headline stories it is revealed french authorities were warned of the dangers of using military grade grenades against demonstrators crowd control. protesters. as the e.u. tries to phase out the. major producer in tunisia suspects the move is more about trade a logical concern. on the us from the entertainment t.v. channel is called in the crossfire after it apologizes for dropping and. we get reaction. this is just a. christmas is coming

together i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have . one i don't really want to come in the christmas commercial. of the world this is your r t international my name's you know male welcome to the program. after a series of horrific injuries against protesters it's come to light french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as jun read last year. the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks all of its grenades being used by riot police. 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 while in a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns that defects in their grenades were identified but not resolved france by the way is the only european country where riot police use such a weapon the spike that warnings they're still used they have on occasion been known to simply explode when being handled the gasconade caused serious injuries among yellow face protesters 5 of whom lost hands a woman also died when she was hit by one of the demo in marsay last year dozens more protesters say they have been injured by a weapons. it. was . the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police

arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg he tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction. to the. interview i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we want to kiss india for justice and. i will try to fight against the use of july for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns. some tough images to see there will french journalists emerick more we'll have told us he thinks the government is using the grenade as a turd. but you mustn't forget the use of the trash small

rubber bullets during deserves 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 that 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 arrested people because they were carrying swimming classes in order to protect their their eyes from chagas it is where you prove bitching most rationing why preventing it from being massive meantime mass industrial action in france entered its 3rd week on monday with transport workers causing severe disruption to road real systems all across the country since the beginning of december

a public sector employees have been protesting angrily against the government pension reform plans sometimes leading to doing that he filed this report. 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 mainly the 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 of 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 also warnings from the authorities that they could be what they call the cas is the folks who will be amongst the protest here in paris looking to cause chaos and other pension reform was bought for this particular strike but it's not the only malays in problems we've seen across 200-1000 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 there's not enough money and there's a result of that one health worker has told us that that is putting people's lives 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 it's not our fault either 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 that nothing has changed since then president mccall had recently said to doctors he would put more money into the health system and also pay hospital workers bonuses however the. it was rejected by. not doing enough today on

tuesday another big day of action is to set up a 1000000 people on to separate it to be out on the streets across france the government says it won't back down when it comes to its reform agenda particularly on this pension reform agenda because he feels it has to plug a huge gap in its finances and the unions say that they won't back down i just a week before christmas now and it doesn't appear that there is a truce in sight i'll be talking to charlotte throughout the day as more demonstrations she's been going through against pension reforms are expected later in the day in paris. caught between a rock and a hard place america's family friendly hallmark t.v. channel has apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple and has promised to create a more inclusive content the company division which operates the network says it's

been a tough call all right. 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 so a break traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused a lot of poetry came through the channel polls and for a wedding planning website that feature the gay couple getting married sparking complaints. you could've made planning your perfect wedding easier we did. we have to leave things planned registry and get started for free it's only. the spurred a petition by a christian conservative group 1000000 moms call them home or to not show any. content on the channel claiming it went against the values of its target audience

however their removal caused the box lost all social media to channel exacts changed their minds haven't spoke to media come to church you know loudon and human rights activist peter tatchell about the rock. this was just a handful that sought to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and you know 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

a channel which describes itself as family friendly and it shows 1st 2 shows this time of year it once and children families together on the t.v. popcorn watch is there a reason to describe it in themselves is 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 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 the 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 statements 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. not certain proper for a broadcast channel in this day and age. by putting the ad that was a deep insult an assertive rejection of the many same sex couples who do love each other and who 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. ok moving the program all know

indonesia is suing the european union for its the solution to stop using palm oil but use biofuels you want to get member states to phase in eco friendly fuels instead but indonesia which is the globe's largest palm oil producer suspects the move is more about trade rivalry not about saving the planet nichiren breaks down. 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 average around 8 kilos of it each year the last few years there's been a wind of change with the 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 this cheap and versatile product with plans to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuels by the end of 2030.

and denise is the largest palm oil exporter in the world within the world trade organization it's been something palm oil to some big clients figure is for example the e.u. on very good terms of cost so 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 were 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 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 tower of song bio diesel from the southeast asian nation to counter alleged subsidies to producers in the country have also lost a complaint from process the subsidised 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 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 they're all signs that asia's 2 dominant palmo produces may be heading for a clash with the e.u. in 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. that i had a boeing say it is suspending production of its ill fated 737 much jets the reasons why we tell you after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only engages in this i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. seems wrong. just. yet to

shape out just because active. and engaged equals betrayal. once all find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again the world's largest aerospace company america's boeing says it will suspend production of its ill fated 737 much jet from january it is because regulators say they won't lift a fly on the plane any time so. we know the process of approving the 737 max

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. well boeing didn't specify how long the shutdown will pay for the 737 months of being grounded globally since march after nearly $350.00 people died in 2 separate crashes in ethiopia and indonesia in the space of 5 months. each.

a large team 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 one they've had this p.r. campaign going on the entire time to keep their investors calm down in settled like we'll get through this this and so forth 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 went down another percent after hours

so let's try and understand what this means right 1 from a rudimentary level it means this plane is an absolute unmitigated failure it's going the way of the absolute it is as 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 the thing is that the bad reputation now that the other american the traveling public is not wanting 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 the absolutes 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 of size of boeing can be carrying $12000.00 extra employees that are kind

of a ship who have nothing to do right now now ship that over to the smaller people the smaller suppliers that supply the par suppliers 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 that's going to affect a lot of working people in america it's going to it's not just the working people to 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 strings. 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 which is that it's own problem so this is

the last few weeks to. india's supreme court plans to investigate the alleged use of excessive force by police against protesters we're currently seeing a 6 day of unrest against the use of such a law which many demonstrators consider as the scrim of the tory towards muslims more than $100.00 students were injured when police stormed to this lawmaker universities in new delhi to disperse crowds. i. was i was. was 7. when the biggest protests erupted in the border states where people fear an influx of illegal immigrants the capital has seen authorities use tear gas as well to

disperse crowds demonstrations have spread to 36 universities across current across the country along question would offer a faster track citizenship for migrants from some neighboring muslim majority countries where the list excludes muslim migrants themselves the indian government insists it's in no way discriminatory prime ministry to render modi say the law is intended to give respect to those who fled to india and were forced to live as refugees. well here's some of their actually been getting in new delhi proponents against the new law. the b.g.p. government i know more and is that i'm it's not dance to set up detention centers and so on these people especially in the most sense in those events and sent those and then it comes to what the size of the population must in this to constitute 14 boston being soon we don't even have. a muslim problem most in the presentation in

the parliament and you don't have to get into most i'm pretty certain one of. the balance between the weakest actually not the society who am a dozen times far down i don't need to turn out differently and back in i think the india was a secular nation the opposition comes from the north east of. this bill allows my friends to accept the law it's not the india. which is against the accord state that is why your position. all religions all. this. is against the structure. that does write this book this is such a big group it is my belief that. the course. bolshoi theatre has been accused of being racially insensitive because it uses black face makeup in one of its performances

the theater of the director of rejected the criticism brought by us at bali misty copeland the belly love we had there has been performed thousands of times in this production and the broad and the bolshoi theater will not get involved in such a discussion finding some sort of this is simply ridiculous no one has ever complained to us or saw an act of disrespect misty copeland an african-american ballerina posted a picture of 2 teenage dancers from the bolshoi in blackface makeup claiming this is the reality of the bali world our post sparked why debate on social media and triggered many negative comments. is a romantic tragedy said in india it's featured performers in black face makeup since it was 1st performed in russia run 140 years ago legal and media analyst give us his reaction to the op or. have you ever seen i'm sure people have the way russian. are have have been portrayed in virtually

every name in the movie from moscow on the hudson to car tools to boris and natasha to post cold war to rocky river drago i will destroy you this hal year ends max sick ins 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 offended to newspapers or watch t.v. see what can i be offended up to day you're never going to satisfy people she go one of 2 choices either you scrap their seed you say we just don't have this anymore or you say well put out a warning and if you don't want to go see this don't go see it fiscally speaking argentina and crises tend to go hand in the next months breakstone why the lots of

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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i.m.f. in this case versus bitcoin the venue argentina that's why we're here we're here now we're witnessing historic epic proportion of the vote yes of course when we booked to come here the currency crisis was not in such a full swing now it is we have a new president elect here and he has turned down the last 11000000000 dollar payment from the i.m.f. but i just want to say on our observations i'm here with the national color here i look i feel like i look i fly on message go message 6 golden balls. i would have been a little bit surprised about how.