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it is wednesday morning and just off the eight am here in moscow the news team now rounding up this hour's top stories let's get straight into the. so after visiting paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the world war one u.s. president donald trump went on the attack on twitter his target and manual for the second time he was angry about his french proposal to create a european army to make europe more independent of the united states.

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crawl missed being out played by mr trump but out of trouble. before to come to paris was. shocked and angry but the spot of these negotiating tactic to make you strong statesman's ignored or to make you spock notes take a different position on each works on the following day just repeats the hour it turns once from europe on the say we europeans sure are spending more we've been made to for our secure. sig zacky works they notice it's was it said bt what french president was not strong enough to keep his own position i mean while the german chancellor angela merkel has also received a mixed reaction from the european parliament after coming out in favor of a single e.u. army parts of the chamber booed and jeered the german chancellor then as i clued

you sean claude younker some years ago already said that a common european on huge show the wild that there will never again be in europe i'm not saying anything against nato of course not we can be a good supplement to nato thank you. thank you thank you i'd thank you actually i'm really pleased about it this is great i'm annoying simply call. on the global policy on mr george some i believe the calls for a european army a merely a political gesture i don't think we should take any of these. statements from macro more than merkel very seriously it's something that they do in order to win some popular support but in order to get something like this off the ground you have to do a lot of preparation for it and you've got to be ready to take on the americans in those who have a goal that the americans were bound to react very negatively and i you know he

hadn't really done the groundwork and so obviously he gave up because he really wasn't that serious about it is just you know neither he nor merkel nor anyone in europe has the stomach to confront the americans on this issue and the americans know this and from those this so you know it was an it was entirely predictable that micro would give up immediately. usa to use their brain vying to host a retail giant amazon's new second headquarters of the decisions are now being made news comes a bit of a surprise but not everyone thinks having that mega-corporation pitch up is best for their city as caleb mop and now reports. the mega corporation an online retailer known as amazon is looking for a place for its second headquarters a competition of sorts began with cities across the country offering tax incentives and making cringing videos in the hopes of luring them in how the proud amazon

customer. called. amazon. amazon or amazon your smart sexy city that thinks outside the box. please join us mr com where should amazon locate h q two in fiscal texas so who wins the big prize of having amazon set up shop in their backyard well in a plot twist that's worthy of a bad reality t.v. show there are now two big winners not just one the new offices will be in arlington virginia just across the river from washington d.c. and the new york city borough of queens now at this point jeff bezos the owner of amazon is presenting himself as your friendly neighborhood billionaire the team did a great job selecting the sunny south and we look forward to becoming in the even bigger poets of these communities but not all new yorkers are exactly thrilled many are concerned the already high cost of living will increase and others worry that

small businesses will suffer the newly elected democratic socialist congresswoman alexandria kazuo cortez is ready for battle amazon is a billion dollar company the idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and it's a time when i was subways crumbling and all communities need more investment not less is extremely concerning to residents here we decided to talk with some locals and see how they feel about amazon setting up shop i'm not happy about this i think i've read a lot of articles saying it's not great super excited about amazon coming in and i think there are other cities that can use the extra job more to put their movie to new work they do they're the ones that do the jobs i'm. not sure what effect it would have on small businesses but i'm sure they'll try to print up the extra burden everything's already closed without them so it'll be a lot harder let's not forget that new york state governor andrew cuomo promised to legally change his name if it would convince amazon to move in i'll change my name

to amazon. and a time when talk of the low wages income inequality and money in politics is everywhere nothing is more reassuring to a frustrated public than seeing their elected officials grovel and beg before huge multinational corporations hey look happen r.t. new york. a video has been released allegedly showing the director of an ngo which provides legal aid to migrants teaching refugees how to lie to border guards. because. you know i think. all of this is done. for them. so this video that's been doing the rounds online is part of a larger investigation project by the canadian activist lower so than the clip allegedly shows rekha who's the executive director of the legal aid and geo

advocates abroad in this video clip she seems to be telling the undercover crew who were filming her against her knowledge that she coaches refugees and migrants on how they should how they should speak to border police and to other officials. at the moment knowing. this is working to determine these characteristics. and. growing. while many of you watching would be pretty unfamiliar with the name. advocates abroad there are a legal aid and cio that's been operating since the beginning of twenty sixteen they provide legal aid legal advice to people going through the asylum application process and cio operate in the e.u.

as well as right across the middle east area their own website says that they've helped fifteen thousand people cross into greece into the european union that way and another two and a half thousand into the e.u. through differing ways advocates abroad issued a tweet in which they said this was all right wing propaganda that it being the video it being altered and it was altered for political means now that tweet was deleted they've also since delete to their online social media presence their twitter account is gone and their facebook account has gone as well so expect certainly more to come of this video coming out and more on that investigation into what's been going on there with n.g.o.s reportedly helping but in some cases asking to break the law those people who are trying to come into the country. last week's u.s. midterm elections underscored the divisions in american society but it seems there

are still some things that everyone can agree. love greens are not going to twenty. by the very least. it's hillary clinton runs again twenty twenty we're screwed. all of the people think hillary clinton running in tucson and going to is a good thing getting me. you may be surprised to hear you use a congressional candidate from texas. in

a porno movie. so you know it was his war or whatever or it's disgusting it's over the top that's not even close to being funny at all and that is still disgusting and despicable to all of the food workers in this country who have lost limbs eyes their lives and so forth for comenius already live just who that for a joke one day the left and the right finally came together you agree on so. i mean time the us democratic party is reportedly planning to hit president donald trump with eighty five investigations the party will take control of the house of representatives in january after last week's midterm elections. if there is going

to have to be investigations if the democrats do take the house president trump will wake up wednesday morning to a very different political scenario here on the hill they are going to investigate this president and his administration thoroughly they do intend to request president's tax returns former speaker pelosi insisting that her party will be strategic when democrats take control of the house in january they're going to begin immediately to investigations on impeachment the democrats are expected to demand trump's tax returns which she has refused to release since taking office they could also launch new probes into suppose it could loosen with russia and they'll be looking into the president's alleged role in paying hush money to former porn star stormy daniels plus there are plenty of other items on the list ranging from the legality of a travel ban from several muslim countries to the administration's spending on furniture. with control of the lower house and congress the democrats will have

subpoena power as meaning they can legally require any witness to testify in congressional hearings and produce documents just since september the republicans have blocked sixty four subpoena requests from the democrats the former illinois congressman michael patrick flanagan believes the democrats should use their new powers sparingly. congress is not an investigative body it's not what it does it has the power of oversight but oversight of the administration executing congressional will and spending and in the direction of the nation democrats who have no agenda and ran not know what john and have no desire to actually manage the business of the nation have only this to run on and they want to distract this president from the work he's doing because they just disagree with him they just don't want him to be successful and this is a way to derail him and the policies that he's doing i think the nation would like everyone to just take a breath step back let's do some stuff if there's really some wrongdoing the

democrats think are some are some genuine wrongdoing not just we need to see his tax returns because we need to know he's not worth as many billions as he says he is we want to publicly embarrass him which is all that tax returns things about that that's ridiculous and nobody wants to see time and energy spent on that. week after the u.s. reimposed old fifteen sanctions against iran and national security adviser john bolton says he's confident that european countries on companies are coming to us with the restrictions adding that any attempt to bypass them will prove ineffective meanwhile people in the islamic republic are already feeling the impact. doesn't crash my husband is a cancer patient and we are worried about his medication and their costs medications used to be available before but after the sanctions they have become more expensive andrea error and we await about the future and what will happen.

only my little this is the second round of my chemotherapy off to sanctions before my chemotherapy used to cost two hundred eleven euro but now with each round i need to pay four hundred and twenty two year old and drugs cannot be found easily like before we have to search them in different pharmacies with every single one of them not having a specific kind of drug. now when they impose sanctions on our banks the money cannot be transferred easily to a foreign country in order to buy medication. that we're not allowed to bring in many devices and some of them like components it's obvious that without these parts the devices simply won't work.

we're going to do everything we can dissuade iran hard as the british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak. more to the day here we have nine minutes which a full every day in this health clinics with a sanctions are just not able to respond to half a million patients. i don't have we spoke with calling a couple an associate professor of political science who told us washington's ultimate goal is to bring down the iranian government no matter the cost. the united states is going to. iraq until its free will is collapsing of course the arabian people will be harmed with the only viable economic blockade the whole by the members of the administration the problem in this race is that this will cause the really people to rise up and overthrow the

current government in iran so even though. the regime change is with us is there is simply a euphemism because what he really wants to do is to bring their own current iranian government with economic pressure and economic sanctions. a large number of e.u. made weapons have ended up in the hands of islamic state militants in syria and iraq that's according to a new draft report for the e.u. parliament speaking at a debate on tuesday lawmakers expressed their anger at the situation i'm sick sports keep feeling conflicts and out at all to mass regulations of human rights a snap shot approach delivers bad policy countries need to share their interpretation of arms controls rules because currently we see member states

failing to even make full submissions the draft penned by german m.e.p. lossing expresses shock over the volume of e.u. weaponry going to die of calls for much tougher action to revoke export licenses that might be used to supply terrorists a writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer says the fact that european arms are going to islamists in syria has actually been known about quite well now for at least three years all the reports are that indeed that has been the case this is something we've known about really since two thousand and fifteen when diana shaw. was much. stronger than it is today the syrian government is reporting that finding caches of weapons which had the origin and even more importantly at that stage look all the weapons that were being found in iraq which had been seized by pious fighters but the really key element of this is really the end use certificates what

seems to been happening is that weapons which are not in principle destined for the i guess went through particularly ball garia into a lesser extent rumania and with an channeled to highest fighters and that's very concerning and one understands completely why members of your parliament in strasbourg this week are taking this very very seriously and wishing to bring in the measures which could basically stop this sort of abuse of and use. record numbers of french police officers are committing suicide with the latest victim a prominent campaigner for office so well. this report from paris well the shock here in france because this individual is seen as being or having been a leading voice in the protests in the movement of police against the attacks that

officers have been going over the last few years she was a woman called maggie biskup ski and she was actually the founder of that movement now the reports here in front suggest that she took her own life in the last day using her service weapon and she was found dead at home with a note nearby and that death now is being treated as a suicide here in france but why was she so important well the thirty six year old was actually also the founding member of the mobilization of angry policeman this was a group that was set up back in two thousand and sixteen after police officers received a massive attack they were attacked with protesters with molotov cocktails and in fact two individuals the police officers were severely burned with others being injured as a result of that attack as well now she has also been under investigation over the last year for what she described as speaking out to the media about attacks against

the police without permission from senior officers from the police service now police suicide is a burning issue here in france with the statistics showing just how incredibly high it is for this particular profession now those statistics show that in july this is the latest it is sticks should that for this year nine thousand police officers and sixteen had taken their lives that was back in july in two thousand and seventeen more than sixty police officers took their lives now it's such a burning issue that the government did. the plan to tackle this is only this year saying they will do more to help people realize if they colleagues needed support but there was criticism that that plan didn't go far enough well there's been a lot of reaction on social media today to the news of that death including from senior politicians such as the interior minister and the leader of the national

rally i was in very city on with a co-exist few days ago. and here i hear the anger of the police and we are responding concretely with more effective measures and more resources on the ground the suicide of my keep president of the mobilization of peace officers. is a terrible symbol of the police suffering she said tireless he denounced the suffering to come and it's a big shock for all of us well we've spoken to many police officers over the last year or so who've talked to us about some of the issues that they face some of the abuse some of the attacks that they face in fact one police officer we spoke to in the last six months said that as a result of that piece they had actually considered it taking their own lives let's look back now at some of the most serious attacks that offices have faced in france .

the french government is also coming under fire for its treatment of rural officials the mayor of a village in the east of the country wrote an angry letter to the president after handing in his resignation. after thirty years i've had enough the compromises then kept promises and the states withdraw have used up morally and physically. according to official data more than one thousand mayors have resigned in france since the last local elections of twenty fourteen that number is fifty five percent

higher than in the preceding four years and we heard from the director of the french rural mayors association he said austerity cuts and government targets have made it very difficult for local officials just to do their jobs. as with the french government is trying to limit the powers of authorities in regions departments and communes this is a process that's been going on for a long time and has made life difficult for local officials present his pursuing the policy of austerity in regard to local authorities he says he's not cuts in funding for local authorities funding has never been this low there's a toughening of standards which means local officials struggle to carry out their plans the main task of rural matters now is to receive new arrivals because rural france is becoming more popular than ever there's never been so many people moving out to the villages so it's important to maintain dialogue with the french government and get officials more room for maneuver so this is vital if you want to improve internet access health care education and expand employment in the broader

economy we need to tackle these problems and the country will not develop if the government continues to hinder our efforts and i thanks for sharing it with us here at r.t. international more of your wednesday worldwide news headlines in about twenty five . or so. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present. something i want to. let you go right for us this is like the three of them or you could get. interested in the water. yes soon. as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on

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