meeting russian human rights activists alexei you have a has studied she was ninety one and among the last soviet era dissidents still active in russia alexei yet was expelled from the communist party in one nine hundred sixty eight highlighting soviet human rights abuses and she continued to hold the kremlin to its rights obligations until the end. the french interior minister says one hundred thirty five people were injured as the so-called yellow vests took to the streets for the fourth weekend in a row the police detained over one thousand demonstrators and they were among some one hundred twenty five thousand people who turned out for protests in french towns and cities the movement was sparked by anger over a planned increase in fuel taxes and although those taxes have been scrapped protest is a calling for further reforms. the on the streets of paris rebellion is in the air once again yellow vests in full voice. i was. out but they weren't and so on for a long pockets of anger soon erupted across paris street battles with thousands of extra police out to go to city practically

alexei and nancy are back as well.k you for being on the show this morning. >> thank you, my pleasure. >> let me start here. do you believe the republican campaign broke the law? >> yes, it does appear so. we definitely need to have this public evidentiary hearing to find out what we know and don't know. ate pears from t it appears that laws were broken. >> do you think laws were broken knowingly by the harris campaign? >> we don't know yet. i mean there are mounting pieces of evidence of connections between this gentleman mr. dallas and the harris campaign and a history of this gentleman working for republican candidates and we need to find out all we can from this hearing that the state board has ordered. >> so what do you want to happen next? should the state elections board call a new election? should the house call for a special election? what is the mechanism by which this gets resolved? >> there needs to be a hearing on or before december 21st. if all the allegations are proven true and so far there are affidavi

prime minister to give recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protestors opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next. so you can see we're just. i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that shows little respect for the document so i say that the constitution itself is inherently or thorough tarion and some like the liberal politician by the risk of say that actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants the retellings i was there moscow. the parliament in sri lanka have voted to reinstate the sacked prime minister

is still the russian involvement in all of this that needs to be discussed as well let's bring in alexey klebnikov in moscow the russians are still that does this mean that the russians are now the key player and they're the ones that be able to stop techie coming in to lansing any particular offensive in northeastern syria one of the first place we shouldn't rush into conclusions about whether u.s. withdraws completely or just kills down as much your presence as michael is going to see right there mentioned this statement doesn't mean the fool and of support to the kurds so they're basically several so there is the first narrow if united states basically. just lowers down it's a military on the ground living special forces. equipment training that doesn't change much on the ground basically just a business to turkey and us keeps guarding kurds in the area the second scenario is basically that yes u.s. withdraws from the syria which actually leaves the. back home for turkey and iran to live in damascus to try to get those areas under their control which also exacerbates tensions between

leading russian human rights activist mood miller alexei uber has died she was ninety one and among the last soviet era dissidents still active in russia and next year was expelled from the communist party in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight for highlighting soviet human rights abuses she continued to hold the kremlin to its human rights organizations until the end. china has demanded canada release arrested huawei executive among one job all face consequences mung is being held in vancouver faces extradition to the united states where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran on friday she appeared before a court which adjourned a decision on whether or not to allow biol. france is reeling after another saturday of violent protests by the so-called yellow vests movement police detained almost two thousand demonstrators as i'm one hundred thirty five people were injured in clashes fronts as prime minister has called for dialogue and the government is signaling it will take it will make further concessions to protesters in the coming days it's already scrapped a planned increase

new law and exceed gave a prominent soviet and russian rights activists who died over the weekend alexey eva was a pioneer of human rights during and after the certainly there are her efforts in recent years were impeded by the kremlin's increasing restrictions on n.g.o.s says u.s. agents have arrested dozens of religious activists rallying to support a caravan of central american migrants more than four hundred took part in the protest in san diego they want the u.s. to stop taining into courting migrants and to welcome the caravan currently struck stuck across the border in tijuana. and three people have died in weather related incidents after heavy snow fell in parts of the southeastern u.s. the snow caused treacherous road conditions in the thousands of homes in north carolina without power up to forty six centimeters of snow were measured in west virginia many residents were caught off guard by that amount. to france now where president among one micro has announced a series of financial measures in hopes of defusing the so-called yellow vests revolt what started as a demonstration

influential russian human rights activist movement alexei haven has died she was ninety one and among the last soviet era dissidents still active in russia alexy ever was expelled from the communist party and nine hundred sixty eight for highlighting the soviet human rights abuses she continued to press the kremlin on its human rights record even in have on is the budget which you france is reeling after another saturday of violent protests by the so-called yellow vest movement police detained almost two thousand protesters with dozens reported injured in clashes french president emmanuel mccall is under pressure to address the unrest is now due to speak to the nation early in the coming week and also plans to meet with union and employers groups on monday his government has already scrapped a planned increase in fuel taxes that triggered the demonstrations. another night of unrest on the streets of paris. shops. cars banks nothing was immune as angus fled across the city thousands of extra police were out paris practically on lockdown it wasn't quite the chaos of last weekend still o

with prime minister of recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protesters opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next. since you were just doing it i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that putin shows little respect for the document some say that the constitution itself is inherently autoroute tarion and some like the liberal politician by the mere risk of say that actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants or retellings i was there a moscow. canada says a businessman has gone missing after he was questione

is still the russian involvement in all of this that needs to be discussed as well let's bring in alexey klebnikov in moscow the russians are still that does this mean that the russians are now the key player and they're the ones that be able to stop ticky coming in to lansing any particular offensive in northeastern syria one of the first place we should rush into conclusions about whether u.s. withdraws completely or just goes down as much your presence as michael is going to see right there mentioned this statement doesn't mean the full and of support to the kurds so they're basically several sin there is the first narrow if united states basically. just lowers down its military on the ground leaving special forces. equipment training that doesn't change much on the ground basically just a business to turkey and us keeps guarding kurds in the area the second scenario is basically that yes u.s. withdraws from northeast syria which actually leaves the. back home for turkey and iran to live in damascus to try to get those areas under the control which also exacerbates tensions between ru

lines in who is doing what and trying to deflect from what foreign attention could to speak of you alexei joining us from moscow thanks for being with us now yemeni woman is visiting her dying son in the u.s. after winning an almost two year long legal battle to get a visa the u.s. travel ban on business from mainly muslim countries prevented her from going to california a two year old son is on life support in hospital there with a rare brain disease john hendren was there when she landed. at san francisco international airport a long delay finally came to an end neither distance nor war nor the u.s. travel ban could keep this mother from a last farewell with her ailing son nearly two years after applying for a u.s. visa and twenty three months after the trumpet ministration banned visas from yemen and six other countries seamus whelan has arrived this is the vehicle time for our family but we are blessed to be together the journey to san francisco began in war torn yemen and ends at this nearby hospital there her two year old son of dylan lies on life support with a degenerative brain d

recently, the main opposition leader, alexei navalny, has found himself in and out ofjail after beingup to stop him doing hisjob. so, a lot of the rules here are unwritten and quite subtle. so, the government would say people have freedom of speech, but at the same time, if you're seen chatting to someone like the bbc in certain parts of the country, you might find yourself — coincidentally, of course — getting a visit from the police later on. despite this, we've come to chat to some people who've told us they're not afraid to speak to us. to be completely honest, i think there is a distinction between being afraid and being free. i can't say that i'm afraid because i never was challenged by something to be afraid of, if that makes sense. but i can't say that i'm free. there's no political power or political party which i can support, with which views i would agree. i don't think that i am represented in parliament. i don't think that our government cares about us. and, obviously, they lie to us. they're always finding someone to blame. it's always the west. or it is always some peop

is still the russian involvement in all of this that needs to be discussed as well let's bring in alexey klebnikov in moscow the russians are still that does this mean that the russians are now the key player and they're the ones that be able to stop ticky coming in to lansing any particular offensive in northeastern syria one of the first place we shouldn't rush into conclusions about whether u.s. withdraws completely or just kills down as much your presence as my colleague in d.c. right the mentioned this statement doesn't mean the fool and of support to the kurds so they're basically several so there is the first narrow if united states basically. just lowers down it's a military on the ground living special forces. equipment training that doesn't change much on the ground basically just a business to turkey and us keeps guarding kurds in the area the second scenario is basically that yes u.s. withdraws from the east syria which actually leaves the. back home for turkey and iran to live in damascus to try to get those areas under the control which also exacerbates tensions between rus

it is a stark warning to pay up, or alexei's team will block the sewerage pipes in their flats.n using their toilet at home, for a couple of days. then the drain gets blocked and water starts coming out. so, they have no choice, by the third day, everyone comes to see us, to sign a payment agreement. the tale of a toilet hints at new hardships in russia, where the number of people in poverty has been climbing for five years. vyacheslav doesn't earn much. so, he was looking forward to his pension at 60. not to retire — but for extra cash. now, though, the pension age has been raised. russia's president argued the state couldn't go on funding the system with more people now living longer. translation: we had protests, but they lead to nothing. no—one paid any attention, at all. people can't understand why we need pension reform. in this country, with such rich resources. but in irkutsk, men still die, on average, two years before the new retirement age. at this shelter, for those who've fallen on hard times, staff say almost all have a drink problem. two years ago, 78 people died

the twenty seventeen world championships according under former earlier discussed the story with alexei ourselves. now we know that on wednesday night the austrian police went into the hotel where the russian national biathlon team was staying in austria during the world cup actually it was the night before some of the athletes accused were supposed to hit the track and participate in the world championships they put forward the accusations that at least four of the athletes and six members of the staff violated the anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen during the world championship in austria just a year ago. this is a very serious accusation because in austria it entails a criminal punishment so the athletes were pretty shocked judging by their reaction and i believe we can listen to some of those i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of is full i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian after it's really i've always been true to myself to the biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to fee

without a functioning government and facing the prospect of being unable to pass next year's budget alexey o'brian explains. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has submitted his resignation. since i have no intention of remaining as prime minister without a general election being held and in order not to hamper the president in any way i will resign from the position of prime minister and make way for the president to form a new government rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for a decade bringing to an end a long civil war with a brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels. but in october sri lanka was plunged into a constitutional crisis and president palace or a cena appointed rajapaksa as prime minister and unceremoniously sect ronald victor missing. within days thousands turned out to show their anger at sarah's saying his decision and since then they've been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa and on the negative this is not good the should have been prime mi

has forced the aquarius to stop saving asylum seekers the boat lost its registration in september alexey o'brien explains . packing up the ship that's been a big can of hope for thirty thousand people over the past two years rescuing those making the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees risking everything for what many of us take for granted a safe place to call home the aquarius can no longer work the charities doctors without borders and. say that's because of european interference we've been subjected to a concerted campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction it's taken the form of criminal investigation on the basis of spiritus allegations and we've been shot at and harassed by the libyan coast guard which is funded by european governments including including that of the u.k. aquarius has been blocked in the french quarter say since october after panama revoked its registration the charity say it was at the request of. the government then last month the police ordered its seizure for allegedly dumping toxic waste the charities denied the all

minister to the treatment of recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protesters opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next yet the most since you were just being able to then you're going to show i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that putin shows little respect for the document some say that the constitution itself is inherently or thora tarion and some like the liberal politician by the mere risk of say that actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants or retellings i was there moscow. news now from the united

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tongues moving across the board on tuckey wedding itself all of these cell phones mohamed thank you alexey klebnikov is a middle east expert at the russian international affairs council he says moscow and ankara they're looking to strike a deal on northern syria. i think that the bow of both sides russia in turkey they want to avoid any major light scale escalation on the ground so this is why both ministers foreign minister and defense minister came to discuss and try to reach a acceptable compromise. for all parties not only moscow and ancora but also for kurds for for damascus because the equation now is getting more and more complicated if we again if we take into account that americans really withdraw from from syria that it adds more uncertainty and unpredictability because that will depend on how kurds would negotiate with moscow and damascus on terms to be incorporated back under the damascus control which can sour potentially sour relations between moscow and on the security forces in egypt say they have killed forty people they're calling terrorist gunbattle it follows friday's a

alexei came to risky as a soldier a merry tale. he only intended to stay free yeah but then he worked his way up to become technical manager of the fish factory moved over him a few minutes we used to employ one thousand two hundred people at the factory and seven hundred on the kolkata. the collective farm unfortunately yes but through it with. the factory built the homes on this side of the town called cause i was on the other with a total of four thousand people used to live here there was good but after happily go horse lesson in there today there are only sixteen hundred and this is just killing young people today want to live in this city he says in the past the boats used to glide through dense schools of pink salmon but not anymore fish numbers have declined where do most of the polio in your split with. the japanese are partly to blame the christian thing to do two or more our all for a cheese of band drift nets of fish stocks are still dwindled more here more here for. the big operations are all gone. only a few small one

alexei came to risky as a soldier a merry tale. he only intended to stay for a yeah but then he worked his way up to become technical manager of the fish factory moved over him a few minutes we used to employ one thousand two hundred people at the factory and seven hundred a call costs. the collective farm unfortunately this but through it with the. new factory built homes on this side of the town called cause one is on the other with a total of four thousand people used to live here there was because what after happily go horse lesson in there today there are only sixteen hundred but not anymore fish numbers have declined we'll do most of the polio work and usually it was. the japanese are partly to blame the buddhists because. handful of young fisherman work here in the summer but nearly all of them have jobs in the city as well fishing is now just to supplement their income. and stuff the weather's bad right so there aren't many fish if it improves their maybe. they used to be more fish here they blame the big show fleets for th

emily: when it comes to alexei, amazon is outfitting appliances like microwaves with alexa, how muchgger deal think alexa can be and is subsequently, how much more business will that drive for the company? there was a story to watch in 2019 for amazon, that would be it. our data jumpshot chose from thanksgiving until yesterday, the top four of the top five selling products on amazon were alexa enabled products. the only one that could get in there was michelle obama's new book. can start toey integrate that into more and more of what consumers are using to shop and find products online, that is a massive opportunity. emily: yet, we continue to hear this the income and it is getting louder about workplace conditions. butised the minimum wage you have a lot of people in new york who are not happy about hq to coming to their city. you have pushes to unionize at some of these warehouses. how is that going to impact the company over the next 12 months? shira: i think those whole issues around the working conditions and pay and whether amazon is a force for good in the job sector, that is

he joins alexei, politico reporter and marie teresa cammar, msnbc contributor and president and ceo of vote latino. sal, you're the expert here. let me start with this idea of whether or not the president is committing a crime in realtime here, some sort of plain sight in what he's doing both with roger stone and more importantly because i think you think this is the bigger potential problem, what he has said about michael cohen, by saying it publicly is it witness tampering? >> based on what i've seen so far on any of the comments, as reprehensible as they are, they're not witness tampering and they're not obstruction because there's nothing to indicate that they're being done, quote, corruptly. supreme court had a case that touched upon this. the author anderson case about ten years ago, 15 years ago and 9-0 they said you need something more than just impeding an investigation. it's got to be corrupt. there's got to be some kind of dishonesty involved vis-a-vis the government. so we need to distinguish between conduct that is thuggish, conduct that is the behavior of a political mobs

with prime minister of recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protesters opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next yet the most since you were just you know putting it to shame yet i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him. although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that putin shows little respect for the document some say that the constitution itself is inherently or thora tarion and some like the liberal politician by the mere risk of say that actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants or retellings i was there a moscow. so i had this news hour cycli

if you do has been headed for alexei gave up a prominent song theater and russian rights activist who died over the weekend let's see a vote was a pioneer of human rights during and after the soviet era efforts in recent years were impeded by the kremlin's increasing restrictions on n.g.o.s. the seventy's rock classic book human rhapsody by the band queen has become the most extreme song from the twentieth century boosted by the new food book human rhapsody universal music group says the song has been played on line one point six billion times around the world exceeding the likes of nirvana's smells like teen spirit and sweet child of mine by guns and roses. in the u.s. government employees have experienced a nightmare many office workers know all too well i'm talking about a mountain of e-mail spam brought on by the use of the reply all for. action this all started with an invitation to a small dinner and ended with thousands of emails in government in boxes and the obvious one has the details welcome god how this all unfolded this is like your worst nightmare of the office right ima

minister de treatment of recently putin's crackdown on anti-government protesters opposition leader alexei no valley is barred from standing in presidential elections and with putin approaching another presidential term limits critics are asking what's next yet the most since you were just you know putting it to shame yet i think that putin doesn't have a solution to this problem he will hesitate between different options he says that he's not planning to stay in power for another term but the circumstances might make him. although the physical scars for nine hundred ninety three long gone russia is still living with a constitution born from that chaos it is much debated some say that putin shows little respect for the document some say that the constitution itself is inherently autoroute tarion and some like the liberal politician by the mere risk of say that actually the same constitution can result in many different political systems in this view ultimately it's russian society that has to choose the politics that it wants or retellings i was there a moscow. china has welcomed donald tr

crowds were rallying against the deaths of three rebel fighters an indian soldier was also killed alexey o'brien reports. paying respects to the did and vowing they will not be and they. crowd gather at the funerals of rebel fighters and civilians killed by indian forces. the troops that surrounded the village in kashmir southern area after a tip off that rebels were hiding there. about a good part of the civilians were killed deliberately in the morning when the gunfight started the people started to run to the site to help the rebels escape aboard the government forces fired indiscriminately on people and many were martyred. indian police say the fighters were hiding in a civilian home and accused them of opening fire first. kashmir is disputed between india and pakistan and separatist groups have been fighting the indian government since nine hundred forty seven the army has recently increased its operations in the region because of a surge in violence now intonation train services have been suspended. the soldiers fired indiscriminately on innocent protesters to silence the voices fo

seven weeks ago setting off let's go up he will the lecture lanka without a functioning government alexei o'brien reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has submitted his resignation. i'm going to do. since i have no intention of remaining as prime minister without a jamil election being held and in order not to hamper the president in any way i will resign from the position of prime minister to make way for the president's home a new government rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for a decade bringing to an end a long civil war with a brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels. but in october sri lanka was plunged into a constitutional crisis and president palliser cena appointed rajapaksa as prime minister and unceremoniously sect ronald victor missing. within days thousands turned out to show their anger at sarah saying his decision and since then they've been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa and all the negative this is not good in the should have be