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want your deal you don't realize how chaotic and curious this may be. and alleged you're brushing agent requests to change her plea in the u.s. after initially insisting she was not guilty and will be held on. her broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our team international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now the french president has offered a series of concessions to quell four weeks of mass unrest in a televised address to the nation and promised to raise the minimum wage and introduce several tax cuts. looted your economy i'm declaring a state of economic and social emergency today and i want to stop affronts where

our children will live better that we have a very humble tone from president matt corn 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 few weeks as people who have been out on the streets have been talking about the problems that they deal with on an every day basis in france because of the high cost of living according to those yellow vests on protesters but president said that while people had a legitimate right to protest there was no legitimacy for the violence that is being seen he also warned that france was facing an economic and a 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 the tax increase will be cancelled as we had 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 a hundred euros every month that will start from next month he also said that over time 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.

well is it enough it's not yet clear and one thing that many people may be particularly unhappy about as announced today is the president back on said he would not roll back on one thing that many of the protests asked for and this is the changes that were made to the wealth tax look we all know more about a motive not that he didn't want someone to go back on the wealth tax this has been around for forty years it just cause 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 my corns moment of truth will it be enough to quell the the social tensions here in france will it be enough food is in asia. 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 solitude pinsky r.t. paris. the british prime minister has postponed tuesday's parliamentary vote on her brags that plan theresa may was confronted by anger on all sides in the house of commons as she admitted that lawmakers were bound to reject her deal. just this house wants 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 certainties 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 chaotic and when articulates this make you know you hear what she's done 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 is she actually calls that to seek assurances over the contentious issue of the irish backstop in 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

vote 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. be honest that this risks dividing the country again. time wise to resume a says that she wants to go and visit e.u. leaders on 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 a renewed vote for when this vote will now take place and that is a great source of anger among politicians in the chamber many of them with desperate to finally have that say on this rather chaotic gregg's that process make 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 on this 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 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 to resign 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. broadcaster and former m.p. george galloway and says teresa mayes attempts to improve her break the deal will be doomed to failure. 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 jim berlin 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 an old i think the most likely outcome is treason may being overthrown by her own army her 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. russian citizen maria bhutto who has been charged in the us of being an illegal foreign

agent has filed a request to change her plea and hearing on the motion is scheduled for wednesday. defined. by council and a government by 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 it'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 town to act with intelligence officers and that she'd been trading favors for sex however prosecutors 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 bizarre to international more news after a break through this.

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themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. back this is r t international now a picture of the ukrainian president posing with paratroopers has caused widespread shock and surprise images shows petro poroshenko lined up alongside ukraine's elite troops but if you take a closer look at one soldier you can see the insignia of the nazi s.s. death's head division rask the presidential administration of ukraine to comment on the photo but have not yet received a response and the deaths had division was a part of nazi germany's military during the second world war it was involved in numerous war crimes including the mass murder of polish civilians and

a massacre of british soldiers during the battle of france and this is not the first time a nazi german imagery has been noticed on display with ukrainian forces the as of battalion which is a ukrainian national guard that regiment uses a logo very similar to another nazi german military symbol however the kiev officials have denied there is any connection. current. her. roads cross a lot of no two and vendor steele who's president of the media company your voice

of america thanks for being with us here on our two international an interesting topic to say the least. so why do you think we're seeing nothing german insignias or symbols closely resembling them appearing in the ukrainian military at this point. well clearly what those trying to do is curry favor with the folks that he believes are going to support him in his reelection coming in january he is unfortunately not polling very strongly and ukraine is divided eastern ukraine and western ukraine and with nato buttressing all of its countries and forces up and around that country they're now looking to reach out across i believe down into the nato countries first support perhaps even to arm themselves and the problem with that really is they're playing both sides because you're seeing a rise now with the muslim migration throughout europe you're seeing the rise now again in germany of the far right militias and that's happening across europe to

sort of you know counter band what they're seeing happen across their continent and i believe that the forces in the western ukraine are particularly trying to you know sort of maintain an alliance to say hey we need help here and we don't want to be you know we need that kind of a support network for sanko thinks he can get the majority of his favor to earn a reelection in january we touched on. important issue there about that fine balance between the nationalist movements inside the country and the needing the west for support we mentioned that the as of battalion uses a logo resembling an s.s. symbol they denied that there is any link do you find those denials at all convincing. no i don't find them convincing i do think that they're really trying to again align themselves with the far right because they don't have anywhere else to find the funding or perhaps even the armament the problem again goes back to if nato countries mistakenly arm the people that they

believe are trying to prevent russian advancement into their country not too dissimilar from what happened in syria where we armed the syrian resistance that turned on the american forces and then joined the caliphate they run the risk of having the same problem so you have to be very careful and president putin is very is very intelligent on the world stage as a rational actor and he's weighing all these chess pieces very carefully as he looks at the developments in the ukraine if you don't mind if i ask you to go down the rabbit hole with me just a little bit what should the ukrainian government to do about the apparent nazi sympathies of some of their military units i mean if we take at face value that they really don't want that sentiment in their ranks. yeah really you know they need to to take a page out of what we do in this country which is we are constantly monitoring for far right activity in our own military forces and the russian government needs to

do the same thing the ukrainians need to do the same thing particularly in this instance is maintain vigilance for that far right movement because we do not want to see a repeat of what happened in world war two you do not want to see the rise of the far right party despite the fact you're seeing this mass migration of muslims across europe you cannot let that be the reason to let history repeat itself so. here on our channel we've for a long time now been reporting on private militia groups operating in ukraine which have a clear far right or neo nazi tendencies now these are not government sanctioned or specifically they're not part of the military but they might have political influence and political force how much do you think they actually influence policy in cuba. well the key folks in kiev and in moscow for that matter should be very aware of what's going on with the respective far right movement but i also do i also think that the amount

a far right movement you're seeing in ukraine is so minuscule that it's not going to necessarily create problems today but the problem with that is there's no such thing as a little bit of cancer a little bit of cancer if it's ignored it gets to be a bigger piece of cancer and we saw that back in nazi germany and this is the beginning of what can potentially be another history repeating itself story all right very interesting to hear your thoughts i'm sure that you and i could discuss this for hours upon end because it is such a big deal right now happening in europe and the vendor still president of the media company your voice america thanks for being with us. right now the e.u. foreign policy chief says a plan to maintain trade with iran despite u.s. sanctions could be ready in the coming weeks federica mo green who gave a statement in brussels. from it i think we have to make sure that iranians benefit that italian people benefit from the lifting of sanctions even after the u.s.

this intervene for some of the sections i would expect this instrument to be established in the coming weeks before the handover here as a way to protect it from out 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 a really important in itself we should not forget that the stones allies within the e.u. the conservatives of forces are also in favor of maintaining this deal with iran after ink it's going to go on dishrag and isn't but we should not overestimate its possible consequences now big companies in our car companies or our others are going to do they're going to do do do do do 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 indeed they will. iran has one of the u.s. sanctions could have a catastrophic impact on the fight against drugs and terrorism archy's and if such a thing as more. 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 fiji 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 spent a hefty amounts on enforcement measures by areas canals fences around eight hundred million dollars annually it says on sealing its borders to prevent the transit of narcotics and if iran contra was stopped because of sanctions well you get the picture. you don't weakening 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 accounts a narcotic 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 hex has. program undertaken by the united states its coalition partners or the afghan government resulted in lasting reductions in poppy cultivation were opium production so if iran can no longer protect its borders with afghanistan a wave of drugs threatens to engulf europe and beyond another tragic consequence of trump's foreign policy hitting allies instead. all right that does it for me i'll be back with more news in thirty five minutes this is our international sales. b.l.o. that's shaped france to work or is it time for him to go speaking of time to go with the brags that vote looming just resumes time up to also my pompei o wants to

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