oh. please please. to make. you. believe. that was how it was. that. look i. yellow vests activists take to the streets for a ninth consecutive weekend of protest against the french government. the us

government shutdown becomes the longest in history as donald trump plays into the democrats for refusing to fund his for the war. is dead is the deadest are sort of. the british prime minister look think creasing really isolated in parliament had to choose days crucial votes on the bracks it plan. it watching the weekly on r.t. international around the up of stories of the shapes the week. we starts with fronts where the end of estimates mint has held its ninth weekend of protests against the government charlotte dubinsky reports from paris. i. took.

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 we have had violence here in new york to creoles. her outlook for. the. good. stuff there's water cannons now in full force trying to push protesters away. that would to come in and tear gas plumes coming up from the ground we've seen the protesters throwing

a projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to gas that's just being dispersed there's flash pulls and those 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 small fire that's just the period been coming along people reveling around that as that i guess comes in the air the tear gas is just moving we can hear it now and people are moving to once why when i have improved as that is tear gas of being out pushed out there all around five thousand offices taking caught in the security of power. eighty thousand across france people large but

usually shills say yes this is act nine this is the ninth consecutive weekends but this is not going to stop this is going to continue. and it was not only the french capital that experience protests on saturday. thousands took to the streets with police using tear gas to disperse the crowds and in leone hundreds marched in tribute to the ten people killed since the protests started they released yellow balloons and laid flowers to on of them and some of the protests ended in violence . oh. french broadcaster l.c.i. reported two of its journalists into accompanying security offices what assaultive they were covering the rally in the northern french city of ruin one of the security officers had his nose broken need to toss spittle treatment there are also other reports of attacks and intimidation on journalists across the country.

it's now day twenty three of the u.s. government shutdown making it the longest in history and throughout the week accusations have been flying back and forth between democrat leaders i'm told will 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 leave 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 talks with the top democrats in congress branding the meeting a total waste of time he later tweeted he said bye bye to house speaker nancy pelosi when she refused to approve funding for his war. former florida state democratic party chairman mitch cesar and american political commentator steve malzberg had differing views on the border wall disputes. 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 wall 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 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 that won't negotiate with them any movie makes it go 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 his case for the wall told will trump

travel to the border between mexico and texas while that he was shown some of the contraband crossing into america.

when i took the oath of all i swore to protect our country and that is what i will always do my administration is presented. with a detail proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs drug smugglers and human traffickers. with the cloak taken down to choose days crucial bricks if it in the british parliament to raise a maze had a busy week trying to win the backing for head to boil still but once again the prime minister was given a hostile reception by her own parliament. deal is dead 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.

prime minister has been recklessly wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threat of no deal when will the prime minister face the facts there is little support for a deal or no deal in this house we man why on earth would we walk away from this to be frank i have lost trust in the prime minister's ability to negotiate a good deal. if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of brakes it promises. to carry new york up making derogatory comments about threats that sticker on the subject of bricks it happens to be. affix to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes i'm sure the only remove gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. i heard your wife is

somehow the property or chattel. house. for now it seems to reason they could be forced to seek a new deal as the current one is not expected to pass on to say 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 and its institutions without any deal in place of top amid the uncertainty there have also been calls for an extension of article fifty which would give the u.k. more time to negotiate a divorce and while theresa may has ruled out calling a second referendum that too could still potentially happen or wes's conch be attended to tension in and outside parliament as polly boyd curran 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 with a colleague you were saying if i was 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 at all 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 increasing in terms 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 car. the losers are limited 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 at. her her car the hood of the brotherhood and owen jones a leftwing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters i believe everything you go with was good 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 didn't total if the members of parliament and lists go about their business

in fear. this situation cannot stand over sixty politicians have written a letter to london's chief of police warning of the deteriorating security situation around parliament and demanding better protection some of the systems of said that a certain degree of abuse or heckling simply because of the territory of being a elected politician or just a public figure in a functioning democracy but the police now have the rama difficult task of balancing the supreme them to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including my. german politicians are outraged off to be u.s. ambassador to the country sends a letter seemingly threatening german companies find out why after the break.

as a spy you have to really split your own personality into two you that is the committed jihad this thing that was still alive there within me and then there is the person who wanted to counter everything they want to do and then trying to dismantle everything they were doing so you have to really become a good doctor in order to fool them you have to follow your own family in order to fall the. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present and she. wanted. to go right to be close it's like them before three in the morning can't be good.

i'm interested in the why. there should. be. going to. welcome back to the weekly u.s. ambassador to belin has threatened sanctions for any companies involved in the north stream team pipeline project with russia of course reports. the u.s. ambassador to germany just issued a warning to companies working on the russian led nord stream to gas pipeline he said in a letter that these companies could face sanctions if they stick to the project as you're aware the united states strongly opposes nor stream to the pipeline poses serious geopolitical consequences to our european allies and partners we continue

to stress that firms operating in the russian energy export pipeline sector are engaging in activities that carry significant sanctions risk the embassy spokesperson said this shouldn't be interpreted as a threat but simply a declaration of us foreign policy now construction on the pipeline began back in july and at that time sixty six percent of germans were polled at supporting it and it certainly is a big business venture it's a joint project between the russian state owned gas company and five western companies with germany taking a lead role on the project now this pipeline is supposed to double the capacity of an existing pipeline already on the baltics and it's supposed to stretch from western russia all the way into the heart of the european union when it's budgeted at around nine point five billion euros now america has the united states has been

against this since the beginning back in november the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. said that washington had the tools to curb the project if berlin remained adamant now let's hear what berlin had to say now about this the us ambassador seems to give the impression he's a voice roy of the washington emperor the us ambassador using direct threats towards german companies is a new and i'm accepting bill strengthening of tone in the transatlantic relationship which the federal government should protest against the matter of european energy policy must be decided to europe not in the u.s. so the pipeline controversy could go in a number of ways it all depends on whether the e.u. is willing to carve out its own economic path or whether it's willing to continue to allow the u.s. to influence the situation from across the atlantic. chair political analyst pat manual says the u.s. is simply saying it's an economic interests a military the united states to send their own shaded gas and we are in

competition we have the russian guys they try to blackmail europeans in order to force them to buy more american shave and sense it is working because germany accepted to build a new port to impose guys from united states but at the same time the europeans want to continue to make energy business of russia because it's cheap and secure the second objective of the united states has always been to control eurasia and to prevent europe to be too close to russia it towards to a way to present a strong sense emerging on the eurasia between western europe and russia and by trying to always fragmenting eurasia it's

a way for united states to keep the leadership in both worlds for their own job particular power. greece is on the brink of political chaos off to the defensiveness to quit i think that his party would also leave the ruling coalition prime minister elect to say process now calling for a confident state in the government raising the possibility of a nap election. i'd like to get the up to date hamas comment or said he's resigning as defense minister and that he would ask the same from other members of the independent greeks party i accepted his resignation and the one accept any other resignation to come. to the procedures that our constitution and the parliamentary rules oblige for the renewal of confidence in my government by parliament in order to proceed with a clear majority on all those crucial choices for our society and our country like the defense minister said bitterly opposes government plans to approve its northern

neighbor changing its name to north macedonia he adds that any day of including methadone in the name of the balkan state was unacceptable as the name was tied to greek station and culture so you very much with the issue of macedonia the issue of the name for which thousands of people good does not allow me to sacrifice my position in the government the show cross-examination intent is a twenty seven year dispute over what to call greece's neighbor here's a look at why. decades greece's fourth basically over neighbor macedonia's name because athens border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official name safeway on em short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after all military genius alexander the great still study to walk out of these round the world was born in macedonia

without things blocking its neighbors nato and the leadership over the issue they finally agreed and made the republic of north macedonia macedonia as parliament probably amended its constitution to ratify the name change but greece's politics means it has yet to do the same and the deadline for ratification this month. film economics editor news dimitri and hopeless believes it daily for macedonian name change could lead to a major crisis and agree. it's something that the greeks and the majority of the greek people do not appear to be ready to accept and as i said all. polls show that public opinion is against this agreement which means that a major crisis of legitimizing of this system of the political system the greek parliament as it. stands now is in jeopardy. so i'm not sure

whether. prime minister cheaper will respect going to do it early elections now he would hope to drag this regime as far as possible towards next october when it's the end of its term in office in order to hold elections and by that time there may be a major national crisis. by the forces that are opposed to this agreement outside parliament. thanks for watching author of the weekly continues at the top of the hour. when i came back from iraq out whoa marijuana her was cocaine methamphetamine so anything that's altering trying to get us out of.

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and then freeze on the sounds of. the grown man in the christening essentially the officer who. drew his return. as you wish to do away from the officer. of his group. they obviously did they could a lunch for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on trace one and observations didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the answer is back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer saw his gun and even turned three. you know my point i wanted to. ask but i. guess. we've. had anybody. but the

pressure on us i don't mean. so i know you're not. you know just i mean most people have spent the better of me just a lot of the media and even. if it up as well i might be. getting worse but those were the. just. my family fussing about my just but that's already yes equestrian in the. u.s. implemented get a yeah. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is a one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine tempi each day.

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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 all at each house the 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 u.n. peacekeeping operations deliver 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 of 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 started them primarily through field work rather than social media reshoots to be the custom

these days what made you saw attracted to these inherently dangerous subject well it's an inherently dangerous subject but it's also fest nature and the impact that research can have if we can get things right if we can understand how to feel 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 you are as. western scholar as a young attractive woman. run the same risks as some of the people whose experiences you're a 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 other 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 to.