the u.s. senate struggle. over the shogi murder and calls for an end to the american involvement in the war on yemen is this a defining moment by lot of relationship will so-called values trump card. i'm not. talking about you. know i. know. a feisty exchange in the british parliament may face is all right.

contingency plans for a no. after weeks of tackling violent demonstrations french police launched their own protest over working conditions over time. with some media. for the yellow. looking for those suspected of infiltrating from the east. by you in paris so you make people protest known that to leave the. company affected. and also coming up the sentencing of former national security adviser for lying to an f.b.i. investigation into alleged russian collusion. once again we look at his case.

just go on seven am in seattle ten pm in bangkok and six in the evening right here in moscow this wednesday december the nineteenth welcome to our international. with one hundred days left until the u.k. parts ways with the european union treason maze government is ramping up no deal bragg's at preparations as the prime minister's divorce plan continues to face serious opposition with them peace choose to have a final vote on the deal in mid january may be making her case in parliament this wednesday triggering a heated exchange with opposition leader jeremy corbett. until the deal has a date has been russia five it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal no dear old wood bridge disaster for our country and no

responsible government would ever allow each yes i know it's christmas i know it's not to be stocking down the chimney under the christmas tree so this doesn't sound right there it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation a is the prime minister the trial to bring in acceptable jailbird lloyd to the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting your full billion pounds in a cynical attempt to drive a good deep three damaging deal sure there's house you know who is a right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's governed easy answer for this day to get. the stakes are getting higher and higher in the debate is getting harder and harder and is in fact one hundred days to go before bracks it turns from being this vague concept that everybody in the u.k. seems to be arguing about into something very real and it's been now two years of

attempted negotiations and it's absolutely clear at this point that some of the situation is more uncertain than ever and certainly passions are flying high on advice for the right honorable judge about you know in syria that altria there. it appears that the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn apparently had called the british prime minister a stupid woman while his spokesperson has said that he actually did not call to receive may a stupid woman so there are no grounds for an apology the spokesperson said. that the opposition party leader has in fact reference to stupid people so we can certainly leave this lip reading to the experts in terms of who said what the key is that once again attention has shifted from the substance of bracks it to now the

scandal and alleged namecalling making up the headlines moving forward for at least for today and while it's clear that the problem has gone nowhere and specifically the european commission this wednesday has officially started preparing for a new deal bracks it's contingency action plan so things are getting quite real the debate as hot but where all of this is going to lead remains a massive question. more than three thousand troops will be put on standby as part of the new deal contingency plan all the measures include securing medical and food supplies over the coming weeks families and businesses will all be receiving official guidance on how to better prepare but independent british m.e.p. germans are concerned believe that fears over a chaotic exit from the european union may be misplaced. they're actually playing

up a no deal scenario letters going out to households and businesses in this project fear with nuclear nuclear warheads on at the moment so they're ramping up the fear of this. by brussels is an option that's on the table and under government legislation if we don't have a deal in the next few weeks that we just leave under world trade organization rules and there is no problem without the problem is in westminster is that we have too many pace and m.e.p.a. standing behind cameras going on radio just just arguing amongst themselves not listening to what the voters want we've got to remain prime minister that are in main opposition and we've got remain m.p.'s in the house of westminster they were they were given a clear mandate by the people to leave and we knew exactly what we were voting for and that is leaving without a deal if that comes down to it but i mean brussels now broadcasting to you they they really don't get its and understand the brussels brinkmanship that takes place

here of course it goes to the wire and we should hold their feet to the wire as well oh we've got one hundred days to work this out because this lot will cave in because they need us more than we need them. ok staying in europe with weeks of protests still simmering in front the scrum for police officers have started their own protest against paid overtime and dangerous working conditions in at least one terminal in the french capital's main airport officers are causing long lines of passport control by staging a slow dawn protest reporting from porous your charlotte devinsky. well it seems is out with the yellow vests and the blue vests police are now trying to squeeze concessions out of the government they're unhappy with what they see is deteriorating conditions the amount of overtime they've done some twenty three million hours and that includes because some of the work that they've been doing over the last five weeks with the best protesters and of course increased security

that we're seeing around christmas markets and some sites across france in the wake of that strasburg attack and they say it's simply not enough the unions describing the situation for police in france has been absolutely diabolical. do not get to greece was too cautious or 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 yelling fasts really resonates with police well those mean cry from some of the police unions who've been in discussions with the interior minister since tuesday those discussions are ongoing but already the government is offering some concessions being put on the table trying to quell the sunnies the last thing they want is for the police to

continue a strike which has been described as many as act one giving the suggestion that they prepared to go a little bit further as a yellow vest and be going over the last few weeks the concession on the table so for is a three hundred. to be paid to the officers who've been involved in the deployment of the yellow vests protest but the unions say it's just not enough and actually what they want is for those twenty three million hours of overtime being paid a huge bill according to the interior minister. the state currently owes almost two hundred seventy five million. neuros to its police officers for over time not in recent months or years but for decades we cannot have dead at that level they're also unhappy the unions about what they see is being moved to enough in the port that the police budget which is due to be discussed as part of the two thousand and nine hundred budget in the national assembly on that day they say it's not enough money to pay for the overtime and it's not enough money to improve the conditions

nor is it enough to recruit the extra staff that they need to deal with the continuing protests those talks ongoing between the unions and the interior minister but it seems it's already this slow down all of the police this new blue vest protest here in france is already having some impact well if we go back to the original widespread yellow vest demonstrations they were calling for fuel tax levy political reform as well but some have been looking away from the government for the source of the discord and rushed to link the movement to moscow charlotte earlier went on the hunt for suspects in. i don't think i've definitely found one. yes. by you in paris to make people protest. but.

not near. the russians are they behind the yellow vest protest what is it that you would just like he would. leave the loop remove good. news and. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturday. very. well this place suspiciously could be a center of russian activity in france. you mean you know it is so deep into protesting just spoon france into chaos.

here. this story what's your favorite color. are you sure it's not yellow. the. most in the. sentencing of the first white house official over alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign being delayed once again. former national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the f.b.i. but has been explains words like treason and meddling this is what 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 i'm not hiding my disgust my disdain for this criminal offense alone you were and registered agent of a foreign country serving as a national security adviser arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for arguably you sold your country out however the judge took it back i feel terrible about that the government has no reason to believe that the defendant committed treason is an actual crime with telling a lie to the feds but that's not what the media has been feeding us. it's it's funny because the street is a witness tampering not only is possibly treason but mike flynn is what people thought about when they're thinking when he's talking to people who might have gone along the treasonous that's how many trips did michael flynn take place anthony bourdain of treason 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. now you'll recall that is far as the media was concerned he wasn't simply an ambassador but a super spy master remember. 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 spy novel actually 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 lynn just 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 in court you know you guys investigation of a guy who pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. he should have been warned you shouldn't should have told you. 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 will flexible thoughtful pursuit believes where you'd want to stay

the f.b.i. broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambush plan the only reason that they did it was the terms administration and they thought they could get away with it at the time the f.b.i. did not see any wrongdoing general flynn pleaded guilty to making a full statement to the federal bureau of investigation even though the federal bureau of investigation agents did not detect any deception during flynn's incivil what michael flynn apparently said is that international tensions shouldn't ask following obama's sanction and sacking of the diplomats however michael flynn told the f.b.i. that he couldn't recall the details of the conversation there were tire general admitted lying to the f.b.i. michael flynn lied to the f.b.i. general michael landon 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 he supposedly kidnapped someone on

behalf of turkish president and while we're at it let's mention that his son is apparently part of the investigation lands 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. big story still to come two of the world's biggest oil companies find themselves linked to a billion dollar corruption scandal in central africa that's a long story yet to come. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. let you go right to be close it's like the faux three of them all can't be good. interested always in the logs it's. sixty. seventy minutes into the program you're very welcome back

a bunch of documents reportedly from a u.k. funded think partly revealed the propaganda sites links to nato among the revelations are supposedly efforts to infiltrate european media also added kapadia pages and then russian take us through the story of what we know polyploid. it's got a cozy sounding moralistic the integrity initiative is part of the u.k. based institute for state craft charity its 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 about lead times 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 am resigning she received death 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 the state craft an independent charity was hired several weeks ago and numerous documents were published a number of news channels the russian state media campaigns object of his clear this is just another example of russian just information intended to confuse audiences and discredit an organization which is working independently to talk of

the threat of descent 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 that leaked documents statements from the british government that have been sent to r.t. in response to repeated. it's about integrity initiative appears 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 of this 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 polly boyko with the story when we discussed it also with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger on our team going on and we've got a coming up but if you'd like to see the full program it will be aired here on saturday i've never known the such a group test scripts. as the the the the and what version. of russia and china and the perceived enemies to. the kind of cold war status they had when i was a child having grown up on the cold war i find it quite difficult to believe that journalists some of them to stay in their own money but all of the wheeling journalists distinguished in their own right. should go alone should allow them so

to be in. by the british government at a time when there is. a litany of law is about. russia about china about so many issues. ok i want to go through what is potentially one of the biggest corruption cases in corporate history a judge in milan has ruled that energy giants france is shall please and they were fully aware that the purchase of a nigerian oil field back in twenty eleven would be a source of massive fraud in the african nation the two firms have consistently denied the accusation since the international scandal broke last year. the management of oil companies and cho were fully aware of the fact that part of the one point ninety two billion dollars paid would have been used to compensate

nigerian public officials who had a role in this matter and who were circling their prey like congress sharks. and they face a corruption trial over the vast oil field bought for one point three billion dollars seven years ago a report by a prominent anticorruption group alleges that the bulk of the money went to a former or oil minister and others connected to his ownership of the site it also says nigeria will be six billion dollars out of pocket in lost revenue because of it both companies insist their actions were absolutely legal and correct. even when we believe transactions are legal people will seek to hold you to account you they see them as unethical shell is facing exactly that situation with court action and investigations over nigerian oil block cold o.b.l. two for five with hindsight it is not one that we want to find ourselves in again we wish to confirm the correctness and compliance of every aspect of the

transaction in respect of o.p.o. two four five concluded and twenty eleven both with a political laws and global industry practice putting a lot in layman terms of what it actually means the alleged bribe used to secure the deal is larger than nigeria's entire national health care budget almost half of the country's population there and eighty seven million people live in extreme poverty a corruption investigator we spoke to claims international companies exploit nigeria's natural resources and he's of the belief they don't give anything in return. evidence is. show. in new. involved in bribery. this is he a nigeria and you know you produce in concert and you realize just as simple as you shield what you call you. because there is no one. in nigeria that is walking

on the highway you she will be far in the mission you present companies they come to nigeria and you know i did the plot of the ari is charted over to be refined we don't produce it that is the truth about magic or are you. heading into this year america's relations with saudi arabia were perhaps not their strongest ever but following the murder war in yemen well the friendship continue to blossom in twenty nine crosstalk debates and it's next. survival book stacie is the start. of all these.

repatriation. to seven years. philip if that doesn't work. china much bigger economic power much or wall. i think. you have to live with it. and there's lots of advantages of the europeans jethro but as well as america. you mentioned being a six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you started getting headaches circulars you could have to stop doing all this and this is how you live the minutes must be free my world became

smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up running at the box. very strong magnetic field on my head in my head. think of it like a real heart my skin burned and that wireless access point says continues on saying with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. i mean. the principal emotions referring petitions is the same it was my medical doctor or a woman him to do it with me to like him so i try not to attach any party can the personal feelings maybe something tickled objections i would have but in politics

history is a judge and history will judge whose presidency was in the future when there were none of it to relate to do you know denise and. which was.

a low in welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle the u.s. senate strongly rebuke saudi arabia over the course 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 hard political realities. liking saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest hussein and suddenly he's a yemeni journalist in riyadh we have made it bram he is a u.s. relations expert and in brighton we cross to catherine shocked she is

a senior analyst with bio on center all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate him and let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. . and it was quite strongly unanimous when it came because shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role your country's led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead and we aren't well definitely peter as you know with the saudi arabia. news they actually denounce what the congress have done the congress itself you know too many people probably does doesn't understand they always have these kinds of symbolic agreement of doing things but it doesn't mean that it's decisive because it has to be run down to the to the house and then from the house the president have to sign off of it yes it is.