oh. that has nothing to do with. this. 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.

it's appropriate that the you. should. for a terrorist. story welcome to your new. britain canada and the united states have all. charges is one of the. u.s. marine is now at the. media speculation correspondent picks up the story. haven't they god rather used to hearing about russian spies getting caught in america. which is very much forefront inspiring master this is the

one saying this is a hard and fast rule of trading when you when you go into espionage. particularly coming out of the soviet union or russia they will accuse of being a russian spy has pleaded guilty in a us federal court this time the case is the exact opposite paul whelan an american national and former u.s. marine was arrested in moscow in perhaps the fanciest hotel in the capital but who would have known when the news broke that as many as four countries would end up saying he's our guy about mr we won the embassy violent in moscow has requested consular access to an irish citizen currently detained in russia we are extremely worried about paul whelan we have offered consular assistance consular officials are aware that a canadian citizen has been arrested in russia ambassador huntsman expressed his support for mr whelan and offered the embassy assistance however when it comes to

the canadian passport the suspects brother couldn't even say whether he still has it or not i don't know i know that he was once a canadian citizen so he may still be and i know that he is an american citizen right now strange but that's how it is paul whelan is in detention in moscow having been charged with espionage although his family is sure the reason he went to russia was just a wedding party the american ambassador had been given permission to see the spy suspect and so he did mr whelan's lawyer is seeking bail for his client but don't forget several countries have wind up to help him out so while u.k. officials are waiting for the green light to get access to the alleged spy their top diplomat has spoken out 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 anything. he's

a tool at this stage as to why this might have happened there are very few details on the case that we know off for now there hasn't been much reaction from senior officials either but journalists around the world are old all over the story and asks plenty of time to be small. what's most likely as we'll as a pawn in russia's 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 maria bhutto she was arrested in america in july and eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring against the u.s. with the russian government official and at least one other person without notifying the attorney general however completely different earlier this week washington post published an article about a mr whelan's to tension and it form a cia official. has doubts about wieland being

a spy saying quote we don't send in random americans without diplomatic community to collect the load level stuff so we spoke about this with lionel. 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 are does that in any 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 be sure 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 that 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. another round of budget talks between congressional democrats and the white house seems to have led nowhere for the u.s. government shutting down the shutdown i should say entering its third week the sticking point is funding for donald trump's border wall but democrats also reviving talk of impeachment of the u.s. president is now threatening to take radical action. have you 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 you 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 up 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 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 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 please don't end it baby don't because we're going to go in there we're going to be some other. 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. and we should avoid. political we've reached this point where if you have control of congress or half of congress and. the president is from the other party you can't the president body refusing to provide the votes to

pass the president's agenda he'd run into problems right away because there is no national emergency 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 the 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 the nearer supporters too much and it's costing the country too much to hold a quarter of the government unfunded a lengthy period of time is going to cause so much pain that he's going to have to cave. we all know a line or two from a favorite t.v. show or movie which may want to be careful when saying them in public take the iconic ninety sitcom seinfeld which a new generation of us is now deeming offensive of a jokes like this soup nazi oh my god i'm not let you cut in line when i am because

if he catches us will never be able to get super again but i wasn't the only charge this apparently caused offense and other joking crew did a reference to native americans using the term indians and then one episode a flag of puerto rico was set on fire by one of the characters and stomped on also a stereotypical portrayal of a gay couple also riled but opinions are divided as to what's comedy and what's not . i wondered how long it would take for the the offended p.c. police to come off to one of my favorite shows it's still the best thing on television. saying it's comedy genius comedy that's the whole point of comedy when you laugh with each other surprise some people still are low here in the world. who was the freaking crybaby that wrote this trash seinfeld was funny when it is it's funny now and it will always be funny if these jokes from seinfeld are now offensive we better take saturday night live off the

air to you can. perhaps the most iconic ninety's said call friends also failed to pass the sensitivity test of younger generations last year online streaming service netflix uploaded the serious but the sitcoms jokes apparently fell flat with some viewers broadening the storyline sexist and homophobic we spoke to comedian ron pleco and he took out his su is stars such as so on this debate. i don't know where the selective virtue signalling originates from i don't know how a bunch of people woke up number like hey we're outraged about seinfeld today hasn't that been off the air for about twenty years yes but we're mad about this today and here's what we're mad about like there's more important things going on in the world i hope that they you know maybe take up a cause or something like that as you know we have some real reasons to be outraged in society right now and one of them is certainly not t.v.

shows that have been off the air for twenty years think instead of being outraged over art that was made years ago and yes societal norms were different then and they may not translate to now so yeah let's make some better art. 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 some revealed by the times newspaper sparked anger among m.p.'s. these payments are ridiculous the money we've spent is an insult to the british taxpayer who. 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 after nine eleven on terror related charges and thought it was sent back to jordan twelve years later he was assured he would not be tortured but his deportation certainly 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 deportation from monitoring his condition and ensuring that he wasn't being tortured the government committed to monitoring qatada for up to three years the last payment was made in twenty sixteen so we invited david vance a political commentator and keith best a c.e.o. of a group that advocates for sexual assault victims to weigh in on this debate over migrant deportations and in particular the case of abu qatada. 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 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 should never of should and 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 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 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 anarchist 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 al-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 seems to be that your opinion as to whether somebody is wrapped up in criminality. the law 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 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 an intelligence service alleges somebody is a well known terrorist or something like that but if those countries cannot 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 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 weeks of violent protests france's yellow first movement faces a hardened stance from authorities. a government spokesperson has called the demonstrators agitators wanting to stage a coup shala to penske reports two thousand and nine hundred seems to have started with a bang for president back on but not the kind of bang that he wanted the latest poll showing that seventy five percent of french people who responded to that poll actually disapprove of the corn government despite the concessions he's been offering to the yellow best protesters in the last few weeks and that came has his

cabinet met for the first time since the new year and following that where there were discussions of the yellow vest the presidential spokesperson described in a press conference yellow vests movement is 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 exactly something new we've been speaking of as protesters since the movement started back on november seventeenth and that's one of the things that they've said that they wanted is a complete change in the political system here in france one of the ways of maybe that happening is to. the government protesters have often called for the resignation of president matt kwan and it seems that these protests which have been

gulf france now for three months look set to continue they've been described as some parts as being some of the worst riots francis seen in half a century and as act eight looks set to play out on saturday it seems more people are set to go out into the streets and that comes as an open letter was penned to president back on signs from angry france saying that the president just hadn't listened to the yellow best movement and criticized him in every paragraph let's take a look at an x. . from that letter rage will turn into hatred if you and your companions keep seeing people as rabble consider them to through us and think they mean nothing and it's not just the yellow vests that are causing president to have a headache now it's emerged that his head of communications has also quit his post this is a man called for who is credited as being the person who shaped and helped bring

president back onto his victory back in two thousand and seventeen he's known as a close confidant of the president he's been with him for around two and a half years and he's not the first of the backroom staff members to quit his post word portly we've also of course seen back in two thousand and eighteen several senior figures from the government stepping down off the having disagreements with president mack on that included the interior minister jacques loom back in october and before that the informant minister nicholas pseudo as well as some of the lessons happen at members france so while president michael might have been hoping that i think it's week the disc would from two thousand and eighteen under the carpet it looks like two thousand and nineteen could be moved up to say. north korea has told the u.s. to stop meddling in its relations with herself drawing claims that washington does not want to see an improvement in into

a korean ties it comes after kim jong un's new year's address in which he expressed readiness for dialogue but also warned of the dangers of failed diplomacy. none of them didn't or that i am ready to meet with the u.s. president again or to any time a new threat to bring about outcomes there would be welcomed by the international community however the united states continues to break its promises misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things we had with sanctions and pressure against our own public then we may have to see. another way to protect our country sovereignty interests and peace and stability on the korean peninsula so it was a thorny year for north korea and the united states with grave warnings and personal insults being fired both sides feel some sort of war but. eventually reconciled and the entire world sighed with relief and looks back at a rather explosive twenty. at the beginning of the state of relations between the

united states and north korea could be summed up with the contest. time itself the measuring contest in relations seemed unthinkable cases of classical literature it all began with a woman. who is needed could easily make a run at the gold medal if political freestyle was in the in focus simply a human face to the leadership of the reclusive state almost all the support of the games itself the teams of north and south korea under one flag in fact even. at least in the way reconciled trying these things before.

fast forward a couple of months and history's made the leaders of north and south shaking hands smiling my. shoulder to shoulder in the no man's land between their states. from a bystander's perspective the whole affair looked almost like a competition incivility. pyongyang peeing to gain the upper hand now that all of branch to the wall for north korea obliteration of what they said was then nuclear test site which i got to witness. minutes ago they were in there over there and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust the fact odyssey got to see many things but outside

a high school hello were inside the restaurant comes to north korean leader kim jong il i'm absolutely shocked. this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at kim jong un's residence the whole faja and fury thing seem to go out of fashion fust so don't trump decided to put aside the summit will happen and personally i think it's going to be a success predictability though he's not one of the praise strumpets known for he kept the world confused regarding his intentions to meet kim jong until the very last moment is a very substantial chance that it will work as i always say who knows who knows what's going to happen who will either have a very good meeting or we want to have a good meeting and maybe we won't even have a meeting at all it will see how it all works maybe you won't everything can be scuttled but eventually the two met and they felt and how shame about their feelings toward each other.

like you spent. hours really be. i'm so wishing i will go back in force and then we fell in love ok one thing that. didn't fit in here in the north korean saga is that donald trump and predictability still don't go together as his emissaries were scolding came from tools living alan sort of a long distance relationship with. proof of his infatuation through the

south korean leader but it could be out of follow you into green in the car straight years three to place last year a sign that perhaps the two koreas don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. this is also international being busted for drug dealing could spell the end of your career prospects unless spelling is something you happen to be rather good at at least that was the case for to you.

there are some of our top stories for this hour here on the international though your saturday program continues at the top of the hour to see. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active. in the nineteen seventies grin to tell had as the

chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at ashwood a german company develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during bring the. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything. she said he's just got choked up mimics a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation. for the suffering that i've not only want the money i want the revenge. thank. god. but then i know what it. was out of the battle of.

how do. i die. for . hello my name's peter and i've been living in a bush now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got soaked through in the time. the stimulus bullshit you yes this is going to be fulfilled which gave you before you leave me if you believe that. you wouldn't believe it but this beside the area

a place called should make you feel you like expect to see some good maybe a mind. could definitely help people in this with me just. because you like to cook a good deal but look at each new look good i was really going to.