i. holding nationwide protests against the government just over the weekend. also in the news this week. people in the. morning the victims of. a suspected gas explosion ripped through the building killing. asylum seekers. including children.

we as the funding. welcome to the program here on international the sunday weekly running down the top stories for the first week. and he hopes the french government that the protests will be confined to last. at least fifty thousand of the movement's members once again took to the streets nationwide. in the capital as protesters said. and called for president. to resign. and. i.

the. only error because you don't get more were these 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 so clearly the movement has not called a halt to its actions despite their government climbdown over fuel tax increases this weekend's protest comes just two days after the yellow vests sent macron

a blistering letter. you do not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing full smashes 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 and without disturbances growing and by your background has now condemned the yellow vests on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of mae sot life it hard believes the reforms micron is trying 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 another reform that your friends are demanding today you know is speaking of european summer and which said french don't like so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know european the

searcher and i thing is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that de la goal as been elected by chaunce but he's not having a huge ledger it said he needs to implement what you wish as it goes you know. seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which don't like what you propose but with protests spreading from france to other european countries pro demonstrators in london have now also adopted they get low vest as a symbol or ali in the city on saturday resulted in classrooms leading police to make several arrests including that of a thirteen year old girl. i. was she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which did see protesters hurling smoke bombs our companies they marched across the capital blocking bridges and destructing traffic about one hundred people took part in the

protest near downing street wearing the characteristic high visibility jackets and some shouted insult to the british prime minister and called for the u.k.'s immediate exit from the european. it was the last day of twenty eighteen when a suspected gas explosion ripped through a block of flats in central russia a dozens of people were killed many in their sleep as their homes collapsed in the early hours of the morning. sister travel agency may call for comment but the shot in the office might be it's we didn't meet the defendant the game or she'd see me he dumps to get in touch of a bit of a shot so we're not so let's talk about it never all number washboard just last

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to use it done hawkins visited the site of the tragedy to hear some of the stories of those affected by this disaster. thirty nine bodies appears to be the final casualty count from this building collapse that the recovery workers went on for around seventy two hours in total almost nonstop throughout the day and night pausing only for safety as you can see behind me some of the ball. the roofs are in a state of total destruction and we're not allowed to go any closer for fear they may collapse as well. this disaster scene with only the clothes on their back perhaps a few documents or cash they didn't have time simply to grab anything else they were allowed intermittently to go back to the scene to pick up any other possessions they may have left behind. on the ship martin is that of a woman they are innocent of all i see it was. just

a child some did i don't condone bullshit so wanted to be sure to just let you have it when your could you were sure what their own and as you spoke to these people more and more stories emerged one shots example the family a mother and daughter who slept just as a one off in a different room they would have stayed normally the father stayed on the couch tragically that was the first part of the building to collapse she managed to get away with her daughter the father tragically was not so lucky another story to come out of infant boy he was buried in the rubble here just behind me he was heard crying by emergency workers who rushed to the scene managed to get him out after more than twenty four hours in these freezing temperatures p.c. has been taken to moscow and now despite his multiple serious injuries his condition is described as stable many of the people we've spoken to the witnesses at the scene those who were directly affected by this tragedy are saying they're

also pleasantly surprised by how people have come together offering their support for the political views in. the squad to. give them the need to this time so much time is to. sit up with them. over the solution of my mental agony. of the prison i think marco did a little bit one of the sons you know children inversion covering for them and then we saw the. flowers of candles soft toys and icons getting bigger and bigger well wishes many of them quite emotional in tears coming here to express their condolences there simply is offer support to those affected by this and of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk . donald trump says not much headway was made on saturday in terms of breaking the deadlock over funding his border war which has seen the government in shutdown for

over two weeks now and neither the white house nor the democrats look like either side is going to back down. we are committed to keeping border safe where in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund border security situation. for this president over the. one down. we have no deal with it's not who we are is a nation i'm very proud of doing what i'm doing because we're going to go in there really. and. i don't want to shut down i call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and for the safety of our city to keep the government closed for a very long period of time even year so 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. the democrat controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund to reopen the federal government for the bills don't include funding for a border wall. legislation while senior democrats to cry the notion of the war on american the u.s. president is that his idea actually has widespread support and. posting this statement and. you also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. cause. the standoff over the wall looks likely to intensify with the democrat bails

on getting the government running again now going to the republican controlled senate where they almost certainly will be shot down we discussed the border wall issue with that ryan from a conservative group american majority and robert petitio a civil rights attorney. well also understand the president has absolutely no no leverage in this situation he's already made his position position clear they should negotiate this last february during the last government shutdown there there's no reason for nancy pelosi to move on this unless the president is willing to make a deal on daca make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform they actually meant to close it has him been overheard me right now she can demand whatever she wants were a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present ailes donald trump cannot back down on this i mean his base is expecting him to fulfill this major campaign promise and i know it doesn't seem like a lot of money i think we're not even really talking about the money because five point six billion and a four trillion annual budget doesn't really mean much at all this is really

a showdown between his trunk going to get his wall or democrats going to deny him that and also you know at a certain point we have to acknowledge the left base inside a democratic party does not want to see a secure border is more favorable towards open borders and not really fixing our immigration policy so i think if they want the wall that should be telling the president to do is bring back the chuck schumer legislation from two thousand and thirteen that passed the senate sixty eight votes to thirty two votes in the house republicans killed there could have been a border wall for the last five years of looking for the freedom caucus and some of the extremists in the republican party not supporting it so for the current wall what we need to see the c.b.l. score for was actually wall will say that's what we need to see as a funding mechanism so we know exactly how that actually this is being paid for and we need a concrete and universal comprehensive plan on immigration reform not simply say we're going to stick still slate's and in the desert that's going to probably need a real plan for this a lot of trunk space is willing to compromise we understand that these dock of these dreamers they did not come here they were brought here they did not come of

their own volition we understand that there's a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of time space they understand there has to be some legal status maybe even potentially a path to citizenship i think people are willing to negotiate but on the same time if there is not funding for a wall in return for a path. the citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation and this at some point we all know that politics is the art of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump has said here is my non-negotiable the answer of course you have to come up with something that says what we'll give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises still to come here on the weekly on r.t. international the german interior minister is calling for much tougher deportation laws after a gang of migrants caused outrage by just attacking passers by that story and many just.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. considered to be close this is like the full story of the morning can't be good.

i'm interested always in the waters in the. first six. stories of the week here on out c germany's interior minister is the mobbing tougher laws on asylum seekers after a migrant guying brutally attacked passers by including children. yes it will not i've been asked for months already to make the deportations more effective in germany that's why we've been working for weeks at the ministry of the interior to prepare a constitutional amendment for a more efficient deportation system so violent offenses are increasingly worrying me whether they are done out of xenophobia or whether they are carried out by

foreigners and asylum seekers a state governed by the rule of law must decisively combat both that is our basic position the person who randomly attacks innocent passes by demonstrates that he does not seek the protection of our society the perpetrators can expect no understanding in our country but only the full force of the law currently deportation is not legally possible but we're working hard to change that statement came after a group of migrants attacked local residents and the german city of twelve people were injured including a child a police arrested four suspects who were reportedly from afghanistan and iran are the current law forbids deporting minors and people whose lives would be endangered so we asked locals what they think about the issue. they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should. they have to do and not to commit a crime and if they do so they have to go back to pennsic. it's their mind this is

ok they have. been through a lot so in the war in afghanistan they need help i think we have our laws we don't have to change the laws i think we are right doing it. right now they deserve a second chance well however some think that the interior minister is actually exploiting the issue for his own political ends. i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to amberg but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far the hope for is easing the amber consistent effort actively to tighten the asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism we have a constitution that is very strong on human rights you cannot ever under the german constitution depart someone to the united states when he is facing the death

penalty he is gas and if they commit crimes then they can no longer be our guests so what is evil should be doing is to actually work with countries. to enable us to deport people when we have the promise that they will not be tortured like in ca rendition sides or under the threat of the death penalty in fact what he's doing he is fear mongering and so he is scaring those people that are willing to integrate why he should be targeting the radical islamists that his government has let into our country meanwhile on tuesday a fifty year old german man slammed his car into a crowd of people in the german cities of offer up an s. and enduring majority of the victims were migrants from syria and afghanistan is reported to drive aid xenophobia common while the police were arresting him the mad reportedly has a mental illness. in an historic split

a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church just around an hour ago constantinople patriarch of handed over a document formalizing the spirit to the head of the new church and while many politicians in ukraine are elated at the decision some orthodox christians are concerned about the moves possible consequences a correspondent in a quarter of a as more. the long awaited present. has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted its ukrainian art to dogs to urge and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree was signed officially recognizing an independent ukrainian art adox church and of course ukrainian president's petro poroshenko was there shedding tears of question shoot. thank god it would be impossible without god's blessing. i want to thank the millions of

ukrainians across the globe this has become possible thanks to your prayers well sems like for one's happy but once all the fuss about churches independence from hope. for say interest ukrainian are to dogs church has been under control of moscow patrick cates and everyone has been ok with it until the fall of the soviet union and ukrainian independence and nineteen ninety one gradually tensions between the churches. through the years was more and more voices inside ukraine demanding churches independence sounds like some in a religious dispute so what's so important about it. also so finally it should effectively give ukrainian orthodox church full autonomy in terms of 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 our dogs church can control only territory with then ukraine and there's perhaps but it creates a need perishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas wells by constantino people so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantine noble but. well president par shango is struggling in the polls they had off marge's presidential election and experts say while making this a centerpiece policy of his campaign he hopes to win over for support and more than that other are to dogs churches are not thrilled that ole by them. the tentacles of globalization are trying to penetrate the church to destroy its politicians interference in churches is a clear sign of this show even is led by corrupt politicians and illegally assisted

by the constantinople patriarchy have deepened and worsen the already existing split and put the unity of orthodox christianity as a whole in danger and inside the ukrainian church itself there is not mind she unanimity when the plan ofa tanami has been announced back in autumn one of the branches he crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be empty canonical 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 making you free and it was saying that everyone is entirely happy about

the decision some have resigned from the patriarchate of constantinople a case in point american orthodox priest mark tyson yes since joined the russian orthodox church father ties nobody told us about what prompted him to make this decision. i want to be in communion with christ and the church and i feel that the actions that have occurred over any crane have definitely placed people outside the church if you will the head of the new church that's been created in ukraine metropolitan to be funny is not very sharp he was ordained by the so-called patriarch phil read after he had been reduced to the status of a layman how do we commemorate someone who doesn't even have a ballot over a nation i don't want to see metropolitan unfree his bishops his priests his people persecuted i don't want to see them thrown out of their churches and monasteries and i don't want to see them over wrested interrogated there is a potential for that to happen and i'm not being hysterical it could definitely occur. i drove by my my former parish yesterday on the way to

visit someone who was ill after seventeen years of serving there now i am on able you know to do it so any more there's a separation between myself and people that i love very deeply and it's directly related the feat of patriarch bartholomew maybe he wasn't thinking about the so-called little people when he made these decisions which of course can be seen on a very brand of geopolitical scale but the fact of the matter is people who are wonderful dear orthodox believers have lost their their priests not just me but father nick charles trevino in manassas virginia and also the priest in florence italy and who knows how many others they lost the stability of their parish life that's how it's affected us here in america. it is that very dangerous because if let's just say a number of the autocephalous churches do not accept the ukrainian new church then we will have a schism a break and then there may be

a serious break in communion and we have disunity in the church this is the most serious question we've faced and close to a thousand years. there are many levels to this decision some of them could be because of the traditional and historical rivalry between calls that set up a mosque out some of them could be because of western political influences there's no doubt that political players from both the european union and the united states are involved. now there are some of the top stories for this week here on our international the weekly highlighting the top stories for the first week of twenty nine another program should hold for you in about twenty five minutes time. the country has gone into a nihilistic theme best trying to think and they've got to hit the road and get out

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