in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this idea. is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so not exactly the model that nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response 7 but only up the ante room. i'm talking t

mccrone whose government remains the walked in a standoff with tribute as. well there have been more violent protests in india over a contentious new citizenship law at the legislation provides a fast track to citizenship for refugees from bangladesh pakistan and afghanistan but it excludes muslims critics say that undermines the constitutional right of equality for everyone opposition has been especially strong in india's northeastern state of us some but unrest has spread to other parts of the country in the capital delhi police clashed today with students. delhi riot police fire a volley of tear gas. and their target student protesters holed up inside the capital's prestigious jimmy a 1000000 islamic university there demanding that their government resend a contentious new citizenship law. critics say the law discriminates against muslims by only granting indian citizenship to non muslim refugees from neighboring countries. after trading rocks at the police. the student demonstrators finally surrender with their hands aloft. and are ushered onto busses de

in london to mark the military alliance is 7 decades is there reason to celebrate for its president emanuel mccrone is calling for solidarity and he's also standing by his morning of brain death at nato president trump says that is nasty language so will this round between leaders overshadow the summit and take you live to london also coming up tonight weather experts tell the u.n. climate summit in madrid is that the last decade has been the hottest on record we look at what it means for one farmer in south africa and even as the world makes progress improving the lives of people with disabilities we'll take you to me where the disabled are still confronting huge challenges. i'm for in golf it's good to have you with it today's nato meeting in london has opened with national leaders seeking to paper over the cracks amid divisions in the allied it's right now as leaders are at buckingham palace for a reception hosted by the queen to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of nato and it follows a very public spat between french president emmanuel back wrong and u.s. president donald trump

mccrone in fact president has issued his plans for pension reform and that is what kicked off all of these demonstrations today let's head now to the streets of paris where r.t. correspondent charlie dubinsky brings us the latest developments and breaks down these strikes. a mass mobilization here in france with official figures suggesting more than 450000 people have taken to the streets to protest that of power lies the country all in a dispute over pension reform this is a reform that the french government wants to bring in under present to amalgamate the $42.00 current pension systems into one universal system the government says it will be fair i it will be more just but the protest isn't striking say no it won't it will mean that we may have to work for longer and we may end up with less money in our pockets when we are pensioners those tensions have pulled over not just here on the streets of paris but on the streets of other cities across the country the suggestion now is that this one strike that was initially planned by transport workers and is now encompassed teachers heal

mccrone suggestion that nato is in terminal decline as nasty the pair then went on to joust over a range of issues in front of reporters including the fate of european isis fighters in this bizarre exchange. that's in the eyes of. your period. when you were little pieces that. were enough number of mind does go wrong on this coming from the c.e.o. . and the reason. for the fight is coming from europe that says. quote. just hours before that may thing the us president threatened to impose a huge tariffs on french goods including cheese and champagne shouted to bensky has more on the rest. well to add into those tensions that nato there is even the simmering tensions between france and the us this comes after the u.s. is threatened to add more taxes on french products in retaliation for the so-called gaffa tax this is a tax on digital joints such as google amazon or facebook and apple suggesting it will levy those taxes of up to $2400000000.00 some of that. pain on luxury goods such as handbags and also the famous french cheese some of these products could see taxes of up to 100 percent do

in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. of the defense critic nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this is the idea. is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so not exactly the model of nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey that it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria was a response 7 only u

in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security system of the difference nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this idea. it's quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so what exactly the model that nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only up the ant

meeting between french president emanuel mccrone and 5 west african leaders over security in the region from snow's insisted its nato allies take this situation seriously and provide more support than a quarter a correspondent delves deeper the smalling into the challenges paris is facing in these year and indeed in some more of its former colonies to. africa has become a hotbed of terrorist activity as deadly attacks claiming hundreds of lives have spread like wildfire. europe will have 2 swords of damocles over its head terrorism and kidnappings but also illegal immigrants since many are traveling through this region following one of the deadliest attacks in niger or 70 people were killed by islamists the big players have even postponed a big summit to reconsider their efforts the president so france uneasier agreed to postpone the summit on operation by kanya on the joint chiefs on health force until early 2020 the 2 presidents expressed their determination to remain united against terrorist groups and to redefine together in the coming weeks the political and operational framework f

mccrone whose government remains locked in a standoff with trade unions delegates from europe and the u.s. have attended a ceremony in belgium to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bowl it was one of world war 2 his bloody is episodes in which u.s. forces defeated a german attempt to stop at vance the allied armies in december 1904. when there have been more violent protests in india over a contentious new citizenship wall the legislation provides a fast track to citizenship for refugees from bangladesh pakistan and afghanistan but it excludes muslims critics say that undermines the constitutional right of equality for everyone opposition has been especially strong in india's northeastern state of osama but the unrest has spread to other parts of the country in the capital delhi police clashed today with students. delhi riot police fire a volley of tear gas and their target student protesters holed up inside the capital's prestigious jimmy amulya islamic university they are demanding that their government rescind a contentious new citizenship law. critics say the law discr

mccrone suggestion that nato is in terminal decline as nasty the pair then went on to joust over a range of issues in front of reporters including the face of european isis fighters in this bizarre exchange. where you are. does go wrong on. this is where he's a great politician as it was we're going to answer is that. just hours before the meeting the u.s. president threatened to impose huge tariffs some french good sync looting cheese and champagne shot to dubai and ski has more on the rift. well to adding to those tensions that nato days even with the simmering tensions bits. and the us this comes after the u.s. has threatened to add more taxes on french products in retaliation for the so-called gaffa tax this is a tax on digital joints such as google amazon or facebook and apple suggesting it will levy those taxes of up to $2400000000.00 some of that product such a sharp pain on luxury goods such as handbags and also the famous french cheese some of these products could see taxes of up to 100 percent doubling that price for u.s. consumers now the u.s. trade representatives office has

mccrone says he is willing to make changes to his proposed pension reform by entering into talks with trade unions as announcement comes a day after a renewed nationwide protest the french government is hoping for a break in transport strikes before the christmas holiday. china has unveiled the 1st aircraft carrier built completely in china president xi jinping took part in the commissioning ceremony of the shandong the ship's launch comes as the naval rivalry between the u.s. and china increases especially in the south china sea. well the united nations has urged rich countries to do more to tackle the worldwide refugee crisis speaking at the 1st global bridgie forum in geneva the u.n. secretary general antonio guterres criticize what he called a quote hostile political environment for posing a threat to asylum seekers one example is can be seen in the west african country of niger now with the recent increase in the number of migrants going from africa to europe the e.u. moved to shut down some of the main transit routes through niger brussels provided support for the country's mili

in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. of the defense critic nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this the idea. is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so late model nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey that it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria was a response only upped the ante so. i

mccrone in fact president mccrone has issued his plans for pension reform and that is what kicked off all of these demonstrations today let's head now to the streets of paris where r.t. correspondent charlie dubinsky brings us the latest developments and breaks down these strikes. mobilize ation here in france with official figures suggesting more than 450000 people have taken to the streets to protest of power lies the country all in a dispute over pension reform this is a reform that the french government wants to bring in and to present. a model can meet the 42 current pension systems into one unit. system the government says it will be fair i it will be more just but the protest isn't strike is say no it won't it will mean that we may have to work for longer and we may end up with less money in puckett's when we are pensioners those 2.

in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this idea is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. he has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so not exactly the model nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only up the ante so. i'm talking to france's preside

in october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security system of the defense critic nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this the idea. is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so not exactly the model of nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only up the

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october this year president emanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically braindead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this idea is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so really the model that nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey that it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response 7 only up the ante so. i'm talking to france's p

during a meeting in london for the nato summit with french president emanuel mccrone president trump defended american tech giants. you know they're going to be comforted if you took you to the. people because this is not exactly ok here we go. and we want to go. we don't want that and that's not the sum of the. meanwhile french finance minister bruno lemaire claims the digital tax in question is not particular discriminatory to u.s. tech companies. should all say it wants to get the sanctions would be unacceptable we question the legal analysis by the u.s. authorities of just national tax on digital weekend i said so yesterday the u.s. trade representative. is. going to deliver the french digital likely to be called digital company days including u.s. companies but also a strange european and. the u.s. has already imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine and cheese in response to the block support for e.u. plane maker airbus now to break all this down to a scuffle between the u.s. and the e.u. we're joined by hilary ford which board member of the british american business associat

mccrone says he's not giving up on pension reform it has to be done and so the government insists on pushing on the unions on giving away either. algeria's president has named abdul aziz jarrett as the country's new prime minister it is a former diplomat and presidential advisor who teaches political science at the university about his appointment comes a week after budget to boon was to quit the winner of a controversy of election that was boycotted by many. on friday thousands of protesters continued calling for the overthrow of the entire political system. still ahead on al-jazeera. carry on with their protests even though the president signs off on one of the pads on a new constitution plus. the be. caught on camera police offices in the u.s. find themselves running for their lives. hello again it's good to have you back well still very wet weather here across parts of the eastern mediterranean and that is going to continue unfortunately as we begin the week as well of course we have been talking about the flooding situation that has been going on in turkey syria as well as into

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during a meeting in london for the nato summit with french president emanuel mccrone president trump defended american tech giants. you know they're going to be comforted if you. going to people because this is not exactly ok here we go. and we want to. support and we don't want that and that's not the sum of the. meanwhile french finance minister bruno lemaire claims the digital tax in question is not particular discriminatory to u.s. tech companies. should all say it wants to get the sanctions would be unacceptable we question the legal analysis by the u.s. authorities of just national tax on digital giants and the can i said so yesterday the u.s. trade representative said is this. going to dilute the french digital is going to be called digital company days including u.s. companies but also a strange european and. the u.s. has already imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine and cheese in response to the block support for e.u. plane maker airbus now to break all this down the scuffle between the u.s. and the e.u. we're joined by hilary ford which board member of the british amer

during a meeting in london for the nato summit with french president emanuel mccrone president trump defended american tech giants. you know there are you going to be ok but if you think you could do when people are going to see that there's a need for me that's ok if you're really going to do. we want to get some air you've got to be sure this is what we want to see and that's not the some of the. meanwhile french finance minister bruno the mare claims the digital tax in question is not particular discriminatory to u.s. tech companies. some say they want to get the sanctions would be unacceptable we question the legal analysis by the u.s. authorities just a national attack on digital giants weekend i said so yesterday the u.s. trade representative says this. absolutely digitalize he wouldn't be going to do complete days including u.s. companies but also a syringe european and. the u.s. has already imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine and cheese in response to the block support for plane maker airbus to break all this down the scuffle between the u.s. and the e.u. we're joined

or under the administration of president emanuel mccrone in fact president has issued his plans for pension reform and that is what kicked off all of these demonstrations today let's head now to the streets of paris where our to correspondent charlie dubinsky brings us the latest developments and breaks down these strikes. a mass mobilization here in france with official figures suggesting more than 450000 people have taken to the streets to protest that of power lies the country all in a dispute over pension reform this is a reform that the french government wants to bring in under president to amalgamate the $42.00 current pension systems into one universal system the government says it will be fair i it will be more just but the protesters in striking say no it won't 2 it will mean that we may have to work for longer and we may end up with less money in our pockets when we are pensioners those tensions have boiled over not just here on the streets of paris but on the streets of other cities across the country the suggestion now is that this one strike that was initially planned by transp

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during a meeting in london for the nato summit with french president emanuel mccrone president trump defended american tech giants. you know they're going to be comforted if you from. the people because this is not exactly ok here in america. and we want to. support and we don't want that and that's not the sum of those. meanwhile french finance minister bruno lemaire claims the digital tax in question is not particular discriminatory to u.s. tech companies. should all say it wants to get the sanctions would be unacceptable we question the legal analysis by the u.s. authorities of just national tax on digital weekend i said so yesterday the u.s. trade representative. is. going to deliver the french digital as he would call digital company days including u.s. companies but also a strange european and. the u.s. has already imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine and cheese in response to the block support for e.u. plane maker airbus now to break all this down the scuffle between the u.s. and the e.u. we're joined by hilary ford which board member of the british american business ass

mccrone completely wrong when he says nato is brain dead. he's completely wrong that it's brain dead but it is leadership dead the president is states's refused and they his entire presidency to say the most important thing you need to say which is that the united states is totally committed to what we call article 5 of the nato treaty which is an attack against any one country is considered in the in the alliance is considered an attack against all if a president is prepared to say that even though i think we would we would support anybody who was attacked then everybody's going to be going to be very upset and have been for 3 years but at least the micro is trying to fill it yeah i'm sorry to interrupt you on presidential nominees is not threatening to withdraw the u.s. from nato any more or reduce the u.s. role in europe so is that perhaps a good father that step. well i don't think he ever intended to withdraw from nato it's fundamentally against american national interest we get an awful lot from being a nato now what's happening is mr

mccrone says he's reluctant to send soldiers to countries where their presence is unclear or wanted across as president before discussed recent attacks by fighters linked eisel and al-qaeda in the sahara desert region as some a gathering of the 5 countries of there's a hell to take place in france next ones. places with french and an international presence is not accepted clearly we will draw the necessary inclusions because we are talking about states if you suffer in state in the region says i don't need a french or an international military presence we should not be there. meanwhile in france itself protesters have let off layers and fireworks inside one of the main railway stations in paris as protests against pension reforms continue strikers clashed with riot police at the gap with smoke filling some of the main concourse the nationwide walkout has crippled railway services and forced schools to close now unions say they will ramp up their protests at oil refineries forcing some of them to close entirely or coming as they do around christmas the strikes are having a big impact