at least four countries claim a former american marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage is the best citizen that says media speculation claims the man's being used as a bargaining chip by russia he faces up to twenty. retaliate and was revenge in some way by the russians also this hour the french government's hardens its stance against the best movement claiming it's trying to bring about to kill you it comes as president micron's popularity rating hits record lows. for all of national emergency because of the security of our country i absolutely 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 and the almost two week u.s. government shut down down shows no sign of progress with president truman saying he made a national emergency to build a border wall without congressional approval. is just ten four am head moscow you're watching international our top story the u.s. u.k. canada and islands have all said to form a u.s. marine charged in moscow with espionage is that citizen the man detained in the russian capital last week is already at the center of much media speculation and my colleague andrew pharma discussed the story with our correspondents both here in moscow and 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 to look masculine she had time to be small. that's 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 in the rehab 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. it's a very a boon to know 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 booth are completely different now to london to dispute and see the children and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the paul whelan also is a british citizen mostly 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. 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 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 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 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 to the other best movement has long said many times when i've spoken to people out on the streets though that is 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 excerpt 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 confidence 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 team including the interior minister back in october that was you and also the interior minister nicolas who resigned as well as some of the other cabinet members earlier on in two thousand and eighteen so

while president might or might be hoping to sway some of that this pool from two thousand and eight under the carpet it looks like two thousand and fifteen percent . another round of budget talks between congressional democrats and 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 say would end the stalemate but it doesn't include funding for a border wall prompting president trump to promise hill veto the bill says it's possible he could occur at a national emergency to build the wall if democrats refuse to lend their support. have you considered using your emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval and second i 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 i 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 the approval of congress trump also summarize that meeting he felt the meeting was reductive 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 use 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. and we should avoid punishment for political reasons so the u.s. 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 once again we are facing gridlock with capitol hill divided and no clear consensus in american politics we spoke to investigative journalist david mendel if he thinks the u.s. is paying too high a price for the shutdown to make the case that there's an initial emergency at the border is ludicrous and it's not like a hurricane it where you can look at the damage and say wow is causing this this impasse over something that most americans don't really want or care about i think that the upper hand goes to democrats and they're just going to wait him out until his own party tells me he has to fund the government because it's costing that there are supporters too much and it's costing the country to go it should be to

hold a quarter of the government to be unfunded in a lengthy period of time is going to go because so much pain that he's going to have to keep there are so many things wrong with this that can't last. a massive cyber attack in chaminade has compromised the pass the information of hundreds of public fake as that's among our stories off to the short 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 long for the ultra rich eight point

six percent market saw thirty percent from august last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and good morning 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 can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. welcome back to. the first funeral sun to weigh 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 off the last body was recovered from the sites in total the tragedy it claimed thirty nine lives we managed to speak to one of the survivors of the explosion the story of his escape exclusively with our. you should look to see if we were voted out by a loud noise and at first i couldn't work out what had happened so i told my family to get dressed and grab their documents i went to open the door but was confronted by nothing just this drawn by 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 flags.

usually when we got out onto the street all the emergency 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 traumatised they will need counselling i'm very grateful to the people who are likely to go ask for their support and to the emergency services. an investigation is under way in germany into a massive cyber attack which led to the pestle data of hundreds of german politicians and media fake is being leaked online while the probe is in its early stages some german media outlets already came to know who's to blame pay to all of their picks

up the story but german press all running hard with this story on the data of hundreds of politicians and includes members of the cabinet here in germany chancellor angela merkel has self and the president of germany from fall to steinmeyer among many many others but it's not just politicians that have been the victim. all of this said this data breach also comedian younes bottom and and rapper mark 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 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 leaks 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 paris can unless kahan there believes the main beneficiary of the scandal is not

a mask. rather seems to be the lone we're early but it doesn't make any sense when we sum up that it's just not what we were really going to hurt and secondly russia i cannot imagine of any reason russia or any russia could get all of this scandal over. a little bit into another direction where you are asked a question we've all got especially when you consider that there is has to start immediately so there must be no need for it but you have a bunch of people who want to get rid of that clued in march which is in germany granted by the bill of rights and you need some sort of stand or to. make new laws or permanent services version of the internet if this were. a job as we normally call it. would be to overblown russian or

or somebody from that the other ways it would be useful for the same group uses for their purposes. at least five people were injured in an explosion at a bus stop in santiago chile on friday morning one of the victims has a thirty year old woman received serious wounds she was immediately taken to hospital authorities say the blast came from a device head down in a rubbish bin a radical environmentalist group called individualists tending towards the wild then by the acronym asked in spanish reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack on its website chimneys and terry a minister says the incident is being investigated as an act of terror please don't yet know what kind of explosive was used last year yes took responsibility for a parcel bomb that attack resulted in only superficial damage.

has spent on. most two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of hate preacher abu qatada to 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've spent so the british times but the government have succeeded in deporting. 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. was granted asylum in the u.k. in one thousand nine hundred ninety four as he claimed he had been tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him off to nine eleven on terror related charges was sent back to

jordan twelve years later he was assured he would not be tortured there but his deportation costs the u.k. a pretty penny at least one point nine million pounds were spent on his deportation including payments for legal fees and legal a nearly two hundred thousand was spends off to his deportation for monitoring his condition and ensuring he wasn't tortured the government's committed to monitoring qatar's up to three is the last payment was way miss made in twenty sixteen yet in another deportation case last october the public reaction was quite different. passengers on a flight from london to tech a stood up for a man who was being deported the man named ahmed was taken off the plane off to strong protests from people on board however it was later availed he had been found guilty of gang rape and served a prison sentence here's more of the video showing what happens on the flights.

i mean really is coming right over what. was hard for you that's what you just go and work on because i know most of the church. workers of the image of. the home office to the three of them don't need to retake the cover because of the story we invited david vance a place called and keith bast c.e.o. of the group that advocates the sexual assault victims to weigh in on the debate say the 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 a pair of 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

should never have claimed asylum in all reality we are at the halti to the rear of your convention like most civilized countries which means that 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 i am my recipe is a suggestion for an icky what you are 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 suddenly going to want to know which is different you gotta let me finish now and i am not a second i gotta 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. as

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 owl 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 where 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 really intelligent 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. this

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 them 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. more details on any and all stories. meanwhile continue in just a few moments. hello my name is peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this is

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that has nothing to do with all the crime. it's the end of awakened this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the period for all the business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm part children washington d.c. thank you for being on board we are pleased that you're with us coming up today the new u.s. jobs numbers are out for december and they beat big time the expectations we have a panel standing by to discuss and we look at global markets how did they do in twenty eight teams and what occurred this first week of twenty nineteen plus

thirteen canadians have been detained in china and some slave china's.