RT News - December 08, 2018 (12:00 MSK)

Paris is on high alert - as more mass protests get underway. So-called 'Yellow vest' demonstrations bring the centre of the French capital to a standstill for a fourth consecutive weekend.  It's the end of an era in Germany - after nearly two decades at the helm Angela Merkel steps down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union party. She's replaced by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer - known as mini-Merkel. Hiding in the ranks of notorious terrorists - we hear the incredible story of a man who switched from being a trusted Al-Qaeda bomb-maker, to informing on the feared Jihadists as an MI6 spy. The Israeli Defence Forces apparently change their official line on the use of tear gas on schools - after video emerges allegedly showing officers launching a stun grenade into a building in the West Bank.