you. know. i think the only. thing. i. i. can invest activists take to the streets for a ninth consecutive weekend of protests against the french governments. the u.s. government shutdown becomes the longest in history as donald trump plays into the

democrats for refusing to fund to support a wall. is dead is the dentist and for. the british prime minister looks increasingly isolated in parliament had to choose days crucial votes on his brakes a plan. you're watching the weekly head on the national welcome to the program. we starts with strong swear the end of estimates mantis held its ninth weekend of protests against the government's seanad to bin ski reports from paris.

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 we have had violence here in new york to trails. her 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 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 stun can 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 a 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 the eyes tear gas of being out. pushed out there are around five thousand offices taking part in the security of paris eight 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. and it was not only the french capital that experience protests on saturday and nonce thousands took to the streets with police using tear gas to disperse the crowds and in leon hundreds marched in tributes to the ten people killed since the protests started they released yellow balloons and laid flowers to honor them and some of the protests ended in violence. oh. french broadcaster l.c.i. reported to have its journalists into accompanying security officers were assaulted they were covering the rally in the northern french city of rio and one of the security officers had his nose broken needed hospital treatment there are also other reports of the attacks and intimidation of 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 because ations have been flying back and forth between democrat leaders and donald trump democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis president trump must stop holding nothing people hostage but 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 two. 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 will former florida state's democratic party chairman mitch csa and american political commentator steve malzberg had differing views on the border wall dispute. 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 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 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 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 his case for the wall donald trump to travel to the full depth tween mexico and texas while that he was some of the contraband 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 with a detail proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs drug smugglers and human traffickers. with the cloak taking 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 still but once again the prime minister was given a hostile reception by her own parliament. his date 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 with the prime minister of peace the facts there is little support for a deal or no deal edness arms we manage why on earth would we walk away from it 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 stick 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 owner moved gentleman's 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 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 is in place a tall 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 to reason may has ruled out calling a second referendum that too could still potentially happen all this is contributed to tension in and outside parliament as polly boyko reports meat on a super cheese

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 if you were offended by the irish 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 increasingly over the impending gregg's that day and the fact that there is no agreed family action in place this was an a subaru trying to leave after the interview her. you are going to be just a minute 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 protesters while live on air were later her words the order of the brotherhood and owen jones a left wing journalist and author was taunted by a group of right wing protesters but it is everything to go with whatever it was i'm sure you did so 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 members of parliament and journalists. go

about their business in fear of. 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 so will 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 here now have the right moment difficult task of balancing the screen them to protest of some with protecting the safety of others including mine. still to come on r.t. donald trump is threatens to take drastic action against hickey of assyria that story after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to you shouldn't let it be an arms race of his on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close it's like that before three of the more people get.

interested always in the water out. there. welcome back to the weekly donald trump is threatens to devastate take his economy if the country attacks the kurds in syria in a tweet he said the u.s. military pullouts will go ahead plans. starting the long overdue pullout from syria while hitting the little remaining isis territorial caliphate haud and from many directions will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms will devastate turkey economically if they hit its. trumps tweets comes days off to take

a renewed his threats to launch military offensive against the kiddish why p.j. in northern 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 and press a terrorist organization the dispute has put a strain on the us and take his longstanding alliance with the nates a former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes trump concert for to escalate the situation with to. if troubles to keep any kind of balance in the region he's got to be careful it's also going to watch his words because people are only getting sick and tired of crimes threats especially economic and then i think that this is actually have an adverse effect because it is driving turkey more away from the west and nato and pushing everyone more towards the east and comments like that control only reinforce it was determination to look more

peaceful and then. the west. the u.s. ambassador to bin has threatened sanctions for any companies involved in the north stream to pipeline project but russia has done 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 except to believe 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. jay a political analyst pm manual time on says the u.s. is simply pursuing its own economic interests so millet's train the united states 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 shave and sense it is working because germany accepted to be in you were

pulled 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 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 pesky chaos after the defense minister quits adding that his party will save me from the ruling coalition prime minister alexis a process now calling for

a confidence vote in the government raising the possibility of snap elections. i'd like to get the up to date hamas comment or said he is resigning as defense minister and that he would ask the same from other members of the independent greeks party i accepted his resignation and they want to 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 the defense minister opposes government plans to approve its northern neighbor changing its name to north macedonia he added this tony daily including macedonia in the name of balkan state was unacceptable as the name was tied to greek civilization 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 disputes have a 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. short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stopped laying claim to the rich history of that name after a little treat jenius alexander the great still study to walk out of these round the world. without blocking its neighbors nato and the leadership over the issue is finally agreed to marry the republic of north macedonia. 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 is this month. well film economics

had to tear it nice to meet this then if the deal ever 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 the 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 as souls the attacker walked around the stage shouting he was one fully imprisoned into the form of government he blames the mayor of get down to have a demo of it as he was previously a member of poland's ruling party. thanks for watching us t.v. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates either. as a spy you'll have to really split your own personality into two you don't is that committed to hardest that was still alive that within me and then there is the person who wanted to counter everything they want to do and then try and dismantle everything

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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. no at each house the counsels 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 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 here professor of political science at barnard college columbia university and a scholar of peace keeping 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 conflicts which happen to be some of the dadley of conflicts on this planet and you started them primarily through field work rather than social media which since 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 fascinating and the in that research can have if we can get things right if we can understand how to feel case 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 skull or as a young attractive woman. run the same risks as some of the people whose experiences you were studying well i think that no.