if a. friend says yellow first movement shows no sign of letting up in two thousand nine hundred holding more nationwide protests against the government. in the news that shape of the week you know rolls are held up for the victims of the apartment block collapse in the russian city of my new book which and thirty nine. the u.s. government shutdown enters its third week as the rally over funding the donald trump's border wall drugs are. at the dogs world are celebrating christmas including all across russia we bring you pictures from the service in moscow's largest church we could feed all of christ the savior.

our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is argentina national glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories are making progress. right now women of the v. yellow vests movement marched through the streets of france on sunday as the protest against president micron's government entered its eighth week in paris hundreds of women could be seen waving yellow balloons dancing and singing the national anthem. i. while the rally in the capital was largely peaceful although there were brief scuffles between protesters and police one point officers used pepper spray and riot shields to control the crowd women in yellow vests that were also gathered in the cities of. loosen then leon and saying it's. slogans chanted by the women

as in previous demonstrations focused on president micron whose resignation is demanded by many of the protesters. all right at least fifty thousand of the movement's members took to the streets a day earlier on saturday as those protest barricades set on fire and more calls for the immediate departure of france's president. was . was. was. only the doc and more or less 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 and 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 are despite of the government backing down over the fuel tax increases which sparked the rallies they have continued for eight consecutive weekends and earlier this week of yellow vests launched a blistering attack on my crown in a letter. 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 ammonia micron has condemned violist on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town of missing on the feet believes the president's reform plans are out of touch with the public. is 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 to which the french don't like so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know european in the church are and i think is 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 they propose. with protests spreading from france to other european countries pro brags that demonstrators in london have now also adopted the yellow best as a symbol of a rally in the capital on saturday resulted in clashes leading police to make several arrests including that of a thirteen year old girl. i. think. she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which saw protesters hurling smoke bombs that police marched across the capital blocking bridges into stuck in traffic about one hundred people took part wearing the high visibility jackets they also shouted insults about the prime minister and called for the ukase immediate exit from that. on monday a suspected that gas or. excuse me a 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 publication secret book might be shot in the pews might be it's. easy to feel if watching see me dump a stick in the much of the comfort of shots. without a mammal number washboard distress provides please should you do you wish called the creature element to proceed to a cup because she would know what sort of a reason not to impeach i would see even a machine the creature of course proceed to. steal your specific.

cedar wood so. i'm just. blew it. to instill. that bitch no matter. what your colleagues may feel like your beliefs say it's kind of bad simply watching things not forestall say that i'm not listening and. then you hawkins heard some more of the stories of those affected by the tragedy. thirteen 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 that may have left behind. on the ship a smart and is that of point one one they are innocent of all i see it was. just a child somebody just pulled on and on bush so just 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 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 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 he says 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 views in. these waters. given the need to this time so much time is. good to. see a. person of the prison like.

one of the songs in which we can put it indeed 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 employees offer support to those affected by this of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk . our u.s. president tweeted on sunday of course he did that progress was made at a meeting between vice president 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 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 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 that you would accept. for this president in order to reopen. the dollar. one dollar 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 we should avoid it. 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. with democrat controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund and to reopen the federal government

but they don't include funding for a border wall. to threaten to veto the legislation while senior democrats argue such a wall would be american president claims the idea has widespread support all to hammer home his stance donald trump took to instagram with this provocative graphic he also posted the following controversial video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. the standoff over the wall looks likely to intensify with the democrat bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to be voted down we discussed in the border wall issue with ned reeling from conservative group

american majority and also robert a civil rights lawyer. well also understand the president has absolutely no leverage in this situation and 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 dhaka make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform basically meant to close it has him been overheard 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 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 and 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'd 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. the citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation and 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 or start here is my non-negotiable there's of course 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. or the u.s. will not pull its troops out of syria until turkey agrees not to target u.s. backed kurdish fighters currently considers some critics military units to be terrorists quote cation of washington strategy came from the u.s. national security adviser john bolton during a visit to troops. 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 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 are men and they're all coming back and they're coming back now it will be a strong deliberate and the 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. no. 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. but. because they're 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 where he'll be holding discussions on this very topic the focus of course is on the athlon 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. or of the turkish president's press secretary commented on the u.s. statement saying it is absurd to claim our girl will target the kurds he added the turkish goal is to eliminate islamic state judge and those military kurdish

factions who considers terrorists. director of the british think tank did not believe u.s. demands towards turkey could be politically motivated so we think that the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push turkey to a few 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 and ultimatum it's either us or the russians. you know the trump administration one wouldn't 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. right now it is officially orthodox christmas in all of time zones in russia the country's main divine liturgy was held in russia's largest orthodox place of worship because cathedral of christ savior years are to. most people have finished their winter break and they're getting ready to go back to work there are pockets of communities across the world who are celebrating 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 price to save because you can see behind me and we managed to get a few comments from people who wanted to go there especially for tonight's. just to the from.

there to the girls the president. will. respect. the most of. the should someone go. to a. shoe store a movie if there was a right. to your. price meters just right the sound we. did on the other. hand is not just russia the celebrating there around fifteen other countries across the world like serbia syria greece and

a macedonia who are also attending this very special service now if you'll a little come few. 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 rather 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 year. for this year's christmas celebration is occurring amid a deep crisis where the orthodox church newly formed orthodox church of ukraine has been granted independence from the russian church just a few hours ago the patriarch of constantinople handed the new church a document formalizing. and while many politicians in ukraine. many orthodox christians are concerned about the potential consequences of the move. to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted ukrainian are to dogs church and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree was signed officially

recognizing and dependent ukrainian art and 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 globe 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 and side ukraine demanding churches independence sounds like some in the

religious dispute so what's 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 but it creates a need perishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas walls by constantino people so basically it is just replacing moscow by constantine noble but while president 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. why then. the tentacles of globalization of trying to penetrate the church to destroy its politicians interference in church affairs is a clear sign of this chauvinists risk of fibes led 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 the ukrainian church itself there is not once unanimity when the plan of fatah to me has been announced back and not one of the branches if you crane in church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be empty canonical this action 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 at st. university alexander divorce 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. 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 personal 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 mosco for turkey. whatever consumption overall gave to them it's not independence because it's going to be like hands controlled by constant they're. in but almost as specifically stated of their all major questions have to be consulted with consumption or pull it's also auditors also stated so they're exposed to noble all have opportunities thirty eight are holy sites parishes and monasteries under its direct control of the ukrainian church is forbidden to have its sole empiricists abroad 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

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