in france milan clashes blocked roads and disrupted transport services as a nationwide strike against the government pension reform spills into days of protests. we saw. them start find they got to catch phrase coming quite quickly and you might get a sense of it just. as you can see that more cheer gas coming to each of the protesters trying to keep them away. also the calm nato 70th anniversary summit exposes new divisions within the block with a viral video from the event showing world leaders apparently mocking president donald trump. and a new investigation reveals that free dating apps such as tender don't safeguard

users from sex offenders our guests debated where the responsibility to protect women lies. we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility you can't trust these companies to tell you it's good news bad you need to take that into your own hands . this is the weekly here on our to you welcome to our roundup of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week. and france one of the biggest strikes in years which was supposed to last one day has turned into consecutive days of protests on saturday tensions were high as workers once again took to the streets across the country they were venting their anger against the government's plans to overhaul the pension system and on sunday more protests are expected with public transport disrupted amid fears of violence.

massive demonstrations were held right across the country on thursday may on marsay and also clashes between riot police and protesters one of the largest trade unions says 1500000 people marched in support of the protests or the interior ministry assume its just over half about took part officers used tear gas to disperse the crowds with the most violent rallies occurring in the french capital quality vince he witnessed them unfold. this strike has been planned for many months now and this is against the proposed changes by the french government to the pension system here in france the idea is that they will amalgamate number of different systems around 42 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 feature or in fact that they might have to work even longer

that has caused a huge fury here in france 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 we saw a van that was certain i am on fire and they got tear gas really coming right place to us and you might get a sense of it just down that you can see there more tear gas come into the protesters shariah and move people away incredible is famous just saying and as you can hear you know we're seeing protests is smashing shops in front of us tear gas is bringing down and those crews are battling. battling to half contain this fire they've also been tensions elsewhere in front snort just the tensions in places like. other cities. the suggestion now is that this one

strike that was initially planned by transport workers and is now encompassed teachers health work is the firefighters and even the police could now stocks a ruling strike in the lead up to christmas and going on until the new year as the strike is attempt to make the french government rethink these pension reforms for the moment here in france people are adamant that they want to have their voices heard this come out to the streets to make sure that's happening. earlier this week nato leaders gathered in the u.k. to celebrate the military alliance is 70th anniversary but it turns out people in the host country have little knowledge of its relevance. what do you think are the main 3 achievements of they. even though. in terms of achievements no i don't know what do you have no idea any advantage of

me tell you what you know i honestly don't know anything about it until the flag of the day and only my husband recognise what it was who it's a good question. from the group. so one is probably to be honest i don't have i don't have even one leader is he has the occasion to claim that nato is the most successful alliance in history some of the members disagree as to what the main threats to the bloc are they did agree though to share its running costs more evenly something the us has long been urging simon right from political satire show in case you missed it gives an alternative take on some. $29.00 nation alliance which makes up the hall the world's military spending yet still calls itself defensive as $107.00 c. congratulations. in london some drinks spread some president trump accused the president of france and anyone michael of

being nasty bullied the least popular. video from being laughed at by trudeau micron and even boris johnson has been seen around the world today wouldn't say exactly plain sailing for this nato meeting but here come all the leaders now coming in with. many surprises in. some way oh yes i know that one i know that one. together last. next to you. leader of. the least popular to this christmas. happy day to. us. to this is this going to strengthen the school to. the one. before the main festivities started a select group of leaders have the tools to meet at the u.s. ambassador's residence like kids going to. play by the orange one

on a golden throne i suppose he does pay for nato presence after all something the head of the alliance un stoltenberg knows very well but again this was the spine this is . going to get america to pay the bills you know i've always thought that being the head of nato must be the least powerful powerful job in the world so despite their recent differences france is a man you might call did meet trump and he's got. to put on a frankly all some display of man spreading. passive aggression this is where we. were great if you know. it's. ok because. you could have something different from the us. but. also water. you. know well with nato which has become like any

70 year old its way slowly has expanded since it's probably become a bit of a financial burden to the family they can't work out who it is slow and small the russians the chinese the middle easterns. the anniversary party was marred by protests and the british capital some demonstrators vented their anger against certain attendees while others objected to nato pressuring its members to raise defense spending r t america's rick sanchez asked his guest about the current purpose of nato and if it really is obsolete trunk one what if for changing his mind. you're a diplomat you've got a lot of experience in this field what is it that made 0 either must do today. a viable or does do even need it anymore no it's a bureaucracy in search of a mission was right in 2016 when he said it was obsolete and so afraid was the establishment that he meant what he said on the very day he was inaugurated and they tried to ram through the addition of

a new country montenegro eventually got through because it turned out they didn't have to worry about trump's intentions once he filled his administration with a bunch of bushies and retreads of the heritage foundation they've simply adopted the policies we've had the last few decades and somehow turned into nato as obsolete into let's make nato great again we'll just strong on these countries to pay more for their defense against nobody in particular you think you know as in fact outlived its usefulness i thought so in 1990 s. think so today it's been as a loser from a standpoint of being a naturalized american and having read the. father's warning you can't seem to angling alliances i mean what is this but in entangling alliances it's our own foreign policy that did reason nato is being kept around by the foreign policy hawks in washington is not because it's necessary for the actual military operations and nato itself doesn't really contribute a whole hell of a lot there are very few countries with the notable exception i want to say france and turkey but it put a bit in as if this is not

a good idea for the united states and its very close allies to have an association a military economic class size that's what i was trying to say france and turkey could theoretically mountie independent military operations everybody else is just a hanger on and they're just window dressing for us military operations but the are literally like roman exactly erisa want to do what i've been hearing go bad what word the word of this launch window or what that is what it seems to be a dismissive alliance and 991 when the soviet union and the warsaw pact would out of business nato should have as well as why didn't they let russia in i mean that literally that time i've read on many occasions boot himself has said why don't you get is that what you are you're going to tell you who it was but one of the european european nato has said if we did that the nato would be like the un just to talk shop it could. take action by which they meant military action. listen to what you just said if you're saying it doesn't work if we don't have enemies exactly what if we had. the ability to inflict military force and i dare to say aggression in places like serbia libya whatever we want to using nato as

a platform but enemies could change by the way russia could be s.o.b.'s at one time like the 1950 s. but not so much now right but better why don't you have a system that allows that ability i guess because because whose interests are those that serve at all these all these are the these military companies and these bureaucrats who have the nice cool rice balls at the expense of their taxpayers because there's a threat out there is a bear in the woods. popular free dating out such as tender are not protecting their users from sex offenders on their platforms as according to a new investigation by american nonprofit organization pro publica the probe took a look at more than 150 incidents of sexual assault over the past decade it found that the majority of victims were women who met their attackers through match apps and 10 percent of the cases they were paired with men who had already been accused or convicted of sex crimes. match group which owns over 40 of the most popular

apps says they do conduct background checks on their members but only for paid accounts for the company says it disputes the investigation's findings. the implication that we know about such offenders on our side and don't fight to keep them off is as outrageous as it is falls and stick knowledge evolves we will continue to aggressively deploy new tools to eradicate bad actors including users of our free products where we are not able to obtain sufficient and reliable information to make meaningful bang ground checks possible chadwick more a journalist at spectator magazine and reece iverson a women's rights advocate gave us their thoughts on dating platforms and their screening policies. the match group is a $1000000000.00 company there is no reason why they couldn't allocate just a small portion of their revenue to screen the people on their ab just so that there's just a smaller since of increased safety it's a precaution it's a measure but it's deserved if they if they're suddenly saying that we want in

order to join the service we want to perform background checks on everyone who joins 1st of all that would kill the business and they know it there's a moral responsibility on these companies that are making billions of dollars 1700000000 dollars from women looking for love to say oh you know what it's too expensive for us to do a little bit to protect you nobody's going to want to join these apps with these kind of if they're doing that they're being this invasive about background checks with that said people maybe shouldn't be on them especially women and not only are these dangerous for women but it's destroying women so just get off the dating apps if you don't perform your own background checks in your own time with your own money get off we're not going to restrict women from using the internet because there are predators we do deserve for these companies to at least take the step

into the right direction why do you want to put that kind of power on these monolithic tech companies and up saying that you know banned women from dating apps i'm simply saying you shouldn't rely on this and you can't trust these companies to tell you who's good and who's bad you need to take that into your own hands so if you meet someone do a background check before you do good for you go out on a date if they work in tandem with the courts to get the names at least of the 1st and last names in the location of where these people are and perhaps create some type of monitor of their internet that's a step in the right direction it's going to be a mess i think no matter what and there's always going to be people who perhaps squeak through or don't get picked up who then commit assaults and crimes get. done ladies protect yourselves and we don't win and by the way these incidences are obviously extremely rare and you know by and large the vast majority of men are not sexual predators one woman is enough we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility to protect the women

that utilize their app and then what happens you know it's it's never going to be a perfect system. still to come us 2020 preelection raillery sees an unexpected turn with the baby out of character from the latest star wars saga spin off outrunning the democratic front runners on social media and other stories that shape the week after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport this i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world of big partisan law and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. to globalization the dollars a share you know that's happening as the world is kind of jesting aparna lot of different ways we look into it because there's an economic force behind it is always. thank. you. welcome back russia has denied it's been unwilling to cooperate with german authorities over an investigation into the murder of a georgian national in berlin in august after berlin expelled 2 russian diplomats

on wednesday claiming that moscow hasn't been forthcoming and nuff russian foreign minister sergei lavrov told r.t. it appears moscow will again be blamed for a crime it was never involved in. the federal foreign office today declared 2 employees at the russian embassy in berlin to be persona non grata with this step at the federal government reacts the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high level and in fact it requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k.k. in berlin zoo. 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 we're on the satellite images to 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. with the us the murder and question happened in late august and want to berlin's parks the 40 year old victim was shot and killed on his way to a mosque eyewitnesses say a cyclist shot the man in the back of the head and then fled the scene the slain man is on congress fairly often on us tonight k. was a georgian citizen who is since 2017 had lived in germany as an asylum seeker he had ties to a high profile chechen terrorists in russia and fought against russian troops and police during the 2nd chechen war the man was wanted by russian authorities on terrorism charges the case was seized on by the controversial belling cat investigative group which along with german newspaper der spiegel were quick to point the finger at moscow with allegations that russian authorities had helped the assassin create his fake identity economists icon were told us the evidence

presented so far has been inconclusive. you can definitely see that there are certain interests who want to poison the relationship between russia and germany it seems that there is some cleaning up we're going on with isis and everything around and this high profile terrorist who might be related to all these happenings in there with isis and syria and so on so i think there can be many more reasons why this was done and who did this apart from russia the problem is that we cannot trust any of those explanations from german governments at all it was already with the script it was was iraq all these so-called big evidences turned out to be just nothing and in this case to make such a big thing like sending 2 people home is without any proven

fact it is just a disgrace i'm feeling very ashamed of the federal bureau of foreign affairs. it's been a rocky start for some us presidential election campaigns with several runners already stumbling at the 1st hurdle and dropping out but it seems the baby out of character from a star wars spin off could be quite a successful candidate if it through its name into the 2020 presidential race according to a recent poll baby is outrunning all democratic hopefuls on social media including joe biden and bernie sanders but that's not going to stop those 2 and the many other still up for consideration striving to be called the perfect candidate. has the story. in this imperfect world of ours the who we go will these finding something perfect it is of course impossible but goodness do they really try every 4 years in america elections the eternal searched. for the

perfect candidate a smallish chink in their houllier than thou armor is enough to sink him or her and i really mean the smallest 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 too far he helped 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 gleefully work for the active destruction of my people if it makes me seem in a yacht or more electable than booted shorter within a seriously antic with salvation army these activists are literally accusing an openly gay man of supporting homophobia just just let it sink in as a 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 some. 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 you know principles and decency he's just ancient. get on and 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 sniff of 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 are sure he can remember all that stuff from 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 biasing. no one it seems is good enough homosexual homophobe 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 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. lastly some world news in brief a massive fire has torn through a paper factory in the center of the indian capital of new delhi leaving 43 people dead that's according to officials the fire has now been put out but the rescue operation is still underway emergency services say 50 people have been rescued dozens of workers were sleeping inside the building when the fire broke out the factory is located near a large markets which make the work of the firefighters more difficult it's not a short circuit started the fire. also tens of thousands have gathered in hong kong for a nother anti-government protests though this time it's been authorized by police some demonstrators brought along american flags the protest began 6 months ago right now scrapped extradition bill and now call for greater independence from beijing.

and israel has carried out air strikes on the gaza strip and response to rocket fire hours earlier according to local media reports 2 people were injured in the air raid israeli military says it targeted hamas positions. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to the minute reports follow us on twitter or facebook. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation that you don't see. you doing the right way or are you being.

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