well. this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart a crisis of the soul. mom's funds for his border was his first televised address from the oval office the democrats holding the nation to ransom by continuing the government shutdown. british journalists face a direct backlash over frustrated members the public. like. you were offended by this i just think this is the start of. a member of the . germany party was brutally beaten up. consciousness he's taken the time of to

speak to this channel about the attack and some of the help he received from. that person. a very good morning to start international just to midnight here in moscow my name is kevin i mean first in the headlines in small detail for you then president trump has used his first televised address from the oval office to call for funds for his controversial us mexico border wall stop short of declaring a national emergency in order to secure the billions of dollars he needs but nonetheless kept the government still in shutdown it is now into its nineteenth twentieth day minutes after his speech democratic leaders hit back accusing trump of demagoguery and holding the country to ransom democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis. holding people hostage. manufacturing

a crisis stoked fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration and must we open 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. next morning kellam open takes a closer look at how donald trump's demands for a wall of death republicans and democrats impose. before 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 and also highlighted crimes committed by people who had entered the country illegally from did stop short of calling for the national emergency as many people had anticipated that he might do but he did call on people in the united states and american citizens and viewers to call their congressional representatives and ask them to fund his wall in order to end what he called a cycle of suffering why do wealthy politicians build walls fences and gates around their homes they don't build walls because they hate the people on the but because they love the people on the inside the wall has been a very big part of donald trump's political identity was mentioned all throughout his presidential campaign and sense he's taken 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 a one year mission would build the greatest one 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 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 going to which people have people over the side of the divide full of florida state democratic party chairman which sees an american place would come to steve malzberg very differing views on trump's primetime address. he hit on every note and you know what's holding all this up you know it's just keeping the

government shutdown and holding all this up is the fact that nancy pelosi says no wall not one penny that's not negotiating this was a purely political attempt to help his sagging poll numbers where sixty three percent of the people in america now say they don't want the war and they want to turn back on his statements about mexico is still going to pay for the wall because of tariffs that's nonsense we're lowering the tariffs 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 defense 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 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. so this one with the clock ticking and the beginning of allowed to negotiations british prime minister trees of maize again been struggling to get a foothold for a deal in parliament is to be voted on next week the latest season this is a chicken and. twenty nineteen the year when brags 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 that 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 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 the prime minister has been wrecked 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 good hopelessly unpopular deal he opposes any deal that the government is negotiating with the european union the prime minister says that it's the only deal of value to bold if that is the case why wasn't it put to a vote on december the eleventh. why isn't 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 the she 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 is 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 the grounds that with accusations flying around including direct. this speaker of the house who is that 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 patiala see how you drive a car with the stickers out that sticker on the subject of bricks it happens to be

affixed to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes and i'm sure the owner of old gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. there's a wife is somehow the property or chattel again. 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 means deal is rejected and it seems that many here in westminster believe that a plan b.

she does not have well with pressure mounting briefless issues and journalists really a goal of the public disapproval on their way to work now literally face to face the activist who strays that the only of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. have been turning up increasingly outside parliament on the front doorstep the to confront employees including one 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 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 the air. rather her world the

world of brotherhood and owen jones a leftwing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters believed everything to go with whatever comes right surely this situation outside parliament has now become an issue for parliament to deal with i must tell you to the house that it is frankly didn't totally. give 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 politicians have said that a certain degree of abuse or heckling simply because of the territory of being a elected politician or just a public figure in

a functioning democracy but the police here now have the roman typical task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. you can store another dog was told is this important to different opinions and debate be celebrated and supported across british law. we have always been divided as a society politics is divided. our courts are divided if you look at our parliament it's actually two 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 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 that's a lesson for everybody that you should know 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. a member field center for germany party was beaten up among the things we're going consciousness he described for us the attackers and shock waves to the country's political sphere. i was at a new function organized by the way as a korean newspaper i love the party shortly before six and went to the car park to my car i took a shortcut through an area i don't really like that was a mistake i went through the square next to the city theater normally no people

them the only people were. loading their car i went past the around thirty meters away the point at which i was knocked unconscious when i came around i realized i was lying in the street and someone was shaking my asking if my wallet and mobile phone were still in me that person then prop me against a wall block was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance you know followed his politics or not the type of thing for some to go through from our mc speaking earlier to this channel please the mission we call the politically motivated with party colleagues quick to describe it is a dark day for democracy but the investigation hasn't yet yielded anything conclusive to establish whether politics did play a role artie's policy has been following the latest for you. 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 sixty six year old

politician from the far right alternative for germany party a fifteen 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 unknown assailants now those three men are still at large mr magnet is still in hospital where he has been but covering from a serious head wound now this is not the first time that members of the a.f.p. have been threatened with violence but certainly this brutal assault marks a new low in that level of violence. are sustained to bone deep laceration to mark for it injuries to my left knee one of the weighbridge three individuals had been walking behind me for some time so they were conspicuous big. as 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. along the road to bring up again russia's foreign ministry now some of the jumper. over statements coming from tokyo but the status of the disputed susan coral islands with more of this latest flare up between the two countries our correspondent. the paradox is that russia and japan are still technically at war there's been no peace

agreements since world war two when nat see 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 law japan though still considers the islands their all land so what really annoyed the russian diplomats was some of what the japanese prime minister just said she 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 a 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 sergei 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 have to say such statements 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. a lot of our potent shinzo i call each other friends they need several times a year but these kind of diplomatic scalpels really aren't helping the process.

the european union expressed anger over a diplomatic downgrade possibly for its officials in washington 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 under a customer of diplomatic practice. ok the reason for all this thought the use of washington became aware of it at the funeral of recently of george h.w. bush where the usual pecking order so to speak of those being seated was altered traditionally the u.s. state department calls it the longest serving officials first with the e.u. is david o'sullivan expected to be one of the earliest to be called up with a twist was he wasn't. picks up the story of a seemingly growing divide 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 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 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 general to ask last year.

but frankly speaking. europe should be grateful by president trump he has realized that if you knew that. you will find. 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 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 you shall i was saying this so far the e.u. sort of play the significance of this latest spat the spokesperson for the bloc is stressed that despite policy disagreements transatlantic ties remain strong with. kogelo glue though told us that he is concerned by the u.s. presence unpredictability right now. even enemies i think when they're having

deplore normal diplomatic relations they are in for when each other this was done in a very brutal way and this reflects the the the cards are and the taxes of the administration i'm afraid president i know that this than anything about two multicultural societies he only see the things black and white and then he only cares about the money he can understand that the issue for european union that the countries they were fighting each other with ten million dead you know casualties now there are states there are discussing the over a table i don't think you cuz very very clear idea what covered in the in europe during the first in the second world war and the real problem is is that we are covering a lot of things one after the other of the the troubles ministration things aggressive against. against anybody he thinks are there certain moment he does not want you

know now he he does not want the european union because his is he sees your appearance to trade the underground east. russian oil the central collusion claims the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections been charge of the struct to justice in a separate case that vessel it is now wanted in america of relegations that she was involved in a money laundering scheme you karen scott latest. tallia vessel next guy is in the news again this time with charges over this civil case being brought against her she of course became well known after she was named a key person of interest in the robot mode a probe into suspected russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election all over that infamous meeting which took place in trump tower between vessel at sky and donald trump judio which was alleged to have been aimed at dishing the dirt on hillary clinton ahead of the u.s. elections well this next guy has stated time and time again that that particular

meeting had nothing to do with politics and nothing to do with russia regardless she's been bombarded with accusations of working for the russian government something she has continuously denied or two years on and now vessel in its sky is back in the spotlight facing charges of obstruction of justice in yet another case involving the u.s. and russia she said to have made a false and misleading declaration to the judge overseeing the twenty fifteen case by stating 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 uncovered e-mails which contradict that claim all this in its gaia talking to a russian channels that she had yet to find out the full details of the charges suspect that they're aimed at discrediting her as a lawyer and she believes the u.s. may have various reasons why they may want to do that. i think all this aimed at

preventing me from carrying out my professional activities in a way that doesn't suit the u.s. it may be connected to the magnitsky act corruption in congress and the judicial system and my knowledge of information that they don't want to be made public. well more than two years on from the us elections if vessel needs sky had hopes that her reputation may be on its way to recovery following that miller probe what these latest charges have to pay to that nichiren our correspondent the most watching this bulletin with me kevin owen live from moscow it's a midnight twenty six going to midnight twenty seven. but with more than just about thirty three minutes from now.

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