this tear gas smoke and clashes once again the scene on the streets of paris at least fifty thousand of its members of a game taken to streets across the country for the eighth consecutive week. amount in russia on spying charges appears to be a citizen to britain canada and the united states as media speculation grows the biggest seize by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip also to come up. with your 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 he may do it donald trump friends declare a state of emergency if there's no consensus on funding his border wall democrats reviving as well. peach. police don't want it and. because we're going to go in there really some other. you all in just the right places. and he hopes the french government the yellow vests protest would be confined to just last year they have been dealt a big blow today at least fifty thousand of the movement's members took to the streets across the country for an eight consecutive week scuffles erupted in paris protesters to set barricades on fire and they were calling for president to resign . the

was . was. was. security personnel have again been deployed to the capital to prevent violence there been demonstrations in other cities as well across france the movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite the government actually climbing down over fuel tax increases today's protests comes just two days after the yellow vests sense the man you might call a letter it was 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 the office of government spokesperson benjamin greebo was targeted by about fifteen protesters they tried but failed to storm the building he had to be taken to safety and that came just a day after he branded the yellow vests and taters who were focused he said are nothing more than staging a coup. the future is a nurse. says the announcements of a 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 mis on the feet that subject me are believes that the reforms micron is trying to push through are 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 sovereign g eight which the french don't like so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know the european the church or and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the commonsense of the french today i think that the luck of all as been elected by chance but is not having a huge ledger it to me that he needs to implement what he wishes it was 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 they've all confirmed that the man held in russia on spying charges is one of that citizens who whelan's the man a former u.s. marine who's now at the center of intense media speculation might easily be trying as mine. 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 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 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 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 very aboot in a poll we learn are completely different earlier this week the washington post published an article about mr whelan's to tension in it former cia official john's life and down to that was actually a spy saying random americans without diplomatic immunity aren't sent to collect low level information we asked legal media analyst lionel 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 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 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 times you're not going to see some of the best vetting of the expert. another round of budget talks between congressional democrats and the white house seems to have led nowhere with the u.s. government shutdown entering its third week the sticking point well its funding for the trumps border war and with the democrats again calling for impeachment the u.s.

president is threatened 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 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 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 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 use 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 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 we shouldn't be impeached for a political reason and we should avoid punishment political race 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 keep. north korea in the united states need to act more and talk less to

solve the deadlock in the peace negotiations that's according to comments made by an advisor to the south korean president comes after kim jong un's new year address in which he expressed readiness for dialogue but also warned of the dangers of failed diplomacy not operable and didn't know that i am ready to meet with the u.s. president again and any time on a new threat to bring about outcomes would be welcomed by the international community however the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things they 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. well it was a thorny if a north korea in the u.s. with grave warnings and insults falling from both sides but kim jong un and donald trump they did manage to eventually reconcile it just on the take a look back at what was a rather explosive twenty eight team at the beginning of twenty saying the state of

relations between the united states and north. career could be summed up with the contest. time itself the measuring contest in relation seemed unthinkable yet that was exactly what twenty teams brought in some of the best cases of classic 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 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. at least in a way were reconciled in pyongyang 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 to the world korea obliteration of what they said was the nuclear test site which i got to witness. this both the world. and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust the fact artsy got to see many things but no outsider how

to. hello we're inside the residence thanks to 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 aside the summit will happen and personally i think it's going to be a success predictability though is not one of the praise from has 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. thank you for the speculation that i was really being tough and so wishing i will go back and forth and then we fell in love ok one thing that twenty didn't sing 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 crossing if you can prove fulfill his infatuation

through the south. but it did read out of five into korean summits independent state is three to place last year sign 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 preach it did paul say to have a story of this after the break. in a world of big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting

past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. nor make manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round there's only the one percent. nor middle of the room.

welcome back britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of a hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terrorism charges the sum as revealed by the times newspaper has sparked anger among m.p.'s and the public these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british tanks pero 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. or you can granted him asylum back in one thousand nine hundred four that was after he claimed he was tortured in jordan the u.k. arrested in there after nine eleven on terror related charges because the other was sent back to jordan twelve years later after he was assured he would not be

tortured. but his deportation which was overseen by the then home secretary now prime minister of course to reason may came a quite a price a bill of at least one point nine million pounds racked up including payments for legal fees and aid and is mention nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd been removed from the country that was to check on his condition less and ensure that he wasn't being tortured the british government committed to monitoring guitar there for three years the last payment was made in twenty sixth we put the issue of migrant deportations 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 hottie to the convention like 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 you're suggesting

it's appropriate that the you care taxpayer should pick up the bill for a terrorist mastermind he was going against the rule of involving u.k. only finish no 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 pick 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 owl 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 or not point where would you like to see the line 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 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 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 be must be music from heaven to the years of any prospective terrorist wanting to get into the u.k. and yes 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. i think busted for drug dealing it's something that could often end your career prospects unless spelling is something you have to be good i because that was the case for two u.k. students.

and finally this hour and a historic split from the russian church the orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence thomas that's the official document of the decision it was signed today by the head of the global for the church and while ukraine's president

welcomed the decision other orthodox churches have condemned it saying the move is politically motivated and that it could lead to a split of the entire orthodox. that wrap things up for this news hour i'll be back in just over thirty minutes for the latest headlines updates on our top story of deceit. decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active. in the nineteen seventies cretonne had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery and. a german company develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul you know

she said she's just got choked up minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. we're continuing our special episode 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.

time after time so you know what you're going on the ground while we're away for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up in this with the british government in chaos we speak to someone who once received the biggest individual democratic mandate in the european union a long time cooperate of jeremy corbett ken livingstone's and the agreement to. sanctions on any track record one three see improvement in the field peace and security and the positive steps every train is taken to meet the demands of the security council while britain continues economic warfare all around the world what's behind it voting to drop the un sanctions against the fact the linchpin of

global security eritrea last week told class in golden age hollywood and the ogre of show business with the son of joan collins author and artist alexander newly visible coming up in today's going underground but first to that country bombed out orders from tourism is today is expected to be the last briefing at the u.n. of on boy staffan de mistura on syria this was the official his pleas arguably went unheard by the british government shortly before u.k. bombing in the spring recall of doing sure expect for international humanitarian and human rights law including your money did enact across syria to all people in need and we urge once more concrete respectively the lucian twenty four d. to one throughout syria that resolution for a cease fire apart from against isis al-qaeda linked groups wasn't really a factor for tourism a and blairite labor for them it was about the highly likely over the conclusive we judge is highly likely but both that the syrian regime has

continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so or as our opposite number said i believe that the action was legally questionable and on saturday the united nations secretary general i'm turning to terry said as much reiterating that all countries must act in line with the united nations charter luckily for tourism a compliance press over u.k. aerial bombardment i mean it's a civil war was never really legally questions even of historic giving his briefing today will likely not mention it was to raise i'm a responsible for escalating the syrian catastrophe that killed hundreds of thousands and that involved u.k. taxpayer funded militias opposing president assad even the media doesn't listen to . corbin perhaps they should go back and listen to donald trump before the arguable u.s. deep state got to him he has aligned with russia and with the rain they don't want to isis but they have other things because we're back in.