this is. a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the. public .

consciousness he's been speaking to our. international news center here in moscow this is our. president used his first televised address from the oval office to call for his controversial us mexico border wall he stopped short of national emergency in order to secure the billions of dollars needed but kept the government shutdown in place which is now into a nine day minutes after his speech democratic leaders hit by accusing demagoguery

on holding the country to ransom. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump must have 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 to kill a bubba no takes a closer look at home trumps the months for

a wall have left the republicans and democrats have an impulse be 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 die. trump's political identity 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 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 now offering differing views on trump's primetime address former florida state democratic party chairman mitch cesar on american political commentator steve malzberg first. 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 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 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 they won't negotiate with them and he will be makes are going 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. and moving on british politicians journalists are running a gauntlet of public disapproval on their way to work activists frustrated at the

humbling of the u.k.'s exit from the european union have been turning up increasingly in parliament to confront and piece including the 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 are 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 interview. that you are going to lose a minute 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 world the world. brotherhood and owen jones a left wing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters i believe everything began with. her

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 didn't total members of parliament and 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 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 here now have the rama difficult task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others

including mine. while the u.k. historian adel darwish to list it is important that different opinions on debate be celebrated and supported across british life 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 rows confronting each other but what's new is now a 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 again journalist are to blame for playing this round rather than actually serious minded people say they're women we can always have fun we can always sort of tried to ridicule each other's ideas but we've been civilised

with a now it's a school aged beyond actually any mission and that's a lesson for everybody that you should not law when you opponents be very really 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 insulted. the european union has expressed anger over a diplomatic don't grade for its officials in washington this is no way to treat partners especially as neither the u. high representative nor the u.n. ambassador was formally notified of this change as would be expected on to customer diplomatic practice. well the change became a part into the e.u. washington and the funeral of george w. bush when the usual pecking order of those being seated was altered traditionally the u.s. state department calls up the longest serving officials first with the e.u.

david o'sullivan expected to be amongst one of the earliest called he wasn't. picks up the story of a seemingly growing divide in the u.s. really. miss 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 of 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 swap 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 by president. he has realized that if you knew that. 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 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. ok to

speak about let's try and answer some of those queries because we're joined live in the program by greek member of the european parliament. welcome to you why do you think the trumpet ministration decided to snub the e.u. like this. well you know i'm not surprised because the president. can know that this than anything about to multicultural our societies he only see the things black and white and then he only cares about the money you know he can understand that the issue for european union that the countries they were fighting each other with. tens of thousands ten million beds and you know casualties now there are states there are discussing the over a table i don't think he has an idea very very clear idea what carbon the in

europe during the first in the second world war you know so i'm not i'm not surprised that he took this the decision what surprised me and it's very improper if you like is the way that it has it has been done you know because even enemies i mean when they're having people or not i'm a diplomatic relations. informal each other this was done in a very brutal way and this reflects the cards are and the taxes of the administration i'm afraid yes so brussels sees it wasn't informed of the dying great do you think it will hit back can it hit back. no i don't think the. european union in this. state of affairs. you know. fight back.

very efficiently you know what the lesson we are learning even from this event but also other surveys you just mostly are in europe or thousand about the different hostile aggressive declarations of bush's administration up of the tribes of these regimes officials they listen to what i learned is that we have to be more united who we have to to to to to be together and what i'm saying together the whole of europe in-grown including russia and including great great britain that she wants to now there are having a problem now live in the the. european union we are confident and we must be united as a continent to confront new challenges. mainly after a time of unused grayson is doing the things nobody can predict really is anymore

you know year he's messed with mr turmel unfortunately he's completely but the couples tell us what are the chances do you think the trouble is going to change course and reinstate the previous diplomatic status. whether this is the most or is temporarily suspended yes probably it will it will it will be there that will go back to be there they are not going to you know to implement this. this measure but that this is not the problem you know that the real problem is that is that we are covering a lot of things one after the other of the the troubled ministration things a gray suit against. against anybody he thinks a certain moment he does not want you know now he he does not want the european

union because his if he sees you appear you to trade on the goodies then. then he has the same problem that we are now. tomorrow we'll hear he recovered over the rossiya nobody knows you know he changed his mind i mean he was talking about the syria and they would through all he change his mind after a telephone call with the president of the grant of turkey no i mean you you can't expect anything coming from washington thank you an hour of the european parliament stelly escalade we live in the program thank you. a german politician beaten badly on monday regains consciousness we hear from him after the break.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. that's it right to the press this is what the forty three of them all can't be good . interested always in the waters about how. to sit. the most important moments are when the principals the minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and young just the needs of the three you'd actually. have to say what you think.

twenty minutes into the program welcome back a member of the alternative for germany party who was violently beaten up on monday evening house regain consciousness he described for us the attack that really sent shock waves through the country's political spear. i was at a new 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 i went through the square next to the city theater there are normally no people them the only people that were the two laborous who 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 a wall block was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance. frank my going speaking earlier to our table police had initially called the attack politically motivated with party colleagues of mr magnus describing it as quote a dark day for democracy however the investigation has a new lead 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 magnet's 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 me 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 an assassination attempt saying that part of the blame must be borne by mainstream politicians and the media. the russian lawyer at the center of collusion claims in the twenty sixteen us presidential election has been charged with obstructing justice in a separate case we'll tell you vessel in the sky is. wanted in america overallocation she was involved in a money laundering scheme. which are in the details hi nicky what exactly are we learning about this case. well tell us on this guy is in the news again this time with charges over this civil case being brought against her she's of course well known after she became named as the key person of interest by special counsel robert muller and his probe into suspected russian interference in the two thousand

and sixteen u.s. election all centered on that now infamous meeting which took place at trump tower between a vessel at sky and donald trump which was alleged to have been aimed at dishing the dirt on hillary clinton ahead of the elections however vessel in its sky has stated time and time again that that particular meeting had nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with politics that's what it's got has been bombarded with accusations of being a kremlin stooge of working for the russian government something she has continuously denied and two years on investment is back in the spotlight again this time facing charges of obstruction of justice and yet another case involving russia and the us she said to have made a false and misleading declaration to the judge overseeing that twenty fifteen case by stating that she had no she had not participated in the drafting of the russian

government's response to the u.s. request for records however u.s. investigators have since then uncovered e-mails which appear to contradict that claim. talking to a russian channel earlier said she had yet to know the full details of these charges but sees the charges as an attempt to discredit her and the u.s. may have a number of reasons may they why they may want to do that. organ. i think all of this aimed at preventing me from carrying out my professional activities in a way that doesn't suit the u.s. it's maybe connected to the magness character corruption in congress and the judicial system and my knowledge of information that they don't want to be made public. but the indictment was unsealed on tuesday will be following all the twists and turns of this case along the way yeah thanks very much for talking us through all about nuclear. no i never house a rot in tanzania being so in crossing i promise you that isaac the story of

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