it's not. never. for. the barrier.

to be. committed. to the program. but the u.s. government shutdown over a. week democrats have pushed forward with legislation. the democratic controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund the federal government but the. funding for a border wall. and. the war. the us president. has widespread support. isn't a morality. it's not who we are as a nation and this is not

a wall between mexico and the united states that the president is creating here it's a wall between reality and his constituents his supporters i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier. all to hammer home his stance the whole trying to to instagram posting this statement of intent he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple.

well that's not all of the wall looks likely to intensify with the democrat bails on getting the government running again now going to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to be shut down and we discussed the border will issue with that ryan from conservative group american majority and wrote a petitio a civil rights attorney. will also understand the president has absolutely no no leverage in this situation he's already made his position position clear they should negotiate this last february during the last government shutdown there there's no reason for nancy pelosi to move on this unless the president is willing to make a deal on dhaka make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform basically nancy pelosi has him bent over heard me right now she can demand whatever she wants we're a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present a hales donald trump cannot back down on this i mean his base is expecting him to fulfill this major campaign promise and i know it doesn't seem like a lot of money i think we're not even really talking about the money because five point six billion and

a four trillion annual budget doesn't really mean much at all this is really a showdown between his trunk going to get his wall or democrats going to deny him that and also you know at a certain point we have to acknowledge the left base inside a democratic party does not want to see a secure border is more favorable towards open borders and not really fixing our immigration policy so i think if they want the wall that should be telling the president to do is bring back the chuck schumer legislation from two thousand and thirteen that passed the senate sixty eight votes to thirty two votes in the house republicans killed there could have been a border wall for the last five years of looking for the freedom hawk caucus and some of the extremists in the republican party not supporting it so for the current wall what we need to see the c.b.l. score for was actually wall will say that's what we need to see as a funding mechanism so we know exactly how that actually this is being paid for and we need a concrete and universal comprehensive plan on immigration reform and not simply say we're going to stick still slate's and in the desert that's going to probably need a real plan for this a lot of chum space is willing to compromise we understand that these dock of these

dreamers they did not come here they were brought. here they did not come of their own volition we understand that there is a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of trauma space they understand there has to be some legal status maybe even potentially a path to citizenship i think people are willing to negotiate but on the same time if there is not funding for a wall in return for a path to citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation in this at some point we all know that politics is the art of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump has said here is my non-negotiable the answer of course you have to come up with something that says what we'll give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you go they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises. not just being blamed for the government shutdown tech giant apple has accused him of holding his business in china with a trade war he's waging against beijing a u.s.

stock markets are in a sea of red after apple issued a profit warning for the first time in sixteen years the u.s. president himself though insists his tariffs are actually helping america is daniel bushell. what happened wall street's darling the world's first ever trillion dollar firm just months after that historic milestone the i pad make issues the canary in the mine shaft the most nail biting announcement the chilling profit warning the first official public admission that a company's to announce bad news within minutes of the new york markets opening on thursday apple hey marriage to sixty four billion dollars of its value enough to replace every i phone cracked screen in the world investors now want the head of apple boss tim cook all right so you're saying that. but cook blame someone else trumps trade war with china we believe the economic environment

in china has been further impacted by a rise in trade tensions with the united states after the donald slapped painful tariffs on imports from the communist superpower beijing swung back imposing or proposing tolls on most american imports from all i macs to cause so our polls not the only us multinational i can punning the trade crossfire between the world's top two economies but the donald remain strangely cool in fact he's glowing the united states treasury has taken in many billions of dollars from the tariffs which are going china and other countries that have not treated us fairly in the meantime we're doing well in various trade negotiations currently going on at some point this had to be done just one day off the apples profit warning sends shock waves through us think he tweets his tariff hikes bring in billions to the u.s. purse so the trade was hurting or hoping there's definitely bringing us some money

but it's not bringing attempt from foreign governments it's bringing it and from american businesses and american consumers which is to say that it is a tax and taxes are not good for economic growth and he began this whole trade conflict same trade. wars are great they're easy to win and they will boost growth so everything the opposite has happened and we haven't won all's done is increase television from around the world and now we've seen how it's profoundly affecting even tech companies as you could see from apple's sales in china this is a direct consequence of the trade wars it's not just china that's felt the burden of trump's policies of twenty eighteen the u.s. president's tower of slapping spree has also hurt american allies some of whom are now questioning whether they really need a friend like his r.t.s. but i guess the. two thousand and eighteen hasn't been easy in america it was a rough rough year friends came friends went more went really

then came and those that weren't friends in the first place well it lost all fear. to go to a bullying enemy yesterday saddam was in front of us today it's trump there is no difference we must resist and when. you have to see the criminal supremacist business of those who govern the united states. countries shouldn't just point fingers at the others but ignore their own mistakes they shouldn't be the torchlight doing nothing but exposing the weakness of others while ignoring their own come now no surprise those countries weren't all that buddy buddy with america to begin with but us allies friends that's another story without a happy ending take trump's little vendetta against iran where he top nuclear deal with it deal that took his allies europeans years of

efforts negotiations sweat and nerves trump is now threatening his own allies if they there break his blockade against iran no one trades with iran he insists that the europeans are playing ball. as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we know me to act we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans and this case to decide with home to trade with. take also trumps advice to germany lately sort of bullying we with regards to russian gas pipelines. germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course nothing complicated here merica cannot

compete with much cheaper russian gas but if you get rid of russian gas pipelines europeans trump's allies will have no choice but to overpay for american gas well it's better than taking advantage of your friends problem is germany isn't that stupid we can't rely on the superpower of the united states neither is nato immune to trump's charms huge smalling out this year between turkey and the states and current wanting to buy russian missiles and trump trump didn't like that one bit we have had serious concerns about turkey's potential acquisition of the ass four hundred system so this is turkey's decision we made a deal on the s four hundred that file is closed it is closed business trumps gung

ho attitude his speak first think later and then change your mind style has. pushed away friends or shove them away they'd enemies it's getting harder to bully co worse and stronger on your way around shining example as what's happening at the un or rather what isn't happening in the us getting its way q more threats the american people pay twenty two percent of the un budget more than the next three highs donor countries combined in spite of this generosity the rest of the un booted with us only thirty one percent of the time this is not an acceptable return on our investment president trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars always serve american interests america's erratic behavior. it's tantrums costing it power influence friends even the famous bromance with

french president mark ron is ending but it's more than that it's a new global trend where people nations are pretty sick of being ordered about told what to do it regardless of what they think hard of trump tweeting about them two thousand and eighteen was hard on america trump made it so. germany's interior minister is demanding tougher laws on asylum seekers after a migrant gang went on a brutal spree against passers by including children top politicians are warning that current law to not allow deportation even of violent criminals. the hearsay at law not i've been asked for months already to make the deportations more effective in germany and that's why we've been working for weeks at the ministry of the interior to prepare a constitutional amendment for a more efficient deportation system so violent offenses are increasingly worrying

me whether they are done out of xenophobia or whether they are carried out by foreigners and asylum seekers a state governed by the rule of law must decisively combat both that is our basic position the person who randomly attacks innocent passers by demonstrates that he does not seek the protection of our society the need of perpetrators can expect no understanding in our country but only the full force of the law currently deportation is not legally possible but we're working hard to change that or following the incident that took place on saturday evening which left twelve people injured in a seemingly random attack in the town of place have four main suspects in custody they range from seventeen to nineteen years in age and come from afghanistan and iran well this is prompted ministers to call for a change in the laws as it stands at the moment you can be deported back to a home country if your applying for asylum and your a minor or the country that you would be returned to is deemed to be dangerous now

the christian social union under the merkel's coalition partners in bavaria they've come out and said they want this law changed now the green party and the mayor of the town of umberger have accused the christian social union and interior minister horse and say hoffer of playing politics with this issue i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to amberg but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far the hard for is using the amber consistent f. actively to tighten asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism politician. splits over what to do over to porting asylum applications certainly seems people are also equally as spliffs i spoke to people on the streets of berlin and they gave me their reaction to the story they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should

. they have to do a note to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back to pennsic. it's their mind this is ok they have. been to a lot so in the war in afghanistan they need help i think we have our laws we don't have to change the laws and i think we are right doing it. right now they deserve a second chance while the center for european reform says that one third of those migrants and refugees that came to germany since twenty fifteen currently in full time employment or an apprenticeship scheme however it's what to do with those other two thirds especially those among them who would commit crime well that's causing headaches for legislators across the country we are to be on top of soli of germany's the party and alternative for germany party member him paul to try and shut some light on the yes sure. we have a constitution that is very strong on human rights you cannot ever on of the

german constitution depart someone to the united states when he's facing the death penalty they he has gassed and if they commit crimes then they can no longer be our guests so what is the old i should be doing is to actually work with countries. to enable us to deport people when we have to promise that they will not be tortured like in cia rendition sites or i'm the threat of the death penalty in fact what he's doing he is fear mongering and so he is scaring those people that are willing to integrate why he should be targeting the radical islamists that his government has let into our country it's a big lie that they all coming to germany because their lives are in danger many of them of bullets majority of them come to germany because. they're

just. applied to welfare and to live for asylum did they all for years by the state and with no work angela merkel said we are. not so we will we will go into kuwait and we will give birth but you know see we have incident incident incident so it's. into creation policy it is a mess it's a missile weeks still to come here on the program on the british army it's reaching out to snowflakes on a selfie addict and i believe it to boost dwindling recruitment figures who will lift the lid on that in just a moment. join

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stories here on r.t. if you can't beat them join them. appealing to snowflakes and selfie attics in his latest campaign to get the younger generation to enlist but just how many will be willing to swap phone time for the front lines and i see a churkin a texan. a new year and time for a fresh start but the british army is kicking off twenty nineteen when the curious one struggling to get new additions to join its ranks have come up with a new recruitment campaign aimed at the new generation or those the u.k. ministry of defense addresses in their new ads as me me me millennial snowflakes selfie addicts class clowns and phones are the new your army needs you series of posters video clips am radio ads aims to turn those society allegedly undervalues.

most. news useless into those the army would properly appreciate. all this while. the new campaign is the third execution of the this is belonging series showing how the army finds potential beyond gens and millennial stereotypes and identifying the essential skills needed in a new army recruits such as compassion self belief and focus this is how the u.k. ministry of defense attributes those qualities in its attempts to recruit if you're a snowflake the army needs you and your compassion if you're a binge gamer it's your drive that's useful if your phone's on b. you must have great focus skills and if you're a me me me millennial you must apparently be fantastic at self belief that's the

logic but how likely is it that this approach will appeal to the audience but i think it appealed to a younger generation i think they're all offensive like to people like a different message there any bad connotation to put in the military in a bit of a strange light this would be quite rude doesn't make any sense. because the difference on these doesn't actually mean anything to do so. it's appealing to the saying so to people is. the people who weighs in still about the army being for them it's no secret that the british army has been failing to reach its target recruiting numbers currently at seventy seven thousand fully trained troops and several thousand short of its eighty two thousand five hundred goal momentary drop out rates for uplands have also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost how of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said sure cannot r.t.

. or it over the next few days there are now three international we are looking back at some of the stories we brought you in twenty eight. twenty two it was certainly a big year for watching the news there was plenty of it but what was it like from the point of view of those actually reporting the bigger events. so for. now everything being into a mess if. you.

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news. to tell them to me. i'm so. happy. thanks for joining us today on this friday and for so much of twenty years who knows well we are back with more of your friday stories. hello my name is peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this

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a culture on accountability that police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crap. below and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle as the media become unhinged in the air of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates.

in the media i'm joined by my guest charles or tell the new york he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles also in new york we have joe concha he is they were media reporter for the hill and in nashville we cross to roger l. simon he is an award winning novelist and academy award nominated screenwriter as well as co-founder and c.e.o. of america's p.j. media gentlemen crossed the rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe let me go to you first here i guess i can take the the easiest example the dueling match we saw with jim. and president trump here i mean what is the state of journalism and i'm not let light letting either guy off the hook at least at this point here but what does that tell us about journalism today journalism today i would say has become a matter of many more opinions being put into reporting which is leading to

mistrust by view.