the u.s. congress at the moment which remains shut for a third day as congressman failed to come to a mutual decision on the u.s. budget more republicans and democrats to struggle to find a compromise the american public is starting to feel the pinch. america knows this is the trump shutdown my favorite still sure shot down so i took that nice little ring to it doesn't it senate democrats shut down this government a big fat failure.

unfortunately we cannot call today because congressional democrats are holding government funding hostage to an unrelated immigration to the future different direction the government shutdown. meanwhile germany's drawn out coalition talks could be on the brink of a break three in the social democrats leader martin shoats has persuaded his party members to vote in favor of reforming the grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's party however the agreement could leave the empty migrant party alternative for germany as the main opposition force in the country as peter all of a expects. all this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was

a visibly very worried martin schulz waiting for those results that come in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with angela merkel's conservative bloc or they'd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one he prefer that you don't you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for you elections my take on this is very clear i don't think you elections are the right way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag how would the book the stagg look if a new grand coalition can be formed well what it would do is it would meet at the social democrats who are no longer the largest opposition party that would go to the new kids on the block alternative for germany they would be the largest opposition party they would also get all of the or perks and traditions that come along with that including being the chair of the bundestag budget committee all new

ground for the right leaning and tea establishment party a party in fact in which martin schultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldn't be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself he may well catapult them up into the position of been germany's largest opposition peter all of the reporting well political analyst ron roughness explain to us why the f.t. has gained so much support. i would say that the union party is after all the c.d.u. look as left of the conservative positions of the past they have turned somewhat roughly speaking into an ass. and the ass p.d. has lost much of its political standing because many of the topics were also

covered by the c.d.u. so the eight after just came in to fill in. the blank space that. he has left. when in fact one of the stumbling blocks during the coalition talks has been migration policy and with a number of new approaches being tried to ease the crisis the sensitive cutpurse is taken matters into its own hands and banned newcomers altogether the move is in response to several recent incidents last week for example a teenager was stabbed by two syrians and several days before that an elderly german couple were attacked by a group of refugees however local near enough seats have also been blamed for violence at illegal rallies with reports that they have attacked migrants we spoke to people in corpus. the state they make it look like asylum seekers or whoever attacked the germans but there were also cases where it happened the other way around for example three afghans were beaten up by a group of germans on new year's eve over the next few days though nobody reported

on it only later thanks to the efforts of an activist group it was made public. education in a reason it's not a solution to the problem not accepting any more migrants doesn't solve the problem we have here and cutpurse in any case people don't feel as safe as they used to there is some insecurity here because of the fish and i think there is a need for action in the city however the way the third is a dealing with the situation might belittle bit questionable probably they could have looked at this case more deeply to see whether there are other options. or three other communities in the region of lower saxony have also banned. my colleague neil harvey discussed this with you bronson he's from the alternative for germany party the only been a handful of attacks by migrants in bursts as well as some on migrants themselves isn't that ban excessive well not to the victims those violent attacks appears and there were about three thousand migrants who entered the caucus and

mostly they're young males from north africa and syria bringing with them a completely different culture of. conflict resolution. there's a breaking point for even the most tolerant of communities and apparently this breaking point has been reached that's your opinion locals certainly aren't all in support of this ban nobody's saying that any violence is acceptable but some people suggesting you know maybe more to this than meets the eye maybe six of one after dozen of the other and that perhaps more options should be explored is that not a good idea. well i'm afraid. a little to no time left to explore other options there's a big tension building up in many communities and cities are simply fed up the german treasury has admitted in the last year alone more than twenty two billion euros were needed to accommodate these one point five million migrants and this is

of caught a large sum of money to try to explain this to millions of germans who are living on the breadline having two jobs trying very desperately to make ends meet. international still to come thousands of people in the netherlands have been protesting against the environmental impact of big corporations in the country but have a look at that in more detail just after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and better

than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best form since my last world cup. an old joke. like. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. again that the dutch city of performing in is home to one of europe's richest gas fields but locals there are concerned about the environmental impact they do blame corporations for numerous earthquakes in the area the latest coming within the last

two weeks on friday for example around ten thousand people did march against drilling in the area the protesters say the problem has not been taken seriously enough with quite a continuing damage like limper structure early this month when measured three point four in magnitude the biggest quake in the netherlands for five years it was often up with we have an earthquake damage my home is damaged but in comparison with others it isn't that bad my house isn't being held up with braces but i am worried i think it has to do with money and the lack of having good people who know how to deal with processing claims. this problem goes back many years the point is that people have been waiting too long to receive compensation for the damages that have been caused and they have been waiting too long for the drilling to stop it needs to happen now and again look it makes me sick that ever think it's breaking that no one is taking direct action. well the university of groningen has published

its own study into the issue of drilling and it does claim there is a direct connection between drilling in the northern gas fields and the earthquake specialists are also concerned too about the latest sandstone in the region which they say could eventually lead to yet more tremors happening when a solution to the problem hasn't been found for decades already in fact this map appeared to show the number of earthquakes that have hit the region and we can see to you that they've been occurring in those northern gas fields where the fault lines are coming concentrated in an area about where sixty thousand people currently live that actually called me minister says if the government had taken the problem more seriously production perhaps could have been cut in half since twenty thirteen activists they do say that even so those measures wouldn't have been sufficient they are pumping gas out of our soil for decades now. in the beginning there were also earthquakes but they just deny that it's not an

earthquake it's going to go boom or something else but the last years it's obvious that there are real earthquakes. what worries us very much putting gas out of all seoul is easy money. the government owns a lot of it and also exxon mobil until the last. we are like a modern colony these those and we don't all so it has to stop for families in the west african country of mali is still searching for answers over a french airstrike that killed eleven million soldiers that were being held hostage and has been more than two months now since the strike r.t. is spoken to some of the relatives demanding the trick. my nephew was taken prisoner during the attack on the nambla security post there were people that people wounded and people missing.

i ask for anyone who can help us get out of here don't leave us in this place you saw the french intervened to destroy a jihadi camp during this intervention eleven million soldiers lost their lives. france and ticket france at the time of the operations there were no hostages. the operations are considered service training camp and the notes on was the presence of modest soldiers established. all the production over there were eleven hostages found on this site and all of them died during this operation vision from images that we received we recognized five of our soldiers that were taken hostage.

obama tonight one day they tell us that the hostages were there during the bombing and the next day they tell us otherwise we were waiting to receive news regarding our son. and just to give you a bit more context here france got involved in the modern conflicts back in twenty fourteen after isn't this militants took parts of the country and around four thousand french troops are involved in the anti terror operation that is still ongoing also just a week ago the u.k. agreed to bolster the campaign with its helicopters. now finally doing the household chores isn't exactly everybody's cup of tea although one russian cosmonaut does beg to differ these are pictures sent from the international space station and they show him whoring around on a vacuum. we're the. done

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle well the four page memo detailing extensive five's of course abuse changed the course of what is known as russia gate also does the trumpet ministration syria policy make any sense and who is the real trump or the media. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and

writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international our gentleman as usual crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate let me go to you first this four page memo now if you watch fox it means something and it means something big you watch c.n.n. you might not even hear about it it's a partisan thing or is there something they are there to be honest we don't really know yet do we i mean you have fox which is building it up as. explosive scandal is bring down the obama administration is going to connect obama to the d.o.j. to the f.b.i. to the clinton campaign that they were spying on trump they were surveilling they were surveilling trump and you have c.n.n. never said d.c. who are saying there's nothing there i mean the the only thing you can really do is release that memo and glenn greenwald is calling to release the memo a lot of news a lot of people from toulon assad's everybody saying we've got to release the memo because we don't really know laura ingram said on her show that there's one

democrat who has read this memo which is located in some secret room for classified information one democrat while all the republicans have actually gone through that memo and they're shocked and that's a quote they're shocked at what they read nor what do you make of all this yeah it's hard to know what to make of it because of the part of the nature of the russia gate scandal that it concerns one thing we have to say that we can all yell hash tag release the memo it's so popular right now but it's the republican controlled congress that can release the memo or trump's white house that can order the memo declassified and release it to everyone if they want it released will then release it already stop trying to make a public theater out of it let's see if you can it really is i mean from what i understand they're going to go through a process that will take like nineteen days for it to be released ok well that's nineteen days for this part of the. lunchroom fight to continue ok i mean it will

seem that you know one of the interesting things is that all while the new this new phase of bill the seven hundred two bill that allows the n.s.a. to continue this process of surveillance i mean the irony of ironies here because it was probably because. i know too that allowed something like this to happen they renewed it trump signed it where was the debate none well it's there is no adult and then to say we'll continue spine and. this whole russia gate story will continue. wiretapping of americans what what what what what i am interested in is where will people understand that this is just i mean i keep my diary they could rush of meddling in elections in germany france serbia italy malaysia. and these were serious an american politician saying that it was not just on paper you know saying that all

russia could possibly try to meddle in the elections in serbia well there are also smaller countries like most adorning and they're afraid that russia you know you can. convince our viewers right now that the united states and its security agencies are not trying to affect russia's upcoming presidential election oh absolutely. out of the question you know there are such beautiful people their participation you know on the story of when not all need you know is. tell us who hears how vallone is racist. participant in the so-called russian marchers so he's he's considered by many other ways example what he's going to call the liberal leader of the anti putin and put in a position an anti-corruption chris a day as he's presented the last why it's been convicted for fraud or french guzman why is being conducted for fraud in shady business deals and he has

a problem with. a french perfume company and not with the russian only with russian companies however it's an interesting case when the united states decided to throw all they want with a nationalist with a racist you know this is a new technology. russia and they did it in ukraine they did it in the middle east but in russia they're probably doing it for the first time which will make this election cycle maybe interesting maybe because they go back to the tropics which is . because for the last week when we hear about trump that he's unstable mentally that he's sick is he going to last you know all four years or eight years get on the scale and show us your way so that you have the whole media even tightly even if it's hard to disguise it it's got to be president physically mentally but they are given unlimited powers to spy and surveil they gave him an unprecedented military budget voted both by democrats and republicans so you can see going back to what you said the absurdity of it all well let's talk about another blank check

here let's talk about syria mark you followed probably better than anyone i know. the more i read about what the u.s. is trying to do in syria the more i do not understand other than intentional destabilization. of the country forever well that's what they've been doing for the last six years it legally arming training and salary militants allied and embedded with al-qaeda to overthrow the syrian government the trump administration finally after months in end it that obama policy but they doubled down on supporting the kurds which are affiliated with the white p.g. which the u.s. has listed as a terrorist group largely because of its insurgent actions in turkey against the turkish regime of earlier but what we're having now diem is that we have the u.s. sowing the turks and the kurds under the bus the same bus i mean the contradictions

the more you look at it the more the contradictions are are jarring ok well the problem is they're trying to remove. their diversity who was actually not and syria before two thousand and eleven the united states and you have lost you would like to keep you know a country at least four times more important than syria and iraq the u.s. and absolutely they have already lost you know their polish it was so destructive not only destroyed syria but also destroyed their own released in. but it will continue alex one of the things is that if we look at what secretary tillerson had to say about syria which i thought it was like a visit to the twilight zone and could make a whole program on it but the in the it will be a embargo a blockade a sanction against rebuilding syria the u.s. will actively push that. the refugees that left that went to europe will not be able to come back because they'll be nothing to come

back to so this perpetuates this problem. exactly and will it will actually see because it won't be any reconstruction more refugees flooding into europe i mean again who are the winners in all of this i don't see anyone just because the united states is trying to fight. assad iran and russia parties in europe the united states and they you hate so march i mean they will be asking these questions and then the mainstream media will say russians russians are sprayed all because he was and it is so obvious i mean could you not have seen that turkey would never ever in a million years allow any sort of kurdish state quasi state border security forces whatever they call it under their country of presence underneath turkey of thirty million kurds in turkey there was no way turkey would ever allow that in a million years they didn't see this truck campaigned on ending the process of

nation building ending the process that euphemism of democracy promotion and ending regime changes which he said as counterproductive and destructive to u.s. policy across the middle east he also said what are we doing in syria if hillary clinton has her way we will be starting world war three with russia in syria over al-qaeda and this is the trump administration has complete clearly capitulated to and they're running transformed policy tell us in the house it. heard it in deafening as you open the occupation of syria their goals are now open to regime change once again back to the obama era confronting iran because iran is not allowed to have influence in syria no matter what damascus said i think tillerson should give us a list of the countries in the world that are allowed to decide who their allies are and which ones aren't because it's always complained eastern europe that

countries are allowed to ally with enjoy nato if they ought but serious not allowed to ally with iran what is exceptions are going to go oh i think we need to explain to our viewers who might know what you don't use in the world happened in syria what happened was a turkish invasion. it is a fact or it is a fact that the russian forces have removed themselves from the area that. but it was a response to what do the united states claim that they are going to create the huge so called border security consulting the turks without even consulting the. sport you could the national took an interview from the former you can bet so that to syria peter ford who said the forwarding which i think is pretty exotic to the united states has been trying to prevent syria from stabilizing itself as huge interest over in state now they see and way off partially implemented by encouraging the formation of a kurdish state and so their response to it was of the. essential i think we have

to explain to our viewers this is a. partitioning syria permanently. attempt and an american at the same end at the behest i would say that the saudis and the israelis here there is again we our viewers have to understand it's very clear the united states has no geopolitical national interest in syria and the american forces are there or are there illegally under international. law there was no united nations security council authorization. and turkey is violating the sovereignty also. the u. is making things was because they will provide economic aid only to the areas which are a lot of the control of the syrian government that board a ship or picture the presence of refugees in the countries like germany france so next time well merkel will be telling to you all there was simply no way i couldn't accept that if you geez i hope the german voters will tell her about the e.u.

policy of not financing the parts of the country that are under control of the seattle that turkey is invading in attacking the kurdish canton of african which african which has actually been russian protect it well that's ok with a lot of us will be and we have you know there's a can still we have to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the real new stage with art. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last term. to you as we all do it but i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never.