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one of your own with your hundred to five hundred three per circuit for sure and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need to remember is one. to miss the one and only. the russian foreign ministry said the b.b.c. saying it some words ranks of cynicism after leaked messages from one of their reporters around it says are out for blood in their attempts to find links between the kremlin and the yellow vest movement. trays are made says the boat's
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divorce deal will now take place in the third week of january but it comes amid reports some in her own cabinet to force another. is accused of racism after selling figurines with big lips we put the issue up for debate. how can such a big brands nowadays when such a big issue get it completely wrong when you let people determine what's the best to the man you're looking for censorship you're looking for the stifling of creativity. it's eight o'clock and you're watching all to international line from almost with me in a day or two to welcome to the program 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 france in one
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of the reporter's messages its claims her editors were quote out for blood. well maybe some russian business is capitalizing greatly on the protests maybe the protesters eating cutlass or mass may be the far right to ring leaders there i'm looking for angles yes the editors demand blood linkletter tears were published by russia's at ria novosti news agency it comes just a week after a number of media outlets allege that russian bots or automated accounts were helping to fuel the anger seen on the streets of france the french authorities have launched an investigation into the claims. 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 own statement on this possibility as the french foreign ministry had spoken publicly about media reports of a possible russian influence in the protests it was perfectly reasonable for
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a correspondent to raise the subject however in the end the reports made no mention of a possible connection with russia at all we stand by our impartial independent journalism we also asked b.b.c. of 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 declined to comment the russian foreign ministry has criticised the b.b.c. accusing it of acting with cynicism the cynicism of journalists is amazed i'm talking about a company that has propagated all its life and unbiased and then dependent approach and this professionalism is the meat of the media world i have a question for those very british regulators of the media space and the public how did the value of this kind of compilation of the employees of their television and radio companies are doing. we went on to the streets of paris to ask people if they thought russians are somehow interfering. everything's possible nowadays.
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you know of course they're not behind they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. of course. but we've also a number of journalism groups the comments we'll bring you any response as we get it jenison writes an email client feels the public's growing tired of the military attempts to link any major event to pressure well i think really it's got 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 described. in america and in other countries in the west of what you base. in these countries anything that really threatens the status quo or possibility of a change in direction of the economy or the political system. going russia i think the card to be notified and i think it's like the boy who cried wolf just trying to get the russians the russians the russians so i go back to this is not really and i
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don't think the public are really behind it and he fronts you know there is widespread anger against michael and i think this trying to link it with russia is really exposing people to be conspiracy theorists actually what they are. british prime minister theresa may has said that the much anticipated vote on her bags until now take place in the third week of january just weeks before the country is due to walk through the exit door but the opposition leader labor leader jeremy corbyn is still slamming her tale as unacceptable and accusing the pm and 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 trust it into more prosy that our democracy does not deliver. another vote which would likely leave us nose further forward than the last one another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to nineteen this is bigger we face an unprecedented situation the prime minister has led us into
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a national crisis standing out to disparage books last week the prime minister said i have made some progress mr speaker she has not made any progress and i have to ask what is the leadership the phrase which is often used we thought the prime minister had reached rock bottom and bush is still digging the old thursday it will be one hundred days until britain leaves the european union at the moment with. no deal and no plan b. . this is the constitutional crisis the prime minister may be aware of the vote makers has been offering sixty six to warm against the passing parliament could it be a good cabinet ministers that would know interest caring for a referendum are not being disloyal to her but simply veteran march yes. well the liberal democrat leader vince cable there was referring to reports coming cabinet
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members are said to be putting moves towards the second referendum it comes after former leaders john major and tony blair have also backed calls for another vote poly boyko has the latest. 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 two reason may's own team over the weekend reports have emerged that her cabinet has split into two opposing camps one which along with her chief of staff is now reportedly mulling the idea of letting. parliament decides on whether there should be a second referendum to potentially reverse brags that and the other camp of prone leavers who are adamantly against this plan now the prime minister herself has been attempting to brochure all these various rumors and especially talk of a second referendum in fact a spokesperson has just denied just rules but then again her spokesperson did deny
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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 bragg's and to have a second referendum is a tony blair the former labor prime minister and he's been getting much more vocal about say on friday he did a whole load of interviews advocating for a second vote and criticising 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 ago 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
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in the national interest for tony blair to go to brussels and seek to undermine our negotiations by advocating for a second referendum is an insult to the office he once held and the people he once served are 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's plants with a toe. 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 all would have read that deal when it looks dead in the water rain 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
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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 or 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 are 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
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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 very much up in the air. so the situation certainly is a live now to dr. senior politics lecturer at lancaster university thanks for coming on to the program mark and now. let's look at another referendum was indeed to be held how do you think britain would vote this time. according to the opinion polls there has been a move in opinion over the time since the first referendum but it's not a dramatic change i think the most recent polling suggested fifty five percent remain forty five percent for leave the problem is that the opinion polls told
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a kind of similar story before the last referendum and of those arguments that mrs may. not having a second referendum the only one i think that really makes any kind of sense is the one that says that if we have this referendum that won't solve our problem because it will again be rather close all the other argument she's been using against a referendum it desperately thin she seems to be saying it would somehow be a betrayal of democracy which suggests that using a democratic process is somehow anti democratic and that the idea that the people have spoken once it shouldn't be allowed to speak again is rather strange given from a prime minister who. just last year called the delhi election for the clear purpose of getting herself a bessel geraghty there was no other reason the toll for that general elections take place so she's really on very very thin ice when she's talking on this subject but in the end there's no dramatic movements in the polls and that might be if
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there were to be such a movement i really think that it would be impossible to stop a second referendum but at the moment it's too uncertain as your correspondent so very vividly puts it everything is up in the air everything is on the table everything's in chaos yeah i mean if that second referendum was to go ahead why do you think. the outcome would be different according to the polls that you've just given could it be that there's more understanding now of the consequences between. remaining. well if that were the case i really think there should have been a sharp movement i think that the big promises of the leave campaign have one by one been discredited and so that mrs may has self i think this is one reason why the leave is disliked mrs may so much because she started off this process talking
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as if she could get a very good deal for britain but it seems that she's almost shown that their claims about the possibilities of a deal were wrong and they claimed that it would be very easy to get a deal that the e.u. would be very much on the back foot so that britain had all the advantages in the negotiations well she's shown by battling very hard that in fact it was always going to be very very difficult so that kind of evidence would really suggest that people who voted for leave in the first place would now be rethinking but the opposite has happened it seems to be that a lot of people who voted for leave have become even more entrenched in their views the people have changed their minds in fact from remain to leave that they have been very much upset by what the current and so they although people have changed their minds it's not all been in one direction and so again the.
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more than anything being resolved by the states of public opinion it shows just how difficult this whole thing is for any government to negotiate although one could say is that in two thousand and sixteen britain embarked on a process on the basis of a very slender vote in favor of leave all the evidence i think suggests that if we had the same. route but the referendum that it would be a narrow victory for remain after all a lot of older people voted for leave and they have now passed away a lot of younger people were in favor of remain and they have now got the right to vote because they've turned eighteen all that suggests that this. in the opinion polls might be right however another narrow result is the last thing that britain leads instead of resolving the differences i think it would make things even worse than they currently are. even more ok well it is up in the air we're going to wait and see what happens dr mark garnett senior politics lecturer at lancaster
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university thanks very much for airing of his on the program thanks to. the kennedy and prime minister justin trudeau has expressed concern over two canadians that detained in china last week saying his government is taking the situation very seriously and he says the arrests are politically motivated resulting from canada in quarter in the ongoing trade war between beijing and washington. well just economies of the world china and 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 that they arrested canadians are michael cole vaguer former diplomatic use of breaking china's n.j. law and michael spade or he's an entrepreneur with senior contacts in north korea including john. try the rest of them assigned to a leisure activity is harmful to national security that was right after the c.f.o.
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of chinese smartphone maker way was detained in canada at the request of america and they just set the picks up the story pequot on the high flying chinese executive arrest her in canada outraged her home nations claim it's at the request of the u.s. grant her an eye watering bail throw in a threat of extradition see china then arrest two canadians in retaliation and all that was potentially the biggest trade deal the world's ever seen is being hammered out by two of the best and parties washington and beijing complicated isn't it well let's try and break it down starting with those two canadian nationals german canadian citizens marco coverage and michael spivak are suspected of engaging in activities that endanger the national security of the people's republic of china china has warned of the coming retaliation with beijing vowing grave consequences the calendar if the wall way c.f.i.
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was not released but as current as big brother has rushed to its defense the i'm off of the tension of two canadian citizens is unacceptable that they are to be returned. to stood for that whether there are citizens or citizens of other countries where does washington fit in the picture meng 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 us 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 hefty fines for violating u.s. sanctions in the past yet we've never seen their execs being thrown into custody making the case
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a wild card but it's trying to seem to suggest the rule of law company puts the size when it comes to making money. if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary but it seems the man in the oval office is getting the concessions he wanted because beijing has now announced a suspension of tariff hikes on the u.s. 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 they continue to talk so it will make canada the example. of this situation warning other countries who may be may be tempted to follow.
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what holds as institutions. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president the interim. want to. get it right to be close that's what the forty three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city. welcome back to the program more than five thousand people took to the streets of the belgian capital on sunday to protest against migration.
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thank you. thank you protesters try to and take a building police responded with water cannon and talk fast to push them back the demonstration comes in the same week and signed up to a new ally question deal that document was a great buy more than one hundred sixty u.n. member states last monday it aims to find a common global approach to migration but critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own migration policies chairman of the youth wing of the flemish and philosopher alliance party barred class believes the protests have sent an important signal to the belgian government. building specially slums in the
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nation as well as what we saw on this weekend thousands of people flocking to the streets of brussels to group just migration like a lot of those people are young people who have shown to grow just for the first time in their lives that's rude is something that's really new and now we can already see we have seen the end of a party the law just as we draw our own government is very very. stressed out by this and how voters are going to react in the next election so yet but things are finally starting to move in belgium as well to consider looking to the future of the one thousand sorties are starting to real eyes to look grand issue migration and change of people is very very big issue that will have to be a major role in years. telling fashion house
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prada house call. a range of accessories featuring monkey like figurines over allegations of racism. cold out of the fashion house for not seeing a strong resemblance to racist caricature of black people potter has since apologized saying it never intended to any offend anyone the problem ali are fantasy charms their 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. with fashion giants getting in brought in ever more scandals as people accuse them of being tone deaf to diversity racism and body image we put the issues up for debate . faint proud to call it completely wrong there it's quite obvious to me that
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to. put art with a black face and big red lips it's pretty obvious looking back for any any person of ethnic origin especially a black person to see that i think prada has made it perfectly clear that they had no intention of presenting this is as any kind of racist message or or blackface says it's come to be commonly called when i first saw the image of myself i did think straight away to the minstrel show so i think how can you how can such a big brand nowadays when diversity such a big issue and get it completely wrong or to think that a company of that size and that reputation were purposely go out and make these little figurines that would purposely affair and or mark a race of people you'd have to be out of your mind to believe in freedom of speech and freedom of creativity and however should be done taking into consideration
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people's feelings 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. intelligence agencies are designed to protect their countries from potential threats and need to find cia documents show a project from the nine hundred sixty s. was willing to explore some fairly off the wall if not dubious methods. the specific game of the research program was to examine the possibility of controlling the behavior of a dog in an open field by means of remotely triggering electrical stimulation the brain.
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really. you know world of big partisan movies 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. now i feel. that sunny.
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