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live. to go. live. just. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia pose a significant threat to u.s. national security and. national security adviser. in effect.
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who is accused of spying in the u.s. guilty so failing to. jewish protesters clashed with police in the west bank. close to palestinians. killed. on its promise to push on with a high spending by brussels revising its plans to avoid. a welcome to the program here on the international news team here rounding up this hour as. america's national security advisor has branded russia and china as
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activities in africa predatory practices john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. strategy for the continent which he claims is aimed at the future prosperity of africa across the continent russia advances its political and economic relationships with little regard to the rule of law are accountable and transparent governance. it continues to sell arms and energy in exchange for votes at the united nations china uses broad opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands i want to try to shed some light on that now here's a. guy delving a lot deeper on. this regarding that it's reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of the africa promises john bolton this
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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 well if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this relied 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
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dollars in support of africa to government assistance investments and financing the financial institutions and into prizes. 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 that had american
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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 jumping ministration those that actually desire to help africa. they see africa as a poor and a geopolitical just war and therefore they want to use africa against where should and against china china iraqi policy with china with the new silk road is not
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particularly china is actually believe in massive infrastructure projects across the continent with the new so who built it were initiative transforming the. so the real policy would be the united states joined with china instead. didn't call it. strategy which is nothing to do their work everything you do you know trying to meet. russia and china. will do push. for closer to working people. off the months off the attention of the u.s. prison russian national maria has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent but as aussies caleb maupin now reports there's some worry that she's being used as a political pawn and moreover that she's not alone in this respect when maria both know was arrested the media went wild cue the james bond music and get out your
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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 putin's face on it received its fair share of airtime 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 for those little when i heard about what's happening around i also told the chiefs of our intelligence no one had heard of her only in the federal council had people who did it because she was working in
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someone's assistant 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 blue tina saga is now drawing to. close she might be deported back to russia she might go to prison the next hearing is on feb twelfth they're not just begun politically motivated this is an utter and total miscarriage of justice i work on k. street in washington d.c. k. street is the center of lobbying for the washington area half of the street is unregistered half of k. street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why you target maria wouldn't 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 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
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in canada over charges related to sanctions against iran trump openly admits that u.s. interests and negotiations are a factor if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal of a maid i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary it is going to be dangerous to see as whether we have a federal investigatory body and a justice department that is launching investigations or asking things under the guise of being we asked 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 subvert 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
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rapidly rereading trumps of magnum opus the art of the deal they're scanning pages to see if they can find the part where it says when all else fails grab a prominent woman came. pop and r. t. new york. line jewish protesters in the west bank of clashed with police demanding the closure of a major motorway to palestinian traffic it comes off to the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in a nearby settlement. it was. was. the israeli military has launched a manhunt in the west buying for the killer of two i.d.f. soldiers checkpoints and roadblocks have been set up throughout the major palestinian city of ramallah is ready forces say they are conducting searches in the area and will be operating for the foreseeable future. my colleague nearer to
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discuss the recent escalation with the head of the euro asian jewish congress. starting with the situation in palestine area want israel do further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah because world tries to do its best to avoid this kind of escalation but israel's duty is first of all to protect all citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman a pregnant woman can be attacked at the bus station 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
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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 cells that only reply of israeli population to terror to stalk in the perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of lie. ok some region unfortunately
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terrorists hiding in its property. east to provide proper protection for israeli and arab civilian population. italy has sent a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid 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 of course rejected by europe the decision was announced when italy's prime minister met the european commission president in brussels and told reporters his change of tack was not a patrol of italian voters he said with decision it was in fact in the interests of europe italy has proposed cutting its budget deficit to two percent of g.d.p. conti however has not specified how that reduction would be achieved the government is promising to maintain spending on pensions on welfare the e.u.
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rejected italy's initial draft budget in october and one italian m.e.p. time came up with an unusual way of expressing his dissatisfaction. we spoke to a journalist covering drugs who says the pressure on the financial markets is behind the italian government so you. think the government was quite by deals because that was. well using and that all they were consistently high i'm not was.
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increasing the chinese all the costs and that was putting pressure on the banks and . it was creating. businesses and that sort of take the impulse and. then they leak it which is on small businesses in the north which is one of the eventual. i think that was the main reason financial markets. president has announced plans to deploy troops to northern syria to fight what he calls terrorist groups. we will start an operation to free the east of the euphrates from the separatist terrorist organization in the coming days jog it is not american soldiers but to run the members of the terrorist organization in this region as plans apparently do not sit well with turkey's nato ally the u.s. the pentagon has issued a statement warning that unilateral military action in the area is of grave concern
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and at the u.s. personnel may be present in the region and any such military action would be unacceptable. politician says wants to see u.s. forces leave syria. we interpret this as a last call of 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 targets here is to. finish all kind of armed terrorist activities on syrian soil by maintaining the syrian national unity and. the government's power on all of syria i think that step by step the u.s. will acknowledge. defeat of its plan for the middle east for syria's specially and start. retreating as they already retreated partly from their plan to topple down
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the president of syria mr mishra. and abandoned fort in the sea off russia's northern capitals and petersburg is being converted into a maritime rescue center a purpose that is rather different from the one it used to have. program continues in just
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a moment. tressel may survives a no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard bragg's it bloats angle of merkel has announced her impending political retirement and emmanuelle for the grounds 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 confidence. when else so it's seemed wrong. on all roads just don't hold. any gold yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engagement equals betrayal.
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when somebody find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. you friday stories here on. the terrorist who killed three people at a christmas market in strassburg on tuesday has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of that city a twenty nine year old was shot after a nationwide manhunt over two days ago began hundreds of french troops and police were involved in the. security also assisted while the italian government said it was closely following the situation in the wake of the. increased its terror to the
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highest possible level and often news of the shooter's death emerged the french interior minister congratulated the police on their actions. i personally went to the sea to meet the officers involved and congratulate the security forces have been really committed they do some gentlemen. according to eyewitnesses there the shooter shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire at the market authorities say he was a local who had a criminal record in both france and germany and was even on a security watch list we spoke to antiwar activist our brian todd who says they'll be more acts of terror like this if european countries don't just certain aspects of their foreign policy. there's racism there is discrimination in france for people like sharif shikata in terms of employment education and the idea
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the conceit that people need out in states and europe pav that we can fight a war in the middle east we say we are fighting wars over there so we don't need to fight them here you know these wars cup come home peace is the answer to this and by refusing to to you know to see that and by continuing. there france and the united states and the other countries involved with the wars in iraq and syria and afghanistan that support for the saudis and yemen. and not giving up or to ninety's to people in our own cities this is going to be inevitable and. there's going to be no answer to it there's going to be no way to fix this other than changing those things. the u.s. congress sold votes in both the house and senate related to america's continued support for the saudi military incursion in yemen the senate has passed
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a resolution demanding washington stop om sales to riyadh votes fifty six to forty one votes but members of congress of pasta not that delays any vote on the matter until at least next year it's called the culture improvement i could doesn't sound like it has anything to do with a yemeni conflict but it included a last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement until twenty nineteen republican house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments stronger supporters was slammed by democrat iraq qana who had hoped for an early of it on the issue. 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 see article one of the constitution and as a result more yemeni children will die some democrats found themselves in hot water
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as well for supporting the amendment to the agricultural improvement act among them collin peterson who was questioned by a washington post reporter over the vote. can you explain your vote on the yemen resolution yeah it didn't belong in there why not couldn't you just have come back and done another vote. 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 walk up a no joe lombardo again says amendments like this one also known as riders are
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frequently resorted to in politics to force through unpopular 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 i 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 won't support. actions that are not very popular and give an excuse for it. also i want wednesday the senate unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist in
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istanbul two months ago this move represents a challenge to donald trump's policies on saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back military ties with riyadh though in recent months there have been some conflicting signals coming from the administration we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone this we won't give you a pass just so you understand about make america great again it's about america first we're going to say we're saudi arabia we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other side the ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show these death whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble just to remind you it was a u.s. resident who wrote for the washington post disappeared on october the second after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey points the finger of saudi arabia
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riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved in any way. with the christmas nearly upon us the festive spirit is in full swing however in sweden one department stores holiday offering received but a frosty reception. come
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. on come. on. come. on. please. who is celebrating the winter. reading to read about winter eve. are you waiting to open winter presents under the wind to treat. her. and asked her to stop short of the latest our global affairs here on international on this friday we return in twenty five minutes i hope you can join us that.
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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle may survive a no confidence vote but is now a lame duck hard brags that looms angola merkel has announced her impending political retirement and. 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 confidence.

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