if frogs present mccraw and use his new year's speech to hit out of extremist elements in the country. winners of all see it we have perience great division and anger broke out to anger against injustices against the course of a sometimes in comprehensible globalization against an administrative system that's become too complex and lacking in empathy there was also anger against profound changes that call into question our society's identity and direction this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit. because message didn't go down well with opposition leaders who called him an imposter and accused moving out of touch with the french people he thought is in paris were primed to tackle more unrest on new year's eve two with their own twelve thousand police officers on standby but it turned very few protesters showed up and those who did were blocked from joining the celebrations in central paris french publisher and author emirate morville predicts the demonstrations will soon resume though. with all the blunders the government and espe

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 as we know nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop . it said there are at least two sides to every story and certainly true when it comes to a viral video of a standoff between a student wearing a make america great again cap and a native american veteran it takes up the story this is a hat where it says make america great again they now call it the maggot had this is a cook looks square and hoot they used to terrorize fried african americans and those different shapes euros purposes however this make america great again hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look at as a k.k.k. hood. many people have called donald trump a filthy racist in the past what's up with this new wave of hat hate now even though something that's now compared to the k.k.k. fashion has been worn by african-americans or the l.

participate to show that we're willing to engage in dialogue with the world we're here to show mr mccrawthat we understand his game and we know he is a liar he can play any tricks he wants but we will still be here as we are nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop they arrested an american iranian t.v. presenter in the us box international outrage we have first hand account after the break stay with us. 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 closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. in the united states we've proactively work wired brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and marketing among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame returns in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american chil

deepening cooperation between the two nations chancellor angela merkel and french president to monitor mccraw at their names to the pact at a ceremony in the western german city of and under the agreement the two countries will step up operation in a number of key areas including security and foreign policy magazine and such an accord was vital specially at a time when populists were gaining strength in europe. both leaders also said they hoped the pact for dream to greet the e.u. at a time of crisis between b. we live in very special times so that for the first time a country is actually leaving the european union the united kingdom well it multilateralism is on the pressure be it in climate issues be. trade to beat in the acceptance of international institutions all the way to acceptance of the united nations seventy four years a human life after the end of the second world war what seemed to great solich what seemed to be a matter of course is being put into question again unity solidarity cohesion these are the key words of the treaty was signed. and europe would not survive if we were no

and about to id democrat discovery it is a sinister mccraw when you call a democratically elected party undemocratic if you're socially inviting folks to get violent and that's what happened here this is it's an escalation of the type of undemocratic behavior we're seeing even in the german parliament. well the political opponents were however quick to condemn the attack foreign minister heiko mosque has tweeted that violence can never be an answer to political arguments regardless of the target or motive there is no justification for it whatsoever anyone who commits such a crime must be punished the leader of the social democrats meanwhile andrian allah sat this to say they have he is a political opponent of our tolerant and peaceful society but those who fight the party and their politicians with violence the tray our values and jeopardize our coexistence i strongly condemn the attack on frank magnets and gemma's de mer of the greens one of the a fierce as adversaries tweeting i hope the assailants are caught and prosecuted swiftly there is no justification for violence even against t

officials in paris because become sympathetic with their cause and refused to execute orders eminent mccraw embodies what the yellow best rejects brutalization and pro-business policies in a way he cannot really given without stopping did what he is he's lacking leeway he sorts through to diffuse the crisis in the midst of december by announcing ten billion euro package of measures which was which which was. france was hit by anti-government protests for much of twenty eighteen starting from demonstrations against labor 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 thou

the challenge to emanuel mccraw in france come the yellow vest protest does have an impact on the european parliamentary elections. hello again it's good to have you back we are watching some very heavy rain that we've seen here across parts of vietnam continuing along the coastal areas over the next few days so we could be seeing some mostly cloudy to cloudy conditions affecting most of the central region but for him knowing it is going to be mostly cloudy the rain to the south of you with the time to the eighteen degrees along parts of china we're also going to see some rain as well that's going to be on the increase as we go towards friday for joe we'll see some rain shanghai you could also be seeing some rain in taipei you may be getting out of the rain we do expect to see a temperature there of about twenty six degrees while looking quite nice across much of india we're talking maybe some clouds to the north down towards the south where we had been seeing some rain as we ended the year looking much better across much of the area we may see some clouds passing through sri lanka but we

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 as we are nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop . allowing massive uproar in the media and from international n.g.o.s and american iranian t.v. presenter has been released from custody in the united states after being detained without charge. you know she seemed so ok bad. bad certain data instructions on the status of instructions not being accounted. for had spent. in an exclusive interview monday has sammy shared the story of her detention with afshin rattansi host of arties going underground. private plane. to d.c. and then met with a whole lot of that taken to the f.b.i. i think take the f.b.i. headquarters. i was. my my picture was taken mug shots they took my d.n.a. there when is ready the right no one has still yet read you the rights no one ever read me my rights and she my rights were not read i was treated like a

in france president maduro mccraw has begun a grand tour of the country to listen to people's grievances it's his response to be yellow vest protest movement that has shaken france for the last two months mccraw had denounced what he calls the violence and demagoguery but he also said that his country must build the means to find solutions to the country's problems. hardly visible but he's there the french president surrounded by some seven hundred men as. that's exactly how emanuel markram wanted it he told them as of norman day not a big stage for him but a frank and open exchange of ideas. if intelligent questions come up that i've overlooked will pick those up there can't be any to boos. but such easy access isn't to be had outside snipers monitor the gymnasium police vans patrol and the key point the citizens of the small town of bor to root can come in know us in grade level has been a yellow vest activist from the start she's aggrieved given the number of yellow vests from the surrounding region who've traveled here she says they feel excluded from the debate we and then some simi

french president emanuel mccraw has launched a nationwide debate and the tackling the yellow vests protests in a letter in french newspapers macross said he was open to ideas but warned he will not back down from his twenty seventeen election promises those are the headlines the news grid is here and a half an hour right now it's talk to al-jazeera and as always there's lots more on our website dot com get the latest there. shadowy financial operations are propping up north korea's economy hampering the elite and fueling the nation's missile additions. one on one east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera. established in one thousand nine hundred sixty five the united nations development program works alongside u.n. member states to create solutions. according to the u.n. conflict is the main driver of humanitarian needs followed by natural disasters overall more than one hundred thirty five million people worldwide are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. and at least twenty five billion dollars is required to meet those challenges. but given the various crise

it's failing with mccraw the twenty three percent is failing with it the end of merkel's tenure but it's not urgent we're watching it happen in slow motion it's what we call geo political climate change i mean you know all of the climatologists thirty years ago the science was in we we knew where the world was heading but because it wasn't urgent and it was only affecting some people in countries that it really care about we never do anything about it now unfortunately geo political climate change doesn't take thirty years to play out it takes more like thirty months but i don't think it's twenty nineteen and as a consequence the love urgency that you're not going to see the headlines driving a perfect storm for europe in twenty nineteen but the trends are unmistakably in that direction and we want to get your take tonight on something that's happened in the the us tonight on us television networks they're coming under fire for their decision to air the us president's speech tonight i said we got a little bit of social media reaction we've got the view from the journalists matthew glace

the yellow vests not the french people we're waiting for him to resign so we can say goodbye micio mccraw on. meanwhile the l a best movement is inspiring people in the u.k. hundreds have been demonstrating in london to mounting an end to austerity and calling for a general election however those bright jackets have come to symbolize a range of other courses to party boyko explains. the brits love a french fashion trend and the very latest is the yellow vest this weekend left wing activists to staging a demonstration in london demanding a general election and calling for increased public spending it doesn't matter which way you vote in the referendum you need to hear the story of what we need now is the general lesson and austerity we'll be doing it in solidarity of the of us over in france every day is going to these high fees jackets which other jacket choice people trying to bring down governments plays do please do. but there is another british incarnation of the yellow vest trend see if you can spot the difference you're all good we will all be learn from. these yellow vests appeared

he supports such movements abroad but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why mccraw bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. speaks in a democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy there were it is the most absurd stay. when for the last ten weeks we've had people rioting all over the place in france it's a very strange thing to say i don't think it will go down very well in the political class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to have said bearing in mind as we have said as france has a serious problem with probably growth or is so i'm sure he would be violently criticised it for us i mean it's ludicrous you just can't believe that these people are on it was a look in the mirror and see how ludicrous their statements are. donald trump supporters are being compared to kook klux klan members with a number of media outlets and celebrities likening their make america great again caps to the white hoods of the infamous racist group here for trying to impose their. this is a hat where it

he supports such movements abroad but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why mccraw bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. speaks of democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy of the rich it is the most absurd statement when for the last ten weeks. we've had people rioting all over the place in france it's a very strange thing to say i don't think it will go down very well that class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to upset bearing in mind as we both said as france has a serious problem with probably a good result i'm sure violently criticised it for us i mean it's ludicrous you just can't believe that these people are unable to look in the mirror and see how ludicrous their statements are. multiple explosions have rocked a shopping district in china's northeastern city of chang churn killing one person . unverified reports say explosive devices were being thrown from a building at around three pm local time and one video also shows what's said to have been a blast on the thirt

of a fuel tax increases this weekend's protest comes just two days after the yellow vests sent mr mccraw in a blistering letter you do not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing full smashes measures that the people of france reject when will you understand that you and your people are no longer credible and that you have lost the confidence of those who believed in you and in your movement nineteen months ago. with disturbances growing emanuel macron has now condemned the yellow vest on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of mess on my feet men are believes the reforms micron is trying to push through are out of touch with what the public ones. he said that they will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the reforms that the french are demanding today you know in speaking of european summer empty which the french don't like so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know the european the church or and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think tha

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 as we go to nothing has changed we still have our demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop the rest of an american iranian t.v. presenter in the us blocks international outrage we have heard first hand account after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i happen to be a nigerian effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here for small contractors who were in the old war the p.m.c. that came here was a contractor to train a unit and to create from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.d.p. numbers as objects. welcome back following massive uproar in the media and from international n.g.o.s an american iranian t.v. presenter has been released from custody in the united states often being detained without charge. emo

he supports such movements abroad but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why mccraw bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. speaks of a democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy of the rich independent journalist robert honest believes micron's a stance on venezuela is problematic. it is the most absurd statement when for the last ten weeks we've had people rioting all over the place in france it's a very strange thing to say i don't think it will go down very well to class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to have said bearing in mind as we said as fronts as a serious problem will probably grow there is so i'm sure we violently criticised it for us i mean it's ludicrous you just can't believe that these people are unable to look in the mirror and see how ludicrous their statements are the crisis in venezuela has rapidly escalated over just the past few days the local journalist has in the midst of the unrest in caracas. after a relatively calm year venice well a seeing his perso

laptop here and it's a there's a little secret so he's here he's a very nice things about president mccraw he's having a fantastic time units haven't you chad. is you obviously don't do it yes and you don't like politicians because he was very honest i have to see he reached out to me and said he wanted to come to the shrine i mean people like pretended they were bringing him and when i saw interest officials i wanted to calm here what's june two thousand and two and what he what i got from him we spoke about the my great crisis he was willing to address africa's problem and princie and france's role and so the next time i have the opportunity i'll be speaking frankly with him on many of these issues that i'm very concerned about but he was very open he didn't have this kind of barrier like or like a snob kind of thing and he he he insisted he wanted to come to destroy the feedback like don't go and he was like he was cited several times i was for him we could see in two thousand and two people pretend it was my father but to pretend it was because of my father and no matter how many times

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 demands so we are here again we don't intend to stop . commemorations are being held this sunday in northern capitalists in petersburg there taking place to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of lifting the siege of the city during the second world war president putin laid flowers at the memorial of the fallen soldier before a musket parade was held in the city over two thousand military personnel marched past the winter palace where the iconic hermitage museum is located on the city's central square the siege of leningrad by nutsy forces lasted eight hundred seventy two days alone one of the deadliest in history it's estimated that more than a million people died mostly from starvation in the cold. war news this hour right after this. in the united states we proactively require brominated flame retardants to be put into

the mccraw government is on the way in front is the spike the president's efforts to quell the arrest by launching a national debate as he calls it which he's promised will result in a new social contract reporting from paris or charlotte to penske. least move than a thousand possibly two thousand people in this particular protest this of one of many protests ongoing in paris today and one of many more that on going throughout france last weekend official figures said more than eighty thousand people it's come out to the streets affronts yellow vests protesters actually say it was more than that they just speak there's official figures but i just want to through your attention to what's going on behind me you might be able to see what looks like the outline of coffins because this meticulous protest who's called by eric to a who's one of the and main leaders over this protest and this very test is to mark to pay tribute to those people who've lost their lives as a result of the yellow vest protests in accidents one individual was said to do hit by something that came off a flash and a

that we're willing to engage in dialogue but personally i don't believe in it 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. in journalist known for a very public feud with donald trump has written a bill book about his struggles with the president more on that after a short break you're watching. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. you are you know more than fifty percent of the day pass your screen and your screen is controlling it through this little incentives and hey you know robot on the shelf you know play my favorite song and i left feel so good i was so warm inside you know meanwhile your bank accounts being drained by wall street and you know you know your net worth is collapsing your money is being destroyed and all the relationships are hardly dysfunctional and you're living in a frickin president you have no right to stomp on the rights of free speech but you're feeli

repression amnesty international has strongly denounced it there is an author of terror in drifter mr mccraw inspire we're. to continue posing his policy at the service of the richest at any cost well these protests have been rocking france now since the seventeenth of november so we're into. physical months of these protests and during that time moving four and a half thousand people have been arrested as part of what we've seen of these protests has been some extreme violence not just here in paris but also in other cities across france of people who've been coming out to the streets to make their voices heard that violence has been described by some as being the worst writing that france has seen in both inhofe a century. the question is now will this arrest of one of the so-called leaders that the yellow vests now be the powder keg ahead of act eight on saturday. with twenty eighteen all but wrapped up we've been looking back at the mainstream media's coverage for highlights but has any patrol found out that coverage did look pretty much the same throughout the year i know way too much a

mccraw in the literal ross trial banks there was brought up as the last desperate hope and he has failed utterly and we will see the results of the front and the far left in france only game we've seen mccrone fail john laughlin let me go back to you. does that mean on the other side of the equation that we will see some kind of success of the yellow vests. not necessarily i mean the problem with the yellow vests is of course that it's a disparate movement and it doesn't have a structured leadership and i'm strongly of the view that political movements only succeed when they have very tight and very professional organizational structures. yellow vests is just one of a large number of of cries of anger and frustration all of which have have or ever have come about repeatedly in recent french history when i say recent i'm referring particularly to the last twenty years to the period in which the euro was introduced and one of the reasons why i think the yellow vests unfortunately might fizzle out is that the indoctrination about europe has been so strong that they haven't as far as i'm awa

thousand eight hundred ten has been imposing austerity for the many the great class is not between mr mccraw it was a sort of evening between the establishment and the nationalists international as i call them the great clashes between on the one hand there is national progress progressive movements like democracy no power here in germany. and this fake opposition between an establishment whose business as usual breeds of the world and the sylvian is that meant to keep doing business as usual in order to strengthen them it's often implied that he gets its way and often takes a hard line against grace for example how do you think mr bonnie can now take a hard line against rex it something that we must hold to great as your opinions is that you have brussels in london negotiating and neither the british government nor the european union bureaucracy that is negotiating on behalf of the rest of europe have in their interests and on their sites the interests of the people of britain and the people of europe other moment come to think of it mrs may be far more interested in securing her own prime

opposition leaders have criticized mccraw message calling him an imposter and saying that he's out of touch with the french people authorities in paris were primed to tackle more unrest on new games eve with twelve thousand police officers on standby in the end though very few protesters turned out and those who did were blocked from joining the celebrations in central paris french publisher and author predicts the demonstrations might soon reaching him. with all of the blunders the government and especially the peace making i don't see any soothing of the situation this militant group will of course continue into two thousand and nineteen the movement is so popular between seventeen and eighty percent of the french support all approval of movements that it is not excluded that especially in the provinces john barrasso even produce men who have more in common with the protestors and with the officials in paris because become sympathetic to their cause and refused to execute orders eminent micro embodies what the yellow basket rejects brutalization and pro-business policies you know wa

he supports such movements abroad but we are not being taken into consideration i don't know why mccraw bothers to make such comments if he's not listening to us at the same time. that macro speaks in a democracy but they democracy he has here is a plutocracy the democracy of the rich. in the pen journalist and political analyst robert harness police the vest movement won't be quick to praise my trans words is the most absurd statement when for the last ten weeks we've had people rioting all over the place in france it's a very strange thing to say it i don't think it will go down very well at the political class i don't think they would think it was a very clever thing to upset bearing in mind as we have said as france has a serious problem with public order itself i'm sure he would be violently criticised it for us i see people would be very angry and he's been bitterly criticized already by the spaniards who say there was no need to talk like that what would he say if the russians back there that they use the yellow jackets and said they recognised one of them as the president of fra