they're celebrating not only twenty nightstand but ten years of crimes reports at some point and i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted. the headlines this hour the u.k. requests access to a former u.s. marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage. but with donald trump to veto any legislation passed by the democrats today refused to fund his called neither side shows any sign of giving in despite almost two weeks of government shutdown. you all isn't a morality it's not who we are is a nation i have never had so much support for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier and a massive cyber attack in germany sees the private data of hundreds of politicians and media figures leaked online with some already pointing the blame at russia.

are you watching r.t. international now our top story this hour london. moscow for access to pool we learned a man arrested in russia last week on suspicion of spying the forty eight year old holds jule american british citizenship so let's get more details now from a to truncate joins us in the studio then what more do we know so. well i guess it is fair to say andrew that lately we have rather got used to hearing about russian spies in america i can definitely come up with a few such stories from the past few years this case is exactly the opposite so paul wheel and american as we initially learned was arrested in moscow and that happened in one of the capital's most posh hotels the metropole we eventually. though found out that the former u.s.

marine paul whelan is also a british citizen as you've said and possibly that he's even got a canadian passport the canadian diplomats are saying so however his brother cannot confirm that so it is rather strange but that is the way it is for now he is in detention in moscow and he has already been charged with espionage the u.s. ambassador had been given permission to see the suspect and so he did his lawyer is seeking bail for the client although we don't know whether that's had any success and we aren't really aware of any other details for now but still everyone is talking about the case the whole world he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal of plenty of time to be small. what's most likely as we'll as a pawn in russia just play to get back one of its spies after maria patino here in

the united states. do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation and was revenge in some way by the russians. so you've just heard this case is often being linked to that of maria bhutto who is a russian citizen arrested in the u.s. she eventually pleaded guilty for conspiring against america after being held in solitary confinement for six months the fact is though the charges that have been brought against her are completely different. let's get some reaction now from london our correspondent who's also following the story a good afternoon. with the poor wheelings also a british citizen most been the reaction in the u.k. . well i'm sure indeed the plot thickens with these revelations that this man this forty eight year old paul field we learned had dual citizenship not least because

of the already string ties between london and moscow indeed we do know that he had both american and british citizenship he was said to have been born in canada to british parents and his brother david has been actually speaking with the press and saying that the family comes from just outside birmingham in the u.k. now it's understood that it was actually american officials at the american embassy in moscow who had originally informed their british counterparts of this case of paul whelan's arrest in moscow and a so far we know that the foreign office spokesperson has issued a statement saying quote staff have requested consular access to a british man detained detained in russia after receiving a request for assistance and it's understood that it's the u.s. actually that's leading the diplomatic assistance at this particular moment in time we have heard that the u.s. ambassador to russia has visited we learned while he's being detained because again

of his u.s. u.k. nationalities and we also know that the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt has said. that britain is concerned and very closely following this case he has said that they've offered consular assistance and that the u.k. doesn't agree with individuals being used in diplomatic chess games. our position is very very clear individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage we need to see what those charges are against him to understand whether there is a case or not we're not ruling out any theories tool at this stage as to why this might have happened well of course this case comes on the heels of the biggest scandal between the u.k. and russia twenty eighteen the poisoning in solsbury back in march of last year of double agent sergei script all and his daughter that created the biggest route

between the u.k. and russia for. years and led to quite considerable diplomatic expulsions and other consequences in terms of the ties between the two countries so now the big question is with this britain and what british involvement in this case as well whether more salt will be added to wounds and you know we only have to sit back and watch how big and how far this particular case is going to blow up especially in terms of ties between russia and the u.k. ok thanks anderson if i was on situation a force there in london. another news for the u.s. government shutdown close to entering its third week democrats have pushed forward legislation designed to end the stalemate the democrat controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund the federal government but they don't include funding for a border wall prompting donald trump to claim he will veto the legislation while

senior democrats claim such a war would be un-american the president does his ideas still has widespread support. but you all 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 for the barrier well to hammer home the stance that donald trump took to instagram and posting this statement of intent and he also posted the following video.

illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. well the standoff over the war does look like it's going to intensify it say with the democrat funding bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to face hostility we discuss the border wall issue with ned ryan he's from the conservative group american majority and also with robert patillo he's a civil rights lawyer. 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 they actually meant to close it has him been overheard me right now she can demand whatever she wants were a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present ailes 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 and 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 they're to portie have 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 the very do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major kira pain promises. now an

investigation is underway in germany into a massive cyber attack there which led to the personal data of hundreds of german politicians and media figures being leaked online while the probe is in its early stages some german media outlets who already claim to know who is to blame so let's get the latest now with the party's peter oliver who's in berlin first let's just start with that. no price for guessing then who perhaps might be blamed for this. no not at all the german press are running hard with this story on the data of hundreds of politicians it includes members of the cabinet here in germany chancellor angela merkel herself. the president of germany frank fault or among many many others but it's not just politicians that have been the victim of this this data breach also comedian younes bottom and and rapper mark terry are also caught up in this now because if there's talk of hacking and data breaches the knives immediately come out for russia and that is what's happened in

a lot of the articles we've seen here so far what we do know about the data that had been hacked into is that it's being called normal highly sensitive data it includes things from the politicians this is like job applications party memos and lists of party members now a spokesperson for the german government said an investigation is underway into this hack. even. the federal government is taking this very seriously the only thing we can say about the hack attack now is that we're working on that the thirty's are working very hard to understand what happened leaks like these have to be handled with great care biggest fake information can be propagated however the government can say that no sensitive political data was published. well so far no official claims that russia was behind this and no evidence presented to that end but this isn't the first time that we've see a big media campaign in germany pointing the finger of blame at russia when it

comes to online should not begins before the twenty seventeen elections the papers were rife with how well the russians going to interfere with our elections publish the twenty seven thousand elections there was a lot more navel gazing article saying why didn't russia try and hack or interfere in these elections as we heard from the spokesman person from the government there this investigation ongoing we'll be looking into this as it develops ok thanks for the update peter over there for us. watching r.t. still on the way tech giant apple suffers a drastic plunge in sales climbing it is donald trump trade war with china that's to blame we'll have more on that just after the break. you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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hello again now the tech giant apple has accused donald trump of hurting its business in china with the trade war he's waging against beijing u.s. stock markets have been a sea of red after apple issued a profit warning for the first time in sixteen years the us president himself though insists his tires are actually helping america with the details his damn bush. what happened wall street's darling the world's first ever truly in 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 i meant to cause so our polls not the only us 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 bring in this money but it's not bringing them 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're seeing 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 where it's not just china that's felt the burden of trans policies in twenty eight because the president's tariffs have also

hurt some american allies thing as artie's madrid gas here expects. two thousand and eighteen hasn't been easy in america no 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 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 version of those who govern the united states. countries shouldn't just point fingers at the others but ignore their own mistakes this 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 a 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 its case to decide with home to trade with. take also trumps advice to germany lately sort of bullying 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 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 anchor of wanting to buy russian anti air 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 are we serve american interests america's erratic behavior its tantrums costing it power influence friends even the famous bromance with french president micron 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. i over the next few days we are looking back at some of the stories we brought to you in twenty eight.

and it certainly was a big year for news but what was it like for the reporters reporting on it well there was plenty of variety is a text. so for. now everything into a. lot of fun that being deployed its. face to face is from the public to everything you can possibly a budget as they try and take away that will goes to the floor of. the distance from here warner with north korea is a. really really close.

to the most dangerous man in the world from the streets. to see. this side of the seat of. kim jong il. you see. it's like the content on the site that we. have gone from it's complicated to inhalation to see what are you get a. video we can see all my buddies tell. but really. not only go.

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a softer name we'll be back with more stories for you on the headlines and thirty five. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got in the time. i mean because it just.

seems wrong. to me. to shape out. the cuts to education and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it's hard to imagine. the war. was still active rich in the nineteen seventies

cretonne had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery ash was a german company develops a new to mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything. you know she said is just. minutes of it a mind victims have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering. not only want the money i want the revenge. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population of. any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of

mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said before we. send a statement that i will be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the. greetings and salutation. welcome ladies and gentlemen to the big two thousand and nineteen feels good to be back with you as we venture forth into a brand new year of politics and prose and just what will this this new year bring . yes well only the prognosticators and the soothsayers and the media mockingbirds

know for sure which brings us to our good friends of n.b.c. and m s n b c who were put on blast this week in a very public resignation letter written by veteran national security journalist william markham arkan said bon voyage to n.b.c. in a scathing the e-mail sent to various news outlets on monday detailing how n b c m s n b c in the vast majority of american news media today has become nothing more than pro-war cheerleaders for the national security state in his letter the long time military analyst and news reporter observes the president tried observes president trumps ignorance and incompetence on many important domestic and foreign policy issues but poignantly points out how quick and b.c. is to mechanically argue the contrary to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war and that though they produce nothing that resembles actual safety and security the national security leaders and generals we have a we have we have are allowed to do their thing on.