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. by continuing the government shutdown. also ahead on the program british m.p.'s journalists face said. it was frustrated members of the public come from parliaments that. if you were offended by this i think this is. a member of. germany party who was brutally beaten up on monday evening regain consciousness he's spoken

to are. on the help you received from bystanders that person then dropped me against a wall was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance. every hour of the day. international company. top story president used his first televised address from the oval office to call for funds for his controversial us mexico border wall he stopped short of declaring a national emergency in order to discuss screw the billions of dollars needed but kept the government shutdown in place. entered a nineteen day minutes after his speech democratic leaders head back accusing trump of demagoguery and holding the country to run. democrats in congress have refused

to acknowledge the crisis president mustapha holding nathen 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 will kill them up and takes a closer look now at how trump's demands for a wall have left the republicans and democrats of an impulse be heard the highly

anticipated primetime 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 mimes 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 trump's political identity it was mentioned all

throughout his presidential campaign and census taker. office 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 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 plenty of reaction to speech former florida state

democratic party chairman mitch caesar american political come to her steve malzberg had differing views on trump's prime time 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 you saying poll numbers where sixty three percent of the people in america now say they don't want the wall 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 to 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 and he will be makes it 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 based on all his past behavior. 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 european union have been turning up increasingly outside parliament to confront m.p.'s including

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 of action in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interviews. that you are going to lose it when it comes to 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 i believe everything going with. the coverage surely this situation outside parliament has now become an issue for parliament to

deal with i must say to the house that it is frankly didn't totally 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 this nation's i've 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 now have the rama difficult task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. while you can historian commentator adel darwish told us it's

important that different opinions on debate be celebrated and supported across british society. we have always been divided as a society our politics is divided our courts are divided if you look at our parliament it's actually two groups confronting each other but what you is now is 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 would say there women we can always how far we can always sort of try to ridicule each other's ideas but it would be civilised with a now it's a school it'd be your actually. mission and that's

a lesson for everybody that you should not law when you ordinance the verb really at that 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 insulted. a member of the alternative for germany party who was violently beaten up on monday evening has regained consciousness he described for us the attack in the city of braman the sense shock waves through the country's political spear. i was it a near 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 run 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 round 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 the wall block was running down my face someone called the police and ambulance frank my dad speaking to r t well party colleagues of his were quick to call the attack clinically motivated describing it as quote a dark day for democracy however the investigation has a new live anything conclusive to establish whether or not politics played a role in it artie's paulus leader 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 more 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 an 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 most of the men more plus plenty more of this short as the phrase. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final.

the one percent. we can all middle of the room say. 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 justin the two you actually. have to say what you think.

sixteen minutes into the program welcome back the european union has expressed its anger over a diplomatic dying grade for european officials in america to the u.s. congress this is no way to treat partners especially as neither the u. high representative nor the young was formally notified of this change as would be expected on to customer diplomatic practice. the change became a party to the washington ambassador and the funeral of george h.w. bush when the usual pecking order of those being seated had been altered traditionally the u.s. state department called the longest serving officials first with the use david o'sullivan expected to be amongst one of the earliest to be called or to show devinsky picks up the story of possible changes afoot in u.s. relations and this comes as you say it 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 e.u. ensuring that interests of 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 slack on tariffs to products that it imports from the european union so all of this is quite difficult for 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.

but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful. he has realized that if you knew that. you will find around at the end of your. well that statement was back in may of two thousand and eighteen after the u.s. decided that it was going to withdraw from the a rainy and 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. researchers in the u.k. claim to have demonstrated that exclusion from society is one of the key drivers of radicalisation amongst young muslim men one of the new studies called authors told

us their goal was to understand what pushes people towards violence. every time it is a terrorist attack for everyone to terrorists 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 suit of peace with some of the oh you believe movements that are championed by jarvis causes but are not yet going over the edge of lengths and want to see what pushes the super closer into someone who might be more ready to act violent 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 separately they're not 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 to it. so the main motivation was just let's try to

combine ethnographic research survey research in neuroscience all together so that was the motivation. of a group of thirty eight young muslim men living in iran barcelona with fundamentalist leanings agreed to undergo test their brains were scanned they played a computer game but simulated their exclusion from a social group 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 as worth killing for in the study claims to dispel common conceptions that poverty religious conservatism or even psychosis are the main contributing factors to radicalization nothing again ses than the role of other external factors still should not be underestimated. we are somehow thinking we're saying that. 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 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 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 or the rule of paul were. allowed to get a foothold in certain areas but this is one of the crucial thing at the community level a because you make a should be more focused. israel security service is denying claims it violated the rights of five jewish teenagers suspected of involvement in the murder of a palestinian woman three months ago the victim. was a forty seven year old mother of eight she was in a car with her husband and daughter in the west bank when she was hit in the head by a stone her husband described the scene. if l.

like an explosion on the car windows smashed my car swerved and my wife fell on to me blood was coming out of her nose and here is my little daughter was crying for her mother for a few seconds i couldn't understand what had happened but then i regained control of the car and called nonviolence they told me to keep driving and we could get to the hospital in thirty five to forty minutes i kept driving and when i got there they told me she was already dead. the family are still coming to terms with their loss spike in october palestinian president mahmoud abbas invalid that the crime would not go on punished however the suspect's lawyer claimed that the teenagers were in her a gated excessively. as we have asserted from the start our clients are not connected in any way to the case the shin bet security is so this had no evidence connecting the suspects to the act. the israel security service says the youngsters are suspected of terror offenses including murder it. evidence

points to what it calls radical mt zion as characteristics of the suspects the security service is accused of using extraordinary methods against the teens so as administrative the tension and delaying their access to lawyers such methods are normally reserved for palestinians accused of terrorism next on the program name or m.p. chris williamson discusses the new leak shedding a light on u.k. anti propaganda organization integrity and mission of his plan to influence the film industry that's in going underground and it starts in moments. you know world big partisan movie 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 smart 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. what is happening with trunks decision to leave syria and are you ready for the twenty twenty presidential sweepstakes also is there any integrity in the integrity and mission. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of

their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them 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 for an easy miss for. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. too great to be a person this is what the four three in the morning can't be. i'm interested always in the water. should.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. time after time here we're back with a brand new season of going underground as european commission president convenes e.u. commission is in brussels appearing to hold the fate of teresa mayes u.k. government in his hands coming up on the show straight out of the cold war playbook

we are asking labour's former minister for communities and local government chris williamson why there is mainstream media silence on revelations that nato my five six on the u.k. foreign office sold to manipulate elections in the usa and across europe and. threaten the french republic we look back at another figure it is the same with wash westmoreland who often directing the oscar winning film still alice the life of one of fronts is most subversive novelists collect for the news find out why the british army is going big game hunting as a u.s. back for making tracks from syria all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first to our top story of the new year more revelations of a shadowy alleged conspiracy involving nato the u.k. foreign office and british intelligence to distort public perception of the world around them the integrity initiative as. been identified in the past few weeks by the purported anonymous organizational collective which released this video on you

tube brickell has in fact created a large scale information secret service in europe the united states and canada which consists of representatives of political military academic and journalistic communities with a think tank in london at the head of it as part of the project britain has time and again intervened into domestic affairs of independent european states leaks about the alleged british government conspiracy concerned direct corruption in spain but from measures activity in the bernie sanders u.s. election campaign to a concerted plan of action against this t.v. channel r.t. drazen ways government appears to have been involved in a covert destabilization strategy that knows no borders britain is capable of conducting such operations in the following states spain france germany italy greece the netherlands live through india norway serbia and montenegro london's near term plans to create similar clusters include latvia estonia portugal sweden

belgium canada armenia ukraine moldova malta czechia countries of the middle east and north africa poland slovakia rumania belgariad georgia hungary cyprus austria switzerland turkey finland iceland denmark and the usa joining me now is one of german corbin's close as parliamentary allies chris williamson has raised the issue of the integrity initiative in the smearing of the left in britain in the house of commons because they are coming back on so why do you believe aside from the focus obviously on bricks of the mainstream media just isn't particularly interested in your concerns about a taxpayer funded organization but that's a very good question and one wonders whether or not these clusters of journalists who are apparently associated with the integrity initiative has any. thing to do with it because there are a number of people who have been named problem journalists have been named in the

documents which have been released one has to ask the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scandal actually and you know reminded of the operation mockingbird that was in existence in the united states it was launched i think in the early one nine hundred fifty s. at the height of the cold war and wasn't really properly exposed until the one nine hundred seventy s. i think it was the church report without actually you know highlights of this scandal that been taking place where you know the cia were effectively paying journalists to put out you know propaganda effectively and misleading stories and this is very troubling i mean you know we value a free press in this country don't we i think it's really important for the you know we're confident that you know people aren't in the pale volved some shady organization in fairness to some.