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the u.s. plead guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent. question . judicial system of political. in a bid to avoid. it is friday december the fourteenth moments off the. top stories for this hour. the u.s. new american strategy in africa. russian and chinese influence on the continent. will also limit u.s. aid to countries that u.s.

national security adviser john bolton who are the strategy said in the past billions had been spent in effectively. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy this plan is for the good of the africa promises john bolton this coming from a guy whose boss trump infamously referred to several african nations as something that i can't mention on there the predatory practices pursued by china and russia stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interest its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's debt colonialism almost financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own

good if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this rely on this highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment beijing is raising entire cities with more to come china is willing to provide now the sixty billion dollars in support of africa to government assistance investment and financing the financial institutions and enterprises the phrase actions speak louder than words is entirely a political here the chinese leader xi jinping has visited africa nine times during his tenure tromp one sent his wife but what the united states might lack in tact it's more than makes up with guns american troops are stationed in fifty out of fifty four african nations it has thirty four military sites thousands and

thousands of soldiers across the entire continent and a long history of military interventions china has. one base in djibouti russia has none american troops are there for africans own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money bad american money good thing well it turns out not so much our new foreign assistance strategy will ensure that all us foreign aid in every corner of the globe vance's u.s. interest countries that repeatedly vote against the united states in international forums or take actions counter to u.s. interest should not receive generous american foreign aid john bolton they does and gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa platen so much for financial independence africans good luck. jhumpa ministration does not actually desire

to help africa if they see africa as a poor one of the new geopolitical justly and therefore they want to use africa against russia and against china and china and worse the policy to take with china of the new silk road is not great for china is actually building massive infrastructure projects of course to complement the new silk road built to move initiatives that are transforming the continent so the real policy would be the united states joined with china instead which following a very cynical political strategy which has nothing to do with africa and everything to do with the united states trying to meet in europe and against russia and china will do it let's push people in africa closer to working with other people. russian national maria britain has acknowledged she failed to register as

a foreign agent after spending months in a u.s. prison but as aussies can have mop and now reports though some worry that she's being used as a political pawn and moreover if she's not alone in this respect when maria vote no was arrested the media went wild cue the james bond music and get out your decoder rings it turned out we have a real james bond seductress in real life and they had sexy photos with firearms a web of sex and lies and illegal kremlin agent she offered sex for access to an unnamed political group was likely in contact with russia's f.s.b. and something right out of a spy novel they scraped the barrel for everything even her phone cover which reportedly had put his face on it received its fair share of air time and now after six months she's been in federal custody much of which in solitary confinement she has come forward and pled guilty to failing to register as a lobbyist for

a foreign. government yeah no spy stuff no sexual seduction not much at all they've got her for supposedly talking to some politically influential people this is what russia has been saying all along. when i heard about what's happening around the chiefs of our intelligence one of the only in the federal council is julie that was that because she was working with someone just now prior to today's hearing the russian foreign ministry said that they would support her no matter what decision she made it seems like the buttin a saga is now drawing to a close she might be deported back to russia she might go to prison the next hearing is on feb twelfth but another high profile case is now starting to unravel the chief financial officer of wow a technologies the world's leading telecommunications manufacturer has been grabbed in canada over charges related to sanctions against iran trump openly admits that u.s. interests and negotiations are a factor if we think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal of

the money i would certainly intervene if it's hoary body and a justice department that is launching investigations or asking things under the guise of being a yes where the government of the united states without the approval or support of the president or other members of congress. in order to achieve political purposes or do achieve other purposes so that's something we need to be careful of what we cannot do is to let people who act outside u.s. laws or or a subversive those in the name of protecting policies to run those we need to hold them accountable and fortunately we do have a system in the united states where people can be held accountable if the right voices speak up you can bet that those who follow world events and geopolitics are rapidly rereading trumps of magnum opus the art of the deal they are scanning pages to see if they can find the part where it says when all else fails grab a prominent woman caleb up and r.t. new york. italy has sent

a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid the e.u. sanctions and the move is being seen as a major u.-turn for rome which previously vowed to stick to its high spending plans which were rejected by europe the decision was announced as italy's prime minister met the european commission president in brussels. told reporters his change of topic was not of a trail of italian voters he said the decision was in fact in the interests of europe now italy has proposed cutting its budget deficit to two percent of g.d.p. quality however was not specified how the deficit would be cut the government is promising to maintain spending on pensions and welfare the e.u. rejected italy's initial draft budget in october and one italian m.e.p. came up with a rather unusual way of expressing his anger. we

spoke to journalist jones who says the italian government's decision is reasonable i think it's a. reasonable compromise for the government. when you consider that the previous government will be in a state of zero point eight percent of g.d.p. for next year so the new deficit is still considerably higher than that but i think the government was quite late by. is that was. the icing on the wall they would consist of the high and that was. increasingly seen as all the costs and that was

putting pressure on the banks and. creating. these mistakes and that's the take the impulse in. the league which is the small business is that nor is it kind of intellectual. a new poll of migration conducted in twenty seven states people logged largely opposed to allowing newcomers into their countries almost all of those interviewed want fewer migraines among the countries showing strong migrant sentiments off for european ones including greece and germany countries in latin america africa and asia are also so similar views with for example sixty percent of argentinians want to see fewer newcomers so we are people to see whether they thought opposition to migration was exclusive to the west.

it is i guess and it's awful and probably started with all. who is in charge of here because it's an old tradition. beginning was going to release it's almost just german people saying things like this i mean on and i can i can tell you a death to there is a white prejudice. one speaking of immigration and one speaking of the other to be honest i think that everybody accepts everyone here like i am myself i'm from ukraine and i'm being so well accepted here. i think it's just the alpha element and all of us i guess we have to establish who's in charge of who and i think it's human nature but you need to be ethical you know i think because they don't know. they came from their cars and they

brought so they are naming gratian if they don't really know the culture or something then they are afraid i understand them but i think we should be more open to new things new cultures new people people are afraid that as a culture it can you know way affect their own or maybe some people are probably less educated so they don't want to give them a chance so that's a prejudice or they say yes. it's a global thing a if you are here or no west of new europe or if you are or over seas if you already know america or south america i think there is the same perception unfortunately. an abandoned fort in the sea off russia's northern capitals and pages book is being converted into a maritime rescue santa puppets that's a bit different from the wanting stuff. still

to come here on the program on oct the palestinian gunman kills true is ready soldiers on a bus stop around the start of manhunt is still underway that story and more just. yes there is a saying. i think there could be chief justice and then through and through all the countries let's ideas they're right to scold us company he said if we give them

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classes can protect themselves. with the crime larry go round the sun be the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. to lose the real news. stories here on r t welcome to them but the israeli military has. launched a manhunt in the west bank for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop the troops have set up checkpoints and blocked roads throughout the area or ramallah based reporter cassie's has 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 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 throughout thursday and he israeli protests were held in the west bank my colleague nearer to discuss the recent escalation of the deaths of the two israeli soldiers with the head of the euro asian jewish congress

. talking with the situation in palestine area what can israel do to further a void the escalation of violence in ramallah is of oil price to do its best to avoid this kind of this collation but israel's duty is first of all to protect i was citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian it woman pregnant woman can be attacked at the bus station do you think however you describe a terrible situation but do you think so rounding 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 unwilling the best of the arab population to accept juice steet 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 the only reply of is really popular should to terror to stop any perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of reply of located of some region that unfortunately terrorists are hiding in its force proper reply and

spur is to provide proper protection for israeli and arab civilian population. the u.s. senate has unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the motor of journalist jamal how shortly in istanbul two months ago the senate also passed a separate motion demanding a halt to u.s. military support for the ongoing saudi incursion in yemen that declaration was approved by fifty six votes to forty one and both motions represent a clear challenge to donald trump's policies on saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back military. ties with that country. jamal khashoggi a u.s. resident who wrote for the washington post disappeared on october the second after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul at the turkish government blames saudi arabia for the killing the saudis deny any involvement we discussed the senate's

move with joe lombardo an antiwar campaigner. saudi arabia is looked at with a lot of disfavor in the united states right now because of the the killing and brutal murder that they did because of the human rights violations at least popular opposition to u.s. policies right now in that region so saudi arabia doesn't look. like a very good country to the eyes of the american people and it would have been difficult for the legislators to vote in support of saudi arabia at this time and while the senate votes to pull out of yemen's war another vote in the house of representatives has created an obstacle for this goal on wednesday congress passed the agriculture improvement act with a sudden last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement in the yemeni conflict till next year and this is sparked

a backlash against house speaker paul ryan who advocated for the amendment. this is why people hate congress speaker ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in yemen because many republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote he is discreet article one of the constitution and as a result more yemeni children will die. some democrats found themselves in hot water as well for supporting the amendment to the agricultural improvement act among them collin peterson who was grilled by a washington post reporter over the vote. can you explain your wart on the yemenis aleutian yeah it didn't belong in there why not couldn't you just have come back and done another what no we worked for two years on this farm bill and i'll be damned if i let anybody screw it up do you have

any thoughts about the war in yemen i don't know a damn thing about it and it should be in there and it it didn't do anything anyway what do you mean by that all it did was say they couldn't have a vote or something didn't authorize anything it didn't you know our party gets off on tangents it's ridiculous and he walked up a no joe long bio again and says amendments like this also known as riders are frequently resorted to in u.s. politics to force through one popular measures. this is not uncommon in u.s. politics when they want to pass something that is not going to be palatable to the people of the united states they put it as a rider in another bill which some people would support and then the people that voted for it said well i'm really against that rider but i really had to vote for it because it was for the main bill and that's what they were hoping to do right

now and one of the democrats that did vote for this one of the five democrats was actually a sponsor of the farm bill so this is a way in which they can kind of fool the people of the united states and support. actions that are not very popular and give an excuse for it. the terrorist who killed three people in the christmas market has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city and this has now been confirmed audience area ministry. cat had been on the run since tuesday evening now according to eyewitnesses that the shooter shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire just outside the market authorities say he was a 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 initial failure to catch the gunman caused a lot hundreds of french police were involved in the search and the suspect is

known to have been a part of radicalized networks and the italian government has been closely following the situation amid fears of a copycat attack plus german security forces have been assisting in the manhunt and the french prosecutor earlier i gave his assessment of the terror threat. if you will these considering you target the perpetrators way of his profile and the testimonies of those. anti terror police have been called into action. has once again struck our country in strasburg reminding us. in a dramatic fashion but the threat is still very real the will we spoke to antiwar activist our brian todd told us they'll be more acts of terror like this if european countries done change the foreign policy pieces they answer to the us and and by refusing to to to see that by continuing. their france in the united states and the other countries involved with the wars in iraq and

syria and afghanistan that support for the saudis in yemen. and not giving up or to ninety's to people in our own cities this is going to be an ethical and. there's not going to be no answer to it there's going to be no way to fix this other than changing those things there is going to be terrorism and there is nothing that is nothing that's going to be able to be done about it no matter how many police you have on the streets. so with christmas nearly upon us the festive spirit is in full swing but in sweden one department stores holiday offering received a rather frosty reception. come

come. come . who is celebrating the winter. waiting to read about winter. are you waiting to open winter presents and to the wind to treat.

the world as it stands for this hour here on r t international we're back soon with more. survives and no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard as it blooms angle of merkel has announced her impending political

retirement and the menu well moral legitimacy as president of france is in the balance the three pillars of the e.u. are on shaky ground is the euro project suffering a crisis of competence. bomb . on welcome to worlds apart from a rebuild inside an enigma to a gas station masquerading as a country in the west an understanding of russia according to the russians themselves has long been the border of understanding. the current crisis in

relations between russia and the west to be put on these knowledge gap or is it perhaps triggered by the two sides knowing each other all too well to discuss that i'm now in joined by huntsville how the same folks in a region journalist and a veteran foreign correspondent in moscow has a sense of it's pleasure talking to you thank you very much for receiving us in your house. now you've been stationed to moscow for almost twenty years you had four stints as a foreign correspondent there the first one beginning in one thousand eight hundred the last one and ending in two thousand and fourteen i'm sure a lot of things changed during that time but what are some of the notable things that stayed the same.