this hour's headlines stories it's revealed french authorities were warned of the dangers of using military grade. against demonstrators the crowd control the. protesters. the use of major producer in the zia suspects the. trade rivalry than ecological concerns. on the u.s. from the entertainment t.v. channel is called in the crossfire after it apologizes for dropping their. commercial we get the reaction. this was just. so.

you know christmas is coming together i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial. one minute and also 10 pm in melbourne and 2 in the afternoon right here in moscow this choose the 17th welcome to our 2 international. after a series of injuries against protesters it has come to light french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as generally last year also tex the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks of its grenades being used by right. the blast the fact of the device is produced by an

expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injured an individual well those within 10 sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage the resumption of production is impossible without completely reviewing the production process. well in a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns that defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only country by the way where riot police to use this weapon the spite the warnings they have still used their on occasion been known to simply explode as well and being handled the gasconade cause serious injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 of whom lost hands a woman also died after she was hit by one of the demo in more say last year dozens more protesters say they have been injured by the weapons.

the national assembly people trying to force their way police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's way he tried to push it away with his hands which which reaction. i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we went to india for justice i've been. trying to fight against the use of ji ally for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns. or french journalists emerick morefield told us he thinks the government is using their grenade as

a deterrent. but you mustn't forget the use of the trash small rubber bullets during deserved instructions which have led to several people losing a knife more than 20. for you remember we were sued for those new political will to stop the madness in my opinion it is very cynical to do it on purpose so you want to dissuade people from the most rating and from showing their anger and during this yellow vests protest that he preventively for instance arresting people because they were carrying swimming classes in order to protect their their eyes from gas it is where you prove bitching to most ration why preventing it from being massive let's keep attention on the country because mass industrial action in front entered a 3rd week on monday with transport workers causing severe disruption to road real

systems nationwide since the beginning of december public sector employees have been protesting against the government's pension reform plans sometimes violently charlotte devinsky has. much of paris remains paralyzed with hundreds of kilometers of destruction of traffic as people were trying to get into the city because of course many of the train services from out of paris into the city center have been not working right 80 percent of them not working here in paris that met true is all but i just nailed space with only a couple of lines and may need to automated lines working as a result of that continued strike we are expecting to see a big protest today this is the 3rd time that unions have called for nationwide protests since this strike began back on december 5th it's now into its 3rd week and there are some suggestions that up to a 1000000 people could be out on the streets across france today that very 1st day

. strikes back in the early december it was around 809000 it dropped just over a week later to just under 400000 but now they're saying now the government is outlined all of its pension proposals including that very controversial raising of retirement age from 62 to 64 that up to a 1000000 people to take out the streets there are also warnings from the authorities that they could be what they call the cast as the folks who will be amongst the protest here in paris looking to cause chaos another pension reform was bought for this particular strike but it's not the only malays in france we've seen across 2019 strikes teachers from the police even they had a historic strike back in october and even we had strikes from medical and health workers all the way back to march of this year now in stark contrast a warning from doctors some $600.00 signed

a letter on monday morning that they would quit their posts unless the government injects a huge amount of money into the health system they say that there's a shortage when it comes to hospital beds because they're being closed there is no one up staff and this lot enough money and those are the results of that one health worker has told us that that is putting people's lives at risk. in particular we as health care professionals want to be able to continue to do our jobs the way we were targeted and the way we want to without any discrimination about interests which has become systemic we don't have the equipment but it's not our fault that we are understaffed but that's not our fault either when i worked in hospital one of our patients died almost a year ago simply because we don't have enough stuff to take care of everyone that was a year ago but nothing has changed since their president mark warner had recently said to doctors he would put more money into the health system and also pay

hospital workers bonuses however that was rude. checked it by. not doing enough today on tuesday another big day of action is to set up to a 1000000 people on to secrete it to be out on the streets across france and the government says it won't back down when it comes to its reform agenda particularly on this pension reform agenda because it he feels it has to plug a huge gap in its finances and the unions say that they won't back down there just a week before christmas now and it doesn't appear that there is a truce in sight. yeah charlotte was saying there are more demonstrations against pension reforms are expected later today in paris will be about closely. caught between a rock and a hard place in america's family friendly hallmark t.v. channel has apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple of his promise to create more inclusive content the company

division which operates the network says it's been a tough call all wrong on. the crown media team has been agonizing over this decision as we've seen the hurt is has unintentionally caused our mission is rooted in helping all people connect summer break traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused yeah the move comes after the. for a wedding planning website that feature the gay couple getting married sparking complains. you could've made planning your perfect wedding easier we do. we help to clean companies clean registry and invitations get started for free it's only dot com. spurred a petition by the christian conservative group 1000000 moms it's called in whole mark to not show any content on the channel claiming it went against the values of

its target audience however the removal calls the back close and social media to channel exact change their minds have been on spoke to media commentator gina loudon human rights activist peter tatchell about the robert. this was just a handful that sought to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and christmas is all about love and coming together you know i can understand what the fuss is about you know if i saw a card or a verse or anything with a man or woman kissing i think beautiful wonderful i love it they were viewers they were watching it they were thinking hey you know if i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial and that to some people is understandable and it doesn't mean that they were necessarily bigoted or that this was in any way anti-gay it might just be that they wanted to be the ones to have that conversation with their

5 year old is there any reason why the channel which describes itself as family friendly and it shows 1st 2 shows this time of year it once in children families together on the t.v. popcorn watch is there a reason to describe themselves as that they should take a bit more care not to offend people that may be offended most young kids get it when they see 2 people in love young kids don't think you know man woman boy girl that they think of love and these were about love not about 6 about love and i would have thought in a modern mature democracy we were better to celebrate love in its many forms is this the time of year where we want to be making political statements during you know what is a holiday season where we sitting around the fire with our families you know having having a good time and maybe not thinking so much about l g b t or even abortion or other things that might be more of

a political statement almost apologise for pulling the did they need to apologize i think they did yes because it's quite offensive to say that you know an image of 2 women in love is somehow a. not fit and proper for a broadcast channel in this day and i. by putting the ad that was a deep insult an assertive rejection of the many same sex couples who do love each other and love each other just as much as any husband or wife you get pushback that is from a political action group be it conservative or liberal what you're really getting is a falsely inflated political pushback from people that aren't necessarily your viewers when you hear the pushback initially from the viewers saying you know hey we're we're moms we're watching your network and we don't want this on there my guess is that the majority of that was probably organic. into the sea is suing the

european union for its this isn't a stall for using palm oil based biofuels the e.u. wants to get member states to phase in eco friendly fuels instead but indonesia which is the globe's largest oil producer suspects the move is more about trade rivalry fell apart saving the planet snarkier and. palm oil it's in everything thousands of everyday products from chocolate to shampoo and cleaning products without even thinking about it we consume on outrage around 8 kilos of it each year the last few years there's been a wind of change with the e.u.'s new focus on emphasizing a greener more eco conscious position and as a result earlier this year the e.u. began to turn its back on these cheap vs tall products with plans to phase out the use of pall mall in biofuels by the end of 2030.

indonesia is the largest palm oil exporter in the world within the world trade organization has been selling palm oil to some big clients the year is for example the e.u. on very good terms for jakarta the stakes are high it's heavily reliant on palm oil production as one of its key industries with over 2000000 indonesians directly employed by the industry and many more gaining from indirect economic benefits and after threatening the e.u. with countless times since indonesia has now taken legal action against the european union alleging discrimination against indonesian palm oil exports with a lawsuit indonesia hopes the e.u.

will promptly change its read to policy and delegated act as well as scrap of the high risk in direct land use change status it has given to palm oil and just last week the block imposed a 5 year tariffs on bio diesel from the southeast asian nation to counter alleged subsidies to producers in the country but also off to a complaint from process that subsidized exports of indonesian bio diesel to the e.u. are causing a threat to material injury to the union industry indonesia's finest foreign minister accuses the e.u. of following a protectionist policy and in a sign of further deepening trade tensions in neighboring malaysia the world's number 2 in palm oil production is mulling taking this same action and the last lines that asia's 2 dominant pommel produces may be heading for a clash with the e.u. and the international court of justice with suggestions that the new stance on palm oil might have something to do with competition in the edible oil business rather

than pure ecological concerns. still ahead boeing say its suspending production of its ill fated 737 jets the reasons why i mean. you know world of big part of the lot 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 smart 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

what politicians do. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is like the full 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the. city. a look at the world's largest aerospace company america's boeing says it will suspend production of its ill fated 737 mux jet from jet rate it's because

regulators say they won't lift a flight on the plane anytime soon. we know that the process of approving the 737 matches return to service must be extraordinarily thorough and robust to ensure that our regulators customers and the fine public have confidence in this 737 max updates we have decided to prioritize the delivery of stored aircraft and temporarily suspend production of the some $37.00 program beginning next month boeing didn't specify how long the shutdown will last the 737 months has been grounded globally since march after nearly $350.00 people died in 2 separate crushes in ethiopia and indonesia in the space of 5 months.

but our to america has been hearing from a former official from the u.s. national transportation safety board on this. it is a huge story i mean this is this is something that has been the nightmare that boeing has been trying to avoid the entire time this is what they've had this p.r. campaign going on the entire time to keep their investors calm dell in settled and i won't get through this this and so forth but but right now the investors have had enough they're very frustrated with boeing and they've had enough in the stocks

took a 4 percent hit today during the day and is what. down another percent after hours so let's try and understand what this means right from a rudimentary level it means this plane is an absolute unmitigated failure it's going the way of the absolute it is a good comparison actually quite honestly it is one of those things that once it gets a bad reputation and they have not done anything to help themselves but this thing has a bad reputation now that the other american the traveling public is not willing to fly it even if they give the thing some sort of fight and they get it up in the air and it's going again within the airlines even the public is trying to opt out of having to fly on this plane and you mentioned earlier when we were 1st talking about this that there's a lot of little guys that are going to get hit by this absolutely not the big guys are going to keep working at boeing little guys the vendors. there's about $12000.00 employees at boeing they're going to be affected by this but they're not going to furlough or fire any of those folks are not good for right now they're going to be moved around within within the company now with that i mean there's

only so long that even a company a size of boeing can be carrying $12000.00 extra employees that are kind of ships who have nothing to do right now now shift that over to the smaller people the smaller suppliers that supply other parts of players for these aircraft that are not just in the u.s. but around the world they don't have those deep pockets the boeing has they don't have the financial cushion that boeing has so you're talking about an economic hit this is an economic story like that's going to affect a lot of working people in america it's going to it's not just the working people too they're going to delay purchases they're going to. draw in their you know their budget strings and they're going to be. not buying new cars they're not going to be buying a lot of meals outside of the home they're going to be really tightening their their strings economic strings and person and making sure that they're they can get through this period when you rush a situation when you rush a product out on the market before it's ready. you always run into trouble that's

why we have regulators and regulations right which is has its own problems in this in the last few weeks to. india's supreme court plans to investigate the legit use of excessive force by police against protesters we are witnessing a 6 day of unrest currently against the new citizenship law which many demonstrators consider as the scrim of the tory towards muslims more than $100.00 students were injured when police stormed 2 islamic universities in new delhi to disperse crowds. was. was. or. or or was it was. or are the biggest protests erupted in the border states where people fear an influx of an illegal

immigrants the capital origins used tear gas to disperse or demonstrations have lost great 36 universities. it was a long question what offer truck citizenship for migrants from some neighboring muslim majority countries however the list excludes muslim migrants themselves the indian government insists it is in no way discriminatory prime minister narendra modi states the law is intended to give respect to those who fled to india and were forced to live as refugees. well here is some of the reaction we've been getting from new delhi. the b.g.p. government under modi and plans to set of detention centers and so all these people especially in the muslims in those attention centers when it comes to what the size of the population muslims to constitute the in boston of the population we don't even own a muslim problem most in the presentation in the parliament and you don't have to

get into mostly i'm pretty certain one of. the ballots the people the weakest actually know this is handy who am a dozen times a day i don't need to turn out differently and that you know in the uk was a secular nation the opposition comes from the last. part of this bill allows my it's not the india. which is against the accord state that is where your position there are all religions all all jane you know all sexuality this bill is against it is against the federal structure it's a go it's the autonomy regent that does write this book this is such a big group it is my belief as the belief of many other people that this act is unconstitutional and against the court's. russia's renowned bolshoi theatre has been accused of being racially insensitive because it

uses black face makeup in one of its performances the director of the theatre has rejected the criticism brought by us ballet dancer misty copeland. the belly love where there has been performed thousands of times in this production inversion the broad and the bolshoi theater will not get involved in such a discussion finding some sort of deep insult in this is simply ridiculous no one has ever complained to us or saw an act of disrespect. mr copeland african american bowler posted a picture of 2 teeny instances from the bolshoi in blackface makeup claiming this is the reality of the ballet world her post sparked why debate on social media then triggered many negative comments. well loved by into a 3 month tragedy set in india it has featured performers in black face makeup since it was 1st performed in russia around 140 years ago legal and media analysts long will give us his take. have you ever seen i'm

sure people have the way russians are half have been portrayed in virtually every name in the movie from moscow on the hudson to car to to forest in the time to post cold war to rocky river drago i will destroy you this halliards mexicans card to mel blanc the voice of bugs bunny speedy gonzalez we been through this for every hour we appropriated the culture of mocking the culture there are people today cool. to be a fan to newspapers or watch t.v. so what can i be offended about today you're never going to satisfy people she go one of 2 choices either you scrap this feed you say we just don't have this anymore

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yes. salutations as julian assange tragically sits rotting away in a london jail cell that hasn't stopped his organization wiki leaks from continuing to publish the secrets that the warmongering powerful do not want published and they were out of the game last weekend with the release of a new batch of documents once again revealing that when it comes to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and chemical weapons attacks in syria all may not be what we've been sold according to wiki leaks the new

documents clearly show internal disagreement within the o.p.c. w. about how facts were misrepresented in the redacted version of a report on an alleged chemical attack and duma syria on april 2018 amongst these is a memorandum written in protest by one of the scientists sent on a fact finding mission to investigate the attack along with this new memo wiki leaks is also releasing for the 1st time ever the original plimer narry report as well as the redacted version that we the public got to see when it was eventually released by the o.p.c. w. so now you can compare the 2 reports and come to your own conclusions about the motivations behind those were the actions as antiwar dot com as dave decamp points out among the many interesting little discrepancies you'll discover when comparing the 2 reports is that.