i. don't see yellow vest no sign of letting up in twenty five holding ward nationwide protest the. funerals have been held for victims of the apartment block collapse in the russian city of bring me to the plane thirty nine. the u.s. government shutdown enters the third week as the round of funding. drags on.

the national this is the new these are the essentials you need to know. maybe a new year but it's the same yellow vest protests that 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 they were minor scuffles in paris a protest is also set barricades on fire and they call for president to resign. i. i. i i i. was. first people were told they needed to do. where there are 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 the 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 this point the government climbing down over fuel tax increases the rallies have continued for eight consecutive weekends earlier in this week the yellow vests laws the blistering attack on president in a letter to him 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 among your micron has condemned the west on twitter

and called on protesters to calm down recommit to dialogue and there of the town of mosul a female believes the president's reform plans are out of touch with what the public wants. he said that it 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 and which the french don't like so i think it is absolutely dreaming you know the european the searcher and i think it's absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that the uk role as been elected by chance but is not having a huge ledger it to me 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 you

propose with protests spreading from france to other european countries approach brigs it demonstrators in london and now also adopted the yellow vest as the symbol rally in the capital on saturday resulted in clashes it led police to make several arrests think looted a thirteen year old girl. she was one of four people taken into custody during the demo we saw protesters hurling smoke bombs at the police and they boast across the capital blocking bridges and disrupting traffic around one hundred people took part wearing the high visibility jackets and shouted insults about the prime minister and called for the u.k.'s immediate exit from the e.u. . the us will not pull troops out of syria until turkey agrees not to target u.s. backed kurdish fighters and correctly considers some kurdish military units to be terrorists are occasional washington strategy came from the u.s. national security advisor john bolton this was him during

a visit to jerusalem. now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so it's going to take military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirements that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endangered 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 it will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s.

forces from syria very deliberate very orderly the turkish president added one has always held a strong position these are the the kurds. so you know we are in the terrorists and the world they dug themselves and will continue to bear it we spoke to mr trump those terrorists should go east of the euphrates if they would go. because the both the ring of us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay bolton will be in turkey wait will 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 sent 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. the turkish president's press secretary commented on the u.s.

statement saying it's absurd to claim ankara will target the kurds he added the turkish goal is to eliminate islamic state jarvis and those military kurdish factions that ankara considers terrorists a marker of director of the british think tank notice says that the u.s. demands thoughts turkey could be politically motivated. we think that the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push to assume a bigger role that is agreed with with russia and iran and that supposedly would bring it into conflict with the interests of syria and russia and iran and basically try to destabilize that alliance the outcome of the negotiations are clear how rational turkey is going to be in the face of american demands we don't know america has a lot of power and they could give turkey an ultimatum it's either us or the

russians. you know the trump administration one wouldn't think of this is a remote possibility because they are like that the very direct president trump and his administration. they might put it under the threat. on monday a suspected gas explosion tore through a block of flats in central russia dozens of people were killed many as they slept with their homes collapsed in the early hours of the morning on new year's eve. should double which in secret formula but the shot in the office might be it's we didn't beat the defendant the game urgency me to dump

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and the hawkins heard some more stories of those affected by the 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 but 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 that may have left behind. on the. smart and is that of point

one one hundred percent of all i see it was. just a child somebody had to stand on and on bush so wanted to be sure to just let you have it when you're could you were sure what down and as you spoke to these people more and more stories emerged 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 to. give them the need to this time so much time is. and the. flowers of soft toys are getting bigger and bigger. many of them quite emotional hears coming here to express their condolences their simply support for those affected by this and of course preparing for the large number of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk ok christmas is about to get underway in around and. different day here.

you know world big partners through law and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rate you look at that you say oh that country southie that country is not healthy well looks like health of the chinese economy

based on that their interest rates are better than america. welcome back a christmas service has just got underway in moscow's magnificent cathedral of christ the savior now christmas in russia just as you'd expect a commemoration of the birth of jesus christ but it's a different day celebrated here on january seventh according to the gregorian calendar let's cross to all commentators artie's done bushell a religious expert and then of read. they have live pictures of the service. and continue celebrating christmas and other feast quoting to they're all talented. and

in their own countries they are called on calendars. so if we. get an back to the tradition of celebrating christmas. i could say that impression. that tradition very tradition of celebrating the coming of christ into the world was originated in the church of rome. it. was with us at least at the second century. we did not know the exact birthdays of jesus. traditionally they chose to celebrate it during this winter solstice on december twentieth. it came to the east much later very holiday of the nativity of christ came to the east much later and in the east we had

a festival feast which was called it be funny and. we were celebrated and then a teacher of christ and christ baptist together on a single day. was. this tradition of celebrating christmas came to us much later. so to go suppose describe the christ. and two other past posts start describing christ's ministry from the time of his baptism so it maybe made sense to celebrate his birth and his baptism for on a single day which was january the sixth. both dates were chosen symbolically because we did not know the exact days the. december twenty fifth was the day when the pagans celebrated so was just and christians were missionaries and they link to the christian feast of the dead saying that today we

will not celebrate the southeast us we will rather soon the brave the coming of the sort of god to the world what so to separate feast of the nativity came to the east only in the first century. and interest in them the feast of nativity was not accepted until the seventh century. and now we have only one christian church which retains the tradition of celebrate internet and the same day it is there are many an apostolic church they still celebrated on the one single day. so today there are many unfinished story breaks when they feast. on the screen to see the deck and the deacon. tell us about the people taking part so to see the person at the center is the patron of moscow russia and its friend here in this cathedral on february first two

thousand and nine succeeding history says second tell us a little bit about karylle if you could. about korea. what do we know about what's. wrong. headed. church. and to his exit it after better collection the second of must count on russia. and he was the head of the department for external treasure chelation and it was a very prominent figure. in the church world and. she did a lot for developing the church he was born to a family all for priest inside pictures burke so. he was brought up in a christian family his father was a free priest in a very difficult times for the russian orthodox church and. then the future patrick

made a decision to become. a priest also following his father he. sent to purchase burke the leningrad spiritual schools and he graduated from them with a great success he was the best. of the best student in the seminary. then he'll. get to what acquainted with metropolitan weekly do you trust his spiritual guide his spiritual teacher and. together with me to politan you could be him here started working for the church and. started working in. you know our external relations. our church. it's

a spectacular visual treat that ceremony and you can watch it as it continues in full with artie's daniel bushell and religious sects but you learn of it can simply by heading to our website you can watch the coverage live on r.t. dot com it's also broadcast on artie's you cheap facebook and twitter accounts and you can tweet your thoughts as well and any questions you might have about the ceremony or about yesterday's historic split between the churches of ukraine and russia send your thoughts and questions to dan is that at danby underscore r.t. and they will debate those issues live for you on. was just mentioned the uniformed author talks church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church just a few hours ago the patriarch of constantinople hundred over document to formalize the split to the head of the new church many politicians in ukraine are led to the decision some orthodox christians are concerned about what they see the potential consequences if you the coach of exploits

a long awaited president 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 one's happy but what's all the fuss about church's independence from hope. 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. also sufficiently should effectively give ukrainian orthodox church full autonomy in terms of parish financing and lance but in fact how much of it does keith actually get while the documents sign. states that in our dog's church can control only territory with sin ukraine and there's prohibited to create any parishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas was by constantinople so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantinople but well present par schenkel is struggling in the pools they had

a marsh 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 at all 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 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 ukraine and church itself there is not mind she unanimity when the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches if you crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be. 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 professor of church history and orthodox university alexander talking gave us his take. the majority of ukrainian church goers 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 ever go meant talking about forcing their person into

this new new structure they are discussing the new law which they would adopt to facilitate so-called to facilitate them to leave mosco for turkey. whatever consumption overall gave to them it's not independence because it's going to be like hand controlled by customs and they're. in jorma says specifically stated there to all major questions have to be consulted with consent to know paul it's also odd it is also stated so they're exposed to noble all have opportunities thirty eight are holy sites parishes and monasteries are there it's direct control of the ukrainian church is forbidden to have its own parish is abroad etc etc etc so it's independent of only in the name but really it is controlled by consumption . might 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 or so there was believers who are being or being persecuted and will be persecuted even harsher. donald trump has said little headway was made saturday in terms of breaking the deadlock over funding his border war which the government in a partial shutdown the more than two weeks the president neither the white house nor the democrats look like backing down. we are committed to keeping our borders safe we're in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund border security situation with you except. for this president in order.

to not wonder why 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 with some other. 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 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. on the democrat controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund federal government but they didn't include the all important funding for a border wall that's trying to threaten to veto the legislation senior democrats argue such a war would be an american the president claims it's an idea with widespread support. instagram on this occasion with

a statement of intent and he posted this video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. list on the phone for the war looks set to intensify democrat bills now head to the republican controlled senate let's be honest they're likely to be voted down that we've discussed the political issue with no draw and he's from the conservative group american majority and also robert patillo a civil rights lawyer 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 dhaka make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform basically nancy pelosi has him bent over heard 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 a five point six billion and a four trillion annual budget doesn't really mean much at all so 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 now supporting it so for the current wall what we need to see the c.b.l. scores. was actually wall will say that's what i mean it's the it's a funding mechanism so we know exactly how exactly 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 steel slates 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 dhaka 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 to citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation in this at some point we all know that paul.