that was. fired tear gas smoke and clashes that once again seen on the streets of paris as at least fifty thousand of the movement's members have once again taken to the streets across the country for the eighth consecutive week. a man detained in russia on spying charges appears to be a citizen of britain canada island and the u.s. that says media speculation grows that he was seized by moscow to be used as a paul getting tips also to come. all the 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. so more troubling threatens to declare a state of emergency if there's no consensus on funding his border wall democrats need wallow reviving the talk of impeachment. please don't and maybe they don't because we're going to go in there remove some of. this just tend to am head in the russian capital we're watching all seeing international. the top story and he hopes the french government that the best protest would be confined to last year with delta below one south today at least fifty thousand of the movement's members have once again taken to the streets across the country for the eighth consecutive week monna scuffles erupted in paris as protesters set barricades on fire and calls for president micro to resign. i.

thank. god. that security personnel were deployed to prevent violence in paris as well as other cities across france demonstrations also took place in rome leon and the coastal city of fun is that the movement hasn't called the hopes to its actions despite a government climbdown over fuel tax increases this weekend's protests comes just two days after the yellow vests and maicon 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 affronts 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 with desert disturbances growing french president some money no micron has condemned the l a vest on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue. also on saturday the office of the government says she. is targeted by about fifteen people they try to but failed to storm the building graver was later taken to safety it comes just a day after he branded the vast agitators who were focused on nothing more than staging a coup. if you she said. since the announcements of emanuel 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 room the mayor of the town of maize on the feet shack believes the reforms micron is trying to push through out of touch with what the public wants is 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 thinking of european summer and 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 their luck goal has been elected by chaunce but it is not having a huge ledger it needs to implement what they wish just because you know. seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose.

britain canada islands and the u.s. will confirm to man held in russia spying charges is one of the citizens poor when a former u.s. marine is now at the center of intense media speculation and has more details. 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 thing 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 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'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 of 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 of 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 who to them 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 eliot this week the washington post published an article about mr whelan's to tension and it forms cia official john seifert doubted weighed in with the spy saying random americans without stepping up to community on sent to collect low level info we asked legal and media analysts 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 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 been remotely work with the cia was in the cia drove by the cia knows 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. and of the rounds of budget talks between congressional democrats the white house seems to have led nowhere with the u.s. government shutdown entering its third week the sticking point is funding for two more transporter wall with democrats again calling for impeachment the u.s. president is threatening to take the collection of you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall 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 i'm absolutely we can call 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 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 up government he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years also said that in the meeting nancy pelosi the speaker of the house. 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 the police don't want

it and maybe they 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 so for a political group 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 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 there are 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 u.s. need to act small and talk less to so forth that all can that peace think. that's according to comments by an adviser to the south korean president it comes off that came john and sneery address in which he expressed readiness the dialogue but warned of the dangers of failed the primacy. not. that i am ready to meet with a u.s. president again and to any time a new threat to bring about out there 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. we had with sanctions and

pressure against our republic then we may have to seek another way to protect our country sovereignty interests and to establish peace and stability on the korean peninsula it was a felony if in north korea in the u.s. with grave warning from insults being fired from both sides but kim jong un and donald trump eventually we can side he goes down off looks back at a rather explosive two thousand and eighteen. 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 teens brought in some of the best 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 free style was a millon focus

a plea 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 to please them before. the material. from. fast forward a couple of months and history's made the leaders of north and south shaking hands smiling michael laughing walk in order to shoulder in the no man's land between their states. from apply status perspective the whole of fur looked almost like

a competition incivility with pyongyang peeing to gain the upper hand another all of branch to the wall career for blue to ration what they said was the nuclear test site which i got to witness. this photograph. and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud. in fact odyssey got to see many things but outside a high school hello we're inside the west things comes to north korean leader kim jong il and i'm absolutely shocked. this is how suddenly you get treated. cranberry juice kim jong un's residents 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 trades 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're going to have a good meeting and maybe we won't even have a meeting at all it will see how it all works maybe you won't everything can be scuttled but eventually. 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 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 fullface infatuation for the south korean leader but it did a out of for you into korean summits independent states hundred years three to place last year signed that perhaps the two koreas don't really need anyone but each other to find a new reconcile. still to come on our tape written has been paying large sums of money to protect a controversial hate preacher at the port said that story after this quick break.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to r.t. 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 terror charges the sum revealed by the times newspaper has sparked anger among em pays and also 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 the u.k. granted him asylum in one thousand nine hundred four after he came to was tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges because harder 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 came at a price a bill of at least one point nine million pounds was racked up including payments for legal fees and aid and as mentions nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd be removed from the country to check on his condition and ensure he wasn't being tortured the british government's committed to monitoring qatar's or

for up to three years the last payment was made in two thousand and sixteen we've 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 inherently 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 three rule of anything you care 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 got offended 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 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 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 the intelligence service alleges somebody is a well known terrorist or something like that but if those countries are not 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 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 of your career prospects and that spending is something you happen to be good at at least that was the case that u.k. students.

and the historic splits a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church tomas the official document of the decision with signed this saturday by the honorary had bishop of the global orthodox church and if them both but it's while ukraine's president welcomed the decision of the orthodox churches condemned it saying the mavis politically motivated could meet the spirit of the entire orthodox world. you're now up to date with the latest global news programs continue in just a few moments time. it's

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to the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents and welcome to the first show of twenty nine t.v. . 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. none of them came true we've created our rary own unique dystopian future. that that demolition man in this new year on redacted in i will be covering a lot of. stuff all right and that's why for my new year's resolution i have promised myself i will stop being right so much. in this new here 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. 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 this 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. thank you sam kennison another. another story i covered a few weeks ago that is on project censored list.