he really needs attention. you. know. i think that only. i. can i best activist take to the streets for ninth consecutive weekend of protest against the french government. the u.s.

government shutdown becomes the longest in history as donald trump plays into the democrats' first using to fund to support a war. is dead is the deadest and for good to see just. the british prime minister looks increasingly isolated in parliament had to choose days crucial votes on have breaks a plan. you're watching the weekly hair on our national around to put stories that shapes the week plus the latest updates. we start with france where the l.f.s. may have meant has held its ninth weekend of protests against the government shall it to ban ski reports from paris.

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. that 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 a projectiles at the police we've seen the police responding. to gas that's just being dispersed those flash pools and those are to cast ballots as well as what looked like to be stun grenades 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 period that's been coming along people reveling around that as that i guess comes in the air that's. gas is just moving we can hear it now people are moving towards why when i have to move i was there i was tear gas of being out pushed out there are around five thousand offices taking part in the security of paris to eighty thousand across

france people i've spoken to the chelation all say yes this exact 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 in nonce thousands took to the streets with police using tear gas to disperse the crowds and to leon hundreds marched in tributes to the ten people killed since the protests started they released yellow balloons and they'd flowers to honor them and some of the protests ended in violence. oh. french gold costa l.c.i. reported two of its journalists and two accompanying security officers were assaulted they were covering the rally in north and in the northern city of rohan one of the security officers had his nose broken needed hospital 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 throughout the week his ations have been flying back and forth between democrat leaders until more trump. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump must stop holding american people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis stoke 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 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 wall. former florida state's democratic party chairman mitch caesar and american political commentator steve malzberg had differing views on the border wall to speak. 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 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 will 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 and 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 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 to make his case for the will donald trump travel to the border between mexico and texas while that he was shame some of the country crossing into america. rather manufactured.

thank you and i took the oath of all i swore to protect our country and that is what i will always do my administration has presented to congress would be killed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs drug smugglers and human traffickers. with the cloak taken down to choose days crucial votes in the british parliament to raise a maze has a busy week trying to win backing for heads of all steel but once again the prime minister was given a hostile reception by her own parliament. deal is dead is the deadest to do.

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 wrecked to stay wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threat of no deal when will the prime minister face the facts that is little support for a deal or no deal in this house we manage 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 do. if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of breaks 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 all

the owner moved gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. i heard your wife is somehow the property or chattel. house. for now it seems to reason may could be forced to seek a new deal as the current one is not expected to pass on cheese day 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 at all amid the uncertainty have also been calls for an extension of article fifty which would give the u.k. more time to negotiate a divorce and while to reason may has ruled out calling a second referendum to could still potentially happen all this is contributed to tension in and outside parliaments as polly boyd reports. 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 political or 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 plan of action in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interviews. that you are going to lose your minister and the politicians are 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. love her work for the world. brotherhood and owen jones a leftwing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters but illegal 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 comes of the territory of being a elected politician or just a public figure in a functioning democracy but the police it now have the relevant difficult task of balancing the screen them to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. still to come donald trump has threatened to take drastic action against hickey of assyria that story after the break.

when else should seem wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain comes after. and it gets written because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only. exists i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to r.t. donald trump has threatened to devastate economy if the country attacks the kurds in syria in a tweet he said the us military pullouts will go ahead as planned starting the long overdue pullout from syria while hitting the little remaining isis territorial caliphate hard and from many directions will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms will devastate turkey economically if they hit kurds trumps tweets

comes days off to take he renewed its threats to launch a military offensive against the kurdish why p.j. in more than syria the group receive support from the us and has played a crucial role in fighting islamic states but the why page is feared by ankara's the terrorist organization the dispute has put a strain on the u.s. and turkey is a longstanding alliance with a nato former pennsic and security analyst michael maloof believes trump cannot afford to escalate the situation with turkey. if trying to keep any kind of balance in region he's going to be careful he's also going to watch his words because people are only getting sick and tired of troops threats especially economic and then i think that this is actually going to lead interest because it is driving turkey more away from the west and nato and pushing their everyone more toward the east in comments like that intro only reinforce it it was determination

to look more peaceful than. the next. u.s. ambassador to ben has threatened sanctions for any companies involved in the north stream pipeline project with russia on course have reports the u.s. ambassador to germany just issued a warning to companies working on the russian led north 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 that the united states strongly opposes north 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 europe's 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 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 j. pesca analyst pm manual time and says the u.s. is simply pursuing its own economic contrasts a little strain. the united states would like to send their own shaded guts and in competition we have the russian guys they try to blackmail europeans in order to force them to buy more american shade and sense it is working because germany accepted to build

a new port to import 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 the europe to be too close to russia it towards to a way to prevent 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 wars for their own job particular power. greece is on the brink of political chaos after the defense minister quits adding that his party will say leave the ruling coalition prime

minister and access a process now calling for confidence fate in the government raising the possibility of a snap elections. i'd like to get the up to date hamas comment or said he's resigning as the fence minister and that he would ask the same from other members of the independent greeks party i accepted his resignation and no one accept any other resignation to come will move swiftly 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 bitterly opposes government plans to improve its northern neighbor changing its name to north macedonia he added that any detail including macedonia in the name of the balkan state was unacceptable as the name was tied to greek civilization and culture. so make you very sure that the issue of macedonia the issue of the name for which thousands of people good does not allow me to say

force my position in the government the show present nation intensifies a twenty seven year dispute over what to call greece's neighbor has a look at why. for 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 short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after a little treat jenius alexander the great still study to walk out of beads around the world was. blocking its neighbors nato and the e.u. leadership over the issue is finally agreed to name the republic of north macedonia macedonia as parliament be 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. form economics had to tear at athens needs to me train up less leaves

a deal every macedonian name change could lead to a major crisis in greece it's something that the greeks 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 the segment which means that a major crisis. 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 we're going to do in early elections now he would hope to drag this regime 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. a polish man has been stabbed on stage during a charity event he's in critical condition after the assault the attacker walks around the stage shouting that he was wrongfully imprisoned and in the form of government he blames the mayor of get down havel and some of it as he was previously a member of poland's ruling party the suspect was held on by security guards and is now in custody. in up to date with the latest news more up to the top of the hour. because you know provision are going to want to.

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headed east into the swamp the going into the belly of the beast i could never leave now doesn't get a more gonzo day maybe with a different and a mr. so fair i mean i'm going for a while here excellent fashion photographer and you've got accomplishments in the photography ended. suddenly you're labeled all right and it's always fascinating to me because the image itself is reinterpreted in a political sense in so many different ways and we saw that i mean under reagan right that he was able to was a master of creating the photo op michael deaver michael deaver that's right it was always about putting reagan in there in front of a rising sun and he made it hollywood hollywoodized this whole political process remember the greatest political ad about the threat of nucular war was under i think goldwater goldwater and then then johnson ram that ad right john said that with the kid been the daisy the kid in the days of political advertising right and

then a quick george bush had the willie horton going through the revolving door that's right as was black crime is going to ask ok that's pretty straightforward but with pumping the fraud or these other means like where is this going like people are getting triggered because what's happening is that they're taking cartoon characters and they're associating them with the wrong thing to sting pepe the frog it's so easy to draw it so easy to replicate it so easy to take your context and and put your copy on top of it that it winds up becoming this incredibly powerful thing is donald trump a troll i think the saturday night live sorts really underestimate they think he's a been and that he's stupid does he know what he's doing is he a troll is he intentionally whipping them up to look like these crazy out scott adams calls donald trump a master persuader and i think that's a great term you know donald trump when he was a kid his church was norman vincent peale church who wrote the power of positive thinking and normandy.