this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. for his border wall in his first televised address from the oval office the. nation to ransom by continuing the government shutdown. also ahead on the program the. journalists face creasing the. members of the public confront the argument. like. you were offended but i think this is.

exclusion is one of the main contributing factors to. the british government funded influence being. called. in mexico city ten pm in melbourne two in the afternoon right here in moscow welcome to our to international o'neill our top story president used his first televised address from the oval office to call for funds for his border wall he stopped short of the. urgency to secure the billions of dollars but house kept the

government shutdown in place which is entering a nineteen day minutes after his speech democratic leaders hit back calling trump a liar is my new factor in the crisis democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump mustapha holding math people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration and must reopen the government the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only because democrats will not fund border security no president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shuts down 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. well caleb maupin takes a closer look at how the u.s. government crisis has been playing and we've heard the highly anticipated prime time address from the president of the united states donald trump now in the speech trump tried to make his case for the five point seven billion dollars he needs to build his border wall now he emphasized the flow of drugs into the united states furthermore he made reference to the m.s. thirteen criminal gang and also highlighted crimes committed by people who had entered the country illegally from did stop short of calling for the national emergency as many people had anticipated that he might do but he did call on people in the united states and american citizens and viewers to call their congressional representatives and ask them to fund his wall in order to end what he called a cycle of suffering why do wealthy politicians build walls fences and gates around their homes they don't build walls because they hate that people on the but because

they love the people on the inside the wall has been a very big part of donald trump's political identity it was mentioned all throughout his presidential campaign and sense he's taken office building the wall we're building the world folks with 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 what would build the greatest one you have ever seen there was also a rebuttal from democratic party leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer they did respond to the president's remarks they accuse the president of engaging in quote government by temper tantrum and of holding the nation hostage there is expected to be a meeting between the president and the congressional leaders shortly and that will prosody clarify some of this but at the moment there seems to be a pretty big political gap in the united states with many people enthusiastically

supporting the president's call for a wall and many people in. the astley opposing it and the two not really seeing eye to eye on anything and not really being willing to compromise when it comes to the funding issue that american political commentator steve malzberg and former florida state democratic party chairman mitch says are differing views on trump's primetime address. he hit on every note and you know what's holding all this up you know it's just keeping the government shutdown and holding all this up is the fact that nancy pelosi says no wall not one penny that's not negotiating this was a purely political attempt to help his sagging poll numbers where sixty three percent of the people in america now say they don't want the war and they want to turn back on his statements about mexico is still going to pay for the wall because of tariffs that's nonsense we're lowering the tariffs would be less money coming in it's exactly the opposite almost every democrat including schumer voted for a fence

a few years ago with obama and love the fence and make speeches about how they need a wall obama made speeches about it now it's immoral because it's trump who wants it so please trump will declare a national emergency reopen the government take the funding from the military and guess what the democrats won't like that either so nothing donald trump could do that won't negotiate with them any movie makes it good to criticize so you know it is what it is that's the political reality today when i think backs of times of presidents democrat or republican who asked for national time like candy during the cuban missile crisis or obama when we killed osama bin ladin or bush with nine eleven those were real national situations the problem is is that when we have a real national crisis two thirds of this country will not believe president trump based on all his past behavior. and it's turn attention back across the atlantic now where british politicians and journalists are running

a gauntlet of public disapproval on their way to work activists frustrated with the handling of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. have been turning up increasingly side parliament to confront peace including one high profile incident this week polly political brings us more in the. meet an a super e she's a conservative politician and a vocal opponent of bragg's it but this week some of her opponents came to westminster and got more vocal than her. right political or you know if you were offended by wireless i just think this is astonishing this is this is what has happened to our country something has happened the debate over how britain's departure from the e.u. should look or whether it should take place until now has turned rather ugly this is the palace of westminster is where british politicians work and the area around it is a public street as you can see anybody can walk down here there can be demonstrators

as well and it's not unusual on any given day to see a politician maybe a member of parliament or even a senior minister simply walk out of here and towards abingdon green here where they might be taking part in a t.v. debate or an interview but that practice is increasingly under threat as the atmosphere here turns increasing in times over the impending gregg's that day and the fact that there is no agreed plan of action in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interviews. that you are going to do to win it and the politicians aren't the only ones getting abuse from agitated members of the public sky news anchor kay burley was heckled by pro brags that protestors while live on air. love her work for the world. brotherhood and owen jones a leftwing journalist and author was taunted by

a group of right wing protesters i believe everything to go with whatever comes right surely this situation outside parliament has now become an issue for parliament to deal with i must tell you to the house that it is. frankly in total if members of parliament and journalists. go about their business in fear. this situation cannot stand over sixty politicians have written a letter to london's chief of police warning of the deteriorating security situation around parliament and demanding better protection some of the systems have said that a certain degree of abuse or heckling simply comes of the territory of being a elected politician or just a public figure in a functioning democracy but the police here now have the rather difficult task of

balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. the british study on the root causes of radicalization has shown that feelings of social exclusion and isolation are among the main computing factors one of the researchers behind the study told us they wanted to understand what pushes people over the edge. every time there's a terrorist attack for everyone to terrorist there are dozens of sympathizers who do not go over the edge of violence so what we want to do was find some people who basically had super peace with some of these oh you do these movements that are championed by jarvis causes but are not yet going over the edge of lengths and want to see what pushes a sympathizer into someone who might be more ready to act of violence and that's where our experiment came in we were looking at a variety of factors specifically the rule social exclusion people feel socially

excluded they're more likely to start sacrificing their non stupid values and once those values become sacred it's a very difficult point to persuade that person to negotiate with that person they're moving closer and closer towards the church so the main motivation was just let's try to combine the three graphic research survey research in neuroscience all together so that was the motivation well let's just talk through how this came about a group of thirty eight young muslim men living in iran barcelona who sympathize with radical jihadist ideology said green to undergo tests their brains were standouts they played a computer game that simulates social exclusion researchers concluded that the men were far more likely to attach a sacred status to some issues that were not so important to them before going all the way to seeing them worth caring for. well the study claims to dispel common conceptions that poverty religious conservatism or even psychosis are the main

contributing factors to radicalization nothing again sais that there are all of the other external factors should not be underestimated. people are somehow thinking we're saying that. social exclusion is the only reason for white people radicalized that's absolutely not true radicalization is a complex system with many factors coalescing together feel discriminated against can be a triggering event many people who go and carry an act of violence when you ask them what was the triggering event that made you go i'm going to get out of my house and carry out an act of terrorism is usually because i experienced some discrimination that's not to discount the rule of the recruiter or the rule of radicalizing narratives or the rule of foreign policy. alone or was to get a foothold in certain areas but this is one crucial thing at the community level that i think policymakers should be more focused on a german politician beaten unconscious on monday regains his consciousness we hear

from him after the break. you know world's big partners. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when we all make this manufacture consent to the public well. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room. while come back to the program british opposition m.p. is all mission to find out how a u.k. anti propaganda group and its parent organization operate his party and its leader have allegedly been targeted by the government funded integrity initiative the group betrays itself as a tool to counter dissent from ation a malign foreign influence chris williamson shares his findings in today's going

underground on r.t. well it's not a figment of imagination. and this organization definitely exists the these lists exist we know the they swung into operation for example into. was the preferred candidate for the spanish director of homeland security has written to the spanish wives wrote to the spanish prime minister about this because one earth is a state funded british state funded organization doing interfering in the internal governmental appointments in a fellow european democracy this is an absolute democratic outrage and therefore a little bit troubled and surprised frankly that we're not seeing any real people in the the mainstream media in this country there's been a passing reference on the b.b.c. to this issue of the the government ministers seem to be trying their very best to close this story down saying there's no truth in it completes or fabrication and so on but we know from the documents we know as well from my own sort of

investigations and visit to the in stupid state i want to hear about what was it like what you went to the registered address of the institute whether to their return addresses they have a registered address in scotland and it's at the end of this remote dirt track actually it was the dead of night when we arrived there and it was rather spooky i've got to say and when i reached the end of the truck i was confronted with this derelict mill there wanted to lights all in a couple of the units there and did speak to some of the people who had businesses located in the at the mill they'd never heard of the introduced a craft one of them said he'd got it mention something that was in the newspaper about some shady organization based in which the village close by but that was as much as he knew about it then went to their offices in london just the temple station and then on this is a state funded organization bearing in mind as well i am a member of parliament here and therefore because we were being stonewalled by

minister. as in terms of the written palm and true questions and indeed the oral questions that we that we tabled on the floor of the house of commons of it will try and ask questions directly to the organization if they can clarify anything and i was met with a very hostile reception i mean shouted out the door slammed in my face now for an organization which is receiving nearly two and a half million pounds in the last eighteen months from the government in this country to the taxpayer from the taxpayer absolutely to treat a member of parliament in that way. poses a number of questions as. well just staying with this story fresh leaks suggests that integrity initiative has been discussing plans to country russian and chinese propaganda by getting the film industry on board it was earlier claim the group had a team of journalists and academics working to tackle alleged russian distin for me

by manipulating the media if a tranquil investigates were a good film turned into propaganda. we've shown you papers that could shed light on how taxes paid by people in this country may be used to stop what russia is up to there and way beyond by all means a freshly leagues memo could help clarify the very means we'll need to go beyond old style military rumps and get entertainment out puts the draw out the nature of twenty first century conflict diffuse across society without clear boundaries at times. for now no one can say for sure who wrote it but this very false title bears the name victoria darrow he's a leading researcher at the parent body of integrity initiative and his name has been seen in earlier leaks anyway the author whatever it really was once to get as many of the elements of the entertainment industry as possible on board all in

a bid to deal with all that propaganda from authoritarian strongholds i.e. russia china and others and the how to use segment he suggests that experts should articulate how u.s. and other global entertainment powerhouses can improve and coordinate so that output messaging converges to boast a shared democratic values but with locally relevant content. see it's ok to feed people propaganda through movies t.v. shows music as long as it's the right propaganda let's read further into the paper it would be a grave oversight so i feel to focus exclusively on the usa the five eyes countries the u.s. u.k. canada australia and new zealand have unrivaled influence let's not forget other cool players worldwide even russian and chinese entertainment communities should

not be out of bounds for western support for example the fantastic russian film leviathan hold on leviathan that was the movie that beat the hell out of corrupt russian state and church officials. the fact is more than a third of its budget came from russia's government hoops hasn't the western entertainment industry already been drawing a backwards or even evil eminence of russia for decades. simple yes hold a. little bit over. from this day forward you'll come spend. weekends in a global struggle for power well if that's not enough it might be up to the u.k.

foreign office to spend some of its cash on making directors come up with scarier stuff that's of course if the leak files are real. an update on a story we've been speaking of but yesterday a politician from the alternative for germany party who was violently beaten up on monday evening has regained consciousness he described for us they attack in the city of braman that sent shock waves through the country's political sphere. i was at a new function organized by the way as a korean newspaper i love the point to shortly before six and went to the car park to my car i took a shortcut through an area i don't really like that was a mistake so i went through the square next to the city theater normally no people them the only people were the way brits were loading their car i went past the around thirty meters away so came the point at which i was knocked unconscious when

i came round i realized i was lying in the street and someone was shaking my asking if my wallet and mobile phone were still in me that person then prop me against the wall block was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance. frank mike not speaking to our table with more in the story i'm joined by artist paula slayer who's in the german capital hi there paula what her of the police had to say in the case. well the investigation is still ongoing the incident itself happened on monday evening in the northern german city of women and as you heard there mr frank magnet sixty six year old politician from the far right alternative for germany party a if he had just accepted endo call theater where he had attended a new year's celebration he was making his way home when he was attacked by three unknown assailants now those three men are still at large mr magnet is still in hospital where he has been but covering from a serious head wound now this is not the first time that members of the a if

a if he has been threatened with violence but certainly this brutal assault marks a new low in that level of violence. are sustained to bone deep laceration to mark for it interest to my left. one of the labor three individuals had been walking behind me for some time so they were conspicuous because they were wearing who this with covering their faces i didn't see them. now despite mr magnet's version of events the police have published the first results of their investigation they've been talking to eyewitnesses and they've been looking at surveillance material which they say contradicts the claims that there was some kind of wooden being the instrument or object that was used instead they say what happened is that he was followed by two men from behind there was a third man behind them they then attacked him and as he fell to the ground they fled the scene now the incident has been denounced by politicians across the german

political spectrum there's also been a statement that has been issued by the f.t. parliamentary caucus and they have called this an assassination attempt saying that part of the blame must be borne by mainstream politicians and the media you know where with what comes from that investigation policy or live in berlin this hour thank you. well that's your midweek news around up for now i'll be here in just over thirty with all the latest updates but in moments it's time for another great or two program to stay with us if you care. the bones. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to.

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you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. the most important moments are when the principals of the foreign minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and young just into the third huge actually and have to say what you think. us events. and to come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense office says we're going to act and destroy the governments and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with

their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for. this is a story of one of africa's giants. know his teeth that shot. on his neck isn't that a long. list giant is rather modest and keeps a low profile that's not him either. people are often scared of this particular

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