a man detained in russia on spying charges appears to be a citizen of britain canada ireland and the us that is media speculation that he was seen by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip. we could 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. the state of emergency if there's no consensus on funding his border war democrats meanwhile the reviving people. don't play and maybe they don't because we're going to go in there really some of them. and it's revealed the u.k. spent nearly a quarter of a million pounds continuing to protect

a radical muslim cleric deporting him to another country we put the issue up for the back. her suggesting it's appropriate that the you care taxpayers should pick up the bill for a terrorist mastermind was going to go straight to the rule of in the u.k. . hello welcome is just going four pm here in moscow you're watching international britain canada ireland and the u.s. have all confirmed demand change in russia on spying charges is one of their citizens a former u.s. marine is now at the center of intense media speculation. as more details. haven't they god as get rather used to hearing about russian spies getting caught in america we have the hybrid warfare that you're seeing with russia which is very much forefront inspired master this is the one thing 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 pool whelan we have offered to 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 charges are against him to understand whether there is a case or not we're not ruling out any theories tool at this stage as to why this

might have happened there are very few details on the case that we know of for now there hasn't been much reaction from senior officials either but journalists around the world are all over this story and speculation is rife he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal that's plenty of time to be swapped with. 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. do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation was revenge in some way by the russians as you've just heard many are linking this case with the case of 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 the fact is the charges brought against

maria buthe and paul whelan are completely different and a prank there were earlier this week the washington post did publish an article about mr wade into tension and then it almost cia official john seifert doubted we didn't was a spy saying that random americans without diplomatic immunity on sent to collect lower level information we asked legal and media analysts line with 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 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 know i don't 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 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 time 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 with the u.s. government shutdown now entering its third week the sticking point is funding for donald trump's border wall and with democrats reviving tools of impeachment the u.s. president is now threatening to take radical action if you considered using emergency

powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval and secondly i 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 absolutely you know we can do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it 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 from 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 has some rather colorful language to make this call the police don't want and maybe days off 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. for a political rule and we should avoid punishment for political reasons 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 attack the president by 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 democrats and they're just going to wait him out until his own party tells him he has to fund the government because it's costing the there are 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 cave. now we all know a line or two from office even t.v. shows obama's movies but you may want to be careful when saying them in public because tight the iconic nine hundred come seinfeld for example it does seem to be

offending a new generation if you is with jokes like this this guy makes the best soup in the city jerry the best you know if they call soup nazi. no not like mine going out because of the cancer just will never be able to get super again and that wasn't the only joke this course offense and other included a reference to native americans using the term indians and in one episode a flag of puerto rico is set on fire and stamped on by one character stereotypical betrayal of a gay couple so you also angered some but opinions are divided as to what comedy and what isn't. i wondered how long it would take for the offended p.c. police to come off to one of my favorite shows it's still the best thing on television. for. comedy genius comedy that's the whole point of company 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 aired 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 six friends is also failed to pass the sensitivity test of younger generations last year online streaming service netflix uploaded the series but the sitcoms jokes did seem to fall flat and something was branded the storylines sexist and also i'm a phobic we spoke to the comedian. 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 because 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. the companies now north korea and the u.s. need to act more and talk less to solve the deadlock in the peace negotiations that's according to comments by an advisor to the south korean president that comes after kim jong un's new year dress in which he expressed readiness for dialogue but also warned of the dangers of failed diplomacy. no approval and didn't although i am ready to meet with the u.s. president again and to any time a new threat to bring about out there will be welcomed by the international community however the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things bush we had with sanctions and pressure against our own public then we may have to seek another way to protect our country's sovereignty interests and to establish peace and stability on the

korean peninsula well it was a thorny year with north korea and the u.s. with grave warnings and insults being fired from both sides but kim jong un and donald trump eventually reconciled looks back now at a rather explosive twenty. at the beginning of twenty scene 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 yet that was exactly what twenty teens brought in some of the best 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 a millon focus a plea 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 were reconciled in pyong trying at least in the form. of. the material. from. fast forward a couple of months and history's made the leaders of north and south shaking hands smiling laughing walking up to shoulder in the no man's land between their states. from apply status perspective the whole affair looked almost like a competition incivility with pyongyang peeing to gain the upper hand another all

of branch of the world korea obliteration of what they said was the nuclear test site which i got to witness. over the world. and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud. in fact odyssey got to see many things but no outside i had to pull hello we're inside the west names of the north korean leader kim jong il and 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 some decided to put it aside the summit will happen and personally i think it's going to be a success but its ability though is not one of the traits trump is 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 no shame about that feelings toward each other. like you spent i was really being tough and so wishing i would go back and forth

and then we fell in love ok one thing that twenty didn't seem in the north korean saga is that donald trump and predictability still don't go together as his emissaries were scolding came from pools living ellen sort of a long distance relate. sure but. you can proof of this infatuation through the south korean leader but it could be out of five into korean in the past eighteen years three took place last year signed that perhaps the two koreas don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. you go donovan asked him to come this hour britain has been paying large sums of money to protect a controversial. it deported well have a look at the details on that just after the break.

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come back now britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the wealth of the i preach abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terror charges the summer they were bought the times newspaper has sparked anger among employees and also among the public. these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british taxpayer who one point seven million pounds in legal fees for a hate preacher abu qatada total cost for deportation including welfare payments so far one point nine million pounds christ sakes two hundred thousand pounds spent on protecting hate preachers human rights you couldn't make it up no wonder people

want to come here they get two hundred thousand even if they leave. well the u.k. granted him asylum in one thousand nine hundred four after he claimed to have been tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges the target was sent back to jordan no twelve years later after he was assured he would not be tortured there but his deportation overseen by the then home secretary theresa may did come at a rather hefty price a bill of at least one point nine million pounds was racked up including payments for legal fees and aid and is mentioned nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd been removed from the country to check on his condition and to ensure two he wasn't being tortured british government committed to monitoring qatar for up to three years and the last payment was made in twenty sixteen we put the issues raised by migrant deportations and this particular case up for debate. 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 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 have claimed asylum inherently 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 are 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 he was going to get three rule of anything u.k. i'm still only going to do i don't know which is different because let me finish

now and i on a second i gotta finish you're suggesting that the you care taxpayer should take to 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 picked up an extra two hundred thousand now if that's not well nihilistic perhaps is a better word than anarchistic but either way it's pretty imbecilic the fundamental fact is that this guy was by any definition an al-qaeda terrorist mastermind 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 but. 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 your remembering 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 not that's what matters but 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 world known 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 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. now any help the french. government had that the yellow vest protests will

be confined to last year have been dealt a blow today because thousands of the movement's members have once again fred the streets of paris for the eighth consecutive week massive cries as you can see have brought to the streets and can be heard calling the president macro his resignation to. the. was the. was. the. ok well these are some live pictures now and it does all come despite all efforts by the authorities to calm the situation security personnel have again been deployed to the capital to prevent violence and vote so far they haven't done much to stop the unrest protests comes just two days after the yellow vests and across a lesser full of anger and contempt. you do

not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing false measures measures that the people of france reject when will you understand that you and your people are no longer credible and that you have lost the confidence of those who believed in you and in your movement nineteen months ago from friday a government spokes person brand of the demonstrators agitators who were focused on nothing more than staging a coke. meanwhile the division says the announcements of the manual macro on 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. international be back with the latest on this process in paris at the top of the next hour that the stories in the headlights.

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on. it's the end of awakening this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on 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 be 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 tech giant huawei is the reason we'll get the latest from canada and later the u.s. government has been partially shut down for two weeks the actions have a deeper and wider impact than many may realize molly barrows joins us to discuss

all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. to the latest signs of growing concern over china's future growth leads our global report today is the people's bank of china that's the chinese central bank opts for a significant stimulus the bank lowered the required ratio of deposits to loans for chinese banks by one percent effectively making one point five trillion or nimby that's about three a two hundred eighteen billion dollars two hundred. billion of vailable for lending according to an announcement earlier today from prime minister chong mr lee's comments seem to confirm an economic slowdown has already occurred and may continue the prime minister promised what he termed countercyclical measures including previously pledged cuts in taxes and fees the bank cut the reserve requirement ratio four times back at twenty eighteen and few doubt the chinese central bank will hesitate to.