chancellor merkel runs. up a lot of blue chips between germany and europe and russia. to destroy a bridge this is quite easy and very forced. to reprove her local. police fired tear gas and medics protesting in paris again on monday as president micron is. surveying the aftermath of the weekend's college in the capital. was. a russian t.v. reporter is accused of spying in the u.k.

by the military and media following what was called his suspicious behavior outside an army facility. and a new crew has arrived at the international space station after their soyuz rocket blasted off baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan earlier in the day. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with mina david tudor welcome to the program. police in paris have used tear gas against medics who join the wave of protests that have gripped the french capital the health care workers are angered at financial reforms to medical transport which they claim would threaten the viability of some companies here you can see some of the pictures that came. mance of paris on monday the medics were

using their sirens and emergency lights were tracked attention to that cools students also join the protests blocking access to dozens of high schools across from the action follows a weekend the most violent riots in paris in half a century the term all led to president micron to cancel a visit to serbia so that he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet. authorities are revealing enormous losses from three weeks of yellow vests riots french business profits are down fifty percent protestors rode blockades of course transport companies four hundred million euro and four million euro of damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators run riot smashing property across the capital on monday yellow west vest refused to attend proposed talks with prime minister shadow for tuesday due to security reasons charlotte do better reports from paris. as you can see this is sounding there so iran say it's just on the plus

telecom cold as you go towards the national assembly the thing that they're unhappy about is a change in france it was implemented two months ago whereby hospitals now decide which ambulance service in france will collect patients and the drivers are concerned but could threaten their jobs in the future so you could put in this law will kill all small ambulance companies and big corporations will take over smaller companies like ours have invested a lot of money will disappear overnight and no one will help us we're staying here as long as necessary we have nothing to lose any more loser could there where health company secretaries will come to support ambulance workers because if this all continuous will lose all jobs to you there is less work for us every single day hospitals duty even have the right to call us and give us work the prime minister the governments will do nothing for us nothing that leaving us in the galley without work the ambulance workers will lose their jobs patients will lose out

there this is just the latest in a stream of protests that we've been seeing him frogs that sickly over the last few weeks out with a very visible movement all but vision made sure they've been up to three weekends on the night of her just descending into chaos in paris i don't know if psychos protest the set to continue at some of described a violent spook irish on saturday the bones buildings burned cars defeated smashed shops in newton by some of the worst violent crime scene scenes knowing soon sixty eight. of the five.

the family. we were having and you were president mccall returned home to frogs also to the g. twenty summit in argentina on sunday morning and he went to assess some of the damage and the rules and give them a warm welcome. more. than it would move the world you. meet. you know. oh you know well president marco and also held an emergency meeting on sunday with members of the cabinet he's just the prime minister with holding discussions with political leaders and there's your leisure movement to see how they can appease those are protests we'll source the end soon all the interior minister to make sure

that the security services are ready for any further mayhem and it's also be new to the possibility of the frog's to declare a new state of emergency just a new iraq to the last one ended well do all this you lose your was there a movement a social movement that started just a few weeks ago a new city over the high cost of taxes on fuel here in france but since then they've progressed to do social movements they're unhappy with things such as a high unemployment rate here in france as well as the high cost of living and they sent to continue their protests against another demonstration expected to take place on saturday in paris. associate professor in french and francophone studies at nottingham university paul smith believes maicon initially underestimated the problem of the protests. are hoping. will be on the protests. moderates would not support the general protests in the way that they have and

there's been a public opinion poll this morning that says seventy two percent of french people actually support. the volunteers i call knows that there is a general malaise that needs to be addressed that goes far deeper than the violent top level as it were that we're seeing in paris we've seen that today with destroyed by ambulance drivers that that's not a violent protest studies people with what they regard as a legitimate grievance a legitimate problem so my call has has misjudged i think the movement but now he's trying to do something about it the action against protesters it depends on whether we're thinking about protestors or whether we think that the people who are in custody at the moment are actually protesters or if they're actually provocateurs because there's been quite a lot of evidence that the ultra right and the ultra left are simply joining the

demonstration in order to cause further trouble and then you've got the issue of delinquent elements turning up to throw stones at a policeman. and his prime minister in the interior minister will do is trust the legal jus legal process to be carried out. has issued a top level security alert over a russian t.v. journalist the u.k. military and media accused of spying after he was said to have been acting suspiciously outside an army city this is how the journalist himself explained what happened. i would very much want to know what exactly happened we're being accused of espionage while we were just doing our job we didn't break any u.k. laws on november twenty second and i remember that day perfectly well it's been mentioned in the mail on sunday article we went to the military base which is one hundred kilometers from london. that's location of brigade seventy seven we did

a package about it we drove by the base stopped approached the security guards i introduced myself presented my id they took pictures of my documents my car then we recorded my piece to camera we recorded it on a professional video camera we didn't try to get inside the base something claimed by the mail on sunday we made our intentions clear that we wanted to film outside and that's exactly what we did instead we being branded spice. a credential that the generous presented to the security guards were later leaked to the media at this pint of government saying for internal. the defense ministry sent out a warning which contains my photograph id it's number plates these are the documents i presented to the security guards at the base that's when they took pictures and these pictures were put in the memo how they got leaked to the press i have no idea but what's important is that in this memo if you look closely there's

a note for internal use only despite that this secret memo is now all over the media. is the bureau chief for russia's channel one in london and he was doing a story about the seventy seventh brigade which is sort of the cyber warfare units for the british military and considering that the british government spends quite a lot of time talking about the so-called russian threat and the threat from hybrid warfare and russian reporters interested in this brigade is pretty much self-explanatory the russian embassy is also upset that the reporters personal details have been published online it is offensive that the personal data of russian journalists including their ids in the license plate of their car were made public it in danger security of russian citizens let alone the fact that it's a blatant violation of the norms generally recognized in civilized countries and this wasn't an isolated news report in fact the stories really snowballed it was

printed originally yesterday but it's been reprinted by most of the newspapers here in the u.k. today and now even the defense secretary gavin williamson has made a statement about it he's called on members of the public to report any suspicious activity outside of british military bases and allow me to add a little legal disclaimer strictly speaking and i've just consulted our media lawyer about this it isn't against the law to film on public land even if it is just outside a military base many a journalist has. dunnit certainly i have no one ever leaked my press credentials or accuse me of being a russian spy in the process but there is an important caveat hair in terms of the law the military can take action against anyone acting suspiciously outside a british military base. we sent an inquiry to the defense ministry there's

a formal no website but we didn't get any response near the base is not illegal it's a public area of public land you don't need permission to film there you need permission to get inside talk to the stuff we didn't record our interaction with the security personnel we didn't try to penetrate the base b.b.c. correspondent did the exact same thing as us it was broadcast and no one thinks that punishing him there's nothing illegal and yet this story printed in the mail on sunday yesterday had the headline russian t.v. spies a court at top secret army base now first of all it's not top secret you can get its location pretty much very easily but with two clicks on the internet the art school also goes on to feature an academic who warns that all reporters working for russian news channels are potential spies which is a claim that frankly i find absolutely terrifying looking at it from where i am and

given how tense relations between the u.k. and russia are at the moment the most suspicious thing about this reporter is that he is a russian citizen working for a russian news channel political commentator john gaunt told us he thinks the security scare was linked to the poisoning of the script. russian journalist monster a story about one of our bases that's the story did it again no t.v. show his credentials yes but his credentials for know were there yuri said he was obviously it's just nonsense i just don't understand why our government want to carry on with this this tit for tat nonsense it's all tied in with the script was isn't it we know this is all tied in with the fact that we haven't got conclusive evidence either way it's just part of the anti or russia rhetoric and i for one as a british citizen and frankly fed up of it frankly fed up to the back teeth of it i

want jaw jaw with the russians and i'm sure most people want that rather than war war whether it's a false cold war like this or whether it's military led is just nonsense. and your crew has just entered the international space station after a six hour flight and successful docking the soyuz is the first mission since i failed to launch or most months ago the three person international team is headed by captain of lake colony and the russian capital is the most experienced in full flight already under his belt he's joined by canadian astronaut david simon schachter and america's out of a plane for them is their first mission in space they were welcomed by the three already there proc apia serena unknown chancellor and commander alexander garrulous two will soon head back to earth artie's maria for national witness the take off from russia's baikonur cosmodrome. now you hear the engines started working.

the rocket is already up in the skies will take a little bit more than six hours for the crude to dollar cuisia international space station is but today's launch is far from routine one why the thing is that so uses only new three accidents in their long history. never read fatalities would always lead into missions aborted a in nineteen seventy five

a nine hundred eighty three and the maze three seventy one happened just seven weeks ago in october during the last manned flight and here's my report on why today's launch is so different and so important. because tempers takeoff started smoothly but ninety seconds into the flight something went wrong it really hoped it would have been. while separating the rocket stages bumped into each other the fifty meters three hundred ton construction was quite bold the automatic emergency system immediately

aborted the mission and until the crew capsule. instead of going to the international space station they landed in kazakhstan's and loose steps hundreds of kilometers from way they had taken off just minutes early by couldn't alongside intention the remote back in the night. fifty's at the height of the cold war it was a practical necessity to hide the spaceport away from prying western eyes but also away from the pole to avoid victims in case of a rocket disaster this wilderness is where they merge and see capsule with two fortunate crewmembers landed safely. to their rescue training as part of an obligatory routine before every launch helicopters jeeps navigation systems are involved and people are in how to coordinate to find the crew quickly and they stunt their skills saved two lives. the russian cosmonaut and

american astronaut seemed unharmed after the incident on the little blue given that they fell from a height of fifty kilometers making a steep ballistic descend under force many times stronger than gravity some cold days cable and miracle. a special commission was formed do investigate what went wrong three weeks later they reached a conclusion a sensor that was supposed to detect the separation of the stagers was faulty but it surely the reason behind the failure was operational the accident occurred due to a fault in a sensor so this could only happen at the assembly stage of the baikonur cosmodrome . in a way with this in that event to me was actually reassuring in the smart design over the so use and the incredible work that this witness who people on the ground that

can do i really do every every village i went inside feeling absolutely safe is a bit small. that is so as any time i wish it may be said i could take part in the design but. i ate and a half minutes after takeoff the sea news is expected to reach all of it and just sit. hours later a doctor with the international space station but this time it will feel much more anger and. donald trump has said today he would like to see an end to what he called the current uncontrolled arms race criticizing the military spending of his own country. i'm certain that sometime in the future president g. indicts together with president putin of russia will still talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable arms race the u.s. spent seven hundred sixteen billion dollars this year crazy well with donald trump

you just don't know his reputation over the course of the last two years in the oval office has been one of rather unpredictable behavior now in august he signed a bill for seven hundred sixteen billion dollars in pentagon spending now that is sixteen billion dollars more than in twenty eighteen but now he says military spending is crazy and throughout this time he has had no problem talking up military spending and talking up the u.s. military this is donald trump will submit a new budget to rebuild our military we will give the men and women of america's armed services the resources you need beautiful new planes and beautiful new equipment you've been lacking a little equipment we're going to load it up so sixteen billion dollars and more than the previous year now you would think perhaps this is to fight terrorism against the rise of terrorism around the world well according to the secretary of defense actually this increase is due to russia and china let's take

a listen but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u.s. national security we face growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia or from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models pursuing veto authority over and other nations economic diplomatic and security decision now trump says he doesn't want a new arms race however he did pull out of a very key nuclear agreement when nobody was threatening to break it let's review. right here to the agreement should have been done years ago but still people come to this and we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up but until they come to their senses when they do then we'll old guard and force. and by the

way not only. when it comes to china trump likes to emphasize that he and china's president xi are good friends however he's been imposing a huge number of tariffs on china and there have been a number of military drills in the south china sea furthermore you know there's also the annual nato drills right on russia's doorstep but he says he wants to get along with russia as well let's review these drills that are taking place.

now after all this action we now see donald trump on twitter speaking up complaining about high military spending and envisioning kind of a rosy future where washington moscow and beijing walk down the yellow brick road together in peace and harmony however he could reverse himself this is donald trump and he is known to be rather unpredictable. far right party has entered the regional spanish parliament for the first time in the fourteen years while the spanish socialist workers party won the majority of seats in local elections in london this year the far right vox party managed to bag twelve seats most of the concern of the socialist leader. there's been a real sad back for the left in under you but the most serious thing is that the extreme right his interest in this new political looked world cycles plea and his interdependent loose in parliament the first time this phenomenon which has been taking place in the rest of europe and the world has now reached spain and those in

parliament. and it is here is the most populous region of spain in the country's third largest economy after coupling in the trade it has high unemployment and is the main arrival point in spain for migrants crossing the mediterranean the last party is a newcomer on the scene and alice think it's best to increase pressure on the spanish prime minister place test specially the european elections approaching in may edouard thier founder of the buffalo and republic think tank told us the rise of the far right movement is not a problem isolated to spain. maybe there will not now and we may be right back we don't know but they are really important now because they out. there sure there's a. connection. all right politics now so. it's not

just the plane or in the. woman thing i mean what. happened on may because we have. a money. election would be an election. so. there are things to elect in and i think that's what happened yesterday at the beginning. change. may be right but we'll have a lot of patience and. there's fresh momentum among us democrats in their efforts to probe donald trump's alleged ties to russia during the twenty sixteen presidential elections after his former lawyer pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a trump tower construction project in moscow that was shelved michael cohen says he pursued the project on trans behalf in the middle of the twenty sixteen campaign trying to hide any involvement saying he was too busy electioneering the russian

president's spokesperson though has confirmed the kremlin was approached but responded by saying it didn't deal with construction work. intelligence committee chairman richard. cohen case shows you can't get away with lying to congress but that hawkins said how others who lived under oath garnered far less attention. lying is bad lying to congress is even worse lying to congress for the sake of trump well that's just unforgivable this is one more example of the president's closest allies lying about their ties to russia and russians if you lie to us we're going to get you and what will prosecute you period in the senate cohen has lied to congress and that man a foreign force like lawyers i mean literally war says these are the bad guy the real question is what will this president do michael

cohen admitted he lied out of loyalty to trump about the exact length of business talks on trump's construction project in moscow some sources allegedly say he also lied about supposed payments to former model stormy daniels all because he hoped for a presidential pardon so michael cohen says he lied because he thought trump would forgive him for the best excuse let's be honest there what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive but that aside let's face the facts he was hardly the first the only or probably the last elite of the past year that hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency precision of the capabilities with unable to develop what was former cia chief john brennan the country's top counterterrorism adviser at the time convincing an audience that u.s. drone strikes caused most collateral damage when reports of civilian deaths were being received both by the president and intelligence services as far as the

allegations of you know cia hacking into you know senate computers nothing could be further from the truth we wouldn't do that that was his side of the story on the senate spies. scandal when the cia was accused of monitoring computers used by committee stuff that didn't turn out so well later forcing an apology from mr brennan and his former n.s.a. had james clapper accounting to a senate select committee on n.s.a. spying programs does the n.s.a. collect any type of data and on a millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir yet he faced no charges for a statement he himself admitted was rony us and even the man now in charge of the russia collusion probe former f.b.i. chief bob mueller didn't lie but at the very least supported and pushed the false narrative which led to the invasion of iraq and subsequent chaos secretary powell presented evidence last week that baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass

destruction so what can we learn lying is bad and everyone knows it but we'll let dr house summarize truth of the human condition. everybody lies. the only parents about what the press to think that the lies told by democratic administration members to a republican congress was a bad thing but they do think that lies by people who work for mr trump years ago. could be a very exciting thing because it could harm mr trump mr cohen will tell whatever lie he has to tell to make sure he comes out ok and if if he thinks the lies going to get him a pardon will tell that lie if he thinks the law is good of a deal for the special prosecutors will tell that what the guy is worthless as a witness and is worthless as someone who can build a case around won't stop moeller from trying but he's built his house on sand.

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