you know i work with return full school shooters for a period of twelve years and none of the students we work with in our facility ever went on to commit a school shooting so that gives me hope that if you catch the students early enough or provide the kind of support and mental health treatment that they need that they can come out of the crisis. gloria a russian citizen detained in the u.s. pleads guilty to being a foreign agent. claiming she was put on the psychological pressure. french parliament rejects

a motion of no confidence in the government despite growing criticism of president handling of the best protests. as the israeli army conducts raids in the west bank checkpoints around ramallah the two israeli soldiers killed and another injured in a shooting. and. investigation into russia over claims of doping at seventeen ships the competitors and deny the charges and say the room is unknown since. it's one am and you're watching on. line from all studio here in moscow with me welcome to the program. maria britton a russian national detained in the u.s. on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent has entered a guilty plea at

a washington d.c. court but i was told she faces up to five years behind bars or could be deported. has the details. well in the washington d.c. court room we saw maria buton that come forward and enter a plea of guilty to acting as an unregistered lobbyist now she has not pled guilty to any of the other charges and sensational accusations that are made in the media regarding being a spy espionage and out of that affect and in her state of affairs she came forward and said that she sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with americans having power and influence over us politics and now at this point we don't know exactly what sentence she'll be facing there will not be a sentencing hearing because she is still cooperating with law enforcement the next hearing will be on february twelfth a status hearing now the prosecution is not asking for more than five years and they could file a downward motion in the future to get a lesser sentence and the issue of deportation is something that will not be

decided by this judge this is a federal criminal court however the issue of deportation would be decided by immigration authorities and others so the judge is not ruling on whether or not she will be deported now in the lead up to today's hearing we did hear from the russian foreign ministry this is what was said about the pressure that was placed on boots and in the lead up to today but she's a political prisoner and what's been happening with respect to putin that has nothing to do with justice or investigation of any kind but this is probably a form of political pressure and blackmail she's been subjected to a whole range of methods of psychological pressure so will support whatever decision she makes that will lead to her release at this point we have heard that many russian lawmakers have come forward and called this a miscarriage of justice said that has been badly mistreated saying that the charges are fabricated so there's been quite an outrage in russia in response to the way it has been treated people be waiting to see what happens next if they come

from the international human rights committee believes the way but what has been treated in the u.s. is unacceptable. the witch in the maria buton is being held in prison in the city of alexandria and the conditions susan are downright on acceptable as if she is a dangerous felon or a terrorist a serial killer says being kept apart from the rest of the inmates she spent most of her time in prison like that she's got no way of communicating with other inmates to go for a walk only between two and four am which is appalling really for all practical purposes she's been deprived of sleep even go for war could talk to a lot of one some of the foam which is understandably of great importance to maria asleep maria has to make this choice on a daily basis it clearly constitutes a violation of the human rights convention under which sleep deprivation the squashed as a form of torture going without proper sleep for a prolonged period of time could pose a serious threat to

a person's health. to discuss this further now and bring in john kerry x. . analyst thanks for coming out the program now a russian officials they've been saying all along that the charges brought against but a vague and politically motivated what's your take on this case oh they're not just begun politically motivated this is an utter and total miscarriage of justice i work on chase street in washington d.c. k. street is the center of lobbying for the washington area half of the street is unregistered half of a street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why i target maria because she's russian and they might be able to get some political leverage out of her the only reason this is not about justice not at all what do you think is going to happen to that that she's entered a guilty plea. i can't imagine that she actually faces prison time because the

sentencing guidelines for a first time offender for this so-called crime call for a prison sentence of zero to six months so i mean they they could make an example of her by sending her to prison i think that's a mistake it would be a further miscarriage of justice but the likelihood is that they will question her as much as they can after the mother investigation and then they'll expel her from the u.s. if we look at what she's been experiencing stolen tray confinement how acceptable do you think it is to have kept her in such a confinement. oh utterly completely unacceptable not only has the united nations called solitary confinement as it's practiced in the united states a form of torture but for her crime this is a crime that's so minor that ninety nine times out of a hundred no one has even present your kids or it so for them to put her is

solitary confinement with the most dangerous criminals that are in that jurisdiction is yet another miscarriage and that's been speculation hasn't led john that that. method that they have kept her in of solitary confinement could have put pressure on a defendant into and trying to kill t. plane what dale thought something. it is it's unbearable pressure you are checked confined for twenty three hours a day you are allowed one hour of exercise per day you're allowed one shower per week you're allowed one phone call per month your food is delivered to you through slot in the steel door you're kept in a in a steel cage twenty three hours a day and for what because she failed to fill out a form to send to the justice department so you can see quite clearly this is not about justice it's not about criminal activity this is about making

a political point this is about identifying russia and russians as the enemy of the united states and punishing them donna is britain as case unique or have there been other similar cases in the pasta. well there are at a lot of similar cases chelsea manager example spent nearly two years in solitary confinement and not only was she kept in solitary confinement but she was kept there for two years it's no wonder that people in solitary confinement in the united states commit suicide every day ok thank you john for joining in the discussion and speculation as to what's going on john kiriakou former cia analyst. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ordered to increase the military presence in the west bank this comes just hours after an attack where two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a bus stop near the palestinian city of ramallah it led israeli forces to

immediately impose strict checkpoint rules around the area local reporter holocaust is has more details. according to reports initial reports was that palestinians opened fire on israeli soldiers on a flying checkpoint near a lull bieda as soon as that happened all roads were closed there's really no army has entered the loaches the defacto capital of the palestinian authority and there are currently confrontations happening between palestinian youth and israeli forces the model has been completely closed off by the israeli army and there are also problems on the main roads between palestinians and israeli settlers settlers have been throwing rocks at palestinian cars so those real army has been normal over the past four nights conducting raids searching houses searching stores even taking camera footage from cameras throughout the area israel has put the blame on the palestinian authority and at the same time the palestinian authority is putting the

blame on the israeli government. it will come as i mean deepening tensions between israel and palestine since donald trump. recognized joycelyn was the capital of israel twelve months ago that's led palestinians in the gaza strip organizing mass protests throughout this year known as the great march of the ten i discussed the recent escalation between israel and palestine on the deaths of the two israeli soldiers with the head of the asian jewish congress ariel bill stein. starting with the situation in palestine area what can israel do further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah israel tries to do its best to avoid this kind of escalation but israel's duty is for us the wall to protect our citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman pregnant woman can be attacked at the bus they should do you think however you describe

a terrible situation but do you think surrounding ramallah was a reasonable action on the part of the israeli forces considering the palestinians day of rage was planned for friday arab terrorists which is pointed towards israel didn't start three days ago or three years ago it was started one hundred forty years ago and unfortunately the main motive the main reason for this kind of hatred that we suffer from is a unwillingness of the arab population to accept a jewish state in any borders so we first of all should try to learn to live together and then we should accept each other ariel there are different perspectives to this obviously there's the israeli side and the palestinian side and i ask you again this action. the israelis would have known that it would cause an escalation and my first question was what can israel do to avoid escalation

israel first world supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population and of fortunately we suffer from terror so that only reply of israeli population to terror to stalk in the perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of reply of blockade of some region unfortunately terrorists are hiding in its force proper reply and spur is to provide proper protection for israeli and arab civilian population. the terrorist who killed three people in strassburg christmas market has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city that has now been confirmed by the interior ministry chair of check cats had been on the run since tuesday evening according to eyewitnesses the shooter shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire just outside the market authorities say he

was a strasberg local and may have been radicalized in prison he had a criminal record in both france and germany and was on a security watch list the shooting and in searing manhunt caused international alarm hundreds of french police were involved in the search they tell you government has been closely following the situation and that fears of a copycat attack on german security forces have been assisting in the manhunt to the french prosecutor earlier gave his assessment of the terror threat. considering the target the perpetrators we are for a team he's before and the testimonies of those who hold him you know. and to tell of police have been called into action terrorism has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us in a dramatic fashion that the threat is still very real. we heard from two members of the european parliament from opposite ends of the political spectrum they agree though that erupts current anti terror policy needs reviewing. we kept one minute

of silence for the victims as we do recently. as you were doing every time and this is good is good and bad because we are doing the work of the this a lot of time this mandate so that means we have to change policies to find the sources of the terrorism and to attack the sources of the research or the we have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade their words realize due to the suburbs of paris and brussels. and we have to do to work together with the moderate islam to the week of two to establish some long term goals and try to achieve them marial is more i think this was expected this is proof that this is a must terrorist has committed a crime that was relatively easy to commit i believe it is time to react the terrorist who carried out this massacre yesterday was well known to the police so

why wasn't he detained in advance we discuss a heron strauss book with the e.u. having opened its borders this free such relation of people has bought a loud criminals to move about freely every time we have such tragedy we get back to the topic of border control and i think we should take back control of the borders and make the criminals afraid again because now they are not scared yet ordinary people are scared of going to christmas markets with their kids scared to go outside it is not enough to light candles to cry to say like they do all the time. about the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace. and national assembly has rejected a motion of no confidence in the government the motion was tabled in the wake of last protests across the country shot and bensky reports. well this was no surprise the result of this this vote of no confidence as you mentioned there

rejected by french m.p.'s in the nationalist assembly on thursday evening they were ject it by two hundred eighty nine to seventy now this was launched by three parties from the left of the political spectrum and it came in the wake of a speech by president mack on an address to the nation on monday where he described france's experiencing a social and economic crisis that's as a result of the protests that we've been seeing these elations of the yellow vests over the last few weeks now the result as i said wasn't a surprise because might cause a lot of public amash party has got a big majority in the french national assembly but let's take a listen to some of the debate what the prime minister would felipe had to say and also the leader of finance also meese. one of the parties who tabled this vote of no confidence. containing the president's social and economic

emergency measures will be submitted to the council of ministers next wednesday to this bill to stop the health insurance hikes giving poor pensioners an annual saving of three hundred euro. we need a fine and your revolution a grown clear plan eighty percent of tax me shoes from which this country's richest ten percent profit now it comes as funds has been experiencing a few weeks now of a yellow vest protests these protests started back on nov seventeenth do you to what was going to be a new tax hike on fuel here in france that since been reversed after a government u. turn on that because of the protests but it since then it's developed into something much wider with people demanding many other things such as reform the tax system here in france and we've also seen farmers students police union. well there is a trying to join in the process and showing their support of the desired asia ones

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her that he was. the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has outlined a new strategy for africa and meting american aid to certain countries he said the previous strategy led to billions being spent in effectively the united states will no longer provide indiscriminate assistance across the entire continent without focus or prioritization under our new africa strategy we will target u.s. funding toward key countries and particular strategic objectives. in his speech bolton old so said the new strategy will encourage african leaders to choose high quality transparent and sustainable projects that will benefit their countries and the us he emphasized a new objective of resolving conflicts instead of freezing them the u.s.

national security adviser also claims that russia and china pose a threat to american interests in the region. great power competitors china and russia are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across africa they are deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to get you to compare competitive advantage over the united states china has honest and told us the u.s. is unable to rival beijing's economic clout in china china has taken an interest in africa because there are lots of resources in africa it was you know certainly worth it for china to engage with them in the in the long run to to help them develop even though many african nations or extremely poor and couldn't pay back china for a lot of the vestments and so china was willing to use barter the u.s.

was containing china for a year they need to go in and compete with china and of course you know precious gone in there as well and so this is actually good for african nations you know if there is more choice but you know it really depends on how the u.s. goes about dealing with them if the u.s. chooses to. deal in a very mafia like fashion in the way they've demonstrated with wall way by a resting at a high executive. you know that kind of arm twisting in order to get concessions is probably not going to win any friends. doping scandals are back in the headlines austrian police are looking into claims russian biathletes violated anti doping rules at the twenty seven world championships my colleague andrew formerly discussed the story with our. ski. now we know that on wednesday night the austrian police went into the hotel where the russian national biathlon team was staying in

austria during the world cup actually it was the night before some of the athletes accused were supposed to hit the track and participate in the world championship they put forward the accusations that at least four of the athletes and six members of the staff violated the anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen during the world championship in austria just a year ago. this is a very serious accusation because in austria it entails a criminal punishment so the athletes were pretty shocked judging by their reaction and i believe we can listen to some of those i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of is full i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian athletes really value their sporting curious so little that they do the things we're accused of. against me all the rumors are nonsense total nonsense i've always been true to myself to the biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to feel bad about i have to say alex on the log you know

one of the biggest stars of russian biathlon at the moment has a very good point in the question he raised in that instagram post now he himself knows what doping like he was actually on the disqualification up until twenty sixteen and after that he was never tested positive for doping again he actually reinforced his words in that post on instagram with a printout of all the doping tests he has taken since then in twenty sixteen seventeen including that championship in austria and although those tests were negative in terms of doping the russian sports ministry confirmed to us that they have received a formal accusation from the or store authorities on the matter but it gets a little confusing because the austrian side on their matter they say that they have notified the russian authorities before bringing in the official accusations into the hotel of the of the national team on wednesday night with regard to russia's anti doping. agency what are they said well we you know seeing this story happening in the times when the russian anti-doping agency looks to be reinstated

by wide of the world anti-doping agency that decision in september caused a lot of surprise among many nonetheless i actually had a chance to go to the russian anti-doping agency this morning and spoke exclusively to the head of russian and i'd open agency i believe we can listen to that. there's inspection yesterday it was completed in full it was a thorough in serious all the documents through a thorough loop through the results so good we confident the checks will reveal no violations we will take the results seriously and implement further measures to do . so in regards to the latest scandal in austria mr gunness they had. said that he was cautiously optimistic yet still had some concerns about the story that needs to be investigated needs to be looked at but next week water is here in moscow he has every reason to be concerned it's a big meeting when they will enter the laboratory with urine samples which is the key condition for result as reinstatement and obviously will be all over that story

on tuesday next week and we'll update our viewers with that michael casting in from the court of arbitration play if the results of previous stepping tests for the athletes will stand in their favor. he says turn it into her it's a bridge may be. if it leads to effectively. in three. preliminary in this. release it is interim agent from sound weird it might be. the way the information. is information or a great deal of time but the. moment when. they bind it to the information burial nosed in territory. could be so mean it. is due to quickly. meanwhile

bobsledder alexander's cough and another four russian athletes were temporarily suspended today for violating anti-doping rules at the twenty fourteen olympic games in sochi the decision was taken by the international bobsled and skeleton federation so one to gold in such a pet has been stripped of the medals he was disqualified from this year's olympics in south korea. jailing of china's follow lawyer michael cohen could now pave the way for the president to be criminally prosecuted that's according to the lawyer representing a stormy daniels the former porn star who allegedly received money from talent on trump's orders. michael cohen was sentenced today donald trump is next thank you the felony is paying my ankle cullen to commit a felony it's pretty basic you pay someone to commit a crime they commit

a crime you are liable criminally liable for their commission of a crime as well as they are vague liable. donald trump meanwhile has denied a direct hit from a lawyer to break the law a day after cohen was sentenced to three years in prison kern was convicted for several federal crimes including making illegal payments to women who claim to have had affairs with trump in order to keep them quiet according to cohen's testimony he did that at the request of donald trump journalist lou could get tossed cavers his breakdown of the case. the way that this is being discussed in america suggests that the prosecution in the criminal proceedings are being used as a means of undermining trump in a way which avoids them having to defeat him politically so by taking what they hope to do is take the decision out of voters hands by saying that trump can simply

no longer be president because of various criminal allegations now i think that's a problem because i don't agree with anything trump says but i think in order to detract from his political project he has to be defeated in the minds of voters and what we've seen in the lead up to the midterms is that these criminal allegations really don't impact on voters' intentions they don't change the nature of their feelings about trump. you know michael cohen is what we would call a tainted witness he has a reason to not tell the entire truth to others because he knows that it's likely to lead to him receiving a lesser sentence and the memoranda that went out from. his office to the court that's prosecuting cohen is testament to the fact that he did benefit from saying these things about trump so we know that his credibility if trump is ever prosecuted is undoubtedly going to be open to question precisely because he had the

motivation to say these things. well if you look at the way this is discussed in the states russian collusion is in the background of all of it every time this is reported it's brought back into miller's broader goal which is to demonstrate russian collusion in the american presidential election in two thousand and sixteen at the moment the link between those two things is very tenuous you know terms of businessmen what's being alleged here is that he was building a trump tower in the center of moscow and in order to build back how you would need approval and would receive revenue from a number of russian state bodies so basically what trump is accused of doing is undertaking business in russia and thereby becoming subject to various streams of revenue from the russian state that is not the kind of collusion that i think most people would expect mother to be uncovering you would expect him to be investigating you know genuine bribery at the moment none of that is translating.

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