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morning on monday here in moscow thanks for joining us this is international we have your latest world headlines. thousands of marched through the streets in israel demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister. corruption allegations the protestors were carrying placards and shouting slogans denouncing the government. picks up the story. i. was six weeks now it's release have been demonstrating against the prime minister the crime. not just in tel aviv the capital but now. israel proper. for the last two years

everybody's talking about it it's coming up all the time to the media. there is a feeling that the government is corrupt and puts it seen trysts before the citizens. is corrupt. thing is going to get elected again it's enough. there are two publicly known cases against netanyahu in the first his wife and he alleged to have the excepted illicit gifts tobacco and alcohol from a hollywood billionaire luxurious champagne for the lady and fine cigars for the gentleman case number two netanyahu reportedly struck a deal with a major newspaper where in return for more favorable coverage he would weaken a rival newspaper using his office and powers as prime minister serious allegations stuff like this has put people in jail you think bebe's scared

if there will be recommendations by police to endure so here's a fact i doubt the public knows the vast majority of police recommendations in with nothing more than sixty percent of police recommendations are thrown out here of course denies everything just like his predecessor who'd all met also denied ever taking bribes even as he was handcuffed and convoyed off to jail b.b. doesn't care police can recommend whatever they want it's only if the state prosecutors decide to act will he face trouble and he seems sure they won't they knew a year ago even before the investigation why did it take a year and a waste of time and public funds there's more of course questions about netanyahu has connections how babies cousin ended up in the middle of

a controversial billion dollar deal to buy german submarines you know how these things happen but isn't it amazing how a man can be so flippant about corruption allegations against him and so righteous about corruption allegations against. others bridie reunions are poor into the streets they seek freedom they seek justice i wish the reunion people success in their noble quest for freedom. against another corrupted reduce the new learn but try to manipulate. criticism against it where it is really the. government releases still months away from issuing an official recommendation on whether to try to netanyahu or not the b.b.c. allies as striking back they've passed through legislation that would be the police

for making any public recommendations on whether people should be taken to court netanyahu is a survivor israel's longest serving prime minister he has weathered and survived plenty of scandals and next time this law will make it even easier under the israeli law the prime minister does not have to resign even if he is indicted and even when he's standing trial only after he has been convicted in a certain district court in jerusalem and after he's appeal has been denied by the high court which could take two years or so but this is only beleaguered point from the public and political point of view there will be a lot of pressure on him to resign or at least step aside for

a while once he is indicted. a new coalition talks have kicked off in germany and what is seen as angela merkel's last chance to form a majority government and avoid yet another election a social democrat. so the ruling christian democratic union will now have five days to enter into a so-called grand coalition and both sides seem fairly confident of success and forming an alliance with the social democrats is the only live option four. of the previous coalition talks with the green party and the free democrats collapsed two months ago the current political crisis is seen by some as the worst in germany for years. now sizes up moguls chances of resolving the situation to put together a coalition it takes a match angle has been desperate to make any match she hoped her party could match

with the greens but that plan also required matching with the d.p. or the free democrats are rights wide here too but no it's a match pop ups angle almost got it right with the green party but she's still in favor of using coal power plus her transport minister in the old government called the greens tofu that has fallen into our meat when it comes to the f d p these folks were nowhere near matching with deep divisions and how to deal with tax and solemn and environmental policies. we will not abandon our foreign policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly so that was it for the so called to make a coalition talks. one guy quit using the coalition building up

all together but then signed up again. and through a grand coalition we said this clearly in this room after the elections and we still stand by this. time politics that's why these tools necessary to meet the great challenges facing the world europe. so angle crossed paths with her part there swipe left or swipe right the conservative leader is having another go at matching with the social democrats but here again angle may find herself matchless here's why. migration was much less of an issue in twenty thirteen when agreeing on the c.d.u. s.p.d. grand coalition was no sweat today it's one of the main if not the number one issue for germans to worry about the success of the right wing force the conservative blog to get more tough on asylum seekers something the social democrats refuse to

accept. instead what they'd love to accept and actually push for is more integration after all the s.p.d. leader wants to see the knotted states of europe and while angle as c.d.u. is more hesitant the varian wing of her block is turning increasingly euro skeptic you don't invite hungary's leader slash. viktor orban to a party summit for nothing. then there's the issue of how much to spend on the army the conservatives are seeking more military spending to reach the nato target of two percent of g.d.p. the social democrats though say that's not what germany needs if eventually these things are nothing to cause a mismatch angle americal may end up in real trouble that's the prospect of yet another election looms recent opinion polls show that more than

a half of all germans are against merkel as chancellor earlier we spoke to raynor office who says an election rerun could be much closer than many think trust in to create a coalition is beginning to diminish quite considerably and german population there is already a much higher majority of people calling for new elections as recent polls have shown a good negotiator would have seen much earlier that one of the three or four or even negotiating parties. why i'm to represented in two different points that were gathered to flow and listen and obviously angela merkel failed at that point she did not realize how bad the situation was perceived on behalf of liberals i can imagine that will be replaced. even if there

are new elections already in twenty eight and so at the political uncertainty some are speculating that merkel may not run again if the latest coalition talks fail the media has already lined up who it thinks could succeed her.

what is the dome for on the reichstag. well have any of you ever seen a circus or the flash through your christmas not to see him. since you are you an expert in german wines and if we were to do wine tell us now yes it's pretty easy to distinguish between red and white wine. the mainstream media has a new obsession the whole trumps mental health or alleged lack thereof

a speculation that the us president has psychological problems has been driven by the ted old bestseller about the white house under cold fire and fury although the author of the book says he can't be sure of all the parts a true and asked let's were he to class for example between trump's senior policy adviser and one c.n.n. host. because you have to write in a twenty four hours of negative and hysterical coverage on this network ok the lead in recent weeks is some spectacularly embarrassing false report i think the wrong word that i can answer to is that if you are storing title i have my three months of the truth why don't you just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about donald trump that i know and all of our campaigns you guys know my show and i want to do that so there's one viewer that you care about right now and you're being obsequious we're going to find out when you're going to be ok and i've got you know it's like if you're going to wasted enough of my viewers away you know that you care about. allegations about mental health the book's author claims that trump found the white house daunting and said that the president's own behavior contributed to chaos and dysfunction the book also alleges that the postman behind

some of the leaks of personal data was the president himself and that trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed meanwhile president travels former chief strategist has expressed regret over comments of his that were included in this book. my comments were aimed at pool manifolds a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate to read through those comments will move seeing that. i regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding judaism has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency i don't think this has much impact on the president going forward i think it just shows that there's a few people that he has put himself around that he may need to take a second look at steve bannon was one of them that's already done if you look at this book this is the biggest bout of fake news we've seen in a long time they quoted the fact that donald trump didn't know who john boehner our

former speaker of the house was he played golf with him he was the speaker of the house for four months when trump began his campaign so i think steve bannon if you look at what he's really doing here the agenda of steve bannon is to run for president right out of a large bit of political action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that they came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannon he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think this is all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think he lost the thought that he was damaging trump who he helped get elected in a tweet trump said he has had to put up with fake news ever since he announced his bid for the presidency and now he was having to deal with a fake book earlier he also promised to announce a special award for a fake news of the ceremony will show jeweled for this monday but it's now been postponed for two days.

nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a liar and i of course don't want to get snow. chubs that crazy no drama from very very boring trump crazy i'm against the people that make up stories oh right who cares about trump's crazy racist views and say

like mentally unstable i do believe he is mentally unstable i mean i get to give you a question you speak or you are fake do. the president is potentially temperamentally unfit for the office he holds ran for president one time and one united states president donald trump is pushing back against allegations that he's mentally fit the office i went to the best colleges for college. i thank for joining us so far for the program here on r.t. international still lots of stories coming your way including a millionaire businessman who like to spend his time picking up other people's rubbish details after the break.

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share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy breaks a chance for. peace. thanks for joining us the u.s. army and the department of homeland security have developed a virtual reality training game to simulate active shooter situations in schools intended for teachers and first responders that leads you through classrooms on a whole way as those children run and scream for help.

there have been more than two hundred fifty school shootings in the u.s. over the past five years on average that's nearly one of week already in twenty eighteen there being two reported incidents involving a school and nearly one third of all mass shootings in the u.s. since two thousand happened at schools is a reminder of some of the worst. and

over to our guest now discussing whether the new school shooting simulator will help to cub gun violence in schools we have to really understand that we do live in a day and age when children are going to have to understand this at a younger age than we would have liked then we were probably raised with and because of that you know it is good t. utilize technology in order to train them to either defend themselves against it or defend others against this and just to be ready for it because sometimes the worst things will happen when children or a those in it situation have absolutely no idea how to handle what is happening and provides teachers with at least some information in order to repair any of that that they're actually use an assault on their school and what that does say is isms that the assaults will come there will be more sauce and dare i say this there will be there will be more shootings there will be more bashings in schools across the united states we have seen this and there's nothing that tells me that that's

simply not true will technology and video games make decisions safer i don't know i hope it will. here's what i do know i know that we have seen mass shooting after mass shooting after bashing children in the united states or working in the schools with youngsters. to help them understand the modern threats of that time and to better prepare with that to know exactly what to do in the case of the current modern threat happiness' upon their school in this case it is all syrians the united states and so you know teachers first responders being able to take part in the simulations is going to help them better train their students for what to do in the event of a school shooting this is to some degree and acceptance that that is the ongoing reality and that the only true response the only thing that the us can do at this point is simply to prepare teachers for what is coming rather than to point a legitimate alternative to stopping those actual sheens themselves.

well you might think that a successful businessman has better things to do than spend his days picking up litter on the streets but not so when you're about. thank. you out. there i think it doesn't matter how much money. you are rich or poor you always need to pass on positive energy. but it doesn't matter how old you are either. who. are in public i would pick it up enough to do it again because i collect trash to remind and persuade others thank. you if

ten percent of citizens were like him our environment would be much better. i believe that if i persist the environment will be better keep doing this as long as i can even when i'm seventy eighty years old this program and a half an hour. you mean you don't. see the. what did a court put it. to me most through only ten steps to. make. left alone he. said. claiming to know german did that to. you speak french.

the same. continue. the bill to. join me every thursday on the alex i will be sure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. they

were going underground is today the leader of western europe's largest socialist party jeremy corbett heralds the foundations of modern consumer lore in the u.k. at the co-operative party conference in london coming up in the show venezuela's foreign minister tells us about this week's talks with tourism aids government and attempts by washington and its corporate media to destroy the nation with the greatest reserves of oil in the world and the queen of country music dolly parton in the studio in nashville talks to us about her new album i believe in you could help millions of british children learn to read after the closure of hundreds of libraries amidst the whetstone economic crisis plus hours after her government met with venezuelan officials and the leader of the opposition asked me what planet i

was on and what we all know what planet he in his shadow chancellor on this planet venezuela tourism a trice a city in the u.k. labor party with a country deemed once by u.s. president jimmy carter to have the best electoral system in the world at this week's prime minister's questions all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first five years ago today nicolas maduro was named vice president of venezuela by one of the most electorally successful politicians in the world who go chavez but during who would succeed chavez as president of the nation with the world's largest known oil reserves elected in a landslide in twenty five team but could threats from nato nations change all that regional elections. in venezuela tomorrow the u.s. response to stay improvements in everything from literacy to health since the dark days of us back to take this has been clear under obama and trump many options for that as well and by the way i'm not going to rule out

a military option and here in britain venezuela is used by dres amaze ministers to attack police supporter of progressive movements around the world jeremy corbyn he said he still had mas bolivarian revolutionary so should. i say he's caracas and i well joining me now is boris johnson's venezuelan counterpart or head. thanks so much for coming to our media hub more on media and how it manipulates opinion in a second why are you in london we have to say the truth about venice where i don't have to spread the truth of our democracy of our own model of democracy socialist democracy so we came to london to speak to the foreign office but to speak much more important for us to the to our friends to the trade union and to the grassroots movement it will be let's go to those moments in a second what about tourism is government because normally the not that as well as

use is the butt of jokes by either to resume or for insecure boris johnson or any number of british cabinet ministers have just told. him that we need some respect that venezuela cannot be used as an internal issue in the internal political affairs of the u.k. now you cannot attack whomever using our country you have to respect our country we are suffering country and it's not fair and it's not polite even in diplomatic relations to do so so we demand respect for venezuela but we told mr duncan the truth about from this whether we left some material for. him to study some issues that he has no knowledge about and we believe we can open good channels of communication with this government and with the government in the future of course arguably you can't blame him i mean he had some information from the british embassy in caracas but he gets information like the british public and the public

in nato countries from the media are you saying that c.n.n. b.b.c. the state mandated media here are you saying that they're journalists don't understand your country because they're stupid or because they are up again and more than the journalist the owners of this the shareholders of these companies they don't want venezuelan revolution to survive because we are threat ideological threat philosophical for it for the capitalist world for the neo liberal policies in the world so it's an aggression an integral aggression against our country and it has a media expression as well and we know it's different it's difficult to make the truth about venezuela get over but that's what we're doing here and we will

continue doing this all over.