you've got 2 eyes and one now. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more. if you don't take that advice, easy going to take yourself to the violence reignites in france over a controversial bill aimed at restricting the public and media from filming police officers malicious intent. also this hour protesters burn, israeli, and american flags and condemnation of the killing of iran's leading nuclear scientists, which tehran was quick to blame on israel and president like joe biden cracks his cabinet with hawks, sparking concern about washington's intentions abroad.

welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the latest headline news. along with the top stories from the past week, france has been gripped by overnight protests over a new security bill. imposing tough restrictions on the filming of police officers in the capital security forces fired tear gas as the rallies descended into chaos. the french interior minister says 20 police officers were injured in paris and 60 nationwide.

we've seen those tensions throughout the day as the protests, all tens of thousands of people take paul out. now it seems that there are just perhaps a few, 100 people who are holding out the police are trying to disperse them, but there is a huge security presence a. and so when you get a look down the street from where we are, and you can just see that there are rows and rows of c.r.'s vans. that gives you a sense of how many officers there are. in fact, just behind us, it looks like a water cannon is being moved away. these were brought out this one over to the other side as well. these reports out for the protests today. but these protests that started off a peacefully once again descended into violence here in paris. so these protests

have been going for the last few weeks, but this has been the big one. and this is because, earlier this week, parliamentarians here from pass the 1st stage of this really controversial law called the global security law. now it contains an article also called $24.00, which if this becomes a would criminalize the taking of images of the police and then publishing these, these images. if there is intent to harm the police offices, this could ensure that he's done is going to be able to continue. the answer is yes . are they going to be able to continue broadcasting? the answer is yes. should be allowed to film the police intervention. the answer is yes. the answer is yes, your intent is a concept that is open to interpretation and hard to determine any photos or video showing a dent a fireball police officers that are published or broadcast by critical media

outlets or are accompanied by critical comments. could find themselves being accused of seeking to harm these police officers. for journalists, the legal risk exists and the possibility of conviction would be real. it is not law yet. it's just passed the 1st hurdle. but people say that this gives the green light for the police to stop journalists from doing their job. the government says this, moore is intended to give new security and protections to police. and in fact, that's what one police officer said to us earlier this evening. this is about protecting them from the threats that they're facing in police. unions say the law doesn't go far enough, but the reality is, this has provoked a huge i don't get what just here. we are seeing the force, the country where they would protest taking place against this people to make sure that the government is aware that they are not happy with the law that they feel will restrict their they freedoms and their rights in terms of liberty. and that

has spilled over into, i guess we saw fireworks being used as the weapon of choice by the protesters, throwing those at the police in fact. so some images of with this photo it's appeared to be detonating under the feet of the police officers. we've seen the protesters setting fire to the bank of fronts. bain's huge choices being lit in the street. and of course tear gas has rained down tension, still high in parts of paris as there are those protests against this controversial law, the global security to all journalist and political commentator. and elizabeth says, the government needs to change its approach to calm the unrest. i think the government have shot themselves because the, the bill itself is not necessary. but article $24.00 is something that has managed to bring to your position left and right. 8 the stream left and

the conservative right saying that this is, this is contrary to say, not only is it contrary to essential liberties in front of but it could, it could make the not, it could make the lives of people much more dangerous and even make the work of police and more dangerous because there could be no trust anymore through his head last has left. the situation brought in so many weapons, almost all on police brutality, but also on the town to. and it's in the past 2 years and it's so it's something that will have to find a solution, but it's doesn't lie in an unsecure to you, but potentially anti constitutional. no protesters and the iranian capital have burned israeli, and american flags to cry on the killing of the country's top nuclear scientists, which tehran blames on israel, the demonstrators, a man of retaliation for what the iranian foreign minister had been an act of state

terror. and it's feared his killing could affect the already faltering iranian nuclear deal. the unresolved assassination of one of iran's top nuclear scientists, or in the words of tehran. a terror attack carried out by the mercenaries of the asserting zionist regime. milat the you don't know who the people of iran are smarter and wiser. then falling into the trap of the zionist conspiracy, they are thinking of creating chaos. they should know that we already know their tricks, and they will not succeed in achieving their evil goals. as both the zionist regime and those who are against iran should know that the path of the country's

development, the path of the country's research will continue rapidly. terrorists murdered an eminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice, with serious indications of his radio shows desperate woman gring of perpetrators. iran cools on international community and especially e.u. to end the shameful double standards and condemn this act of state tara iran's accusations have yet to evoke a response from israel. but this isn't exactly a unique situation many times over the past 10 years, iran's nuclear scientists have been the victims of mysterious assassinations and to run is almost always convinced israel was behind it.

israel's refusal to comment on the attacks has been common to all the 2018. the country's prime minister claims the recently assassinated fuck reside there wasn't just a scientist know the head of an alleged nuclear weapons program. remember the name focus of the so here's this directive right here. and he says, the general aim is to announce the closure project. but then he adds special activities. you know what that is? special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how

development and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. however, has always said it in rich's uranium for peaceful purposes only. we are not seeking nuclear weapons, even if the g.c. pioli collapses, we won't seek nuclear weapons. if the safeguard agreement is destroyed, we won't seek nuclear weapons. if i relations with the a is good or bad, he won't seek nuclear weapons. as in years before, experts on both sides of the barricades are not seeing eye to eye. of course this assassination is illegal and it's an act of war. when that see a spy is arrested in iran or on a terrorist is arrested in iran, immediately western human rights organizations, governments, the media pundits, experts all say that they're innocent as if they have some sort of insider information. yet when these attacks are carried out, these attacks are carried out with the help of spies with the help of terrorists,

and they gloat over it. and instead of condemning it, they go and you know, they try to make him look as if he's evil, these lows will respond. so you cannot put the blame on these will everything, disposable in the middle east and in prison. these bodies in the lead them identify them and if he is behind these, let's see if those people are really israelis right now. very much in 2015, iran even agreed to limit its nuclear activities for the lifting of u.s. sanctions. it was part of the jay c.p.o. a deal between tehran and washington, russia and other world powers the same deal that donald trump scrapped as the war steel ever in 2018. and to the great praise of israel, i went through how the last administration was disastrous. iran, if i didn't terminate that stupid. the deal was a disaster. the agreement that was signed was a disaster trumps withdrawal. drew

a whirlwind of criticism throughout the globe and relations between the u.s. and iran are now at rock bottom. iran has even proclaimed to the un, it has the right to defend itself from provocations, both from israel and the u.s., but with joe biden preparing to take the throne. european powers have already sat down with him to rehash the deal with germany specifically urging all parties to avoid an escalation at any cost. a few weeks before the new u.s. administration takes office. it is important to preserve the scope for talks with iran, so that the dispute over iran's nuclear program can be resolved through negotiations . we therefore urge all parties to refrain from any steps that could lead to a further escalation of the situation. by himself even said he's, considering diplomacy would offer to run a credible pause to diplomacy. if iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the united states would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for following negotiations. with our allies,

we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deals provisions while also addressing other issues of concern. while iran definitely has plenty of concerns, especially after a 2nd top official, was assassinated in just one year. but who knows, maybe washington's new look, could rebuild the ruins of the j. c.p.o. a and even under a biden administration. that the purpose of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east is to regain hedge of money over the entire region, including iran, which it lost in the islamic revolution, which overthrow overly that dictator, the shah. and so they would, the game is hedge of money dominance. and whether it's true or biden, that they, that is the game. or also this weekend, the u.s. joe biden announced his top cabinet picks for the white house. he said the world has its hopes resting on his team to restore america's historic role as

a global leader. together these public servants, we store america globally scrub the leadership and its moral leadership without engaging in needless military conflicts and our adversaries in check and cherished at bay. while team trump is not giving up all hope of overturning the results of the election. it has now given the green light to allowing a transition to begin, a clearer picture is emerging of what the biden and ministration will look like. and as it turns out, there are many old faces, as are trying to explains. america's foreign policy needs to be properly fixed after 4 years of diplomatic rock says one who says the man whose own white house mistakes as donald trump saw them were thorley taken care of by the outgoing administration. the time has come for the u. turn to go full circle. there's been some damage done. that is going to take some

time to dig ourselves out of. but there's no doubt the joe's got the right people to do it. the man taking over the oval office in 2021 was president obama's number 2. so who are the best people to set these apparent wrongs? right. well, the former deputies of obama's team, of course, how easy, i'm really starting to get that joke that barack scott himself a 3rd term. let's take a look at the collective portrait of a deputy dream team. one squad member clearly thinks it was the meddling russians who god, donald trump, elected in the 1st place, made jake sullivan biden speak for national security advisor. this was a moment where we realized that the russians had decided that they were going to actively interfere in the u.s. election. that they were going to intensively work to undermine the pillars of u.s. democracy. and that they were going to try to defeat hillary clinton. if it wasn't for the russians, if you know what i mean,

this career boost would have come much earlier. after all, mr. sullivan served as an advisor for the hillary clinton campaign. and yes, he worked as a national security advisor to the vice president biden. and here we're looking at someone who was all for upping u.s. involvement in syria. tony blinken, the new man taking care of america's foreign relations in syria. it's tougher, it's longer. it's going to take time to build up the syrian opposition, but we believe it can be done. our commitment is to help them to support them, to give them the training, to give them the equipment to give them the air, the power, to give them the advisor. and it all comes back to hillary, who, infamously said this about libya. we came, we saw he died. right. as you may have guessed, mr. blaine can was among the star democrat diplomats who love the idea of getting libya sorted through intervention. his c.v. highlights include deputy secretary of state deputy national security advisor and

national security adviser to the vice president. so moved on with deputy dream team, you simply don't deserve the position of intelligence director under joe biden. if you haven't been deputy to a big name, let's say in the cia under obama, without further ado. here's avril haynes, the former deputy cia director also happened to serve as the deputy national security advisor right after tony blinken. some gives ms. hanes credit for making america's drone wars more transparent. her critics though, paint her with a different brush focusing on her role as the architect of the drone program. one which is associated with scores of civilian deaths. a slight stain on the record, isn't it? any great team deserves at least a few qualified veterans. this one is no exception. take john kerry,

he's getting his comeback. chance to the job of special presidential envoy for climate goes to the former secretary of state. bear with me for a bit of feedback on the team from someone familiar. the incoming administration could not have chosen better personell for the foreign policy and national security teams. ok, at least there are no surprises, and the world knows what to expect. still to come in the program construction of a gas pipeline linking russia to europe will push ahead to spite the u.s. sanctions details on that story. and more after this join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics, small business,

i'm show business. i'll see that it's certainly being isolated. it's not good for your mental health, not good for your general physiological states, or this may make you more fully when you get infected. this also that issue of cross immune to cheat with both a kobold of 5 a says if you're not saying it's all supposed proven, but it's pros simple, you may be more full to solves, toll free to should you encounter thoughts in the future. so i certainly do not think the drop downs a good for people's felt and that very fact of people's mental welcome

back to the weekly a natural gas pipeline linking russia to europe is on course to be completed despite us sanctions. the company building north stream 2 has said construction of a section off the german coast, which had been frozen for a year well, soon restart. we are planning to resume by playing work using and anchor vessel in german is exclusive economic zone. this year. the ship mentioned there is now anchored off the coast of russia's kaliningrad region according to marine traffic data. last month, ng u.s. state department stepped up its pressure on european firms that are involved in the pipeline project. a senior german energy official who we spoke to described, washington the behavior as gangster, like the flu, currently u.s. pressure over north stream to has reached an unprecedented high. it's an attempt by

the americans to lobby their economic interests to go behind the backs of their supposed partners. actually, this behavior reminds me of the matthew, matthew c. come to the restaurant and say, we must protect you. but if you don't pay for this, we will smash all your places and it's the same thing here. the americans say they protect us from the russians. but in fact, we don't want this protection. we want to trade with the russians. we want russian gas, and then they say, if you don't let us protect you, we will kill you. in other words, they impose sanctions on companies, threaten them with economic collapse, and this is what's actually happening. but we must reject such methods, simply objecting to them is pointless. only real action will help the kremlin has questioned washington's motives in trying to block down stream to spokesman. dmitri pascoe, of called it a display of unfair competition. north stream 2 is the 2nd leg of a pipeline network linking russia to germany via the baltic sea. once completed, it will pump enough gas to supply $26000000.00. european homes on the outside

washington has described it as a threat to european energy security and has urged the e.u. to ditch the project. but beyond us, only from germany's left party told us it's crucial for berlin to see the plans through. i believe that the technical expertise that is collected and the companies involved with not going to is immense. they have some of the greatest engineers working on this challenge. and they have solved most of the technical challenges. the remaining legal challenge us most new product of interference of foreign interference by the united states, but they will be overcome. and the government seems to be holding firm behind the last year to project, which is of course, all absolutely vital interests to the current transition away from coal and dark energy to watch renewable sources and

clean natural gas. would of course be a part of the future energy mix of germany and to ensure that supply we need to. and i do believe that there are enough people in the german federal government that understand the vital importance of this project to make it through to the end. police in argentina have searched the home of the doctor who treated the late football legend. diego maradona, so far, no official statement has been released, but local media are saying the physician has been charged with manslaughter. the footballers' 2 daughters earlier claimed their father's heart attack was caused by medical negligence in off hands across the world have been saying their final goodbyes to madonna passed away on wednesday at the age of 60.

i hear the da go for the argentinians is like a hero. he always had the hero's cape and the hero's shield that the argentinians needed. he always came to the defense. he showed us that it was possible to be the humblest nation and take on the most powerful enemy. married daughter to me is everything, not just in terms of food bill, but also never the aspect the man, the food bowl or his whole character. i don't think we do that. i've been following him everywhere since the world cup in 1900. i ran away from home just to watch him play

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy you confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist, i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe from isolation or community? are you going the right way or are you being led? so direct. what is true? what is faith?

in the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths or a maybe in the shallows or dark blue, and welcome to worlds apart. most of us are now used to starting our days with the latest dots on to number of call that 9000 victims who don't realizing that this figure is as accurate as they may be in a mathematical sense. may also be misleading in an epidemiological science. does

the current strategy of trying to slow down the spread of the pandemic? necessarily mean fewer lives lost overall? will to discuss that. i'm now joined by david livermore, professor in medical microbiology at the university of east anglia professor. it's good to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. my pleasure. delighted to be here. now you are a signatory of the great barrington declaration at petition that has already amassed over $650000.00 signatures worldwide, and which calls for a last wholesale and more targeted approach to dealing with this indictment. so i assume you are clearly, i'm happy with the current response, at least in the united kingdom. would you go as far as saying that the current strategy does more harm than good? yes,, i would look at sending people cost. we have the u.k.,

chancellor of the exchequer today saying that we will have an 11 percent reduction in gross national product close to mystic project. the biggest recession of 300 years that destroys the tax space. it destroys the amount of money that can be spent on future health care. more people are dying. it's holme because the flight to go to hospitals. mental health services are stretched. the london ambulance face say they have a 68 percent increase in turnouts to suicides. i could go on an all but huge damage is done by the policies that have been followed. and i think this is a very important point that the correct collateral damage, as you call it, is not only huge. at this point, we haven't even been able to asked to made the long term consequences to healthy economy to all education, hard children,

and cetera. but there is one i think, you know, small improvement is that a like last spring, when governments around the world were essentially copy coping each other's approach with very little regard for local specifics. i do think that we see a bit more differentiation now out, at least among national policies, but a pigeon, illogically of the response is still based on, on the promise to slow it to having to slow down. depend on it. do you think that premise in and of itself is the correct one? it's reasonable to try to slow down the pound demick. it's how much damage you want, except in the post says in the sec or ups in, in the cone of thought i was switzerland for example, how to close down. they tried to.