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 democrats see the nation. continuing the government shutdown. also ahead on the program british m.p.'s. members of the public parliament stores. like. you were offended by this is. a

member of the migrant. party who was brutally beaten. to regain consciousness he spoke to our. help he received from. me against. running down my face someone called the police an ambulance. a new brain study suggests that social exclusion is one of the main factors. i claimed researchers say runs counter to common. really just. around the clock across the world this is your r t international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story president used his first televised address from the oval office to call for for funds. his controversial

border wall he stopped short of that during a national emergency in order to secure the billions of dollars needed but house kept the government shutdown in place it's now entering a nine day minutes after his speech democratic leaders had accused in trump of demagoguery and holding the country to run. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump mustapha holding nothing people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis stoked 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. takes a closer look at how trumps the moans for a wall have left the republicans and democrats of an impasse 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 amen 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 the people on the but because they love the people on the inside the wall has been a very big part of donald. political identity was mentioned all throughout his presidential campaign and sense he's taken office building the wall with building the wall from the 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 what's going to be beautiful it's going to be what would build the greatest world 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 enthusiastically 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 as you might expect plenty of opposing views on this former florida state democratic party chairman mitch caesar and american political commentator steve malzberg for certain 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 will 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 they 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. since turn tension to the u.k. where british politicians and journalists are running a gauntlet of public disapproval on their way to work activists frustrated at the humbling of the ukase exit from the e.u. i've been turning up increasingly in parliament to confront and piece into doing a high profile incident this week. meet on a subaru 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 election in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interviews. that you are going to lose if you 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. rather her part of the world.

brotherhood and owen jones a left wing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters believed 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 couldn't tell. if the members of parliament. lists. 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 this nation's have said that a certain degree of abuse or heckling simply because of the territory of being

a elected politician or just a public figure in a functioning democracy but the police here now have the rama difficult task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. polly boyko well you can historian commentator idel darwish told us it's important that different opinions on the bait be so a pretty unsupported across british society we have always been divided as a society politics is divided. our courts are divided if you look at our parliament it's actually two groups confronting each other but what's new is now you have a generation of a very thin skinned snowflakes the whole are professionally insulted then you get also trying to exploit this division to put your point of view delay briggs's and

so on so so we are good journalists are to blame for playing this round rather than actually say we have i think you will see there women we can always have fun we can always sort of throw i to ridicule each other's ideas but we've been civilised with a now it's a school limited beyond actually any mission and that's a lesson for everybody that you should not log when you ordinance be virtually at the very be abused we should all stand up and say yes we have freedom of expression but also freedom to express our views without being assaulted. can update on a story we've been following throughout the week a member of the alternative for germany party who was violently beaten on monday evening has now regain consciousness he described for us the attack in the city of braman that sent shock waves through the country's political sphere. i was at the

new year function organized by the way as a korean newspaper i left the party shortly before six and went to the car park to my car i took a short cut through an area i don't really like and that was a mistake so i went through the square next to the city theater there are normally no people them the only people that were the road to laborous were loading their car i went bust them then run thirty meters away as still came the point at which i was knocked unconscious when i came around i realized i was lying in the street and someone was shaking mom and asking for my wallet and mobile phone were still in me that person done prop me against a wall block was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance or party colleagues of mr magnets were quick to call the politically motivated describing it as a dark day for democracy however the investigation hasn't he led anything conclusive to establish whether politics played any role artie's policy or has been following developments for us. 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 magnate sixty six year old politician from the far right alternative for germany party a if he had just accepted a local 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 recovering from a serious head wound now this is not the first time that members of the have been threatened with violence but certainly this brutal assault marks a new low in that level of violence. are sustained to bone deep lacerations. injuries to my left. one of the wave three individuals have been walking behind you for some time so they were conspicuous because they were. covering their faces i didn't see them now but despite mr magnets 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 or the instrument or object that was used instead they say what happened is that he was followed by two minutes 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 and assessing nation attempt saying that part of the blame must be borne by mainstream politicians and the media researchers in the u.k. claim to have identified the key cause of radicalization amongst muslims in we've got more on that later in the program.

the most important moments are when the principals the minister or the president actually ask your opinion when. you are on your own. you actually. have to say what you think.

sixteen minutes into the program welcome back on a par in dying grade in diplomatic status for european officials in the u.s. has seen washington roundly criticized over the manner in which the trump administration handled that the e.u. ses at no point wasn't notified its status had been dropped to an organization instead of a state and it only became known during the funeral of george h. w. bush and its letter to the u.s. congress brussels condemned washington's policies towards global partners. this is no way to treat pardons especially as neither the you high representative nor the

us was formally notified of this change as would be expected on the customer of diplomatic practice. for the latest details on this let's cross live to charlotte charlotte a new year but we're seeing a continued stream across the atlantic relations it seems. yes absolutely that emerged during the funeral of the former president george bush sr when david a sullivan who's the e.u.'s ambassador to the u.s. was expected to be fairly top of the list when it came to paying his respects it turns out he was at the very end raising eyebrows and leading the e.u. to realize that he had been demoted from the diplomatic list of precedents and accusations that that demotion has become permanent now r.t. has been in contact with the u.s. state department to get an answer to that but because of the shutdown in the u.s. we haven't received

a response and this comes as you say it's difficult juncture in the relations between the e.u. and the usa president trump has made no bones of his criticism of the e.u. suggesting at times that the body is just too bureaucratic and even more criticism was heaped on the e.u. when the secretary of state might pompei you recently visited brussels. even our european friends sometimes say we're not acting in the world's interest. is the you ensuring that intrusive countries and their citizens are placed before those bureaucrats here in brussels these are valid questions. the u.s. is also even threatened a trade war with the european union suggesting it wants to slap on tariffs to products that it imports from the european union so all of this is quite difficult for all of those relations now in terms of what the european union has said not very much the u.s.

of course is an important trading partner for the book but we did have some strong words from donald tusk last year. with friends like that. but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful by president. he has made us realize that if you knew that and. you will find at the end of your . well that statement was back in may of two thousand and eighteen after the us decided that it was going to withdraw from the a reigning in new clear accord and since then the e.u. has been pretty timid in the way that it is just scribe the administration of donald trump two thousand and eighteen a very difficult a rocky relationship between the two it seems that those transatlantic relationships are going to remain sour in two thousand and nineteen as well. speaking live from the french capital this hour. researchers in the

u.k. claim to have demonstrated that exclusion from society is one of the key drivers of radicalization amongst young muslim men one of the new studies co-authors told us their goal was to understand what pushes people from ideology reading about it towards violence. every time it is a terrorist attack for every one 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 language and want to see what pushes the super closer 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 of 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 go shit with that person they're moving closer and closer towards the edge so the main motivation was just let's try to combine ethnographic research survey research in neuroscience all together so that was the motivation well here's how it all came apart. a group of thirty eight young muslim men living in and around barcelona with fundamentalist leanings agreed to undergo tests their brains were scanned as they played a computer game that simulates their or exclusion from a social group researchers concluded that the men were far more likely to attach a quote sacred status to some issues that were not so important to them before hand going all the way to seeing them as worth killing for all the study claims to dispel common conceptions that poverty religious conservatism or even psychosis are

the main contributing factors to radicalization nothing again says that the world of other external factors still should not be underestimated people are somehow thinking we're seeing. social exclusion is the only reason for why people radical and that's absolutely not true radicalization is a complex system with many factors coalescing together 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 to carry an act of terrorism is usually because the experience of discrimination that's not to discount the rule of the recruiter all of radicalising narratives. allow us to get a foothold in certain areas but this is one crucial thing at the community level and should be more focused. a british opposition m.p. is on a mission to find out how a u.k.

anti propaganda group and its parent organization operate his party and its leader harve allegedly being targeted by the government funded integrity and initiative now the group are tres itself as a tool to kuntar dissent from ation on malign foreign influence chris williamson shares his findings in today's going underground programme on r.t. . well it's not a figment of imagination this organization definitely exists the these lists exist we know the they swung into operation for example into the. woods 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 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 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 . there was the two lights all in a couple of the units there and did speak to some of the people who had businesses located. at the mill they've 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 see it then went to their offices in london and just need a temple station on this is a state funded organization bearing in mind as well i am a member of parliament here and therefore big. we were being stonewalled by ministers in terms of the written palm and three questions and indeed the oral questions that we have that we tabled on the floor of the house of commons of that 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 experts from the taxpayer absolutely to treat a member of parliament in that way poses a number of questions as. well integrity initiative in turn

earlier admitted it's documents had been hacked and denied any type of activity with previous leaks claiming the group manipulated the media in order to tackle russian propaganda the new one suggest it has been discussing some new methods with the film industry now allegedly on board a tranquil investigates where a good movie 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 and 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 both the 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 supports 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 image of russia for decades.

with a. simple yes hold the. little bit. from this day forward you will become spend. tens include struggle for how 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 league files are real. stories look for this hour to remember updates by the minute quite literally on our twitter page this is our team international. what is happening with trump's decision to leave syria air are you ready for the

twenty twenty presidential sweepstakes also is there any integrity in the integrity and issues. u.s. veterans who 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 search for answers off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and 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 surely we can risk some discomfort or an easy for us.