i. tear gas smoke and clashes are once again seen on the streets of paris as at least fifty thousand of the movement's members of once again taking to streets cross the country for eight consecutive week. man detained in russia spying charges appears to be a citizen of britain canada ireland and the united states that has media speculation grows he was seized by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip also took up. we can call in 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 he may do it donald trump threatens to declare a state of emergency if there's no consensus on funding his border war democrats

meanwhile have been reviving that talk of impeachment. please don't wait and see things out because we're going to go in there really some of. this is are to international great to have you with us. and he hopes that the french government had the yellow vest protests would be confined to just last year or they were dealt a blow on saturday but at least fifty thousand of the movement's members took to the streets across the country for an eighth straight week. in paris this protest is that set barricades on fire they also called for president to resign. and i. i .

ah. ha. the. security personnel were deployed to prevent violence in paris as well as other cities across the country demonstrations also occurred in leon and the coastal city of san as there the movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite the government having actually climbed down over fuel tax increases and saturday's protests came just two days after the yellow vest has sent president micron a letter filled with anger and contempt. you 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. well the distance is growing french president on your micron's condemned the yellow vests on twitter anti called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue also on saturday the office of the government spokesperson benjamin greebo was targeted by around fifteen protesters who tried but failed to storm the building greebo was later taken to safety and this came just a day after he branded the yellow vest agitators focused on nothing more he says than staging a coup. if you she's a nurse. 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. mayor of the town of mis on the feet me are believes that the reforms maicon striving to push through are out of touch with what the public wants. he said that they will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the

reforms that the french are demanding today you know is the king of european sovereign to which the french doglike so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know all the european in the church are and i thing is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense 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 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 of all confirmed the man held in russia on spying charges is one of the citizens paul williams the man a former u.s. marine who's now at the center of intense media speculation auntie's will be trying

to has 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 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 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 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 that six plenty of time to be swapped to dispose of. 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 weil insta tension in which former cia official john cypher down where the we learned was actually a spy saying random americans without diplomatic community are sent to collect low level info we are legal and media analysts long 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 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 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 seem to have led nowhere with the u.s. government shutdown and the third week the sticking point will is some funding for

donald trump's border war with the democrats again calling for impeachment the u.s. president's threatened to take radical action. if you considered using 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 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 our 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 used some rather colorful language to make this call bully don't end baby 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 impeaching for a political reason and we should avoid punishment 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 keep. career in the united states need to act more and talk coalesce in order to

solve the deadlock in the peace negotiations and this is according to common spawn advisor to the south korean president who comes after kim jong un's new year address in which expressions 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 outcomes 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 united states with grave warnings and insults fired from both sides but kim jong un and donald trump did eventually reconcile it is donald takes a look back at a rather explosive two thousand and eight to. 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 teams brought in some of the first cases of classical literature it all began with a woman. north korea's leader could easily make a run at the gold medal if political freestyle was a millon focus simply 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 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 might be 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. and now everything is being turned into

a massive cloud. does in fact see go to see many things but no outside a hospital hello we're inside the restaurant was to north korean leader kim jong il and i'm absolutely shocked. this is how suddenly you get treated the prime very juicy kim jong un's residence 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 to see how it all works maybe you want everything to be scuttled

but eventually the two met when they felt and how shame about their feelings toward each other. if you could spend 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 seem to be 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 relate. sure but. you can prove his 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 a sign that perhaps the two koreas don't really need anyone but each other to finally reconcile. but has been paying large sums of money to protect a controversial hate preacher and to portray that story after this break. 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 and i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crimes happen each day . eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent from last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only .

britain spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of hanks' preacher abu qatada after he was deported to jordan to face terrorism charges now that some of the times newspaper sparked anger among both and pays on 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 thousands even if they leave. or the u.k. granted him asylum back in one thousand nine hundred four after he claimed he was tortured in jordan do you care then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges could other was sent back to jordan twelve years later after he'd been assured that he would not be tortured there. but his deportation which was

overseen by the then home secretary now pm of course to reserve make kemet quite a price i watering in fact one point nine million pounds the bill racked up including payments for legal fees and legal aid as mention nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd been removed from the country that was to check on his condition and ensure he wasn't being tortured the british government committed to monitoring qatada for up to three years the last payment that was made in two thousand and sixteen it's a thorny issue this divides opinion migrant deportations we put it up for debate. 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 hearty 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 three rule of including u.k. i'm still only seven 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 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 on that 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 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 cannot provide the evidence to support those contentions then i'm afraid inge 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. being busted for drug dealing could spell the end for your career prospects unless belling is something you happen to be good at or at least that was the case for two u.k. students. and

the historic split a newly formed off the docks church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church thomas the official document of the decision was signed today by the honoree had the bishop of the global orthodox church and he stumbled on

ukraine's president welcomed the decision other orthodox churches have condemned it saying the move is politically motivated and could lead to a split of the entire orthodox world so. that completes this rundown with auntie international for more news my colleague commissioner safir because being a writer dates in half an hour. they're bred for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives.

with whole existence to do something. you put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president when she. wanted. to go on to be pros this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first sip. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population a profit of rich humans look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of the interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most culpable make them want to get out and don't take no for an

answer don't accept their denials she said their forwards are already set on a statement that i will be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. time after time to know what you're going underground while we're away for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of the 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 comrade of jeremy corbin ken livingstone's and the agreement to lift sanctions on any track record ninety seen improvement in the field peace and security and the positive steps every train is taking 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 defacto linchpin of global security eritrea plus we talk class in golden age hollywood and the ogre of show business with the son of joan collins author and artist alexander newly all this is more coming up in today's going underground but first to that country bombed out orders from tourism a 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 an access across syria to all people in need and we urge once more concrete respect to rid the lucian twenty four zero one throughout syria that resolution of a cease fire apart from against isis diet al qaeda linked groups wasn't really a factor for drazen may and blairite labor for them it was about the highly likely over the conclusive we judge is highly likely but is that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so or as their opposite number said i believe that the action was leaked. questionable and on saturday the united nations secretary general and turn to good terry said as much reiterating that all countries must act in line with the united nations charter luckily for tourism a press over u.k. aerial bombardment.