france's yellow vest movement shows no sign of letting up in two thousand nineteen holding more nationwide protests against the government. and in the news that shaped the week funerals are held up for the victims of the apartment block collapse in the russian city of magnesia course which claimed thirty nine lives. of us a government shutdown enters its third week as the overfunding donald trumps the border. and the orthodox world is celebrating christmas including all of we will bring you pictures from the service in moscow's largest church the

cathedral of christ the savior. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas truly glad to have you with us. created may be a new year but it's the same yellow vest protests continuing 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 minor scuffles erupted in paris as protesters said barricades on fire and call for president to resign. i i. i. was.

the. only arabic of what the doc 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 two thousand and nineteen it's still going on. why 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 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. with disturbances are growing in many micron has condemned the yellow vests on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of. believes that the president's reform plans are out of touch with the public. is 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 is the king of european sovereign to which the french doglike so i think is absolutely dreaming you know the 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 is not having that huge ledger again that he needs to implement what he wishes it was that you know they are seventy or eighty percent of the french nation which doglike what you propose. with protests spreading from france to other european countries pro brags it to demonstrate in london have now 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. she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which saw protesters hurling smoke bombs at police in march across the capital blocking bridges and disrupting traffic about one hundred people took part in the high

visibility jackets they also shouted insults about the prime minister and called for the u.k.'s media exit from the e.u. . on monday a suspected gas explosion tore through a block of flats in central russia dozens were killed many in their sleep as their homes collapsed in the early hours of the morning on new year's eve. sister demolition secret formula but the shot in the office might be it's hardly should be easy to fill up the beam which in simi to dump is to get the match number of the shot so. that a mammal number washboard that is twice provides sleep should he do you wish called

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then you harkens heard some more of the stories of those affected by the disaster. hundred 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. martin is that of a woman they are innocent of all i see it was. just a child some did and on bush. wanted to be sure to just let you have it when you're

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 our 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 moves in. the squad to.

give them the need to this time so much time is to. sit up with them. with the. with those in a minute to have me see. most of the press and i think marco did a little bit one of the sons you know children inversion covering for them and then we saw a pile of flowers of candles. soft toys and getting bigger and bigger well wishes many of them quite emotional here is 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 the city of. us president trumpeted on sunday that progress was made at a meeting between vice president and democrat leaders schumer and palosi on ending the partial u.s. government shutdown says his proposed border wall which democrats have refused to

fund will now be a steel barrier rather than concrete which according to his tweet is stronger and less obtrusive the negotiations so far have been contentious with both the white house and the democrats holding their ground. border safe where in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund a border security situation. for the president over. there so i don't wonder 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. 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 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. well the democratic 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 wall would be american the president claims the idea has widespread support. to hammer home his stance donald trump took to instagram with his provocative graphic he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple.

and the standoff over the wall looks likely to intensify with the democrat bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they're likely to be voted down we discussed the border wall issue with ted reunion from concert the conservative group american majority and also robert patillo 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 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 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 and sided 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 scene. 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 exactly this is getting 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 is 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 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. all right orthodox christmas is now being marked around the world including the world's most populous orthodox country russia we will take

a closer look at the celebrations after the break stay with us. you know world of the big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back the czar to international now the us will not pull its troops out of syria until turkey agrees not to target u.s. backed kurdish fighters currently considers some kurdish military units to be terrorists the craft cation of washington strategy came up from the us national security advisor john. during a visit to. objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we

don't think the turks what you want to take military action it's not fully who was mated 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 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 how 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 the turkish president added one has

always held a strong position these are the the kurds. saying no we're bearing 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 but. because the both the ring us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay afloat and 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. one of the turkish president's press secretary commented on the u.s. statement saying it is absurd to claim ongaro will target the kurds he added the

turkish goal is to eliminate the islamic state judge and those military kurdish factions who considers terrorists are walk off director of the british think tank can also leave the us the man said towards turkey could be politically motivated. so we think the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push turkey to assume a bigger role than agreed 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 would think that this is a remote possibility because they are like that the very direct president and his administration. they might put turkey under the threat. all right now it is officially orthodox christmas in all of them time zones of russia the country's main divine liturgy was held in russia's largest orthodox place of worship and moscow's cathedral of christ the savior. most people have finished their winter break in the getting ready to go back to work there are pockets of communities across the world who are celebrating it christmas eve it's one of the most important dates in the diary and people have traveled from all over the country to enjoy the ceremony here at prices you can see behind me and we managed to get a few comments from people who want to go there especially for tonight.

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fifteen other countries across the world like serbia syria greece and macedonia who are also attending this very special service now if you'll a little confused as to why they're celebrating thirteen days after the twenty fifth of december is because they follow different calendar they follow the julian calendar which as the name suggests was set up by julius caesar way back in forty five b.c. most of the world has adopted the gregorian calendar and that was set up by pope gregory the thirteenth. fifteen eighty two but the julian calendar celebrates christmas eve on the sixth of january and christmas day on the seventh of january which is what we're seeing this evening now the gregorian christmas as we all know is preceded by advent well julian christmas is preceded by a forty day nativity fast it's called weather restrictions to what you can eat and that ends tonight families will enjoy a holy supper and that consists of twelve dishes to represent twelve apostles it

really is a beautiful evening and inside the ceremony people can enjoy singing traditional hymns enjoying the atmosphere there and praying with their fellow orthodox christians and even though it's a very very long ceremony they say that is one of the most beautiful services that they will experience over the course of the. so it's christmas a celebration is occurring amid a deep crisis for the orthodox church a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church just a few hours ago the patriarch of constantinople and handed the head of the new church document formalizing the split and while many politicians in ukraine are elated at the decision many orthodox christians are concerned about the potential consequences of the move which is modern a question of a has been 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 ukrainian art adox church and of course ukrainian presidents 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 hope. for same trysts 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 and signs ukraine demanding churches and dependence sounds like some in the religious dispute so once so important about it. also says 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 document signed states that ukraine in church actually falls under control of constantinople ukrainian our docs church can control only territory with sin ukraine and that's perhaps but it creates a need perishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sasa was by constantinople so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantinople but well present par shango 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 it 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 illegal 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 in church itself there is not months unanimity when the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches so if you crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be. this action will not bring anything to you except 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. i professor of it church history at saint con the orthodox university alexander dvorak and he gave us his take on. the majority of ukrainian church girl wars belong to the canonical church the church of the ukraine. under the potomac 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 off 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 but almost as specifically stated there to all major questions have to be consulted with consent to know paul it's also auditors also stated so they're exposed to noble will 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 sole empiricists abroad etc etc etc so it's independent of polio in the name but really it is controlled by consumption.

see it as a part of all all all it's 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 that was believers believe or are being persecuted and will be persecuted even harsher. that is a from i'll be back to top the hour with more news to watch march international stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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