living on the road heading back to the dark ages. to overhaul from pension system nationwide strike. to a whole. also ahead on the program russia's foreign minister rejects germany's claims being cooperating with an investigation into the murder of a georgian citizen. and a journalist for artie's a video agency ruptly. detained under the u.k.'s terrorism. coverage. in.

just after 6 in the evening here in moscow this thursday december the 5th to wherever you're tuning in from this come to moscow to r.t. international our top story. by its biggest strike in years this thursday with workers protesting primarily against pension reform plans the country's transport systems have been brought to a standstill and schools and hospitals are closed hundreds of rallies are taking place nationwide. is among the crowds in paris and joins us live now from the french capital charlotte tell us why so many are protesting and what is the picture there like evening approaches. well people are

protesting because they're unhappy with the idea of changes to the pension system here in france quite frankly the idea of the french government of the month at the moment under president mccone is to change the 42 different systems to bring them into one universal system which the government says will be fairer more equal but those on strike to say see you know it won't be fair it won't be more equal what it actually mean is that we'll have to work longer and we might even guess less money at the end of it when we do we're ties and that's why so many people are unhappy this was meant to be a strike of transport workers but actually it's become far bigger than that we've got hospital workers police firefighters students teachers and you might begin a sense of people running away now and this is because although it's been calm for most of the day in the last hour there has been massive tensions at this protest you can see what looks like to be tear gas coming towards us and i want to give you a sense of what we've been witnessing in the last 20 minutes or so this is

a massive fire and those tensions between police and protesters have a look at what we've just been seeing. different you don't have it i'm 28 years old i've been working for 10 years and as a things are it's clear to me i won't be able to retire it will be impossible to survive until then nobody cares about our working conditions at all. why we're doing is good very good it's important that we're all present we want to live and work and earn a decent living the same case for retirees to get decent pensions because this affects us we are working you have to work for us for the unemployed and the pension. and we work poor jobs we want to fight against. tensions rising here in paris you might be able to hear is a tear gas that's being let off that's because just down the street you can see that there is a. fire taking place here the tear gas has been disposed to try and move protesters

away of that fire it's unclear exactly what isn't fire but you can see the thick blotter plume of smoke just rising into the air people are trying to move away as that tear gas is being dispersed but this is an indication of just how i agree people are here in paris this is part nationwide strikes taking place across from today these strikes are expected to be much you can see there more tear gas down into the protesters try and move people away from the barriers so that point crews can get on with their job which is to try and put out that fire tension rising between the protesters and the police maces one of the round $250.00 strikes taking place across france today in relation to those changes that the

french government wants to make to people's pensions and they basically want to move 42 different pension systems down into one unit the system saying that it will make it fairer more just the people who are protesting today who are on strike say it won't make it more just in fact what it will mean is that they'll have to work longer and their pensions could be worth less in the end you can see the firefighters trying desperately to put out this fire at the moment as the tear gas is still coming down not from the police i get a sense of some of the damage that's being caused here but shelter here has been smashed that's something we see quite regularly in the protests another fire taking place across the street actually as they're not just that big fire with a big plume of smoke but of course here it really looks like in the last sort of 10 to 15 minutes or hell it has broken loose. well just behind us we're going to get

a sense of the security presence is also here in paris 6 i was and offices gendarmes being mobilized for this protest today because we were warned by the interior minister that there was likely to be violence which is what we have just been witnessing in the last hour we know that the protesters are still going back down to the street across that where those fires were taking place they keep being pushed out by the police and protesters we've moved out because. tear gas grenades coming down i would like to not just very close to us but they were also sort of sparking up and quite a lot of danger but i want to give you a sense of where plus to who probably can while and if you look right there way down you'll see that these people are going straight down to the streets leading off that we know that there are people jam packed in the streets leading up to you got to know and got the last where this protest started this morning and the sense is if the people have come out and the reality is that while this is meant to be

a one day strike there are fears that this could turn into a rolling strike and that this could go on for the next few weeks up until the end of the year if it does that it will mean that it will match the protests we saw back in 1995 the last time that a french administration for. and their pensions extraordinary those pictures as they tear gas. fast it went straight towards us well charles do stay safe on the streets of paris or to charlotte to live in the french capital. russia flatly rejected claims that it was involved in the murder of a georgian national in berlin in august calling such allegations baseless its foreign minister sergei lavrov also drew parallels on thursday between the escalating scandal on the darling of flight m.h. 172014 arguing that blame is again being unfairly pinned on moscow but the story

here sorry if a lot. relations between moscow and barely now going drastically down hill germany's unexpected decision to expel 2 russian embassy staffers on wednesday has left more scope fuming angela merkel complained russia didn't do enough to have ceased tamely investigation into the murder of a georgian national back in august and now barely says there is real and sufficient indication that russia was behind it i asked russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov for his response. russia and germany have special channels set up to tackle issues such as violations of the law we should use them they said we did not cooperate enough this is groundless some countries today recalled the tragedy of m.h. 17 my dutch counterpart said we didn't do enough then we supplied them with all the necessary information with data from our radars and so on we gave them everything where are the satellite images the us promised nobody answered that we asked them

what kind of cooperation they want from us they responded by saying you have to confess you did it that would be corporative if germany wants to follow suit nothing good will come of it that's not a good way to deal with anyone and with russia in particular isn't him 100 was a 40. year old jordan citizen of chechen origin he was targeted in a berlin park on his way to a mosque with eyewitnesses saying he was shot in the head and chest by a man on a bicycle he's murder was then dubbed by the media as scree paul 2.0 and the victim labeled as a kremlin opponent but who was the victim a right hand men to terrorists during the 2nd chechen war his role was to lead extremist groups in the caucasus and recruit spies and hunger shrill is reported paramilitary korea continued into 2012 when he is said to have assisted

a georgian operation against his former comrades considered a terrorist by the russian authorities he was also listed as a potential is the miss threat for some time in germany to now various media outlets have published their own conclusions into his death the evidence includes 4 to comparisons and killing parton's of a man who had been hiding from him to paul and russia and the reporters suggesting the wanted murderer was then hired by moscow of chechnya to do it again the federal investigation in germany is just the beginning now on google merkel says he hopes russia will help the german investigators but it seems no matter who was behind it the embassy expulsion indicates that the verdict has in fact already been given. reporting from europe. a producer working for artie's video agency was to take this week's nato summit in london and questioned alter the terrorism act

replace chief content officer katherina frank over talk me through the details. we were of course very surprised when this happened as a media agency we were going to cover our netas 70th anniversary summit our producer was accredited for the summit which was confronting him via email by organizes having this email he went there on wednesday to pick up the pass just to go inside and film which is normal procedure for all journalists. so he showed this acceptance email and his passport and they told him that he had to wait in the lobby at this point he was approached by a plain clothed mine who presented a police warrant and requested him. to wait for police questioning i believe we can now listen to our producer's own account of what happened i was approached by a number of police officers who requested my id and asked me to explain what i was

doing i told them that i was a journalist waiting for my credit ration passed and i identified myself by giving them my passport press card and the accreditation approval letter the police then proceeded to detain me under the terrorism act they searched me and my belongings well after bad he was told that his accreditation had been revoked and then police left like i said this came as a surprise to us because our producer has been covering events in the u.k. for a play on many occasions including state events and other developments as an agency we do extensive coverage of things happening in the u.k. for example we were the only media organization that filmed julian assange when he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london last spring. as to this particular event in accordance wears an. accreditation procedure

as they say in exceptional circumstances there is of the right to river. accreditation even if it had been confirmed what kind of exceptional circumstances we're talking about here remains unclear to us we filed a formal request to the organization right after the incident requesting clarification but we haven't had we haven't heard back from them yet was this type of incident a one off nature of it well i would say that we have never experienced anything like this with nato as such but 2 years ago when 2017 were denied accreditation for a high level security conference called summit struck call is a strategic. communications center of excellence is not part of nato as such but they are a nato accredited military organization so they're related. to the organizers of

protests in an email that they were denying us accreditation because we are affiliated with the and they said they don't consider a journalist organization so as for this week's summit in london i know to report that we're working apparently without problems so we are waiting to see what the reason was for denying probably accreditation. the head of the international olympic committee by the findings of a world topping agency over alleged results in the moscow laboratory database russia has strongly denied the allegations after issuing its own technical investigation and response i'm joined live in the studio. we do tell us a little bit more about the objections by moscow and also the room probe well you know in a group of russian technical experts have conducted their own investigation and

rejected claims that moscow many pleated test results in. database now they claim that moscow has transferred all the information required to want to and never tempered with the results of the probes now it turned out that the database could have been altered by those who had admin access to the system and according to the experts those people would be the program developer and his team who back in 2015 fled to the us right as the doping scandal ask elated. russian experts have found that the developer of the limbs of the most. mr me get your and his colleague mr so believe ski had administrative access to the system as a result of the research the russian side has determined the database used to the most has been changed from time to time and after mr rajan of mitchell of socialist ski fled to the us the database had been in fact run via the internet from los

angeles until june 26th. now the situation changed in 2016 when it was revealed that such manipulations took place the russian agent c. was got it back in 2016 with a new had of the department and pointed but a problem seemingly still exists apparently there are actually 2 copies of the database one that was given to water back in 2017 by an unknown whistleblower and of the other one provided by the russian side and generate this year the group of experts now believe that it is essentially wrong to compare those 2 copies because of their different origins while the 29000 copy was produced following all the necessary technical requirements the other came from an unknown digital front here after possibly being tampered with and that is backed by avid ends found during the investigation conducted by the experts. a russian led criminal investigation

has found the mechanism of deliberate tampering with the doping test results deeply integrated into the lymph system so why do we have now well despite numerous offer is coming from russia to create a united and independent investigation team into this matter what it has been either avoiding or even rejecting these attempts and now a final decision on the case will be made on december the 9th in paris russia could now face a 4 year ban from hosting major sports competitions and clean athletes made to compete under neutral flak. ok let's move on though upcoming elections in britain seem to be the next to russia link scandal on the rise in the u.k. labor party leader has been accused by the country's telegraph newspaper of helping to spread russian descent from nation that's after he exposed leaked documents on

u.s. u.k. trade talks but it also comes just months after the very same paper itself published this story apparently based on a leak of the very same documents. it's crunch time ahead of the u.k.'s general election meaning it's now or never to smear anyone and everyone in red in other words link them to russia this week it's mostly comrades jeremy corbett as we can see from this headline bounce off the corp and produced a leaked cache of documents part of which he says reveals how pm boris johnson put the n.h.s. up for sale during trade talks with the us q damage control from mr prime minister the n.h.s. is not for sale and under no circumstances will this government any conservative government do anything to put the n.h.s. up for negotiation in trade talks so probably as an interviewer that those documents represent some meetings that took place between a british minister and officials in the usa i think it's time they gave us the

shorts that they will not sign off our n.h.s. that they will not sell off our public services as part of a try to deal with us and i just garage sales aside it's the leaks dossier that's grabbing attention if not from the russians when i could cobain's documents have possibly come from corbin calls it nonsense but among the pack of those demanding the labor party come clean it seems the daily telegraph knows better independent researchers said the documents carried the specter of foreign influence as they had been published online using methods that directly mirror an earlier russian descent from ation campaign the daily telegraph tools that can. luzhin from a social media a little expert that works with nato's atlanta council's think tank guaranteed impartiality then or maybe the guys the telegraph are looking for are answers in all the wrong places it seems the outlet got its hands on a strikingly similar dossier let's take a closer look here's an excerpt from the dossier corbin heard there was march talk

which created the u. commission as the bad guys it is easier to change your regulation before it's finalized ok again that was from the leak obtained by the opposition leader and this from the dossier published by the telegraph 4 months ago see the difference. british negotiators said washington had repeatedly painted the e.u. commission as the bad guy american officials said it was easier to change a regulation before it is finalized there was much talk which painted the u. commission as the bad guys it is easier to change your regulation before it's finalized well maybe we should ask the authors of the july report who then a source was that they have a new russian friends who might have provided the documents also here's a tip keep a close eye on the online comments section some of it's really worth a look like this one posted more than 2 weeks ago with links to the very scandalous

documents at the center of it all available for anyone and everyone to enjoy however it would seem that the people most concerned about the origins of the dossier pop in to be those at the telegraph the u.s. u.k. trade talk minutes found their way on to the internet the cabinet office to investigate and if not do you think there should be. no i'm not the answer that. well the telegraph has yet to reply to an r.t. request for. twitter's updated terms of service has got people fearing that the social media platform could apply so-called shadow bombs that affect i mean suppressing publicly post their content without the users knowledge stuff their posts aren't visible to followers it's an accusation twitter has faced before you go to dallas report. twitter is coming out of the shadows remember all these media figures accusing the social platform of sneakily hiding

their posts from their followers feeds what big brother hides from us what is referred to as shadow banding maybe even more pernicious if you're on the left maybe you're ok with this but if you're not on the left or even if you are and you revere the 1st amendment you should be concerned that's actually been well substantiated vice news which is not a right wing outlet says that this is happening on a routine basis to a lot of folks on the right side of the aisle but almost never people on the left side of the aisle do not know our island people very least that's what i think is that you've got to be balanced house leader kevin mccarthy wrote our chairman a letter and said hey this is going on and we think your committee should investigate it and how the twitter boss made a surprise an innocent face saying that oh no no no they're definitely not going behind anyone's backs to quietly hide their opinions twitter undertook no behavior to selectively censor conservative republicans or conservative voices

on your platform correct correct. well apparently all those assurances were just a big pile of nonsense now for those of you not too tech savvy i'm talking about a thing called shadow banning to the shuttle banned user everything looks just fine they can log into their account follow calm and like even post tweets but crucially their posts are simply not shown in other people's feeds even if they are subscribed to the user twitter had been adamantly denying that it does this until it slipped this one small change into their constitution we may also remove all refuse to distribute any content on the services ltd strip you sure visibility of any content on the service suspended terminate users and reclaim usernames without

mobility to you it's a case where just a couple of words make all the difference the part about limiting tweet visibility was not in the previous edition of the document here it is nothing of the sort there and one can only wonder why twitter has decided to come clean all of a sudden perhaps because after all the outcry from the users wronged by the platform it simply made no sense in denying it anymore or and maybe because the twitter star had previously outright confessed to shadow banning already on hidden camera one. that someone. don't want to share. there's even a lawsuit against twitter accusing it of discriminating against conservative voices by your employing its shadow banning tactic but now that it's in the terms of

service some users will just have to accept that they are talking to themselves. well let's get the thoughts now of a walker under is a political commentator on new york observer columnist a friend of the program under good to see you so there we have it twitter's terms of 'd service have been updated allowing them to limit the visibility of content pretty direct perhaps what they are going to do are you surprised. no doubt all look i'm not a lawyer so i don't want to offer legal advice this program but what i will say is this look fundamentally any contract that you enter into even if that's to accept a free service like twitter or facebook gives you certain rights and gives you certain responsibilities and i think the reason that twitter has made this change today is because they're in potentially legal hot water because obviously if you

provide a service to somebody or you offer to provide that service and then you don't do it then you've breached the contract and what i mean to say by that is that it's within the terms of service previously it was explained that you were able to use the service entirely fully and the tweets you say would be shown to everybody who subscribed to you and that she thought wasn't happening that twitter in order to get out the legal out we'll need to change the rules to make very clear that they have the right to have a shot no bob here's why i think that's important ignoring the legalities of it all the rights of somebody to say the reason it's important because things like twitter and things like facebook are effectively public utilities you know we take we get a lot of our news now from social media and so in the old days if i didn't like a particular type of hot dog i'd go to a different dog shop if i don't like twitter or facebook it's very hard to find an alternative and therefore beyond just being

a private company they are also they also have a public duty and not public duty or to be fair and balance whatever they think of the caller said being posted and that is that if they hear i will just maybe perhaps make it clear to the audience that the platform has previously been accused of shadow bombing conservative views i know you're talking about the galaxy it's a bit of a minefield but it does lead to the question under come opinion really just people and if it is not illegal. well this is the big difficulty is nate's because you know into normal circumstance what you would say what you would have said 20 years ago 50 years ago is how you know any company is allowed to promote or population whatever it wants and so you would have say conservative publishers and you would have left wing publishers the big problem is with these tech companies they are so massive that actually they're fact simply the only players in the market so if i

get shadow bond by traits or for being a conservative and by the way that might have happened i wouldn't know but if i had been shadowed by twitter i don't have an alternative and so fundamentally we have to see the public utility in these companies we have to accept that if democracy is going to be free if our discourse is going to be free if there's going to be freedom of speech outsold then these companies need to opine thought ok the highest standards and the difficulty of course these days you know these are global companies and so different standards exist in different areas how many social networks have said to themselves in china and that i think is appropriate in britain you know we want to watch some of the conservative commentary from america and if the shadow existed before that it was unfair to put it into the terms of service now even though they own the company even though they manage the company even though the companies that has the the rights of public discourse is mine and

should be continued under thanks for your time this hour under walker political commentator new york observer columnist. thank you. ok just before we go want to bring you 2 fronts which has been part of the biggest for years this there is there are in the 1st couple of apply pictures giving you a sense of darkness the sand the crotch the other thing coming out our correspondent was speaking to us earlier showing us tear gas canisters being fired into that. there were fires being set off. all of makeshift barricades as well this is an issue we're going to be keeping a very close eye on throughout thursday evening the scenes in a small of the biggest marches in recent times it's the french capital keep it here on r t was there are

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