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shutdown in u.s. history its fourth week with a border wall between the democrats. and this is. the british prime minister has another humiliation in parliament crucial. for the top stories over the weekend the main headlines of today welcome to the weekly. france has seen a ninth success if we kind of yellow vest protests with demonstrators certainly keeping up the pressure on the french government. remains in the midst of the.

oh. the first tensions are rising here the up to three or three in paris one of the protests in the city one of many protests taking place across france officials think is saying thirty two thousand people taking part in those figures that some lower than the fifty thousand to politician last weekend but the yellow vests movements have often just featured those official figures saying that they only show a small proportion of the people who are out on the streets we have had violence here in new york to creoles our. outlook for. the.

good. stuff there's water cannons now in full force trying to push protesters away. that water cannon and tear gas plumes coming up from the ground we've seen the protesters throwing projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to gas that's just being dispersed those flash pools and those to cast ballots as well as what looked like to be suddenly going aides and a mobile police force now you can see running in the hole dressed in black you could just see behind me that is a little fire that's just the p. . it's been coming along people reveling around that as that our gas comes in the

air the tear gas is just moving we can hear it now people are moving to want to why we have to move as that is tear gas of being out pushed out and there are around five thousand offices taking caught in the security over paris eighty thousand across from people i've spoken to the chalet shown say yes this is after nine this is the ninth consecutive weekends but this is not going to stop this is going to continue. and it was not just the french capital that experienced protests on saturday in thousands took to the streets with police deploying tear gas on the crowds. hundreds marched to pay tribute to the victims of the protests at the u.n. they released yellow balloons in the air and laid flowers to one of them.

the u.s. government shutdown moved into its twenty second day becoming the longest in the history of the country and this week has seen accusations flying back and forth between democrat leaders and donald trump. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump must have holding nothing people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration and must 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. on wednesday the us president stormed out of his talks with his democratic counterparts brown to give them a total waste of time he tweeted that when house speaker nancy pelosi refused to approve funding for his border wall he told her simply by by a former florida state democratic party chairman in which cesar and american political commentator steve malzberg rather different views on the border will shut down. he hit on every note and you know what's holding all this up you know it's just keeping the government shutdown and holding all this up is the fact that nancy pelosi says no wall not one penny that's not negotiating this was a purely political attempt to help you say king poll numbers where sixty three percent of the people in america now say they don't want the war and they want to america 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 it to criticize so you know it is what it is that's the political reality today when i think backs of times of presidents democrat or republican who asked for national time like candy during the cuban missile crisis or obama when we killed osama bin ladin or bush with nine eleven those were real national situations the problem is is that when we have a real national crisis two thirds of this country will not believe president trump based on all his past behavior to make the case for the border donald trump

traveled to the mexican border and the u.s. state of texas while there he was shown some of the culture bound crossing into america.

when i took the oath alone i swore to protect our country and that is what i will always do my administration has presented to congress with a field propose to secure the border and stop to do a little get drugs more human trafficking. and while the standoff over the border will continues the media is not standing aside with some channels going further than others in fanning the flames. and reports. take a look at what this local fox affiliate did with donald trump speech to the nation earlier this week now the footage appears to be doctored showing donald trump sticking out his tongue between sentences which he didn't do in the original video

now the news director of q thirteen admitted this was problematic this does not meet our editorial standards and lou grant if it is seen as portraying the president in the negative light even before the speech we heard a number of voices calling for it not to be aired like they've done with other presidents and other times the networks should refuse to turn over the airwaves to donald trump tonight for what they know objective play to be a steady stream of lies first of all just because john wants to address the nation doesn't mean networks should air otherwise they're just passing on his lies unfiltered and some of the fact checking also got interesting for example downtimes claim that ninety percent of the heroin in the united states comes from over the border was widely criticized because most of that comes through legal ports of entry and a wall wouldn't really do much to change that however one claim that donald trump made about two thirds of women who were smuggled across the border being raped in the process turned out to be true so conveniently c.b.s.

then removed it from their fact check and us mainstream media continues to show this reel of footage of u.s. border patrol agents dumping out and kicking over water that was left for migrants in the hot desert areas here's video of border patrol agents dumping water on the ground water that was ill meant to be left for migrants this is from the tucson based aid group now the video is supposed to be an example of cruelty and heartlessness by immigration and forces and it certainly is however the video first surfaced in two thousand and thirteen and it was filmed back in two thousand and eleven these were obama's guys they have nothing to do with trump's border patrol and it's worth noting that obama actually deported more immigrants than any. their president in us history washington d.c. is in a state of paralysis the government is shut down donald trump is demanding funding for his border wall and the democrats are adamant that they will not give it to up it seems like the partisanship in division that is so widespread in washington d.c.

has now found its way onto americans airwaves. r.t. new york. so with just days to go before a crucial vote in parliament on tuesday to resume i had a busy week trying to push through her divorce plan but instead of the back in the she was hoping for the british prime minister was faced with a barrel of criticism on. his day it is the deadest. i believe it is possible to have that future relationship which is deep in place with the european union that gives us the freedom to do what we want to do. by ministers been read to see wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threat of no deal well the prime minister of peace the facts there is little support for a deal or no deal in this. matter why on earth would we walk away from this to be

frank or who've lost trust in the prime minister's ability to negotiate a good do. if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of. making derogatory comments about threats that stick on the subject of bricks it happens to be. affixed to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes i'm sure all the owner who gentleman wouldn't suggest for one. who has a wife is somehow the property shaft. house. for now it seems to reason may could be forced to draft a new deal as the current one is not expected to pass on tuesday and with a growing number of m.p.'s expressing their opposition to the prime minister's plan

another option is that the u.k. leaves the e.u. and its institutions without any deal in place amid the uncertainty there have also been calls for an extension of article fifty which would give the u.k. more time to negotiate the divorce a truism a has ruled out calling a second referendum but that too could still be yet another possibility as police boyko now reports meet on a super 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 foot up early on 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 on just sweat as the atmosphere here turns increasing in times over the impending gregg's it 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 went out and the politicians aren't the only ones getting abuse from agitated members. at the public sky news anchor kay burley was heckled by pro brags that protesters while live on the air. out of the

hood. and owen jones a left wing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters i believe everything. was good i'm sure you know this situation outside parliament has now become an issue for parliament to deal with i must say to the house that it is frankly didn't 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 the systems 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 right moment to circle to ask of balancing the supreme them to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. and i still to come here when i see international is be running down the highlights of the week with the sunday weekly program more of your top stories in a moment. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. he's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think we got to hit the road and get out the traveling across

america what makes america take the show i would say. this place especially american hero this is a point. we always are just a. culture. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i'm going to leave now doesn't get any more. you may be completely different to mr. good's after with us today police in the german city of but i'm and have released

a video of monday's attack on an. alternative for germany party it shows three men approaching sixty six year old frank magnets from behind the camera then captures the very moment when the two run up to him and attack him before the group flees leaving the victim on the ground the police investigation we understand is going. frank magnet suffered serious injuries and remains in hospital the f.t. described the incident as an assassination attempt a magnet spoke to watch t.v. about the attack. i was at the new year function organized by the wiser courier newspaper el of 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 there was a mistake i went through the square next to the sea theatre there are normally no people there the only people there were there were two laborers who loading their car and i went past them then around thirty metres away or so the point at which i

was knocked unconscious when he came round i realised i was lying in the street and someone was shaking my arm and asking if my wallet and my by phone were still in me that person then dropped me against a wall lot was running down my face or someone called the police an ambulance last friday an a.f.p. office and lower saxony was targeted in another attack and no one was injured but the blasts cause damage to the building as well as to neighboring properties and vehicles three suspects since being detained police are working on the assumption that the attack was politically motivated a german law and media pundit maximillian told us that most don't feel safe in many parts of the country there is a letter was here in the country that everything which is right wing. conservative . man is evil and i think there are some crazies and some critics of those who believe that they don't have the right to do good while these

acts which are regretted either that or do you people but in sexily there is no problem there is that once there is a public hearing if you go to to hold it but when you on brain or. parts of the letter it's looking for possible to organize a demonstration or to have a public hearing for instance included it was a maturity of three members of parliament and it couldn't be protected by the local means we have such and the far left wing extremists all over. today but the conditions especially. very important makes it or ready. to have ordinary political life. the u.s. secretary of state has lashed out at the obama administration's middle east policies and cold for a new chapter in fighting extremists like pompei also highlighted the main

directions of current u.s. policy in the middle east but his speech in cairo did sometimes echo one that barack obama made in the same city ten years before. i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world. the age of self-inflicted american shame is over and so are the policies that produce so much needless suffering. now comes the real new beginning. here to iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward president trump has reversed our willful blindness to the danger of the regime and withdrew from the failed nuclear deal with its false promises to the us we impose sanctions should never have been lifted. because commitment will not weaken. indeed none of us should tolerate these extremists. the president has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we always do and now is the time airstrikes in the

region will continue as targets arise we will keep working with our partners in the coalition to defeat isis we will continue to hunt down terrorists who seek a safe havens in libya and in yemen. speech comes during a controversial phase of the u.s. campaign in syria while withdrawing its troops from the region the united states has recently stepped up the number of asteroids and then holkins expands on the. with every u.s. intervention the question of when why and if a tool to withdraw its forces has sooner or later taken center stage and both debate and controversy syria is the latest example and how much confusion this discussion has already caused. first problem to solve is how the withdrawal will look it still remains a mystery not only to the world but seemingly also to u.s. officials themselves they're all coming back and they're coming back now they said

recently that we have more time is of no if you were to were going to be removing our troops i never said we're doing exactly three years i want to wipe your time here but when you want you to be said for months visit. with dr who do you think they should have heard that word oh we're withdrawing is it mission accomplished as with george bush's iraq war speech things that would look that clear and simple. and the biggest problem of all just how will the u.s. balance the interests of its permanent and temporary allies in the region we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw or to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that the. defense of israel or other friends in the region is absolutely sure those other allies are the kurds the u.s. says they won't leave until they're safe and this is a red line for turkey

a longstanding nato ally any kurd linked conditions or caviar simply unacceptable for ankara. if the withdrawal is put off with ridiculous excuses like the turks are massacring kurds which does not reflect the reality we will implement this decision and we haven't even spoken about containing iran. also does the defeat of isis also might. equal us exit president trump certainly seem to think so we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten up badly but others like. john bolton still talk with the continuing battle against islamic state u.s. forces continue as trucks in syria which show no sign of abating which brings me to this next point. despite the concerns of top officials the pentagon is already taking

a more relaxed that is shoot to that current strike reports the continued degree of vises leads to decreased connecticut t.t.c. against a terrorist organization our intent is to reduce the number of reports while maintaining transparency reports will decrease from weekly to twice a month and releases will no longer indicates a specific time location or even target for such strikes it's an indication that the united states is not really withdrawing from from syria and then the meaningful way i think it means that they are plan to continue with their effort to undermine and attack the syrian government in one form or another they have not yet given up their idea of basically promoting division within syria the effort to break off northeast syria and effectively create a separate entity in that the kurdish region that effort is failing for various reasons but there and elsewhere there's still a long term goal to prevent syria from being

a strong stable united force that is independent of both washington and riyadh and if the hope for the u.s. plan in syria was a new year new strategy isn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. and that just about wraps up the weekly for this hour here on oxy international though many more of the highlights of the week in the world of news still to come your way at the top of the hour up to see. you know world a big part of the new law 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

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