demonstrators. protesting against the new security bill opponents say the measures would make it harder to prosecute cases of police abuse . me and forces accused. in the disputed region. violation of. republican. efforts by texas to overturn the u.s. presidential election or shall by the supreme court's senior g.o.p. officials call for

a discussion on the state's continued place within the united states. 247 news live from moscow this is your r.t. international pleasure that your company my names you know me well our top story today. the french capital has been engulfed in renewed already a stove or a security bill police use water. fire tear gas as the situation really spiraled audit of control on saturday it's part of a wave of public anger over government plans to protect police officers by giving them extra powers and boosting surveillance. been covering the protests for us throughout the day. we've had huge tension sale in paris in the last hour where we have seen a number of what i would describe as smash and grab spy the police it's obviously much more organized not that you'll have a. members of the security forces going in to the crowds and crapping out

individuals that they think of causing trouble or perhaps likely to cause trouble we saw one man being dragged from the crowd by the opus's a buffalo tensions with apostles accept a whooping for the police officers who burst or had seen gas already deployed a fact a woman point at 2 gas was being used directing from error so springs asks the protesters who so many people are trying to get away from that and suffering the impacts of seeing gas.

well i just want to give you a sense of how big this crowd is because it's iommi as we're getting closer to the end of this protest the march to the public so we understand really how many people come out there are thousands and thousands of trying to get the camera to me to look up the street which is completely fast and then if it's possible to turn the camera around you'll see how many people are still coming and then the lights over the police behind. the. police seem to be used to huge a restraint here we haven't seen the clouds of tear gas that we've seen in previous protests but we did see the water cannon used to try and crew people down there were other demonstrations across the country as well. all against the global

security lord our people are unhappy with article 24 specifically this would have criminalized individuals who published images of the police if there was intent to harm that provoked huge theory here in front as a result parliamentarians are going to rewrite the us specific rules but people are angry again today not just about not just about the global security law but also a new law that was approved by the french captain it in the week there is the law that was originally named the separatism no it's now the promoting republican values low and this also contains an article which is very very similar to that controversial article $24.00 that is that it would become a criminal act to post images of somebody online if they could be identified and if there was intent to home so take out the word police and it's essentially

the same act now the police are also unhappy they food put that controversial article 20 food beer measure to protect them from the types of threats that they face on a daily basis as a result of that their police union wanted actually for this measure to be strengthened even further so they're unhappy that this is being rewritten and the police are also unhappy about some of the comments made by president mccollum in the last week he said in an interview that the police are controlling more people who are known white than white and the police of essentially taken not as to say that the president is suggested that they racist would limit and secure the police the problem is that the police lock resources and personnel they lock many things and when they ask for help no one is listening on the other side with and criticize the police which i think is like a step in the south speaking. telling the media to the elusive racist if

i can guarantee my colleagues i'm not so nice to recall it today if they demonstrate and if they can continue to demonstrate it is to show you that they are not racist but it's a no say they have legally control but if you are because ross said this exact thing you are right to be i was thinking i was god i was the last year i joined the protest i got here i was. to another for headline stories now renewed fighting has been reported in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region one month into a cease fire the local armenian forces have accused us or by john of opening fire on their military posts artie's have told me more already here. russian peacekeepers who are there they have already confirmed that the cease fire had

indeed been broken on friday and at the moment russian peake peacekeepers are demanding that the sides stick to the truce so that no more people would but speaking all this latest incident will according to our media and make our a block defense ministry well they claim they are but john carried out attacks on villages near god drouet which is in the gordon car box but not controlled by there by john and apparently 3 people or wounded on december 11th at 8 40 pm the enemy attempted to attack our southern military positions as a result 3 reservists received gunshot wounds varying degrees of severity their lives are not in danger. by john the wall they have also issued a statement and they claim that their forces are indeed observing this cease fire which was brokered just last month and indeed it was armenia who made some provocative actions and somehow violated the truce some words about my born

a car bomb it is of course an internationally recognized as are always there by john but it is mainly by ethnic armenians and it's been a source of major tensions in the last few decades and the latest of course a very bloody flare up happened in september and lasted for over a month thousands of soldiers died and i was there by john in armenia nagorno-karabakh as well and find the and it around a member that's and when the sides agreed to a ceasefire which was brokered by a russian i so. the decision has been taken as a result of analysis of the military situation. since most of people who have been moved from either removed. from my part i mean i just seen it done very. we've seen a good deal to subtly years long conflict between the media and. the occupation.

by john they saw the results of this brief but very bloody conflict and the ensuing cease fire as somewhat of someone actually victory and they even held the victory day parade and speaking of the place where they parade the president off. the guard he also arrived and when he came over during the parade the entire city of baquba was dressed and. and there by john flags now and speaking about the other side of this cease fire. at the moment many ethnic armenian refugees are returning to the board. which is not on their control they're trying to rebuild their lives and meanwhile people in the neighboring armenia are very i'm happy many feel very betrayed they're stepping onto the streets and the whole country is now

in the gulf to protest and their demand is for the prime minister nicole to resign as soon as possible and many are blaming him for what had happened and now we'll see what happens next you know a cease fire in that region is very shaky at this one has been for over a month already hopefully it will stick and we spoke to corral shell miller a lawyer specializing in the middle east he is of the few also by john holds a strong advantage over amenia and it will be done to moscow to maintain the cease fire. as of age and has an age. as it were a journey back media. and by israel and i feel as a burden once a bit of dominant position now and wants to reclaim. that care about and see it as it were a journey for them get their say the your how rochelle which he's there and he's trying to control the russians in this think

a lot of money actually now in armenia and the backlog is the. armenian population back in kerala because they want to do one they want to keep. at the same live look and they want to have the advantage and the advantage and the edge of it was not one that we need in the other one the same iran with. the. segment because usually both parties see it's the other party that. in order to have reason to launch back at this moment we don't know what the what the truth is but there are what are we not this is a very for peace and it has to be. controlled by the russian. texas republicans are calling for drastic action after their legal challenge against the presidential election results was struck down by the

supreme court the local party chairman has said things have gotten so bad that the lone star state should think about cutting loose from washington the supreme court and tossing the texas lawsuit has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law perhaps law abiding states should band together and form a union of states that will abide by the constitution. oh and west isn't alone in holding the view either hurley or in the week a republican texas state lawmaker has said he wants to plan a referendum asking whether people there want to secede from the united states he described the federal government as quote out of control not representing the values of texans this is a referendum for the people of texas to be able to make their voices heard people are are fired up right now and should learn that they have been left out for many many years tags it now without fail like since we have no country fox is now

promoting texas it secession look for trump to become this pathetic new country's 1st president so long texas it was nice knowing you i love this idea old true trump is should move to texas is good wall and everything then he can be president of the country since he won't be here you can't even vote again like you want please all of you go but it will commentator chadwick mer told me that they renewed calls for a texan brick away highlight the growing political rift in the us. texas talk about this program one time though it's sort of in the texas soul to see itself as going it alone star state it's a it's a state slogan to threaten to leave it and god bless them in it they did the good luck to them and god bless them as well but i'm not sure that we see that happening it does seem to be a sort of emotional response at this point however it does express how alienated feeling right now how washington is too big how

a couple major cities way too much political control and the supreme court refused to your most people believe because they're frightened because the media declared the winner of this election not the electoral process but the media and the people to all the media the corporate interests the controlled media announced the president and the supreme court many people believe simply said that they don't want to step in on this. the u.s. the u.k. on culliver have already approved covert vaccines but the european union is exercising caution but the head of its medicines agency saying safety must come 1st though the block is seeking ways to encourage people to take over jobs once they were approved suggested the idea of vaccination certificates for people who've been documented for a wide mutual recognition of coronavirus test results it's part of possible measures to lift restrictions and restore cross border travel right now the

european union is working full speed to review of the safety of vaccines sent to make them available. we had the opportunity to reach an agreement on how to proceed with vaccines just understand the common system for the validity of the tests the opponents of vaccination certificates have for months you may recall said such documents would end up becoming obligatory with people required to use them to travel earlier i put some of the more divisive points around the issue to a problem of guest. i'm nervous about the idea of having these travel certificates or these certificates that say you've had the coronavirus vaccine because what that means is that actually will then end up being a coronavirus passport so i think the thing is to encourage rather to rather than to make sure people are automatically told they have to have it it should not be compulsory go green with the gentleman there no problem but for air travel. each

should be made compulsory by the airlines to make sure that the people on the plane are sent to blah blah about 3 don't accept or that's exactly what the problems we've got with this. group who are going to be taking its toll and. i think there will be more people who are going to call profession traveling outlets you reach certain there are very concerned return to rush this flight and she has come out there who. are right now this is nothing against hovering about. this it's really really helping us. not put the year nearly as. isn't concerned the one thing i would say to the european union is if you stop having so much bureaucracy and let those countries decide for themselves they would have vaccines by now i think that's an incredibly dangerous thing to say this is been in the making for 20 years we've had a rolling review is this is going on this vaccine is safe the m h

r 8 would not license this vaccine if they did not believe it was safe and the problem is when you start to spread those sorts of rumors that's why people won't be vaccinated and the more you tell them you have to have a vaccine and people believe that there is some sort of miletus thing going on then people will not take up that vaccination and therefore we undo all the good work that's been done to date certain conspiracy theories and go or bordering on factual know looking as if they're going to be happening and this is just going to fuel those more extreme conspiracy theories that one of the bill gates trying to use vaccines that plant microchips in people this is simply going to reinforce their fears isn't it yes i somehow i believe absolutely. i'm sorry. you shouldn't believe these people of course who who claim such crazy ideas all the time in the coming months and years we will know about the long term solidity of the bank scene and after such occasion and maybe we'll need to do it again and maybe there will be

a 2nd version at all and that will improve the years but we need to save the economy now. 18 minutes into the program still ahead christmas with all the trimmings some of germany's most famous 1st of markets decide not to open at all vis season i made surging over the infection for me but the story for you after the shortest break. human history has always seen continuous war opensource but in recent years it seems to have become more intense the platforming is no common practice and public scrutiny a permanent feature where do we all stand on the battlefield of belief. the

world is determined by shaped by. the day. we dare to ask. hello again let's start back in germany where they dearly covert infection rate has

been steadily climbing since october and that's led to a debate over whether to pull the plug on traditional christmas events in a bid to keep people from catching or spreading the disease our europe correspondent peter all over reports now from the nation's capitol. usually where i'm talking to you from would be the scene of one of the busiest christmas markets it's not to be this year there's no room at the inn for the christmas market due to the global pandemic but one thing that's a memory of christmas past is the smells of mold wine the still on sale at the restrictions on selling our coal will harm my business if we will ease the loss of income as things stand we can stay here until the 20th december that maybe we'll be allowed to work and up again after the last time is over the sale of a cup of festive cheer is causing a divide in the country though while bars and restaurants of being forced to close under germany's lockdown lights mulled wine in the stalls be called

a place to congregate prompting some politicians to warn that they may be leading to the spread of covert 19 across the country the old wine stands subvert our contact restrictions i don't understand why the city of cologne allows this in the end this will lead to new infections and that's it will be time for that later when we are vaccinated the owners of the stalls disagree though. i think we should do everything we can to stop the spread of this virus we wear masks and observe the timi to distance rule and disinfect closed they've had to make changes to traditions going back to the 16th century with this year's chris kitten christ child opening the advent season from a local t.v. studio. this year everything is different the coronavirus crisis is preventing us from doing many things in the run up to christmas such as advent celebrations and gathering at the christmas market. lock down restrictions that were brought in back

in november haven't had the desired effect in getting the number of cases of covert 90 down that means that the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states are going to have to. a show a new set of restrictions even if that means pushing christmas spirit on hold as fact is this nice moment as hard as it is and i know how much care has gone into setting up the mood to go on and off instead it's not compatible with what the agreement only take food away and it is home and really story from the bottom of my heart i think the price is 590 deaths a day that is not acceptable but is this obviously the public don't want to cancel christmas but i spoke to people here and asked them what they thought about these mulled wine store big no it's not very christmassy like to try to find

a balance between not being scarce and. trying to have a good time maybe i think it's not good they do open at the same time is a little bit sad because it's christmas and they're very won't be too bad. as it is a bit sad that there's not so much to do at this time but i think we need to be cautious and i suppose those few places with mulled wine should remain open it's clear from onboard merkel's address to the bundestag that the chancellor wants to see things go further sacrificing christmas spirit in the name of safety feature all over r.t. . the british city of birmingham has been branded because of the names given to 6 new streets being cleared diversity grove equality road and humanity close the names were suggested by a member of the public part of a birmingham city council contest with the winner chosen by

a panel of judges ridicule now not his ations of virtue signalling soon fall out. these new street names are completely vacuous was 0 connection to the people history or culture of birmingham another labor initiative the politicize ation of our landscape continues the art a meaningless banality of these new names speaks volumes about the new hollow normal anyway how about trust close compliance crescent woke wash way i'm calling it now someone's going to put a d at the end of humanity close radio host and columnist joel go on to say is birmingham should have chosen names 'd that reflect the city's achievements instead . this is political correctness gone mad this is no flakes having a field day how ridiculous to name the streets in these close is in this way it's virtue signaling i'm sure it's not in shoot with most birmingham people it

doesn't reflect what birmingham a's well birmingham's becoming birmingham is a more thrusting city but we could talk about the achievements of birmingham and birmingham people there's loads of people not necessarily people but organization bands groups great achievements they couldn't name this after but now they want to slug or the demo do and they're politically correct it's an absolute joke and i'm sure that brummie jordon every working class but i mean people will be laughing at this as much as everybody else. clashes have continued in albania after a model was shot dead by officers enforcing a cruel a virus curfew protesters threw flares and fireworks at police respond with tear gas water killing dozens of protesters being arrested.

around 2000 people gathered in jerusalem for the latest protest against the prime minister there demanding benjamin netanyahu resign accusing him of corruption and poor one telling of the pandemic the demonstrators converged on his official residence waving banners proclaiming everyone is equal under the law to claim the public's trust netanyahu corruption trial is set to bring in the new year. and finally a cosmic light show from the russian arctic these images were captured on friday night's just outside the city of moore months the northern lights are a natural phenomenon caused by charged particles from the sun clashing with atoms in the opera artmosphere this time it was much brighter than usual due to a powerful magnetic storm lasted a full 2 hours incredible images well why not let us know what

you're thinking out there by dropping us a comment on any of those stories that are t dot com always fresh content being out of there too to get stuck into by for that . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings. first it was my job it was my bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing it is no longer at all true

aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in the doing of. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse it's this very idealized image of. americans look past the debts that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america on r.t. . time after time say we're going underground a year to the day since u.k. prime minister boris johnson's landslide victory in the country's general election a year in office arguably eclipsed by a pandemic that is not the u.k.

with the highest number of coronavirus related deaths in europe coming up on the show 2000000 that's the number of u.k. families estimated to be pushed into extreme poverty by. privileging the rich joining coronavirus we talk to the united nations new and stream poverty special rapporteur about the prospect of a 1000000 more british children struggling to stay warm or be clean and ask whether the boris johnson government is merely continuing what the u.n. has characterized as an anti or ideological project to systematically him is a rate of millions grand will a biden presidency be able to pull off the same p.r. conjuring trick that the obama white house did we told the white house's 1st official videographer an aide to both new liberal obama and the new liberal senator bernie sanders all the some more coming up in today's going underground and 1st with the u.n. warning 200000000 more people could be pushed into extreme poverty by coronavirus the scale of the problem here in the u.k. the world's 5th largest economy is becoming clearer u.k. antipoverty n.-g. o.

the joseph roundtree foundation says levels of destitution could be set to double in the wake of the pandemic with 2000000 including a 1000000 children struggling to eat stay warm or keep clean but according to the un destitution was already rising before the pandemic when un special rapporteur on extreme poverty in 2019 for the bolster and claimed britain was in the grip of an ideological project causing pain and misery well now a successor in the v.a. the shooter joins me now from brussels levey thanks so much for coming on obviously brussels in the news here over bricks it talks but just tell me what brings you to becoming special robert or in extreme poverty as we're hearing horrific exponential change in extreme poverty in the wake of coronavirus let alone what was happening before coronavirus indeed so this is a time of crisis. we're in to see the impact that the congo.