really needs attention. gives an oval office speech claiming that the u.s. is in the grip of immigration crisis and urging democrats in congress to fund is. a lawmaker from the immigration alternative for germany party is severely injured in a assault with police are treating politically motivated. and the russian military police began patrols near the northern syrian city of money after u.s. backed kurdish forces withdraw from the area. and

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now the u.s. president has given a primetime address from the oval office slamming the democrats in congress for refusing to fund his long a promise to wall on the mexico border donald trump said the country is in the grips of a growing humanitarian and security crisis due to illegal immigration but he stopped short of declaring a national emergency that was expected despite earlier he said that he was ready to take that crucial step. law enforcement professionals have requested five point seven billion dollars for a physical barrier this barrier is absolutely critical to border security president trump mustapha holding nathen people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis and must reopen the government democrats in congress have refused to

acknowledge the crisis and they have refused to provide our brave border agents with the tools they desperately need no president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shuts down the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only because democrats will not fund border security he promised to keep government shutdown for months or years and my only hurts that's just plain wrong the only solution is for democrats to pass a spending bill that defends our borders and reopens the government this president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration senator chuck schumer has repeatedly supported

a physical barrier in the past along with many other democrats they change their mind only after i was elected president. or we can now cross live to our correspondent in new york caleb maupin caleb could you talk us through donald trump speech and the reaction so far. well the highly anticipated prime time address from donald trump the president of the united states it was less than ten minutes he used the speech to emphasize why he needed the five point seven billion dollars for the wall to make the case for his wall on the southern u.s. border with mexico now during the speech he claimed that ninety percent of the heroin in the united states had come from mexico and emphasized the flow of drugs he also spoke about the m.s. thirteen criminal gangs and other illegal acts and crimes committed by people who would cross the border illegally from there he went on to to emphasize that what he

called a cycle of suffering that it was taking place he talked about how the wall was a solution that would make things much more humane now he did stop short of calling for the national emergency that some expected he would call however he did urge the viewers the people that were watching the people the country to contact their members of congress and it's important to note that this wall has been a very big part of trump's political identity his for the presidential campaign really emphasized the wall he's spoken about it since he's been elected president let's review trump's talk of building this wall on the southern u.s. border. but building the wall we're building the wall folks were building a big beautiful powerful wall a great great wall and it's going to be a real war it's going to be i was going to be beautiful it's going to be a one year mission would build the greatest one you have ever seen. now nancy

pelosi and chuck schumer congressional representatives of the democratic party gave a rebuttal to trump's speech now in their speech they accuse trump of what they refer to as quote government by temper tantrum they also emphasized the difficulties of hardships associated with the government being shut down saying that the president was essentially holding the nation hostage and from there we heard of the democratic leaders make make many calls for trump to end the shutdown the government and we heard them essentially promising not to fund donald trump's wall so at this point we've heard the president united states we've heard a rebuttal from the democratic party and it seems that the political gap in the united states between those who support trump and his call for tighter border security and a wall and those who strongly oppose it seems to be bigger than ever now this is the fourteenth day of the u.s. government being shut down at this point this is the longest shutdown of the u.s.

federal government that has ever taken place in history all right artie's up and on that we're going back to the story in just a bit thanks for being across a story for us. to switch gears for just a bit in other news a man in germany has admitted to being behind a massive data breach in which the private details of almost a thousand public figures were leaked or he's possibly or has details prosecutors say that a twenty year old suspect has come face to being behind. personal data belonging to leading politicians and celebrities here in germany now they say that he posted last december using various twitter accounts they also say that there's no sign that there was any kind of. involvement among itself we were able to find the data carrier which the suspect had hidden a few days before the search after the story hit the headlines were made of backup copy of this in. mation is now available to the investigators during the course of

the interrogation the suspects said he had acted alone the investigation of so far not established any third party involvement either. so who exactly is this guy well he's known as if he's twenty years old he is suspected of doctor theft and leaks that targeted hundreds of german politicians and public figures he said he was acting out of anger on statements that they had made they had and disseminated information included phone numbers email addresses credit card details home addresses personal correspondence and photographs now prosecutors do say that this twenty year old has confessed but his alleged twitter account still has a post in which he says that he knows who is the presumed hacker and has no contact with him. we've known each other for years and definitely distancing myself from

the actions of no return and i'm not calling this a good thing if i thought it was i would never have spoken to journalists now prosecutors say that they haven't yet found any proof that there was a political motivation but the investigation is ongoing germany's interior minister has congratulated all of those who were involved in the investigation for their success. and as promised let's get back to our top story donald trump gave a speech from the oval office about an hour ago on the u.s. government shutdown over his border war plans we can now cross to steve malzberg who's a t.v. host and political commentator. could be interesting to hear your thoughts on this one we were just talking in a sound check there as to what news was made and what was not made actually but he did not declare a national emergency to potentially use military funds to build that wall of his despite earlier saying that he could do that are you surprised by this. no i thought that he would and it's great to be with you i thought he would leave

that in his back pocket as a safety valve because as the pain of the shutdown reaches the pocketbooks of those who are affected affected by it he could always pull that out and if nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who we saw give the rebuttal if they stick to their non negotiating tactic by saying no wall no fence not one penny i mean what's he going to do so what he could do is say look i'm coming to the table i'm willing to negotiate i'm down to two and a half billion from five they're not even offering one penny so i'm going to open the government and i'm going to do declare a state of emergency and take the money from the military budget and have the military build the wall then it will go to court unfortunately hopefully it'll be expedited quickly because i believe he has the legal right to do that so i think he's saving the declaration of a national emergency for when these negotiations go nowhere and pressure starts to

build because people you know are getting their paychecks all right so. this was a highly anticipated speech a lot was made as to whether the networks would cover it if they wouldn't cover it because some precedent had been said that obama wanted to address the nation on immigration in two thousand and fourteen it wasn't covered he did not make any specific announcements nothing new was said all of this is something he has said in the past and he repeated many of his old talking points so. do you think it was justified to use the oval office for such an address considering this is a space usually reserved for the most dire of consequences or the most dire of circumstances in the u.s. . well yeah i do because the because the government is shut down and we're on the the cusp of it becoming the longest a shutdown in u.s. history and also because i believe a president you know has the right to do it look this president more than anybody

else his message is mangled his messages mangled by the media intentionally he's called a liar when he tweets something out it's mocked it's twisted so i'm not asking you to cry for donald trump but there's never been a media onslaught against a president as there has been by this media against donald trump they call them racist the next hitler authoritarian. you name it that's what they call them so i think i've been urging for weeks not that he listened to me but i've been saying for weeks that he needs an oval office address i wish he would have gone further i wish he would have spelled out his four pillars of immigration reform which he did last year in his state of the union which one public support at the time it call for the end of chain migration the end of the visa lottery address daca those people who were brought here as children and are now here without any path to citizenship or legal status so i wish he would have gone there and made it

comprehensive maybe he didn't have time to do it the networks only gave him a minutes or whatever but to to say that and to question should he have the right some of the networks the second he announced that he wanted to do it like c.n.n. and i was watching them and they said he lies should they allow him to do what they were fact checking his speech in real time i mean that's unprecedented did they do it for palosi ensure or did they they tell the truth all the time i mean it's sick so in answer to your question it was justified and i think it's about time he did it so i'm going to ask you to go down the proverbial rabbit hole of course neither of us have the real answers on this if we did then you know we would just be people talking on t.v. but on wednesday donald trump is due to meet with white house congressional leaders what he expects from those talks. absolutely nothing if they show up and i hope they will the democrats. you know based on what they had to say tonight

palosi and schumer they have their heels dug in there they're not going to do anything they're not going to offer him a penny and you know what trump did tonight and i agree with you there was no new no nothing brand new no earth shattering news but he did present a more compassionate argument you know saying it's a crisis of the heart and crisis of the soul saying that when people citizens politicians put up walls around their homes or mansions it's not because they hate the people outside it's because they love the people inside and want to protect them he talked about the children and women who make the journey because they were encouraged by the fact that they could break into our country illegally and many of them get raped many of the children get smuggled they get separated from their parents they have victims of coyotes i mean he went there and he told very importantly if i may this story i think five or six americans including a police officer as recently as christmas who have been killed by illegal aliens

who came here and didn't belong here had no right here and he's met with those family sees he's looked in the eyes of the children and the husbands of the wives who are widowed and these are real people who are dead because of illegals coming into this country so i think he resonated. an emotional level with many americans all right now. interesting to hear your thoughts it will be very interesting to see how this plays out. or if it even does play. thanks for being with us steve malzberg. my pleasure. a lawmaker from the anti immigration alternative for germany party is fighting for his life after being attacked in the northwestern city of bremen frank magnet's was beaten up by a group of masked men on monday in the city center described the incident as an assassination attempt he remains in hospital in a serious condition as we heard earlier from a party member of the a.f.p.

a brahmin facebook page says that the politician was knocked unconscious after he left a new year's reception at the theatre the party also said that the attackers continued to beat magnets on the head after he was down police and the bremen prosecutor's office are investigating the attack. right now he is still at intensive care he's in stable condition and he's. tall he said that he cannot remember anything of this but doctors are confident he can leave intensive care at the hospital probably this weekend while the threat has been growing ever since we've been in existence these attacks have been intensified and i fear it's only a question of trying until we see the first deadly assault on one of our politicians which are all democratically elected in parliament we think about advertising our addresses i've had hate mails affect me we live. with

killing me and i'm very very careful about where i'm going at night and party members considering bodyguards before they go out in public and this is not this is a very serious issue my party member friend from story is never leaving the house without two policemen guarding her. right now last friday and have the office in lower saxony was targeted in a bombing incident no one was injured but the building was severely damaged three suspects have been detained german lawyer maximilian kroll told us that some members of the f.t. no longer feel safe. there is an atmosphere in the country that every scene which is right wing. conservative is madness and evil and i think there are some who created seas and some crude nose who believe that they don't have the right to get wild over these acts which are regretted

by either the dorothy of people but in sexily there is no problem if there is that one station if there is a public hearing if he is able to to hold it when you on bremer and hunger are impossible then it's looking for possible to organize a demonstration or to have a public hearing that for instance included are also public curing of three members of parliament and it couldn't be protected by the local police that means we have such an anti far left wing extremists all over judea and there but the conditions especially. very hard makes of them or already possible to have ordinary political life. russian military police say they have started patrolling an area to the west of the syrian city of man beach with a view of ensuring security there a correspondent jeff has more on the development and how it could shape the ongoing power struggle in the region. safe zone

a buffer zone really was established after kurdish y p g forces moved out they handed the area over to the syrian government the syrian army and it was declared a demilitarized zone. patrolled by russian military police monitors who arrived on the seventh of january now the kurds weren't acting out of altruism but because turkey was and is threatening to invade use the y.p. g p k k its terrorist. because the turkey is stalled it's incurred zora tional took you star get to the kurdistan workers spot to tahrir groups one of the goals of to struggle against the p.k. k. in that syrian suits is to save the kurds from the tyranny and suppression of the terror group trumps declaration that he's pulling out of syria suddenly threw

things into a state of flux u.s. allies the white b.g. who had lived and depended on american protection suddenly face being left alone with hostile turks rebels isis and syrians on all sides their own arab allies ready to dump them reportedly and u.s. national security advisor john bolton is desperately trying to secure a future safety for his could this allies we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that the chance of israel and other friends in the region. is absolutely assured and to take care of those who fought with us against isis and other terrorist groups at the end of the day the u.s. will leave the kurds understand this obviously and they're fast tracking negotiations with president asaad with the syrian government could into various

reports reconciling perhaps obviously they have their differences but it's a hostile neighborhood friends a few and far between and as we see now they can leave at any moment. well the united states a national security advisor said on sunday however that his country's troop withdrawal will be dependent on a number of guarantees from turkey one of john bolton's demands was that ensure the safety of washington's kurdish allies in northern syria that provoked an angry response from turkey the president everyone even refusing to meet with bolton for talks or. the call john bolton has made a grave mistake it is not possible to accept or swallow the message given by bolton from israel those who are in the terra corridor in syria who learn the necessary lessons for us there is no difference between the white p g p y d the p k k and diet we will very soon take action to neutralize the terrorist groups in syria. and

political analysts use a ferryman told us that he believes sooner or later turkey will launch an incursion into syria regardless of washington's demands. we look at what bolton saying and especially right before he comes to meet with the turkish officials and he basically crosses a red line when he's in israel the night before he comes to turkey and i don't understand what he was expecting in negotiations with turkey today but he definitely was expecting what he got in turkey is not going to bow down to the u.s. and turkey is not going to protect these kurdish fighters these kurdish fighters are terrorists in turkey turkey doesn't protect terrorists before trump propose the u.s. withdrawal turkey was ready to launch a military operation it was within days maybe hours of launching an operation until present president trump surprised everyone with this u.s. withdrawal announcement so regardless of what the u.s.

does turkey is going to launch a operation east of the euphrates that this is a fact this is a very pressing national security matter for. the former french boxing champion who is wanted for allegedly punching police men at a yellow vest protest at the weekend has turned himself in he posted in an explanation for his actions on facebook. i saw the repression that was i saw the police. i've seen the police hurt people with flash balls i've seen people hurt a sin pension is get gas i've seen a lot of things i was tear gassed on the last day yes i wanted to advance in the riot police was gassed with my friends and my wife i was gassed and for a moment the anger came up in the yes well i reacted badly i reacted badly but i was defending myself and that's it. remains in police custody but he has received pledges of support and funding campaign has been launched to help and the french

interior minister says all aggressors will be brought to justice. here i want to say to all the police enjoined on and firefighters who have been targeted and experience violence during their work and in particular over the course of the last few weeks but they can count on my support and complete determination to systematically identify and bring to justice their aggressors and their celebrate the surrender but he knew he had been identified and sought out of the individual who on saturday in paris bruce lee deployed john bombs on this bridge they are here and i salute them still more people happy. to. see. the maulvi city to people. who just wanted to take account of. your vehicle dog are the only ones you can we just. want to see. the tornado with me i said your technical to me

a call to know the path. to cure what i only said to do to get in a cattle. horses or to leave well. on the connects you to all you want to see larsen of yours got rid. of this by dad condemnation the minister is yet to comment on another controversial video where a prominent police officer is seen beating protesters on twitter there were calls for equal justice the officer is now under investigation after an injured woman filed a complaint. our m.p.'s in france haven't escape the wrath of the yellow best protesters in either the home of one member of the country's ruling party was barricaded shot on sunday. on sunday morning i was a bit shocked by the wall made of blocks there aren't fifty of them i couldn't leave my home and it prevented anyone from coming in because of that i'm very disappointed very disappointed it's happened before the attack centers are blocked

by the sea walls i thought immediately that the yellow vests associate the taxed offices with mccrone and his dismissal. meanwhile the french prime minister edward for the past called for tough new measures against the yellow vest movement if the plans are approved vandals will have to pay for any damage they cause protesters will be punished for wearing masks or known it troublemakers will be blacklisted and those who protest without official permission will face six months in prison or an eight thousand euro fine yellow vest movement started back in november over rising fuel prices with drivers blocking major roads and fuel depots protests quickly snowballed into a mass movement against the government and falling living the standards and french author told us that the government has failed to offer any way out of the crisis. where the demonstration is very simple with this new law for instance they're proven to arrested people for wearing this kind of weapon of mass destruction you

can see it i'm not come in a power it's very dangerous you know it's women glasses the government doesn't have anything to out of her except blood sweat and tears and if you were swimming glasses you know you're not a good citizen you will be banned from demonstration with this kind of situation it's completely you know there's no way out and because the government doesn't understand that it doesn't really represent anybody anymore in this country. the two biggest names in mixed martial arts could be on course for a rematch russia's cubbie but no amount of defeated ireland's khana mcgregor in october and now the president of the ultimate fighting championship says that he wants to get the two men back in the ring this year. as long as everything goes right this fight should happen. in the run up to their recent about mcgregor launched a vicious a verbal assault on the russian fighter but in the end it was who came out on top causing wild celebrations back home and dug

a stand our sports correspondent alexia shetty has the story. the sleepless night in the capital of dagestan makhachkala followed by street celebrations when local hero had to be moving again the other beat irishman conor mcgregor in the biggest u. of c. fight. not only was the night tense but everything leading up to it just while the notorious irishman connor mcgregor the absolute king of the u.f.c. fighter won a lot of fans with his swagger and style but when he attacked people like i need of a new york everyone knew this time would take it to the next level. for me is more than fight for the title more than when he even told me his personal get done in the sauna i called them again and she can. all sat and that was only

one way to find out who was the real tough guy you may have to that question was plain and simple mcgregor tapped out in round four with a russian fighter already way out in front on points ahead of the fight many m.m.a. experts predicted at the top he could win what happened after his triumph hardly anyone expected that. the eagles literally flew out of the off gun triggering a mass bulls t. mcgregor several of the beeb's entourage were detained by nevada police and he sparse with health as he deserved winner of the bout was a score to the way without his belt and the after fights craft was followed by a flood of public criticism. looks on the bulk of his heavy weight you have seen fights in his fight against american derek lewis came on the same night in las vegas two fights before he'd be just like many he was surprised to see his compatriot explode after months of stone cold calmness in front of the media

understand why he. but i would never do that many things. they've. been through in . motions but you never know maybe it was a plan to get people talking about that even more after arriving back in his homeland how deep was having none of that criticism. i'm going to consider. despite the post fight antics of swindon game the highlight of the year for many. different ocelots have always been. safe to say. it might just be eclipsing the popularity. despite. not only did the results feel arenas and trade james for the muslim world immediately became something of a hike and should respect for the guy on the coach the truth about just how

talented he is for us especially resonates and you know i love his humbleness and his principles but it's always really parents students country strong whether he's pondering his next move with a boxing fight against floyd mayweather on everyone's lips or simply enjoying the moment as a celebrity it's hard to tell. someone distance himself from the media but without a doubt millions of his fans in russia and across the world are holding their breath for the next flight of the eagles in twenty nine. let's see russia reporting from moscow. more news in twenty nine and a half minutes stay with us.