is there. is taking. responsibility for their security for. the headlines on international claims of russia for the current diplomatic crisis. with moscow. another mico from the white house transcripts of the u.s. president's calls with world leaders are released by the media raising fears over issues of u.s. national security. the opposition in venezuela says it will refuse to part of the country's newly elected constituent assembly prepares for its. rescue boat with. suspect the crew had been in contact with the

libyan people smugglers. friday welcome to you all so. the u.s. state department has blamed a russia for a new low in relations with moscow following the latest sanctions bill the president signed on wednesday. this are you saying that russia is to blame for the low in relations right now. russia's been involved in a lot of activities a lot of activities that are very concerning i know to many of you and to many americans whether it is alexion related activities or their activities in ukraine they've also harassed us diplomats there i mean there are

a whole host of things president though seems to have a rather different view on the issue he took to twitter to say that the recent low when u.s. russia relations was actually the fault of the u.s. congress moreover he's called the bill clearly unconstitutional the legislation that imposes new sanctions on russia received overwhelming support in both houses and that means that even if the president had vetoed the bill it's highly likely he would have been overruled by the lawmakers the new law also gives congress the power to block donald trump from easing sanctions on moscow and lou rockwell who's the founder of an american think tank says trump should have been more assertive in his opposition to this sanctions bill. you know the president i guess felt that he had to sign that horrendous sanctions bill and remember sanctions are acts of war under international law however what he should have done is exactly what george bush i hate the recommending george bush did you should have said as he signed the

bill he should have said i don't intend to enforce this of course because i believe it's unconstitutional so what trump should have done is just ignored it this is not unprecedented and there are plenty of times when congress felt the president was doing bad stuff and i must say i fear the most is probably feeling he now has to become another war president and making war against many more different kinds of countries talk to think of trump in that sense he seems like such a powerful guy maybe they've got him on the ropes maybe this is who knows what's ahead i fear it's not good for americans for russians for the chinese people for anybody in this whole world russia's alleged meddling of the us elections has been all over the headlines for ages and follow us attention is given to the fact that american thing which can often influence u.s. policy sceptically generously funded by foreign players. jacqueline virgo ticks and why this is not regarded in any form as foreign meddling. that's interesting in

a certain stories around the idea of foreign powers influencing the american democratic process and in an effort to help battle the threat such meddling poses we thought we don't like politicians as to where some of their favorite think tanks get their financial support institutions from which those very politicians so often get information to form policy opinions spoiler alert foreign powers are some of those washington based think tanks biggest donors let's start with an all time favorite the brookings institution this institution has provided a forum for ideas for thoughts and i think the country. specifically the congress is better off or for the great work that you do you're so well known all over the world that there are a lot of longtime friends and colleagues who perch here at brookings all of those defenders of democracy clearly put a lot of faith into information that comes out of this building right behind me but perhaps they feel different if they knew how much foreign funding they get

according to their own report in two thousand and sixteen the brookings institution received over two million dollars from the united arab emirates up to two million from the government of norway and between five hundred thousand and a million dollars from the embassy of the state of qatar and with that in mind perhaps these sorts of headlines coming out of here must be taken with a grain of salt. and the brookings institution is not alone in the story of the carnegie endowment for international peace is a truly international institution working with a cause of peace. and. it's an honor to be here. carnegie but truth is for generations. has been training the foreign policy leaders of the future the carnegie endowment brought in significant cash contributions from the u.k. department for international development the embassy of japan the federal foreign

office of germany and the norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and that was just last year and just naming a few of them how do you guarantee those bags of money don't come with any influence whatsoever and these two aren't the exception they're the rule in this town the atlantic council the center for strategic and international studies the center for american progress all took a huge chunk of change offered by the u.a.e. and the list goes on and on so many think tanks so much international money perhaps a lot of us politicians will rethink how worry some foreign influence really is and where it's truly coming from. washington d.c. . venezuelan opposition saying that the country's parliament will refuse to dissolve even if order to buy the newly voted and constituent assembly which was set to hold its inaugural session today the international community has also weighed in with its concern of the u.s. has been the most vocal branding in last sunday's vote illegitimate and president ma dodos leadership as a dick taito ship. reports being deemed

a dictator is easy to come by these days. little the jew know there is actually two ways to become a dictator there is the obvious way brutally oppressed your people crushed dissent and rule with an iron fist method to annoy america yesterday's illegitimate elections confirm that maturity is a dictator who disregards the will of the venezuelan people that's going to hurt when the us brands you a dictator all bets are off even if you really aren't one and he claim of your crimes is taken as fact international law stops working or your enemies suddenly get a lot of money and in many cases shiny new guns to see of uncle sam

in syria we have ramped up on military assistance to the syrian opposition remember what happened to saddam will assad blame them foot anything and it will stick the name of the game was regime change exporting democracy and that's a heck of a lot easier when you portray the other guy as the cuts whom villain syrian dictator bashar. assad is a war criminal thugs and a murderer like bashar. it's already begun their equating to kim jong il and that's crazy talk you might think there are no concentration camps there are elections with dora himself he joins a very exclusive club including mr mcgarvie. and and and kim jong un in terms of the rule repression of his people what about this

guy the king of saudi arabia his opponents tortured and executed in public his family controls everything. in saudi arabia he has deprived his people of freedom democracy choice talk about dancing with the devil. what does washington do sells hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia how's that for double standards us foreign policy is entirely hypocritical i mean they only characterize government says dictatorial or authoritarian when they're not favorable to us interests us maintains close ties and supports the monarchy in saudi arabia that's one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world when it comes to putting labels on governments and other

nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states sad isn't it you can rule oppress and kill all you want without repetitions but only if you bend the knee to washington. you can do none of that and still wind up being called a dictator. and post the hour here in moscow italian or forward whose have seized a boat but looking to a german group reportedly rescuing migrants we can show you a photo which is released by the italian coast guard now showing the earth already is and pounding the ship the vessel that was interested to intercept it on wednesday excuse me this as part of a government initiative is designed to counter the surge in migrants mostly africans trying to reach italy from libya now officials claim crew members from the boat working directly with people smugglers. in

several cases these interventions see by the boats were carried out not to save people who find themselves in imminent danger but simply to pick up people a schoolteacher by libyan traffickers it comes off to italy presented a controversial code of conduct to aid groups the code demands a police presence on n.g.o.s vessels and bans the transfer of refugees to other ships in fact even phone calls all flares from n.g.o.s those are also forbidden as they could be used to signal when it's safe for people smugglers to send a boat to see six out of nine n.g.o.s operating in the mediterranean have refused to sign that document and my colleague postures discussed the issue with italian journalist marcelo four and martin a german politician. in the moment europe is responsible for the destructions in africa a lot and look at that it's necessary to open legal ways for refugees but europe

children people to countries like italy like spain like with the problem but all european countries should take responsibility and so will the people who are. members on this ship and on other refugee had boats as well they just want to save lifes because in the last ten years several small than forty thousand people dying in the mediterranean sea and they just don't want to see the people see very clearly that this is not how you money. help is not the money that an s.o.s. but it's helping those people arriving in italy and the refugees that. are paying huge sums to human traffic us this is immoral and i would say that is true that. the destruction of libya was a mistake of historical mistake but i don't see why contra single country like he thought he should pay the price for it so it's

a huge problem neatly and finally the government decided to take some action to stop this kind of this one activist who was on board the empowered refugee rescue vessel told us what he saw. it would be to get all this interrogation started spontaneously without the presence of a lawyer only witnesses we discovered that the boat was being searched at that stage we decided to go to the boat and not to declare our intentions in front of the police after a long and meticulous search we were let go but i want to stress that we were free to leave at any time and at this stage the investigation into aiding illegal migrants remains ongoing towards unknown persons leader of the crew nor the ngo has been formally accused of anything. recent figures show a marked increase in the number of children in the u.k. calling for help out of fear of being forced into a range that marriage was the data was collected by a leading british children's charity the n s p c c if the decisions being made they

feel being told when you marry where you marry who you marry that's. supporting advice is available to help you make a start. of a charity says there's been a twelve percent increase in counseling sessions relating to arranged marriage compared with the previous year their web page dedicated to the issue has received over six thousand hits there's also been an increase in the actual number of forced child marriages in fact the new figures show a seventeen percent increase in the u.k. in just a year which already of the children were from countries where such as early marriages are a part of a culture but here's one girl's story. my parents are talking about taking me back to my home country to get married but i don't want to they get violent when i don't do what they want i want to leave home by they'd never agree to it i just want to

leave in the life but they will let me. well i. was in a room when she was sixteen after she refused to marry a man picked by her parents she ran away with her boyfriend and stopped talking to her family later she found out that one of sisters who got married at fifteen later killed herself and we spoke to just been done. people believe because we are democracy because we have the rule of law that these things couldn't possibly be have been in england clearly they are and it's very important to note that forced marriage and honor of use is fundamentally against every religion be islam sikhism or hindu is a fundamental he speaks out against it but victims are not taught so families would use these guys just if occasions we need some got very strong messages that in britain it is a criminal offense to force them to to marry and this is not acceptable in any

religion tradition or culture but i victims need to know that they haven't been taught that because it's not in the interest of their family to tell them that because it would empower them more licks more scandals and more troubles for team trump that story and i'm up. for the io they are already not really right in iraq or that one of the iraqi army or again.

i would call make this manufacture consented to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round be the one percent. doing enormous. the room. good to be with us today for your new years with the u.s. justice department expected to declare war on leaks later today top administration has been hit by yet another scandal over an unauthorized disclosure the washington post published two transcripts of the american presidents phone calls with foreign leaders which took place back in january according to the call records trump asked

that his mexican counterpart and the u.k. pena nieto stop publicly saying that his country will not pay for the proposed war on the u.s. mexican border the report also revealed trump's disagreements with australian prime minister malcolm turnbull over a refugee resettlement deal my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that mexico cannot pay for that wall but you cannot say that to the press the press is going to go with that and i cannot live with that you cannot say that to the press because i cannot negotiate under those circumstances this is a big deal it is really really important to us that we maintain it it doesn't oblige you to take one person that you do not want this is going to kill me i am the world's greatest person that does not want to lead people into the country we talked to a former u.s. diplomat he believes leaks like these undermine u.s. national security. what could be more damaging if that the president united states

cannot talk to a foreign leader frankly without fear of his public his comments going public or those of the person he's talking to how do you conduct diplomatic business which should be the top priority of the president and i think the leaking of this information just just simply shows this kind of remain we have here in washington that nothing is too bad to do to this president he's such an illegitimate such a bad president that all the rules can be broken and this criminal activity this criminal leaking is sure why not it's actually patriotic to do that when i made all the current in the white house who's delighting in one positive development and the record gains on the american stock market and the president's joy you might be short lived it's kind of my reports. the u.s. stock market is riding high and there's no one more happy about it than the man in the oval office the stock market hit an all time record high today over twenty two

thousand we've picked up substantially now more than four trillion dollars in net worth in terms of our country our stocks our companies well that sounds great right well that depends on who you ask first let's quiz some movers and shakers here on wall street what do you think of the spike in the markets the donald trump's been talking about look it's obviously great news that the economy is doing well i think that's generally a good buy for everyone you know on the other hand i think it's not unusual for a new administration to sometimes won't take credit for a trend that might have surfaced in the previous one this is are looking to see that there's going to be no more regulation in there happy to see that. the market is following suit schooling outstanding it's setting records so it's doing very well yes but the average american doesn't really share their enthusiasm i think a lot of people are suffering i think you china to go union jobs like you know i mean everybody everybody is inside of the opinion but from what i've seen like. we're all struggling a lot of people don't have jobs. a little bit jobs you know housing and everything

is the last of everything is going downhill so now all of us some he comes in office the stock market is zooming sky high. but then everything else is going low why a people minimum wage so that seven fifty maybe the working classes have a reason to be skeptical stocks all around the world are tanking because of the crisis on wall street over the past few weeks many americans have failed anxiety about their finances and their future people are twenty years and they're losing interest and he's going to go out this is an easy. thing to say i did not run for office to be helping a bunch of. bankers on wall street on and on and on regulator after regulator they either chose not to act our turn. turned a blind eye to what was actually going it was a lack of regulation that many people blame for the chaos that took place back in two thousand and eight but fast forward to today president trump says that too much

regulation is the problem we have had regulation that's been so bad. so out of line that it's really hurt our country and as you see on a daily basis we're getting rid of regulation now not everyone agrees with the president on that a recent report from the public advocacy group called public citizen had this to say to thank his and bank industry lawyers now controlling policy and regulation trump has begun dismantling the guardrails they're meant to protect the public from wall street the trumpet ministrations changes would make americans more vulnerable to the sort of reckless bets that appended the economy in two thousand and eight and two scams men scrupulous bankers but trump says that this is just the beginning what we're going to be doing over the next six months will be incredible we've signed more bills and i'm talking about through the legislature than any president ever yes everybody agrees that two thousand and eight was

a big mess with the question on people's minds now is is the current spike in the market held by trump just a rise getting ready for a big fall. r.t. new york journalist brenton l'engle who was heavily involved in the occupy wall street movement says that giving too much power to the banks could easily result in yet another market crash. it's the same attitude that led to two thousand and eight . the banking sector is notoriously bad at judging its own risk it's one of the reasons why you need strong regulations on banks and the trumpet ministration doesn't seem interested in you know really paying any attention to the financial sector beyond like just let them do what they want to do and we've seen what happens when they do what they want to do they crash the economy they put a bunch of people out of work suicide to go up and you know you get occupy wall street compas crowing a lot about how the stock market is doing very well under him but the fact is he

has nothing to do with it the only thing that trump has been able to do mostly is to scare the market. with various regulations. so if you are a conservative living in california and tired of the liberal ways in your home state you might have a way out a company called conservative move launched in may aims to help families from all over the u.s. to relocate to texas a state known for its traditional values it was already been flooded with inquiries most of them from california founder paul chapo says the golden state just isn't what it used to be. today california is completely different it's a mess they have some of the worst schools in the country with their roadways are falling apart and property crime and violent crime is on the rise and good paying jobs are hard to find so we've only been around now for a little over

a month and the business has just exploded over two thousand five hundred families have signed up over one thousand five hundred of those are from california alone the demand is very high the problem in america is that the liberal elite these these coastal democrats these limousine liberals if you will live along the coastal region of new york to san francisco to l.a. and they control now the democrat party in america and the democrat party is no longer made up of moderates they are made up of very radical extremists who are pushing a dangerous agenda in america and they harm our communities to increase crime and they make it more difficult for families to earn a living the democrats twenty years ago in america they don't exist in america anymore we also got reaction from locals and both california and texas here's what

they had to say about the idea of conservative migration. as a bringing their skills by bringing their. hard work and dedication here i mean they can make in california they can definitely make it here. in the pioneer more destructive group but. being a conservative or republican or being a liberal probably can go far as a person i think people are different regardless so i would accept that it's just california and you know either accept it or don't accept it and move on with your life forever in their happy then that's where they're happy. for the. international breakthrough. over one hundred people are believed to be trapped inside. way or bring you more information as we get it.

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