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. subscribe to read people also get own lucky content for just twelve euros fifty per month. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia owes a significant threat to u.s. national security interests washington unveils a new policy in africa to counter russia and china's influence on the continent and claims its previous methods were ineffective also to come the russian national

who's accused of spying in the u.s. pleads guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent and. i. i i i. am jewish demonstrators clashed with police in the west bank demanding a chemo to i used to palestinians that israel launches a crackdown to see why i.d.f. soldiers were killed at a bus stop and basically does a huge turn on its promise to push ahead with a high spending budget rejected by brussels revising its plans in a bid to avoid sanctions. but other well good afternoon just on three o'clock here in moscow the watching international. america's national security adviser has criticized the activities of

russia and china in africa john bolton is unveiling a new u.s. policy 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 are 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 more details now from aussies not against 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 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 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 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 big 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 u.s. foreign aid in every corner of the globe is 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 john bolton the views and gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plodding so much for financial independence africans good luck what we have to understand why china went into africa in the first place and it was because the us was containing china for years china basically said since i'm shut out from the west the only way they can continue to grow was to go to areas that were more or less neglected by the u.s. africa so there certainly was one of them so china went in to put investments and

to trade there and so now that they've actually turned africa into the fastest growing continent the u.s. basically feels like they need to do catch up 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. after months of detention in the u.s. prison russian national review's tonight has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent but it's kind of now reports some claim she's being used as a political pawn. 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 her 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 the street is unregistered half of the street is working for foreign countries without registering with the justice department so why target maria 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 of 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 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 rapidly rereading trunks 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 oppen archie new york. hardline jewish protesters in the west bank have clashed with police there demanding the closure of

a major motorway to palestinian traffic comes after the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in a nearby settlement. hi . well the israeli military has launched a manhunt in the west bank for the killers of 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 for the forseeable future my colleague needed to discuss the recent escalation stein he's the head of the euro asian jewish congress starting with the situation in palestine area want israel to further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah

tries to do is best to avoid this kind of escalation but israel's duty is for us the wall to protect all citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman pregnant woman can be attacked at the bus the 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 jews in any borders so we first of all should try to learn to live together and we should accept each

ariel there are different perspectives to this obviously there's the israeli side aside and the palestinian. 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 unfortunately we suffer from terror cells only reply of israeli population to terror it's stop any perpetrator who wants to kill civilians . this kind of reply off. of some region that unfortunately terrorists are hiding in its force proper reply is to provide proper protection for israeli and arab civilian population. now the need to soften

in turkey is threatening to send more troops into northern syria should the u.s. fail to remove kurdish fighters from the city of man beach ankara 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 jail them they didn't if you don't to man bitch well the u.s. reacting to similar threats warned its nato ally against unilateral military action in the region and points to that american personnel may be present their turkish politician you know some of those says ankara has given washington a final notice we all think here in turkey but this is a very serious situation and a very serious last call from turkey to do you know the states the united states troops are in position to use you're legally 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're part of a bigger plan of the united states that was presented in the. last week openly but presented to james jeffrey propose a kind of for the ration of syria the threat of turkey also ends of the peace plan of the united states to convert it into a for the rationing so the conflict is a big deal one is a huge one and the turkish threat and the turkish possible operation will put an end three american plants on a broader line. still had a last minute amendment on a bill on farming could derail efforts to end u.s. support for saudi military action in yemen it sounds a bit strange we explain how and why just after a break. most

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again i recently has sent a revised budget to budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid sanctions the move is seen as a major huge turn for rome though which previously vowed to stick to his high spending plans which were rejected by europe so let's get some details on this now by your correspondent peter oliver good afternoon a big about face isn't it by the italians here leaving a lot of egg on their face some might say why the capitulation. right well rome has made the decision to back down over the budget that they were trying to

force through they've been trying to force it through the e.u. for quite a while now the plan initially was to run a two point four percent deficit they've now revised that they will be running a two point zero four percent deficit for twenty nineteen it does mean that some of the marquee policies that they had wanted to push through in the new year going to be hits to the tune of a few billion euros but it seeing things like the universal basic income for the unemployed also plans to lower the retirement age are also coming in on the chopping block certainly not the plans themselves but the financing for those plans for twenty nineteen arguments for this have been going on for a while though italy's decided to step down to back down a big part to avoid sanctions from brussels but there was some real heated arguments in the lead up to this decision. first time as a commission is obliged to the ghost country that it was that after budget reply

this is the first to tally and budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels the economy in. which the italian economy is healthy in this is an economic move that will give italy distributive needs we won't change one comma in this document of the plan b. you know to go into the ground boots the thing on. a working future. that. well there was more than words as well when the e.u. issued a document rejecting the initial a tally and budgets want to tally and pay point a little pun to mine to express his dissatisfaction.

so it's only found themselves firmly in the news financial norty cohen or over their budget that they've now backed down on but just this week france's announced plans to appease the yellow vest protesters with a slew of social spending a manual on well his government planning to run a budget a budget deficit that could run from three percent to three point five percent the reaction from pierre moscovici the e.u. commission commissioner for economic affairs was quite different have a listen to what he had to say. overrun of the three percent must not extend over

two consecutive years noice see three point five percent over one year would such indulgence pose a serious problem the furnace doing there is no indulgence these are rules and nothing but our rules. well the italian side aren't happy they say this is a double standard from ritchie and the e.u. commission site they say there are two slightly different scenarios for the french case this is a one off budget deficit going to allow them to push them through and it must not exceed three point five percent in the italian case they were saying well this is going to be a series of budget deficits that will continue for the future as they put forward their plans and that was something the commission couldn't couldn't accept it hasn't however stopped those in rome from looking over the border over up into northern europe towards france and thinking we wouldn't have got away with that why do you. that was the assays peter all of that.

now the u.s. congress is seen voting in both the house and the senate over america's continued support for the saudi military action in yemen senators passed a resolution initially demanding washington halt arms sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one however members of congress them pasternak that delays any vote on the matter until at least next year called the agricultural improvement act it doesn't sound much like it had a lot to do with the war in yemen but it included a last minute amendment blocking any vote on the missing american involvement until twenty nineteen republican house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments strongest supporters was slammed by the democrats who had hoped for an earlier 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 disgracing article one of the constitution and as a result more yemeni children will die and some democrats fanned selves in hot water for supporting the amendments to the agricultural improvement act among them was colin pettersen he was questioned by washington post reporter. 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 he was campaigning joe joe says though that amendments like this also known as ride is often used 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 melkor saud genie stumbled two months ago this move does represent a challenge to donald trump's policies in saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back military ties with three at the 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 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 so i just remind you there 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 while riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved. in the terrorist who killed three people at a christmas market in strassburg on tuesday 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 this week earlier today france's interior minister visited the site of the attack to reopen the market 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 that search german security forces also assisted to the telling government said it was closely following the situation in the wake of the attack france increased its terror at the highest level the french interior minister

congratulated the police on their actions. there's also the us i personally went to the seam to meet the officers involved and congratulate them the security forces have been totally committed they do some gentlemen i am proud proud of. according to eyewitnesses the shooter shouted god is great in arabic is he opened fire at the market authorities say he was a local and that he had a criminal record and by france and germany he was also on a security watch list we spoke seeing antiwar activist brian terrell he says they'll be more acts of terror like this if you are paying countries done to just that 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 cup come home peace is the answer to this and by refusing to to you have 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 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. before we go to south and abandoned for the sale for russia's north and capital simply disappeared is being converted into a maritime rescue center it is a purpose though that is quite different from the one it had before.

and that's how the news is looking so far today here not a we're back again with headlines more stories in just a. prosecution will need to be ignored. the fault is all of a clean coal where you question the threat of fines can also by the number one

proceed to i mean jani i mean political pressure on a god you've finally called godin a security dimension knows when to pull your mind out of business models used by american culture asians and out of was incomplete please soldo good mental disease as an elder use. yemen was not on the scene and the solution. in this is he didn't put it to get. a little going he saw swindles it is just simply delete and did an investigative documentary. ghost war on agin. teressa may survives and no confidence vote but now is a lame duck heartbreaks it blooms angle of merkel has announced her impending political retirement and 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 competence. the president's former thick cyr get sentenced to three years in prison how will michael cohen's downfall impact from his remaining time in office we'll take a look at that on this edition of. welcome the politicking on larry king on wednesday michael cohn donald trump's form of personal attorney and so-called fixer was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to several charges his fiar man says cohen still has a lot to say about his time with donald trump and suggests he's even willing to tell didn't question the investigators what he knows how will his.