i was very much like i was me that really. was a. good joke. the u.n. general assembly adopts a resolution condemning russia over what it calls the militarization of crimea while moscow rejects the measure as a provocation. the russian foreign ministry hits the b.b.c. saying it's the work smacks of cynicism that 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 the yellow that's movement in france. may says that the vote on her divorce deal will now take place in the third week of january but it comes amid reports that some in her own cabinet are plotting to force another referendum. or broadcasting large i read from our studios in moscow this is our international and john thomas to have you with us. now the u.n. general assembly has adopted a ukraine sponsored resolution blaming russia for what it calls the militarization of crimea and the surrounding waters but also condemns moscow for building a bridge connecting crimea to the mainland that's despite the peninsula holding referendum in two thousand and fourteen in which the population voted to join

russia. more. now the united nations general assembly has adopted a resolution put forward by ukraine the resolution condemned russia for allegedly violating the sanctity of the sovereignty of ukraine now this resolution had sixty six countries voting in favor of it nineteen countries opposed it and seventy two abstained from the voting now those who spoke in favor of the resolution accused russia of violating ukraine's sovereignty here's some of what was said the united states is pleased to co-sponsor the resolution highlighting serious concerns with the militarization of crimea and russia's recent unprovoked attack on ukrainian naval vessels in the current strait russia's attack as a dangerous excavation and its ongoing aggressive activities towards ukraine it is yet another violation by the russian federation of the un charter and deliberate attack by the russian military forces against ukraine in the neutral borders of the

black sea the essence of this issue is a common belief that states must not use force in their international relations including to acquire territory or change borders inconsistently with the un charter representatives of russia responded saying that in many ways it seemed pretty clear that this resolution was itself a blatant provocation and us alone we mean in a word we are facing a carefully thought out and will planned provocation that is continuing here in this assembly before our eyes the u.s. in some e.u. countries are playing along with the ukrainian authorities confrontational course most of those countries are co-sponsors of this resolution as we can see because it will settle down that is now this follows an incident in which you had a ukrainian naval vessel trying to cross the kirks strait now when this happened at that point there were ukrainian navy boats trying to cross this courage straight and they ignored instructions from maritime control and at that point raw. border

guards had to intervene and detain the violators and now the kurts bridge which was recently constructed connecting crimea to other parts of russia was frequently brought up by those condemning russia it's important to note that bridge has been a point of criticism by those who oppose russia so much so the washington examiner a publication in the united states went as far as to call for the bridge to be blown up it's interesting that there was not then widespread condemnation of the washington examiner but regardless though we also have recently heard the united states promising to send more weapons to kiev and furthermore we did see another resolution voted on now the united states voted in favor of the resolution condemning russia however they voted against a resolution put forward by russia to condemn naziism in fact the united states and ukraine were the only two countries to vote against that resolution opposing nazis

so pretty clear differences in the international community displayed in the debate and passing of resolutions today at the u.n. general assembly. meanwhile over of the security council the debate was on kosovo's move to create its own army a step that could escalate tensions with serbia a number of states have issued a statement endorsing kosovo's transformation of its security forces into a professional military service president discuss the crimes of the act as being without any legal basis in the fuck. i would check on dollar in fact what happened is a totally normal decision in its mission and its purpose it goes or has made a mistake it's only that it waited for five years to establish now me that the season for the army may be belated about in no way it's their own one is believed in because we waited for goodwill from those that never showed goodwill towards kosovo but in the process this is

a blatant violation of security council resolution twelve forty four as the result of the adoption by the pristina assembly of a package of laws and a transformation of the cause of all security forces into a fully fledged armed forces my question to all of you my dear friends is. from which document from rich article but i got off with all. they derived at the right. really is the truth. and i can tell you an advice in advance nowhere. is just an intrapreneur interpretation a very bad interpretation done by some country but done by some countries because it is their own political interest. or the spy declaring in its independence in two thousand and eight because the remains are recognized by almost half of the un member states here is

a brief look back at how close of us conflict with serbia developed. all right we spoke to serene canadian filmmaker boars gretzky who says pristine as that decision runs the risk of igniting another war in the balkans. it is illegal not only according to serbia russia the un but is also a legal authority to those who have created it so their own constitution of the so-called republic of kosovo and this is a very dangerous move because you have violations of law on several fronts and that is very dangerous because we've seen many. escalations in the past couple of

weeks not only just this formation of the army but you've seen the authorities in kosovo increase taxes to one hundred percent taxes the products coming from central serbia and many most serves as we speak our rebellion against this are protesting every day against these taxes and now with the permission of the army it is very dangerous because if pristina decides to push that army into northern culture that is mostly populated by serbs service president has said that they will we will not watch this. passively that serbia will have to act to protect its people and if that happens of course it cost of all the sides to opt for the military solution to gain control over all of koso because it does not currently control of course all that could plunge the region into a war. 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 vest movement in france in one of the reporters messages she claimed her editors were quote out for blood well maybe some russian businesses capitalizing greatly on the protests maybe the protest is eating cutlass maybe the far right to ring leaders than i'm looking for angles yes the exit is to months and. well the lead messages were published by russia's real novus the news agency it comes just a week after a number of media outlets alleged 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 those 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's 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 a correspondent to raise the subject however in the end her reports made no mention of a possible connection with russia or its all we stand by our impartial independent journalism. we also asked b.b.c. russia if it is still looking for connections between moscow and the french protests and whether the correspondent was under pressure to pursue that particular angle but it declined to comment the russian foreign ministry has criticised the b.b.c. accusing it of acting with cynicism the cynicism of journalists is a mason 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 then please of the television and radio companies that do in. we went on to the streets of paris to

ask people if they thought russians were somehow interfering but everything is possible nowadays. we know of who is the. man they say the russians are behind the us presidency as well so you know. well. all right we asked a number of journalism groups for comment and of course we'll bring you any response that we get in that we also discussed the issue earlier with journalist neil clark and former british politician george galloway. the truth is our media class has allowed itself to become trapped in russell for b.-a when everything about us is falling around our ears luckily the british people are on to them the big revelation over the last couple of weeks is that the british government is using public money to pay for or to pay for the c.e.o.

of dissent from a show of misinformation hostile attacks on the loyal opposition in parliament the british broadcasting corporation is no acme of journalistic impartiality quite to the contrary what i think really it is not so much i don't think just about the b.b.c. it's about the climate under way in 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 we've basically got angriest establishments in these countries anything that really threatens the status quo or as a possibility of a change in direction of the economy or the political system he's playing on russia i think the cards being overplayed and i think it's like the boy who cried wolf just shouting the russians the russians the russians it's like going back to the eighteenth it is isn't it really and i don't think the public are really buying it and in france people know that there is widespread anger against macron and i think this trying to link it with russia is easier it exposing people to being conspiracy

theory so what actually what they are. staying with us to protest in france the country's prime minister has admitted in an interview that the government made mistakes in tackling the movement he accepted the authorities had not listened enough to the french people meanwhile the t.v. channel france three found itself caught up in a scandal for doctoring the image of a poster belonging to a yellow vest protester the sign called for president micron's resignation the word out which is seen in the original message had disappeared from the channel's late evening news broadcast france three blamed human error and said that there had been no intent to hide the sign but people did not believe that excuse on social media. open the photo fodder show by mistake user is a two by mistake believed out by mistake save the modified photo by overwriting their original by mistake projected onto the plaque card by mistake watching france

three by mistake that would happen again human error what i think to say they're really taking us for holes. a human error journalists editors the editor in chief the chief information officer all these people have therefore indorsed the sly with our cards well done this public service . on saturday yellow vest protesters flooded the streets of cities across france for a fifth consecutive weekend the number of demonstrators was down compared to previous weeks but clashes with police continued as massive forces were deployed again including officers on horseback and armored vehicles publisher and writer american mother v. believes that the french media's coverage of the events has been a clear sense. of course everything is possible with the government the

lax leeway as it is entangled in such a quagmire but i suppose it's small self censorship a kind of go into objection of censorship and then censorship from above so what the mainstream media entranced try to to conceal is that though the yellow vests wants to resign last saturday they were all carrying that kind of card it's true that micro-credit cannot make you turn on that very topic it would be ridiculous he was compelled to to make talk and reforms but people want him to go away because they cannot live anymore now in such a despair. british prime minister theresa may has said the much anticipated vote on her brags a deal will now take place in the third week of january just weeks before the country is due to walk through that use exit door but the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn is still slamming her deal as unacceptable 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 the millions who trust it into my pussy that our democracy does not deliver. another vote which would lie. actually leave us nose further forward to the north and another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to unite this is big here we face an unprecedented situation the prime minister has led us into a national crisis standing out to the scratch marks last week the prime minister said i have made some progress mr speaker she has not made any progress at all i have to ask what is the leadership the phrase which is often used i was told the prime minister had reached rock bottom but she still didn't get it all this thursday it will be one hundred days until britain leave the european union at the moment with. no deal and no plan b.

no deal and no plan b. . this is the constitutional crisis the prime minister may be aware of the bookmakers has been offering sixty six to warn against passing parliament could it be you know we cabinet ministers that would know and preparing for a referendum are not being disloyal to her but simply by true mass yes the. liberal democrat leader vince cable who you just saw there was referring to reports that cabinet members are plotting moves towards a second referendum this comes after former leaders john major and tony blair of also backed calls for another vote or his point boycott has more. 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 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 decide on whether there should be a second referendum to potentially reverse brags that and the other camp of pro relievers 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 as spokesperson has just denied just rules 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 bragg's and to have a second referendum 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 brags 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 it's never going to happen another referendum now people are saying you know will 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 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 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 have regs that deal what it looks dead in the mortaring 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 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 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 that are 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 very much up in the air. senior politics lecturer at lancaster university mark garnett believes most arguments being made against another referendum like substance. of those arguments that mrs may. not having

a second referendum the only one i think that really makes any kind of sense is one of the party says that if we have this referendum that was sold off a problem because it will again be rather close all the other argument she's been using against a referendum a desperately thin she seems to be saying it would somehow be a betrayal of democracy which suggests that using the democratic process this is how anti democratic the idea that the people who spoke at once and shouldn't be allowed to speak again is rather strange so she's really on very very thin ice when she's talking on this subject but in the end there's no dramatic movement in the polls and that might be if there were to be such a movement i really think that it would be impossible to stop a second referendum. in the u.k. a judge has blocked an illegal immigrants deportation due to his conversion to christianity the british government says it considers the man

a threat to society as he has already served a jail term for sexually assaulting a seventeen year old girl after looking through his eight hundred fifty twitter posts quoting the bible in christian theology the court decided that he was at risk of persecution if sent back to iran although the judge admitted that he thought the man's religious conversion was an attempt to avoid deportation he still found it likely the man's human rights would be breached we were earlier joined by keith best former chief executive of the immigration advisory service and to david coburn member of the european parliament for scotland to discuss the issue. pinball the thing is nice a this is a lawyer the law has to be disinterested the law has to be blind it applies to everybody and at the end of the day this person is subject to the european convention on human rights sincerely was drafted by a british home secretary said david maxwell five and our school three is very very

clear it is an absolute prohibition on sending anybody whatever they've done back to a situation in which they may face inhuman or degrading treatment or torture this man has put himself in harm's way by pretending to be a christian which she apparently according to the reports seems not to be for what they have said i don't have it all it wasn't by the say he wasn't. he was just pretending to be a christian or to state so he said things that puts him in harm's way as regards iraq. but quite frankly even so i do i do not think we should be keeping repress this country whatever you know just because they're the they may come to our some harbor home i don't see why we should we should keep them in this country i think that law needs to be changed if we start discriminating against people for reasons of their faith or their sexual propensity or whatever then we are on very serious

crimes britain should be setting an example around the world well actually maintaining the rights of individuals and once we start slipping from that we fall into the era of many other countries which are far less liberal and that's a very serious decline in civilization i thought people like you longer and empires or or whatever when where and when you project like that or under our control then they work their way around in a more reasonable way but now those countries those sovereign nations beat their own decisions. i don't think it's for you to tell them what to do i deplore what they're doing but it's their decision no as regards a criminal who comes here and commits a heinous crime of rape quite frankly he has no right to stay in this country and should be removed and we should make it very clear and i wouldn't move us from that particular act so that we can make our own decisions about keeping people in the

country or having them removed at least as far as i'm concerned but once he'd set for itself to sentence which he did and sat by the way it was a part of it is feet wouldn't touch the ground. intelligence agencies are designed to protect their countries from potential threats and newly declassified documents show project from the one 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 brain .

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