with the phone about the couple with the plane. would come to the police story you'd have to see. the. movie. you. subscribe to rub people up the content for just twelve euros fifty per month. break you site person across tries to woo french protesters with tax cuts and wage hikes as he scrambles to bring an end to weeks of violent disruption. and also top of the headlines too for the big bricks it showed trees are made in parliament

a few hours ago. choose days planned a crucial vote. should face a major defeat as m.p.'s lined up to condemn both the delay and. this government and the prime minister feels it's time because of the weak prime minister members across this house don't want your deal is she not realise how can you take on this make you know. bus to an alleged russian spy request to change her plead no and the us after initially insisting she's not guilty hearing on that is going to be held later on wednesday. by their very good morning just past midnight this very early tuesday morning here in moscow welcome to you then my name's kevin zero in here at the international news center with the latest live update breaking news this hour to start just a few hours ago the french president offered. and all of branch to an angry nation

to say the least to try and draw a line under weeks of violence from the so-called yellow vest protests so that we show you what for the last four weekends civet our correspondents and our cameras in the thick of it anyway earlier on he gave a speech on national t.v. to his country promising tax concessions and also a minimum wage rise in his first public address since the unrest by all accounts he was pretty cool and calm but he acknowledged the country is not yet out of the woods. looted your economy i'm declaring a state of economic and social emergency today i want to stop affronts where our children will live better that we have a very humble tone from president michael and as he addressed the nation as a gesture that he really wanted people to know that he had been listening to the stories over the last two weeks as people have been out in the streets talking about the problems that they deal with the every day basis in france because of

what he calls to living according to those yellow best village on protesters the president said the royal people had a legitimate right to protest there was no legitimacy for the violence that had been seen he also warned that france was facing an economic and social crisis. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in two thousand and nineteen are no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to pay an end of year bonus this will not be taxed and there will be no social payment for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euros that's actually increased will be cancelled as we planned well what did he offer as a concession an olive branch to the protesters first of all he said that the minimum wage would increase by one hundred euros every month that will start from next month he also said that over time it shouldn't be taxed and shouldn't have any

social charges taken away from it this of course comes after four weekends of violence and many people have been calling on president back on to speak many people wondering why it's taken him so long until now let's just look back at the four weekends and three weeks of protests that france has so far seen. i hate.

it. well is it enough it's not yet clear and one thing that many people may be particularly unhappy about as announced today is a president back and said he would not roll back on one thing that many of the protests have asked for and this is the changes that were made to the wealth tax on

a more of a problem out of onto the plane while some want me to go back on the wealth tax this has been around for forty years it just caused people to leave our country we can't go back we want we need to create jobs well this speech was being described by many as much moment of truth will it be enough to quell the the social tensions here in france will it be enough for the jail asia on. yellow vests to decide that they will no longer take to the streets of france will it be enough to stop the violence that remains to be seen solitary pinsky r.t. paris. france germany of analysis there while the french president was pretty much silent on those protests as they got increasingly agitated that's all changed annoyed seemed pretty shaken by what you think is taking four weeks to finally address the nation. well i think part of the problem is he didn't know what to say

and secondly there is the calculation that the protesters will go away and that also he leaves his his his appearance on the scene jupiter like as he does describe himself the. moment when everybody is paying attention and he solves the crisis and so on i think that's all very badly misplayed you think he can handle it better here. well it's a thing i've said on this program before in another context if i was going to i would have started from europe you see one thing that nobody's mentioned the night and i was listening to your program as well nobody mentioned nobody mentioned the europe france his problem is it is a member of the euro he's not mr macro who decides what france's economic policy is he has to go groveling to brussels every time he wants germany and what is going to be very interesting is to see what brussels makes of the fact that he's just announced he's going to hand out this money the the minimum wage increase of one

hundred euros per month where fry well he said this is not going to be the employer's normally it's the employers and are going to be any charges on and such so this is already the french deficit and france had a deficit if you can believe this since one thousand nine hundred eighty three. they already have a deficit of two point eight percent and they go no further than ever robin the rich to pay the poor here no i don't know because i can't believe that this is the whole of the package this is the emergency because they've got to do they're going to find this money from somewhere they've got to talk to brussels and say look this probably is going to increase the deficit and you will be familiar with the huge drug that's been going on with italy over exactly the same problem exactly the same difficulties of trying to seek expansionist measures when all the ideology of the euro coming from berlin of course is forced error to robbie's. we worry about his

ratings as well they're low at the moment is this get off enough to the french paper that it changes their minds about him. and they can't get much lower but i mean i don't know it's much more important that he's got to solve this problem we can't have a situation every weekend where morgues go down the chantilly smashing the place up in all the hotels are empty that cannot be allowed to continue and it's over well so you're eighty nine thousand police were on patrol and all the rest let's listen sixty five million french people and if they really get bloody minded eighty nine thousand policemen are going to sort the problem and there are signs that the policeman themselves have sympathy with the problems of the yellow jacket people he's got what she steps and this is the emergency crime rate now the question is where is he going to get the money from or is he going to sell the house is brussels to take a punt and jump and he's just going to increase the deficit where we can hear

exactly what the people in front of the south if it were france thinking about this where they were there ask the same questions got to lead no doubt as well how do you think it's gone down and they going to buy it the majority of the public are they not going to come out in the streets next weekend for five days and somewhere i think less i mean there's no doubt that some of the pensions that over time all these measures and various sections and communities and it will calm things to an extent there will be some people out there and i've been very impressed in that all provincial towns where you see people on the roundabout and these people are out of that and a lot of them are wimmin and so on it it's it's a very widespread feeling but the question is is he going to be this is the change of tactics if you like is he going to change his strategy is he really great european well if you continues with these policies of spending money then he has to change his policy regarding the euro and already the euro if you don't you're the exploding. so easy suddenly going to turn your back on your so

what the germans are now. we just have to go our own way i don't know i mean it's it's the implications of what he's done masses because it means that he's completely turned away from the policies and would you would you go elect the straits times are they look journalist robert how is he going to leave it there is to as both thanks ever so much for time being live this was good to see thanks for now interesting time if they know if you're just joining us like the earth the big story tonight of course the british prime ministers put choose those crucial parliamentary where they should later on today on a much maligned breck's it plan on ice for now still no date and now it's the when it's going to happen she's off to brussels in a couple of days truism if i was confronted earlier on last evening by anger all sides in a packed house of commons as she admitted that m.p.'s had to make concerns over in new divorce deal to get enough back. does this house want to deliver bricks

it. if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can the biggest on certainty for british business lies not in this field but on the front bench of the labor. prime minister members across this house don't want your deal does she not realize how can your check and when articulate this make you know you hear what she's don't do today. i mean she is for eight. years so it's a reason may that addressing a very fractious house of commons confirming that vote has been delayed it must of been humiliating for her to concede that her deal that she'd been talking up she said it would be voted down and that she will now go to brussels in an attempt to renegotiate certain elements of the deal if she actually calls it to seek

assurances over the contentious issue of the irish backstop and the future of the irish or they take a listen to what she had to say this is very carefully to what has been said in this chamber and. from listening to those views it is clear that while there is broad support for many of the key aspects of pity i. yes on one issue on one issue the northern backstop that remains widespread and deep concern and we will therefore defer the coach actually for tomorrow. and not to proceed to divide the house at this time to challenge. it on as the result of the referendum it's pretty does this house want to deliver bricks it.

a clear message from the s.n.p. but. does it want to do so through reaching an agreement with the e.u. to be honest this risks dividing the country again. time wise to resume a says that she wants to go and visit e.u. leaders in the european commission before this week's e.u. summit but still not clear specifically when that's going to be but she wants to discuss changes and address and peace concerns but we don't have a date for every new devote for when this vote will now take place and that is a great source of anger among politicians in the chamber many of them would be desperate to finally have that say on this rather chaotic brags that process made claims that she's listened to critics and to the concerns that people have and that

she's going to do everything she can to seek assurances from the e.u. over the issue of the irish stop well a lot of people would say that she didn't listen that she should have those in her own party will say she should have postponed this vote others say that this wasn't a deal that they wanted a tall and that's what the leader of the labor opposition party jeremy corbyn had to say the government is in disarray uncertain theory is building for business people are in despair at this stage of these failed negotiations the prime minister is trying to buy himself one last chance to save this deal if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can m.p. after m.p. after two reason my statement lined up desperate to get in that ostensibly that questions to the prime minister but really indignant. criticisms of how she has handled this negotiation process as of yet no date for the vote the prime minister

planning to tweak or not renegotiate but seek a sure it says on some elements of the deal which cost the m.p.'s in the chamber have already dismissed as not good enough and a deal that brussels has already said that it's going to refuse to renegotiate. the u.k. corresponded to i spoke earlier to prove curser and former m.p. george galloway he says treason maze days is probably a could be numbered no this is not bricks that she's proposing and therefore a good one hundred of our own m.p.'s will never vote for whatever reassurances she brings but it's a bit it's a bit like general and waving his piece of paper promising peace in our time the e.u. leaders clearly smell blood this meld blood in the form of a second referendum which they hope would lead to a reversal of the last referendum result whether or not they're right about that it would still leave millions of people very bitter and angry it would risk social

peace in britain if the first referendum is somehow i'm old i think the most likely outcome is treason may being overthrown by a horror on army our own party and the new prime minister returning to you square one there are plenty of people in the wings waiting boris johnson even gore is here for the occasion just to look prime ministerial and he's churchill's biographer. of the stores trucking tonight russian citizen reporter news facing charges in the united states being foreign agent his father requests to change her plea hearing on the motions to be held this wednesday them. to defend and break into government through its attorney respectfully found this joint motion to set a change of plea hearing in the above caption matter and request a hearing at the court's earliest convenience we understand that this has been filed and they are requesting

a hearing in which she can then change the police people are jumping to some pretty strong conclusions the press has been speculating that she may be ready to plead guilty however that's just that's a pretty strong conclusion to jump to now at the moment it would be possible for her to perhaps change her plead to no contest maria bettina she has been charged with being an agent allegedly of the russian government and trying to infiltrate the politically powerful national rifle association and at first it was put forward that she had been in touch on tact with intelligence officers and that she'd been trading favors for sex however prosecutors have backed away from some of those stiffer charges they dropped the charge of espionage at this point are simply charging her with being an unregistered lobbyist failing to report herself as a foreign agent now she's denied all charges said that she is not guilty and after her arrest she was denied she was denied bail and she was held pending pending

trial so she's been in federal prison awaiting trial this entire time since her arrest appears that pretty soon we will be seeing bettina in federal court and that she will be having a hearing regarding a change of police there's a many many different possibilities about what this could mean a change of police that seems to be what is coming up and we'll have to wait and see what happens in the courtroom in the kind of over there in new york done comix a human and labor rights and get some thoughts from where this is going to go hey there are some suggesting that this change of plea is the only possible scenario. to use to british law american law is different with a change of plea doesn't have to be just guilty not guilty be something in between could it could go on it for us in a bit confused. yes well could be. guilty not guilty as you say or it could be as it is as your correspondent suggested no contest meaning that she's not

pleading guilty but she's not going to put up a defense. in return she would hope for a lighter sentence during the course for detention prosecutors as either they drop these more serious accusations against her why did they do that if they thought that the case in the first place whoa they drop it that accuser being a spy they brought her in she's been in prison ever since the one of them changed their minds or maybe maybe nations know or as a lesser cause me she's an unregistered lobbyist as it's now been described yeah well i mean it seems to me that there's these charges were always politically motivated i think they don't have anything on her and that's why they're left with a pretty nice lee charge. but again i think they press these charges and they pressed him at a time when it was very politically sensitive to frankly bolster the whole russia gate. scandal which is frankly gone nowhere but they continue to add you know

secondary and terror cheri charges to make it look like something's there and so that's why they brought charges against her and very salacious ones claim that she yeah yeah yeah so i mean what what does this actually may know that ok these lesser charges are against her she's not contesting it may be what's going to mean as a kind of a sentence for is that really sort of jumping the gun before you know jump in before the gates open here or what could happen to. i suspect that a deal has been made that they do want her to plead no contest or guilty in return for even being released again this is a pretty minor charge others have been charged with this recently and it just been made to. you know register it was the meter the big bonuses post because of the russian connection the supposed russian connection this usual thing these days here yeah well maybe they want to point to this as

a win. they don't have much against or they want to point to this is a way end it my guess let it go and go back home to russia which i'm sure is what she's wanted she's been treated very badly in jail kept isolated and also is that where she was denied jail they worry that she'd skip but to russia maybe well yeah but she could have they could have just taken her passport i think it's more than that i think they wanted to pressure her into pleading guilty to something and my guess is they're going to get their wish i wanted to add that she's also been subject to regular body cavity search searches which she has claimed amounts of sexual assault they appear to be so they treated her very badly hoping to turn the screws on or get her to plead guilty to something so that they can say they have a win on the russia gate investigation ok we'll continue to follow a couple of those down koval acumen and labor rights lawyer thanks have as much take the time to deliver this tonight thank you. representatives more

than one hundred sixty countries agreed monday to adopt the united nations global migration to the meeting in morocco but crucially some e.u. states as well as the u.s. refused to attend. salo with what they've been those who were in attendance were intending in what they were attending for the migration pact the un migration pact to set out to put in place a framework for a global solution or at least to try and get a global solution to tackling migration one of those world leaders that was in attendance was the german chancellor angela merkel. the whole migration pipes idea was roundly supported here in germany only the right wing opposition alternative for germany spoke out against it they have this to say the migration pact contains lots of political commitments and leads to more migrants entering germany but it proved far more toxic elsewhere another of the big names in attendance from europe

was the belgian prime minister sharjah shell and now he in fact lost his well governing coalition because of this migration pact on sunday the right wing flemish nationalists that were helping to give him a ruling majority in the belgian parliament walked out of the coalition over this issue in slovakia the foreign minister. he threatened to resign over it it was only when assurances were made that bratislava would main would remain closely aligned to both the and nato when it came to issues of migration did he agree to well pull back that resignation and in fact in countries such as canada we're seeing quite big demonstrations against this pact. was. it was the united states australia austria the czech republic hungry amongst many others

have also said they wouldn't be signing this deal in fact the un secretary general he outlined exactly what was meant by this non-binding agreement the compact is. not treaty moreover it is not legally binding it is a framework for international corporation but rooted in an intergovernmental process of negotiation in good face and if that wording is perhaps led to a lot of nations being unwilling to sign it because why sign up to something if it isn't binding in the first place. because haitians elsewhere the eaves foreign policy chief says a mechanism for maintaining trade with iran despite those u.s. sanctions could be ready in the coming weeks fredricka margaret he made that statement at a news conference in brussels earlier. from it and we have to make sure that iranians benefit that italian people benefit from the lifting of sanctions even

after the u.s. the session to reinforce some of the sanctions i would expect this instrument to be established in the coming weeks before the hand of a here as a way to treat texts that promote a legitimate business with the fact itself that the e.u. is taking this step and that's already made some symbolic expressions of support for the deal to maintain a deal is really important in itself we should not forget that the stone age allies within the e.u. the conservatives of forces are also in favor of maintaining this deal with iran after inc it's going to come this mechanism but we should not overestimate its possible consequences now big companies in our car companies or others are going to take they're going to choose the best and not stop dealing trade with iran anyway because they're going to maintain their biggest trade on but for some smaller e.u.

companies who for example only have three dealings with the near asia or with iran specifically they will benefit from this deal in indeed there will. iran's already war that u.s. sanctions against it may lead to a quote deluge of drugs asylum seekers bombs and terrorists in the west now trounces economic pressure is facing could affect crucial its fight against drugs and its very lengthy border with afghanistan afghanistan being the world's leading opiate supplies you can see the connection there is they're saying it around and says it spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to curb the illegal drug trade and he has said things got more in the story. trump iran sanctions three words all a little too familiar to the world although washington aimed sanctions at iran and its european companies who have felt the impact of all those sanctions may have closed the door to european businesses they could apparently open another to the flow of drugs. i warn those who impose sanctions that if iran's

ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected you will not be safe from a daily use of drugs asylum seekers bombs and terrorism in case you didn't know iran has been a barrier to a deluge of drugs coming from afghanistan feel he is. iran has a lengthy border with afghanistan the world's largest producer of opium destined for markets in europe and elsewhere in twenty sixteen alone the u.n. estimates that iran seized a hof a million kilos of opium iranian officials say they've spent a hefty amounts on enforcement measures barriers canals fences around eight hundred million dollars annually it says on sealing its borders to prevent the transit of narcotics and if iran come to a stop because of sanctions well you get the picture. you don't weaken iran by

sanctions many will not be safe washington claims to have the problem under control since two thousand and two has been engaged in a council narcotics program in afghanistan but get this back in two thousand and one before the u.s. intervention poppy field stretched to around seven thousand six hundred and six has fast forward to twenty seventeen and the number grows to three hundred twenty eight thousand heck says. program undertaken by the united states its coalition partners or the afghan government resulted in lasting reductions in poppy cultivation were opium production so this. iran can no longer protect its borders with afghanistan a wave of drugs threatens to engulf europe and beyond another tragic consequence of trance foreign policy hitting allies in stat. japan those effectively banned chinese telecom equipment join highway and a number of other chinese companies retaining government contracts japanese

ministries in the armed forces have been given guidelines partly prohibiting them from buying any equipment produced by those chinese firms tokyo says it's to prevent sensitive information from being leaked and that decision follows the arrest in canada of always chief financial officer at the request of the us washington is accusing her of violating american sanctions imposed on iran and in fact in seeking her extradition more on that her bail hearing has begun in vancouver earlier yesterday today with her lawyer proposing menu and to be put on the electronic surveillance now to avoid imprisonment no decisions yet be made on that will follow it men won't use arrest as in the mind of the recent efforts to try to repair ties between the u.s. and china that trade war spat further china's foreign minister warning now that both canada and the u.s. could face consequences as he put it if money isn't released due to war over the weekend the vice foreign minister summoned both the canadian.