common ground. by the democrats. neither side looks like it's going to back down off. of the government shutdown. it's not. i have never had so much support for border control and frankly the more the barriers. trade with the sails. to.

be honored to be able to be here and to commit a crime and. they have to go back. to the program. with the us a government shutdown of a border wall close to entering its third week democrats have pushed forward with legislation designed to end the stalemate the democrat controlled house of representatives bills to fund the federal government for the bills don't include funding for a border wall. to the legislation and while senior democrats decry the notion of the war as un-american the u.s. president argues that his idea has widespread support. it isn't a morality it's not who we are is 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 to our home his stance donald trump to instagram posting on this statement of intent you also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple.

and off over the wall looks likely to intensify the democrat bills 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 wall issue with ned ryan from conservative group american majority and robert patillo a civil rights attorney. well also understand the president has absolutely no leverage in this situation and 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 daca 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 hale's 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 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 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 trunk 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's a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of time 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. the 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 was yes to come up with something that says what will give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises. trump is not just being blamed for the government shutdown tech giant apple has accused him of hurting his business in china with the trade war he's waging against beijing u.s. stock markets is simply a sea of red of the 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 bush. 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 perfectly. 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 of the donald slump painful tariffs

on imports from the communist superpower beijing swung back imposing or proposing tolls on most american imports from all imax to cause so apple's not the only u.s. multinational like on 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 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 attempts 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 it's done is increase the tally ition 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 and it's not just china that's felt the burden of troubles policies and twenty two in the u.s. president's tariff slapping spree has also hurt american allies some of whom are questioning whether they need a friend like that his artie's might have because the. two thousand and eighteen hasn't been easy in america no 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 they've 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 trumps 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 now need 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 in america 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 good 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 anchor of 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 made 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 its tantrums costing it power influence friends even the famous bromance with french president mark on 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 irregardless of what they think tired 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 laws do not allow deportation even of violent criminals. will not i've been asked for months already to make the deportations more effective in germany 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 really to perpetrate is 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 we're following the incident that took place on saturday evening which left twelve people injured in a seemingly random attack in the town of police 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 you are a minor or the country that you would be returned to is deemed to be dangerous now

the christian social union i'm going to 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 see hoffa of playing politics with this issue i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to am bag but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far. for is using the amber consistent effectively to tighten asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism politicians split 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 tents. it's their mind this is ok they have. been through 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 asked our young people solely of germany's their party and alternative for germany party member your him paul to shed some light on this issue. 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 he has gas and if they commit crimes then they can no longer be our guests so what is even 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 ca rendition sites or on 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 while he should be targeting the radical islamists that his government has let into our country it's a big lie that they are all coming to germany because they're lies and doing jerks many of them a bullet's majority of them come to germany because. they're just. applied to welfare you know 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 were looking to create and we will give birth but you know see we have incident incident incident souls. into creation policy is a mess it's a mystery week. many more of your stories for this ride to continue on r.t. international we return in just a moment. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think we've got to hit the road and get out to

travelling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the genius of this place the south american hero this is it we've come to a point much on what is going on so we always are on the margins somewhat. culture . we're starting west with. will begin to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more of them it may be completely different but the end of this journey. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

your friday stories here and also you welcome to them i suppose if you can't beat them and join them the u.k. army's appealing to snowflakes and in his latest campaign to get the younger generation to enlist just how many would be willing to swap phone time for frontlines. takes a look. 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. so slow. news useless into those the army would properly appreciate.

all this with. 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 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 phones on be 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 than 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. for you 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 always of school 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 it's 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 off 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 r.t. london. for the next few days we are looking back at some of the stories that we

brought to you in twenty eight. twenty eighteen it was certainly a big year for watching the news there was plenty of it but what was it like when the point of view of those actually reporting the big events of all. so for. now everything being into a mess if. you. love a family being deployed it's. nice to bases our from the public to

exhaust everything you can possibly a budget as they try and take away that will be good news for the flu. this instrument near the border with north korea is only a. matter of where really really close. to the most dangerous man in the world from mr large. so please keep. this outside of the legal. stuff. we're actually see here guys flying over it's like the content on the sites now we. have gone from it's complicated to inhalation to see what are you going to.

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we're continuing our special episode here in the new year celebrating not only twenty nineteen but ten years of kaiser reports at some point. i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got to. yes. i mean because it is then they still are doing the problem because they're tired of going to the. i stands in the house if it's because.

the president. you know world is a big part of new things. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

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a new majority in the u.s. house of representatives takes over what might that mean all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go to. the latest bigger merger in the field of health care leads our global report today is drug giant bristol myers squibb move to acquire a biotech firm sell gen for a price of seventy four billion dollars the deal values stock at a premium greater then fifty percent above its closing price at the closing bell yesterday and bristol myers squibb plans to take sixty nine percent stake in the merged enterprise the new partners say they will hold the patents and profits from a combined total of at least nine drugs which produce more than one billion dollars in annual revenue on that point bristol myers c.e.o. giovanni kapoor e o has hyped six expected new term product launches from the new company markets seem not to be buying it as bristol myers stock fell more than twelve.