i. fires tear gas smoke and clashes are once again seen on the streets of paris with at least fifty thousand of the movements again taking to the streets across the country for consecutive week. a man detained in russia on spying charges appeared to be a citizen of britain canada ireland and the us at the same time that this media speculation grows he was seized by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip also to come this hour. with 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 he may do it stahl trump is

threatening to declare a state of emergency if there is no consensus on funding his border war democrats meanwhile have revived that talk of impeachment. please don't blame him. because really some other. great have you with us this is our team. and he hopes the french government hand that the yellow first protest will be confined to just last year they've been dealt quite a blow at least fifty thousand of the movement's members of the gang take into streets across the country for an eighth consecutive week minor scuffles erupted in paris as protesters there set barricades on fire they also called for president to resign .

was . was. was. security personnel have again been deployed to the capital to prevent violence of demonstrations in other cities across france the movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite the government actually having climbed down over fuel tax increases the latest protest comes just two days after the low vests a letter filled with anger and content. 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 or the office of government spokesperson benjamin greebo was targeted by around fifteen protesters they tried but failed to storm the building cleaver had to be taken to safety and it came just a day after he branded the yellow vests and taters he says that they were focused on nothing more than staging a coup. if you she's a nurse. says the announcements of emanuel macron 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. where of the town of mis on the feeds that subject me are believes that the reforms matter honest trying to push through that they're out of touch with what the public what. he said that it will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the reforms that your friends are demanding today you know it is the

king of european summer in which the french don't like so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know europe in the church are and i think absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that the law goal has been elected by. but it is not up being a huge ledger it needs to implement what you wish just because you know. seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose. britain canada are laid down the u.s. of all confirmed a man held in russia on spying charges is one of their citizens poor whelan's the man a former u.s. marine who's now at the center of intense media speculation he said it was more. 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 address pre-knowledge. 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. you know 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 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 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 of plenty of time to be swapped to dispose of. 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 in the rehab boot do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation or was revenge in some way by the russians as you've just heard many are linking this case with the case of. 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 butanol and paul whelan are completely different. earlier this week the washington post published an article about mr wiens to tension in which former cia official john saw it down to actually a spy saying random americans without diplomatic immunity on sun to collect low level info we asked the legal analyst lionel to get 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 be sure that all individuals in all countries are recorded their rights that are that are available to them what's fascinating is that you will see american mainstream media in particular that does not have necessarily some of the best newsrooms some of the best. let's say experts available who will have to feed that twenty four seven media monster you have to feed it you have to give it something you're going to talk to anybody who's ever revolt we work with the cia was in the cia drove by the cia knew somebody who was in the cia so all our time you're not going to see some of the best varying of the experts. another round of budget talks between congressional democrats and the white house seem to have no way with the u.s. government shutdown entering the third week the sticking point with us funding for

donald trump's border war with the democrats again calling for impeachment us president has threatened to take radical action. if you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval and second don't have to go you have yes i have and i can do it if i want so you don't need congressional approval to build know we can use 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 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 other. 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 it pietschmann 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 the 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 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 and the united states need to act more and talk less to

solve the deadlock in the peace negotiations now this is according to comments made by an advisor to the south korean president that comes after kim jong un's new year address in which they 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 counts there will be welcomed by the international community however the united states continues to break its promises 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 to establish peace and stability on the korean peninsula. to say it was a thorny year for north korea in the u.s. with grave warnings and insults fired from both sides with kim jong un and donald trump they diverge reconcile it is donald takes a look back at

a somewhat explosive twenty eight. at the beginning of twenty seen the state of relations between the united states and north korea could be summed up with a contest. 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 freestyle was a moment to discipline 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 plump and at least in the way 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 walk in order to shoulder the no man's land between their states. from apply status perspective the whole of looked almost like a competition incivility with pyongyang peeing to gain the upper hand another all of branch of the world career obliteration or what. they said it was then nuclear test site which i got to witness. minutes ago they were in there over there and now everything is being turned into

a massive cloud of dust the fact odyssey got to see many things but no outside to hide the full hello we're inside the west things comes to north korean leader kim jong il i'm absolutely shocked. this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at kim jong il'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 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 no shame about that feelings toward each other. thank you spent listening i was really being tough and so we're seeing how we love back and forth and then we fell in love ok one thing. that twenty three didn't fit 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 out sort of

a long distance relationship with passing on proof of his infatuation through the south korean leader but it could be out of five into green in the past eighteen years three took place last year signed that perhaps the two careers don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. britain has been paying large sums of money to protect the controversial hate preacher deported for that story and others after the break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. somehow wanted. to be like to be for the survival of all three of them or can't be good. interested in the wives of. six.

welcome back britain the spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare but hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terrorism charges that summer there by the times newspaper spot anger among them plays on the public. these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british tanks boom one point seven million pounds in legal fees for heat 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 back in one thousand nine hundred four that's after he claimed he was tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges qatada was sent back

to jordan twelve years later after he was assured he wouldn't be tortured but overseen by the then home secretary now pm to reserve may give it quite a price and this is what it was one point nine million pounds of racked up that included payments for legal fees and aid and as mentioned early two hundred thousand pounds of that was spent after he'd been removed from the country to check on his condition ensure he wasn't being tortured the british government committed to monitor tarter for up to three years the last of those payments was in twenty sixteen it's a thorny issue this migrant deportations we put it up for debate. and the first place. 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 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 certainly finish no i don't know which is different because let me finish now and i on a second i got offended 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 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 as victims which shows 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's 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. now being busted for drug dealing could spell the end of your career unless peleg is something you actually quite good at that was the case for two u.k. students.

and finally this hour and a historic split a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church thomas that's the official document of the decision was signed today

by the head bishop of the global orthodox church in istanbul on ukraine's president that welcomed the decision of the role for the church he's condemned it saying that the move was politically motivated and that he could lead to a split the entire orthodox world. ok the rest is up for this news hour to join me in just over half an hour's time and have the latest headlines and updates on our top story. that's geysers financial survival they say money to develop. this is a central bank support diadem is a good problem right now they stopped. i've

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