fire tear gas smoke and clashes are once again seen on the streets of paris as the protests continue for the eighth consecutive week after the government branded the agitators seeking to. mount a tainted rusher on spying charges appears to be a citizen of britain canada and the united states media speculation grows that he was seized by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip also to come this week call a national emergency 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 you may do it donald trump

threatens to declare a state of emergency if there's no consensus on funding his border. democrats meanwhile are reviving talk of impeachment. because we're going to go in there with some other. great have you with us this evening. and he hopes the french government have the protests would be confined to just last year have been dealt a blow today at least twenty five thousand of the movement's members of once again taken to streets across the country for an eighth consecutive week clashes erupted in paris as protesters there set barricades on fire and they were calling for president emmanuel mccrone to reside. i.

was was. was. security personnel have again been deployed to the capital to prevent violence and they've been demonstrations in other cities as well across the country movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite a government climbdown over fuel tax increases today's protests comes to two days after the yellow vests sent back from a letter 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 on friday a government spokesperson branded the demonstrators agitators who were focused on nothing more than staging a coup the future is a nurse. who 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 the mayor of the town of missile a feat ishaq me our police that the reforms back on is trying to push through out of touch with what the public wants. he said that it will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the reforms that the french are demanding today you know in speaking of european some are empty which the french doglike so i think is absolutely dreaming you know all the european in the church are and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the commonsense of the french today i

think that the luck or as been elected by chance but is not having a huge ledger it to me that he needs to implement what he wishes because you know they are seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose. britain canada ireland and the united states have all confirmed the man held in russia on spying charges is one of their citizens paul will and a former u.s. marine is now the center of intense media speculation. as more information. 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 saying this is a hard and fast rule of trading when you when you go. 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 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 lined 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 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 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 in the rehab boot 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 buton and paul whelan are completely different. earlier this week the washington post published an article about mr whelan's detention in it former cia

official john cypher doubted that we learned was a spy saying random americans without diplomatic immunity and sent to collect low level information we asked legal a media analyst line on for 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 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 accorded the 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 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 entering a third week the sticking point is funding for it on terms border war and we democrats again calling for impeachment the u.s. president threatening to take radical action. 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 from 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 and 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 from from some democrats one democrat in the house of representatives actually used some rather colorful language to make this call police don't want and maybe 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 we shouldn't be impeached for a political reason 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 attacked 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 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 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 cave. north korea on the united states need to act more and talk less to solve the deadlock in the peace negotiations that's according to comments upon advisor to the south korean president comes after kim jong un's new year address in which i express readiness for dialogue but warned of the dangers of failed diplomacy not operable and didn't go that i am ready to meet with the u.s.

president again and to anytime on a new threat to bring about out counters it would be welcomed by the international community however the united states continues to break its promises misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things pushes you had with sanctions and pressure against our own public and we may have to seek another way to protect our country sovereignty interests and peace and stability on the korean peninsula is a thorny if a north korea in the u.s. with grave warnings and insoles being fired from both sides conjunction and donald trump eventually reconciled on the sickest on off rather explosive twenty. at the beginning of twenty 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 teams brought in some of the first 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 free style was unwilling to discipline a human face to the leadership of the reclusive state almost all the spoils of the games itself the teams of north and south korea under one flag in fact even. at least in a way were reconciled in pyong trying at least in the form. of. double fuel. 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 competition incivility with pyongyang peeing to gain the upper hand another branch of the world korea obliteration of what they said was the nuclear test site which i got to witness. 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 things to north korean leader kim jong il and i'm absolutely shocked. this is how suddenly you get treated the. very juice from john the president's 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 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 maybe it won't everything's going to be scuttled but eventually the two met and they felt and how shame about their feelings toward each other.

like you spent i was really being tough and so we're seeing a lot back and forth and then we fell in love ok one thing that twenty. thing in the north korean saga is that donald trump and predictability still don't go together as his emissaries were scolding came from fools living ellen sort of a long distance relate. i'm sure for. proof is infatuation through the south korean but it did read out of four years into korean summits in the final state is three two place last year signed that perhaps the two koreas don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. britain has been paying large sums of money to protect

a controversial hate preacher the deported that story after this break. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be for us as we watch them before three in the morning can't be good. interested always in the waters of our. friendship. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape

out of disdain become educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the wealth of the hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terrorism charges the sum revealed by the times newspaper well it sparked anger among m.p.'s and also the public these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british tanks per one point seven million pounds in legal

fees for heat preacher abu qatada total cost for a deeper titian including welfare payments so far one point nine million pounds craze six 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. or you could granted him asylum back in one nine hundred ninety four that's after he claimed that he was tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges that other was sent back to jordan twelve years later after he was assured that he would not be tortured but his deportation which was overseen by the then home secretary now pm of course to reserve and it came at a price a bill of at least one point nine million pounds ouch racked up including payments for legal fees and eight and as mention ily two hundred thousand pounds of that was spent after he'd been removed from the country to check on his condition and to

make sure that he wasn't being tortured the british government committed to monitoring qatar for up to three years the last payment was made in two thousand and six the thorny issues put it up for debate with our experts. in the first place . should never have been granted asylum here by can one thousand for your recipes one for and the key you say should never of claimed asylum in all reality 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 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 through the rule of involving u.k. i'm cynical 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 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 than our kids 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 line expand on another universe or as victims which shows 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 and the fact is that jordan already having him 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. as mastermind it's a matter of numerous reports by various heads of intelligence services if an intelligence service alleges somebody is a world learned terrorist or something like that but if those countries know a lot provide the evidence to support those contentions then i'm afraid 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. and yes interior national point we should toughen operate 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. being busted for drugs healing could spell the end of your career prospects unless spelling is something happened to be good at least that was the case for two u.k. students.

in a historic split from the russian church the orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence thomas the official document of the decision was signed today by the head of the global orthodox church in istanbul or ukraine's president welcomed the decision other orthodox churches saying the move is politically motivated and that it could lead to the split of the entire orthodox society. i'm going to split just one half and i'll be back with the latest news headlines hope to see that.

we're continuing our special episodes here in 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. by you will both be end of what is your last year's does. she doesn't put it with the people most of us are not all what i mean to. say.

i make it was when i was. with. the lady i look she's going to tell me he can see as you know he. was sure it was the family will. always see more in their favor than was in them well most of them given money for something but while. i was at the field. with.

the comedy show were americans in america covering american news i called foreign agents and welcome to the first of twenty nine t.v. . ok we did i think we are now past all the dystopian futures from all of our favorite films from the eighty's and ninety's and none of them came true we've created our very own unique dystopian future. that demolition man in this new year on redacted and we'll be covering a lot of super stuff. and that's why for my new year's resolution i have promised myself i will stop being right so much. in this new year i hope to be

a lot wrong. and i have started by using the word wrong. anyway it's become a bit of a tradition now that in our first show in the new year we go over the most censored most redacted stories of the past year but we don't go over our version of the list because then we'd just be saying the same stuff we say all year no we go over the list from project censored which is an award winning four decade effort to reveal the news your corporate media refuses to talk about project censored gives twenty five of the most censored stories of the past year and some of them you have actually already heard on the show for example they highlight twenty one trillion dollars in unaccounted for government spending from one thousand nine hundred ninety eight to twenty fifteen something that i've mentioned several times on this show except i usually mention it as this desert. fox. thank you sam kinison another. another story i covered

a few weeks ago that is on project censored list how big wireless convinced us cell phones and why five are safe i'll give you a hint i'll give you a hint they did it with sally the cephalopods ok yeah right sally. why do you. to be so cute. anyway those are two of the big ones that we didn't cover all redacted tonight but now join me as we dive in to all the rest of the deepest darkest most censored stories coming to you from washington d.c. to bow debate.