headlines this hour a man detained in russia on spying charges appears to be a citizen of britain canada island and the u.s. that is leading to speculation that he was seized by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip. with the 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. from threatens declare a state of emergency because the census on funding his board of all democrats meanwhile reviving the case. police don't play baby talk because we're going to go in there really some other.

clashes of once again seen on the streets of paris is the best protests continued their eighth consecutive week that after the government branded them agitators seeking and. even welcome you watching r.t. international now britain canada island and the u.s. have all confirmed a man held in russia on spying charges is one of their citizens whalen a former u.s. marine is now at the center of intense media speculation. reports. haven't they got as scared 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 saying this is a hard and fast rule. of trading when you when you go and. 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 challenges are against him to understand whether there is a case or not we are not ruling out any theories a tool at this stage as to why this might have happened there are very few details on the case that we know. for now there hasn't been much reaction from senior

officials either but journalists around the world are old all over the story and speculation is rife he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal of masks plenty of time to be small but. 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 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. this week the washington

post published an article about mr weed insta tention and in its form a cia official john saif a diet simply didn't was a spy saying that random americans without diplomatic community to collect low level information be os legal and media and the line of 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 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 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 to nowhere with the u.s. government shutdown i went wrong it's the week the sticking point is funding for donald trump's border wall and democrats received reviving tool of impeachment the us president is now threatening to take radical action if you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this war 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 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 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 summarized 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 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 reform 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 sure of a lengthy period of time is going to cause so much pain that he's going to have to cave. now any hopes the french government had that he had a vast protest would be confined to last year have been dealt a blow today because hundreds of the movement's members have once again flooded the streets of paris for the eighth consecutive week clashes erupted as protesters

broke streets in code for president macro lens resignation. was . a i was. was. the only security personnel have again been deployed to the capital to prevent violence there have been demonstrations in other cities across france the movement hasn't called a halt to his actions despite a government trying time over fuel tax increases today's price has come just two days after the olivet sent macron a letter from 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 when on friday a government spokes person brand of the demonstrators actually taters who were focused on nothing more than staging a coup if you she's a nurse. since the announcements of the manual macro the yellow verse 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. north korea had the us need to act more and talk less to solve the deadlock in their peace negotiations as according to comments by an advisor to the south korean president it comes after kim jong un's new year tress in which he expressed readiness for dialogue but also warned of the dangers of failed diplomacy

not an operable and didn't although i am ready to meet with u.s. president again and to any time a new threat to bring about outcomes 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 and pushes 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 stablish peace and stability on the korean peninsula it was a thorny year for 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 you got it out of looks back now at a rather explosive twenty eight. at the beginning of twenty scene the state of relations between the united states and north korea could be summed up with a contest as old as 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. this is still north korea's leader could easily make a run at the gold medal if political freestyle was a millon produce a plea a human face to the leadership of the reclusive state almost all the support of the games itself where the teams of north and south korea under one flag in fact even plump and well at least in the way were reconciled in pyongyang at least in the form of the lookalike. double feeling old. from. fast forward a couple of months and history's made the leaders of north and south shaking hands smiling laughing. all to shoulder in the no man's land between their

states. from apply status perspective the whole affair looked almost like a curse really i think it's going to be a success predictability 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 maybe we won't even have a meeting at all she added. maybe you want everything to be scuttled but eventually the two met and they felt no shame about their feelings toward each other.

i could spend. i was really being tough and so was i we love 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 living all sort of a long distance relationship with. proof of infatuation for the south korean leader but it would be out of for you green independence day teen

years three to place last year sign that perhaps the two careers don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. donna tell you what she had few over the next few minutes it's been revealed that britain has been paying large sums of money to protect a controversial high preacher comported we'll have a look at that story in the details just after birth. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the law or. they get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first century. or somehow want to.

get it right to be close it's like the fourth tree in the morning can't be good get . interested in the waters of the. first six. zero again that we all know a line behind tsotsi from our favorite t.v. shows and movies but you may want to be careful when saying them in public because

take the iconic nine hundred km seinfeld for example it does seem to be offending a new generation of fewest jokes like this one. this guy makes the best in the city jerry the best don't they call soup nazi. are not like you cut in line right now because of the catches us will never be able to get super again and that wasn't the only joke that scores the fence another included a reference to native americans using the term indians and in one episode they were flag of push rico was set on fire and stamped on by one character a stereotypical portrayal two of a gay couple also angered some but opinions are divided as to what is comedy and what isn't. i wondered how long it would take for the perpetually offended p.c. police to come off to one of my favorite shows it's still the best thing on television. for. comedy genius kaminey that's the whole

point of comedy when you laugh with each other surprise some people still low here in the world. who is 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 on fences we better take saturday night live of the year two you can. perhaps the most iconic ninety six come friends is also failed to pass a sensitivity test of younger generations last year online streaming service netflix upload the series but the sitcoms jokes did fall a little flat and some viewers branded the storylines sexist and homophobic we spoke to the comedian ron. 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. and other news it has been revealed her britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of the hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terra charges the sum revealed by the times newspaper has sparked anger among m.p.'s and also among the public. these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british taxpayer. 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 tartar was sent back to jordan 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 hefty price a bill of at least one point nine million pounds has racked up including payments for legal fees and also weighed in this mentioned nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd been removed from the country to check on his condition and to ensure that he wasn't being tortured the british government committed to monitoring the target for up to three years and the last payment was made back in twenty sixteen but we put the issues raised by migrant deportations and this particular case up for debate. in the first place big should never have been

granted asylum here by can one thousand for your recipe is one for and the key you say should never have claimed asylum in all reality we are at the hearty to the national 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 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 including u.k. only thing and you know 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 u.k. 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 our qaeda violence wouldn't you agree with me with me on that point where would you like to see the one 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 and the fact is that jordan already having victim in these absence then had to acquit him when he was retried for exactly the same thing because it was discovered that the evidence was tainted it's not my opinion that he was a tie. 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 get a lot 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 must be must be music from heaven to the years of any prospective terrorist wanting to get into the u.k. 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. when a historic split in the russian church the orthodox church ukraine has been granted

independence from austria official documents of the season was signed today by the head of the global orthodox church in istanbul while ukraine's president welcomed the decision of the roof of the church is contented saying the move is politically night's debate and could lead to the spirit of the entire orthodox society. that brings up today that's how the nice looking today so far here not a we're back again thirty five. hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years. this is

a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. when you. let me go this is done as though i knew deep down because. i still didn't i see it as if it.

does. what i mean. i mean. really i look to going to the movie can you see as you know if you buy the fact. that you're in the form of the media. i'm with you more in their favor when i was in the mud almost nothing to do with money both of them in this film i will be most i will start to feel.

thirty rock stars are here with the kaiser report we're continuing our special episode here the new year celebrating not only twenty nineteen but ten years of kaiser reports at some point in twenty nineteen i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted you know we've been tracking everything from the financial crisis of two thousand and eight to the goal rally of two thousand and five to the bitcoin rally of twenty eleven to the big coin crash of twenty eight and everything in between stacey yes that's on until this autumn that we hit the official ten year mark but i want to talk about our predictions for a twenty nineteen this is the third of three episodes we were looking at twenty

nine thousand the year ahead i think is a pivotal year because we're ten years also after the financial crash of two thousand and eight two thousand and nine you know ten years after that bottom when it all started picking up again and as i said i think we're going to have you know a stock market crash and more quantitative easing and can tell in effect and all that negative effect and one other thing we're going to see this year which many might see is a negative that is the jockeying for the democratic nomination. for u.s. politics so we're going to see a lot of politics we saw joe biden recently you know at the end of the year kind of saying that he may run in two thousand and twenty he thinks he'll be very popular bedo roark he wants to run for president his wife is from a billionaire family so he has the money and there are you know i guess kind of donald trump has inspired a lot of people who have never been in politics or.