fires take out smoke and clashes but once again seen on the streets of paris at least fifty thousand of the movement's members have taken to the streets across the country for the eighth consecutive week. and mounds attained in russia on spying charges appears to be a citizen of canada island on the u.s. that's is media speculation grace that he was seized by moscow to be used as a bargaining chip also to come. roll in 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. don't trump threats and state of emergency if there's no consensus on

funding his border war democrats meanwhile the reviving talks of impeachment. police don't want a baby because we're going to go in there remove some of them. you're watching aussie international welcome to the program. any hopes the french governments have soviet a vast protesters would be confined to last year were dealt a blow on saturday at least fifty thousand of the movement's members have once again take to the streets across the country for the eighth consecutive week minus scuffles erupted in paris as protesters set barricades on fire and schools for president micron to resign. was.

was. that there's only if you can what the dog can more or less things were calm at first people were told they needed to declare their gatherings to authorities and that would guarantee our safety we declared the gathering spot where was our security things got out of hand everywhere they used tear gas on us it looked like a civil war they charged us used pepper spray journalists trying to take cover inside building lobbies were thrown out it's a hostile situation and it's terrible in any case what's apparent is that this movement is still here it's not losing steam into twenty nineteen it's still going on. 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 sun is there the movement hasn't called a halt to its actions despite a government climbdown over fuel tax increases this weekend's protests comes just two days after the best sent my common 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 with disturbances growing french president emanuel micron has condemned the other events on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue also on saturday the office of government spokesperson. was told by about fifteen people they tried but failed to storm the building was later taken to safety it comes just

a day after he brandis b.l.o.b.'s agitators who were forced on nothing more than staging a coup. if you she's a nurse. says the announcements of the manual macro 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 not feed the shack mia believes the reforms micron is trying to push through out of touch with what the public want. he said that they will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the reforms that the french are demanding today your lot is thinking of european summer and which the french dog like so i think is absolutely dreaming you know all the european in the church are and i think is absolutely. absolutely out

of the common sense of the french today i think that the uk all as been elected by chance but is not having a huge luxury to me that they need to implement what they wish just because. they are seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose. britain canada that island on us of all content a man held in russia on spying charges is one of that citizens who will end in a former u.s. marine is now at the center of an intense media speculation. 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 into espionage. particularly

coming out of the soviet union or russia they will accuse of being a russian spy has treated guilty in a u.s. 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 violating 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 of that six 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 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 maria buthe and paul whelan are completely different. this week the washington

post published an article about mr wade into tension and it will miss cia. doubted weighed in with a spy saying random americans without diplomatic community center collects low level info we asked legal and 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 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 the rounds of budget talks between congressional democrats from the white house seems to have led nowhere with the u.s. government shutdown entering is that week the sticking point is funding for donald trump's border wall nouns with democrats again calling for impeachment the u.s. president is threatening to take rather collection if you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this war 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 i absolutely 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 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 has some rather colorful language to make this call police don't play and baby gates also 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. and we should avoid a. 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 attack

the president. 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. britain has been paying large sums of money to protect a controversial hate preacher supported that story after this quick break.

but politicians do do something. they put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be first to see what it looks like three of the people. interested in the why. should. anyone else seem wrong but. just don't call. me. just to say proud just to become educated and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back to the program britain has spent almost two hundred thousand pounds protecting the welfare of the hate preacher abu qatada officer he was deported to jordan to face terror charges the sum reveals by the times newspaper has bugs and among m.p.'s 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 thousands even if they leave. the u.k. granted him asylum in one thousand nine hundred ninety four after he claimed he 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 secretary to resign 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 mentioned nearly two hundred thousand pounds was spent after he'd been removed from the country to check on his condition and ensure he wasn't being tortured the british government's committed to monterrey in qatar for up to three years the last payment was made in twenty sixteen we put the issues raised by the migrant deportations in this particular case the debates. 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 of claimed asylum inherently 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 who was going to get three rule of anything 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 picked 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 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 or not point where would you like to see the want to spend 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 world known terrorist or something like that but if those countries there 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 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 operable 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.

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i historic splits a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church but it's despite happiness in political circles many christians are not content with the move medina question of how small a long awaited president has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted it's ukrainian art to dogs charge and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree with officially recognizing an independent ukrainian art a ducks church and of course ukrainian presidents petro poroshenko was there shedding tears of question shoot. saying it would be impossible without god's blessing. i want to thank the millions of people premiums across the globe this has

become possible thanks to your prayers well sems like for one's happy but in. what's all the fuss about church's independence from whole. per se interests ukrainian are to dogs church has been under control of moscow patrick kate and everyone has been ok with it until the fall of the soviet union and ukrainian independence and nine hundred ninety one gradually tensions between the churches ask elaters through the years was more and more voices and signs ukraine demanding churches and dependence sounds like some in a religious dispute so what so important about it. all to us of should effectively give ukrainian orthodox church full autonomy in terms of its parish financing and lands but in fact how much of it does keith

actually get while the documents signed states that ukrainian church actually falls under control of constantinople ukrainian are dogs church can control only territory with then ukraine and as perhaps to create any parishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas alls by constantinople so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantinople but well present par shango is struggling in the polls they had of marge's presidential election and experts say while making this a centerpiece policy of his campaign he hopes to win over. and more than that other are to dogs churches are not thrilled at all by the move the tentacles of globalization to trying to penetrate the church to destroy its politicians in charge of food is a clear sign of this sure going to lead by corrupt politicians and illegal assisted

by the constantinople druggy have deepened and worsen the already existing split and put the unity of orthodox christiane. he as a whole in danger and inside the ukrainian church itself there is not want unanimity when the plan afoot tanami has been announced back in autumn one of the branches of he crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be and. they sanction will not bring anything to ukraine except trouble separation and sin. but it is at least anyone supporting the move apart from ukraine itself well you must have guessed the answer the united states reiterated strong support for religious freedom and the freedom of members of religious groups including ukraine's orthodox community to govern their religion according to their beliefs free of outside interference oh well not everything one calls freedom is actually

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back skies are here with the kaiser report we're continuing our special episode here in the new year celebrating not only twenty nineteen but ten years of kind of the reports at some point in twenty nineteen i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted you know we've been tracking everything from the financial crisis of two thousand and eight to the gold rally of two thousand and five to the bitcoin rally of two thousand and eleven to the big coin crash of twenty eighteen and everything in between. stacy yes that son told us autumn that we hit the official ten year mark but i want to talk about our predictions for a twenty nineteen this is the third of three episodes we were looking at twenty nineteen the year ahead i think it's a pivotal year because we're ten years also after the financial crash of two

thousand and eight two thousand and nine you know ten years after that bottom when it all started picking up again and as i said i think we're going to have you know a stock market crash and more quantitative easing and can tell in effect and all that negative effect and one other thing we're going to see this year which many might see is a negative that is the jockeying for the democratic nomination for u.s. politics so we're going to see a lot of politics we saw joe biden recently you know at the end of the year kind of saying that he may run in two thousand and twenty he thinks he'll be very popular bedo roark he wants to run for president his wife is from a billionaire family so he has the money and there are you know i guess kind of donald trump has inspired a lot of people who have never been in politics or people who are billionaires those quite a slew of billionaires including michael bloomberg of course and tom styer who all want to now run for president of the billionaires i don't think will do any damage

against trump because trump is a billionaire reality t.v. guy in the casino business michael bloomberg is in the you know media business with the bloomberg machines and he's done the mayor of new york it's a big city and he's got experience but i don't think he has the killer instinct that trump has i think actually in that list of folks biden would probably be a guy who has the gravitas he's got the experience to people remember him and they have fond memories of obama he is personable and he knows a good sound bite when he sees one riding with biden and. him standing in wait for the train with his coat and his dog and stuff like that he knows how to play the game you know he would be thinking no i don't think so first of all there is the me too movement since he last rant the previous times he's on he never came even get to the nomination.