i. have four countries former american marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage citizen media speculation claims the man is being used as a bargaining chip by russia. he faces up to twenty years is plenty of time to be swapped. retaliate was revenge in some way by the russians also to come a massive cyber attack in germany seize the private data of hundreds of politicians and media figures leaked online with some already pointing the blame russia and donald trump. any legislation passed by the democrats after they refused to fund his wall neither side shows any sign of giving in despite almost two weeks of government shutdown. how do you all isn't immorality it's not who you are as

a nation i have never had so much support for border control and for frankly the wall for the barrier. hello there is just gone seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.s. the u.k. canada and island said a former u.s. marine charged in moscow with espionage is the citizen the man detained in the russian capital last week is already at the center of much media speculation i discuss the story with our correspondents here in moscow and also in london. what more do we know then about this case andrew haven't we lately rather gotten used to hearing about russian spies being caught in america i can definitely come up with

a few such stories from the past few years this case though is exactly the opposite an american national a former u.s. marine paul wieland was caught in moscow he was arrested in one of the city's most posh hotels but back when the news broke who would have thought that diplomats from a total of four countries would end up going he's our guy so now we have the u.s. the u.k. canada and the latest country to make such a statement was our island however if we go back to canada poll brother couldn't even confirm whether he still had a canadian passport or not which does sound very strange but that's the way it is right now he's now in detention in moscow having been charged with espionage although his brother says that the only reason he went to russia was to attend a friend's wedding party the us ambassador had been given permission to see the

suspect then so he did mr whelan's lawyer is seeking bail for his client for now we aren't really aware of any other details but journalists all around the world are talking about it and speculation is rife he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal of masks plenty of time to be swapped to dispose of. 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 the re of boots do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation and was revenge in some way by the russians. you've heard many are linking this case to the k. very abreu tino who was arrested in the u.s. in july she eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring against the u.s. with a russian government official and at least another person without notifying the u.s.

attorney general but the fact is that the charges that have been brought against paul whelan and maria butanol are completely different now to london to dispute and see a chalk and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the poor will and also is a british citizen must be in the reaction men in the u.k. it was actually the american embassy in moscow that had contacted their british counterparts to inform them of this arrest and this case we know that so far the foreign office has their spokesperson has said that quote staff have requested consular access to a british man detained in russia also the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt has said that the u.k. is not liking the idea of individuals being used for political 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 series at all at this stage as to why this might have happened this case of paul whelan comes on the heels of the biggest scandals in twenty eighteen between russia and the u.k. involving a double agent being poisoned in solsbury in the u.k. back in march leading to diplomatic expulsions leading to one of the biggest droughts between the u.k. and russia and russia in recent years so whether or not this one is again going to add more fuel to the fire and exactly how much this scandal blows up of course remains to be seen in the days to come. an investigation is underway in germany into a massive cyber attack 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 german media outlets they already claim to know who is to blame peter all of picks up the

story. but german press are running hard with this story on the data of hundreds of politicians and includes members of the cabinet here in germany chancellor angela merkel herself and the president of germany frank fall to steinmeyer among many many others but it's not just politicians that have been the victim of this said this data breach also comedian younes bottom and and rapper teddy are also caught up in the snout of course if there is 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 non 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. 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 looks like these have to be handled with great care figures fake information can be propagated however the government can say that now sensitive political data was published 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 shenanigans before the twenty seventeen elections the papers were rife with how well the russians going to interfere with our elections post the twenty seventeen 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. a french

government spokesperson has accused the yellow vest movement of trying to stage a coup the comment signals a toughening stance from the authorities following weeks of violent protests let's get more on the story national charlotte pinsky joins us from paris and good evening t. charlotte just tell us what exactly was said and what has been the reaction. well not a good start for the year again for president who seen the latest rating show that seventy five percent of french people disapprove of him that's despite all the concessions he tried to offer the yellow vest movement over the last month or so to try and quell that movement and now as his cabinet met for the first time in two thousand and nineteen that was one of the things that they were discussing on their agenda and post that we had the press secretary for president describing the yellow best movement as something that is now full of agitators who are looking to overthrow the government. since the announcements of

the manual the yellow vests have become a movement of agitators who want insurrection and to overthrow the government moreover those who call for debate don't want to participate in the great national debate. well that's not really something new it's some of the things that the elevator protesters have been saying to us for months that the whole idea behind this protest when it started nov seventeenth yes it was about that hike in fuel tax which is since been reversed but it was also about changing the social system the political system here in france and that's something that people have said continuously that they do they want the government to change perhaps one way of doing that is to overthrow the government now the el of us movement has engulfed france for the last few months and as we've seen it's cause rioting some major cities across the country including some that people have described as being the worst writing in half a century and while that yellow vest looked like it had been quelling down it seems

that there is anger still afoot and a new act activity is penciled in that this saturday now on top of that a letter an open letter was sent to president signed by angry france accusing the president of just not going to d.l.'s movement criticizing him. every paragraph that's looking at an excerpt of that letter. will turn into hatred if you and your companions keep seeing people as rabble consider them and think they mean nothing. and that's not the only thing that's giving president headache as he enters two thousand and nineteen it's also been announced that his head of communications has quit his post this is a guy calls for he's somebody who is credited with shaping. the presidential campaign that led to victory back in two thousand and seventeen he's

seen as being a loyal companion somebody that president matt contrast has been at his side now for around two and a half years and he's not the only member of the backroom staff that has quit recently that's on top of course the very public quit quitting of ministers searches the former interior minister. and also the environment minister nicolas as well as some of the lesson and cabinet members back in two thousand and eighteen so while president mccall might have been hoping to have swept some of the discord under the carpet from two thousand and eighteen it looks like two thousand and nineteen. the same. sure ok charlotte thanks for the update that we showed it to you for us there. now with the u.s. government shutdown close to entering its third week democrats have pushed forward legislation designed to end the stalemate democrat controlled house of

representatives to pass two bills to fund the federal government but they don't include funding for a border war prompting donald trump to claim he'll veto the legislation while senior democrats claim such a war would be un-american the president does say his idea still has widespread support. but y'all isn't any more relevant. 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. war to hammer home his stance on trying to instagram posting this statement of intent and he also posted this following video.

illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. while the standoff over the war does look like it's going to intensify too with a democrat funding bill is 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 robert patillo he's a civil rights lawyer. well 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 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 we're 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 so 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 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'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 a pad. 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 happened actually get to a point of compromise donald trump has said here is my non-negotiable then to the as a come up with something that says what will give you that in exchange for this and

i think there is a pass 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. still to come this hour the tech giant apple has suffered a shocking forward in sales with the company claiming that trying to trade war with china is to blame we'll have the details just after the break. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. 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. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the frame of. the one percent. we can all middle of the room. welcome back ny the tech giant apple has accused or 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 the first time in sixteen years the president himself though insists that his tariffs are actually helping america with the details his damn 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 nailbiting 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 slapped 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 pools 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 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 i mean he began this whole trade conflict same. raid 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 and it's not just china or even felt the burden of trans policies in twenty eighteen presidents tariffs have also heard some american allies to use more artie's more of gas the f. expects. 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 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 we. have to see the criminal supremacist this move 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 at this case to decide with home to trade with. take also trumps advice to germany lately sort of bullying really 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 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 and her 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 voted with this 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 mark crown 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 regardless of what they think tired of trump tweeting about them two thousand and eighteen was hard on america trump made it so. rog as the of there now finally this hour the latest thriller on netflix the box has become a huge hit with forty five million pieces within its first week although it's also become a health risk for some of its viewers. if you can just write silly empathy to take on the phone with your speech you're going on the tree limb for take off your plate let me play.

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