government activists regroup in paris defying restrictions on large gatherings amid a corrosive are a spike over $250.00 arrests of correspondents. ready to get a look up but not because i would see a gas as people i know i'm trying to move away from. russia refuses ukraine of disregarding free speech often asks apple to remove all russian media content from the country's app store. on britain prepares to limit gatherings of more than 6 people after searching coronavirus cases of the w.h.o.

tells me the further spikes are inevitable. we will be. live. from moscow this is the international long. weekend update these are the big stories we're tracking this hour we're going to start in france for you best activists are back on the streets of paris for their 1st major rally since march they were nearing the protests over income inequality and unpopular tax reforms so father of $250.00 arrests this saturday drew pinsky is there for us. but the tensions have broken through here now we need our new device which is quite close to the often feel good story to get a look up but not close to see here gas as people are not trying to move away from let's just give you stay still. what's happening on the ground.

the. protesters and police officers have being clashing at what is the real new jersey version of the yellow vests it was cooled by one of the de facto leaders jury rodrigue is he suggested he wanted civil disobedience. i am here to talk about the yellow vests about people who are suffering all these people here who are angry and tired of talking about all the brutality this rallies full of people who have something to say for small business owners for workers france in england over the last few months we've seen very little action from the yellow vests so why are people back out in the streets today this is what they had to say . we face a government which knows what's going on almost $10000000.00 below the poverty line a social anger affecting all professions and was the response less powerful

flushable launches what will that bring. we denounce the dangerous use of tear gas by the police we did not ask for the gas to be banned but at least precautions should be introduced and gas should not be used to such damaging long term effects for both the population and the forces the east it. what we are here for the same reason as before because of the social issue we want to listen to the people to restore our democracy we want the minimum wage to be increased and what we've seen today that taste of things being thrown at the police here gas gives you a sense of the violence that the yellow vests become synonymous with a very violent movement on both stories not just the protesters but the police let's take a look back now and get a flavor of what's made the yellow vests protest so hawt.

well one of the main criticisms is being over the l b e d's this is what the police used to disperse rubber bullets we've heard though is that the use of those l b d's will be for supervised in today's protests and featured protesters according to france's interior minister. we must cut the amount of violence and injuries at rallies whether by police or citizens with doctrinal conditions of use of equipment will evolve in particular with flash cool new pictures which from 2 more will be supervised to better assess the overall situation and the objective we know the rallies are taking place not just here in paris but also across france some of the rallies today in paris actually being forbidden those are rallies say on the show

and areas like that there is a huge police presence mobilized across the city and we know that hundreds have already been arrested and some of those detained bags that were searched in the containing things like screwdrivers and wrenches possibly something that could have been used to cause some of that civil disobedience that was cool for the moment though it seems the yellow vests are back and they've taken over the streets in paris. ukraine has asked apple to block all belonging to russian media organizations the tech giant informed moscow based networks about the request but so far no actions been taken the russian foreign ministry is condemning the move accusing ukraine of clamping down on free speech. this is another oppressive action by the ukrainian authorities against the media through this act of censorship key if it cynically violating a key democratic principle the freedom to distribute information while our russian

media has been censored in ukraine for years already and now we are getting this so-called involvement of apple as well as take it step by step on now friday several media from su russian major statement works claimed that apple decided to take off their apps in ukraine and that was on requests from the ukraine's security service now russian union of journalists as well as other colleagues are already calling this an act of censorship meanwhile apple themselves well they've made a statement a little bit later claiming that no apps have been deleted at this point and all they've done was just send notifications about this fact to the russian media and they suggested that russian media contact ukraine's security service there regularly now the list of networks has apps or to be deleted is quite extensive and

they claim that this is in line with the politics against russian media let's have a listen. the ukrainian security service demanded the removal of n.t.v. apps from the ukrainian app store our colleagues from apple say nothing and propose we solve this problem with ukraine by ourselves all this is part of the fight against russian media and social networks in ukraine it began under poroshenko and continues under a zelinsky now russian parliamentarian's as well as the country's journalists' union have already said that if the apps do get deleted they will explore legal action now censorship against russian media in ukraine began back in 24 scene after a referendum was held in that cray me air where people have voted for a union with russia now several russian media and social networks have been as

well have been deleted in ukraine since then and of course r.t. is also banned there it's. what we discussed you tried to targeting of russian media organizations with journalists neil clark and daniel. of course it's censorship and of course it goes contrary to our freedom of speech the ukraine is doing its best to create a special relationship with the united states and the u.s. 'd is responding and for whatever draws those 2 countries closer together has washington's approval so therefore one of the ukraine makes a request like this of apple apple really can't say no because it knows that the that washington wants it to comply it sets a very worrying president doesn't if you think about this then if apple does this and it looks like it is going to then you could get any other security agency say in germany or belgium anywhere else saying look we want you to take down of this country and it's very poor very poor of apple and they still lose credibility as if

they are going to you simply to request the one country security services against another so you know apple will lose out on this the same way facebook is going to lose out twitter is going to lose credibility over its branding policy of russian affiliated media these companies go make the call are they going to stand up to what they originally claimed to be about free speech and free information or are they going to buckle under political pressure as part of your political war from asia was. britain is tightening its coronavirus restrictions to do a sharp increase in infections in england gatherings of more than 6 people will be banned indoors and outdoors from monday on which similar rules are being introduced in scotland wales and northern ireland the world health organization special envoy on the pandemic told us that further outbreaks around avoidable. this is what you get. like. basically every going to do

every time to strike between people and hide all right usually around the rest of them. with the bonnet with the lead. with 'd the bosphorus anatomy. building up. the number of positive cases per 1000 cova tests in the u.k. has doubled since the end of july on friday the number of new day new confirmed infections ranged to train a half 1000 which is $600.00 more from the previous day they've been about again told us all the options are available to contain the spread. the only way to get really strong. notion why you lost. it all down. by. that terrible social economic and educational. training the strong defense offers but when they. are making me.

why. you a question. manage to get on with our lives and maintain our defenses. all right and israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations after decades on boy called by the gulf monarchy there was announced on friday by us president donald trump who brokered the talks. in the spirit of peace and cooperation both leaders also agreed the rain will fully normalize its diplomatic relations with israel. they will exchange embassies and ambassadors begin direct flights between their countries and launch cooperation an issue that is across a broad range of sectors including health business technology education security and agriculture is a truly historic day. the us bahrain and israel later released a joint statement confirming that the new pact follows

a similar agreement between israel and the united arab emirates struck last month that it also marks a dramatic change in the dynamics of middle eastern politics with arab nations that have historically sided with palestine shifting closer to israel trumps role in the process has prompted one right wing norwegian politician to nominate him for the nobel peace prize amid those efforts there's no sign of a less up in the israeli palestinian conflict on friday clashes again broke out in the west bank at a protest against the expansion of israeli settlements in the occupied territory protesters hold rocks at israeli soldiers last month israel suspended its plan to alex parts of the west bank although building work has continued at existing settlements tensions have been aggravated by israeli demolitions of palestinian homes built without planning permits with almost $400.00 structures destroyed in august alone according to the u.n. political science associate professor max abrahams thinks the new deals israel struck will make matters worse for the palestinians. from israel's purse. these agreements are

a huge. these are countries which initially for all those years rejected israel's existence are now formally recognizing the it's really steam this is a terrible to go for the posted means because for a while of all ringback that there didn't seem to be much between their countries in the problems to any. in unison they would say there is no peace with israel unless there's a resolution to this really posting in kabul here and what has done is he has skillfully i think diplomatically recognize that these arab countries have their own national security just hours. frankly easier countries don't care that much about the palestinians. saturday evening here in moscow nearly 40 minutes past 9 still to come a feminist author in france is being accused of inciting hatred against men we'll

tell you why and here's some reaction among our stories after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic. only. i don't see how. very critical time to sit down and talk. but we've been talking about. you know number of weeks few months because it is a phenomenon and the point i've been making from day one is that it's. me

that has a market valuation at one point over $400000000000.00 and it taps into people to trade me on these are generations and. the robin absent other. no fundamental value there's nothing there it's just it's. like starlings in the sky they congregate and then they disperse. again opposition supporters keeping up the pressure on president lucas thousands of activists almost all women gathered in multiple locations across minsk calling on the president to resign as you can see the some tense confrontation with the forces it's the latest in a month long wave of unrest since the contested election which opposition supporters say was rigged. but i guess the reports from. just like the police the

demonstrators and protesters there you've adapted this well they realize that gathering in one place at the same time he's bound to you know get them all arrested so what they've done is they've got you guys in different color much different marches down the streets of means in order to avoid being arrested all at once and then. chanting against the president saying they're just out for a walk they're cooling as well for a criminal tribunal into the president there are now apparently thousands tens of thousands of people marching down the streets of means can this woman's march and they came out of nowhere little groups who get rising down little streets all converging to march down means nevertheless we haven't seen police through state security agents in a while and there really is safety in numbers because it would be completely impossible to detain soo many people thousands of people on the peaceful march down the streets of means. previously little known feminist book with

a small print runs received a surprise publicity boost in france after a senior official there called for it to be banned and adviser to the gender equality ministry said that the title i hate men went too far. this book is obviously an ode to misandry which is clear from the summary and the title i would like to remind you that incitement to hatred on the basis of gender is a criminal offense this man works for the secretary of state for gender equality whose mission is to do something about sexual assault and rape it seems outrageous that she was more concerned about censoring a small feminist book than doing his job the publisher wants to graft called claims of inciting hatred ridiculous of the author a 25 year old activist from will she says her work encourages female readers to take less account of the often unsupported opinions of men and to rediscover the strength of female relationships the initial print run of i hate men was just $500.00 copies but after all that publicist say more than 2000 books were solved

it's now run out of stock we asked people in paris what they think of the title. we discuss the behavior at appearance of women every day and nobody even pays any attention so for once there is something directed at men and i guess we can deal with it but i think we should not stop at the touch of the book we have to go beyond that and read it and find out why she rolled that was behind it. women i hate that i could easily write a book like that because i have plenty of bad experiences in my love life have been left many times or had problems with my mother we really have to distinguish between what is literary what is an expression of a personal opinion. we discussed whether it's provocative or being taken out of context with political commentator catherine blakelock french actress and author melanie von k. and as it turned out they didn't see eye to eye. for mrs brook in the provocation to bear me to a new way of thinking to deconstruct the tree archy in smaller ballads. the

idea of men and about some behaviors in all the concerts and so short the story called for me to call the provocation you can differentiate and go for it hearing is a reflection in so 'd ins of freedom and on human rights and no feminism and all that the idea that you should hate men most people should hate men i don't think it's about the patriarchy and all the said this rule loading of men it is both natural and logical i mean this is a unbelievably extreme minority position the majority of women love men like men and who joins you men like women i mean it is quite ironic when women have basically freedom in all sorts of silly spears in this country and entranced compared to say a country like afghanistan or. in those cultures women really

are oppressed in the western countries you have radical feminists saying that they hate men and that everything is so terrible when in fact they've probably got it the best that they've ever had it and a lot of and you know men and women are just different and people have to accept that it's a very minority number of people who have this view about hating the opposite sex. race 3 trials are now underway for the russian corona virus vaccine sputnik v. and test shipments are already being made nationwide it's offer an international peer reviewed study confirm the early stage trials have been a success within the next 2 days towns and cities across russia will have access to sputnik v. around $40000.00 volunteers taking part in the trials of doctors teachers and military personnel are being offered the job on a voluntary basis. drugs already been registered in russia for emergency use and large scale vaccinations expected to start by the end of the here the director of

the russian sovereign investment fund which is overseeing the project said all early indications show that it's safe to get. to include not all vaccine platforms are created equal well post registration trials they get to complete new vs built and proven available platform and has received its emergency use registration in full compliance with russian law and procedures several groups in the west the rules are considering early emergency use registration but vaccines built on unproven novel approaches. life now to molecular oncology professor lawrence young from britain's warrick university welcome to r.t. professor young face 3 under way then the trials of this vaccine critics say that russia is moving too fast is it. i'm not sure it's moving any faster than any other of the vaccine developments that are going on around the world but we all have to be very concerned about safety for all vaccines and obviously as you expand the number of individuals vaccinated you can understand more about the safety as well

as how effective the vaccine is the trials of a vaccine in the u.k. conducted by astra zeneca they were halted earlier this week where they because one of the test subjects fell ill for whatever reason of a common problems in the trials of a vaccine and they've restarted now and again capered are they hurdles that are to be expected if we can have this with sputnik vane. but they are true of all clinical trials whether it's a vaccine or a new drug when you expand to large numbers in the oxford the astra zeneca vaccine has now been into i think 18000 people you expect to see occasional responses that give you cause for concern all those have to be investigated this one obviously was serious enough for the individual to be hospitalized but the trial has restarted and what this all emphasizes is how important is when you expand trials to larger numbers of individuals that you pay particular attention to any adverse events any

effects that you don't expect to see because safety has to be the number one priority a group of scientists or read into the creators of the russian vaccine contest and in questioning the test so far pointing to data inconsistency as the russian scientists are sticking by their research though how do you see it well i mean i don't know the detail of this other than to say that the the paper that was published was in the lancet one of the best medical journals in the world it described in detail how the russian vaccine has been developed and how albeit in a small number of individuals the vaccine is having some interesting and predictable effects in terms of generating the right type of immune response. so it's a peer reviewed publication and it stands up against any other peer reviewed paper in the in the area of vaccine development but it's still early days and fresh non-scientists then how much of their sabbaton forth is to do with competitive

rivalry between scientists and how much of it is the scientists doing their job by asking questions and being robust enough to make sure all eventualities are covered . i think your last appoints really important we've got to ask questions the science is all about probing questions this isn't about countries competing with each other it's about us working together to develop an effective vaccine so we set aside all of a set aside any of these so regio politics but we are competitive scientists and we want our own ideas i guess and what you're seeing with the enormous number of different vaccines that have been developed against coronaviruses is that people have different approaches and using a variety of different so-called platform technologies. and we'll just wait and see the the point here is that we need to move together as a world against the virus not as countries against each other but try to get a few vaccine candor that on the go at the moment has an echo quite a few that have already gone past state of one and stage 2 the the final farm

company says it already vaccinated hundreds of thousands of people just by sheer numbers alone and if china stealing a march here is it likely to be the 1st on the market or it it just too early to say because not enough known about what they're doing i think it's still too early to say the big issue here the crunch issue if you like is efficacies so once we're sure that a vaccine is safe we also want to know that sea effect it i think is going to be a really interesting test because the likelihood with these 1st generation vaccines is that they will protect we hope against developing the disease but not necessarily against getting infected in the 1st place and that's why i think what we're seeing here is a rush towards the generation of a 1st type of vaccine to help with the pandemic but we're going to see lots of variations in refinements as we learn more and more about what an effective immune response look like what what type of protection do you need no long term against as

far as we still don't really understand all those details of the immunology and overt fingers crossed for a good christmas present if nothing else all right professor lawrence young from oregon of earth appreciate your time thank you thank you thank you thank you. x. purcell's of former president lula da silva has been speaking exclusively to r.t. he's going underground he spent 18 months behind bars on corruption and money laundering charges as well as discussing those accusations against him which he called politically motivated low also spoke about julian assange and his extradition case and the need for reform of the united nations when you were in that jail cell did you not regret leaving those very elite in power in your 2 terms as president and the reserve leaving them in power to prosecute you both my conscience. because my innocence has proven. what i want to prove their guilt in the crimes they committed against brazil the coup with the beginning of a new attitude in brazil in my opinion it was organized by the u.s.

department of justice the u.s. never accepted the fact that brazil has become an international player. all those who believe in justice. cannot let a son to be extradited. should receive the nobel prize for having exposed the cia's frauds to the whole planet the fraudster the us department of state spying on the world the government spectrographs brazil germany it is not the role of a democratic country to spy on its partners and sandra is brave enough to expose this. or the un needs to change its roll. up their today's un cannot be the same as it was in 1998 we need to have african countries in the un security council we need latin american countries in the security council. yeah countries like india.

it cannot be the same in 5 countries as in $948.00. i better r.t. news for this hour thanks for checking in with us this saturday in x. update from a in the moscow news team is in 32 minutes from now. a

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