this house wants to sit. sparing herself a major defeat the british prime minister councils are crucial votes albright said meeting to further calls for a true reason me his resignation prime minister members across this times don't

want your deal that you don't realize how it will take and this make you know. coming up on the program french president i'm on your mark from moves to appease a nation in revolt promising tax cuts on an increase in the minimum wage. economy i am declaring a state of economic and social emergency. i accept my share of responsibility. coming up the pentagon claims are hunting for us taxpayers money going to subsidize the saudi campaign in yemen. live from our international news center here in moscow this sees r.t. wherever you're tuning in from a warm welcome i mean a new. fearing for her future the british prime minister has counseled

a crucial vote on her breaks that deal the house of commons was set to decide this choosing but treason may yesterday admitted about the council votes spurred her a major defeat she's now however facing increasing pressure to step down but this is very carefully she was 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 it to you. just this house wants to dress it. if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make why for those who can pampers across this house don't want your deal does she not

realize how chaotic and curious this makes you know. this isn't a government in control failing again. he said her time wasting to lie simply reckless what has been the point of all the pain and uncertainty of the last two years what the hate is going on. i t for eight true but no prime minister is better than a prime minister was all a chaotic outness fair as you've been hearing there in the house of commons was a peson miserly by one m.p. getting through another after he picked up the parliament sermon neil mace in protest. the reason was. i. the gold makes technically must be present for you. parliament sessions to me pass laws as a symbol of the monarch's off oratory the opposition labor m.p. claimed it was a symbolic gesture of defiance of the chaos. or since the break that referendum

actually back in the summer of twenty sixteen the issue has divided it stirred controversy amongst the british public and politicians all artes poly takes a look now at how it all started here's the moment the result of confusion began to sink in for the british media we can now say the decision taken in one thousand nine hundred seventy five by this country to join the common market has been reversed by this referendum to leave the. absolutely clear that there is no way that the remains side can win or can it it's two and a half years since britain voted to leave the euro pm i but the prospect of staying in that club is higher than ever how did it get to this. it how to be rather straightforward that country but instead this is an historic moment

from which there can be no turning back and brussels paying some created. that. can be concluded quickly bendish the negotiations began child to wait for a year until they hit a couple of major stumbling blocks the thorny issue of the irish border as well as future trade bluster from one side just to train work for comic corp. and provide a from the let nobody be in any time. hopes that as i've always said you know we are preparing for no deal ministers left mase side in the e.u. faced with going to european movements across the continent wasn't just going to roll over so when it deal between london and brussels was finally struck last month

john made it clear if this board and the european union change the fundamental you should take on these issues back home to reason may's deal any united politicians of all stripes against it faced with losing the vote by a landslide to reason may called it off at the eleventh hour and much to the outrage of politicians failed to set a new date somehow a house voted to debate this we wanted to vote to meet the people expected us to vote to meet on the government have a government run away and get in the toilets this is the ultimate humiliation for the leader of the house year after this prime minister and how we could look at the house of the other night and try to suggest the pain this is business as usual is quite extraordinary half constituents are watching this farce with the will of the been in the news men with no idea how this country is being run and because we

didn't host comes up with new way forward for all of us the message for many including the hard bags it is in her own party is that she can't improve a rotten deal which although not exactly in those words also happens to be the message from brussels i have decided to call european council meeting on thursday we will not renegotiate the deal including the backstop but we are ready to discuss how to facilitate u.k. ratification as time is running out we will also discuss a preparedness for a no deal scenario so instead of surviving a historic parliamentary vote to raise a maze had to ensure a historic humiliation. and by failing to reschedule the date of the vote she's been accused of running away from democracy and the answer is the u.k. moves ever closer to the twenty ninth of march the official date of britain's departure from the e.u. that means that m.p.'s are going to be under even more pressure to approve what perhaps they consider to be a bad deal just to avoid

a disastrous no deal scenario that if to resume a survives as leader and doesn't get ousted by either her own party or through a vote of no confidence which incensed opposition parties say they're now planning that could force a general election and considering the current state of disarray a party promising a second referendum to potentially reverse brags it could win popular support. well an emergency the beta still expected to take place later this choose the in the house of commons but of course without the vote we'll be staying across all the developments histories and may heads to berlin to meet the dutch german leader she's aiming for more concessions on the irish border issue to help push her deal through we spoke to a member of the all our mentioned same party who claims that no one on either side if they are a supporter wants breaks if they think we don't want to see any border certainly

not on the island of our. own the r.e.c. either the majority here in the north of ireland salute to rimini and it is absolute democratic discreetness to force us to accept the european union if we accept on the terms that the bracks tiers of the d p s me as allies wish then it will mean a return to a hard border it will mean the diminishing undermanning of the good friday agreement which forces the underpins our peace process will mean that the jobs that we lost investment will be lost we will jeopardize the progress that we have me in terms of our peace progress on in terms of reconciliation were twenty years old for all reasons were against borders and we don't believe that backstop special status for the north of ireland which is can t. in the agreement we don't believe will lead to a hard border and the are you see the constitutional issues and reduced united out

will be decided on another day. elsewhere in europe the french presidents trying to quell weeks of violence by offering an olive branch to his angry nation after four weekends of nationwide protests the money made a dramatic statement. because your false economy i am declaring a state of economic and social emergency upon the i accept my share of responsibility an initial attempt to appease the revolt failed the so-called yellow vest protests continued even when the government scrapped the fuel tax hike in his first public address since the unrest mccrum to other demands like tax concessions on the minimum wage rise and then as i may have given the impression that it wasn't my concern or that i had other priorities i also know that my words may have hurt some of you very humble tone of speech from president matt corners he addressed the french nation on monday evening saying that people had legitimate right to protest

but there was no legitimate white for the violence that had been seen over the last few weeks not call also war the country was facing a social and economic crisis. because of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at 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 payments for pensioners receiving less than two thousand euro's the tax increase will be cancelled as we had a plan that many people will be questioning why it took president almost four weeks to address the nation. i think he's getting scared and. that's it he's lost all credibility and people don't trust him he must leave get out a very nice speech but i don't trust him at all and we need proof in any case we're

staying here as long as we don't have clear science so i could thirteen minutes since november seventeenth that's not a lot of minutes compared to the number of days we've been here but there were a few reassuring elements who took one big first step. he has many more to take will these measures these offerings be enough well it's difficult to say but one thing that many of the protesters may not be happy with is the fact that mark kong refused to roll back on one of the taxes that they wanted changes these were the reforms that he made to the wealth tax on a more modern want someone need to go back on the wealth tax this is been around for forty years it has caused people to leave our country we can't go back we weren't we need to create jobs thirty minute speech to the nation on monday night described by many as being my bones moment of truth will it be enough to quell the

social tensions the people who are unhappy here in france the shell asians to stop them from taking to the streets once more well that's yet to be seen. solid. ati paris the pentagon's bandit bookkeeping led to the saudi campaign in yemen getting free fuel we follow the paper trail for this short break.

seems wrong. to me. to shape out. educate and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. to a story we're closely following today the u.s. secretary of state russia for sending long range bombers to joint military

training in a tweet mike pump a accuse the two countries of quote squandering public phones in turn responded calling the american top diplomats words absolutely inappropriate. that picks up the story in venezuela. spokesperson of russia's president seemed indeed a little bit surprised with not very diplomatic comments of america's top diplomat saying the u.s. better mind its own business this is what dmitri place called had to say it's it's a serious accusation pointed at the russian government and we believe it is not an appropriate statement talking about public spending we do not agree with this that moron that this is an inappropriate statement from a country which could feed the whole of africa with half its military budget we continue to seek dialogue with our colleagues and hope for washington's readiness sooner rather than later. this response came off to the u.s.

secretary of state mike compare had quite the same thing to russian military at crufts across the atlantic was a waste of money and these are his words russia's government has sent bombers halfway around the world to venezuela the russian and venezuelan people should see this for what it is to corrupt governments squandering public funds and squelch and liberty and freedom while that people suffer the suburban exchange following to deployment to russian strategic bombers here in venice to well what earlier on monday as part of a brokered military cooperation between moscow and caracas we missed the arrival of two russian white swans he is my report here at today's one of the two russian tupolev one is sixty's joint chief. was was just that. you. don't feel

that you have a company. this doctor and. you know. right. from the base and russia has no. cross have covered the distance no more than ten thousand kilometers and they flew over that plant it before they let it hear it it is well it. was sixteen supersonic strategic bomber like. it was a vacation no one in russia has.

it is designed to deliver nuclear and conventional weapons and strike strategic targets they may carry out wow. such flights are useful to us within russia we can conduct long distance nonstop flights but not one like this the aircraft cross the ocean different attitudes which is useful for training and demonstrating aircraft reliability. this is it is part of a very close call duration between the two countries russia is venezuela's army number one provider with its helicopters. complexes that other weaponry being inactive. by the country's armed forces for years old already under. contract the country's defense minister has come to the airfield to personally greet the russian pilots. our armed forces have improved the combat readiness we are constantly working to raise again and show that we have a modern military capable of defending the country russia and venezuela have

already conducted numerous joint military drills and later this week on wednesday these two white ones are expected to leave to the air as part of yet another russian venezuelan military training. the pentagon has acknowledged that millions of dollars of u.s. taxpayers money has been lost to the saudi led campaign in yemen in plain refusing fees the u.s. defense department public use last on two basic accounting or it came to light after the atlantic magazine obtained information from the defense department. brings us more. what comes to dealing with america's allies the trumpet ministration has one great fear paying too much money you want to say maybe you can have to pay many nations ovett sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the united states they're not paying their bills well there is

one war in which the united states has been paying well beyond its fair share according to the department of defense saudi airplanes and airplanes from the united arab emirates have been refueling themselves at the expense of the american taxpayers apparently it's all due to an accounting error u.s. central command recently reviewed its records and found errors in accounting where the department of defense for to charge this sort of. adequately for fuel and refueling services now it's quite an expensive mistake the costs are still being added up but apparently it's in the millions of dollars u.s. aerial refueling assistance was provided to the saudi led coalition for more than three point five use activities that likely cost tens of millions of dollars we must ensure that u.s. taxpayers a fully reimbursed for that support the united states uses k c one thirty five strato tankers and casing ten extenders to refuel planes mid air

a mere hour of work with these aircraft costs over ten thousand dollars now these refueling were stopped in mid november but that was after over two thousand operations had been carried out in which the united states was helping the saudis to wage their war against yemen and that is not a popular war seventy five percent of the u.s. public according to the latest polling doesn't want the country to be involved but u.s. government officials seem to think differently we do believe that the support for the coalition is necessary it sends a wrong message if we discontinue our support but what the u.s. public wants doesn't seem to be of concern in the united. ates remains highly involved with the saudi coalition as it wages its widely condemned war against its neighbor caleb mop and r.t. new york well we spoke to investigative journalist dave lindorff who claims that the pentagon is wasteful and constantly risking fraud. the pentagon's accounting is

so crazy and so incompetent and also corrupt that. the numbers are actually frequently being just made up year after year the pentagon has been on the list of high risk of fraud waste and abuse and then here's this huge amount of money being spent on fueling these saudi jets bombing yemen and they aren't even i mean it's bad enough that they're doing it but then they're not charging saudis who have endless money for the us doing all of the air tanker refueling you know in but it's it's not necessary spending so they've been able to keep jacking their budgets. through these accounting gimmicks. moscow has expressed its regrets over the u.s. dropping efforts to cooperate on cyber security the deputy head of russia's center

for cyber security and coordination sees it's vital the two countries continue to work together for more on this let's go live now to our t's eve or to step down off who's been following the developments igor i would imagine the ramifications of what non-communication it seems like on such issues don't lead to any word good what was said today. well indeed we have just listened to a briefing by any of the deputy director of russia's center for cyber security and corporation where he revealed among other things the fact that well moscow and washington d.c. had been in while in very extensive communication right before the inauguration of then president elect donald trump and what moscow did essentially facing them the allegations of meddling in the twenty sixteen united states presidential elections they did pass all the technical data the how doubts particular center had to show

that the. well i had nothing to do with whatever meddling in those elections and this is the sort of documentation. more school is ready to release is ready to make public if washington agrees to that now also as you've mentioned he expressed his regrets that right now even though all the political mechanisms for the cooperation between moscow and washington d.c. are there in place when it comes to you know repairing cyber threats the united states just doesn't want to do that the united states do not want to utilize those mechanisms and speaking of cyber threats he said that while russia is more of a victim when it comes to that russia often becomes targeted by cyber hackers by hackers who revealed for example the during this year's world cup the cyber infrastructure all of the machines all of the. generally the fee for infrastructure was targeted some twenty five million times the olympic games were targeted as well

of the cyber this surveillance systems during the presidential elections in russia here this march also targeted by international hacker crews according to new. so generally the message today was that russia wants to teach and to be learned from and to learn from global experience when it comes to repel and cyber threats thanks very much for that update artie's igor off. ok we're turn to one of our top stories this hour the french president is aiming to quell weeks of violence by offering an olive branch to his angry nation in his first public address since the rest that was last night it happened. to other demands like tax concessions on the minimum wage rise undeterred a state of economic and social and merge and see so what now let's go live to strasburg from some analysis on. it's great to have an expert like science

professor political science professor john laughlin on the program to delve into issues like this hi john it's estimated i'm just looking at some of the figures here ten billion euro these reforms are going to cost let's take a listen in fact just to what was said i will will go in depth into it later the total cost of all the measures is likely to be between eight billion and ten billion euros we are in the process of fine tuning to see how to finance it i think the obvious question is where does he find this money will he be able to do it. no . france is broke france is not only broke but france is chronically in debt other european countries are in debt as well but france's situation is particularly severe. france spends forty billion euros a year on interest rates alone on interest repayments not capital repayment interest payments it's the second largest item on the french budget and under

previous sesar the overall state debt in france rose to one hundred percent of gross domestic product mcconnell came in promising to reduce public spending he said he would reduce it by between sixty and seventy billion euro and he also of course of course claimed that he would kick start the economy with tax cuts what we are seeing here is an increase in state spending not a decrease we are seeing a man running for it running scared exactly like mrs may in london in paris the rebels wear yellow vests and they're on the streets in london that the rebels wear pinstripe suits and they're in the house of commons but the effect is the same this is the end of emmanuel michael's. promises and he what he did yesterday last night was nothing other than a one hundred eighty degree u.

turn we did see a poll in the immediate aftermath of the speech essentially an equal split over support for him and against him how do we break that down because we saw the mass pouring against him him supporting. well the it's a social issue actually the middle classes support him up a bit all classes and middle classes support him but the lower middle classes and working classes are against him it's pretty straightforward you can look at the electrical electoral geography of france pretty easily by seeing which parts of the country voted for him last year but the fact is that this is by far this is absolutely not the first explosion of anger on the streets of paris on the contrary such demonstrations occurred regularly there's usually at least one of these every five years at least during every presidency and the fact is that ever since at least the one nine hundred eighty s. these explosions of anger have led to short term

giving is to governments giving in to presidents giving in in the short term not under every presidency but as a matter of general tech tendency but not giving in on the one thing which is the root cause of the problem which is their european policy because inside the euro zone france will continue to choke to death just like all the other southern european countries are choking to death in the euro zone italy spain greece and so on and they're choking to death because of the exchange rate that was fixed twenty years ago between what was then the german market and the other european currencies and in those twenty years we've seen an inexorable decline in living standards we're just going to. change anything else in a little bit more time before going right to break political science professor john locke and john thanks as always. watching the hawks begins in moments they were.

predatory. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic to follow only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. to sit. and talk.