join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. france is crippled by a nationwide strike over a pension reform with protests sending into violence more expected heading into the weekend. a member of the populist alternative for germany party says extremists have threatened to assassinate her claiming the even left with the time of her death. in the us or the man acquitted of murdering and on our black teenager in 2012 launches

a lawsuit demanding $100000000.00 and the killing of trayvon martin. is larger. than a new disney series is proving more popular than any of the us 2020 democratic hopefuls trending. wherever you're chiming in from right across the globe today welcome to. the names you can only. the biggest strike in years in front of the country to a standstill with workers venting their anger against the government's plans to overhaul the pension system one of the largest trade unions in front 1500000 people marched in support of the protest while the interior ministry estimates just

. took part. i. massive demonstrations were held right across the country. back to it's coming into the weekend. between riot police and protesters officers use tear gas to disperse the crowds with the most violent rallies occurring in the french couple charlotte witnessed all fold. this strike has been planned for many months now and this is against a proposed changes by the french government to the pension system here in france the idea is that they will sue a malcolm a number of different systems around 42 different systems into a universal system but people say that i will have a massive impact on net pensions because it will mean that their pensions perhaps could be lower in the fija or in fact that they might have to work even longer and

that has caused a huge fury here in front. of the supreme court i have been annoyed for 6 months to 6 months we are on strike 6 so it's logical that we are annoyed and we have a public service mission there was but we're here now. but this is not a strike by railway employees only but a national strike. you don't want to have their pensions council don't want to work more while earning less than $2.00 that they did 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 the crimes go all the way back more than a call to god due north which is where this process was originally due to start off with what was come for many hours has turned to huge tensions with clashes between the police and the protest as we saw a van that was certain i am 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 that more tear gas coming into the protesters try and move people away incredible as famous just to get and as you can hey if you know we see. probably just this rushing ships in front of us here gas is bringing down and there is. actually. battling you so you are containing the spire you've also been tensions elsewhere in front nor just the tensions in places like. other cities the suggestion now is that this one day strike that was initially planned by transport workers and is now encompassed. work is the firefighters and even the police could now start a routine strike in the lead up to christmas and going on until. the strike is that time to make the french government do you think these pension reforms for the

moment here in france people are adamant that they want to have their voices heard let's come out to the streets to make sure that it's happening. a member of the populist alternative for germany party acetic stream movies have threatened to resuscitate her due to her political christian beliefs kristina urged the media and other political parties to stop in her words their hate campaign against the party well let's cross to the german. is covering the story of funds know what's alleged to have been said by those targeting the. well kristin about the politician posted a picture on social media with a cross with a number of insults written on it but a very serious threat as well towards her. she discovered this cross near her office where she works as a dentist on wednesday evening the police do not know who the perpetrators are but

since this is a threat towards the politician the investigation has been passed on to the domestic intelligence services office through another post though the politician christina pretty much attacked her opponents she wrote quote the hatred of our political opponents is bearing fruit the alternative for germany party quick came out to condemn the attack and is urging the media and other political parties to stop their hatred towards the i if that. thread to move just the tip of the iceberg attacks on i have to officials are becoming more and more common at 1st offices and events of the were attacked and now it's apparently against the life i'm the health of all politicians. while many politicians have come out to condemn the attack the greens who had a fair share of threats towards them in the past say that these incidents should not be tolerated but

a social democrat politician is pretty much calling out christina. in the eye if they politician as a liar they wrote. the top agitator and a liar from the i if they who once again lies through her teeth now last october of this particular story the politician experience another attack towards her were perpetrators threw stones and jars filled with red paint at her office in the eye if the local building but if we go a little bit back from the beginning of this year there's been a number of threats and attacks towards politicians from many sides of the political spectrum the greens were on the members of the green party will put on a kill list and an m.p. for the i if that was brutally beaten in bremen by on known perpetrators and it doesn't stop there there's been a number of ads criticizing the right wing populist party as well but as all of this tension is and pressure is mounting on the i if they're politicians the c.d.u. n c

u the largest pretty much political parties in germany have been trying to boycott them and putting imposing a blanket banning of a ban on anybody cooperating with a right wing populist party even when the us far as saying that these should not even have a competent within that that should be prohibited. we are clear again that we reject any form of cooper with the d. even if it was just a coffee in local council or it seems that the political landscape in germany has been changing from the dominance of the c.d.u. in s.p.d. to the rise in popularity of the i if they especially in the eastern states of this country so far there's been a number of attacks this year and critics are hoping that these attacks were not turn into a disturbing trend breaking down the story for us from berlin artes of angelo. it's been a rocky start for some us presidential election campaigns with several runners

already stumbling up the 1st hurdle and dropping out but it appears the baby yoda character from a star wars spin off could be quite a successful candidate if it through its name into the 2020 presidential ring that's breakdown why about might be according to a recent poll baby older is are trending all 2020 democratic hopefuls on social media including front runners joe biden and bernie son but that's not going to stop those through the many others still up for consideration striving to be called the perfect candidate rutgers they have has more in the. in this imperfect world of ours the who really grill these finding something perfect it is of course impossible but goodness do they really try every 4 years in america elections the eternal search for the perfect candidate the smallish chink in there who we are than that hour is enough to sink him or her and i really mean this

smallish chink for example pete booted judge currently ranked 4th in the democrat candidate polls he's a darling a mayor a family guy openly gay and he even has a. disabled dog i mean what an angel but then i see he went to far he help the homeless participated in salvation army charity events and that's a christian organization which is sometimes accused of homophobia you know hard core christians and all apparently race issues aren't the only thing. is slow to grasp what is his excuse for not realizing the salvation army is homophobic hard to imagine a more succinct visual metaphor for i will do for you work for the act of destruction of my people if it makes me seem in

a yacht or more electable than boots adige shorter within a seriously antique with salvation army these activists are literally accusing an openly gay man of supporting homophobia just just let it sink in you haven't dropped out of the race yet unlike camelot harris and one of her crimes as a half black half tamil indian woman was that she just wasn't black enough skin pigmentation seems to really really matter for a presidential candidate then you have bernie sanders who spent his life trying to power the poor and for his troubles had the d.n.c. election rigged against him last time around but bernie is the doesn't get it america doesn't want someone who cares so much for the poor sanders just does not understand that

a $15.00 minimum wage will hurt the job market and there's no way we can afford to make education free for everyone and on top of bernie's well you know principles and decency he's just ancient. good ideas. get on. much like former vice president and controller see magnate joe biden e's neck deep in just the weirdest stuff even getting really close and taking the nice need for people's hair now embroiled in ukraine gate he got his little boy a nice cushy job that pays a standing amounts in ukraine the poorest nation in europe and modern civil war to boot i'm sure he can remember all that stuff foam ages getting the better of him to his memory isn't what it was then we have elizabeth warren who hasn't quite yet

figured out who she is in case you missed it she tried to pass yourself off as part native american which was an exaggeration by which i mean it was entirely made up by. no one it seems is good enough homosexual whole move a black woman who isn't black enough an old man that's obsessed with helping the people that need help biden in his head sniffing and seriously what the hell then again perhaps people wouldn't need to pick so much if you know they had something else to talk about if these people had a plan beyond beating trump a clear plan for america and americans but hey maybe not i mean seriously. living stuff. still to. bring leeds russia's participation in major sports events next year hugging in the

balance story and plenty more besides this. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business is just the right questions and demand the right answer. the. question. seems wrong. to me but yet to shape

out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. a quarter of an hour 3 pm here in moscow welcome back to mom acquitted of murdering trayvon martin block teenager and 2012 has launched a lawsuit asking for $100000000.00 in damages now the original case as you may remember sparked the block's lives matter movement in the us.

in february 2012 trayvon martin was returning from a trip to the shops a neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman believed he was acting suspiciously during an older cation between the 2 mr zimmerman fatally shot the 17 year old claiming it was an act of self defense for martin charged him he was later to rid of 2nd degree murder and it seems he'd been 7 years old division of the case remains his role as ever. it was one of the most resonant criminal cases in recent

u.s. history the 2012 shooting of an unarmed african-american teenager a stark reminder of america's racial problems the vigilante george zimmerman saw the unarmed african-american teenager trayvon martin while patrolling in his neighborhood. he then shot him dead family of trayvon martin has always maintained that this was a case of murder but george zimmerman's claim of self-defense got him a verdict of not guilty in court but now george zimmerman is going back to court he's going to say to the martin family as well as the prosecutors claiming they did irreparable psychological damage to him because of their arrest charges prosecution and federal investigation zimmerman lives in constant fear of physical harm due to regular death threats which often are expressed in rap music as well as online social media commentary this move has got the black community serious many calling

the zimmerman's move of noxious this is why we will never be silent and continue to fight fully variation in justice george zimmerman has punched through the bottom and sunk lower than scum i don't care how specific the allegations are he deserves nothing except prison time i fail to understand the logic i mean how absurd can american legal system be now the attorney representing trayvon martin's parents says that this lawsuit is reckless and unfounded i have every confidence that this unfounded and the richesse lawsuit will be revealed is another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of those 7 years on from the death of trayvon martin and the wounds seem on heal for martin's family and for george zimmerman and us society also as wounds that are sore and open the divide is

getting wider those of us who are. us recently issued this tasteless no surprise we all know that their. roots will raid 0. wife. at least in the united states now lead story the bad old days of slavery well look at the decade of star city that's really going to exacerbate it but there's your work was. ripping but band-aid all certainly infuriating the white population at large were 3 upon what. we would not surprise me at all if there were massive. rot more than in coming days and weeks and it was far it's in a you so it was the moment what's all that 3 month more

family. story and more than that hold your rate. so let's move. this was. the head of the international olympic committee has bucked the findings of the world anti-doping agency panel on the alleged tampering of results in a moscow laboratory data base russia strongly denies allegations had altered information and now a group of independent russian experts have carried out their own investigation we spoke to the head of the team who says moscow has abided with waters rules. russia did everything. we strictly followed the route map developed by bloggers executive committee we gave them the. dart of race rules and i.e. the samples we strongly prefer to participate in loon vashti gay should answer

in remission but it was me who ject which. well let's recap this long running story 2 years ago why i received the 2015 moscow laboratory database from a whistleblower a year after about russia was asked to provide authentic samples and electronic data it was supposed to be the final step in reinstating the country's anti doping agency moscow complied with those conditions in january but just last month while her after comparing the 2 copies rule of russia removed hundreds of adverse findings which had a regionally appeared in the 25th dean copy the head of the russian probe again darts the credibility of the whistleblowers version. it doesn't hurt us we. had this daughter grace and he could manipulate it we in the way which up to 16 there were 400 entries into this dr bass drum of drawled this is

a fact that there are questions about the whistle blowers objectivity also in the past want to cough destroyed 1417 samples however this doctor base is taken as a reference we'll be accused of performing public. delete some far less and. of course there was a system administrator who entered the start of the race and worked with it some trials were deleted for technical reasons to maintain the memory i can assure you there was little we can show him to do least darter still. a moscow court has given a blogger on political science student a 3 year suspended sentence for spreading extremism online as you call for see why and support in russia with many prominent figures campaigning for his release

he's now barred from managing online networks for 2 years prosecutors earlier us the court to sentence him to 4 years in prison to cough was initially arrested for participating in un sanction rally in late july in support of candidates who are barred from moscow city council election. after battling an atlantic crossing on a yacht environmental activists gratitude and bird has chosen a more sedate form of transport to the un's climate change conference in madrid but among the methods for a final leg of the trip there was an offer of a donkey from a spanish she said no to that taking the train instead and while the conference looks for a solution to the. climate issue some eco warriors are being accused of taking things just a bit too far. colonial

racist and petri arkell systems of oppression have created and fueled it people who are producing climate change the folks that are responsible for the largest amount of a mission ends or communities or corporations they tend to be predominantly white white white cracked. at least religion has never been about ecology no cared about the planet deals with personal life i don't see a reason to talk about something as. if i'm a catholic i would confess my a sense yes. about confessing to harming nature i think it doesn't have much value.

or i doubt is our news for no the broadcast legend that is laurie king though is standing by with another slice of politicking next to stay close for. the economic system known as capitalism has generated more wealth. than any other system in history in many ways that is defined maternity itself hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty however capitalism has also witnessed growing income inequality thus the appeal of socialism currently on the rise can

complement. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist for the more growth we give them the sooner we all.

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imus up on to. not. come october. units. are going. to go up this time didn't. knock. on the front. runner frankie's monkey. see monkey do something wrong didn't. constitutional scholars weigh in on impeachment and they empath to the proceedings one way or another we're talking to the actual words on this edition of politics.

love them to politicking on larry king on wednesday the house judiciary committee heard from 4 constitutional experts about whether or not president trump committed impeachable offenses did their testimony change the game by any measure let's talk about that with the political panel they are alex although he previously served as chief counsel to senate majority leader bill frist and former general counsel for the national republican senatorial committee he's in washington and in mountain view california zach friend he worked for barack obama and john kerry's presidential campaigns as a spokesman and. strategist. than anything embarrass you more than. well i think this was really the the pre-game if you will to set up the more politically explosive and interesting ones that i think they felt the need that

they had to do this one to try and lay some of the procedural groundwork for the process the piece that i found interesting was jonathan turley is. not withstanding that he was technically the republican witness today i don't think a lot of people consider professor turley a fire breathing conservative i certainly didn't when he was a professor of my law school a long time ago but i think what was interesting was it did show us that there is not unanimity in the academic legal community whether you agree with him or not on this specific issue he is certainly a respected voice on the constitution i think everything else frankly was fairly predictable but i do think that that at least provided some differentiated framework for the process i don't think it changed any minds either those the most important ones those sitting on the day us today or frankly those watching.