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were offended by the. party was brutally. consciousness he's taken the time to speak to us. on the help he says he received from. me against a wall running down my face. first in the headlines. president trump 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 secure the billions of dollars needed but the government shutdown in place it is now into its nineteenth day after a speech democratic leaders hit back accusing trump of demagoguery and holding the

country to. ransome 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 donald trump demands for

a wall of left the republicans the democrats to. 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 don. 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 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 will people leave the sort of this divide florida state democratic party chairman mitch season and american political commentator steve malzberg they've go 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 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 you sagging poll numbers where sixty three percent of the people in america now say they don't want the war and they want to turn back on his statements about mexico is still going to pay for the wall because of tariffs that's nonsense we're lowering the tariffs would be less money coming in it's exactly the opposite almost every democrat including schumer voted for a fence a few years ago with obama and love the fence and make speeches about how they need a wall obama made speeches about it now it's immoral because it's trump who wants

it so. please trump will declare a national emergency reopen the government take the funding from the military and guess what the democrats won't like that either so not think donald trump to do that won't negotiate with them any movie makes a 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. also nine british politicians and journalists are running a gauntlet of public disapproval only way to work straight to the humbling of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. you've been turning up increasingly literally parliament to confront and pete

including one hundred profile incident this week meet on a super e. cheese 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 foot up early on if you were offended by the irish times i 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 it's where british politicians work and the area around it is a public street as you can see anybody can walk down here that 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 interview an. 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 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 was her birth and owen jones a left wing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters i believe everything to go with whatever it was i'm sure you know this situation outside parliament has now become an issue for

parliament to deal with i must tell you to the house that it is frankly in total if members of parliament and journalists. go about their business in fear. this situation cannot stand over sixty politicians have written a letter to london's chief of police warning of the deteriorating security situation around parliament and demanding better protection some of this nation's have said that a certain degree of abuse or heckling simply comes at the territory of being a elected politician or just a public figure in a functioning democracy but the police here now have the roman typical task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. and reporting that you can store not all dollars told this is

important he says that different opinions and 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 throw to ridicule each other's ideas but we've been civilised with a now it's a school aged beyond actually any mission and there's

a lesson for everybody that you should not law when you opponents be virtually at invariably abused we should all stand up and say yes we have freedom of expression but also freedom to express our views without being insulted. of course but the tick tock of the clock and have allowed the ticking down on breaks in the go see asians british promise the trees a may is again been struggling today to get a foothold for a deal in parliament is said to be voted on next week for all the details on this to sit in london. 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 writes it is going to be taking continues to be anyone's guess with uncertainty and chaos really still reigning over westminster now we saw at the first prime minister's questions at the house of commons today two recent me 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 the prime minister has been wrecked to see wasting time holding the country to ransom with a threat of no deal in a desperate attempt to blackmail m.p.'s to vote for who hopelessly unpopular do you think he opposes any deal that the government is negotiating with the european union the prime minister says that it's the only deal available if that is the case why wasn't it put to a vote on december the eleventh. why is that it july 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. just.

well the 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. supposed to take place next week on tuesday january fifteenth and now this wednesday was the first day of 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 out of 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 harsh reality how do you drive a car with the sticker 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 would gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. there's a wife is somehow the property or chattel. meanwhile a new poll by the u.k. in a changing europe think tank has found that as many as seventy percent of m.p.'s think theresa may did a bad job in terms of negotiating back that which of course is not a good sign for her ahead of this vote and we have to also keep in mind that just to d. m.p.'s have voted on an amendment which forces the government to bring forward a plan b. within three days in case to rescind may's deal is rejected and it seems that many here in westminster believe that a plan b. if she does not have. member of the alternative for germany party was violently beaten up among the evenings were going cold just as we can report tea describe for

us in detail the attack that sent shock waves through the country's political sphere. i was at a new function organized by the way as a korean newspaper i love the parties shortly before. six and went to the car park to my car i took a shortcut 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 past them then around 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 a wall block was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance like his politics are not allowed to go through front magnet speaking only to police the mission he called the attack politically motivated with party colleagues of mr magnet describing as

a dark day for democracy but the investigation hasn't yielded anything conclusive to establish whether or not politics did actually play a role in it artie's polis lee has been following developments. well the investigation is still ongoing the incident itself happened on monday evening in the northern german city of bremen 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 exited a local theater where he had attended a new year's celebration he was making his way home when he was attacked by three 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 laceration to my poor it injuries to my left knee one of the way bruce 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 and assessing nation attempt saying that part of the blame must be borne by mainstream politicians and the media. well the top story the european union's expressed anger over

a diplomatic don't grade it seems most groups officials in washington this is no way to treat barton's especially as neither the you ha represented. no the u.s. was formally notified of this change as would be expected on the customer a diplomatic practice so what apparently happened here became apparent to the washington ambassador the funeral recently of george h.w. bush when it seems the usual pecking order of those being seated was altered traditionally the u.s. state department calls it the longest serving official first with the e.u.'s david o'sullivan expected to be among one of the earliest to be called but the twist was wasn't r.t. shelob inskeep picks up the story of a seemingly growing divide that might be in e.u. u.s. relations. this comes as you say it's difficult juncture in the relations between the e.u. and the us a 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 i recently visited brussels even our european friends sometimes say we're not acting in the world's interest is the you 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 with friends. but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful by president trump

he has realized that if you knew that. you will find the d.n.a. of your. well that statement was back in may of two thousand and eighteen off to the us decided that it was going to withdraw from the iranian nuclear accord and since then the e.u. has been pretty timid in the way that it is just scribed 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 far the e.u. sort of downplay the significance of the latest spat a spokesperson for the block has stressed that despite policy disagreements transatlantic sties remains strong because some sort of independent and b.p. join as i can see on the side of all this she says though she thinks it's the us way of trying to reassert itself as a superpower. and if i wrongly elevates. nation

states status and so trump is doing is actually actively reversing that so he's he's down writing them to international organizations states us so second class status because he recognizes the importance of the nation state has to do with the heads of government and not some supranational and succeed like the e.u. i think it's washington reasserting itself and saying that they're the suit power and you have to deal with us i think it's to do with trade as well washington is saying we deal with the nation states we do what the sovereign nation states we won't deal with you he's also i should say about night so because they're not paying their fair juices and ate the u.k.'s so it's a bit of a classic we'll see you want to know me a person our shiny new buildings and president trump to say we've already got that in the fourth mate so. russia's foreign affairs ministry has some of the japanese ambassador over statements coming from tokyo about the status of the disputed

southern carrillo islands with more on the latest flare up to the to come true silly put trying to the paradox is that russia and japan are still technically at war there's been no peace agreement since world war two when nat c. germany and their allies japan were defeated a group of tiny islands that are just one thousand kilometers north of tokyo became territory administered by russia under international war japan though still considers the olens there and so what really annoyed the russian diplomats was some of what the japanese prime minister just said since you are being told japanese t.v. that tokyo has no intention to resettle the russians living on the island which is a rather quirky statement given that we heard nothing close to. to that decision for a handover and the olens are still russian territory it was also about tokyo's idea

to drop all discussions on issues surrounding possible compensations so first of all we know that one of surrogate lavrov step bts told the japanese ambassador in moscow that any discussions on the fate of the south coral islands must be based on japan's acceptance of the outcomes of the second world war here's more of what russian officials had to say such statements grossly distort the essence of the agreements between the leaders of russia and japan on speeding up the negotiating process based on one thousand nine hundred fifty six joint declaration and misinform the public of the two countries about the content of the negotiations such statements can only be interpreted as an attempt to deliberately magnify the problems of a peace treaty and impose on the other side his own scenario for a sense women's the south korean are really

a thorny issue but nowadays it may seeing that russia and japan have never been closer to sorting out the issue of lot of our putin and shinzo i call each other friends they need several times a year but these kind of diplomatic scuffles really aren't helping the process. between the united states and turkey's growing over america's troop withdrawal from syria president do and snub the u.s. national security adviser on a recent visit to ankara while also slamming the conditions that are now been set for a pullout is done in hawkins. to leave or not to leave that is the question or more specifically when and how as a syrian civil war draws to a close the situation in the north of the country is anything but calm it's a game of chess every player has a piece and the situation is not just black versus white and the kurdish question is once again central with john bolton visiting turkey and israel to mediate a settlement the turkish president made it very clear that any charts of

a compromise is slim. because john bolton has made a grave mistake it is not possible to accept or swallow the message given by bolton from israel those who are in the terror corridor in syria who learn the necessary lessons for us there is no difference between the white p g p y d p k k and diet we will very soon take action to neutralize the terrorist groups in syria. as nato allies the national security adviser had hoped the u.s. and turkey could coordinate their actions striking a balance of national interests and protecting those who are allies one day and the divisive burden the next now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think the turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endangered. with turkish troops already on syrian soil and ankara ready to

push further these opposition forces feel anything but safe until now of course the presence of u.s. forces in the area has been a restraining factor on turkish ambitions to eliminate any armed kurdish groups they view as terrorists but the power balance could now change at any moment given trump the terminations to bring troops home there would be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria as regional interests clash once again the future of the kurds viewed by many as yesterday's liberators and the brain of eisel now hangs in the balance well the turkish foreign minister had some other ideas on how to make the u.s. departure less harmful to the region the u.s. faces some difficulties in the process of withdrawing troops from syria we want to coordinate this process with russia and iran it is necessary not to allow terrorists to occupy the territory after u.s.

troops leave to try and get a bit more perspective on this too we sounded that small regional experts who say turkey's refer straighted these days because members of tribes team a given and it seems differing information over syria. totally disappointed from what is going on from their perspective maybe bolton is not representing the president because president from the same something else and bolton is saying something goes from turkey's perspective there is no distinction between k. and p. why the from their perspective this is a terrorist entity and they want to clear this whole corydoras the whole syrian corydoras from this entity and this is a huge headache for them this is a very pressing national security matter for turkey so it's not like it has a second decision national security is paramount to the country's health now we look at what bolton saying and especially right before he comes to meet with the

turkish officials and he basically crosses a red line when he's in israel the night before he comes to turkey and i don't understand what he was expecting in negotiations with turkey today but he definitely was expecting what he got in turkey is not going to bow down to the u.s. . always so much more if you course on our main site r.t. dot com here in moscow this wednesday evening is ten twenty eight pm now and it's kevin owen saying thank you for watching this program. you know world big part of the 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for 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 an issue. i'm afshin rattansi 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 and the u.k. foreign office sold to manipulate elections in the usa and the cross. europe and. threaten the french republic we look back at another figure it is the same with wash westmoreland who are directing the oscar winning film still alice tackles the life of one of frumps is subversive novelists collect for the news find out why the british army is going big game hunting as a u.s. backtracks for making tracks from syria all the 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 has been identified in the past few weeks by

the purported anonymous organizational collective which released this video on you