so coming from us from the from the right. what's your. view. with. at least four countries claim a four man merican marine who's been charged in moscow with espionage is that a citizen that says 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. tally ation was revenge in some way by the russians

also this how the french government hardened against the fs movement claiming it's trying to bring in power it comes as president micron's popularity rating hits. we can call 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 weeks us government shutdown shows no sign of progress as president trump saying he may declare a national emergency to build a border wall without congressional approval. you're watching r t international good to have you with us this hour the u.s. new. ok canada and islands have all said for me u.s.

marine charge when 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 discussed the story with our correspondent space i'm landon. what more do you 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 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. brother couldn't even confirm whether he still had a canadian passport or not. 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 d.l. asks plenty of time to be small. 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 rehabilitation do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation 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 the children and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the also is a british citizen must be in the reaction men in the u.k. it was actually the american embassy in moscow that had contacted their british

counterparts to inform them of this arrest and this case we know that so far the foreign office has their spokesperson has said that quote staff have requested consular access to a british man detained in russia also the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt has said that the u.k. is not liking the idea of individuals being used for political chess games opposition is very very clear individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage we need to see what those challenges are against him to understand whether there is a case or not we're not ruling out any series a 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 souls 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. then you have this week washington post published an article about mr whelan's to tension and it's a cia official. has his doubts about sweden being a spy saying quote we don't send in random americans without stick to community to collect some low level stuff we are legal and media and the next line will to his reaction he says that we only use according to this people with diplomatic immunity when you look at this as far as the illegality of it what is the role of the diplomatic community how does that work or does that in a new way interfere with spying and vice versa you're not going to see a lot of people address this and you have to see a lot of people in american media in the american media speak to this particular

point we must assure that all individuals in all countries are recorded their rights that are that are available to them what's fascinating is that you will see american mainstream media in particular that does not have necessarily some of the best newsrooms some of the best let's say experts available who will have to feed the twenty four seven media. monster you have to feed it you have to give it something you're going to talk to anybody who's ever been remotely work with the cia was in the cia drove by the cia knew somebody who was in the cia so a lot of times you're not going to see some of the best vetting of the experts. 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 been ski picks up the story well not a great start to the year for president 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 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 protest or break 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 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 for iting 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 are expected to be notified at the very last minute on saturday now it also comes as an open letter was penned to president signed. 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 corn 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 confidant of 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 and also the interior minister nicolas. resigned as well as some of the other cabinet members in two thousand and eighteen so while president might or might be hoping to sway some of that disproved from two thousand and eight

and the culprit it looks like two thousand and nineteen. this. another round of budget talks between congressional democrats on the white house seems to have led nowhere that has 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 border wall prompting president trump to promise he'll veto the bill trump says it's possible he could declare a national emergency to build the wall if democrats refuse to 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 i'm 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 without the approval of congress trump also summarize the meeting he felt the meeting was productive but the representative seemed 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 end up beating 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 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 to once again we are facing gridlock with capitol hill divided and no clear consensus in american politics we spoke to investigative chinless david lindorff to think 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 and it's ludicrous it's not like a hurricane is where you can look at the damage and say well it 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 its own party tells me has to fund the government because it's costing the their supporters too much and it's costing the country too much 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

keep there are so many things wrong with this that can't last. the first funeral sent away for the victims of the deadly building explosion in the russian city of my neck of course the search and rescue operation came to an end on this day 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 our city. 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 and 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 plant. where the usual 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 be my wife for holding up the most important thing is that we've survived of our children were traumatised they will need counselling i'm very grateful to the people who make me to corsica for their support and to the emergency services. and investigation is under way in chairman a into a massive cyber attack which led to the pest known data of hundreds of german

politicians and media fake is being leaked online while the paper's n.s.a. lee stages some chairman media outlets already claim to know who's to blame peta all of the 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. they said 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 normal 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 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 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 we'll be looking into this as it develops. political analyst believes the main beneficiary of the scandal is not. russia seems to be the lone we're really but it doesn't make any sense when we see some of that and 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 general over. a little bit into another direction where you are to question we've bought especially when you consider that there is. so there must be high interest that you have a bunch of people who want to get rid of the freedom of which is generally granted by the bill of rights and. some sort of stand or to. make new

laws or permanent services but a vision of that if this were. a job not only because that. would be the do over there in russia or or somebody from 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 in chile on friday morning one of the victims here is a thirty year old woman received serious wounds she was immediately taken to hospital authorities say the blast came from a device head and in a rubbish bin a radical environmentalist group called the individual less tending towards the wilds named by the acronym spanish reportedly came to responsibility for the attack on its website chile's interior minister says the incident is being investigated as an act of terror took responsibility for

a parcel bomb but that attack resulted in any superficial damage. 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 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 times but the government have succeeded in deporting qatada back to the rule of law that each and every stage of the procedures 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. so i was granted asylum in the u.k. in one thousand nine hundred four as he claimed he had been tortured in jordan the

u.k. then arrested him off to die and eleven on terror related charges because target was sent back to jordan twelve years later he was assured he would not be tortured but 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 was spent off to his deportation for monitoring his condition and ensuring he wasn't tortured the government's committed some. up to three year is the last payment was made in twenty sixteen yes in another deportation case last october the public reaction was quite different passengers on a flight from london to take a stood up for a man who was being deported the man named ahmed was taken off the plane to strong protests from people on board however it was later revealed he had been found guilty of gang rape and served

a prison sentence has more of the video showing what happens on the flights. this is never a very clear on this. was it that you want to leave the love. boat forget exactly what you just go by the show because you're not on the lookout for situations i never heard of human. behavior. i don't need to reach out for help because i'm sure when by to stave advance a political commentator keith best c.e.o. of a group that advocates the sexual assault victims to weigh in on the debate even migrant deportations and in particular the case of up you could talk to. 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 wealth for payments he and those around him are 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 or actually we are at the hottie 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 am my recipe is a suggestion for an icky what you're suggesting is a much greater suggestion for anarchy because you're suggesting it's appropriate that the you care taxpayer should pick up the bill for a terrorist mastermind who was going against the rule of involving u.k. i'm certainly going to go 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 care 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 anarchists take but either way it's pretty imbecilic the fundamental fact is that this guy was by any definition an al-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 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 on that point where would you like to see the want to spend on another universe or is victims who chose i'm only slightly disturbed david that. it 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 convicted 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 were living with you 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 law that's what matters keith people 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 world terrorist or something like that but if those countries yeah not 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 in essence what keith saying 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 with the u.k. is far better off without them and yes into 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. the latest to mellow expands box has become a huge hit with forty five million views within the fast week although it's also become a health risk for some of its dearest. if

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