or surely we can risk some discomfort on easiness for peace. and. i promise you it's yellow best movement shows no sign of letting up in twenty nineteen nationwide protests against the government

over the weekend. also in the news this week people in the russian city of my boarders started the new year mourning the victims of a collapse on december thirty first a suspected gas explosion ripped through the building killing thirty nine. the patriarch of constantinople gives his seal of approval to a newly formed. crane and its independence from the russian judge. and american government shutdown enters its third week as the rao over funding for the wall escalates. welcome to the program here on r.t. international we are running down the top stories for the first week of twenty nine . and he hopes the french government had that the yellow vest protests will be confined to last year. well dealt

a serious blow on saturday at least fifty thousand of the movement's members once again took to the streets nationwide minor scuffles erupted in the capitol as protesters set barricades on fire and called for president back wrong to resign. the was. was. was. was. but there's only if you can what the doc and 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 obviously the movement has not called a halt to its actions yet despite a government climbdown of a fuel tax increases this weekend's protest comes just two days after the yellow vests sent mr mccraw in 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. with disturbances growing emanuel macron has now condemned the yellow vest on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the

mayor of the town of mess on my feet men are believes the reforms micron is trying to push through are out of touch with what the public ones. 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 in speaking of european summer empty which the french don't like so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know the european the church or and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that the lack of all as been elected by chance but is not having a huge ledger it seems 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 they propose. with protests spreading from france to other european countries progress

demonstrators in london have now also adopted the yellow vest as a symbol arriving in the city on saturday resulted in clashes leading police to make several arrests including that of a thirteen year old girl. she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which did see protesters throwing smoke bombs at police and they marched across the capitol blocking bridges on destructing traffic about one hundred people took part in the protest near downing street wearing the characteristic high visibility jackets and also shot of insults of the british prime minister called for the u.k.'s immediate exit from the e.u. . and historic split a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church just around two hours ago constantinople patriarch bartholomew handed over a document formalizing the split to the head of the new charge and while many

politicians in ukraine are elated at the decision some orthodox christians are wired about the moves possible consequences and more details about seeds but in a culture. a long awaited president has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted its ukrainian are to dogs church and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree was signed officially recognizing an independent ukraine in art and ox church and of course ukrainian presidents petro poroshenko was there shedding tears of crashes shoot. saying it would be impossible without god's blessing. i want to think the millions of ukrainians across the this has become possible thanks to your prayers well seems like after one's happy but once all the fuss about churches independence from. whole. per se interest ukrainian are to dogs church

has been under control of moscow patrick eight 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 faith 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 presidential election and experts say while making this a centerpiece policy of his campaign he hopes to win over support 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 interference in charge of food is a clear sign of this sure going to lead by corrupt politicians and illegal assisted by the constantinople if deep rooted in worsen the already existing split and put the unity of orthodox christianity as a whole in danger and inside ukraine in church. itself there is not mine she

unanimity when the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches of ukrainian church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be empty economical 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. discuss this further now i discuss orthodox christianity bring in a professor alex why alexander dvorkin are joining us live a professor of a church history at st tikhon's orthodox university a very big hello to you sir thanks for joining us on r.t.

international today let's bring this issue down to more of a regional scale how will this play it affect ukrainian church goers. well it's a real split and actually the split has deepened after the decision of. the majority of ukrainian church girl boards belong to the canonical church the church of the ukraine which was under the paternal gate of moscow and they showed no sign of joining this new structure and in fact a lot of people in ukraine never go home and are talking about forcing them. into this new structure as they are discussing what would be the best way to them they're discussing the new law which they would adopt to facilitate so-called to facilitate them to. leave. most call for turkey to join this so-called ukrainian

church which is in fact not a socialist but that's and that's that's another matter because you know it's totally controlled by consumption ople oppressor as you say the division is deepening now ukraine says it will wrest control of a number of holy sites from russia including the famous kiev laughter how ugly do you think this can get. well it might get very ugly the thing is that according to the ukrainian law. they're considered to be for the property of the ukrainian state their least their lease to the church while it's easy enough to fly one way or another sure i know all this this lease until transfer it's true another body in the fog of that war they're planning to do there we've been discussing their ways how to do it and of course all of those believe there is they. are there. to be

taken from them so it might be the blood might spill. ukrainians kind of fiercely. independent people the will to liberate. all of their holy sites so that they might fight and it's going it's going to give us really really terrible professor to do you think is the ukrainian church going to be truly independent where we're hearing that's what's really happening here is constantinople taking control from moscow perhaps. in fact the ukrainian or the church are there particular was cool was. completely independent except that it's it's had after an election was confirmed by mosque or otherwise but they were full autonomy as they were managing their all the affairs there managing their own finances there they were totally their own. of within

their church rights know whatever consumes a noble gave to them it's not independence because it's going to be like hand controlled by a constant there are jorma says specifically in the near the in the in this document which will say in the u.s. today it's almost it was specifically stated there to all major questions have to be consulted with consent to normal it's also odd it is also stated so that it's considered noble will have after thirty eight are holy sites parishes and monasteries are their direct control which will be like us or special eggs or cage which fulfill as a sort of like a days is where the bishop as a head the bishop would be like watching over the ukrainian church and see how to control it and of the ukrainian church is forbidden to have it sold parishes abroad etc etc etc so it's really a theory tight rules to rules of course of control so it's independent that sort of

circles in the name but really it is controlled by constant ennoble they changed our real independence for like nothing for control professor talk and now there are some accusations that this issue has become politicized and at the end of december the o. s. c.e.'s secretary general described the split as as an attempt to provoke russia what's what's your reading on that. quality i see it as a part of war all old like war old russian company and a portion of the church has been mixed the religion has been mixed into into into the politics we have so the state department or the state department of the united states which was even before this autocephaly was graham to the state department are congratulated ukraine on getting its.

and that's it's very clear in the first amendment american. is meddling in religious mattresses suppose supposed is supposed to be. a state structure which is separated from religious matters but unfortunately in this case the principle of separation of church and state is being blatantly. somehow they see it as a. russian influence in fox nobody thinks. your premium orthodox believers. are being persecuted and will be persecuted even harsher. their blatantly overlooking the. you know thinking about their all political

schemes and what the nation's. professor of history at st. university thank you very much for joining us on r.t. international very interesting conversation thank you. thank you. it was the last day of twenty eighteen when i suspected gas explosion ripped through a block of flats in central russia dozens of people were killed many in their sleep as their homes just collapsed in the early hours of the morning. and. this might be it should be easy to feel it with. well that never all number washboard just

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daniel 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 works 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 balconies and 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 residents fled 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 to get off a nationalist but killed on the quickly a smart and is that of the point of wimbledon and of that of all i see it was. some

did and on bush. 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 such 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 he says been taken to moscow and now despite his multiple serious injuries his condition is the scribe. 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 news in. the squad to. give them the need to listen to them is to. sit up with them. over the schools in a minute still with me. most of the prison i think marco did a lot of the songs you know children inversion covering for them and then we saw a pile of flowers of candles soft toys and icons getting bigger and bigger as 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. the weekly returns and just a. you

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to join us today says not much headway was made on saturday and terms of breaking the deadlock over funding his border wall with charles seeing the government shutdown for over two weeks now and neither the white house nor the democrats look like well either side is willing to back down. we are committed to keeping our borders safe where in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund the border security situation. for this president and over. that. was one down to one we have no deal with it's not who we are it's

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 country he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years 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 democratic controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund to reopen the federal government but the bills don't include funding for a border wall prompting donald trump to veto the legislation all senior democrats to cry the notion of the war that's un-american the u.s. president argues that is his idea in fact has widespread support. took

to instagram posting this statement of intent he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. the standoff over the war looks likely to intensify with a democrat bails on getting the government running again now going to the republican controlled senate where they are more than likely to get shot down we discussed a border will issue with that ryan from conservative group american majority and robot patil you know 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 basically nancy pelosi has him bent over heard me right now she can demand whatever she wants we're a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present a hales 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 working for the freedom hawk caucus and

some of the extremists in the republican party not supporting it so for the current wall what we need to see the. score for was actually wall will save that's what i mean it's the it's a funding mechanism so we know exactly how this is being paid for it would be a concrete and universal comprehensive plan all immigration reform not simply say we're going to stick still slates in the desert that's going to fix the problem we need a real plan for this a lot of trunk space is willing to compromise we understand that these dark 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 to a lot of trump 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 to citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation in 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 nancy pelosi

has 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. on water cannon deployed amid violence in the indian state of corolla to women and to one of the country as holiest hindu temples. i. protest as block traffic i mean. tires outside government offices across the state one person was killed according to reports and over seven hundred arrested in two days of violence the people have been rallying against the lifting of the ban on women entering the temple a move that goes back to the autumn of last year. meanwhile millions of women helped form a human chain across roads and highways and corolla in support of gender equality and human wall stretched for over six hundred kilometers is

a closer look at what the temple controversy is all about. but. as long as the temple is here we have to follow this tradition. so we'll ensure that anybody who wants to go to that it will go without any obstruction nor stricken with. the splashings says i'm not a devotee i'm just here to do my job just let me go she faces stone and that's when

she's forced to return back. and give a little bit of. and there we don't look at these like they're just bosses. and that's a wrap on the first weekly of twenty nineteen thank you for spending some of your sunday with us here in moscow my colleague andrew farmer is here at the helm in half an hour's time.

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