leave the phone about the computer with the plane. to come back to the police story you have to see. if you. subscribe to roughly. twelve euros fifty per month. the predatory practices pursued by china and russia was a significant threat to u.s. national security and. washington unveils a new policy in africa in an effort to counter russia and china's growing influence there it's all part of its american first plan. if it's

forced into an embarrassing you turn over its high spending budget plans in a bid to avoid e.u. sanctions although critics to cry double standards for. similar french plans in the past palestinians in the west bank start friday demonstrations known as the day of rage calling for return territories in israel mid worsening tensions in the region . hello there welcome six pm here in moscow you're 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 constant. 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 so america very critical then of russia and china but as motive gaz they have now reports the policies of the us in africa haven't always would dad so i well. 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 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 for mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this realize 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 of 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 none american troops are there for africans own good washington would say speaking of which you remember the old chinese and russian money that had 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. well we have to understand why china went into africa in the first place and it was because the u.s. was containing china for years china basically said since i'm show it 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 there certainly was one of them so china went in to put investments and do trade there and so now that they've actually turned it 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. now in what is seen as a major u.-turn by the new italian government it submitted a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid e.u. sanctions rome had previously valued it would stick to its high spending plans which had been rejected by europe speak to all of us now reports 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 for quite a while now the plan initially was to run a two point four percent deficit they've now revised they will be running a two point zero four percent deficit for twenty nineteen it does mean some of the marquee policies that just because it wanted to push through in the new year going to be hits to the chewed of a few billion euros seeing things like the universal basic income for the good

employed 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 nine arguments for this being going on for a while though. police decided to step down to back down i beg your pardon to avoid sanctions from brussels but there was some real heated arguments in the lead up to this decision for the first time as a commission is obliged to request a country that it was its draft a budget to reply this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rhyme and not in brussels the economy at. the time in economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy distributing needs we want change one comma in this document there is a plan b. you know to go through that that we are not boards that are both on. work

in the future. more than words as well when the e.u. issued a document rejecting the initial a tally and budgets want to tally in and pay for a little punt of mine to express his dissatisfaction. so it's really found themselves firmly in the use financial norty corner 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. the eventual overrun of the three percent must not extend over two consecutive years nor exceed three point five percent over the one year there is no indulgence these are rules and nothing but our rules for the italian side aren't happy they say this is a double standard from the e.u. commission site they say they're too slightly different scenarios for the french case this is a one off budget deficit that they're 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 e.u. commission couldn't couldn't accept it hasn't however stopped those in rome from looking over the border over open to northern europe towards france and thinking we wouldn't have got away with that why do you. say to all of a there were let's get the thoughts now of power a phony take and political analyst and joins us now good evening to you paolo i'm interested firstly to know how this news has gone down with the italian public because they voted in a government that said he was going to stick with this you know high spending plans and it looks like that's not going to happen. well one thing is sure public didn't want to be sanctioned by the european union and actually the support to the european system and the euro system is still pretty high. in italy so. it is a sort of our example feeling on one side who want to stay in on the other side

they do want to tell europe to the economic forces the been implemented so far in interleague. have not helped the country and people so they would like to see these policies change without getting sanctioned or stepping out of the european system but the european union has always taken a very tough stance hasn't it on this matter. to people in italy fairly say they've been unfairly treated because they might look at france for example and say well they've had a larger budget approved why can't wait. yeah the sentiment is is calling is really the fates of the european commission these allowing friends to go to tea between tree in three point five percent in deficit without finding it normal. the problem is that france is asking for this deficit without deviating it told from the mainstream liberal approach that the european commission is. implemented

over the past decades and is that the timing government of this current study government has tried to revert to situations saying we do what is necessary for the country and we do not abide in the longer to the austerity of proceedings that been implemented for palestinians in the we want to change their action and he says he's one of the causes why there's been so much opposed here in brussels do you think of a a turning government can actually go ahead and do what they've always planned today the pension age for example increase welfare payments given that i've got a much smaller budget today that with. they would do that and then we try to do what they can but of course is a survival situation at this moment they're looking forward probably to the. elections in may european elections that may be in their them and that will change the game in brussels so they now will do much more to avoid the sanctions they have

to accept to postpone certain measures so most probably there will not be constant but simply they will start a later stage in the implementation of the budget glow so that these allows the accounting system to be to be accepted to brussels ok pat i look we're going to leave it that nice to get your thoughts there on this that was part of refining it and political analyst thank you. ok well here we can show you live pictures now as palestinians in the garcia street launch a friday protest known as the day of rage demanding the return of territories in israel seventeen palestinians reportedly being confirmed injured in clashes with israeli soldiers israel says that its actions were in self-defense this is in garza pictures we're looking at now the palestinian demonstrations followed rallies by hardline jewish protesters in west bank settlements where they clashed with police

and demanded the closure of a major motorway to palestinian traffic tensions are heightened after the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in the settlement near the palestinian city of ramallah on thursday. 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 ramallah israeli forces say they are conducting two searches in the area and will be operating there for the forseeable future. my colleague nativity to discuss the recent escalation without star in he's the head of the euro asian jewish congress starting with the situation in palestine area what israel do. avoid escalation of violence in ramallah

tries to do its best to avoid this kind of a solution but israel's duty is for us the wall to protect all citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian it woman pregnant woman tacked to 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 for. 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 those 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 unfortunately we suffer from terror cells only reply of israeli population to terror its stalk any perpetrator who wants to kill civilians. this kind of reply of blockade 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. you are not international have to start

breaking. to resume survives a no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard bragg's it blooms angle of merkel has announced or impending political retirement and emmanuelle 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. seemed wrong. rowles just don't call. me. yet to shape

out this day become agitated and engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again now both the u.s. senate and house of representatives debated america's support for the saudi military incursion in yemen senators passed a resolution demanding that washington halt arms sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one however congress them pasternak that delays any vote on the matter until at least next year called the agriculture improvement act it doesn't sound like it has much to do with the yemeni conflict as it but it did include a last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement to

twenty nineteen a brick and house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments strongest supporters was slammed by the democrat for o'connor 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 or some democrats also found themselves criticized for supporting the amendment to the agriculture improvement act among them colleen pedersen he was questioned by a 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 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 if 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 but also on wednesday the senate unanimously approved a resolution to blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of the journalist. in istanbul two months ago the resolution is seen as a challenge to donald trump's policies towards riyadh and his refusal to scale back military ties with the kingdom though in recent months conflicting signals have come out of the white house we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone earth 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 us death whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble so just to remind you then jamal khashoggi was a u.s. resident he wrote for the washington post he did disappear on the second of october though after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey blame saudi arabia riyadh strongly denies the crown prince had anything to do with the killing get more reaction now and talk with dr robert gucci he's a politics and media lecturer at lancaster university you can you very welcome robert thanks for your time tonight firstly let's just talk about the saudi issue and potential drawing of military support for the saudi incursion in yemen we have

to wait don't we a few more months before this vote actually happens but when it does happen if it voted against supporting the saudis do you think would actually have any real impact on the american policy with saudi arabia. well you know the western democracy both in the u.k. and the us in the last week i'm just shown how vulnerable those political systems are in the sense to neither neither country can seem to get their their ships in order houses in order and delaying votes by those who are rightfully elected into the parliament or into the us case into congress delaying the ability for people to speak or to take action is not a very democratic part of the process now and your question specifically when this comes back sort of discussion if it's just for discussion next year very well may

pass very well may stop some of these sales and some of these involvements with yemen but this is a war that the united states has been very entrenched and for several years and for people to now come to the table and say it has to stop you know this is obviously connected to the murder of a journalist but it does make you wonder if the resolution does go through will the united states still be operating behind the scenes and in other ways that aren't so easily connected on pieces of paper i.e. you know supplying weapons and not discrete manners there's a lot of pressures in their own donald trump to coerce with his policy saudi arabia do you think this fight about because it was more aimed or as much as i did hayden as it was perhaps the crime points in self. well absolutely and there are two kind of things to think about here one that that's unfortunate that

you know it's come to this point for the congress to actually have to take some action i mean it certainly took them long enough to play a very safe political game waiting for the trumpet ministrations you to take action . so it's sad that this wasn't on their agenda earlier so that's kind of also placing where relationships with saudi arabia in the murder of a u.s. resident kind of ways in congress about the second this is absolutely a referendum on swords on donald trump himself and i think a lot of people quite frankly were shocked by his behavior related to relationships in saudi arabia and the particular murder that the way he talked about in such a cavalier manner and his delay in doing anything he still hasn't really taken any steps in acknowledging what his own government is saying that show there's an argument to be that of her role but perhaps he's playing for time because it's not clear what's going to happen in saudi arabia and whether it might

have been somewhat well actually get moved to one side and a new person will come into power is that something you should consider say when looking at this. well i think that's the question you know that's a good question but it assumes that donald trump is really operating at the higher level of analysis right now i mean i think he's he's operating at a very baseline sort of political strategy here of distract and hope that this goes away so that we can maintain the types of profitable relationships of the united states military and government and businesses have with saudi arabia but he's also trying to distract as so this doesn't become a larger issue for the twenty twenty eight presidential bid so he's playing you know wars on multiple fronts here where he's trying to protect his own political realities and he's trying to create a reality about the united states' involvement as you heard from his own comments

his decisions are about america first even if that means contributing to the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen because it benefits the power structure in the business structure and his own you know bid for re-election fascinating to win she robot is going to have to leave it at that it was told to get she he's a media that lancaster university politics and media actually say thank you. i mean it's one giant hurdle after another for the embattled british premier trees in two days since surviving a confidence vote from her own party she's now back in the lines then of brussels she is there desperately looking for anything she can take back from a meeting with the ministers which might win over her skeptical parliament regarding her plans let's get more details now on the threat than the situation he joins us now steve good evening so how is it going then for treason may in brussels bring us up to date well look around you what

a week for to resubmit it really was the best of times it was the worst of times you know on one hand she managed to plow through that vote of no confidence that would triggered by her own party here in westminster but on the other hand she continues to be stuck in this massive deadlock when it comes to the biggest job she now has to get done which is bracks said all of this while sort of jumping like a tennis ball from one court to another going from westminster to the e.u. back to westminster to the u. and despite all this moving around not a lot of results seem to be getting produced tangible ones with lots and lots of roadblocks getting in her way. you've had a trying week. what's been worse. that something awful this week. one of the reports. oh you should believe everything you reason what was all. the malcontents at home was it been the bullies over here negotiations like this are always tossed the risk difficult times and you get close

to the very end then that can get even more difficult what drives me to can carry on doing this and making sure we deliver is that this is what's right for the british people well though that latest hurdle was in fact in brussels bound but also back at home it seems that for theresa may everybody is on happy with something at this point you know for some people are saying not her deal let's now move on to the hard rock sit others are saying you know let's remain because things are going so badly at this stage others are saying let's have a second referendum because things are going so badly and you know we've seen earlier today protesters trying to block a bridge in westminster so the british people that to resubmit is trying to do her best for seem to have a lot of lots of mixed feeling on this issue and that in its own right seems to be the biggest problem that brussels now has with all of this because they've been

saying to theresa may we need you to stop being so very good we need you to go back and get specifics from the house of parliament so that finally we could get something through through the house of commons and this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not ended up being part of an exchange between her and the president of the european commission and ended up grabbing quite a bit of attention in the media. and. you get very angry when you receive. to show earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you let us go first of all i had a robust discussion with you because i think that's the sort of discussion you're able to have when you've developed a working relationship and you work together when you use that particular phrase you've been talking about the general level of debate. well whether these robust

discussions as theresa may has described them are actually going to end up leading somewhere are remains to be seen whether they're going to end up being able to reach some kind of solutions or whether the u.k. is going to be launched towards a new deal breck's it something that's increasingly being talked about remains to be seen and there's really not very much time left to see which one it's going to end up being the clock is ticking isn't it thanks nasty that was once the chalk and for us there in london. and thank you for watching today as usual back with more headlines in half and. that. was used to. procure the most since there's no western press the more pointed a gun for walter jones came to go after football.