i pranced as yellow best movement shows no sign of letting up in twenty nine t. holding more nationwide protests against the government. and in the news you shake the week funerals were held for the victims of the apartment block collapsed in the russian city of magnitude course which claimed thirty nine lives. germany tougher laws on the side m c because that is the demand from the country's interior minister for a migrant gang brutally attacked locals including children and the u.s. government shutdown and says it's the way because the right way over funding of donald trump's border wall drags.

so i welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching weekly here on r.t. international it may be a new year but it's the same yellow vest protests continue to tax the french authorities at least fifty thousand of the movement's members once again took to the streets across the country on saturday on a scuffles erupted in paris as protesters set barricades on fire and call for president to resign. the was was. was. was.

was. only because the dark and more 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 where despite the government climbing down over fuel tax increases the rallies have continued for eight consecutive weekends and earlier this week the yellow vests launched a blistering attack on president mccrone in a letter to him 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 what with the disturbances growing emanuel macron has condemned the yellow vests on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down i'm recommit to dialogue the man of the town of maize on the theme police to the presence reform plans are out of touch with the public. he said that they will continue is reforms but the reforms is asking for are not the reforms that your friends are demanding today your lot is thinking of european sovereignty which the french dog likes so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know all european the searcher and i think 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 it is not our being that you should lead your it to me that she needs to implement what you wish just because you know there are seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which doglike what do you propose we mar with protests spreading from france to other european countries pro breaks it demonstrators in london have now we also adopted the yellow vest as a symbol a rally in the capital on saturday resulted in clashes leading police to make several arrests including a thirteen year old girl. was. she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which saw protesters hurling smoke bombs at police they marched across the capital blocking bridges and disrupting traffic about one hundred people took part where in those high visibility jackets they also shouted insults at the prime minister and called

for ukase immediate exit from. the u.s. will not pull its troops out of syria until turkey greece not to target u.s. backed kurdish fighters and correct currently considers some kurdish military units as terrorists the clarification of washington's strategy came from the u.s. national security adviser john bolton during a visit to jerusalem. there are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think the turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endangered. ok more details now from our middle east correspondent paula slayer he joins us good evening paula another unexpected turn it seems. well what we are hearing at this stage is that john

bolton has been here in jerusalem meeting with a number of israeli officials and giving details of a hard the u.s. withdrawal from syria will work we have heard him say that there will be no timetable and then for the first time we're hearing a condition that turkey must guarantee the safety of the until now u.s. backed kurdish forces now all of this follows the surprise announcement last month by the american president donald trump that he was withdrawing american forces from syria take a look. so our boys our young women our men they're all coming back and they're coming back now there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very deliberate very orderly. now as of yet there hasn't been any reaction from and career but of course the turkish president added one has always held a strong position these are the the kurds. no

we're bearing the terrorists and the world they dug themselves and will continue to . we spoke to mr trump those terrorists should go east of the euphrates if they room go. because they're both the ring we're asked we're strategic partners with the u.s. who should do what needed. now tomorrow tuesday bolton will be in turkey way he'll be holding discussions on this very topic the focus of course is on the african region which is in more than syria where we are witnessing a standoff between syrian soldiers who have been saying there and are lying to the syrian president bashar al assad and who are supporting the kurds who requested their help and turkish fighters on the other side so the situation certainly is very tense ok thank you paula that was artie's poorest clear the air force. now monday a suspected gas explosion tore through a block of flats in central russia dozens were killed many nestle because their

homes collapsed in the early as of the morning on new year's eve. should trouble which in secret form a partnership in our business might be it we didn't meet the defendant the theme urgency me to dump is to get much of the shots on us and let's talk about a memo number washboard to slice provides solution the deal was called the creature element to proceed to the constituency that would fit into sort of a presidential run up in future which is seen a machine a creature of force procedure here in islamabad stood still a specific. suitor

would sleep so. i'm just pleased. to tell the families to install a plug it's not. much of dolly's leadership likelihood see it's got a bad supply chain things miles that should last fall said i'm a patient. more of the stories of those affected by the. 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 president 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 that may have left behind. on the ship smarting is that of point one one hundred percent of all i see it was. just a child some did just go dormant on bush so wanted to visit it just to let you have it when you're could you are sure what down 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 who 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 news in. the squad of mine. i mean to. me. one of the songs you know.

and we saw a pile of flowers of candles soft toys and i was getting bigger and bigger well wishes many of them quite emotional interiors coming here to express their condolences this simply support for those affected by this and of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk. reporting there now donald trump said little headway was made on saturday in terms of breaking the deadlock over funding his border war which has seen the government in a partial shutdown for more than two weeks the president the white house nor the democrats like backing then we are committed to keeping our borders safe where in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund border security situation which you would accept even. for this president over.

this so i'm wondering why. 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. 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 keep the government closed for a very long period of time. 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. well the. krak controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund and reopen the federal government but they don't include funding for a border wall prompting trump to threaten to veto the legislation while senior democrats argue such a war would be un-american the president claims the idea has widespread support in

the home that stance don't trump also took to instagram with this statement of intent he also posted the following video. for as your legal immigration is wrong plain and simple to a as was. was. and the standoff over the war looks set to intensify too with the democrat bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to face hostility we discuss the border wall issue with ned riley he's from the conservative group american majority and also with robert patillo he's a civil rights lawyer. well also understand the president has absolutely 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'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 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 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 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 doc 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 in this at some point we all know that politics of the art of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump has said here is my non-negotiable they had to

pause you have to come up with something that says what will 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 in the weekly that human interior minister is calling for tougher deportation always after a gang of migrants attacked passes by we'll have a look at that story in detail just off the break. and when else should seem wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape our day to educate. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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a historic split the newly formed orthodox church if you crane has been granted independence from the russian church in fact just a few hours ago the patriarch of constantinople handed over a document formalizing the split to the head of the church and while many politicians in ukraine related it decision some orthodox christians are concerned about the potential consequences of the move as medina culture never expects. a long awaited present has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted its ukrainian are 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 this has become possible thanks to your prayers well sems like for once happy but once all the fuss about churches independence from whole. per se interests 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 and dependence sounds like some in the religious dispute so what's so important about 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 mike. well that's well present par schenkel is struggling in the pulls ahead of march 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 the move the tentacles of globalization to trying to penetrate the church to destroy its politicians interference in churches is a clear sign of this show going to lead by corrupt politicians and illegal assisted

by the constantinople patriarchy have deepened and worsen the already existing splits and put the unity of orthodox christianity as a whole in danger and inside the ukrainian church itself there is not want unanimity when the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches he crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions that trouble separation and sin but 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. professor of church history orthodox university alexander

dworkin gave us his take on the split. but the majority of ukrainian church goer is belong to the canonical church the church of the ukraine 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 meant talking about forcing their person with them into this new office new structure they are discussing the new law which they would adopt to facilitate so-called to facilitate them to leave most corporate turkey. whatever consumption overall gave to them it's not independence because it's going to be like hands controlled by customs and opal they're. in almost as specifically stated there to all major questions have to be consulted with consent to nobble it also auditors also stated so they're exposed to

noble all have up to thirty eight of holy sites parishes and monasteries are there it's direct control of the ukrainian church it is forbidden to have its own parish is too broad etc etc etc so it's independent of only in the name but really it is controlled by consent and. see it as a part of war all out like war old russian company and a portion of the church has been mixed the religion has been mixed into into into the politics nobody thinks about the rights of ukrainian forces there was believers who are being poured being persecuted and will be persecuted even harsher. now this week germany's interior minister demanded tougher laws and on migrants and asylum seekers after a migrant gang brutally attacked passers by including children. good to hear said

law not to 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 passers 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 well those statements came after a group of young migrants attacks locals in the german city of hamburg twelve people were injured including one child police arrested four suspects who were

reportedly from afghanistan and also around the current law forbids deporting minors and also people whose lives could be endangered we are slow course for their thoughts they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should. they have to do a note to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back to pencil. it's their mind this is ok they're. 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 hey think we are right doing it. right now they deserve a second chance well however some politicians and officials to think that the interior minister is exploiting 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. for is

using the amber consistent a fact to lead to tighten 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 be part someone to the united states when he is facing the death penalty that he has gas and if they commit crimes then they can no longer be our guests so what is the all of us 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 it is fear mongering and so he is scaring those people that are willing to integrate while he should be targeting the radical islamists that his government has let into our country. meanwhile on tuesday eight

people were injured by a fifty year old german man who rammed his car into two separate crowds in the german cities patrol and s. and the majority of the victims were migrants from syria and afghanistan is reported the driver made xenophobe comments as he was being arrested there are also reports the man has a mental illness that's how the weeklies looking here so far today on r.t. don't forget that we've got a website for the story you can find that at r.t. doc. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rate you look at that you see all the

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