yet you mean for mccrone yeah it's great it's very similar that they both are unpopular. and they're both facing fairly massive demonstrations. seeking ten oust them or have them resign. the difference of course is that the united states is promoting one. you know when we do it in minutes well as the real president and the u.s. is backing my pro so there seems to be a. bit of tripod proceed here i would say in the u.s. perspective on both these countries but it's mostly to graphic occurs because the u.s. feels like it has an absolute right to interfere in any government in latin america and well it has interfered in elections in europe over the years it doesn't claim the right to do it. well a year is calling for elections in venezuela now regardless of who people support that's surely a good idea if people support my dear or they can just reelect him and bolster his legitimacy. well that's right i mean if it were just a matter of pushing for elections they already did that once the last presidential election which was forced early by a vote of the finished well in legisl

mccrone addressed the protesters on november twenty seventh and said he hoped. to turn their anger into solutions but he provided very few solutions and the protests continued for the third week violence erupted near wealthy neighborhoods in paris as more than one hundred thirty six thousand participants took to the streets students calling for reforms on the cost of education were among the protesters and they blockaded around one hundred high schools as a result in a landmark decision the french government announced on december fourth that it would suspend the plan tax increase on fuel for the next six months business mention was later changed to scrapping the fuel tax altogether here protesters pledged to continue their demonstrations despite the threat of force from police in riot gear with armored vehicles the demands from the group went beyond the fuel tax and millions watched as mccrone announced on december tenth that he was offering an increase in the nation's minimum wage and tax free overtime pay since then reports of claim that the protests have cont

with armored vehicles the demands from the group went beyond the fuel tax and millions watched as mccrone announced on december tenth that he was offering an increase in the nation's minimum wage and tax free overtime pay since then reports of claim that the protests have continued other creasing rate all in all ten people have been killed hundreds have been injured and thousands have been arrested during the protests the future of big yellow bus movements still remains to be seen but one thing is clear a small grassroots movement has served to illustrate the power of both social media and the power of the people in washington rachael love ins are seen. it is incredible to see that kind of situation take place so you know whether or not. roman french kind of bends to what their demands ultimately were what they've been protesting for we don't know but the important thing is just seeing that yes masses of people can go against their government and say no we disagree with their mentality and we disagree with who you are and what you're trying to do will fundamentally one of the things i was

participants took place in a handful of other cities in the first cycle of protests since president mccrone began a purported national conversation on economics there was a notable shift of emphasis this past week and towards the repressive response from police and authorities mr mccrone is now rumored to be preparing a national referendum vote on economic issues for late may in greece farmers have blocked roads across the country in protest over lowering fuel cost and taxes instead guard hundreds of german protesters appropriated the symbol of the yellow best for a protest against bans on driving diesel cars the limits on diesel driving we told you about before were imposed due to the euro five emission standards and in argentina a yellow bester becoming a fashionable accessory to the more traditional pots and pans of the so-called cancer although protested the accident as a casserole in english and banging pots and pans against narrowing economic margins for most argentines under president recent mockery and his financing deal with the international monetary fund that people are speaking

attacks now that's after dozens of graves were vandalized at a jewish cemetery present an annual mccrone described that as an attack on the nation france is home to the world's largest jewish population outside israel and the u.s. . an outpouring of select darity on paris's plussed in the republic. thousands. purchas just turned out to express their support for friends as jews. their anger magnified by yet another desecration of a jewish cemetery. these were just one of dozens of demonstrations nationwide in response to a search and high semitic hate crimes. i think that anti-semitic actions are on the rise it's something that strikes fear that brings back bad memories we want to show younger generations that there's another path to take other than this one. this is what future the outrage the jewish cemetery in the village of quite some time in eastern france they faced with swastikas and other anti-semitic graffiti french president and when and where mcallen has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and once more to stop anti-semitism in his tracks. a group of individuals full of hate

after twelve consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests in france president emmanuel mccrone is under attack from his political rivals marie le pen who heads the national running party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis head on and only from country music speak when he explains to the last of the yellow vaster manipulative from abroad yes of course it's conspiracy theory and it's rather disturbing to see something like this from the president of the republic this is above all about his wish to never doubt himself it's always others the l a vast russia the united states everyone except him drew is a media product a product of social networks we saw it on facebook more friends i have the more capability to spread information i have the more imbrie tweeted just like with the yellow vests the fascists fear left wing sphere and the russian sphere comprise ninety percent of the movement's online challenge takes a look at the allegation that the french president is dodging responsibility. once upon a time there was a spontaneous social movement in fra

increasingly cited repressive responses from authorities on their list of grievances meanwhile mr mccrone is. government may have need to resort to use that new law as yellow best protesters have for the first time allied with the french labor movement specifically the general confederation of labor or c g t a coalition of unions tens of thousands of combined yellow vest and c g t protesters march in a handful of cities to jointly protest in equable tax burdens and increasingly on livable wages. and this is going to be fun we now move to take a look at block chain and how it's revolutionizing finance and to do so we are pleased to be joined by nice moyle she's a partner at republic lends a venture capitalist and like me i'm pleased to say a contributor to ford's new so welcome thank you for being with us thank you so much for having me ok so let's start with securities and you've written about this i read all your forwards contributing blog but let's start with securities you wrote a really compelling case i mean how are they being digitized and what are the benefits tell all the boom bus

participants took place in a handful of other cities in the first cycle of protests since president mccronebegan a purported national conversation on economics there was a notable shift of emphasis this past week and towards the repressive response from police and authorities mr mccrone is now.

well when you look at germany growth has been downgraded their friends president mccrone has a lot of trouble with sheila shown the yellow vests and with resistance severe resistance to his reform plans and just now at the meeting of the euro finance ministers the slovakian finance minister was criticizing italy and warning them it is of the highest importance that you get your finances in order because of all the risk of something that was reiterated also by the e.u. . vice president on brusque is because there is otherwise perhaps going to be a lack of confidence in that country's financial stability so there are other countries in europe as well with. problems. in advance then fine thank you for this notice. was there in europe in the look of britain where prime minister tourism a has rejected the idea of creating a new customs union with european union foreign coldwater one hopes from some that she could shift her brags of policy to win over the opposition labor party the idea of a customs union that would keep trade easements in place even after britain's withdrawal from the you

way and is trying to chase this up i'm going to have this of vandalised your summit terry president mccrone promise to crack down we're going to look like. the government is looking into actually getting social platforms to control their contents and i was speaking to jay's to someone from a jewish organized organization here who is telling me you know the rise in anticipated act is really also down to all these social networks where it's so easy to say something and to just share it and we agrees without double checking any facts really so the government wants to crack down on this right they're running some kind of trial until mid march to see how this what like that platforms like facebook or twitter should actually withdrawal content that is anti semitic and then that akin to maybe putting out a low on this list los thanks so much for that from paris the british government says it is revoking the citizenship of a teenager who joined so-called islamic state in syria should be in a bag on the left london of the age of fifteen to travel to the word zone so she now wants to return home and

the fact that in london mccrone the french president's not going to hear next on the weekend along side angela merkel at the munich security conference so there is a log rolling around and nobody could knows quite what's what at the moment you know the surprise to you to hear that about the munich security conference so what does this mean then for german relations play certainly not a positive sign and it could be just another issue to add to that ever growing list of disagreements that we've seen growing over the past few months now between france and germany on any kind of issue from finance to energy to military to e.u. reforms you name it that is on that list of disagreements right now between france and germany but if you compare that to the symbolic friendship that's a completely different bowl games they obviously when it comes to policies france and germany still have a lot to agree on you know they just renewed their friendship pact two weeks ago which makes it even more disturbing what we're hearing tonight the u.s. ambassador richard grinnell he has also weighed in on the is

she's interested in hearing his views on the tense relations between the yellow vests and president mccrone. what's his take on the situation this. government conceded and that's a massive defeat for mccall. he denounced plans for a series of reforms regardless of any potential opposition. and now he's had to back pedal. that the movement still wasn't satisfied the fact that he will until after the riots gives a certain legitimacy to the violence. this is a major democratic issue. right after taking office my call cut a very dominant figure. as you do. to many people here appear to be completely alienated from their world. someone who incorporated what people hate about the privileged elite this elite. it's now four pm and just plain not our spokeswoman for the yellow vests is still active after twelve hours. and then when you go just shut up and see if they'll let us in. the prime minister's office is having an emergency meeting claim is put off once again. you these people funnels they came they concious right now we said we've come from all over france and we're not intending to come bac

saturday seeing over forty thousand turned out nationwide to vent anger at the president emanuel mccrone policies. then the. number of cities including knowledge and live on the protests in tahrir is still slow descent into violence by late afternoon charged and skewed was that throughout the day for. the e.u. . for sure the protestors are throwing items towards peace really going have to move a little bit further on because i guess it is never. coming across this. and it's really not very nice very difficult to talk sorry sir when that gas hits you but it just comes out like cleans and it's one of the methods that they used to trying to spurs the protesters these protests now have been going on for three months they have been incredibly violent at times we have seen the police also using huge amounts of force against these protesters who are because somebody here being moved injured not clear what that person's injuries are put receiving medical attention now as a result of that and that is just one of the thousands of injuries you see not just from the protest is but also the police th

after a twelve consecutive weekend protests in france president emmanuel mccrone is under attack from his political rivals marine le pen who heads the national rally party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis at all and only function music speak when he explains to blasted yellows vaster manipulated from abroad yes of course it's conspiracy theory and it's rather disturbing to see some to really do this from the president of the republic this is above all about his wish to never doubt himself it's always all others yellow vests russia the united states everyone except him. le pen was reacting to mock wrongs claims of the unrest across france as being a start up by. external forces social protection. once upon a time there was a spontaneous social movement in france that the people revolted against and on the president's coming down with them. and thousands injured but the people kept protesting and just their cries rang out loud respect for the president diminished he declared he would travel across the land and listen to all they would get by no

with more yellow vest marchers planned across france on saturday emmanuel mccrone a multi-millionaire dubbed by critics as a president of the rich has expressed his solidarity with the demonstrators in an interview with a french media outlet you surprised many by claiming that he too would under certain conditions dawn a yellow vests. if the universe means being for higher paid work and a more efficient parliament than i am a yellow vests the yellow bus movement will be marching for a twelve consecutive weekend this time around the participants won't just be calling for social reforms rallies are being dedicated to those who were injured by police had previous marchers. recently launched a so-called national dialogue going to bid to find common ground with the protesters now we have spoken to our publisher and writer i met a more of you who says micron is obviously out of touch with the french public. thinks he's likely yellow there says living like a yellow vests maybe with a little a little bigger salary he doesn't see that he's living in a very very different world and you will see

yellow vest protesters turn out for a thirteenth consecutive weekend to condemn the policies of the mccrone government . plus among the week's biggest stories with venezuela's humanitarian crisis worsening the country's opposition leader says he's not ruled out calling for military intervention to overthrow president bush during. under syria's devastating eighty along begins drawing to a close r.t. looks at the former suffered by the country's children and. their discontent. it's sunday on the enemies as well as today's headline news we're also bringing you the week's biggest stories as well let's get you up to speed first almost been happening in france this weekend it's been rocked by a thirteenth consecutive weekend of yellow vest protests with fierce clashes breaking out between demonstrators and police in the capital one person had part of their hand blown off by a crowd control grenade. video agency. recorded the aftermath but please be wrong but some of the images are graphic. was. definitely. through me at the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police

between the one and the other the official explanation the end is the palace gives is that in monreal mccrone is to be the busy these days. dealing with the demands of the yellow vests in his own country and that he has problems somehow too that he needs to attend to first and so therefore we really are in the political speculation here and i would really dare to go there that might also be the case as some conspiracy theorists say that in fact this is an agreed move strategic move to original money off a project in an income speculative way that had become politically too cumbersome and really burdensome over the years. kid turning to you now here with me in the studio this is the only topic that straining bilateral relations between paris and berlin no it isn't if they three d. is such a point of contention but at the same time over the past few months the disagreement between a germany and france has been growing on several issues whether it's finance energy military reforms you name it they've had it which is interesting as well that they see all of these issues being debated at the momen

a more efficient parliament than i am a yellow vest publisher and writer a medic movil told that mccrone does appear to be out of touch with the french people. it's like you'll yell of their cities living like your yellow vests maybe with a little a little bigger salary he doesn't see that he's living in a very very different world and you will see all the broken traces of these people who cannot through their children and who are not afraid risking losing another you know during a demonstration during this demonstration straps because there are some traps speaking about working for a better salary if mr mccraw or another financial recent crash wants to increase. his salary everyone understands uncrossed entranced that it's big news more for him and less for the french because i think it's just so on li a bad joke and that mr mccloy is just underlining the yawning gap between him and the french more than one hundred vesa geishas have been opened against french police over their controversial release of riot guns on yellow vests protesters in recent months leading rights organizations in

and macklin mccrone just signed this big treat you the new india friendship which you covered for us what with this disagreement over over this north stream to mean a full relations between the two countries. it's definitely not in the spirit of that friendship treaty because that treaty says that they try to be on the same page for important you decisions this is one of them they're not on the same page having said that we need to be a little careful with the assessment here because and always remember this was never met the pipeline actually the chancellor initiated this and would agree with that i'm sure is what was god showed up and medical sort of stuck with it because she seemed to be feel obliged to that now there are people here in brussels that are saying not openly but as a maybe medical won't be all that mad if she finds a way out of this pipeline project but even if that is the case still we can be sure that this is going to stick with us for a long time because the pipeline is it is half built so even if the authorities the political authorities say ok let's skip the pro

after vandals defaced dozens of graves at a jewish cemetery an act condemned by president moneyball mccrone as an attack on the nation france is home to the world's largest jewish population outside israel and the u.s. . an outpouring of solidarity on paris is plastered every belief thousands of protesters turned out to express their support for france's jews their anger magnified by yet another desecration of a jewish cemetery this was just one of dozens of demonstrations nationwide in response to a surge an anti-semitic hate crimes. earlier president paid tribute to victims of anti jewish bigotry at the holocaust memorial in the french capital. these are the images fueling the outrage the jewish cemetery in the village of quotes in haim in the defaced with swastikas and other anti-semitic graffiti mccraw has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and stamp out anti-semitism. a group of individuals full of hates has unfortunately done what others have done before for too many years so. i'm hits who expressed a solid the whole nation of ours shame to see this. determined will to be together

allies is getting worse and worse just one of those aspects charlotte was speaking french president mccrone was among a number of european leaders to recognize the bonus wheel and opposition leader as the interim president whoever norm's everyone in fronts is on board with the decision socialist figurehead. compared the backing of one why go to allowing the yellow vests leader into the elisei palace. it's not a good thing to recognize an adventurer who proclaims himself to be the president of a republic as this gentleman has if we do that yellow vests lead to mr drew a will be president of this republic. well for its part italy's interior ministry insists that it doesn't want to argue with france it's not the only spot though that's causing ructions between fellow e.u. members we discuss the underlying issues between the u. countries with an italian political scientist and journalist the former deputy speaker of parliament. but there are many root causes to disgraceful and city between the two capitals these root cause is going to be found . of at least since two thousand and eleven the lib

meantime reports from france say that president emmanuel mccrone may be planning to call the nation's first referendum in fourteen years the move comes in response to calls by yellow vest protesters for more direct democracy the yellow vests started demonstrating last year against tax increases and policies that they say favor the rich but one of their founding members now says the movement has taken has been taken over by radicals and has decided to set up a political party. kenya who no longer takes out her yellow vests to protest she was one of the founders of the yellow vests movement but now she's moving on at age fifty one she's founding a political party. the emerging ones the goal is to fight for greater social justice and equality. this week i'll continue to do my part but we have to develop a network across the region. it'll be a lot of work i'm looking. for now the party headquarters are in her kitchen don't go that luster is over to also there's no time for lunch and the afternoon coordinating with supporters and dealing with legal questions she's a composer but her face i

yellow vest protesters turned out for a thirteenth consecutive weekend to condemn the policies of the mccrone government . plus among the week's big.

jewish cemetery in eastern france that had been desecrated with swastikas french president emanuel mccrone who has condemned the attack visit the cemetery earlier on tuesday. one of the world's most famous fashion designers karl lagerfeld has died the creative director of chanel was an icon of the global industry for over half a century sara kyra looks back on his life and legacy. the. instantly recognisable in his dark suits ponytails hat and sunglasses called lagerfeld was at the top of the fashion industry for more than half a century born in pre-war germany his big breakthrough came in the nineteen fifties ofter moved to paris when he won an apprenticeship with design a pierre balmain going on to find success with fashion houses including chloe a trendsetter his modern unuseful designs found their way into high street shops like h. and m. giving him unprecedented popular appeal but it was chanel that propelled him to rock star status you know fashion is not needed. or a problem in the world who may be more important so that is not the problem but it's an industry and you don't question

macron has announced new measures to fight anti semitism after a series of high profile incidents mccrone was attending the annual dinner of the jewish organization saying anti semitism has reached its worst level since world war two in some parts of europe he says legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may it comes a day after thousands of people rallied in cities across france to denounce hostility towards jews donald trump says the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to broker a fair trade deal with the e.u. the american president gave the warning after musing austria's chancellor us about cuts at the white house the commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security it could clear the way for a tax on european cars of up to twenty five percent. iran has accused the u.s. of hypocrisy after it emerged that members of the trump administration sought to share nuclear technology with saudi arabia the white house pulled out of the landmark twenty fifteen nuclear deal with the wrong in

venezuela covered more than those in say france because today for the twelfth week in a row emmanuel mccrone security forces will no doubt be firing grenades at civilians in the streets of paris joining me now by. skype from france is mathematical and statistical physicist jawbreaker more george thanks so much for coming back on so why do you think three thousand have been injured ten dead up to today's demonstrations why is this happening in micros france well i think it's a movement which was absolutely unexpected but which is also very handy and as i said to a friend yesterday to the birth of anarchism there with the appeal is that because the artist have been totally focused in the ng and nationally is that they freshly censored and they have not understood that dog desperation of the people and of course those peoples are patriotic so that doesn't fit with anarchism traditionally and still but what it is is that it's a self organize room and of the masses if you wish of the downtrodden of the people have been left behind by this or globalization which is just one way to say the new vers

the interests of the country and says the group discussed death sentences prison conditions with mccrone the complaint also says groups discuss proposed constitutional changes with the french president and that includes extending presidential terms which would allow abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty twenty six we have got. with us now researcher at the middle east north africa division of human rights watch he's on skype from berlin first of all is it unusual at all do you think for. human rights groups to be meeting with a visiting president in this in another country. i don't think it's unusual for her in. her shows visiting countries. that say at least facing trouble when it comes to human rights situation to try to meet with human rights activists and nationals groups local groups to hear from them because. they will definitely meet with officials government officials and hear from that type two. and i think it's important to meet with human rights activists and hear from them about their opinion when it comes to what's happening on the ground i think also president

profile incidents he says legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may mccrone was attending the annual dinner of a jewish organization saying anti semitism has reached its west levels since world war two in some parts of europe. donald trump says the united states could tax european car imports if it fails to broker a fair trade deal with the e.u. the american president gave that warning after a meeting with austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz at the white house tech giant google says its failure to inform uses a hidden microphone inside its nest god home security device was a quote error on its part it emerged that the product had built in microphones when google announced it would soon start supporting the fans voice command assistant google says the microphones have to be activated those are the headlines they'll be more news here after digital distance. at the moment we are in a state of the universe like deception i took an oath to support for the constitution i take it all its forms i. started selling that was important and was asked to call these people

has always denied the killings were systematically orchestrated during the ottoman era ankara says mccrone is turning historical events until a political matter often referred to by armenians as the first genocide and says one point five million of them were killed by the ottoman empire starting in one nine hundred fifteen turkey has only ever accepted that many armenians were killed but denies it was systematically orchestrated the issue has been the cause of constant tension between ankara and the e.u. that is france officially recognize the mass killings as a genocide in two thousand and one to date twenty nine countries call the killings genocide including brazil canada and russia for its dyson's an associate analyst who covers turkey for the consultancy control risks and he joins us now from london we appreciate your time very much so why is the government doing this. well that hitler could be a number of reasons going on. behind the calculation on the part of my contour this now beyond the just simply did date is coming up and it was a campaign promise of my cons to do this. he's fac