if you lose. the. russian today's note this will reach your. arguments against the soviet union and i was on. it was. the liberty will say. in this speech freedom those three rights have been restored so much has been accomplished in communist russia that only. idiots can believe this away but no one wants.

a russian citizen detained in the us plead guilty to being a foreign agent moscow says the case is politicized claiming she was put on a psychological pressure. also coming up a french follower projects a motion of no confidence in the government that's the spot and growing criticism of president micron's handling of the yellow vest protests. and the israeli army conducts raids in the west bank setting checkpoints around ramallah that's off the two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting. here in moscow watching r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are to night thanks so much for joining us on the program. a russian national detained in the u.s. on charges of being an unregistered foreign agents has now entered

a guilty plea at a washington d.c. court route and was told she faces up to five years behind bars or could be deported kaleb more pain has more. well in the washington d.c. court room we saw maria 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 were made in the media regarding being a spy espionage not of that effect and in her statement of a fan she came forward and said that she sought to establish an official lines of communication with americans having power and influence over us politics 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 will 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 and they wouldn't say she's a political prisoner and what's been happening with respect to put in 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 lead 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 bettina has been treated people be waiting to see what happens next if one

moment go from the international human rights committee believes the way many abuse and has been treated in the u.s. is unacceptable. maria bruton is being held in prison in the city of alexa and drea and the condition says in are done right on acceptable as if she is dangerous felon or a terrorist or 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 still out to go through walk only between two and four am which is a polling really for all practical purposes she's been deprived of sleep you could go for war could talk to a lot of wants and the food 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 is classed as a form of torture going without proper sleep for prolonged periods of time could pose

a serious threat to a person's health. is very military has launched a manhunt in the west bank for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop troops have set up checkpoints and block roads throughout the area ramallah based correspondent cassis has the details. according to reports an initial reports was that palestinians opened fire on israeli soldiers on a flying checkpoint near a normal i'll be as soon as that happened all roads were closed there's really no army has entered on the lodges 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 on the low for 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. throughout very very protests were held in the west bank by calling the dealer to discuss the recent escalation and the deaths of the two israeli soldiers with the head of the eurasian jewish congress. tarting with the situation in palestine area what can israel do to further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah israel tries to do its best to avoid this kind of escalation but israel's duty is first of all to protect our citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman a pregnant woman can be attacked at a 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 motives 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 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 toward supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population and of fortunately. we suffer from terror cells all the reply of israeli population to tear up to stop any perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of reply off. of some region that unfortunately terrorists are hiding in its force proper reply its purpose is to provide proper protection for its really and arab civilian population. the terrorist who killed three people in strasburg christmas market has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city that's not what infirmed by the interior ministry sheriff had been on the run since tuesday evening according to eyewitnesses the shooter shouted god is great in arabic just as he opened fire outside the market or thought he said he was a strasberg local and may have been radicalized while in prison he had

a criminal record in both france and germany and was also on a security watch list shooting and the initial failure to catch the gunman caused international alarm hundreds of french police were involved in the search the suspect is known to have been part of radicalized networks and governments also been closely following the situation and fearing a copycat attack the german security forces also have been assisting in that manhunt for its prosecutor earlier gave his assessment of the current terror threat level. due to all these considering who target the perpetrators way of his profile and the testimonies of those who how the human you know a lot of a bar anti terror police have been called into action terrorism has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us in a dramatic fashion but the threat is still very real we heard from two members of the european parliament from quite opposite ends of the political spectrum they do agree though that europe's current and to terror policy does need reviewing. we do

one minute of shows for the view as we do. recently. as you were doing every time and does get in is good and bad because you 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 their readers are the terrorists we have to stop the wars in the middle east we have to really degrade their words realize the youth the suburbs of paris and brussels. and we have to do to work together with the moderate islam to the weak 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 stross 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. but the clan we are front and we want france to live in peace. russian doping scandals are back in the headlines austrian police are looking into claims russian biathletes or violated anti doping rules at the twenty seventeen world championships according under former earlier discussed the story with alexei ourselves. 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 championships 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 after it's really 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 two thousand and 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 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 bring 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 at school.

it was only so they had of russian anti-doping agency i believe we can listen to that. there's inspection yesterday was completed in full it was a thorough and serious check all the documents were thorough looked through the results are good we're confident the checks will reveal no violations we will take the results seriously and will implement further measures to fight don't think. so in regards to the latest scandal in austria mr gunness the head of or solder 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 a year in samples which is the key condition for assad as reinstatement and obviously will be all over that story on tuesday next week and we'll update our viewers with that weikel guess slinger from the court of arbitration and believes the results of previous the contests for the athletes will stand in their favor. he says turn it into

a bridge may be hell if it leads to if they can get really. into it it is preliminary in this. release it is interim asian prince and barry it might be. the. information may be this interim mission or a great deal of time but the. moment when. they wanted to hear that information burial nosed in territory and could be so mean. in this occasion. to claim it's. meanwhile bobsleigh the alexanders of coffee and another for russian athletes were temporarily sort of suspended today that's for violating anti-doping rules at the

twenty fourteen olympic games in sochi that decision was taken by the international bob sleigh and skeleton federation as of course one two golds insult you but has not been stripped of those medals he was disqualified from this year's olympics in south korea. and we're going to a short break now but will you back with more global news headlines for you just in a couple of moments stay tuned here on r.t. international. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich. to do like to be close it's like the full story of the people. interested

always in the lives of. thanks to. the program u.s. national security advisor john bolton has outlined

a new strategy for africa limiting american aid to certain countries he said the previous strategy led to billions being spent and effectively. the united states will no longer provide indiscriminate assistance across the entire continent without focus or prioritization trees and particular strategic objectives. in that speech bolton also said the new strategy would encourage african leaders to choose high quality transparent and sustainable projects that will benefit both countries and the united states he emphasized the new object to evolve resolving conflicts instead of freezing them the u.s. national security adviser also claim that russia and china pose a threat to american interests in the region. great power competitors namely 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 gain a compare competitive advantage over the united states china affairs analyst told us the u.s. is unable to rival beijing's economic clout on the african continent 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 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. 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 the 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. italy has presented a new budget proposal to the european commission to avoid e.u. sanctions moves being seen as a major u. turn for rome which previously valent to stick to its high spending plans the spite europe's rejection it is in was announced as if it is prime minister met the european commission president in brussels. told reporters his change of tack was not a betrayal of italian voters he said the decision was in the interests of europe. i would say he has proposed outlining its budget deficit to two percent of g.d.p. however is not specified just how the deficit would be cut the government's promising to maintain spending on pensions and welfare the e.u.

rejected it so he dropped budget back in october and wanted to tell an m.e.p. came up with an unusual way of expressing their anger. we're going to bring in a bennett political analyst alexandra brutal for more on this thanks for joining us good to have you on today what do you think roman changed its mind over this budget plan i mean earlier a number of italian officials promised to stick to the original draft it was a key tenant of the policies i guess of the parties now in charge that coalition.

air isn't that. well it's not a complete u. turn because the budget deficit is reduced from two point four percent which was the original number to two point zero four so it's a reduction it is a significant reduction but it's not a complete. turn. at the same time i think that i smell the hand of the president of the republic. behind this move perhaps he persuaded colin to in particular who is a compromise between the five star movement and the lega. two very different parties which has been pushed together by a very odd election last year. anyway and the i think the pressure was too in order to get this measure passed because the european officials. and especially most koichi were. adamant on blocking the tie and budget proposal.

so i think there was a arm twisting from the president convincing him that convincing the two main parties that if they didn't compromise on the budget deficit italy would risk. huge spread with the between its bond and the german bond which is the main topic of the economic conversation at the all time. and that would then make borrowing much more expensive for italian companies this is a situation that happened in two thousand and eleven and this budget was in fact. was a counter proposal to the laws that were imposed in two thousand and eleven when he succeeded but discone in a similar budget crisis how do you think it's not in voters going to view this budget in time and surely they'll take

a some sort of defeat for the coalition. well the voters who. put their about four or five star and the. movement at this definitely going to be disappointed. and in fact there is an election coming up the european election which is very important to them coming up in two thousand one thousand. that budget was very much your original budget was designed to secure votes for that so we'll see at the elections how italians feel. now. while con to introduce discuss the measure with you care in brussels it doesn't seem like salvini is especially happy about it particularly his base is very interested in the pensions which the for natural law brought in in one two thousand and eleven and pushed through the sixty seven years of age this new program would allow tines to go and take their pensions and the age of sixty two and of course there is the.

income. i don't know the entire thread he told you thirty nine to citizenship income which is a. amount of money given to people who are not making enough or unemployed that is the most important. that was the most important tool to win votes in the south in particular so you will see that will is going to be something that they might they won't be able to touch or at least if they reduce it they'll have to reduce it by a very small amount otherwise they will definitely lose support shoreline's upcoming elections of course will be a litmus test what life for those that coalitions domestic policies so far and dependent political analysts tell us under brutal facts fuel type that i hear not international thank you. turkey's president has announced plans to deploy troops to northern syria to fight what he calls terrorist groups

but we will start an operation to free the east of the euphrates from the separatist terrorist organization in the coming days our target is not american soldiers but rather members of the terrorist organization active in this region i'm curious plans apparently don't sit well with turkey's nato ally the united states the pentagon has issued a statement warning that you know actual military action in the area is of grave concern it added the u.s. personnel from the u.s. may be present in the region and any such military action would be unacceptable turkish politician unit. wants to see u.s. forces leave the country. we interpret this as a last call to the united states to seize its support for north. for armed groups in the north east of syria and to retreat its troops which are internationally recognized as illegally present in syria as the first start to

finish all kind of armed terrorist activities on syrian soil by maintaining the syrian national unity and. the government's power on all over syria i think that step by step the u.s. will acknowledge. the defeat of its plan for the middle east for syria especially and start. retreating as they already retreated partly from their plan to topple down the president of syria mr mishra. myself for the. time for those latest news headlines for now though up next. some a survives a no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard brigs it blooms angle of merkel has announced

a room pending political retirement. as president of france is in the balance the three pillars of the e.u. are on shaky ground is the euro project suffering crisis competent. deep or is because everyone's going to default simultaneously and with the biggest debt you're the winner that's so absolutely right to get from twenty two to thirty to thirty five to forty trillion dollars and that's the best way to grow the economy without.

this is broadcasting around the world and covering the big world of business and finance the impact i want to all of us i'm part children in washington thank you so much for joining we are glad you're on board coming up today there is apple news we'll take a look at apple amazon and general motors and up markets generally with the annual shape of simpler trading standing by in seattle plus we talk about the print predicament how papers are faring in the digital world with host of the big picture of holland book and later we go to the united kingdom and talk of metals silver and gold and even kryptos with angela why are the c.e.o. of close stars go lodestar all that directly had but first let's get some headlines let's go. to the end of an era in european monetary policy it leads our global report today as

a european central bank declares the policy of quantitative easing will end this month the controversial policy abbreviated as q.e. began of march of two thousand and fifteen resulted in the e.c.b. purchases of bonds costing over two point six trillion euros it's about three trillion u.s. dollars and other market moving news the e.c.b. lowered its official euro zone growth projections for twenty eight thousand and twenty nineteen earlier today e.c.b. president mario draghi quite remarkable.