killing myself by drinking alcohol links don't drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why alcoholics that's why drug addicts do what they do a shot while still hurting and their. star cool under which these guys are going through to it it just means to. need to be helped and not good pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be helped. and they just really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at by people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention and. i. français a ninth successive weekend of yellow vests protest with thousands of demonstrators clashing with

police. the longest government shutdown in u.s. history enters its fourth week with the border war standoff between the democrats and donald trump showing no signs of ending. this is day to day just. for. shocks. to the british prime minister suffers another humiliation in parliament this week ahead of tuesday's crucial vote on a divorce plan. hello there welcome to the international hour and a look back at what has been happening in the news over the last seven days more start in france too because it's seen a nine successive weekend of yellow vests protests but demonstrators keeping up the pressure on the government from paris his shot at the.

i. tensions are rising here at the uk to paris one of the protests in this city one of many protests taking place across france we have had violence here. but. 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 protesters throwing projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to a gas that's just being dispersed there's flash pulls and those tear gas let's as well as what looked like to be suddenly going aids and mobile police force now you can see running in there all dressed in black you could just see behind me that is that little fire that's just appeared been coming along people reveling around that as that i guess comes in the air that tear gas is just moving we can hear it now and people are moving to want is why when i have improved as that is tear gas of being out pushed down there are around five thousand offices

taking caught in the security of paris eighty thousand across france people i've spoken to the chelation all say yes this is act nine this is the ninth consecutive weekends but this is not going to stop this is going to continue . but it was not only the french capital that experience protests on saturday thousands took to the streets with police deploying to gas on the crowds there and really on hundreds marched to pay tribute to the victims of the protests. the end they released yellow balloons and laid flowers to all of them. now the u.s. government shutdown moved into its twenty third day becoming the longest in the history of the country and this week has seen accusations to be flying back and forth between democrat leaders and donald trump. democrats in congress have refused

to acknowledge the crisis president trump mustapha holding murtha 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 well wednesday the us president stormed out of talks with his democratic counterparts branding them a total waste of time he tweeted that when house speaker nancy pelosi refused to approve funding for his border war he told her bye bye well former florida state

democratic party chairman mitch caesar and american political commentator steve malzberg had differing views on the boardwalk dispute. 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 saying 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 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 well to make the case for the war and again donald trump travel to the mexican buday in the u.s. state of texas while there he was shot and some of the comfort band crossing into america.

the. government. when i took the oath of all i swore to protect our country and that is what i will always do my administration has presented congress with a detail proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal get drug smugglers and

human traffickers. now with just days to go before. they had a very busy week trying to push through a divorce plan but instead of getting the backing that she hoped for once again the british prime minister faced a barrage of criticism. is the day. 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. prime minister has been ready to see wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threats of no. we'll put the prime minister of peace the facts there is little support for a deal or no deal when this happens are we. why on earth would we walk away from it

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 bricks or rather says. security your car making derogatory comments about threats that sticker on the subject of bricks it happens to be. affixed to the windscreen of my wife's car yes i'm sure your noble gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment i was a wife is somehow the property or chattel. house. but for now it does seem the trees i'm a 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 to another option is that the u.k. leaves the e.u. and its institutions without any deal in place to toll well amid the uncertainty there have also been calls for an extension of article fifteen which would give the u.k. more time to negotiate or to force to reason may has ruled out calling a second referendum although that too could still happen potentially as reports meet anna seabury she's a conservative politician and a vocal opponent of bragg's set but this week some of her opponents came to westminster and got more vocal than her. right. up oh if you are offended by wireless i think this is the start of 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 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 increasingly intense over the impending gregg's that day and the fact that there is no agreed plan of action in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interview. that you just want to do to 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 world the world. of earth 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 couldn't tell. if the 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

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 rather difficult task of balancing the freedom to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. reporting outside parliament this week still to come on the weekly the u.s. secretary of state has slammed the obama administration's middle east policies promising big changes are on the way we'll have a look at that just after the break. you know world a big part of. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to get 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 shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. as a spy you have to really split your own personality into to you there is that committed your hardest that was still alive there within me and then there is the person who wanted to counter everything they want to do and then try to dismantle everything they were doing so you have to really become a good doctor and noted that a tool. you have to follow your own family in order to fall the.

again you're watching the weak late night police in the german city but emon have released video of monday's attack on an m.p. from the anti migrant alternative for germany party it does show three men approaching sixty six year old member frank magnets from behind to run up to him and attack him before the greek flees leaving him on the ground the police investigation is ongoing frank magnet suffered serious injuries and remains in hospital because of that the a.f.p. described the incident as an assassination attempt magnet spoke to r.t. about what happened. i was at the new year function organized by the wiser courier newspaper leave 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 meters away or came 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 the wall blood was running down my face someone called the police an ambulance last friday and i have to the office in no saxony was targeted in another attack no one was injured in that but the blasted caused damage to the building as well as to neighboring properties and vehicles three suspects have since been detained and police are working on the assumption that the attack was politically motivated gemma noire a media pundit maximillian car told us that the members 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 it is excellently there is no problem there is that there was there is a hearing if you will to to hold it but whether you on brain where they were but whether it's possible to organize a demonstration or to have a public hearing the for instance included of course public security of three members of all of them and it couldn't be protected by the local police that means we have such. leftwing extremists all over today but the conditions especially really have very hard to make them or it possible to have ordinary political life.

now the u.s. secretary of state has lashed out at the obama administration's middle east policies and called for a new chapter in fighting extremists might pompei will also highlight the main directions of the current u.s. policy in the region but his speech did in king cairo did sometimes echo the one that barack obama made in the same city ten years ago i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world at 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. 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 trouble 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 pay a speech there does come to a controversial phase of the u.s. campaign in syria while with throwing its troops from the region the united states has recently stepped up the number of air strikes and the hawkins expands on that. 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. the 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 watch of the four 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 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 and 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 automatically equal u.s. exit president trump certainly seem to. we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten up badly but others like. john bolton still talk of 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 a shooter that current strike reports the continued degree of isis 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 a 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 it hasn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. holkins reporting that you can watch and we can hear not what back again at the top of the. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot

placed before a conviction. ted any interrogation out there what you'll see is a threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i would cooperate say i stayed there i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the cry. when they came back from iraq. marijuana her was cocaine methamphetamine so anything that's altering trying to get us out. that bad mindset using the chemical that would be self medicating. going to be

drinking and drinking emo new nope just killing myself. out the whole links don't drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why it's this way drug addicts do. a shot while still for the next. star cool under which these guys are going through to do it it just needs to. reduce need to be hoped and pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs you need to be built. they just really should be looked at like numbers they should be looked at by people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention.

for. long welcome to the first edition of worlds apart in two thousand and nineteen happy holidays and thank you for keeping us by your side this year and i'll add a chasin that councils of war never five meaning that decision makers often get caught up in deliberations rather than actually making and implementing decisions that may not be so bad in the case of war but what about peace do councils of peace or the un peacekeeping operations deliberate what they set out to do well to discuss that i'm now joined by several of us there professor of political science

at barnard college columbia university and the scholar of peacekeeping professor out us there is great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you so much for having me professor let me start with a personal question i know you spent years studying african culture expects happened to be some of the dadley of conflicts on this planet and you studied them primarily through field work rather than social media which since to be the custom these days what made you so or attracted to these inherently dangerous subject well it's an inherited dent. subject but it's also fascinating and the impact that research can have if we can get things right if we can understand how to build peace what works in building peace that can impact the lives of millions of people so to me it's really worth it if i remember it may sound like a sexist question but as a woman who worked in conflict zones i think i can ask you that violence and sexual

violence is prevalent in most conflict zones and i assume africa is no exception did your as western scholar as a young attractive woman. run the same risks as some of the people whose experiences you are studying well i think that no matter who you are or once you end up in a conflict zone there is a likelihood that you're going to end up at the wrong place at the wrong time and then for example it's happened to me several times that i was in a place that was considered safe and then rebel groups started bombing the city and one of the bombs actually fell in my garden so that's the kind of thing that no matter who you are or what you look like no matter your gender you're going to face if you work in conflict zones and know being a woman that has a lot of additional risk and a lot of additional disadvantages but also it brings a lot of opportunities because all the women talk to you much more often leave so

it gives you a different perspective have you ever found yourself in a situation in the filled when you genuinely feared for your life and safety when you thought that you may not leave another date. yes i have several times. and but every time i was very very fortunate because i had friends on the ground who took me in a shelter to me and then help me escape the city and this is something that i'm so incredibly fortunate because i'm a foreigner much a where i go i have a past. that enables me to come to go out to white people who live in conflicts and congolese people palestinian people. people they don't have this luxury and the reason i'm asking all these questions is because in both of your books peace land the trouble with congo you're very critical of the expect treats tendency to leave in the bubble driving around.