france's yellow vest movement shows no sign of letting up in two thousand nineteen paulding more nationwide protests against the government. and in the news that shaped the week funerals are held for the victims of the apartment block collapse in the russian city of might need to go to school which claimed thirty nine lives. u.s. government shutdown enters its third week as the ryle over funding of donald trump's border wall drags on. and the orthodox world is celebrating christmas including all across russia to bring you pictures from the service of moscow's

largest church the cathedral of christ the savior. why women of the yellow vests movement. marched through the streets of france on this sunday as the protest against president across government entered its eighth week in paris hundreds of women could be seen waving yellow balloons and dancing and singing the national anthem. i. i. the rally in the capital was largely peaceful although there were brief scuffles between protesters and police on one point officers used pepper spray and riot shields to control the crowd and women in yellow vests also gathered in the cities of the loose and ran only on and sent and the slogans that chant. by the women as

in previous demonstrations focused on president whose resignation resignation excuse me is demanded by many of the voters. at least fifty thousand of the movement's members took to the streets a day earlier on saturday those protests a barricade set on fire and more calls for the media departure of france's president. was . i was. only in a vehicle with the dog 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. despite the government backing down over the fuel tax increases which sparked the rallies in the first place they have continued for eight consecutive weekends and earlier this week the yellow vests launched a blistering attack on micron in a letter addressed to. you do not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing full smetters 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 kron has condemned the elements on twitter

and called on the protestors to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of mess on the feet believes the president's 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 the french are demanding today you know is the king of european sovereign which the french don't like so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know european searcher and i think is absolutely. absolutely out of the common sense of the french today i think that the law goal has been elected by chance but is not having a huge ledger it seems that they need to implement what they wish just because 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 that demonstrators in london have now also adata villa vest as a symbol in the recapitalise on saturday resulted in clashes leading police to make several arrests including that of a thirteen year old girl. why he. was. she was one of four people taken into custody during a demonstration which saw protesters hurling smoke bombs at police and marched across the capitol blocking bridges and disrupting traffic about one hundred people took part in the high visibility jackets they also shot of insults about the prime minister and called for u.k. needed 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. and there's.

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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 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 just pulled on and on bush so wanted to be sure that just let you have it when you're could you were sure what they own 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. these waters. given the need to this time so much time is. me. one of the songs we do.

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 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 . u.s. president trump a tweet on sunday that progress was made at a meeting between vice president mike pence and a democrat leaders schumer and pelosi on ending the partial u.s. government shutdown trump says his proposed border wall which democrats have refused to fund will now be a steal barrier rather than concrete which according to his tweet is stronger and less obtrusive negotiations so far have been contentious with both the white house and democrats holding their ground. we are committed to keeping our borders safe where in a shutdown because democrats refused to fund

a border security situation which you would accept even. for this president in order to reopen. the dollar. so i'm not one dollar. 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 with the mother. 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 know we can do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it. or 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 un-american the president claims the idea has wide spread support. to hammer home his stance donald trump took to instagram with his this provocative graphic he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. are the standoff over the wall looks like they do in test tense a fire with the democrat bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they're likely to be voted down if they're even brought up for a vote at all we discussed of the border wall with issue with dead reunion from

conservative group american majority and also robert pitino 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'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 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 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 deadly this is getting paid for and we need a concrete 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 to 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 pass. the 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 the answer was 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. all right despite donald trump's an announced to intend to withdraw american troops from syria it appears they will not be leaving anytime soon the fate of washington's kurdish allies appears to be the stumbling block and we will explain why this robot to such international.

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welcome back this is r t international and the weekly now the u.s. will not pull its troops out of syria until turkey agrees not to target u.s. backed kurdish fighters currently considers kurdish military units to be terrorists the question of washington's. came from the u.s. national security adviser john bolton during a visit to jerusalem. 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 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 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. are in the terrorists and the well they dug themselves and will continue to. we spoke to mr trump those terrorists should go east of the euphrates if they would go but.

because they're both the ring us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay a button 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 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. the tertian turkish president's press secretary commented on the u.s. statement saying it is absurd to claim will target the kurds he added the turkish goal is to eliminate islamic state. and those military kurdish factions who are considered terrorists director of the british think tank. the us demand 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 us you a bigger role that is 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 the 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 and 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 it under the threat.

all right now it is officially orthodox christmas in all eleven time zones of russia the country's main divine liturgy was held in russia's largest orthodox place of worship. christ the savior. most people have finished that winter break and they're 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 christ's sake. you can see behind me and we managed to get a few comments from people who wanted to go there especially for tonight. or this would just go to the front. of me to go see the president. receives my to do the previously quite serious business previous to. receive that is just will.

respect. the most of my screen and you beautiful. you should someone. to merge to be. sure strong move if the president there was a right. he was just because our. own lives are worth watching where should you store your. price meters just write the sound we. were just issued with fear another you'd see we're not. here and it's not just russia the celebrating there around 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 judean 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 him 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. well right this year's christmas celebration is occurring amid it deep crisis for the orthodox church a newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independent from the russian church just a few hours ago patriarch of constantinople and the head of the new church document formalizing the split while many politicians in ukraine are the decision many orthodox christians are concerned about the potential consequences of the move there's actually medina question of the. hour long awaited president has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted it's ukrainian are to dogs church and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree was signed officially recognizing an end dependent ukrainian art adox church and of

course ukrainian presidents petro poroshenko was there shedding tears of pressure shirt. saying 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 whole. per se 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 ask elaters through the years was more and more voices and signs ukraine demanding churches and dependence sounds like some in the religious dispute so what so important about it. all to us of

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 ukraine in church actually falls under control of constantinople ukrainian our dogs church can control only territory with then ukraine and there's perhaps to create any parishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas wells by constantinople so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantine noble but well present par shango is struggling in the polls they had of marge's presidential election and experts say while making this a centerpiece policy of his campaign he hopes to win over. 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 in charge of is a clear sign of this sure going to lead by corrupt politicians and illegal assisted by the constantinople. didn't worsen the already existing split and put the unity of orthodox christianity as a whole. and inside ukraine and church itself there is not much unanimity on the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches of ukrainian church has. the plan we consider these actions to be empty canonical they sanction will not bring anything to ukraine except trouble separation and sit but at least anyone supporting the move apart from ukraine itself while you last 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 there's a from the more we can have top the hour stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics school i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this population a problem for converts. any interrogation out there bill c.

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