broadcasting lodger refers to his moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas from atlanta to have you with us. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro-democrat party operation which created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year the operation was tasked in the us was tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them instead archies but i've got to have comments. well that was embarrassing to say the least and here i thought you could get away with blaming russia for anything nowadays apparently not but it does set a new low for democrats making think russian bullets to win elections is the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my failure to track the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would reject the recap reid hoffman co-founder of linked in contributed wittingly or unwittingly money one hundre

from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly n r t international law and welcome. armored vehicles move through the streets of part. this on saturday the first time in more than a decade as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow fest movement there were more than seventeen hundred arrests thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds the spite their efforts demonstrators wreaked tell but in a fourth consecutive weekend one rest. i think i did ok but. what began as a local protest over a fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against the money will maccollins government but it's not only people in high visibility yellow bibs who are showing their frustration part of medics in parts and high school students across the country have been holding rallies on the tube and steve has been following events for us and for us. as you can see there is sounding names so i ring say it's just in the past on a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that t

needs next it's the kaiser report this is r t international. my seven years doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after users in a prison populations who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for.

of direct frost it is a moscow recapping the week's stories with our weekly program this is r t international. you know armored vehicles have moved through the streets of paris on saturday the first time in more than a decade as yet more violence a group to the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vests movement there were more than seven hundred arrests as thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds despite their efforts the demonstrators wreaked havoc and a fourth consecutive weekend of unrest. it was . what began as local protests over fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against amanda micron's government and it's not only people in high visibility yellow jackets who are showing the frustration paramedics in paris and high school students across the country have been holding rallies of their own artists probably the best game is following the bands for us and. as you can see this is sounding names so i ring say i just in the past in a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is

welcome back this is r t international and the u.k. is gearing up for one of the most crucial parliamentary votes in the country's modern history parliament confronted prime minister theresa may during a five day debate on whether to vote through the draft breaks the deal on tuesday and there seems to be a mix of confusion panic and anticipation among the british public on the issue. takes a closer look. brick said from a people's vote to a nation's headache it's a ticking time bomb with just days to go before it goes off which could potentially set in the u.k. into more chaos and uncertainty december eleventh will be make or break day for the british prime minister apparent it's guessing game about what outcomes are likely to follow have reached boiling point in the u.k. the house of commons will vote on whether or not to give a green light to the plan to rescind may has been pushing through like a cupcake through a keyhole the stakes are higher than ever days of fiery breck's a debate have been rocking parliament ahead of the meaning

the week's top stories here on r t international a probe launched in alabama into a pro-democratic group that more than a thousand russian social media to discredit a republican candidate. in the. yellow vest protesters take to the streets for a seventh consecutive weekend in cities across france. and the freedom of information act which has helped expose high level corruption in the u.s. comes under pressure the saudis want the right to reject requests they think are burdensome.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me and great to have you with us this hour the french president emanuel mccrone is expected to address the public this monday that it's off to yet another violent weekend of yellow vests protests in paris capitals like comic songs elisei was left strewn with burned out cars shot to gloss and rubber bullets and what was some of the worst rioting you know of where decade we can go live now to our correspondent in paris shall i do good to see you very little has been said by the french president so far but others a talking about the protests. yes that's right. the french president is due to make that statement at some point this week he due to meet union representatives today to find a way forward and that's because the yellow vest protest is a bull ready suggested that they will be out next saturday for a fifth weekend in a row over violence and protests we saw many. activities of violence fail missiles at least eight on saturday just solo's those on the tanks on the streets of paris the first time as the police were disper

the world as it stands for this hour here on r t international we're back soon with more. survives and no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard as it blooms angle of merkel has announced her impending political retirement and the menu well moral legitimacy as president of france is in the balance the three pillars of the e.u. are on shaky ground is the euro project suffering a crisis of competence. bomb . on welcome to worlds apart from a rebuild inside an enigma to a gas station masquerading as a country in the west an understanding of russia according to the russians themselves has long been the border of understanding. the current crisis in relations between russia and the west to be put on these knowledge gap or is it perhaps triggered by the two sides knowing each other all too well to discuss that i'm now in joined by huntsville how the same folks in a region journalist and a veteran foreign correspondent in moscow has a sense of it's pleasure talking to you thank you very much for receiving us in your house. now you've been stationed to moscow for almost twent

all of the welcome you're watching r t international this saturday afternoon it's just gone five pm here in moscow now another saturday brings another yellow vest process to france for the rally just getting underway in paris this is the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations and some of which have turned violent however this week is expected to be calmer than anything we've seen of late that said the ninety arrested reportedly being made to meet clashes between police and protesters . was . there is if we come over to my left right now as you can see a huge police presence and they really did take to the ring of steel around the additional sillies a right now leading up to the art to trail and bullets what we understand is that a number of these people were told not to come today because they wanted people to respect into you. to stay away because of what happened in strasbourg over the week it likely left it to commit l.a. to express their anger as though this has been heard and we ask you to be reasonable and not to attend any protests at all is an obvious now that's not to say t

back this is r t international now a picture of the ukrainian president posing with paratroopers has caused widespread shock and surprise images shows petro poroshenko lined up alongside ukraine's elite troops but if you take a closer look at one soldier you can see the insignia of the nazi s.s. death's head division rask the presidential administration of ukraine to comment on the photo but have not yet received a response and the deaths had division was a part of nazi germany's military during the second world war it was involved in numerous war crimes including the mass murder of polish civilians and a massacre of british soldiers during the battle of france and this is not the first time a nazi german imagery has been noticed on display with ukrainian forces the as of battalion which is a ukrainian national guard that regiment uses a logo very similar to another nazi german military symbol however the kiev officials have denied there is any connection. current. her. roads cross a lot of no two and vendor steele who's president of the media company your voice of america thanks for

it's six o'clock and you're watching r t international line from our moscow studio with me in india or today welcome to the program. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized for bankrolling a pro democratic party operation which created over a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore and now are losing the alabama state election live to more on who has more details. well. to say the least and here i thought you could get away with blaming rushed. anything nowadays apparently not but it does set a new loo for democrats making think russian boats to win the elections here's the irony. i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my failure to track the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would reject. the recap reid hoffman who found linked in contributed we've seen lee or unwittingly money one hundred thousand dollars to approve a democrat c

a twenty four hour news live from moscow this is r t international wherever you are training in for. a very warm welcome to the program my name's union o'neill our top story violence has flared in barcelona with pro independence protests are up thing in spain's cuts alone air region leaving more than sixty protesters and police officers injured. while it stemmed from a government decision to relocate their weekly cabinet meeting from madrid to the council on capital sensibly as a conciliatory gesture of unity but it coincided with the first anniversary of a heavy handed police crackdown on independence supporters a journalist in barcelona talk to us through friday is renewed protest. burma the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that has federal centers that already and those the actually also want to do it here in barcelona and people took it as a provocation because only one year ago catalonia declared independence so people obviously are angry because they want to be independent and they want to be separate separate from the hosting so as you can see a behind me you have a signs of

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is r t international my names you know me welcome to the program. france's political elite union chiefs meeting with country's president to manual after almost four weeks of nationwide protests by the yellow vests movement on sunday part of parser left strewn with burned cars shattered glass and rubber bullets in what was the worst rioting there in over a decade charlie dubin ski reports live from the french capital but address to the nation is eagerly awaited by many yellow vest protesters who've been asking for president to speak to him directly since the start of these protests back on november seventeenth this will be the first time that he will directly address the french finance minister describe these protests that have been going on now for the last four weekends as being an economic catastrophe with france with french economic growth being reduced boy zero point one percent a result of the why we've been describing these protests as being a spontaneous social need when to the last few weeks there is invite something deeper behind i

it's eight o'clock and you're watching r t international line from a studio here in moscow with me in india today welcome to the program. take us arrests and violent confrontations are once again being seen on the streets of the french capital as the face the consecutive weekend they yellow vest movement as hard as demonstrations against inequality following a huge climb down by president this week it had been for today's protests would be a much calmer report suggests so far up to one hundred arrests have been made. i was was. i as the tear gas leaves this area of the seans allee's a famous street empowers police are moving their way up towards the arc de triomphe clearing out anybody who they deemed to be involved in the violence that we saw or roped out of absolutely nowhere it was incredibly peaceful throughout today and then just in a few seconds it went from zero to ten immediately and we saw police deploy tear gas which is in the air right now as we're moving into it and also a water cannon as well as well as the rubber bullets being fired certainly a very forceful move by the

from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know neil welcome to the program we begin in front's where thirty six thousand protesters are active this saturday as part of the movement known as the yellow vests there are ready scenes right now these are in fact live pictures in central park five thousand protesters have gathered around the arc de triomphe for the third day in a row over rising fuel costs on taxes riot police itin forces well the areas closed off more than one hundred arrests we know have been made to date and officers are using smoke grenades tear gas non live rounds to hold back the increasingly agitated crowds who are wearing the yellow vests after which their campaign is name . was i was. i. was. when our crew has been there all morning and a correspondent from r t from luka lives year was injured by a rubber bullet fired by police catching him on the jol or very own peter all of our europe correspondent he was also caught up in tear gas on was hit on the uncle by a rubber bullets but has not stopped and joining us live on the program peter all of our

from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly an r t international hello and welcome our top story. armored vehicles move through the streets of paris and suffered by the first time in more than a decade that has happened as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by b. yellow vests the movement more than seven hundred seven hundred arrests thousands of riot police using tear gas among other and weapons to try and contain the crowds and despite the efforts demonstrators really wreaked havoc for a fourth consecutive weekend. was. what began as local protests over fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against the money all government but it's not only people in high visibility yellow bibs who are showing their frustration or medics and high school students across the country too they've all been holding rallies surely dubin ski has been holding the fort for us in parlous is her latest take. as you can see this signing there so i are insane just in the past in a cold cold as you go towards the nation

a very well welcome to you you're watching r t international with mina king and great to have you with us but first this hour a partial shutdown of the united states government has just come into effect the senate has failed to approve billions of dollars for the border wall with mexico proposed by president trump. we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long well this is the third shutdown this year nine federal departments have stops that work with almost four hundred thousand employees to spend it hundreds of thousands more will work for free until an agreement can be struck dave lindorff a founding editor of the online news website this can be happening thinks it's all a bit of a gimmick it's just it's all th

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is your r t international my name's you know no meal and a warm welcome to the program our top story rugby scenes right in central park fifteen hundred protesters are mussing around the arc de triomphe for the third saturday in a row over rising fuel costs and these are live pictures right now of a camera seemingly following a crowd of armed officers as they have been all morning trying to the spurs the protesters away from the arc de triomphe well riot police as you can see here all around the city in force with the area. sixty arrests at this stage may we believe officers you can see the smoke there very clearly using tear gas non-live drawings i was well on water come in earlier we witnessed two whole bhakti increasingly a big crowds were wearing the yellow vests after which there. is named here is what unfolded earlier. was. was. was. i was i. was. on our team didn't get off on skate a correspondent from our to france lucas there sure was injured by a rubber bullets you can see there catching him on the side of the job need to be fired

weekly r t international hello and welcome to our top story the armored vehicles move through the streets of paris on saturday the first time in more than a decade now as yet more violence gripped the french capital in the latest round of protests by the yellow vest movement there were more than seventeen hundred arrests thousands of riot police used tear gas to try and contain the crowds well despite their efforts demonstrators retard like in a fourth consecutive weekends of all rest. you know quite extraordinary scenes what began as local protests over fuel price hikes snowballed into a nationwide uprising against the money government but it's not only people in high visibility yellow beds who are showing their frustration part of medics in part as high school students across the country they have all been holding rallies charlotte devinsky has been following events for us and friends. as you can see there is sounding there so i are insane just on the plus still a cold cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change in france it was implemen

outs or news this is r t international see you shortly. china much bigger economic power much war one term. i think. you have to live with. and there's lots of advantages that the europeans jethro but as well as america. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse started going after the users in the prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser reports and i'm often asked max what is the. pin that's going to pop the global bubble back in two thousand and eight it was the two thousand and eight

pull them back this is r t international now the british a defense secretary has voiced concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese take a giant wall way this comes amid a confrontation between the company and the united states reports. they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment you have a golden era of u.k. china relations and what about the relations between britain and china of very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over. this should be an indispensable partnership. we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing or rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of the five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact there's been recently exposed the chinese state does sometimes aren't

be made before the offense has happened when live from moscow every hour of the day this says r t international or great program start in just about. what he says you get. here you know. he's. got is that that. you know we will quote that oh he's not here dealt with this that didn't happen he thinks that there's somebody better not go back up but. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like howard prime tapi day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. u.s. secretary of state mike pump a always declared lateralus of an international affairs a failure what is needed according to him is a new liberal order led b

in minutes into the program this is r t international the pentagon sais by a book keeping lead to this campaign in yemen getting free fuel we've been following the paper trail and we've got the story coming up in ninety seconds. let me talk about predatory oh yeah they're out there. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is what the three of the people. interested always in the waters of. the pentacle has acknowledged that millions of dollars of u.s. taxpayers money has been lost to the saudi led campaign in yemen and plain refusing the u.s. defense department the huge loss down to basic accounting errors it came to light after the atlantic magazine obtained information from the defense department brings us more. what comes to dealing with america's allies the troubling ministration has one great fear paying too much money you want to say maybe they'll have to pay many nations ovett sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the united states

obligations under the freedom of information act that story much more still to come you're watching r t international. you know a lot of crazy things a lot of people. twitter rising and somebody pops up with something really. welcome to the crystal ball edition of crosstalk what can we expect in the new year we have a great lineup of guests telling us they think. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go to the press this is what the three of the more people. interested in the water. this is are to international now the trump administration has proposed as some changes to the freedom of information act which could make it harder for the public to access the records from the department of the interior have voiced their outrage over this move. this is a wool run transparency this is a calculated attempt to shield the interior department from scrutiny to shield it from watchdogs and to shield it from accountability the u.s. government says the changes are needed to handle an unprecedented surge in freedom of information requests a

can you watching r t international with me taking aaron great to have you with us this hour our top story sentencing of the first white house official over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen us presidential campaign has been delayed once again donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the f.b.i. but as more pain explains both words like treason and meddling what flynn is really guilty of. general michael flynn the only senior member of the trumpet ministration to be charged with a crime by the special prosecutor it was supposed to be a smoking gun the judge didn't mince any words when describing it i'm not hiding my disgust my disdain for this criminal offense all along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security advisor arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for arguably you sold your country out however the judge took it back i feel terrible about that the government has no reason to believe that the defendant committed treason his actu

the mag this is r t international with weeks of protests still simmering in france a disgruntled police officers have started their own protest against unpaid overtime and dangerous working conditions and at least one terminal in the french capital's main airport officers are causing long lines at passport control by staging a slow down protest reporting from parents. well it seems it is now with the yellow vests in the blue vest says police are now trying to squeeze concessions out of the government they're unhappy with what they see is deteriorating conditions the amount of overtime they've done some twenty three million hours and that includes because some of the work that we've been doing over the last five weeks with the best test is and of course the increased security that we're seeing around christmas markets and some sites across france in the wake of that strasburg attack and they say it's simply not enough the unions describing the situation for police in france has been absolutely diabolical. they're not getting obese was too cautious or even considering the social and profe

seven days a week twenty four hours a day you're watching r t international with mean a day or two to welcome to the. parasol clashes again on saturday amid a fresh wave of yellow vests protests throughout the french capital across the country more than a forty eight files were gathered for the sake weekend advantage government largess fifty. five am. fifty thirty five. if. you're. place say they made one hundred forty two arrests in paris once again right officers were out in force using water cannons and tear gas as a child it depends gave reports. well chaotic scenes here just outside the hotel de ville in paris just think a look over here see a gas raining down as the protesters look like they were trying to push towards the island were not for the famous cathedral is situated they were throwing projectiles at the police and then the police responded with this tear gas this is one of many clashes we've already witnessed in paris as usual is come out for a six day we also saw many people injured in some of those clashes including somebody who appeared to have a broken nose and inju

it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program students across france are protesting against the government's education reforms forcing more than one hundred fifty schools to close in a number of cities the demonstrations turned file and. meanwhile french m.p.'s have slammed as unacceptable and humiliating the police treatment of student protesters on thursday that's after video emerged of detained students in the suburbs of paris being forced on to their knees. france's education minister condemning the footage though adding that the context of the protests must be taken into account the country has seen some of the worst violence in half a century with demonstrators rallying for weeks now more protests are planned for this weekend the l a vast riots have seen three deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide in paris alone shop profits have dropped fifty percent and four million euros of damage was inflicted french retailers have lost around one billion euros since the start of the demons

a very well welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nicky and great to have you with us in our top story president trump has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria with the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops there the. president took to twitter giving the u.s. and himself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists there it seems that is words perplexed his administration allies and advisers we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly now we've won it's time to come back. we're going to remain on the ground there for the physical to feed a cold food until we have the pieces in place to ensure that our defeat is under. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials tell me see news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria there is no explanation of what steps the u.s. is going to take or a detailed plan for the withdrawal the white house press secretary said that washington was transitioning to the next phase of its syria campaign u.s. intervention in

you how we are running down the top stories of the week here on r t international continues in just a you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. will make this manufactured consent instant to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. can all middle of the room signal. room real news is brutal. i'm going to join us today for this edition of the weekly a powerful tsunami has struck in indonesia leaving at least one hundred and sixty eight people dead. well it's almost seven hundred fifty people have been injured with thirty missing according to the latest reports hundreds of buildings along the coast around the strait have been destroyed let's bring in some live pi

it is r t international having bowed to the demands of large scale nationwide anti-government protestsfrench president emanuel macron is facing more trouble on yet another front a left wing m.p.'s have tabled a motion of no confidence in his government but the vote to take place later on thursday the minister may have given the impression that it wasn't my concern to be dealt with that i had other priorities. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers france's so-called yellow vests have been out protesting on mass for four consecutive weekends what started as a demo against a now scrapped increase in fuel prices evolved into people airing their grievances against the government in general but after even after micron's concessions though some people are still unhappy they just show us a lot of closure with the speech was addressed to hard workers only the minimum wage has nothing to do with us we're not even talking about working overtime because when you work seventy hours per week yo

this is r t international so china has denied us allegations that it is behind an extensive hacking campaign in a dozen different countries and this comes after two chinese citizens were indicted in america over what has been described as a massive cyber theft of sensitive data china also urged washington to retract its accusations. may find me so she's sure to see your new year's fabricates facts out of thin air the chinese government has never beat its a supporter of anyone secrets but as the years to me did lose draw the so-called indictment of china's citizens all right the chinese nationals are accused of stealing data on one hundred thousand u.s. navy employees as well as on the nuclear power research center in california and a nasa jet engine propulsion lab and the allegations of mass hacking campaign come with relations already strained between the u.s. and china over a trade war through weeks ago at the g. twenty summit president xi jinping agreed on a ninety day halt to new trade tariffs on steel and aluminum exports in the hopes of a broader trade agreement could be a reached now

rivera editorial director at for reactionary times dot com thanks for being with us here on r t international. thank you so much so the alabama attorney general is launching a probe into whether this it does information campaign against roy moore violated campaign laws and tilted the election in any way where do you actually see this having. well i don't know whether or not they'll be able to prove that an actual crime was committed you know there's been dirty tricks in politics for a long time and you know quite frankly that was a low hanging fruit in a sense for them to go ahead and put something together like this because the mainstream media has invested so much in. to this book the men who say you know still yet unproven you know russian collusion narrative would trump in the russians are trying to affect american elections not out there you know in order to carry out this way i think is very hypocritical in this specially the fact that this organization has one of the people working with it has direct ties to broccoli baba who gave three hundred fifty dollars three hundred fifty thousan

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are broadcasting live from moscow this is r t international. but with us. the u.s. president has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria donald trump took to twitter giving the u.s. and themself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists. we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency we now have official confirmation that u.s. troops will be leaving syria now president trump's tweet contradicts everything that we've been hearing from the state department and the pentagon over the last several months here's what the head of the coalition to defeat isis said just over a week ago we want to see a resolution to the syrian civil war through the un security council resolution process and we also want to see the removal of foreign forces from syria particularly the iranian commander the proxy forces from syria his various americas will remain on the grounds of them for the physical to be to the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is and are now there are at least two thousand u

headlines here on r t international journalists rights groups reacted with indifference to the naming and shaming of russian media workers by a british newspaper in connection with allegations of spreading this information. a scandal hits a small russian town often the children of local officials go want to charity trip to turkey that was organized only for kids with so. illnesses. sung in. a traditional christmas song gets a makeover this year. political correctness this festive season.

the week's top stories here on r t international a probe is launched in alabama into a pro-democratic group that faked more than one thousand russian social media bots to discredit a republican candidate. yellow vest protesters take to the streets for a seventh consecutive weekend in cities across france. and the freedom of information act which has helped expose high level corruption in the u.s. comes under pressure the saudis want the right to reject requests they think are burdensome. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international guide to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. are to scandal continues to unfold over alleged meddling in the alabama state election the state attorney general has launched a probe into whether a pro-democrat group which created fake russian bots to discredit the republican candidate may have broken election laws. has a story for americans not the russians have at least set up one army of pseudo russian bots to sway opinion and boost election turnout it's the big story this december and as more and more details

it's five o'clock and you're watching r t international line from our moscow studio with media today welcome to the program russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named avalon god president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole but earlier in the program my colleague spoke to our correspondent don off to find out more tell us about the media reaction to this. launch did certainly become a top news story all over the world those analytical pieces that have had a chance to come out there were more along the lines of why the united states should feel this missile and i should say it kind of does carry the same message that we've been a world that we've been seeing for months really because god missile was one out of five vans to weapons unveiled by vladimir putin back this march and that's when the world just everybody went bonkers and. everybody should feel scared even though it has been since the message of the russian government that it is purely defensive that these weapons they are meant to defend russia not

you're back with r t international a batch of documents reportedly from the u.k. a funded think tank integrity initiative. apparently the anti propaganda sites links to nato the revelations are supposed efforts to infiltrates european media editing wickett p.d.f. pages in an anti russian money are well polly boy who can take us through the story right now. it's got a cozy sounding moralistic the integrity initiative is part of the u.k. based institute for state craft charity its purpose to counter all that kremlin this information flooding the globe leaked documents have shown the noble crusade receiving funds from the british government's foreign office and the latest leak has revealed some of those who were paid by the info wars unit. two thousand five hundred pounds a month not bad his day job is at the atlantic council and nato backed think tank ties to nato seem to be a good indorsement if you want to get paid by the integrity initiative apparently ties to our channel can also get you the gig remember liz wahl a presenter of variety over in the us who resigne

loop twenty four seven for now from moscow is kevin though in saying thank you for watching r t international. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my system just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. that you'd like to be for us that's what before three of them or people that i'm interested always in the water. this should. i'm max ke

a big breaking news night here on r t international james mattis the defense secretary of the united states is president trump announces the u.s. defense secretary will step down from his post at the end of february that's not very long at all plus. wrapping up the presidential question and answer session on two thousand and eight teens at biggest events russian president vladimir putin gives moscow's stance on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis and brags that among much much more. many western politicians experts and even ordinary people see russia asked.

needs next it's the kaiser report this is r t international. my son there's doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in a prison populations who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence and for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up in issue in waves and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report. let's check in with stacey see what's going on there if there's a hate what do you think the topic might be wearing a clue. van gogh's paintings as you saw the when the saying eating his own pain in the field somewhere in the south of france while t

what about this is r t international now russia's security services have been speaking about the quote provocative nature of the ukrainian ships involved in clashes in the carriage straight to two weeks ago they gave more details on that incident very almost sparked a conflict between the two nations on the crimean peninsula that's artie's medina covered cotton over explains precious f.s.b. coast guard hold a briefing here in moscow where the course of events that took place in november the twenty fifth was outlined in details of the f.s.b. you called this incident a clear provocation and a very dangerous one however it added that incidents of such sort happened before on a numerous occasion in the past two years now russia's f.s.b. coast guard said the proper procedures and rules for passage haven't changed and before there's been no misunderstanding. it's necessary to stress that the rules of passage through the strait have been effective for more than twenty years and they have always been observed by both russian and ukrainian ships the ad says be goes gars said that there were amm

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kevin though in this early sunday morning saying thank you for watching out international for me in the rest of the team in r t h q good morning. national council we're going underground as new liberal world leaders shake hands with economic hitman at the g. twenty in argentina coming up on the show debating the end of the earth ahead of cop twenty four on monday we talked to the nobel peace prize winning pulled up principal advisor on climate change the u.n. secretary general about manmade environmental catastrophe and meanwhile off the g twenty moscow's trade envoy and presidential commission on warming business ties between the u.k. and russia despite britain appearing to be on a war footing with the largest nation on earth plus tributes to this man and cuse i feel somehow we have a chance no one to call them to mid beat but when we show up why did bush caption and maybe change things for the better over some more coming up in today's going on the ground but first on climate change trey's amaze clear she wants fracking for fossil fuels. thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industries and you know the sector

expected to reach orbit and just six hours late to dock with the international space station but this time it will feel much longer ration russian r r t from baikonur in kazakstan. social paris is brought to a standstill on saturday by the so-called yellow vest movement against soaring fuel prices it was the most violent of three successive weekends of one rest riot police were out in force four hundred twelve people are eventually arrested and scores injured including our correspondent peter oliver and lucas ligero who were hit by rubber bullets is what peter witnessed the day. these demonstrators have been very clear in what they've wanted to say they want to say that fuel prices are getting too high they want to say they're unhappy with the current government headed up by a manual might call actually is remove into this missing rice's riot police tear gas everything you can possibly imagine. we're actually seeing tear gas trying over our heads right now i'm going to be moving out of the way as i'm talking to you that's really not safe for me to be stood there doing that it's also not to just explain what was happening the place tha