i. learned that. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia was a significant threat to u.s. national security interests washington and by also a new strategy in africa to counter russian china's influence on the continent and claims its previous approach was in effect the. russian national review to know

who's accused of spying in the u.s. pleads guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent and also to come. i. was. hard line jewish demonstrators clashed with police in the west bank demanding a chemo she might be close to palestinians at israel launches a crackdown after two i.d.f. soldiers were killed at a bus stop. doesn't lead to an on his promise to push on with a high spending budget rejected by brussels revising his plans in a bid to avoid any sanctions. or they're just going to pm here in moscow you watching international. america's

national security adviser has branded the activities of russia and china in africa as predatory john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. strategy for the continent which he says will benefit. 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 bribes opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands on his motor gas to have dives deeper into the story. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of 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 but 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 aging 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 tromp one 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 not american troops are there for africans own good washington would say speaking of which remember the whole chinese and russian money that 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 advances 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've isn't gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plodded so much for financial independence africans good luck jumping ministration those that actually desire to help africa develop they see africa as a poll on a new geopolitical just war and therefore they want to use africa against russia and against china on china and russia policy that particular china with new silk road is not particular china is actually building massive infrastructure projects

across the continent with the new so road built of your initiative transforming the continent so the real policy would be for the united states joined with china instead. very cynical and 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 push people in africa closer to working with other people. off the months of detention in a u.s. prison russian national marine base in his pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent but as my reports some claim she's being used as a political pull. 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 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 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 for those little when i heard about what's happening around i also told the chiefs of our intelligence that 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 feb 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 the street is unregistered half of k. 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. knology 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 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're 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. hardline jewish protesters in the west bank of clashed with police there demanding the closure of a major motorway to palestinian traffic it comes after the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in a nearby settlement. i think you are were i. was i was i was were you were were well the israeli military has launched a manhunt in the west bank for the killer of those two 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 forseeable future my colleagues in a day or two to discuss the recent escalation stein he's the head of the euro asian

jewish congress. duration in palestine area what can 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 our citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman 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 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 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 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. in other news italy has sent a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid e.u. sanctions the move though is seen as a major u.-turn for rome which previously vowed to stick to its high spending plans which were rejected by europe where the decision was announced when italy's prime minister met the european commission president in brussels should become today told reporters his change of tack was not a betrayal of italian voters and he said the decision was in the interests of europe literally has proposed cutting its budget budget deficit to two percent of g.d.p. contrary however has not specified how that reduction would be achieved the government is still 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 to me with an unusual way of expressing his anger. but we spoke to the journalist scavenger owns who says that pressure on the financial markets is behind the italian government's u. turn. think the government was quite quiet by bond yields is that was your bond yields was rising you know or they were consistently high and that was. increasing it is bothering costs and that was putting pressure on the banks and and it was

creating pressure for businesses and that's critically important for. them to leave which is as on small businesses in the north which is it's one of the electoral heartland i think that was the main reason financial market pressure. elsewhere turkey's threatening to send more troops into northern syria should the u.s. fail to remove kurdish fighters from the city of member and create considers the militants there terrorists man bitch is a place eighty five to ninety percent populated by arabs but they have completely given the terrorist organization they said they were going to jack them they didn't if you don't we will and to man bitch. the u.s. reacting to similar earlier threats warned its nato ally against unilateral military action in the region pointing out that american personnel may be present their turkish politician eunice sana says that washington's been served final

notice by ankara. we all think here in turkey that this is a very serious situation and a very serious last call from turkey to the united states the united states troops are in positions in syria illegally they were not asked to be there by the syrian government so they are not present at the territory legally they are violating international laws and they are part of a bigger plan of the united states that was presented in the last week openly but presented to the syrian james jeffrey propose a kind of for the ration of. this thread of turkey also ends of this plan of the united states to convert it into a position so the conflict is a big one is a huge one. and the possible operation will put an end to american

plans on a broader line. just sound strange but a last minute amendment to a bill on farming could derail efforts to end u.s. support for the saudi military incursion in yemen we'll explain why and how just after the break.

wrong. all. to shake out. and in. equals betrayal. worlds apart. to look for common ground. welcome back now the u.s. congress has seen voting in both the house and the senate over america's continued support for the saudi military incursion in yemen senators passed a resolution initially demanding that washington hold arms sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one however members of congress then pasternak that delays any

vote on the matter until at least next year called the agricultural improvement act it doesn't sound like it has much to do with the 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 strongest supporters was slammed by the democrat wrote canner who had hoped for an earlier vote on the issue. this is why people hate congress speaker ram 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. and some democrats did find yourselves in hot water for supporting the amendment to the agricultural improvement act among

them collin patterson 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 work for two years on this farm bill and i'll be damned if i'll 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 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 antiwar campaigner joe joe says amendments like this one also known as riders are frequently first resorted say when politics to force three 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 but also on wednesday the senate unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of the journalist malcolm shoji he stumbled two months ago this move just represents he would challenge the door trumps policies on saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back

military ties with riyadh they would recent months there have been some conflicting signals coming from the ministration. 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 sorry ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show you death whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble to remind you then jamal khashoggi was a u.s. resident who wrote for the washington post he disappeared on the second of october after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey points the finger at saudi arabia or riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved.

of the terrorist who killed three people at a christmas market in strassburg on cheese day this week has been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city meanwhile life in the french city is slowly returning to normal following the tragic events early today france interior minister visited the site of the attack to reopen the market there with enhanced security the twenty nine year old terrorist was shot after a nationwide manhunt over two days hundreds of french troops and police were involved in the search german security forces also assisted while the italian government said it was closely following the situation in the wake of the attack though france increased its terror alert the highest level and after news of the shooter's death emerged the french interior minister congratulated the police on their actions because also the us i personally went to the seam to meet the officers involved and congratulate the security forces have been totally committed

they do some gentlemen i am out proud of them. according to eyewitnesses the shooter shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire at the market authorities say he was a strasberg local and that he had a criminal record in both france and also germany he was also on a security watch list we spoke twenty war activist brian taro and he says that they'll be more acts of terror like this if european countries don't adjust their domestic and foreign policies. there's racism there is discrimination in france for people like sharif should cost 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 by refusing to come to you or to see that and by continuing. their friends

in the united states and the other countries involved with the wars in iraq and syria and afghanistan that support the saudis in yemen. and not giving opportunities 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. now the head of the russian orthodoxy is trying to draw attention to what he describes as the full scale persecution of his church in ukraine carol has written to the pope and of the church heads around the world as well as to the security generals of the u.n. and the m.s.e.e. and that he does of germany and france he claims that ukraine is trying to create an independent breakaway wolf that this independent of moscow he says that this violates the constitutional rights and freedoms of ukrainian citizens stressing

that under the training constitution government interference in relations between churches is unconstitutional. and even christmas nearly upon us the festive spirit is in full swing but in sweden one palm still was holiday didn't get a warm welcome. who

is celebrating the winter. meeting to read about winter. are you waiting to open winter presents under the wind to treat. thanks. as the nice and i are

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