at least four countries american marine he's been charged with espionage citizen media speculation claims the man's being used as a bargaining chip by russia. he faces up to twenty years plenty of time to be swapped the. allegation was revenge in some way by the russians also this hour the french government hardens a stance against the yellow vests movement claiming that he's trying to bring about . as president popularity rating. to veto any legislation passed by the democrats after they refused to fund his war and he started giving in part of the two weeks of government shutdown. 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 for the barrier. good evening to you this is the. first this hour the u.s. u.k. canada and ireland have all said that a former u.s. marine charged in moscow with espionage is their citizen than detained in the russian capital last week's already at the center of much media speculation earlier my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with our correspondents here in moscow and 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 and one of the city's most poss 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 classics plenty of time to be small 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. as you've heard many are linking this case to the case of variability no 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 bhutto are completely different now to london to dispute and see chalk and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the poor will and also is a british citizen must be 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. the french government spokesperson has accused the l a verse movement of trying to stage a coup the common signals a toughening stance from the authorities following weeks of violent protest so they do basically has more. well not a great start to the year for president machen with the latest polling showing that seventy five percent of french people responded that disapprove of the president that's despite the concessions he's tried giving the yellow vests movement over the

last few weeks and that comes as his cabinet met for the first time on friday since the start of the new year yellow vest movement something on their plate to discuss and afterwards the presidential spokesperson discussed the l a best movement describing them as agitators who wanted to overthrow the government. says the announcements of the manual macro 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 something new yet the best movement has long said many times when i've spoken to people out in the streets that that's one of their aims that they want to change the political system here in france and that one way of doing that could be to overthrow the government those protests now have been engulfed in france since november seventeenth and some cities have seen the worst rioting in

a whole of a century as a result of that and it looks like this movement is set to continue into two thousand and nineteen with the so-called act eight planned for saturday with a number of demonstrations already been notified to say that they will take place and many more are expected to be notified at the very last minute on saturday now it also comes as an open letter was penned to president back on signs from angry france criticizing the president saying that he just hadn't listened to the movement let's have a look at an excerpt from that letter. rage will turn into hatred if you and your companions keep seeing people as rabble consider them and think they mean nothing and it's not just the yellow vests or the causing much corn ahead dick it's also been announced this head of communications is to step down from his post now this

is sylvia for whom he's credited as being the person who shaped the presidential campaign that mccall went on to win in style back in two thousand and seventeen and he's been a long term confidant of the president around him for about two and a half years he's not the only person from the backroom staff quit and of course on top of that we've seen a number of resignations from the cabinet team including the interior minister back in october that was a clue and also the interior minister nicolas though who resigned as well as some of the other cabinet members earlier on in two thousand and eighteen so while president michael might have been hoping to sweat some of that discord from two thousand and eighteen under the carpet it looks like two thousand and nineteen could be more of the same. investigation is underway in germany into a massive cyber attack which slowed to the personal data of hundreds of german

politicians and media figures being leaked online while the probe is in its early stages some media outlets are already claiming to know who's to blame it all of the picks up a 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. 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 this data breach also comedian younes bottom and and rapper teddy are also caught up in this now because 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 air party memos and lists of party members now

a spokesperson for the german government said an investigation is underway into this hack. this is the young the federal government is taking this very seriously the only thing we can see by the hack attack now is that we're working on that the authorities are working very hard to understand what happened leaks like this have to be handled with a great care biggest take 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 were the russians going to interfere with our elections post the two of the 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 will be looking into this as it develops. with the u.s. government. down close went to his third week democrats of push forward legislation designed to end the stalemate the democrat controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund the federal federal government but they don't include funding a border wall prompting donald trump to claim that he will veto that legislation or seeing the democrats claim such a war would be un-american the president says his idea still has widespread support . y'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 lairs week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier

or they have a home a stance on trying to instagram with this statement of intent to also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. perhaps. the standoff over the wall looks likely to intensify with the democrat funding bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they're likely to face hostility we discussed the border wall issue with no dry and from the conservative group american majority and also robert patillo 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'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 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 doc 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 to a lot of 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. 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 instead here is my non-negotiable the ad supports you 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 though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises. tech giant apple has suffered a shocking fall in sales with the company claiming donald trump's trade war with china is to blame for that story after this break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one doesn't show you you know four to miss the one and only.

welcome back 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 should a profit warning for the first time in sixteen is the president himself though insists that his tariffs are actually helping america with all the details is that a bushel. 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 tell me. about 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 i mean 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 those 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 and it's not just china this from the burden of trumps policies in twenty eight to the president's tariffs have also hurt some american allies to. the expense. 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 business 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 told a 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 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 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 undeniably 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 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 irregardless of what they think tired of trump tweeting about them two thousand and eighteen was hard on america trump made it so. the u.k. army is appealing to snowflakes and selfie addicts in its latest attempt to swell its ranks but just how many would be willing to swap screen time for the front line here's a quick look at the army's t.v. ad. and. useless. the idea behind the your army needs campaign is that every week this could be

turned into a positive for the army for example a snowflake's compassion could prove useful in the game is drive would make a difference phone zombies would have great focus well for millennial self belief. the new campaign is the third execution of the this is belonging series showing how the army finds potential beyond gens ed and millennial stereotypes and identifying the essential skills needed in new army recruits such as compassion self belief and focus and we went out on to the streets of london to find out what people think about the army's new recruitment efforts. but i think the appeal to younger generation i think they're all offensive to people feels like a different message the really bad connotation put in the military in a bit of a strange light this would be quite rude doesn't make any sense. because they're friends on these it doesn't actually mean anything to do so believe i don't know it's appealing to the same still to people as the people always

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our city america joins us to explain and later today is the day that will change you a president donald trump reality or the last two years of his administration as a new majority in the u.s. house of representatives 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 or 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 percent on the news trading around. thirty five dollars per share in new york while celgene stock price increased by more than twenty seven percent but look at that they're going from around sixty six dollars to almost eighty four dollars per share up one thousand bucks on that news before backing off a little down to about eighty two dollars just moments ago and turning to tech apple has cut their revenue projections citing reduced demand in china for their signature product the i phone china is apple's third largest market and accounts for about a quarter of the company's revenues apple c.e.o. tim cook said his company had been surprised by quote the magnitude of the economic the seller's ation particularly in greater china referring to china taiwan and hong kong mr cook also cited rise.