question no. predatory practices pursued by china and russia significant threat to u.s. national security and.

the united states. and the west. with a high spending. international of. america's national security adviser.

he's in africa predatory practices john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. strategy for the continent which he claims as 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 or accountable and transparent governance it continues to sell arms and energy in exchange for votes at the united nations china uses broad's opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands so if you really want to know who is investing in africa and how is our correspondent but i guess the. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and 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 their 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 interests its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's dead 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 u.s. or china look at this realize this highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment beijing is raising entire cities with more to come

china is willing to provide another 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 trump once sent his wife but what the united states might lack in tact it 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 you remember the old 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 and 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 and they'll do america's new africa plodding so much for financial independence africans good luck. jhumpa ministration does not actually desire to help africa develop they see africa as a poor a new geopolitical just war and therefore they want to use africa against russia and against china on china and russia policies in particular china with the new

silk road is not particular china is actually building massive infrastructure projects of course to continent with the new silk road built a road initiative there are transforming the continent so the real policy would be for the united states joined with china instead of. very cynical jugular 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 are the only thing i would do is or push people in africa closer to working with other people. after months of detention and a u.s. prison russian national marine boot in a has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent but i thought the scale of often not reports that some were either she's being used as a political pawn and moreover the she is not alone in this respect. when maria boot 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 an 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 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 of those little when i heard about what's happening around i also told the chiefs of our intelligence and no one had heard of her only in the federal council had people who had her because she was working as

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 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 february twelfth 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 k. street is unregistered half of the street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why 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 tad. knowledge easy 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 i thought it was necessary it is going to be dangerous to see is whether we have a federal investigatory 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 oppen archie new york. and posterior moscow hard lined jewish protesters in the west bank of clashed with police demanding the closure of a major motorway to palestinian traffic it comes off for the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in a nearby settlement. by right you are right right. right. the israeli military has launched a manhunt in the west bank for the killer of two i.d.f. soldiers checkpoints and roadblocks have been set up throughout the palestinian city of ramallah. israeli forces say they are conducting searches in the area and will be operating there in the foreseeable future and my colleague madeira tutor

discussed 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 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 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 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 world supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population and of fortunately we suffer from terror cells only reply of israeli population to terror to stalk.

it's force. protection. and population. italy has sent a revised budget proposal to the european commission and their effort to avoid. the moves being seen as a major. stick to its high spending plans which were rejected by europe and the decision was announced when a prime minister at the european commission president in brussels. told reporters his change of topic was not a betrayal of italian voters and he said the decision was in the interests of the. proposed cutting its budget deficit to two percent of g.d.p. however it's not specified how that reduction would be achieved the government is promising to maintain its maintain spending on pensions on. the. budget in

october and one italian at the time came up with an unusual way of expressing his dissatisfaction. we spoke to journalist jones who says the pressure on the financial markets of the main reasons behind the italian government. bond yields is that was. the icing on the wall they were consistently high and that was

. increasing it is all the costs and that was putting pressure on the banks and and it was creating. businesses and that's critically important. the league which is small businesses in the north which is one of the electoral heartland i think that was the main reason financial market. 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 or so our target is not american soldiers if the problem members of the terrorist organization in this region rancorous plans apparently don't sit too well with turkey's nato ally the u.s. the pentagon has issued a statement warning about unilateral military action in the area is of grave

concern and i doubt that u.s. personnel may be present in the region and any such military action would be unacceptable and we spoke with a turkish politician who says i'm korea wants to see u.s. forces leave syria. we interpret this as a last call of the united states to seize its support for north. or 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 target is to finish all kind of armed terrorist activities on syrian soil by. the syrian nation of unity and. the government's power on all over syria i think that step by step the u.s. will acknowledge. defeat of its plan for the middle east for cd especially and

start. retreating as they already retreated partly from their plan to topple down the president of syria mr bashar al assad. friday well what you said like to continue here on r.t. international we were in less than them. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to the bridge eight point six percent markets

thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one business show to miss the one and only. program welcome to 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 sentences pasta resolution demanding washington to hold sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one

members of congress passed and that actually delays any vote on the matter until at least next year a cold the agriculture improvement act it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the yemeni conflict but it included a last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement had twenty nineteen republican house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments strongest supporters was slammed by democrats who had hoped for an early vote 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 disgraceful in 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 was questioned by a washington post reporter over the phone. 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. what it did was say they couldn't have a vote or something didn't authorize anything it didn't you know op party gets off on tangents it's ridiculous and he was campaigning again and says amendments like this also known as riders are 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 support. actions that are not very popular and give an excuse for it also on wednesday the senate unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist in istanbul two months ago and this move represents

a challenge to donald trump's policies on saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back military ties with riyadh that would 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 us 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 he disappeared on october the second after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul so keep points the finger of saudi arabia while riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved. in.

the terrorist who killed three people at a christmas market in strasbourg on tuesday has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city the twenty nine year old terrorist who was shot after a nationwide manhunt over two days hundreds of french troops and police were involved a german security forces also assisted while the italian government said it was closely watching in the wake of the attack france increased its terror to the 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 totally committed they do some gentlemen i am proud. according to eyewitnesses the shooter shouted god is great in arabic because he opened fire at the market authorities say he was a strong local and that he had

a criminal record in both france and germany he was also one a security watch list and we spoke to antiwar activist brian terrell who says they'll be more acts of terror like this if european countries don't adjust their domestic and foreign policy. there's racism there is discrimination in france for people like sharif shikata in terms of employment education and the idea the conceit that people need out of states in 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 so these wars cut come home peace is the answer to this and and by refusing to to to you know to see that by continuing. or 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 are too nice to people in our own cities. this is going to be inevitable 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. so with christmas nearly upon us the festive spirit is getting into full swing but in sweden one department stores hold a offering received rather a frosty reception. come

. come. come. come. come. come come. come. who is celebrating the winter. we. are you waiting to open the window to the wind to treat.

that's it for this hour here on our international though your friday news stories continue with the top of the hour my colleague andrew fama will be manning the helm can join us that. will get up on. the wall says. the president will be. back. to push a. ball but what's joined up when you go for. the full tour.

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