reforms to the latest yellow vests protests over fuel taxes paris based correspondent charlotte dubinsky recaps events. let me. take this infamous phrase often tribute to mary on twitter as being used to demonstrate me a brute livius nurse the selfishness of france's elites which in turn led to the french revolution now the attribution may be misguided but the lesson isn't if you can wall the cries of the social classes or you mock them you do so at your own peril where. the current french president should have seen it long ago as unrest has been bubbling throughout two thousand and eighteen. things started to turn nasty as the french government attempted to have picked an empty community to land that they. pool at the gate. it's a protest against expulsion the distribution of. the tanks will be eco our wrists joking meanwhile the cold war dismissing these should be built this period he must be very great to give back during the month that is mine is the republican leader must be respectful. mayhem first to reach to paris in spring over my qualms reform plans well may first violence quic

fast protests over fuel taxes a paris based correspondent charlotte dubinsky recaps events. take this infamous phrase often attributed to mary antoinette. has been used to demonstrate livius nurse the selfishness of france's elites which in turn led to the french revolution now the attribution may be misguided but the lesson isn't if you can wall the cries of the social classes or you mock them you do so at your own peril. the current french president should have seen it long ago as unrest has been bubbling throughout two thousand and eight. things started to turn nasty as the french government attempted to a victim and she pulled unity to land that they. pool at the gate. it's a protest against expulsion the satisfaction. of the talks will be pekoe are risks being meanwhile the call for dismissing these should should be built this period he must be evacuated will be back during the morning if the republican leader must be respectful. mayhem first reached paris in spring calls for reform plans all may first violence quickly spilled over and dozens were arrested. but the penn

tens of fugitive terror suspects believed to be sheltering in fronts with the story here charlotte dubinsky . after decades on the run one of italy's most new tourist criminals finally stepped back on to home soil says operatives steed charged with four murders was part of the so-called great book gates that terrorized the country back in the seventy's. to me is into a prison sentence but tiste escaped to france now under the so-called to me to hold on doctoring by which foreign terrorists were given safe haven if they had to announce their past crimes france welcome to him with open arms for decades he enjoyed something of a celebrity status becoming an author he mingled with the literary elite and politicians now the success in bringing him to justice has led to italy to call on other countries including france to stop hall bring terrorists. to the fridge president to return to italy the fugitives that should not be drinking champagne under the eiffel tower who should be rotting in jail eat it silly walls france to hand over more than thirty over these champagne terrorists. the list inclu

charlotte dubinsky has the details. well this is billed as being an educational program for children aged around eleven to fifteen and the idea is that when they go on this program they participate in things like topical quizzes about things that are happening in the news at the time also they go on hunts for clues and then try and piece together the information so all signs very tame and very innocent but is it now in reality in its latest program escapin news has focused on one thing in particular and that is russia and most importantly on the president of russia president putin and also on our channel r.t. now it seems to be a fairly one sided view of those two subject matters when it comes to russia just to give you an example close to the start of the program a young broidery is brought in on a video and he is of ukrainian heritage and he's asked to describe who he thinks president putin is and what president putin is actually like this is what he says there were no. words in other words and both grew close enough

protest has been launched in the country after eleven consecutive weeks of street demonstrations so dubinsky has the details of the red scarves group. fronts and protesting to go like two lovers strewing around paris in fact the french seem to love processing so much it's almost a national sport but it's a sport that has a very nasty streak the yellow vest protest group but probably the best known they've been out in force since november seventeenth so that's now eleven weekends they say the government's not doing enough despite the concessions and a national debate is taking place and the yellow vests are determined to stick it out they've already planned acts twelve before we even got to the twelfth weekend but their protests have often descended into violence that's been described as the worst in more than half a century. i will not concede anything to do see what destruction and disorder. but in true french fashion there is now an anti protest protest meet the red skull there is so unhappy about the violence and the destruction has taken place during the yellow dress protest that they've

police union said at least enough it's demanding a file to list violent protesters with more shallow dubinsky well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protest as under surveillance it could also stop them the tension from being able to code to protest in the first place and that's one of the calls that's coming from the police seen in they've also said that they want tougher action against anybody who's found to have caused by lindt in protests we hear statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more firmness against those who assault the police since the beginning of the yellow vests movement how many of those arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers have gone to prison well that call comes after yet another weekend of violence here in paris as protests took place across france for the yellow vests movement around fifty thousand people was said to have been involved of course front and we saw violence from both sides of the crowd this wasn't just the protesters thi

consultation has now got underway to address the issues behind the end of s may have meant charlotte dubinsky reports on how the initiative is going down with the public. we've seen the crowds as usual for justice i guess there's probably a few hundred for three hundred fifty maybe three hundred fifty who've come here and that every point in this roundabout they are being stopped by the security forces for moving one group actually made a run for it they ran up the road and it looks like they were attempting to. the town over bush to hold troy and get closer to the action president michael is here in the town today to launch that national debate these debates are to take place across these opportunities to listen to the concerns of people people couldn't say what they concerns of the internet they can take part in the debates and he's saying that this could change the new contract with the people here in france but yes we've already seen the groups trying to to run off from the main crowds as a result of that security forces tightening the area here completely also deploying tear gas was sold

the david o'sullivan expected to be among one of the earliest to be called he wasn't artificial dubinsky picks up a story for us of a seemingly growing divide in the e.u. u.s. relations. this comes as you say it difficult juncture in the relations between the e.u. and the usa president trump has made no bones of his criticism of the e.u. suggesting at times that the body is just too bureaucratic and even more criticism was heaped on the e.u. when the secretary of state might pompei i recently visited brussels even our european friends sometimes say we're not acting in the world's interest is the you ensuring the interests of countries and their citizens are placed before those bureaucrats here in brussels these are valid questions the u.s. is also even threatens a trade war with the european union suggesting it wants to slack on tariffs to products that it imports from the european union so all of this is quite difficult for those relations now in terms of what the european union has said not very much the u.s. of course is an important trading partner for the book but we did have some s

charlotte dubinsky has the story. well incredibly strong words from italy's deputy prime minister salvini but with relations already strained he's now poked away even further at president might go on saying that he hoped that france could soon be free of in his words a terrible president when the i hope the french can free themselves from a terrible president and the opportunity will come on may twenty sixth when finally the french people will be able to take back control of their future destiny and pride poorly represented by character like mackerel or gold now all of this tension is bubbling away as european countries are ready to head to the new parliamentary elections they can be taking place in may and leaders of countries have already been drawing the battle lines across europe on the one side populist politicians like salvini a calling for new europe one that's no longer dominated by france and germany and on the other it's centrist politicians like michael calling for greater integration now this attack is jus

by saying that france has no desire to stabilize war torn libya due to its energy interests shala dubinsky reports france and italy have quite a long story of fighting as elections closer the two countries are increasingly looking to bolster their allies and to drown out the rival italy's it deputy prime minister has laid the blame for the ongoing my current crisis here in europe with france saying it's impoverished african nations with its colonialist policies. we must address the causes of this crisis because people are leaving africa in part because some european countries led by france have never stopped being colonizers he even went. as far as calling for brussels to sanction paris now some might say that it's a bit rich to lay the blame on france's colonial past given that italy too had colonies but to my ears beef is that a coup ding to him france has never let go there are dozens of african countries in which france prints its own currency the franc of the colonies and with that currency french public debt is financed by italy's been ruffling matt corns feathers for a while includi

charlotte dubinsky well the protests in paris last until late evening with fierce clashes continuing to escalate between the protesters and police several people were injured in some of these clashes one protester identified as a leading figure within the us movement suffered a injury he was streaming video of the protests at the time and captured the moment he was hit. oh. oh. oh. oh obviously there's no the french president has launched this so-called national debate to find a way out it's all of the crisis but protesters on the streets of paris say be no longer trust the money. about you know we're here to keep mobilizing against the government to maintain the pressure so they don't think that the movement is dead i don't believe in the national debate i think is part of the european elections campaign is just smoke we need to participate to show that we're willing to engage in dialogue we're here to show mr mccraw that we understand his game and we know he is a liar he can play any tricks he wants but we will still be here because we don't nothing has changed we still have our de

a gym used by schools in the area was converted into a shelter for migrants over the winter saw dubinsky reports. as france shut is through a cold snap authorities in paris have taken the decision to help shelter migrants out on the streets one hundred and fifty were bussed to this gym in one of the city's swankiest neighborhoods where they'll spend the winter months it's a far cry from life and the delicious pale but the area known for its large unhoused migrant camps and drug problems has been described by some as the gates of hell with temperatures plummeting this decision has been hailed by many as humane but others are furious the idea of helping people who are in the cold and of course i agree do it but we have many other places where we can do it so i don't see you who i work with all the migrants here there is a camp already on board for axelrod there is another near the woods they're everywhere they're even going to homes a school to migrants there. take care of the people who are using the gym before and the kids who are taking lessons. it seems the news that this facility was

the end of estimates mint has held its ninth weekend of protests against the government charlotte dubinsky reports from paris. i. took. the first tensions are rising here the up to three or three in paris one of the protests in the city one of many protests taking place across france we have had violence here in new york to creoles. her outlook for. the. good. stuff there's water cannons now in full force trying to push protesters away. that would to come in and tear gas plumes coming up from the ground we've seen the protesters throwing a projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to gas that's just being dispersed there's flash pulls and those cast ballots as well as what looked like to be suddenly going aides and a mobile police force now you can see running in the hole dressed in black you could just see behind me that is a small fire that's just the period been coming along people reveling around that as that i guess comes in the air the tear gas is just moving we can hear it now and people are moving to once why when i have improved as that is tear gas of being out p

meanwhile a counter protest movement has been launched in paris charlie dubinsky reports now from the first red scarf rally. this protest movement consumes sets of who know whose which translates that the red scarfs they are the empty as you live in the empty yellow vests to some degree what they saying is they are unhappy with the violence that's been seen to marrying this movement of the shoe the jones yellow vests since november seventeenth i just wanted to get a sense of just how many people have turned out for this protest today this protest to say that they food democracy there against the violence there against its rights and they're here to describe themselves to show that they are the silent majority many people have said that they want their voices to be heard and they want a democracy to be respected there are happy with not just the violence occurred in the yellow vests movement but also the destruction of monuments who fronts us not forget back in december the off the tree on one of the some moves of the republic was trashed it was vandalized by some of the so cool to the

the truth a recent episode was about russia's president vladimir putin and this very channel china dubinsky takes a look. well this is billed as being in educational game a show for children around the ages of eleven to fifteen the idea is they go on the show and they participate in things like quizzes about topics of the day and they're also asked to hunt for clues and then to try and piece those clues together to find the result of a question and it's broadcast on france for that's a channel here in the country and it's called escape news now its most recent program centered on russia particularly the russian president vladimir putin and ourselves here at r.t. offering what appeared to be a fairly one sided opinion of the two topics now close to the start of the program a young boy who says he's of ukrainian heritage is asked to describe who he thinks vladimir putin is and what he's like this is what he said there were in the. words in of cords and both grew close enough pretty soon the door to the with their low suv aldrin above them on the phone to the. well throughout the program putin