i. was. thinking a little. girl was murdered before i was made up that was. a. poor job of. the headlines this hour the russian foreign ministry hits out of the b.b.c. saying its work smacks of cynicism but after leaked messages from one of their reporters says her editors are out for blood in their attempts to find links between the kremlin and yellow best move the yellow vests movement in front. of me

says the vote on her divorce deal will now take place in the third week of january but it comes amid reports some in her own cabinet supporting to force another break . and the fashion crowd is accused of racism after selling figurines clips we put the issue up for debate. how can such a big brand nowadays when divesting such a big issue get it completely wrong when you get people determine what's the best to the masses you're looking for censorship you're looking for the state of creativity. follow the good even just go on seven pm here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the russian foreign ministry has lashed out at the b.b.c. calling it cynical after messages were leaked from a correspondent looking into possible connections between moscow and the yellow

vests movement in france one of the reporters messages is claimed her editors were quote for blood. well maybe some russian business is capitalizing greatly on the protests maybe the protesters eating cutlass or mass maybe the far right to ring leaders there i'm looking for angles yes the editors demand some blood that messages there were published by russia's ria novosti news agency it comes just a week after a number of media outlets allege that russian bought saw automated accounts were helping to fuel the anger seen on the streets of france the french authorities have launched an investigation into those claims or the b.b.c. has told r.t. it was reasonable for its news team to look into a potential connection in light of the french government's own statement on this possibility because the french foreign ministry had spoken publicly about media reports of a possible russian influence in the protests it was perfectly reasonable for

a correspondent to raise the subject however in the end her reports made no mention of a possible connection with russia at all we stand by our impartial independent journalism but we also asked b.b.c. russia if it's still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and whether the correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle but it did decline to comment the russian foreign ministry meanwhile has criticised the b.b.c. of acting with cynicism the cynicism of journalists as a mason we're talking about a company that has propagated all its life an unbiased and then dependent approach and this professionalism is the epitome of the media world i have a question for this very british regulators of the media space and the public how do they evaluate this kind of compilation of facts that employees of their television and radio companies are doing. well we went onto the streets of paris to ask people there they thought the russians were somehow interfering. everything's possible nowadays.

you know of course on the. man they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. of course. ok well we have asked a number of journalism groups to to comment on this story and this seems we get a response will let you know what they say meantime let's talk to you kate based in the field talk about all of it to see where this could even cine or what should we take on this story then the b.b.c. say look you know we've done nothing wrong. well i think really it's not so much i don't think just about the b.b.c. it's about the climate under which the b.b.c. is currently operating which is this crime of aggression phobia here in britain in america and in other countries in the west and what you base got angry establishment in these countries anything that really threatens the status quo or possibility of a change in direction of the economy or the political system. blamed on russia so we had of course the bracks vote in twenty six where seventeen point four million

britons voted to leave the e.u. that has been blamed on russian influence or russian meddling the election of president prompted america. to sixteen so that was a russian operation that catalonia independence movement that supposed to be used by russia even the rise of germany corby the labor leader that's trying to link that to russia because he appeared on r.t.e. dimes a few years ago so it really is quite quite ludicrous what with the climate the current climate it's basically to try to find a russian link to anything that the establishment doesn't like any movement that sort of threatens a center square the fact of the matter is andrew is the best movement is organic grow up in the streets in france in paris in other cities people. are fed up with the. former president he's got a very low rate of the twenty three percent is our bread and butter issues people are complaining about tax rises living standards falling or stagnating and russia is going to do it and i think i think so really yes we can look at the b.b.c.

but i'm pretty sure that every other major news organization the west was trying to find a russian angle to this because that's the narrative sure from what you say you can understand why russia would be very sensitive to all of this just on this particular story though because i do want to come back to what the b.b.c. is saying it does say it's done nothing wrong it was following up an angle they couldn't stand up they didn't run with the story there's also an argument that you know you're reading too much into these messages that will eat because they were followed by smiley faces doesn't that is not a fair point or do you think that the russian foreign ministry is quite right to say look we are back to cynically. sort of really on this i think there is pressure i think on to find. news editors on journalists to kind of find it at an angle in any major story that could link in with russia at the moment that's the kind of climate that rid of them so if we can find any kind of tenuous links to russia journalists are thinking that's what their bosses want they want to

try to find a link to somebody in the other vessels who may have gone to russia a year ago or maybe. somebody there was protesting who have links to the russian embassy that's the sort of narrative and so i think that. put it in that context in the current climate it doesn't seem unreasonable however the double standards are there for to see because you have to compare yellow vest protests in france with what happened in ukraine five years ago where actually there was very clear involvement of the u.s. in that you have u.s. politicians going out. and handing out cookies to the protestors there were encouragement some are saying silence of the protesters in ukraine that was very clear and yet were new news networks in the west really focusing much on that angle when it was very clear they weren't worth it they were actually putting out stories trying to link you know where the money was coming from from the e.u. the u.s. to the to the protests but without it with zero evidence of russian involvement in

the yellow vests they are looking for these kind of stories that these kind of links which obviously don't exist so i think it is a kind of failure of really of the me. in one sense but it's also the look why they're going to look at the wider picture of what's happening. russia not be in the west has created this climate. in which journalists operating journalists who want to get ahead think yep if i can find a russian link here are brownie points i get promoted sure it's an easy story to sell but you think there's a public appetite still for this sort of story of people becoming wary and begin. to understand the other argument i think they are i think i had actually times were good programmer and he was saying well people do believe the script well there are two i don't think they do i think other people are very skeptical now about this lady russia but everything and i think it's come unstuck particularly common stuff on the press on the brits issue because the idea that the

a few tweets from russia perhaps on the morning of the referendum you know decided the result and i heard some some people claim it wasn't british also it was british your skepticism has always been very strong in britain and we got strong in the last few years so i think of particularly britain particularly in britain where you the only rational of it coming out saying well that was right to do with russia that was russia meddling the person who voted no that's nonsense they know why they voted and it's nothing to do with with russia whatsoever and not that there's any evidence that the president of the russians actually wanted the first place so i think i think they're that the cards are being overplayed and i think it's like the boy who cried wolf just shouting the russians the russians the russians so i go back to this is not really and i don't think the public are really buying it and in france you know there is widespread anger against macron and i think this trying to link it with russia is really exposing people to being conspiracy theorists

actually what they are sure look good to talk you're going to have to leave it there but that was a u.k. based journalist neil clark thanks and. now we modify prime minister treason may has said the much anticipated vote on her breaks it deal now take place in the third week of january just weeks before the country's due to walk through the door but the opposition leader jeremy called win is still slamming her deal as unexceptable and accusing the pm of leading the country into a national crisis another vote which would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics because it would say to millions who trusted him to mop. see that our democracy does not deliver i nother vote which would likely leave us no further forward than the last and another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to unite and this is bigger we face an unprecedented situation the prime minister has led us into

a national crisis standing out the dispatch box last week the prime minister said i have made some progress mr speaker she has not made any progress at all. members of the cabinet is said to be putting moves towards a second referendum it comes after former leaders john major and tony blair have also backed calls for another vote with more his party. talk of a second referendum appears to be getting more serious and because it's not just coming from the opposition parties apparently it's coming from to reason may's own team over the weekend reports have emerged the cabinet has split into two opposing camps one which along with her chief of staff is now reportedly mulling the idea of letting parliament decide on whether there should be a second referendum to potentially reverse brags that and the other camp of prone lever's who are adamantly against this plan now the prime minister herself has been

attempting to quash all these various rumors and especially talk of a second referendum in fact a spokesperson has just denied it tools but then again her spokesperson did deny the cancellation of the parliamentary vote on her brags that deal last week immediately before it was cancelled so make of that denials what you will now one of the people dead keen to reverse brags and to have a second referendum is tony blair the former labor prime minister and he's been getting much more vocal about it on friday he did a whole load of interviews advocating for a second vote in criticizing to reason may's bragg's it deal but the prime minister isn't very happy about it take a listen to the levels of animosity between the former labor prime minister and the current conservative one dismissing to be. having this conversation a year or two they would say to me you know it's never going to happen another

referendum now people are saying you know we'll could it really happen i need to get the european leaders to the next stage which is to realise the probability is it's going to happen and they've got to prepare for it there are too many people who want to subvert the process for their own political interest rather than acting in the national interest for tony blair to go to brussels and seek to undermine our negotiations by advocating for a second refer. i'm insulted your office he once held and the people he wants served i remain determined to see that happen i will not lead to british people down now that type of rhetoric is rather unusual for to resume a it's not normally her style to be that confrontational but tony blair's behavior has evidently rubbed terror up the wrong way but in a way that spot with tony blair has provided for her a bit of a distraction from the chaos seemingly taking place in her own cabinet team right now in terms of where we are with her resident deal what it looks dead in the water

again after her renegotiation late last week in brussels totally failed and unless she pulls a greggs a rabbit out of her santas hat it looks like parliament is still expected to vote down the deal that she brings back to parliament after christmas which leaves the u.k. perilously close to a no deal bragg's it which is why we've got this rumor mill in overdrive talking about what potential options there could be once parliament rejects to resume may's deal and yet on the surface all that talk of potentially there being a second referendum will parliament getting to choose what the next options are that's being played down officially but behind the scenes the rumor is that all the options on now on the table i have to say the festive period is normally pretty quiet when it comes to news hacks but the media is having a field day with everything that's taking place right now in the political

uncertainty all the rumors all the plotting behind ministers backs that's very good for the media they're having a jolly good time writing about all the various options taking place and really as you make your way through westminster you see all the leaves side the remains side everybody's got a few protesters out in front of parliament waving their flags advocating their positions. and there is a sense that right now the situation is a very much up in the air. reporting there now the canadian prime minister justin trudeau has expressed concern over two canadians detained in china last week saying his government is taking the situation very seriously he says the arrests are politically motivated resulting from canada being caught up in the ongoing trade war between beijing and washington where to largest economies of the world china in the united states start picking

a fight with each other the escalating trade war between them is going to have all sorts of consequences on canada and potentially on the entire global economy so we're very worried about. the rest of canadians are michael corby former diplomatic used to breaking china's ngo law and also michael of war isn't on with senior contacts in north korea including kim jong un or china arrested them citing alleged activities harmful to national security was right after the c.f.o. of chinese smartphone makers who are where he was detained in canada the request of america and she said picks up the story. pequot on the high flying chinese think that could if arrest her in canada outraged her home nation claimants at the request of the u.s. grant her an eye watering bail throw in a threat of extradition see china and then arrest two canadians in retaliation and all that while what's potentially the biggest trade deal the world at the scene is

being hammered out by two of the vested parties washington and beijing complicated isn't it well let's try and break it down starting with those two canadian nationals german cannot and citizens marco coverage and michael's paiva suspect it's often gaijin inuktitut is that in danger the national security of the people's republic of china china how to warned of the coming retaliation with beijing following grave consequences that come into if the wall way c.f.i. was not released but as count as big brother has rushed to its defense the awful the tension of two canadian citizens is unacceptable that they ought to be returned . to stood for that whether there are citizens or citizens of other countries whether this washington fits in the picture man one show was arrested not because of something she did personally but because the u.s. thinks the company was trying to evade the american embargo against iran extradition to the u.s. is on the menu mung and others are alleged to have put financial institutions at

risk of criminal and civil liability in the united states by deceiving those institutions as to the nature and extent of while these business in iran but it is the snag many major financial companies including america's own j.p. morgan have had to pay a hefty fines for violating u.s. sanctions in the past yet we've never seen their execs being thrown into custody making the case a wild card but it's trying to seem to suggest the wall of floor company puts the size when it comes to making money. if i think it's good for what will be served. the largest trade deal ever made i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary but it seems the man in the a.f.l. faith is getting the concessions he wanted because beijing has now announced a suspension of tariff hikes only us the rest of the two canadians are definitely tied to the arrest of mango and jew there's no doubt about that the timing of the

arrest was it would have been extremely suspicious otherwise because right now the chinese and the americans are involved in very delicate trade negotiations they have done nothing to the u.s. right now that they continue to talk so it will make canada the example. of the situation warning other countries who may be may be tempted to follow. erica american extradition demands i think the chinese reaction will be slow and very well thought out when it comes to the united states like so happy to take gas and water cannon have been deployed by police in brussels assizes protest against a new migration deal we'll have the details just awful. i've

been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth few months of the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and this morning rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. if we have a new trade arrangements with china that may build a new foundation for they were relations i think broadly the there's of us as

a problem in accepting the rise of china no matter what they do. that again i'm more than five thousand painful to the streets of the belgian capital on sunday to protest against migration. i. protested that tried to enter king e.u. buildings and placed spawned at the water cannon and also to gas to push them back the demonstration comes in the same week belgium signed up to be un migration day

that document was agreed by more than a. hundred sixty un member states asked monday and it aims to find a common global approach to migration although critics thing say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies let's talk about always a bit further about he's chairman of the youth wing of the flemish lars bland party and you're very welcome good evening to me why do you think we saw so many people come out into the streets at the weekend in brussels. well all glory. to do major business for disco just again to us is migration back first of all to bridge losing flows of mass migration specially into western europe the back the it was dated immigration is something strictly positive never talked about a negative aspects like diminishing of social cohesion degree of good those in our cities cities like brussels and who are islam is asian and all the stuff that comes

with it the rising of crime and of course the immense costs for our own welfare and even in the factors of criticising immigration should be discouraged and the second reason is that nobody ever voted for just this was just as down to those buyers of elitist politicians no civilian ever vote for this back to the back it's just it's a global compact for migration global actors in the in a veiled dutch majority the language of the majority of our country so it's a very very undemocratic fact if you think the government belgian government is listening then to what the protest is the same because there is obviously a lot of discontent. yeah there is a major crisis right now in our government and second largest party in v.a. and they quit government just last week because there were some who didn't agree with that although there have been have been go oh she aiding in drafting the back to the past two years so they only started to criticize it since last october lots

of door we had local elections in belgium and they lost a lot of votes to my bar on the right and we have been decisive this back for the past few years so right now they are changing their view on it and missed our tour of race on doubt about it about act all right now they quit government and there's a huge crisis right now so where do you see the solution then how can the migration issue be solved well first of all immigration policy should be decided at on national that. we the people live and work in a godly should be the people who decide to get to decide who should get in and we shouldn't get in our countries or old it would be. glorious don't have to be international agreements agreements about how to protect the outer borders of europe some international globe aeration to do stop migrant goes on the military

and see that most of the stuff has to be decided on national first and foremost you're in countries but yet able and allowed to control and protect their own national borders ok mr class going to have to leave it there but good to get your thoughts we appreciate your insights into this they've never chairman of the youth wing of the flemish plans belong party and. italian fashion has prada has poured a range of accessories featuring monkey like figurines over allegations of racism. it online did call out the fashion house for not seeing a strong resemblance through racist caricatures of black people prada has since apologized saying it never intended to cause any affects the problem ali are fantasy charms they're imaginary creatures not intending to have any reference to

the real world and certainly not blackface prada group never had the intention of offending anyone and we have who are all forms of racism embraces imagery where the fashion giants getting improved in ever more scandals as people accuse them of being tone deaf to diversity racism and also body image we put the issue of to debate. faint proud to call it completely wrong they're. qualified to made to. put out with a black face and big red lips it's pretty obvious looking back for any any person of ethnic origin to especially a black person to see that i think prada has made it perfectly clear that they had no intention of presenting this says as any kind of racist message or or blackface says it's come to be commonly called when i first saw that image myself i didn't think straight away to the minstrel show so i think how can you how can such

a big brands nowadays when divesting such a big get it completely wrong to say that or to think that a company of that size and that reputation would purposely go out and make these little figurines that would purposely a fan or mock a race of people you'd have to be out of your mind to believe in freedom of speech and freedom of creativity and have a should be done taking into consideration people's feelings that when you let people determine what's offensive to the masses you're looking for censorship you're looking for the stifling of creativity they go hand in hand you want to not say thanks for your company this evening our programs continue after the break.

my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as

you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want. to be like to be close this is like the full three of them or can people get. interested always in the waters of. the ship. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each

other it's time for critical thinking it's time. it's a fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. blow in welcome to crossfire all things are considered peter lavelle mania returns the u.s. weaponize as its laws against adversaries also is the western world in crisis and much much more on this edition of crossfire.