it's going the world is going to go with the star action and it's going to change. france is crippled by a nationwide strike over pension reform plans with protests in the capital descending in to violence. the russian foreign minister rejects germany's claims that moscow has not been cooperating with an investigation into the murder of a georgian citizen in berlin. and twitter faces fresh censorship accusations after a change to its terms of service leads it to fears of shadow banking.

or broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our new international i'm sean thomas certainly granted to have you with us. our france has been paralyzed by its biggest strike in years with this thursday workers are protesting in mass against of the government's plans to overhaul the pension system transport networks have been brought to a standstill with schools and hospitals badly affected as well demonstrations have been held right across the country one of the largest trade unions in france says 1500000 people marched in support of the protest while the interior ministry estimates 800000 took part. was in paris following protests force. this is to put these changes by the french government the pension system even fronts the idea is that they will see a model come a number of different systems around food. 2 different systems into

a universal system but people say that i will have a massive impact on their pensions because it will mean that their pensions perhaps could be lower in the future or in fact that they might have to work even the long gun that has caused a huge fury here in france fair plasterer public but i can tell you that the crimes go all the way back more than a close to god do nor which is where this process was originally due to start off with what was come for many hours has turned to a huge tensions with clashes between the police and the protest as you might be able to hear some of those plus going off behind us that's tear gas that's being thrown into the protesters the taxes have set light to several parts of the streets around me including some of the electric scooters they've been bringing items to put on to the fire we saw a van. on fire and they got tear gas really coming quite close to us and you might get a sense of it just down that you can see there more tear gas down into the protesters

trying move people away from the damage so that point crews can get on with their job which is to try and put out that fire i get you get a sense of some of the damage that's being caused here shell to hit has been smashed that's something we see quite regularly in the protests another fire taking place across the street actually as a not just that big fire with a big plume of smoke but of course hey it really looks like in the last sort of 10 to 15 minutes or hell it has broken loose have also been tensions elsewhere in fronts north just here tensions in places like no other cities across from the reality is the people here are angry figures coming in from the prefecture and from the police when the course fronts say that more than 450000 people have taken part in this strike today not just try. but what is it teaches students health work

is a firefight isn't even the police people are adamant that they want to have their voices heard and it seems like today they've come out to the streets to make sure that's happening among the other protests around france a giant effigy supposedly of president. was out on display in the southern city of . protestors there were seen hitting it with sticks as it dangled from a tree strike action there also saw some sporadic violence as demonstrators clashed with police we've been speaking to some of those who took part in these protests. but this is not a strike by railway employees only but a national strike all the employees who don't want to have their pensions counted and don't want to work more while earning less than $3.00 that 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. while we're

doing is good very good is imposing their will present we want to live and work and earn a decent living the same goes for retirees who should get decent pensions because this affects us all we are working you have to work for the unemployed and the pension. and we work poor jobs we want to fight against it. russia has flatly rejected germany's claims that it has not been cooperating with an investigation into the murder of a georgian national in berlin in august russian foreign affairs minister sergei lavrov told r.t. on thursday that it appears moscow will again be blamed for a crime it was not involved in with the story here's where he's may finish. relations between moscow and barely now going drastically downhill 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 has ceased tame

the 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 in the us is going over 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 which we gave them everything where all 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 but that's not

a good way to deal with anyone and with russia in particular is in him 100 was a 40 year old georgia and 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 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 as reported paramilitary korea continued into 2012 when he is said to have assisted at georgian operation against his former comrades considered a terrorist by the russian i thought. says he was also listed as a potential is the miss rat 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 interpol and russia and the reporters suggesting the wanted murderer was then hard by moscow of chechnya to do it again the federal investigation in germany is just the beginning now on google merkel says she hopes russia will help german investigators but it seems no matter who was behind it the embassy expulsion indicates that the verdict has in fact already been given. power to reporting from europe. twitter is updated terms of service says it will now be able to put limits on the content raising fears of the social media platform could apply so-called shadow brands that effectively means suppressing publicly posted content without the users knowledge that their posts are not visible to followers it is an accusation that twitter has faced before but as of comments it could become the norm for next year.

twitter is coming out of the shadows remember all these media figures accusing these 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 our own team 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 to tech savvy i'm talking about a thing called shadow banning to the showband 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 smooth change into their constitution we may also remove

refused to distribute any content on the services limit distribute. 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 stuff had previously outright confessed to shadow banning already on hidden camera one. shadow. than someone who knows. what she should but there's even

a lawsuit against twitter accusing it of discriminating against conservative voices by even ploy 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 it's not so much that twitter or facebook or any other social media platform have influence what they have is the power to promote certain people's opinion and d. promote tell of the people's influence on twitter that is the critical thing and what we need to do is have a fair platform we need to have a free and open discourse and we need to allow everybody to have a similar right to say what they've got to say i don't agree with absolutely everything that is said on twitter not even the conservative stuff that we're talking about but actually it shouldn't be for these big tech companies to decide our discourse our discussion our debate in our own country that is manifestly

unfair and it's not. based on this decision actually it's a public utility and that's a critical point. next week's a general election in britain seems to be the next to russia link to scandal on the horizon the opposition labor party it leader has been accused by the daily telegraph newspaper of helping to spread russian descent from ation this is after he exposed that leaked documents on u.s. u.k. trade talks but it also comes just months after the very same paper published a story apparently based on a leak of the very same documents as artie's mccarran comments. 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 or 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 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 trade deal with the us and i just garage sales aside it's the leaks dossier that's grabbing attention if not from the russians when i could corbin'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 earlier russian descent from ation campaign the daily telegraph draws that conclusion from a social media a little exposure that works with nato's atlanta councils think tank guaranteed impartiality then all maybe the guys the telegraph are looking for 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 corben what there was much talk which printed the you commission is 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 guys american official 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 their 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 they should be i'm. not the answer to that. the international olympic committee has thrown its weight behind claims of anti-doping tampering in moscow a laboratory prompting a response from

a rush of this is. a much more we'll be back after a short break this is our national stay with us. but. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right to be pros this is what the 3 of them will be good. interested always in the water. they sit. in a world of big news. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever

we need to be smarter 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. this is international law from moscow now the head of the international olympic committee has back to the findings of a world anti-doping agency panel over alleged tampering tempered results in the laboratory database russia has strongly denied the allegations after performing its own technical investigation archies medina coach picks up the story for us. group

of russian technical experts have conducted their own investigation and rejected claims that moscow manipulated athletes test results in a slow burra treaty database they claim that moscow has transferred all the information required to wada and never tampered with the results of the probe 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 actually back in 2015 fled to the united states right as the doping scandal aska latest russian experts say that they were the ones who tempered because they had admin rights russian experts have found that the developer of the limbs of the most mr megachurch of and his colleague mr silva lives how did ministries access to the system as a result of the research the russian side is determines the database used to the

most has been changed from time to time and after mr roach. and so believe ski fled to the us the database had been in fact run via the internet from los angeles until june 26th seen the situation changed in 2016 when it was revealed that such manipulations took place the russian agency was guarded and 2016 within you had of the department appointed but a problem seemingly still exist there are actually 2 copies of the database one that was given to wada in 2017 by an unknown whistleblower and the other one provided by the russian side in general this year and the group of experts now believes that it is essentially wrong to compare these 2 copies because of their different origins while the 29000 copy was produced following all the necessary technical requirements the other came from unknown digital front here after

possibly being tampered with and that is backed by avid and found during the investigation conducted by the experts. a russian led criminal investigation has found a mechanism of deliberate tampering with a doping test results deeply integrated into the lymph system so what do we have now well despite numerous offer is coming from russia to create a united and independent investigation team into this matter why don't has been either avoiding or even rejecting these attempts russian experts explain why they think this happened in this case we think that during its probe what is intelligence investigations department tried by all means not to undermine trust in the information provided by the whistleblower and the conclusions made by mr mclaren 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 troll flack. one of the stars of the netflix series or norco's wagner maura was a blaine or has been rather a lead back in his native brazil for creating a political monster he spoke exclusively to r.t. spanish channel host and former ecuadorian president rafael correa. a limited will mean how could the people who great brazil choose such a primitive person is both a narrow. this is a good question well. the fact is that one. i. believe even you have no answer. but during the government of lula and deal we lived in a certain isolated world the country has reached a new level 30000000 people have moved out of poverty airports are full of people like never before more black students are attending universities we lived in

a certain isolated world. is a magician and he cheve a reconciliation between social classes which was unlikely to ever happen in brazil told the bankers don't worry everything will be fine the only thing i want is to get people out of poverty you will not lose your positions and your income yes and for some time despite high prices for war materials everything went well but then the economy collapsed and humans did not possess the same ability or charisma as we were and then the elite which temporarily agreed to this agreement said that's it but some of what it is and even think that the same elite which had no other choice but to support both so narrow is now beginning to realize what kind of monster they've created and is now trying to distance itself from it and there was one on the newspapers wrote that lula was unsalted they do the same with culture figures here that for example i have a lot of lawsuits with journalists as i did not know that i will sue them they say

that i use the law to promote culture because i have leftist views and support leftist ideology and i filed lawsuits against the media but what happened to move is a real mess. 10 years ago december the 5th assault tragedy strike in the russian city of perm a deadly fire ripped through a night club killing 156 as russia commemorates of the horrific incident we spoke to one of the many families still suffering the consequences. exactly the kind of state of us dollars which is a hit to. a spot in washington yes favorite it becomes. a sort of i write. this to you could just get

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more news at the top the hour this is going to trash. all the yen the euro the dollar they all refer to each other and they're all going deeper and deeper into debt so there's no basic there or there there's no so there's no way to measure the dead against something that is could be considered money remember j.p. morgan said only gold is money everything else is credit or debt ok so without that there's no way to measure that debt and there's no at the moment you know my my view is that this is leading to a neo feudalism poor you have just a few private equity firms owning 98 percent of all the assets and everyone else is a living as serfs on that we're getting back to the dark ages.

joining me every foes on the alex sullivan show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. and this is who but broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy of the 21st century i'm going to want to washington here's a look at what we have to you today. biggio they're all killers are writers bad writers even if we are here to see why they don't want something so the streets of france have erupted in strikes against the pension reform proposal from the micro government we're going to take you to the ground in paris where our t.

correspondent charlie dubinsky brings us the latest on the upheaval plus. the u.s. trade deficit has fallen to recent lows in the midst of the ongoing trade war but what could this mean for negotiations going forward we're going to break it all down and analyze much more with paul horwitz of bubba trade and later yes he she is a communications agency not a national security agency it has no expertise in national security nor did is have authority to make national security judgments. and yet another front of the trade fight we follow up on the realm of telecom as weiwei has made some major moves to wean the u.s. government are decors one is there a lot of a o'collins of the hands of sort through the latest in wall ways lawsuit against the f.c.c. we have a packed show day for let's get to it. and we start by taking you again to france where these massive strikes have brought the nation to a screeching halt in fact these are the largest single demonstrations that have

taken so place so far under the administration of president emanuel mccrone in fact president mccrone has issued his plans for pension reform and that is what kicked off all of these demonstrations today let's head now to the streets of paris where r.t. correspondent charlie dubinsky brings us the latest developments and breaks down these strikes. mobilize ation here in france with official figures suggesting more than 450000 people have taken to the streets to protest of power lies the country all in a dispute over pension reform this is a reform that the french government wants to bring in and to present. a model can meet the 42 current pension systems into one unit. system the government says it will be fair i it will be more just but the protest isn't strike is say no it won't it will mean that we may have to work for longer and we may end up with less money in puckett's when we are pensioners those 2.