i wouldn't just. be witness of the deal going on because. i'm doing this because i want the for the future world to the future can generations to have out and enjoy the ocean now we have. the sentencing of donald trump former national security advisor for lying to the f.b.i. is delayed once again look at how his case is overshadowed by words like treason and meddling. after weeks of tightening violence yellow best demonstrations police in france threatened that own protest over working conditions of the media

blamed russia for the on rest we try to find those really responsible for you in paris to make people protest known the do leave the. company pretty. fortunes prime minister continues to face opposition to her breakthrough plan as the government ramps up preparations for painful no deal divorce from the e.u. . a very warm welcome to you it's eight am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky air and very good morning now our top story the sentencing of the first white house official over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen us presidential campaign has been delayed once again donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty to

a single counts of lying to the f.b.i. but his caleb maupin explains both words like treason and meddling mass quote flynn is really guilty of. general michael flynn the only senior member of the trumpet ministration to be charged with a crime by the special prosecutor it was supposed to be a smoking gun the judge didn't mince any words when describing it all along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security advisor arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for arguably you sold your country out however the judge took it back his actual crime was telling a lie to the fed but that's not what the media has been feeding us i feel terrible about that the government has no reason to believe that the defendant committed treason i'm not hiding my disgust my disdain for this criminal offense no treason no sinister connection to foreign adversaries what happened is this in december of two thousand and sixteen as the f.b.i.

was preparing to wrap up and conclude its collusion investigation at that point michael flynn had a conversation with russian ambassador thirty. now you'll recall that as far as the media was concerned he wasn't simply an ambassador but a super spy master remember back identified by c.n.n. as a top intelligence gatherer to our spies master in washington d.c. and who we know is the chief spies so course the f.b.i. had no choice but to talk to flynn about that conversation but the way their interview with him was conducted was rather strange no lawyers were present the white house counsel was not informed linda sat down with the f.b.i. and at no point did they tell him that what he said could later be used against him for the f.b.i.'s investigation of a guy who pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. he should have been warned you shouldn't lie should have been told you can have a lawyer think of the state of affairs we've ended up in that's nonsense i'm very proud of the way the f.b.i. conducted itself actual flexible thoughtful pursuit believes where you'd want us to

at the time the f.b.i. did not see any wrongdoing. general flynn pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the federal bureau of investigation even though the f.b.i. agents did not detect any deception do influence interview what michael flynn apparently said the case leon is that international tensions shouldn't ask following obama saying certain and sacking of the diplomats however michael flynn told the f.b.i. that he couldn't recall the details of the conversation the very heart of today's microphones news are the repeated lies or false statements made by members of the trumpet ministration well flynn's calls the russian ambassador were coming to light this is a man who had three decades in public service often working very closely with the f.b.i. and he should not have had to been reminded that lying to the f.b.i. is a crime general michael flynn oh the horror he sat at a table with russian president vladimir putin and he's supposedly met with a group alleged to be nazi sympathizers and you supposedly kidnapped someone on

behalf of turkish president era one and while we're at it let's mention that his son is apparently part of the investigation and i think the judge was badly informed the timings and information and how these are all related to each other and so his sentencing will be ninety days down the road i think the judge will be a little more chastened at that time and willing to take the recommendations of the special counsel when this name has been dragged through the mud at the end of the day however the f.b.i. only found one thing to hold onto a lie. r.t. new york. on the same day flynn was to be sentenced one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trial russia dossiers that it contains claims that are likely false and michael eisner cough believes the more salacious accusations made in it may never be proven in the future and go breaks down how the dossier was sometimes used as firm evidence in the investigation. sometimes it takes only one

spark one report from one or a handful of journalists from a big outlet to really send the media world into overdrive what a good example was when the chief investigative reporter for yahoo news michael isikoff made a bombshell out of the infamous steel dossier that was a big one remember with the p. tape aka the golden shower compromise with plenty of alleged collusion evidence well here's what the same man says now in december twenty eighth when you actually get into the details of the steel dosia the specific allegations we have not seen the evidence to support them and in fact there's good grounds to think that some of the most sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely folks and this something we find out almost two years since the dossier came to light but back in january twenty seventh seeing hours and hours of airtime on these steel memos

bombarded t.v. screens to tell the world a story of collusion plus its thanks to the dossier for one that the f.b.i. secured a warrant to spy on donald trump's advisor pretty serious stuff former british intelligence officer behind the dot ca that contained explosive allegations about president donald trump he also addressed the dossier of alleged dirt on donald trump in russia the report included unsubstantiated claims that russian intelligence compiled a dossier on mr trump during visits to moscow the dossier was full of claims that could have been seen as good collusion proof the most notable alleging donald trump's former attorney michael cohen traveled to prague to fix and coordinate all that campaign scheming together with russia and the so-called p tape was perhaps part of a two with the most bizarre claims that russian security services had blackmailed trump with recordings of his dirty deeds. in

a moscow hotel this wasn't just something that randomly came from donald trump the president pretty much repeated a crucial statement by the author of the dossier himself revealed in a court hearing chris steele said the following was supposed to happen as a result of the dossiers publication based on the advice party such as the democratic national committee and hey chief a.c.c. could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to chinese the validity of the outcome of that election so if she didn't pay for it it was done through one of the klinefelter her going is ations only with a specific purpose to find some kind of legal ground to challenge the results of the twenty six sting vote. seems to have a more alive nine lives like a cat never dies because people need it more to sue to propel the story forward travis is quite right trump is wrong about a lot of things but occasionally he's right and he's right about the nature of this

investigation it is chasing after what we call america will war the wisc it's a phantom illusion and there is nothing to this investigation so the investigation will will run up dry will come out dry but there are very important forces united states that want to continue. and so therefore it will continue because the media is soured lee on board. so i think that this story will drag on our it will if there is no way of killing yet because people want to just want to continue. french president and on the crown has met with his cabinet to discuss how to commonly rest in the country even the police are threatening to launch their own blue vests protest unpaid overtime and dangerous working conditions. the original and widespread yellow vests demonstrations called for fuel

tax levies to be dropped since political reform but some have been looking away from the government for the source of the of the discord and rush to link the movement to russia so it depends key went to find some suspects. it would. at least up the angle some mainstream media was searching for it was the russians who are behind france's mobilization over the yellow dress protest is nothing to do with the high cost of living fuel taxes and deteriorating services in rural areas so we've come out to the streets of paris to find out if those that say she is called nice have been at it again where all they. think i just spotted one over there that's definitely a russian. word. not

the skippy i don't play i've definitely found one. yes. by you in paris to make people protest known that to look me. up. no need to sit on your chest but i see. the russians of a behind the yellow vest protests not as a thank you lou just like he was just good to leave the loop removed oh i'm sure the party has the news in your mouth. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturdays immediately issues a. lorry with a request others are some pictures a. full display suspiciously could be said of russian activity in france. france the

you mean you not here it is so deep into protesting to just spoon fronts into chaos . here is your the story what's your favorite color. you sure it's not yellow. also so it appears that these russians are pleading they are innocent bystanders that they have nothing to do with the protests but they would say that they sold it to ski party paris. while the demands of the real yellow vests have been beamed to viewers around the world but some of the coverage in france itself has come in for criticism of french t.v.

channel is accused of censoring news broadcast after it appeared to change a plaque card of one of the protesters it initially said mccrone out but the last word was deleted it caused a mass accusations across social media networks the channel later said it was a human error we spoke to the protester whose placard was altered. i was shocked like many others this censorship by france three cancer shadow in the media in general the process to start to think that journalists are in cahoots with politicians and the financial elite this kind of censorship doesn't help the situations people would say you see we were right in criticizing the media they manipulate as i've heard from many people who said they were shocked as well there's a backlash online twitter facebook everywhere i thought this through and decided to file a complaint to the country's media watchdog. the french government has made concessions to the police is proposing three hundred euro bonuses to the offices deployed to

protests the police union reacted angrily to that saying its members can't be bought a union representative described officers feelings towards the protests. no not getting always even considering the social and professional obligations of our colleagues when they are not in uniform they become yellow vests because we are middle class or even lower because of our salaries our origin that's why some colleagues feel that they are yellow vests because of the yellow really resonates with police i'm going to put. a bunch of hacks documents reportedly from the u.k. funded think tank integrity initiative apparently revealed the anti propaganda site linked to nato among the revelations are suppose that efforts to infiltrate european media and editing wiki pedia pages in an anti russian manner takes us

through the story. it's got a cozy sounding moralistic name the integrity initiative it's part of the u.k. based institute for state craft charity it's purpose to counter all that kremlin this information flooding the globe leaked documents have shown the noble crusade receiving funds from the british government's foreign office and the latest leak has revealed some of those who were paid by the info wars unit. two thousand five hundred pounds a month not bad his day job is at the atlantic council and nato backed think tank ties to nato seem to be a good indorsement if you want to get paid by the integrity initiative apparently ties to our channel can also get you the gig remember liz wahl a presenter of variety over in the us who resigned after this newscast i'm resigning she received a three figure sum from the group for an article titled inside r.t.

where she compares the channel to isis we've contacted both the integrity initiative and the institute for statecraft over the payments but so far there's been no comment while the u.k. foreign office which has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds. on the program had this to say these situ for statecraft an independent charity was hired several weeks ago and numerous documents were published a number of news channels the russian state media campaigns objectively is clear this is just another example of russian descent from ation intended to confuse audiences and discredit an organization which is working independently to talk of the thrust of dissent from asia the integrity initiative has been caught three tweeting stories that explore conspiracy theories about the u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn despite receiving funding from the foreign office some including wiki leaks have question the veracity of some of the leaked documents the statements from the british government that have been sent to r.t. in response to repeated questions about integrity initiative appear to have struck

a nerve although that's by no means proof that the documents are real for the most part the mainstream media here in the u.k. has chosen to ignore the british government funding and russian networks story except for one aspect of it one u.k. foreign office minister has now demanded a thorough investigation of the charity's criticism of the labor party on calling for a public inquiry into the integrity and similar information war that's being funded by our government as for the rest of the integrity initiatives and the russia work there is the afa lated to the group say they're merely defending democratic institutions and fighting the good fight. we discuss the leaks with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger on noughties going underground you can watch the full version on saturday having grown up on the cold war i find it quite

difficult to believe that journalists some of them distinguished in their own many but all of the willing journalists distinguished in their own right. should go alone should allow themselves to be indulged by the british government at a time when there is. a litany of lies about. russia about china about so many issues that in dangerous there is no evidence no real evidence at all of russia gate the skipper of affair produced no evidence that would stand up in a court of law. these things may have happened i don't know but no evidence of that is now accepted by journalists as ok i've been a journalist for a long time and i've covered. and these situations i've never

known i've never known the such a grotesque absurdity as the the the the elevation of russia and china and the perceived enemies to. the kind of cold war status they had when i was a child. and italian judge accuses the oil giants of instigating corruption in nigeria we have all the details on that coming up after this short break. financial survival guide i don't fly if i'm on. the flight. that's the sum of my ex in the future so crocker kaiser.

the u.s. senate struggling rebuke saudi arabia over the shogi murder and calls for an end to the american involvement in the war on yemen is this a defining moment for this bilateral relationship will so-called values trump card political reality.

welcome back the british government is ramping up preparations for a no deal gregg's it stands to reason may's withdrawal plan continues to face opposition from m.p.'s the deal can't be adopted if it doesn't receive necessary support in apollo mentary vote for january of next year and while his adoption is in question the u.k.'s briggs's secretary says a no deal scenario is now a serious consideration. the government's priority remains to security but we need to recognize with fourteen weeks to go that a responsible government is preparing for the eventuality that we leave without listening to me three thousand troops will reportedly be put on standby as part of the no deal contingency plan other measures include securing medical and food supplies during the coming weeks families and businesses will also be receiving

official guidance on how to prepare for a possible chaotic divorce from the shanty edwards in london has more on this. well if you're struggling to keep up with all the latest developments you're certainly not alone and one thing that we can all actually agree on and keep up with is the fact that to resume a deal probably won't make it through parliament in january and today the cabinet use its last meeting before breaking up for christmas to agree to ramp up no deal preparations even though it still says and still believes that delivering the deal that the prime minister did agree in process is still the government's top priority having said that bracks that is just one hundred days away now so ministers are now preparing for a note let me just talk you through a bit of those preparations we're hearing that all u.k. citizens will be sent information about how to prepare for a no till breakfast and think of it maybe like a survivor sky two

a no deal but most worryingly the defense secretary gavin williamson he's saying that three thousand five hundred troops could be put on the streets on standby to help the u.k. deal with the impact what we are doing is putting contingency plans in close and what we will do is have three and a half thousand service personnel. readiness including regulars and reserves and i would support any government department on any contingencies they may need a call that scare mongering or call that sensible but across the channel the european parliament negotiate has sounded the alarms as well over a no till breakfast and those like jeremy hunt who glorify new deal broke so they are totally responsible it's not the job of politicians to make the people the lead poor or remove. rights to make lives more uncertain there's no such thing as a man there's no deal now as it stands and peace will be voted on korea's amazed deal meaningfully in parliament in january the deadline for that is the twenty

first which is the absolute last possible date to do so but theresa may says should be holding that meaningful vote a week prior to that it still doesn't look too hopeful for the prime minister especially given the fact that the e.u. . told her categorically that they would not be renegotiating had a deal and they would not be doing so under any single second stances so now many people are telling theresa may urgent a reason may to stop running scared and hold the vote sooner rather than later i think this is just there's a determination on the part of the british government to try and scare the people into putting pressure on the m.p.'s. to vote for mrs may is absolutely abominable deal she still thinks if she still has to believe that she might get some kind of slip through a concession from brussels which will enable the house of commons to back a drug deal but i did see it happening she still wants to cling on to the illusion

of seeing the deal passed but i don't think that will happen soon would end up getting out without a deal. so jim's prime minister and nonce to his resignation following a split in his coalition after he signed on to a new un migration pact it's one of the largest of the coalition of ruling parties deciding to quit its leaving shell michel and leading a minority government and right wing parties organize a rally in the belgian capital on sunday against the migration pact and five thousand people came out on to the streets. u.n. migration pact was agreed by more than one hundred sixty un member states or summit

in mar cash last monday it aims to find a common global approach to migration critics say it will limit the ability of countries to shape their own policies the u.s. was the first to oppose the pact as it legitimizes illegal migration. followed america in rejecting the documents european countries that made memories of the migrant crisis of twenty fifteen showed a fierce resistance to sign the controversial pact migration issue play as plunged into a deep political crisis the leader of the people's party thinks signing the pact was a matter of principle or belgium's prime minister. the go to the middle class that's all for you. knew that it was a important. question this. might we should at least for the end of year which was the spanish alliance the largest party but we decided to make

also in south america of principle are wrong the signature of this fact obviously. it's nowhere treaty any more for we already. knew you were there with. motion of no confidence filed by civil parties and he knew you were not here the majority was into this the void should have been cast. so this was the only way out and try to convince so they started with the speech. the. piece. you want to work with them and fight eventually to sort of. curious. there was absolutely no support from the opposition

parties to maintain his government even inducer conditions. shall and and i were fully aware that the purchase of the ninety three an oil field back in two thousand and eleven would be the source of corruption in the african country as according to a ruling by a judge in milan italy thousands have constantly denied the accusation the management of oil companies and nine shell were fully aware of the fact that part of their one point ninety two billion dollars paid what have been used to compensate nigerian public officials who had a role in this matter and were circling their prey like congress sharks. d.n.i. was sued more than one billion dollars bribery payments in twenty eleven nigerian officials claim the sum was to be paid to the for more oil minister at the same time shell insists on his transparency and honesty towards its partners trust can

only be one that can only be kept if society can clearly see that you are right alongside it and you can only make sure that society does that if you are totally transparent and that's why we have embraced transparency the national health care budget is less than the alleged some of the alleged bribe this is six also show that almost half of the population of nigeria is living in extreme poverty rolling down their corruption investigators those that are international companies exploits nigeria's natural resources without giving anything in return. even involved in bribery and corruption. and you know you produce in concert and. you feel what you call. because there is no

refinery. on the harbor you should be far in mission or you present company come to nigeria. explore the charge of us do we revive the. we don't produce it that is the truth about my job. thanks for joining us on our c international this morning we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.