i. i. this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the. televised address from the oval office. if you were.

running down my face. with the program. the president has used his first televised address from the oval office to call for funds for his controversial us mexico border war he stopped short of declaring a national emergency though in order to try to secure the billions of dollars needed but kept the government shutdown in place it's now into its nineteenth day minutes after his speech democratic leaders hit back accusing trump of demagoguery and holding the country to rems democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump mustapha holding nothing 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 kaleb open next here's a closer look at how donald trump's demands for a wall of with republicans and democrats. heard the highly anticipated prime time address from the president of the united states donald trump now in this 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 men 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 an 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 put 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 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 was going to be beautiful it's going to be a one year mission 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 you know wolf some of the sort of this divide former florida state democratic party chairman mitch sees an american political commentator steve

different views on trump's primetime address he hit on every note and you know what's holding all this up you know it's shit 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 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 . statements about mexico 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 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. british politicians and journalists really go into public disapproval on the way to his for straight to leave the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. putting up increasingly outside parliament to confront peace directly including a high profile instance 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 one of a color 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 on 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 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 didn't total 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 the systems of 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. yuko story darwish told this is important the different opinions and the baby celebrated in support of the cross british like. we have always been divided as a society all 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 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 try 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. a member of ill turn

to germany party was violently beaten up among the evenings we're going consciousness we can report he describes for us the attack that sent shock waves through the country's political sphere. i was it a near function organized by the way as a career 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 there were 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 around i realized i was lying in the street and someone was shaking maman 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 an ambulance i was from and it speaking earlier to

police that initially called the politically motivated with party colleagues of mr magnus describing it as a dark day for democracy but investigation hasn't yielded anything conclusive sinister establish whether or not politics did play a role artie's paulus lee has been following the latest developments in this. 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 d. have been threatened with violence but certainly this brutal assault marks a new low in that level of violence. are sustained bone deep lacerations.

injuries to my left knee one of the way brazil 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 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 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.

your opinions expressed anger over a diplomatic don't grow officials in washington this is no way to treat darkness especially as neither the u. high representative nor the u.n. ambassador. was formally notified of this change as would be expected on the customer of diplomatic practice well they became apparent to the use washington ambassador at the funeral of george h.w. bush recently when the usual pecking order of those being seated was on to the bit traditionally the u.s. state department calls it the longest serving officials first with the e.u.'s david o'sullivan expected them to be among one of the earliest to be called the twist was he wasn't artesia difference he picks up the story of a seemingly growing divide in the u.s. relations 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 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 for

a president trump he has realized that if you need a hoping. you will find one on the d. 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 arena 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 so harmless hosting blunder or something more sinister more complicated here well let's get the views of independent member of european parliament for the parliament for southeast england john i can send hate janet what is going on here was it just literally a blunder you know somebody's got the invite cards in the wrong place always the more going on behind the scenes now i think deliberate policy because what you have

to remember is that. obama and his aides wrongly elevates you nation state status and so all trump is doing is actually actively reversing that so he's down rating them to international organizations status so second class status because he recognizes the importance of the nation state has to deal with the heads of government and not some supranational and succeed like the e.u. and also you know i met ambassador o'sullivan last year he's the e.u. ambassador to the u.s. and he has robbed us of a petulant self-important person sr i mean buying a das we need an ambassador they don't need an ambassador you are supranational international organization is the nation states they should be negotiating with president trump and he recognizes this seems the reaction as a whole has been fairly muted to this at the moment by the been some calls going on behind the scenes. i think we will see anything formal coming out of brussels

regarding this or not well no because they've been rather embarrassed about this is happening for a number of months now lazio to last or this week appealing to the newly elected democrats that they hate president trump and it hasn't gone down very well but be careful what you wish for i would say because ambassador david go salomon is no more he was on a rap sheet and he staged be replaced was a full with a former greek our minister a socialist and human rights lawyer. is the last time the ambassador because of the human rights issues and in distaste at the moment in building that wall and trump should not in the name be built the wall so that they're storing up more trouble so they're getting their own back in some ways and they are already being obstructionist because they finally last summer in points in it and he you have called gordon sunderland and he reckons that he says they're open and clouds regulating hearts contents and regulating some things that don't even need

regulating that they have never thought of yet and so they use calling him obstructionist so that's what the only person of interest to second so he would go less than a minute but what is the state of relations at the moment between the e.u. as a whole and america is it all rocky ground or is this really overblowing it. i think it's washington reasserting itself and saying that they're the suit power and you have to deal with us and i think it's to do with trade as well and washington is saying we deal with the nation state we do what the sovereign nation states we won't deal with you he's also i would say say it's about nato because they're not paying their fair juice and the u.k. is so it's a bit of a basket of we'll see you wants its own army personnel or shiny new buildings i'm president trying to say we've already got that in the form of nato so you know he's laid down the gauntlet so that they really actually don't know where to go. it

actions coming up in may so significant the estimates are that they're expected to lose about fifty percent of their seats so. you're going to have a whole new nation states and peoples to deal with always sort of watching comment on journey circulus in the independent member of the european parliament for southeast england thank you for joining us online media time server thank you for being with us to twenty past moscow time still to come a decades old dispute between japan and russia is back in the spotlight with the japanese ambassador to russia now being summoned to moscow tell you all about it when we come back.

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

again so the clock ticking down on those breaks in the go british promise of trees a maze again but struggling to get a foothold for a deal in parliament wednesday is said to be voted on next week of course for the details let's go across to london our season cross. so teams may still hoping in peace will get beyond a deal but it sounds as though she's been dealt yet another blow earlier. well yes kevin you know it's twenty nineteen the year when bragg's it is finally supposed to kick in after over two years of torture and negotiations and where we are now is less than three months away from that march twenty ninth deadline and it's quite clear that which she brags that is going to be taking continues to be anyone's guess with uncertainty and really still reigning over westminster now we saw at the first prime minister's questions at the house of commons today to reset may was traditionally grilled by those opposing her deal but she continues to insist that it's still the best deal possible despite being met with quite

a lot of resistance. just prime minister has been read to see wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threat of no deal in a desperate attempt to blackmail m.p.'s to vote for hopelessly unpopular deal he opposes any deal that the government is negotiating with the european union the prime minister says it's the only deal of the ball if that is the case why wasn't it put to a vote on december the eleventh. why is that it to five weeks on this deal is dead is the deadest. president anymore dignities can this prime minister in june before she realizes that she is the biggest part of this problem and for that she just. last month of course if you remember theresa may had already had to postpone a meaningful vote on her deal to avoid facing the humiliation of

a defeat because it was clear that her deal would not pass in the house of commons now that vote again is supposed to take place next week on tuesday january fifteenth and now this wednesday was the first day or five days of a quite heated debate taking place again at the house of commons on bragg's it with accusations flying around including directed at this speaker of the house who is meant to be impartial on this whole issue. we've all noticed in recent months a sticker in your car making derogatory comments about. this is a serious point about cost your honesty how do you drive a car with the stickers that sticker on the subject of bricks it happens to be affixed to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes i'm sure the owner move gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. there's

a wife is somehow the property or chattel to go. well meanwhile a new poll by changing europe think tank has found that as many as seventy percent of m.p.'s think recently did a bad job in terms of negotiating back that which of course is not a good sign for her ahead of this votes and we have to also keep in mind that just to d. m.p.'s had voted on an amendment which forces the government to bring forward a plan b. within three d. case to rescind means deal is rejected and it seems that many here in westminster believe that a plan b. if she does not have. close the water is now as expected to those to be said you've got a busy couple of weeks coming up later for the next year in london the thank you. other news to the russia's foreign affairs ministry some of the japanese buster

over statements coming from tokyo but the status of those disputed southern coral islands has got across this in your trunk is it one pick at all through this dispute been going on for a long time is that what's the latest fix it sounds like it's wrapped up again well first of all the paradox is that russia and japan are still technically at war there has been no peace agreement since world war two and when nazi germany and their allies japan back then were defeated the. this group of tiny islands one thousand kilometers north of tokyo became russian territory territory administered by russia under international law japan though still considers the islands it's all well and sorry so what really annoyed the russian diplomats here was some of the things that the japanese prime minister just said shinzo abi told japanese t.v. that tokyo has no intention to resettle the russians that are living on the islands

that's a rather quirky thing to say given the fact that the islands are still administered by russia and also it's about tokyo's idea to drop all kinds of discussions on issues surrounding possible compensation issues when it comes to this island this of you who is ramping up of some of it what was the message do we know only about the actual message that was delivered to the japanese and busta them here in moscow well it's the russian take that hasn't changed for ages the russian foreign ministry says that any discussions on the faith of the south coral islands should be based and rather must be based on japan accepting the outcomes of the second world war so let's take a listen to what else came from the russian ministry of foreign affairs. it is possible to solve the problems associated with the peace treaty if a quality really new atmosphere is created in russian japanese relations this should be supported by the peoples of both countries and based on tokyo's

unconditional recognition of all the outcomes of world war two including the sovereignty of the russian federation over the south korea islands. well all of this is also very interesting because the leaders of russia and japan are real friends now vladimir putin and shinzo abi they meet several times a year and that's why all this discussion has rather escalated now come their friends but there's no peace agreement and there's still this dispute that's why in this context all this is really becoming very difficult their friends but the island dispute still there now the ambassador has been summoned let's see how the rattles some speed on that one million correspond thank you for watching as well as twenty eight minutes past nine at night this is our international programs in your part of the world now.

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