at least four countries claim a former american marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage. but his media speculation claims that man is being used as a bargaining chip by russia. he faces up to twenty years plenty of time to be swapped. in some way by the russians. the french government hardens a stance against the yellow vests movement claiming it's trying to bring about this comes as president popularity rating hits a record lows. both president and congressional democrats are showing no signs of giving it another round of talks. two weeks of government shutdown to veto any

funding bill passed by democrats that fails to include money for the war on the border with mexico. we had a very very productive meeting lengthy and sometimes contentious city to keep the government closed for a very long period of time even you. thanks for joining us this evening this is r.t. . the u.s. u.k. canada and ireland have all said a former u.s. marine charged with espionage is their citizen the man detained in the russian capital last week is already at the center of much media speculation michel gondry farmer discussed the story with our correspondents in moscow. 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 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 butanol are completely different now to london to dispute and say talk and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the paul whalen also is a british citizen must been 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 opposition 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 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 seoul's very 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. a french government spokesperson has accused the yellow vest movement of trying to stage a coup comment signals a toughening stance from the authorities following weeks of violent protests other dubiously picks up the story. 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 at 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 the other 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 frighting 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 exit from that letter bridge will turn into hatred if you and your companions keep seeing people as rubble consider them. and think they mean nothing

and it's not just the yellow vests or the causing my quote in the head tick it's also been announced this head of communications is to step down from his post now this is for him he's credited as being the person who shaped the presidential campaign that 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 are on in two thousand and eighteen so while president back or 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 the same

. the round of budget talks between congressional democrats and the white house seems no word as a partial u.s. government shutdown is close to entering a third week house democrats have put forward legislation that would end the stalemate but it doesn't include funding for the border war prompting president trying to promise that he will veto the bill go to new york now you know get an update from a colleague more binge as we kill it. no sight seems of an end to this political gridlock that right. well the meeting has concluded trump met with congressional representatives now trump said he felt the meeting was productive but the representative seemed to have the other idea now trump did indicate after the meeting when he spoke that he would actually consider calling a national emergency in order to construct his wall so that he could do so without the approval of congress trump also summarized the meeting it's pretty clear that

the members of congress and the president had a very different assessment of how the meeting went let's take a listen we had a very very productive meeting lengthy and sometimes contentious it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government we recognize on the democratic side that we really cannot resolve this until we open up government he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. now trump also said that in the meeting nancy pelosi the house speaker of representatives the speaker of representatives the speaker of the house of representatives that she told donald trump that she had no interest in impeachment they were not looking for impeachment that's the quote now there has been a call to get the ball rolling and kind of jump start impeachment proceedings against trump from some democrats one democrat in the house of representatives

actually used some rather colorful language to make this call let's take a listen please don't end baby don't because we're going to go in there we're going to use the mother. now while trump said that he was told by nancy pelosi that quote we're not looking for impeachment in the meeting that just happened nancy pelosi has elsewhere said that she would be open to the impeachment of us president trump this is nancy pelosi speaking on another occasion we shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason and we should avoid it pietschmann political reasons. so the us federal government has been shut down for fourteen days at this point talk of impeachment is taking place on the democratic side on the republican side trump is doubling down and saying he does want his wall saying that he could perhaps declare a national emergency in order to build it without congressional approval so it's

quite quite a day quite a moment as as usual with a new year and a new congress at this point that once again we are facing gridlock with capitol hill divided and no clear consensus in american politics in the morning with the latest there from new york thank you kelly. britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to his native jordan to face terrorism charges to some review by the times has sparked anger among both m.p.'s and the public. these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british tanks boom the government have succeeded in deporting burst back to the rule of law at each and every stage of the process the deportation of abu qatada has taken twelve years and cost more than one point seven million pounds in legal fees for both sides that is not acceptable to the public and it's not acceptable to me we must make sure it

never happens again because the other was granted asylum in the u.k. nine hundred ninety four as he claimed he'd been tortured in jordan the u.k. arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges because another was sent back to jordan twelve years later after receiving assurances he would not be tortured. these people of the u.k. pretty penny at least one point nine million pounds spent on his deportation including payments for legal fees and legal aid and ily two hundred thousand was spent after his deportation for monitoring his condition and assuring he wouldn't be tortured the government committed to get other for up to three years the last payment was made in twenty sixteen we put this issue up for debate with our experts . and the first place. should never have been granted asylum here by can one thousand four hundred when you think about it all the money all the wealth for payments he and those around him are parasite did off the u.k.

a taxpayer until such times as he was deported that's also pretty deplorable and what's even worse is even when we put him out of the u.k. we're still paying a couple hundred thousand pounds of taxpayers' money to look after his human rights your recipe is one for and the key you say you should never have claimed asylum in all reality we are yet hearty to the convention like most civilized countries which means if somebody claims asylum and they can show a genuine fear of persecution we are obliged to grant them asylum for you to suggest that i am claiming i'm my recipe is a suggestion for an icky what you're suggesting is a much greater suggestion for an icky because you're suggesting it's appropriate that the u.k. a taxpayer should pick up the bill for a terrorist mastermind who was going to get three rule of anything u.k. i'm certainly going to do i don't know which is different because let me finish now

and i on a second i gotta finish you're suggesting that the you can't taxpayer should take your pick up the bill for a terrorist mastermind to come to the u.k. live off benefits and then when he does get deported back to jordan we further pick up an extra two hundred thousand now if that's not well nihilistic perhaps is a better word than anarchistic but either way it's pretty imbecilic the fundamental fact is that this guy was by any definition an al-qaeda terrorist mastermind that should give you great cause for thought and terms of how you wish to see british taxpayers' money allocated it certainly gives me great cause for concern i am glad that he was deported i mean i am dead. the pointed that we've had to spend two hundred thousand points to look after his wealth for in jordan when that money could have been spent much better for example keith here in the u.k. looking after british victims of our qaeda violence wouldn't you agree with me with

me or not point where would you like to see the line expand on another universe or is victims who chose i'm only slightly disturbed david that seems to be that your opinion as to whether somebody is wrapped up in criminality or not is sufficient to convict them if an intelligence service alleges somebody is a world known terrorists or something like that but if those countries get a lot provide the evidence to support those contentions then i'm afraid inge and i'm not prepared to listen with deep credence to any intelligence service is that alleges something against somebody simply because it suits them politically to do so and in essence what keith saying must must be must be music from heaven to the years of any prospective terrorist wanting to get into the u.k. this guy was a he was a really bad wrong with the u.k. is far better off without him and yes initial point we should toughen up our laws

much much more robust from to make sure that such wicked terrorists do not enter this country they can go to jordan or forever else they want but not in the united kingdom after the. investigations 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 or the probes in its early stages some german media outlets already claim to know who's to blame peter oliver has a story but german press are running hard with this story on the data hack of hundreds of politicians and includes members of the cabinet here in germany chancellor angela merkel herself and the president of germany for. unfold 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 the snow 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 party memos and lists of party members now a spokesperson for the german government said an investigation is underway into this hack even when this the young 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 this have to be handled with a great character think it's 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 as mr thinks the facts point to someone else being responsible. rosser seems to be the first loan for everybody but it doesn't make any sense when we sum up the debts first nobody really got hurt and secondly russia i cannot imagine of any reason russia. russia would get all of this scandal i think. you are a little bit into another direction where you are out of question or not especially

when you consider that there is has the star media so there must be high interest that you have a bunch of people who want to get rid of their freedom us which is in germany granted the bill of rights and you need some sort of stand or to get the politicians to make a new law passed or permanent serviceable vision of the internet if this works. as we not only caught but. it would be the do over there in russia are there somebody from there the other way so it would be useful for the same group use that for their purposes. just how many would be willing to swap screen time for the front line is a quick look at the army's t.v. at. school and. useless. for school.

well the idea behind your army niji campaign is that every weakness can be turned to a positive for example a snowflake's compassion that could prove useful a big game as dr could make all the difference tones on bees would have a great focus of a millennial it's about their self belief this is how the u.k. defense ministry explained its motive. 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 a new army recruits such as compassion self belief and focus we went out on to the streets of london to find out what people there think about the army's new recruitment efforts but i think the appeal to younger generation i think they're all offensive just like to people feel like a different message the really 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

deference on these it doesn't actually mean anything to do so believe it i don't know it's appealing to the same still to people as the people who might always a feel about the army been for their. latest through on their flicks bird box has become a huge hit with forty five million views within just the first week although it has also become a health risk for some viewers. it's a surprisingly empty to take some of your speed if you're going on the trip. never take off your wife. will make it. all from zero. zero. zero zero zero.

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expert in peril diplomacy chairman of brazzaville foundation is my guest today. with international mediation and career diplomats filled with conflicts of the forces come into play working quietly as private citizens of the spotlight growing mistrust and blood feuds patiently bringing warring parties to the table why does parallel citizen diplomacy work will. do the people willing to work. with the promise of nobel peace prizes or t.v. and how do they get the job done. thank you very much for being with us today thank you for everything. to be in such an interesting profession i want to know all about it so you are a noted negotiator lots of success stories in africa i know that you're now trying to get sites in libya to sit down and talk i mean in a way you're more successful than the united nations at least you're getting these guys to sit down and talk. with you the issues

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