a different kind of robot services that they dig out but the thing is was the cause of this going off the ration of the economy anything they're doing we know they're going to increase inflation we know they don't increase unemployment rate at the moment but in theory yes in theory back with all of the future. to be an economy similar like us economy or mexican economy let's say by the usually with a high. cost of mystery and that's going to be. north korea's top nuclear negotiator has said that talks with the us have broken

down just hours after they started in stockholm we are disappointed that the united states has not put anything on the negotiating table now the responsibility for the continuation of the talks lies with the us it was the 1st meeting between delegations from the 2 countries since donald trump and kim jong il and it met in the demilitarized zone between the 2 koreas in june head of saturday's talks u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all had said that there was still a lot of work to be done it to build trust and improve relations contrary to north korea's statement though washington has claimed the latest discussions were not a failure and allowed it to come up with a number of creative ideas now in the run up to the meeting north korea said it had tested a submarine launched a nuclear capable missile the pentagon then fired its own intercontinental ballistic missile in response political analyst david czech told us that he did not expect the latest discussions to be successful. actually what the experts

always expect that this political sanctions against the against. it's very reasonable it should demand to consume living that the world never attacked everybody. definitely doesn't pose much to do to anyone in the region most korea all these the lifting of the sanctions on north america is not willing to the united states is not willing to do it even on the go sheet of this oil and so i don't. understand the war except for the beyond avoid these meetings and negotiations take place because at this obvious ones that are now that they will end up. this way and if you look at the u.s. negotiation community. since so they're all came to power of basically the only

country of the world that never achieved anything it will be north korea or be china or russia or any other country that doesn't seem to that the u.s. is really willing to make it a compromise if only partner or enemy. billionaires or should not exist stand of all 'd the people nodding in agreement with that statement from u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders is mega rich facebook founder mark zuckerberg sanders also says that wealth inequality is out of control but despite that surprising admission from zuckerberg the world's 5th richest person not all the super rich are on board and willing to give up their luxuries some are even suggesting that they're part of an oppressed minority as artie's kellam oppen comments. billionaires pretty much rule the united states the president himself is a billionaire but apparently he is the most threatened and bullied man in the country he has turned american diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket let's be honest donald trump is

a loser all his failed 'd businesses cares about exactly one person and that one person is named donald trump i'm sorry that you're a terrible president. well perhaps but the bullying of donald trump has very little to do with him being a billionaire billionaires almost live in a parallel universe with elite parties private jets and little islands that they own but apparently some billionaires feel like they are persecuted minority it's the ordinary people that are persecuting them led by a boogie man named bernie sanders. billionaires billionaire billionaire billionaire billionaire act millionaires billionaires i am not a billionaire due to all that class hatred incited by bernie sanders the rich are forced to hide in fancy restaurants and the studio of the fox news channel is no longer safe for them to roam the streets with commoners let's go back to bernie sanders for a minute when we are having

a standard here what the hell has he done it's aspirational i didn't start with anything just penalize everyone that's done well now steve schwarzman the founder of blackstone says that the treatment of billionaires in the united states is starting to resemble the treatment of jews in nazi germany seriously he actually said this it's the wall it's like when hitler invaded poland in 1939 and he's not the only one it's a rising trend if you go back to 1933 we've different woods this is what hitler was saying in germany you don't survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on and view it genesee the wealthy t.v. preacher kenneth copeland has also reported suffering at the hands of the not so. or a huge fire lines you can't manage that today right this don't feel old world right get in an air get in alone too with a bunch of being been so the gap between the rich and poor in america has reached

its peak in half a century so do you think that billionaires are really an oppressed minority we decided to ask new yorkers what they think that's a joke right oppressed. not at all welcome to approach minority we're living in a world anyway i don't think they should be hated they didn't get that way well most people did a really successful got that way because they work their software have enough money so they can protect themselves don't believe in demonizing the successful i mean their majority of them has created a product or service ness or result of. the good work that they've done this is their success so i don't demonize him for being successful now this notion that the rich are somehow mistreated by society is certainly not new the cold war novelist and philosopher i know rand wrote an entire book called atlas shrugged it was about how the rich of the world go on strike against the ungrateful rabble who levy taxes against them but average americans just don't buy the argument seems that when the

ultra rich claim the world has been unfair to them they don't really know what fair means kaleb up and r.t. new york. iraq has been left reeling by 5 days of nationwide anti-government protests in which at least 93 people have been killed this according to rights groups the unrest began on tuesday as thousands rallied in baghdad against the state corruption i'm fired tear gas and live rounds to disperse the crowd internet access has now been cut in most parts of the country and curfews were also temporarily imposed next prime minister will be as it defended the use of lethal force against protesters. and the security measures that are being taken a difficult choices but his. like a piece of medicine is indispensable because your security cannot be risked. the iraqi prime minister has also said that there is no magic solution to the country's economic problems according to the world bank just 43 percent of working age iraqis

are either in employment or seeking work that is despite the country having the 4th largest oil reserves in the world and iraq is still coping with the legacy of the 2003 u.s. invasion and war that followed almost 2000000 people are internally displaced and $7000000.00 are in need of humanitarian aid now the government says it would cost at least $90000000000.00 to rebuild the country's infrastructure iraqi kurdish journalist he told us that the public has been making the same demands for years. unfortunately the u.s. policy in iraq has been a failed on a failure after failure or really not knowing iraq well their demands are with most iraqis have been asking for for over the past 16 your sister 1003 and it doesn't seem to be any real practical response from the government they are still

resorting to the old fashioned ways of either using violence with these protests or tried to talk to some of the leaders and the one thing very important about these protests is that they really do not have leaders chronic corruption the chronic problems that have been in the country since 2003 i have not been solved cutting the internet is not going to work imposing a curfew will not work live bullets what were. the impeachment inquiry into donald trump over his phone call with of the leader of ukraine has seen white house officials subpoenaed over the u.s. president's contacts with kiev the democrats spearheading the probe say mr trump has left them with no other choice as for u.s. military aid which plays an important role in the whole scandal the u.s. state department this week approved the sale of nearly $40000000.00 worth of anti-tank weapons to kiev the 150 javelin missiles come on top of the 200 sold to the country last year our correspondent but our god you have had his own unique

commentary on how ukraine has turned into a gold mine for the u.s. . at 1st sight you wouldn't take ukraine for a land of opportunity unless you're into peddling weapons the javelin system will help ukraine build its long term defense capacity to defend its sober instance oratorial integrity in order to meet its national defense requirements now ain't that just the american dream selling weapons to a nation that can barely afford to keep itself warm. in the winter and not just any weapons the javelin by far the most expensive and it's class more than $200000.00 for the launcher and a rocket was uneasy though it took a concentrated push by arms manufacturers lobbyists and politicians to overturn a ban on lethal weapon sales to ukraine and this man this man was at the

center of it the significance of this is that we lifted the bombing your arms did provide anti-tank weapons. and now we're prepared to treat ukraine like any other normal country which is this just look at this face doesn't it radiate honesty and empathy but appearances can be deceptive kurt was naughty could had a little side gig going on that was all hush hush the side from representing trump in ukraine he also worked for. a huge and powerful lobbying group which surprise lobbies for a theatre the company that manufactures javelin missiles and will make millions by selling them to ukraine cut unfortunately resigned in september and aside from the whole potentially corrupt thing with b g r and greatly and he was also embroiled in the trump ukraine scandal speaking of

which trump has recently put on hold almost $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine it lays out. a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency you'd use the leverage of the. vital military assistance to a foreign nation. to provide or tame dirt on a political opponent it's hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint. surely they can't all be rotten this is adam adam has a much friendlier face than kurt adams seems genuinely concerned about ukraine alas adam doesn't seem to be any better see among adams sponsors is a fellow named igor pasternak who makes a lot of money on military contracts with ukraine is the pasternak recently hosted

a fundraiser for adam after which the congressman began all but the mounding that the u.s. sent money and arms to ukraine which would allow his generous bonser to re arm the tire ukrainian military says last year the m 16 project was conceived some time ago as ukrainian armed forces border guards and national guard we time switch to nato standards on a city you could probably film sin city 3 with characters based in these guys but even if you don't sell guns and don't get kickbacks or donations from mama's manufacturers you can still use ukraine here for example as ukraine's national and t. corruption bureau chief sit nick recorded bragging about how he helped hillary clinton during the 2016 election. not

trump but hillary i help to who really belongs to the cohorts of politicians who comprise the hedge money in the us both in the u.s. and in the entire world for us that is sort of better oh you could definitely film sensitive 3 with these guys but the audio is real confirmed by ukraine's attorney general it was mr sit nick by the way who published dirt on trump's campaign manager in 2016 in a real lost anyway but the fellow tried so what if you don't have guns to sell or. elections to win what if for example daddy wants to get his young boy a nice cushy job where he didn't have to do much well ukraine's the help booth john biden's son and john kerry's stepson landed executive jobs at the ukrainian energy company now strap yourself in hunter biden earned $50000.00

a month 50000 in a country where the average wage is a few $100.00 and you know what in the weird and wacky world of us politicians and i think it gave you a taste of just how wacky it is that's normal the underlying problem here was of course hunger by receiving $50000.00 a month from ukraine energy company do you think that that is evidence of corrupt behavior no people are set on. monetary payments it was always a playground for america and ukraine in 2013 victoria nuland boasted about the billions america spent supporting democracy in ukraine or meddling in its politics you pick since ukraine's independence in 1901 the united states has supported ukrainians as they do democratic skills and institutions as they promote civic participation and good governance of which are preconditions for ukraine to achieve

its here p n aspirations we've invested over 5000000000 dollars to assist ukraine in these in articles that were ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train well thank you miss nuland didn't ukraine turn out great but that again look at it like an american senator you don't hear that ukrainians are poor cold stressed and hopeless what you care about is that your sponsors can make money and keep the meeting to you what you care about. it is ukrainians helping you in elections what you care about is ukraine providing your kids with comfy little jobs that pay millions over the years and if you are an american senator well ukraine couldn't have turned out any better. that does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top the hour this is our to internet.

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