at least four countries claim a former american marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage is that. the media speculation claims the mounts being used as a bargaining chip by russia he faces up to twenty. retaliation was revenge in some way by the russians also this hour the french government hardens that stance against the best means claiming it's trying to bring about it comes as president micron's popularity rating hits. with a national emergency because of the security of our country absolutely you know we can do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it but we could call

a national emergency and build it very quickly. another round of talks to end the almost two week u.s. government shutdown shows no sign of progress the president trump saying he made a national emergency to build support a war without congressional approval. you're watching r t international welcome to the program. the u.s. u.k. can. have all said a former u.s. marine charged in moscow with espionage is the best citizen the man detained in the russian capital last week is already at the center of much media speculation my colleague hundred farm discuss the story with our correspondents both here in moscow and london. what more do we know then about this case andrew 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 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 our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the paul whelan 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 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. the 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

charlotta bensky 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 vest 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 new the other best movement has long said many

times when i've spoken to people out on the streets though that 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 pointing in the 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 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. i mean nothing and it's

not just the yellow vests or the causing my quote on the head tick it's also been in this head of communications is to step down from his post now this is for whom 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 called with all over the president around him for about two years he's not the only person from the backroom staff which of course on top of that we've seen a number of resignations from the cabinet including the interior minister back in october that was and also the interior minister nicolas who resigned as well as some of the other cabinet members in two thousand and eighteen while president mike or mike to be hoping to sway some of that discord from two thousand and eighty

under the carpet it looks like two thousand and nineteen could move the senate. and of the rounds of budget talks between congressional democrats from the white house seems to have led nowhere that says a partial u.s. government shutdown is close to entering its third week house democrats have put forward legislation they would say would end the stalemate but it doesn't include funding for border wall prompting president trump to promise he'll veto the bill trump says it's possible he could to national emergency to build the wall if democrats refuse to lend their support. considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval and second don't have to go you have yes i have and i can do it if i want so you don't need congressional approval to build know we can use them absolutely we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country absolutely know we can

do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it 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 brutal congress trump also summarize the meeting of the result the meeting was productive but the representatives seem to have the other idea 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 our government he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years 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 police don't want and baby don't because we're going to go in there we're going to be some of them. 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. avoidable policeman political reform 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 out quite a moment as as usual with a new year and a new congress at this point to once again we are facing gridlock with capitol hill divided and no clear consensus in american politics. but we can now discuss life with investigative journalist david lindorff david welcome to the program so president trump says he could declare a national imagine say to build the wall without congress would that be going to fall off in your opinion. well read run into problems right away because there is no national emergency the immigration amounts are actually down. the cleans that immigrants are causing violence and bringing in drugs are both false i mean you get most of the immigrants in the united states illegally come in as tourists on tourist visas and then overstay their visas and they come in through airlines they come in on ships they come across illegally across the border and

those are the ones that are staying and increasing illegal immigration the ones that overstay visas people who sneak through the desert and then the second thing is that most of the drugs in the country come through regular ports of entry hidden in shipments in containers and so on they're not smuggled across the border that's a very small number so to make the case that there's an initial emergency at the border is ludicrous and what would happen i think is stat. it would be brought to court and it would be litigated and there would be. no way to show that there really is it international emergency at the border it's not like a hurricane where you can look at the damage and say wow we have a national emergency what do you think trump is trying to get round the constitutional process because after all congress does help the pestering say it. yeah he's east acting like he is

a. an autocrat who can do what he wants and it's not going to work on the wall because it it doesn't it's a ludicrous claim it's made to appeal to an ignorant bunch of his supporters not even all his supporters agree with them about the wall. and. and so you know t. to hold a quarter of the government unfunded for a lengthy period of time is going to cause so much pain that he's going to have to cave you know what's happening now is people can't get mortgages for their houses because the f.h.a. that insures the mortgages so that banks can keep making more is no longer functioning you have the entire homeland security force that includes people patrolling the border working without any pay and the secret service also the guards the president and you know does other things you know of extreme urgency or

working without pay all these people or were he this for i think it's almost five hundred thousand federal workers now are working without pay for two weeks that can't go on. there are so many things wrong with this that can't last and finally you know if they don't fund the debt. we'll have the same thing we had happen once or twice before when republicans held the budget hostage where the u.s. lost its aaa international bond to rating it went down to i think double a minus or something that could drop again if the bonds are paid so there's a limit to how long he can actually do it i don't think he's making a credible threat as i just mentioned that about federal pay it could be i think that the longer the shutdown self's the more it has the economy but trump has also said that he's preparing the set down to last. if nessus. every cut that really happened if you think. no i'm laughing because it's you know that the cost to the

country be so enormous and also you know i was just noticing that you know the states that get the most federal assistance and have the most federal employees per capita are trip states they're you know the western states some of the midwestern states florida kentucky tennessee places that trump is very popular and that's where the pain is going to be the most because they're the ones that have the most federal employees. so you know states like new york pennsylvania big states michigan you know states that vote democratic are not hurting as steadily they have more and more. state employees and private employees as a percentage of the workforce than these red states so all in all he is going to hear from. his republican membership in the senate

and in the house that this has to come to an end at some point i appreciate your comments my guest investigative journalist david mendell thank you for coming on a day thanks for having me on. well after all stories say the official pray. you know world's big partners do things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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. make this manufacture consent to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final larry go around listen to the one percent. thinking or middle of the room sick. welcome back to ulti the first funerals underway for the victims of the deadly building explosion in the russian city of magnitogorsk the search and rescue

operation came to an end on thursday after the last body was recovered from the site in total the tragedy claimed thirty nine lives we managed to speak to one of the survivors of the explosion he shared the story of his escape exclusively with r.t. . you said we will see if we would work it out by loud noise and at first i couldn't work out what had happened so i told my family to get dressed and graham. the documents i went to open the door but was confronted by nothing just this drop in point smoke and fire. there were four of us and we also met our neighbors everyone was in total shock we managed to escape by climbing from our balcony to that of another front.

where the delusion moved when we got out onto the streets will emerge the services had already arrived it took them about fifteen minutes to get there they were already helping people. so i'm introducing you to me my wife for holding up the most important thing is that we've survived our children were traumatized people need counseling i'm very grateful to the people who might need to go ask for their support and to the emergency services. at least five people were injured in an explosion at a bus stop in santiago chile on friday morning one of the victims who is a thirty year old woman received serious wins she was immediately taken to hospital authorities say the blast came from a device has been in a rubbish bin

a radical environmentalist group called individualists tending toward the while wild known by the acronym i t s and spanish reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack on this website changes in terry minister says the incident is being investigated as an act of terror a place to know what kind of explosive was used last year yes took responsibility for a possible bus that attack resulted in only superficial damage. britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of hate preacher qatada after he was deported to his native jordan to face terror charges the sum revealed by the times newspaper 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 but the government have succeeded in deporting qatada 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. it was gone to the silent in the u.k. in one thousand nine hundred four as he claimed he had been tortured in jordan but the u.k. arrested him off the nine eleven terror related charges qatar's i was sent back to jordan twelve years later after receiving the sure and says that he would not be tortured there his deportation cost the u.k. a pretty penny at least one point nine million pounds was spent on his deportation including payments for legal fees and legal aid and nearly two hundred thousand were spent tough to his deportation for monitoring his condition and assuring he wasn't tortured the government's committed to monitoring qatar to up to three years

the last payment was made in twenty sixteen yet in another deportation case last october the public reaction was quite difference. whether you let him off. so you're going to. take him or proposing passengers on a flight from london to take a stand up for a man who was being deported the man named ahmed was taken off the plane after a strong protest from people on board however it was later revealed he had been found guilty of gang rape and served a prison sentence here's more of the video showing what's happened on the flight. i miss my family is coming over what it. was hard for you that's what it's got is a work he's not going to remember i know lots of situations. i never heard of the images of. the home office to the street i don't know to be taken from him home

because of the stories that we invited david vance a political commentator and keith best c.e.o. of survive this u.k. a sexual assault victim advocacy group to weigh in on the debate even migrant deportations and in particular the case of abu qatada in 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 well for payments he. parasite did off the u.k. a taxpayer until such times as he was deported your recipe is one for and the key you say you should never have claimed asylum in all reality we are at the haughty to the rear of your 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 clear 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 go through the rule of involving u.k. i'm certainly going to want to nor would use different because let me finish now and i am not a second i got to finish you're suggesting that the u.k. taxpayer should 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 that anarchist take but either way it's pretty imbecilic the fundamental fact is that this guy was by any definition an out qaeda terrorist mastermind i'm glad that he was deported i mean i am disappointed that we've had to spend two hundred thousand pardons to look after his well for in jordan but not

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 i actually like living by the intelligence so if you rave if you were to accuse me i'm sure you are a criminal offense to serve i'd like to let me finish please if you were to accuse me of a criminal offense i would like to think that it wouldn't be you who decides on that it would be a jury and the fact is that jordan already having him in his absence then had to acquit him when he was retried for exactly the same thing because it was discovered that the evidence was tainted now it's not you are missing with. the matters as to

whether you think he's a terrorist or not it's the rule of law room where the loot can be proved or not that's what matters keith people keith with grip with great respect kate you seem to be ignoring the fact that it's not my opinion that he was a terrorist mastermind it's a matter of numerous reports by various heads of intelligence services if the intelligence service alleges somebody is a well known terrorist or something like that but if those countries yeah not provide the evidence to support those contentions then i'm afraid 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 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 rogue where the u.k.

is far better off without him and yes going to your 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 here now up to date with the latest label news some programs continue in just a few moments. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if.

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hello and welcome the cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle as the media become unhinged in the air of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates. in the media i'm joined by my guest charles or tell the new york he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles also in new york we have joe concha he is they were media reporter for the hill and in nashville we cross to roger l. simon he is an award winning.