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 for the victims of the apartment block collapsed in the russian city of might need to go to school which claimed thirty nine lives. the u.s. government shutdown enters its third week as the round over funding donald trump's border wall drags on. and the orthodox world is celebrating christmas including all across russia we bring you pictures from the service in moscow's largest church because people of christ in the state.

whether you're a stranger in colorado or an old friend here in moscow this is our international this is the weekly and we are glad to have you with us. all right now women of the yellow vests movement marched to through the streets of france on sunday as the protest against the president of government entered its eighth week in paris hundreds of women could be seen waving yellow balloons dancing and singing the national anthem. the rally in the capital was largely peaceful although there were brief scuffles between protesters and police at one point officers used pepper spray and riot shields to control the crowd home women in yellow vests also gathered in to. to

loose ran away on and. the slogans chanted by the women as in previous demonstrations focused on president micron whose resignation is it demanded by many of the protesters. arrive at least fifty thousand of the movement's members took to the streets a day earlier on saturday those protests saw barricades set on fire and more calls for the immediate departure of france's president. was. i. was. was. only a few 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 well despite the government backing down over the fuel tax increases which sparked at the rallies in the first place they've continued for eight consecutive weekends and earlier this week the yellow vests launched a blistering attack on a cron and a letter. you do not give straight answers and you drag things out by proposing full smushes 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 all right with disturbances growing in menu micron has condemned available on twitter and called on the protesters to calm down and recommit to dialogue the mayor of the town miss 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 which the french don't like so i think he is absolutely dreaming you know european searcher 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 a huge ledger it to me that they need to implement what they wish just because you

know there 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 breaks the demonstrators in london have now also adopted the yellow vests as their symbol a rally in the capital on saturday resulted in clashes weaving police to make several arrests including that of a thirteen year old girl. i. thought i thought she was one of four people taken into custody during the demonstration which saw protesters hurling smoke bombs at police were marched across the capital blocking bridges and of the truck in traffic about one hundred people took part wearing the high visibility jackets and also shouted insults about the prime minister and called for the u.k.'s immediate exit from the. 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. little. sister trouble which ensued make up for comment but the shot in the office might be it probably does it is easy to fill it with the urgency me to dump a stick and the much of a shot so well not so much to proceed without a natural number washboard distress provides please should you wish called to include shall upon my deeds proceed to a competitive she was not what it is a sort of praise or shall not be impeachable which is seen in a machine the creature of course precedes it he is now with stood still a specific. suitor

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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 some deed and on bush some who 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 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 news in. these waters. given the need to try so much bonnie. to flee with the. first of the prison lights in

the little one of the songs in which children edition could have been put in and did 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 in please offer support to those affected by this of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk . u.s. president trump tweeted on sunday that progress was made at a meeting between vice president mike pence and a democrat leader 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 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 which you would accept even. for this president in order to reopen. a dollar. one dollar. we would have no deal with a wall 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 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 city to 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. when 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 to threaten to veto the legislation while senior democrats argue such a wall would be un-american the president claims the idea has widespread support. well to hammer home his stance donald trump of course took to social media instruct him with this provocative graphic he also posted the following controversial video . illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple.

and the standoff over the wall looks likely doing tests intensify with the democrat bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they're likely to be voted down if they're even brought to the floor at all we discussed the border wall issue with net reeling from conservative group american majority also robert patillo a civil rights lawyer. well 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 we're a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present hale's 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 that 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 daca 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. 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 a said here's my non-negotiable nancy pelosi 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. 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 kurdish military units to be terrorists the clarification of washington's strategy came from the u.s.

national security adviser john bolton during a visit to jerusalem. now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so what you want to take 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 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 stronger liberated 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 of us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do what is needed to stay about 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. the turkish president's press secretary commented. the u.s. statement saying it is absurd to claim target the kurds he added the turkish goal is to eliminate islamic state and those military kurdish factions consider terrorists mark after a tour of the british think tank. believes the u.s. demands towards turkey could be politically motivated. we think the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push turkey to su 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 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 trump and his administration. they might put turkey under the threat. now is officially orthodox christmas and all of a time zones of russia the country's main. was held in russia's largest or the place of worship moscow's cathedral of 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 price a few cathedral that you can see behind me and we managed to get

a few comments from people who want to go. especially for tonight's picture video of this we're just getting to the front. of me to go is the president. just might do the previously quite serious business priests. receive just one. respect our own. the most of my screen and you beautiful. you should someone. should strong move it was bracing there was a right. actually we're still the play list the records are. only so worth watching but should you store your. price meters just right the sound we. were just issued with here another you see when i do. buy it them with.

us here man is not just russia they're celebrating they're around fifteen other countries across the world 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 the judean christmas is preceded by a forty day nativity fast it's called other restrictions to what you can eat and

that ends tonight families will enjoy a holy supper and i can see. twelve dishes to represent twelve apostles it really is a beautiful evening and inside the ceremony people can enjoy singing traditional enjoying the atmosphere 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. or this year's christmas celebration is occurring amid a deep crisis for the orthodox church the 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 head of the new church a document formalizing the split and while many politicians in ukraine are laid it out the decision and the orthodox christians are concerned about the potential consequences of the movement is made in the courts has been. a long awaited press

and has finally been delivered to ukraine patriarch of constantinople has granted it's ukrainian are to dogs charge and autonomy on the eve of our two dogs christmas special decree was signed officially recognizing an independent ukrainian art a duck's church and of course ukrainian presidents petro poroshenko was there shedding tears of question shoot. 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 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 nine hundred ninety one gradually tensions big. when the churches ask elaters through the years more and more voices and signs ukraine demanding churches and dependence sounds like a religious dispute so once 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 are dogs church can control only territory with then ukraine and there's prohibited to create any parishes abroad and all disputes are going to be sas alls by constantinople so basically it is just replacing moscow

by constantinople but well present par shango is struggling in the pools they had of marge's 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 in charge of is a clear sign of this should. lead by corrupt politicians and illegal assisted by the constantinople 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 much unanimity when the plan of autonomy has been announced back in autumn one of the branches of ukrainian church has slammed the plan we consider these actions to be.

this action will not bring anything to ukraine except trouble. ation and said well that is 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. the professors of turgeon history tikhon's orthodox university alexander divorce and give us his take on the split. the majority of ukrainian church goer is belong to the canonical church the church of the ukraine which was under their 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 personal them into this new all 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 opel there are in almost as specifically stated there to all major questions have to be consulted with consent to nobble it also auditors also stated so that's considered noble will have thirty eight are holy sites parishes and monasteries are there its direct control of the ukrainian church is forbidden to have its own parish it's a 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 the core of being persecuted and will be persecuted even harsher. back with more the weekly and let's say about thirty one and the half minutes you're watching are two international. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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