in the war on yemen is this a defining moment for this bilateral relationship will so-called value strong. political reality. donald trump and takes credit for defeating islamic state terrorists in syria and is now considering a total troop withdrawal also ahead. on a vote. if i see exchange in the british parliament as may faces hostility over her contingency plans for a no deal of bragg's it. after weeks of tackling violent yellow vests demonstrations french police launching their own protest over working conditions and unpaid overtime at the same time some media are now blaming russia for the

unrest we've been looking for those suspected of infiltrating from the east. are you in paris people. when you. think. of this is arch international john thomas glad to have you with us. and the u.s. president has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria donald trump took to twitter giving the u.s. and himself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists. we have to feed in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency we now have official confirmation that u.s. troops will be leaving syria now president trump's tweet contradicts every. thing

that we've been hearing from the state department and the pentagon over the last several months here's what the head of the coalition to defeat isis said just over a week ago we want to see a resolution to the syrian civil war through the u.n. security council resolution process and we also want to see the removal of foreign forces from syria particularly the iranian commander proxy forces from syria his various americas will remain on the grounds that they have to the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is and are now there are at least two thousand u.s. troops in syria and removing them would be fulfillment of one of president trump's campaign promises white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders released a statement saying the process of returning troops back to the u.s. has actually already begun and the statement also says that this doesn't signal the end of the global coalition to defeat isis or its campaign isis has been defeated in the sense it holds no territory perhaps president trump is overstating the the

u.s. role in that effort isis was largely defeated by the syrian and russian militaries along with the lebanese group hezbollah and the timing here is very curious turkey is threatening an offensive on u.s. backed kurdish forces in northern syria and president ever to one has demanded that the u.s. backed forces withdraw and said that the operation to attack them could start any moment so turkey is unlikely to attack u.s. forces and this could very much factor into president trump's decision to remove american forces. my colleague kevin and was joined in the studio by hugo she's done off for a broader look back at the u.s. campaign in syria it's not the first time that the donald trump announces the withdrawal of troops from syria but last time that happened he backtracked pretty quickly you turning and staying in syria for another year or so well now yes indeed and he is taking the credit for it and just to give him the credit that he deserves and really. the united states did do

a lot to defeat eisel in syria i mean that can can't really be taken from them they pretty much liberated all of the eastern and northern much of the northern syrian regions of course not their soldiers not their troops but their proxy a sort of army as the kurds i mean the self-proclaimed capital of the caliphate rucka was liberated by the united states and their allies but the thing is the means that the because they did kick i sell out with the their favorite tool with their favorite approach and that is blunt stupid force so that's what they used on rocket for example they pretty much a blitter rated the city with bombings once a flourishing prosperous city now it still lies in ruins i mean we've heard a very very big outcry coming from human rights groups for instance who have been accusing the united states of indiscriminate bombing and even using a term as an annihilation war and saying that this should be considered

a war crime with the united states a bombing there just to give you the scale of how bad it is bodies are still being found in rock or complain and did in twenty seventeen. or similar thirty or we were forced to leave our homes because of myself when we returned we found everything we do still rubble look at all the devastation rock is a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. this is due to the rubble that we have to be to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to bow. in. the u.s.

coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble. i found a man on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mine didn't work and walked towards it it exploded my friend was killed. so the white house and confirming u.s. troops as they put it but we heard there were a trooper devises along the way but either which way started to come out is it all happened at once what's the plan here what's been said about a timeline for all this well this is this is a very good question i should say because yes indeed right now we're hearing that some of the troops are being withdrawn already but i mean the united states they do

kind of send troops in and out of syria regularly this is called the military rotation this is this is the thing so they send out a number of troops and send back in another group roughly the same size or so this is what's been happening in iraq for example in the years the good that came after the official and of the military campaign there and this is sort of the question that stands right now with syria whether or not how will they be withdrawing troops what scale will this withdrawal take will it be all of the troops or will this be again an iraq war in afghanistan sort of a situation so we have no details on this i mean a lot of that stems from the front that the united states. have been changing the rules of this game as game was and go in when it comes to why they are in syria in the first place because it certainly wasn't an official invitation from the u.n. recognized leader bashar assad and to the country saying they want to fight terrorists. so now they've defeated unlike the i don't ready

introduced a new reasons a new pretext as why the should stay for example come combating and kind of countering iranian influence in syria well where did that come from so now they say that their priorities have shifted again we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to ante up money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to compromise and that's not create yet another horror in the years ahead one thing that is obvious is that the united states there are still unhappy with the bashar assad being at the helm of syria so the a bound to keep some influence so they will in a way looks like they will remain there in syria just to what extent it's still to

be seen former u.s. diplomat jim johnson as things decision will meet with a huge wave of criticism is a good thing it helps to lead to what the only thing is that's going to restore stability and syria that is to put the whole country back into the country all of the legitimate government a question is is will these so-called experts that he's appointed to run his administration sandbag him and drag their feet and find some way to dig eight this decision and that's the real question we don't know the answer to a lot of people of fact virtually everybody this administration except the president himself will be opposed to this decision and that's why it's been so long in coming remember he also said he wanted to get out of afghanistan but all the so-called experts told him the reasons why he couldn't do it. with a less than one hundred days left until the u.k. parts ways with the e.u. teresa mayes government is ramping up no brags that preparations. the prime

minister's divorce plan continues to face serious oppositions with m.p.'s due to have a final vote on the deal in mid january may made her case in parliament on wednesday triggering a heated exchange with opposition leader jeremy corben. until the deal has a date has been ratified 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 jail woodridge disaster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow it i know it's christmas i know it's not to be stocking down the chimney under the christmas tree this still hasn't found. the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation was the prime it is so the trial to bring an acceptable deal but why didn't the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting four billion pounds in

a cynical attempt to drive good deeply damaging deal through this house you know who is a right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's governed easy also but this is a way to get. the stakes are getting higher and higher and 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 is absolutely clear at this point that the situation is more uncertain than ever and certainly passions are flying high on advice for the right honorable judge about you know a high in syria that ought to go. get it appears that the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn apparently had called

the british prime minister a stupid woman during prime minister's question time today i referred to those who i believe are seeking to turn the debate about the national crisis facing our country into a pantomime as. people. this is speaking i did not use the words stupid woman about the prime minister or anyone else and i am completely opposed to the use of sexist or misogynist language in absolutely any form tool so what we can know 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 this scandal and allegedly 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 no deal contingency plan other measures including securing medical and food supplies over the coming weeks families and businesses will also families and businesses will also be receiving official guidance on how to better prepare but independent british genocide consume believes that fears over a chaotic exit from the e.u. may be misplaced. they're actually playing up a scenario letters going out to households and businesses project fear with nuclear nuclear warheads on at the moment so they're ramping up the fear of this. by brussels is an option is 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 with that the problem is in westminster is that we have too many enemies and pace and m.e.p.a. standing behind cameras going on radio just just all get in months themselves not listening to what the voters want we've got to remain prime minister that are in the main opposition and we've got remain m.p.'s in the house of westminster they wish 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 as we touched on earlier in the midst of all of the brig's a drama this wednesday one moment from the parliamentary debate has lip readers

hard at work and people are asking whether jimmy corbin modern day misandry mystic comments under his breath have a look for yourself do the labor leader say woman or people. was. this kind of missile journalistic language must not be tolerated. he did not call her a stupid woman i'm so i don't think there's any basis for an apology as i understand it he said stupid people. it doesn't look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not the woman.

in a big win for whistleblowers and italian journalist and partner of wiki leaks has successfully appealed a freedom of information case with the u.k. metropolitan police over documents being passed between u.s. and british authorities concerning leaks editors. requested information held by police concerning question it's with the u.s. justice department she claims that any data about wiki leaks journalists should be published police had refused stating that he has no right to request information about other individuals but this latest decision made by a british tribunals panel has now allowed access as long as there is a written consent we heard from the way to the leaks editor in chief and the importance of this victory. we never know with all the people who have been working for we can also get into but this so that hopefully will come to light but we believe strongly that the information. by the metropolitan police has been

on that we have you know this is justice apartment and information possibly shared of course with the justice of the united states which is. poling you know you it means basically spying on journalists this is a very important landmark ruling for all journalists. they can in certain cases for example where there are many people involved. in central authorization from a large group of people to represent those people in the future with them information act cases for your cases so it's an important addition important tool in the toolbox of all journalists. with weeks of protests still simmering in france disgruntled police officers have started their own protest against unpaid overtime and dangerous working conditions reporting from

paris who started charging penske. 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 you hear 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 the b.p. for the last five weeks with the best test is 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 policing has been absolutely diabolical. 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 there's 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 strike which has been described as many as act one giving the suggestion that they prepared to go a little bit further the 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 goes almost two

hundred seventy five million. neuros to its police officers for overtime not in recent months or years but for decades we cannot have debt at that level they're also unhappy the unions about what they see is being moved enough in the port that the police budget which is due to be discussed as part of the two thousand and nineteen 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 create the conditions nor is it enough to recruit the extra stuff 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 of the police this new protest in france is already having some impact the original widespread demonstrations called for fuel tax levies to be dropped and political reform to occur but some have been looking away from the government for the source of the discord and rushed to link the

movement to moscow. and on the hunt for suspects. i don't think i've definitely found. yes. are you in paris to make people protest. the russians are they behind the protests. the party has the nose in your mouth. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturday. was. so there's just this is

a. full display suspiciously could be said to russian activity in france. which immediately. you mean you know it is so discordant to protesting just stealing from us into chaos. here that will give you the story what's your favorite color what. are you sure it's not yellow. so the poet. we see. most of the policy and staying with friends say french a parody twitter account has been suspended just a day after it was launched it had made a sarcastic tweets about emanuel micron in the wake of protests by the yellow best

movement although the count has now resurfaced under a new name has lost many of its followers and the original version remains banned the twitter pages run in the name of a fictional seven year old girl in the video she posts tweets under the hash tag must go mocking the government and calling for airstrikes her posts resemble the tweets of a similar account launched in two thousand and sixteen by a real seven year old girl from aleppo bamma she writes about the horrors of war in syria calling on the international community for help and although her posts against syrian president assad are written in well it's a fairly good english in an interview with c.n.n. she appeared to be reading from a script i once yeah. that is the room where you react. and go to school. all right the founder of the ben what. account james carey told us what motivated him to create

a parody. the motivation behind it obviously i mean it's fairly clear it was to do with some of that bond was you know a piece of regime change propaganda during the syrian civil war and decisions for war were being made on that the twitter of a little girl that's a ridiculous concept think about and to expand that out to you know any country it's crazy and it was just pointing out how you raise you how insane that idea is that a child and you know some on the street reporters in aleppo were basically dictating foreign policy for the united states israel turkey you know all of these countries are basing their words on what was supposedly just a child who decided to tweak one day so we just decided to run with it this time as france was you know blowing up the news and. just to point out the hope ocracy of when this happens in a western nation nobody had any problem with macross using what are chemical

weapons on his own people and we just wanted to point out that when this happens in a nato country if there is no propaganda effort there's never to cover it up. the e.u. and italy have agreed to a truce after months of bitter dispute about the country's budget for next year extensive reforms and tax breaks planned by the euro skeptic government in rome would be at odds with the euro zone of fiscal rules that drew the threat of sanctions from brussels even though several other countries are also in the red and currently all one thousand countries which use the euro must observe a deficit ceiling of three percent of g.d.p. spain belgium portugal and slovenia are among the nations who have been in trouble for breaching the rules but it is france's big spending plans for next year that has italian politicians crying foul paris is projecting a three point two percent deficit for two thousand nine hundred while rome what was

threatening with sanctions the e.u. has signaled france will not be punished it is perceived discrepancy that has seen italian leaders trying to force through their budget since day one. this is the first a talent budget the doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels the economy italian a sign that the italian economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give its leaders to pretty neat we won't change one comma in this document there is a plan b. you have to consider that the we are not gamble it's the best thing on. our future late and italian m.e.p. from the five star movement we spoke to says there are positive aspects in the new budget despite italy's struggles with the e.u. so where. about the its people think about two coolest

thing about software that they use all of this during the last year or so we are very satisfied about we have our european commission that was appointed in twenty four and now with this where almost twenty nineteen they don't represent any more political situation that was e.u. reports he's saving up for in the broad stewarts. france this should be completely the ball and what i mean we have nothing against france and there we hope that french can do or some expansionary mangers in order to about big that we're leaving for the french people we're all you peons but we cannot state standards to your current brought to all of the main counties of europe and it doesn't for me i'll be back with headlines in thirty two and a half minutes stay with us this hour to international.

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now so this is from the telegraph that are in the air and i. love to write the new york police investigate. a stabbing in capital this year this was a four out of the south of the knife crime and epidemic of florida which really hasn't actually come true if you look at the figures now and you know it is terrible and the murder rate is higher than it has been in previous years recovering me as a recording this as a hundred thirty one in the capital now new york is south of two hundred seventy three so while there has been a increase in violent crime which has been on the up since about twenty ten it's now hasn't panned out in the why that the press were predicting it was going to go server i'm just thinking this was to be the constant close up but i will tell you something in new york people are jumping for joy obviously new york's a very different place to look but what we want well of course absolutely the idea that new york was safer than london but look at you know i think it's been

embarrassing hasn't it the way the city columns bleated all about this clearly up.