r.t. goes on the ground after reports that drug related crimes are running out of control of parts of the paris metro resulting in train drivers refusing to stop at certain stations. to. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me niki aaron good to have you with us this hour and we start with breaking news on r.t. turkey has begun the military operation it's been threatening against kurds in northern syria it comes after the u.s. military commander announced plans to create a border force with kurds in northern syria a move that left an correct raging later the secretary of state tried to climb. so far the situation saying the u.s. had no intention of creating such a force there but his words haven't been enough to stop the military operation. is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to come up with a force of thirty thousand people that took that long or is he just disputing why wouldn't i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that

r.t. new york. germany has started the year by introducing a new hate speech law but it's already facing widespread criticism for getting a satirical magazines twitter feed brought to miss america now explains applying this kind of legislation is proving to be a legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users flagged he

france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator i don't yell and believes that mccrone should be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today i threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the better what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting on constitution if you're not careful meanwhile micron is also facing flak closer to home because this criticism that his

r.t. new york. meanwhile germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and its america are now explains applying this kind of legislation can be a legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her

from the fancypants group of pain by r.t. raises concerns about how the doping cases were handled during the rio olympics and twenty sixteen and questions the integrity of the sample bottle manufacturer. joining us on this thursday this is r.t. international. we do begin this hour with breaking news the turkish foreign minister is demanding concrete steps from the u.s. to end cooperation with kurdish groups in syria which ankara views as terrorist linked the minister added that washington has broken its promises and is unlikely

the r.t. family though did have a little christmas present for the for you french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r.t. france and it immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said r.t. had repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries to political commentator though adrian yelland believes that mccrone should perhaps be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the pedal what he calls false news fake news and i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's

this comes amid a string of similar attacks throughout russia russia this week r.t. jacqueline vega has the details. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. and all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons not an axis as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend also linked these incidents our sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be a common factor just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the u.s. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children who weren't even born when it happened it's so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves columbine years now russia's version of facebook called v.k. has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and

france's license to be revoked they said that r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes though that mccrone should actually be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today a threat to the democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the head of what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful. donald trump's lawyers are threatening legal action against the former

r.t. new york. germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and it's american now explains applying this kind of legislation can be a legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crack down on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her tweets as

s representative went out of her way to criticize r.t. and question our role as an alternative voice in the media. there's no equivalence argument you know the b.b.c. yes you so you are she's just a national broadcaster just like the b.b.c. is you know b.b.c. is subjected to. independent you know. regulator which is nothing to do with the with the government and the b.b.c. regularly makes reports and invest in vest occasions which criticize the government on r.t. we absolutely do that on our to we are regulated actually by off com as well all of our programming and just as joe was describing the process. of less than the be that the b.b.c. and never find like the b.b.c. has so this is but this is this is this is the problem very where you moving the goalposts we're constantly moving the goalposts something and this is the problem that errors that our team has made and of course we've made errors in our reporting and we've addressed them we've corrected with issued our clarifications to inform their audience but when it comes to r.t. or ot

and i welcome you watching r.t. international this friday afternoon where it's just turned one o'clock here in moscow. now the french president has promised to clear the streets of thousands of russian rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen seems to fall in flat he had promised housing in one form or another but instead they face police pressure to move on while trying to survive in freezing temperatures to shoulder pinsky reports now from paris. a new year may have begun but for these my quince the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. the president said he wanted to resolve the problem by the end of the year it's not resolved in the neighborhood there are another thirty camps which are settled like this and these migrants are seeking asylum and there is a problem with violence between the people who are waiting in the queue at the reception center because they want to be the first whose fault is that. it's not the fault of the migrants it's the fault

or form or all of these and plenty of other stories that go to our web site r.t. dot com at the top of the hour my colleague lori sushi will be here with the latest headlines but for me. it's a new year but the same stories persist out front as the chaotic trump white house followed by the still does the a and a possible breakthrough with north korea. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turned some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of even a recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes million. people are very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results she saw a piece of her body. gathered in which to watch her all get people to see what i. did beautiful blue she ate at the still claim what was i mean if a legal. challenge nothing more than this she did not know it was always the state she found out there and not getting paid while the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to b

have all made it into the top three r.t. samir khan joins us live with the details and well the award has caused quite a stir trying to delay the announcement for over a week i was repeatedly ridiculed for it so syria take us through the list of the winners. well after such a long wait he has finally held his fake news award ceremony and by award ceremony i obviously mean he tweeted a link to a blog post that revealed the winners in trump's own words the most dishonest and corrupt of the business but the website crashed as soon as he tweeted the link due to high internet traffic and luckily we do have a web archive with the list of winners and of course the top accolades went to the new york times and c.n.n. what a surprise you know we sure didn't see that one coming but what was unexpected however was trump's tweet that followed saying that there are great reporters that he respects. but i guess no may know names were mentioned and i guess he must've forgotten but somehow he didn't forget to name the winners of his fake new

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jollity even ski r.t. sen song dinny. now in syria are meant to be fighting fit in the army but these soldiers from spain are fighting found they'd been put on a crash diet after the military feared they damaged the unit's reputation for being a little too portly. i don't. think i've. done has ended up in a situation that requires a series of measures to reduce excess weight among its personnel. i've. done. well for on only stories think i saw c dot com otherwise i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines say that. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. this man phoned his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authoriti

you're back with r.t. international violent crime in germany's lower saxony region may be linked to an increase in migrants according to a government backed study but is it really that simple taking a closer look polus lier. why have reports of violent crime in one german state increased by more than ten percent in the last two years but this is exactly what a group of criminologists at zurich university of applied signs to find and what they established is that there is a link between the increased violent crimes in lowest sex to me and the influx of migrants but the authors say there are a number of important contributing factors the first and foremost is the age of the migrants most of man between the ages of fourteen and thirteen not generally speaking people in this age bracket are more likely to commit acts of a vine that nature than people in other age groups secondly where they come from is important my goods who come from syria iraq and afghanistan tend not to carry out the same number of violent

france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries but commentator adrian yellen believes my problem should be terfel up by taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this move the use the head of what he calls false news fake news i think you need tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new rules that protect. people's rights to not have their their views challenged by untruths actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful will present mccall is also facing flak because of his other half there's criticism that his wife bridgette is breaking protocol and behaving like a french q

security council in new york head to our website r.t. dot com live coverage of that in the meantime i'll be back with the latest news headlines from today in just a moment. right in the syrian government how are you dealing with these mixed messages from your american colleagues well there's an. issue where we receive messages you apostle and. little of days ago you saw. the u.s. said that they were creating a. forces for defending the borders in syria but now they said they're not creating these forces that are the creating alternative. i thought of the structures in syria and this is a fact this goes against their own obligations which they have signed on numerous occasions including in the un security council. protecting the territorial integrity of syria and we are worried by that i have discussed this with mr tillerson a number of occasions on the military level. we have contacts about this issue i agree with you. this mixed messages. but insecure little words this back and forth diplomacy this. see to respect their own agree with t

france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. on several european countries but it will commentator adrian yellen believes mccrone should be careful about taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he will also want to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the head of what he calls false news fake news i think very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new rules that protect. people's rights to not have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you are not careful and well at home a manual mccrone himself has become infamous for his difficult relations with the press he has repeatedly accused them of being na

again thanks for watching r.t. so the french president's phone to combat fake news with a law to regulate media influenced by foreign states and announce the move to journalists in paris on wednesday when it was finished between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns in almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. in his speech he wasn't specific about which countries and things could be influencing french media but russian media including us and the sporting news agency of already painted microbes far in line last year both were denied accreditation showing his presidential campaign last year later labeled by him as propaganda or outlets. it's russia today and sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters i can tell you though the r.t

breaking news this hour on r.t. international at least seven people intrude into russia's eastern siberia as a teenager tuxes school with an ak molotov cocktail. of more that someone was acquitted. it is the first such incident in russia this week all were reportedly inspired by online hate groups known as the sinister columbine tragedy that's what sources have revealed to this channel. also a new and more in germany about online hate speech strikes again after a right wing party member sees her facebook account of calling for of march against migrants committing crimes in her country and we get her reaction on the program. witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera he walked the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people party goes on the ground after aboard the drug related crimes are running out of control in parts of the paris metro resulting in train drivers refusing to stop at certain station. friday worldwide news headlines live here on r.t. international thanks

r.t. paris. a new law in germany which combat's hate speech online is making headlines again and i thought of the facebook account of a member of the right wing alternative for germany party was blocked following her call for people to join a women's march against rape and killings perpetrated by migrants in the country i organize a women's march to the chancery almost every day we read about horrific rapes and murder of women the more women come the more pressure it will put america and politicians from the old parties together let us take to the streets to fight for our right to freedom and sub the temora nation despite belonging to a party known for its strong anti migrant rhetoric later bilger who is a women's and children's rights activist regularly travels to syria and iraq to help people there she is of migrant origin herself and was surprised at the official reason for her facebook ban. as i'm in facebook of a show on my travels with facebook started a few years ago facebook has a big iss

russian propaganda outlet r.t. news as a foreign agent the foreign agents registration act was passed back in the late one nine hundred thirty s. and response to concerns about nazi propaganda i think is absolutely appropriate today for us to take a look at what russia and other countries may be doing to our news and since then switch on any congressional hearing and you'll probably hear our team mention once or twice propaganda machine contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for criminal messaging using russian government funded outlets russian propaganda media outlets like r t we should be concerned about this propaganda arm r t and sputnik i think it's a propaganda arm of nato to be looking in responding to some of the russian propaganda in a different way and then tech giants joined in starting with google who removed r t from you tube premium advertising service even though they didn't find proof of any violations going on to twitter who conducted their own investigation on russian meddl

body that tries to look into an expose what it sees as fake news r.t. and sputnik featured very heavy in some of the rhetoric coming from these m.e.p. they're focused firmly on the fact that every vote in europe was potentially the target of a dastardly russian plot and there are russian agents in this their own parliament right now and they're already trying to actively influence our elections russia today has put make on to other channels are dangerous it's quite interesting that the communists and the extremists nationalists in this chamber very can see russia and us information. and of course your carbs but we can see you are also voices pointed back towards those same a piece you just heard from saying that they were just looking for a bogeyman a scapegoat for their own political failings and that russia fitted that skate go perfectly we need to be careful when using phrases like fake neo i'm not trying to defend the russian regime by that i'm just rather skeptical by references to interference in the us and european elections there is no evidence

quote him from his press conference today i threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik was part of that but i think that he also wants to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the head of what he calls false news fake news i think very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new rules that protect. people's rights and will have their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful. donald trump ours publicly lashed down his former advisor steve bannon over what he reportedly revealed to the author of an upcoming tell all book on trump's presidency in a statement issued by the us president he didn't mince words saying that bombing had quote lost his mind had only worked for his own interest on was never part of trump space. left the white house in august that was a year after joining trump's election team later serving as his strategic adviser the mainstream media suggest palin was a pivotal figure in

breaking news this hour on r.t. international and a school in russia is eastern siberia leaves at least five people injured. this looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera he was the platform still and exchanging some people policy goes underground off the reports the drug related crimes are running out of control on the metro resulting in train drivers refusing to stop but the station. the u.s. struggles to explain earlier statements that it was creating a new military force in syria threaten to trigger a conflict in the already war ravaged country. not a cold friday morning here in moscow you are watching international and straight to our breaking news for you at this hour a teenager has attacked a school injuring four people including a teacher in eastern siberia let's get more details now on joining us live in the studio this morning what is the latest you can tell us we do have some conflicting reports coming in which in a chaotic situation such as this is not unusual there are reports that the

france's license to be revoked they supported their claims by saying r.t. has repeatedly face various allegations from the u.s. and different european countries earlier we spoke with a political commentator who said that mccrone should be kerf alive by taking legal measures. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today i threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik was part of that but i think that he also wants to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the better what he calls false news fake news i think you need tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new rules that protect. people's rights nor have their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful . donald trump ours publicly lashed out his former advisor steve down in what he reportedly revealed to th

it was done of r.t. . to discuss this further i'm now joined by alan moore host of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. radio station hello alan always good to see you and now the i.p.c. president said banning our face is not a matter of fairness it's about meeting the criteria what do you think about that line of argument. go to charity again i mean i think he says himself that it doesn't matter what he thinks it is fair or not he said that they're just holding to this line. everything that is said today i mean it. is a little bit of given that they're low some assets between thirty thirty five to compete a lot of a still doesn't make sense because ultimately as we all know this diseases are based on an informant kind of wish to get away from russia so i mean did this is based on roger i think we have a very very careful in how we deal with this further other. athletes the power of astley's they are already presumed guilty before they have a chance to prove their innocence well and shouldn't clean test

well thanks for choosing r.t. international fold the latest news headlines my colleague daniel hawkins will be with you at the top of the out while. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paix these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline off to almost a decade how good are the results she saw last at the new year and peaceful by the people gathered in which the wider world beat people with your daughter june cheer choice you can trade it be it will be she still plumbers i mean to for legal. challenge must be more than this she is not was always think they see something and not get it. while the same measure is still in place to one of the consequences who is to weaken bluebirds food this movie will first be one of those was the truth the consider this is the

s representative went out of her way to criticize r.t. and question our role as an alternative voice in the media. there's no equivalent solomon you know the b.b.c. yes you say archie's just a national broadcaster just like the b.b.c. is you know b.b.c. is subjected to. independent you know. regulator which is nothing to do with the with the government and the b.b.c. regularly makes reports and in this investigation which criticize the government. we absolutely do that on our we are regulated actually by off com as well all of our programming and just as joe was describing the process. of less than the be on the b.b.c. and never find like the b.b.c. has so this is but this is this is this is the probably where you moving the goalposts were constantly moving the goalposts something and this is the problem that errors that our t. has made and of course we've made errors in our reporting and we've addressed them we've corrected we've issued clarifications to were informed our audience but when it comes to r.t. or other alternative voices leg

twenty seventeen wasn't an easy year for this channel r.t. was labeled a propaganda machine and foreign agents by the u.s. government and also accused of influencing the u.s. electorate to vote for donald trump but our reporter symmetric on they have found a silver lining let's be honest twenty seventeen was the year our team made the headlines as opposed to just reporting the headlines that all started about a year ago when the u.s. intelligence community concluded that russia interfered in the us presidential election while providing not a shred of evidence to substantiate any of these claims and nearly half of the report was dedicated to r.t.e. explaining how we supposedly sway the election in trump's favor artie's criticism of the us election was the latest facet of its broader and longer standing and to us messaging likely aimed to undermining viewers trust in us democratic. sieges and on the cuts in us criticism of russia's political system fast forward to march twenty seventh team senator shaheen introduces a bill to investigate the ru

r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. this week twenty one people have died during a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the government these began as protests about the economic situation but turned political and then violent. on washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of their ons leadership the u.s. also called for an emergency un security council meeting about the situation but some members doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of international security. in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. however worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se the threat to international peace and security every un member state is sovereign but member states cannot use sovereignty as a shield when they categorically deny thei

headlines on r.t. international wiki leaks julian assange being granted an ecuadorian id card but the country's push to resolve his case is reportedly being met with resistance from the u.k. government. a new u.n. report says iraqi refugees are being forced to return home by the country's security services to areas that are still deemed dangerous. team from suing the people behind the infamous trump dossier that's after the release of an interview with one of the men behind the file an alleged collusion with russia we discussed the issue with. a russian attorney who is mentioned in the interview and who is accused of being a broker between moscow and. moscow almost you're watching our international thank you. and your development in the julian assange case the wiki leaks co-founder has been granted an ecuadorian id card as a step towards ending his five year confinement in ecuador's london embassy r.t. correspondent anastasio has details the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky

so friday means football here one r.t. in the latest episode of his program stan collymore interviews the legendary sort of field i'm also the spanish national team leader and a rail madrid captain here's a quick preview. ok zakir. is it important that russia have a good world cope the team gets out of the group for the momentum of the tournament . i think that when one plays at home backed by their country one always has a higher responsibility it is a plus and gives extra motivation which will shine through in the series i wish the russian team the best because when we have played there they have always given us a friendly reception with somebody but i only wish them well until we crossed paths if we ever do an elementary cristela rinaldo portugal you spain first game of the board. a very interesting going to start this is i believe it's going to be a very exciting game and highly anticipated as well because it is a neighboring country i think they are the ones to be because they are the current european champions and th

thanks so much for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. north and south korea have agreed to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics and this is according to a statement made by the representatives of pyongyang and seoul following today's talks between the two countries. the north and south will march together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag from a single north south female ice hockey team. south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile western allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure campaign will continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to pressure or to career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the b

r.t. international all the latest headlines and a round up of the stories that shape the week and. now this week has seen a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the country's government it began with protests over the economic situation in the country but later at least one first political and then violent with twenty one people killed in the clashes. since protests started to washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists. and ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's leadership the us also called for an emergency un security council meeting over the situation in iran but other members of the body doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of international security. in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. however worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se the threat to international peace and security every un

got a christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our brand new newest channel r.t. france it's going on air now it immediately ruffled a few high profile furthers several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said artie's repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes the crown should be careful about taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today a threat to the democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the head of what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actual

christmas present for the french speaking world we can tell you the launch of our brand new channel r.t. france is just on air literally that immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said artie's repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian gallant believes mccrone should be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a i threaten democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the pedal what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and not have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he co

a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour. but we can exchange has been granted an ecuadorian i.d. card and while some are seeing an attempted step towards ending his five year confinement and the country's london embassy artie's laura smith has the details but after a while of nothing no movement from inside the ecuadorian embassy there's been a series of developments in the last twenty four hours julian assange is posted a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we thought reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a national identity number so he's been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador so the strong suggestion is that from this national identity number he will then possibly get a passport we went onto the streets of quit

welcome to the program here on r.t. international a busy day for news so far let's get straight into the program now the u.s. treasury has released a de classified list of russia individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top tier business figures but the treasury denies those on the list of being sanctioned now we will discuss this issue in full a bit further in the hour however this document was part of the new sanctions law signed by trump last summer but now he has stated that he will drop the new sanction program and this has sent the us media and democrats into a state of meltdown after congress voted almost unanimously for a package of restrictions back in the summer today we have informed congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring russian defense sales to trump and ministration had a decision to make whether they would follow the law and crack down on thos

france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the us and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes mccrone should be curfewed by taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the head of what he calls false news fake news and i think he needs tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new rules that protect. people's rights and not have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you are not careful or president mccrone is also facing flak because of his other half there is criticism that his wife appreciate is breaking protocol on be

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the week's top stories in r.t. junior sound secure second door in citizenship but he remains holed up in the country's london embassy as britain insists he will face arrest if he steps outside also to america's online army r.t. learns of the pentagon plans develop software to automatically post messages and responses on social media and from the oval office outburst there is global backlash over the u.s. presence alleged crude remarks about immigrants from africa and central america. so i welcome you watching the weekly here in r.t. international our look back at what's been happening over the last seven days. now on thursday ecuador announced it had granted wiki leaks founder julian assange citizenship he's been holed up in the country's london embassy for over five years now after seeking political asylum there but he's still unable to leave his the u.k. refuses to grant him to promote a community and says he must surrender and face justice nor smith recaps developments. billionaire sons posted a photograph of hi

altie paris still to come on r.t. international as well as offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants a payment to leave or jail story and more after this short break. you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present enjoy. yourself want to be rich. that you'd like to be this is what you. were able to get. interested always in the walking. welcome back yemen has been the targets of yet another sounding lead as strike the second so far this year according to local media one person was killed and at least there were a more were injured it's a strike on the arab world's poorest country took place on saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of santa it comes off to yet another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of her data. if. i am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. i was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on hot days we sleep right on the s

r.t. paris well people sleeping rough is also a problem in the u.k. at the moment but for a whole different reason an official has caused uproar over calls for move the homeless from the streets around the venue with the royal wedding in may the prime minister has even had to step into the we've got the details on this a bit later on in the program. the u.s. is spending its security suspending its security assistance to pakistan which has long been its ally in the fight against terrorism in afghanistan washington accuses pakistan of not making a serious effort in fighting terror groups like the taliban. you're suspending security assistance security assistance only to pakistan at this time in till the pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban and the haqqani network we consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting u.s. personnel the united states will suspend that kind of security assistance to pakistan it is in the wake of terms first tweet of the year which lined his regret that the u.s.

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