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against taking part in a pipeline project with russia on pain. of german politicians. over the intervention. accusations of racism. told not to bother applying to local health and strive to increase the number of black medics. that is racist but i wouldn't say that it's surprising coming from. the right. and the star of us t.v. show breaking bad comes on playing a disabled in a remake of the french film. it

is moment after eight o'clock monday morning here in moscow on this january the fourteenth the newseum here rounding up this hour's top stories. the liberal us media has been rounding on donald trump going so far as to produce a guide to impeachment that summit america's longest ever government shut down over the standoff on funding the president's border wall plans daniel hawkins reports if you care to impeach somebody that's doing a great job that's the way i view it it seems this weekend the media would determined to prove trump wrong on that one look at america's forty fifth president is a stranger to media attacks first there's the new york times going with a piece on last year's f.b.i. investigation into the president working for russia after president trump fired james b. komi as f.b.i. director george foresman officials became so concerned by the president's behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russia

against american interests let's forget for a moment that the new york times article itself states no evidence has actually been publicly seen the u.s. president was quick to make his feelings on the article clear i think is the most insulting thing i have ever been asked and if you read the article you see that they found absolutely nothing i think it was a great insult and the new york times it is a aster is a paper another media missile came flying in from the washington post's with a warhead pax with revelations about extra secrecy in his meetings with president putin at g. twenty surely their piece would confirm the very worst suspicions of the impeach trump camp the constraints that trump imposed the part of a broader person by the presidents of shielding his communications with putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the united states main adversaries. the same article mentions albeit only in the twenty fourth paragraph

that trump does allow most of his conversations with putin to be monitored by staffers and also that rex tillerson u.s. secretary of state at the time was present for the hamburg meeting trump's second individual chat with putin reportedly happened at a dinner for the leaders perhaps not the best place to discuss an election rigging plan anyhow swift an oil from the us president followed trying to kill two birds or stories with one interview people that look at it it's a total hoax everybody knows it and it's really a shame because it takes time and it takes effort i have a one on one meeting with putin like i do with every other leader it was a great conversation i'm not keeping anything under wraps i couldn't care less but these allegations are nothing without a long term plan and politico they released their very own handy comprehensive impeachment guide and again they acknowledge the limits of the current allegations

and evidence against the president but they do come up with a way forward no prizes for guessing that one a few more investigations should get the job done for trump to be meaningfully vulnerable republicans in a handful of states would need to start seeing poll data that show their support for him could sink their own political futures trump would likely need to be incriminated for betraying the nation itself not just for campaign violations or improper behavior like paying hush money to pawn stars in fact but it gives you the number of republicans needed for the house vote even speculating on who exactly they could be just twenty representatives may be enough to swing the vote and push the motion. yet so far the donald enjoys solid backing from the members of his party with even the democrats unable to get on the same page oh you're so six years old mama look you one bully don't play and these aren't because we're going to go in there really some of you have said it would be sad and divisive for the country

we're pursue impeachment where we had to wait and see what happens with the mother report we shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason and we shouldn't avoid it pietschmann for a political reason with the prospect of impeachment ever present in public political and media discourse yet seemingly no closer than before politico do come up with one good point just as clinton did trump could come out on the other side of an unsuccessful impeachment attempt with greater public sympathy and then improved prospect of winning reelection in twenty twenty at this rate it looks ever more likely we may need to wait till twenty twenty or even later until any prospect of a peace mint comes over the horizon. and with the record of government shutdown showing no sign of being resolved americans are starting to feel the impact.

we are now in the midst of the longest shutdown the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. airports at risk. risk america's credit rating the work of. what it all. like to have a plan on the show. you would have to understand the. security for the american people. elections have consequences.

freshman republicans are displaying take a six pack of beer on to the house floor and was told this not allowed it's friday to. turn around. a race while how to wrapped it in south africa after a local health department reportedly told white doctors not to bother applying according to a leaked document the department is aiming to hire four hundred and sixty six black doctors. twelve white and four mixed race professionals. we are unapologetic about addressing these imbalances of the

past south africa including causey natal remains an unequal society with limited opportunities to self development those who historically oppressed south african political party the democratic alliance has expressed outrage over the policy it insists that the health department is acting in a racist way and going against constitutional values now whites currently make up around nine percent of south africa's population so our guests debate the issues raised. this is not the first example of hiring policies being discriminatory particularly against white people and i would say that it is racist but i wouldn't say that it's surprising and that's why and i kind of the member of course in south africa we know that you are coming from and called the up out of date with a white sheet for which you've made more people that use them to play that doctor as we respect. the priorities was given to the white people unfortunately that

legacy is still continuing the government is more willing to work with companies and is willing to tax them less if they hire more black people and if there are more black people who own shares in the company yes while there are. advantage at vantage white people who do have money from either success recently or success from that's carried over from before the change of government this doesn't change the fact that this is not a fair policy and why are people having all these legit e.s.q. villages that today i changed from the previous government up but but instead of trying to trick to lend a. hand in hand with their counterparts they see themselves as they create definitely government. systems people who despite. all the work that they do

in favor of the country are forced to pay more taxes are forced to work harder to get a higher education are forced to work harder to get the same employment as other people and are all to mentally pushed out by all of this pressure against them or is it the people that are given the opportunity to pass high school with lower results and they are allowed to get more opportunities to go to university i would say definitely not white people are not the elite group it's the black people that they are the elite group they control the governments they control the business they control the education. people are poor and white doctor has. only. graduated they don't watch two or two i was. black tell him she. still wanted to study should we recruit.

people so that people can accept well a lot of white doctors who have worked in these poor rural areas they have not been able to to do business with the majority because the majority is interested in black doctors but the majority is not interested in becoming doctors they are more interested on living off of government benefits and not working hard enough to have doctors from their own communities. i want whites come to write to see themselves as african is what. the us ambassador to germany has sent out warnings to german companies reminding them about significant sanctions for any firms involved in the north stream two pipeline project with russia you sent letters to several companies. as you're aware 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 as a declaration of u.s. foreign policy now construction on the pipeline began back in july and back then sixty six percent of germans were polled as supporting its construction and it's certainly a big business venture it's a joint project between the russian state owned gas company gas prom and five western companies with germany taking a lead role in the project this pipeline is supposed to double the capacity of an already existing pipeline in the baltic sea and it's supposed to stretch from western russia into the heart of the e.u. and the cost estimation is about nine and a half billion euros now the united states has been opposed to this since the beginning of the project back in november the u.s. embassy to the e.u.

said that washington had the tools to curb the project if berlin remained adamant in working with russia now let's listen to what berlin has to say now about that 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 accepted 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 come out a number of ways it all depends on whether the e.u. is willing to carve out its own economic path or whether it will continue to allow the u.s. to influence the situation from across the atlantic. geo political analyst pierre emmanuel tolman believes america's rather pushy approach will ultimately backfire the more united states put pressure on europeans the more there is

a risk that europeans try to detach themselves from the u.s. and try to make it big a deal we've russia we cannot abandon and. import of russian gas of east. makes reciting saw the armored can source who is really meat newsy or the pressure of capacity also this week a us senate democrats are planning a vote on trump's move to lift sanctions against businesses of russian a businessman oleg deripaska. i have concluded that the treasury department's proposal is flawed and fails to sufficiently limit very pascoe's control and influence of these companies and the senate should move to block this misguided efforts by the trumpet ministration and keep the sanctions in place in late december the us treasury announced it would lift sanctions imposed on deira pascoe controlled firms and clothing alimony and john to sell its parent e n.

plus one power firm euro say about an hour ago meanwhile e.u. officials back the decision to ease sanctions against roussel and e n. plus in a letter to the senate minority leader they stressed that economic penalties lead to increased prices and significant challenges in a number of e.u. states and that workers suffer the most and the geopolitical analyst up here again says some u.s. politicians fear an e.u. russia alliance. i sing for mr trump himself he small business than anything else but ynys over not only nice to ation if we are many conservatives people are. like. conti new to very job or to corrupt roach to international relations and to prevent any good relations between europeans and russia because if russia and europeans have

a good relations it can be strong to giver and threaten american dominus you but war. hollywood star bryan cranston best known for his leading role in the breaking bad t.v. series is facing a backlash over playing the part of a disabled character in a remake of the french hit the intouchables the film is about a paralyzed millionaire who hires an ex criminal to be his caretaker and some have taken offense that able bodied cranston was given the wrong. i need assistance a doctor has worked it out you can move your mouth as can you. so i'm online complain that croutons role should have actually been given to a real quadriplegic others know if it has casting rob disabled actors of opportunities across to himself things the criticisms are unfair. i think being

cast in this role as a quadriplegic really came down to a business decision as actors were asked to be other people to play other people if i is a straight older person and i'm wealthy but i'm very fortunate does that mean i can't play a person who's not wealthy does that mean i can't play homosexuals i don't know where does this restriction apply where is the line for that. filmmaker dominic ivan says it's harder for able bodied doctors to play characters with disabilities and this can have negative consequences casting non-disabled people as disabled character has considerable amount of time to disabled people especially those with physical disabilities because he's pre-training someone that isn't wheelchair use and it's the social random ramifications that are really what i am concerned with we know that through the study of film that representation matters inaccurate

representation causes harm to us most non-disabled people are afraid of becoming disabled and non-disabled people are primarily grating films about disability so if you're coming at it from a place of harm and fear to begin with it's probably not going to be an actual accurate representation of what disability years and what disabled lives are like. it's not the first time marketers have come under fire for playing roles of minorities they don't belong to the star of the american t.v. show stranger things charlie heat and was criticized for his part in a remake of the elephant man and scarlett johansson dropped out of her transgender role in the movie rug and tug after a backlash from the transgender community of media commentator things it doesn't matter who plays what role so long as the right issues get attention. brings awareness to the issues of disability when they're making

a film that incorporates someone with a disability as long as they're depicted in a realistic or positive light i think that's a good thing every actor who plays someone in a particular situation has necessarily experienced it that's of course part of acting and i get a little frustrated personally as a mother of somebody with a disability that people are going to get so offended by this or that minutia i always think will why are they fighting the real genocide against people with disabilities which is abortion in the united states they really want to take on disability in this country i would say that would be the place to start is with genocidal abortion selective abortion which is becoming more and more legal and more and more popular in the united states rather than complaining about the depiction of someone in a movie if you don't like the movie don't go see the movie. the video of canadian

authorities taking a newborn baby girl from the arms of a crying indigenous mother has caused an outcry of the mother not being told when she will be able to see her child. are you going to comply if not we're going to have that physically removed i don't want to. go are you going to work on the steps to get the review that you're over. in the video policeman explain that the baby is being taken into care of the woman who's been accused of being drunk when she arrives at hospital a family denies all the allegations of the incident there has caused an outcry online. pod breaking an indigenous child ripped from her mother's arms by the state again this is not just part of canada's history it's today's leave reality we're failing in break conciliation on every front imaginable when it comes to

discriminatory treatment of indigenous people the united states and canada follow the same ill principles the mother was already seeking help from manitoba child and family services and they took a baby with scans reason stupid move because other women will get the picture and not seek help racists meanwhile the canadian child services authority claims that the right decision was made despite the fact that around eleven thousand children a current lee and karen manitoba province where the incident took place and their late ninety percent of them are indigenous of indigenous activist laura williams thinks this practice is due to the residential schools system. prematch this is in the end it's going to have been a cancer on the very beginning when they got her rank made it to take a shower and they were in the residential well how far back go you know when you

have the police who are taking you need children and throwing everything he's residential all right richard where they didn't retort to rain being used for child labor you know you have all these things are back. you know rather have already are the will to tide and yet children back i think that if they know where the children are taken and that. kind of housing so that howard has you know no other children and then i still lose their income if you know. there should basically down to two hundred dollars they're writing or two hundred dollars and i'm trying to get her children back. it is there's no question this is like our. concerns are rising over a new israeli road which segregates israeli and palestinian drivers israel's transportation minister says it will make jerusalem stronger but critics are you

know only deepens divisions is our correspondent paula sleep. welcome to the latest controversy here in the west bank behind me is the new lead in the race for five kilometer stretch of road with a physical barrier my back up with one thing now this barrier separate israeli and palestinian drivers get to take a drive. and this is the israeli side of the road it can extremists and then with the settlements so most of the drivers here are syphilis now the only palestinians who are allowed on this side of the road all those who have special interest permits for jerusalem i'm filming with a palestinian cameraman who has to purchase a permit with him all the time in case we get stopped israel claims that this new barrier strengthens the connection between the settlements and should be some of them also hopes of the traffic and they do believe that primarily it's to further separate and dominate the kind of jerusalem to make it more accessible easy access

to those living in the settlements so they can get to jerusalem faster and so it's usually on the expense of the. palestinians getting even for in order takes them longer to get to where they need to they need to get i think that the street should be open for both sides are saying the same way there should both sides would get. access to where they need to get it's a problem i mean we need to find a way that both sides can use the same street even lee it's not fair it's not ok for the life snoop dog to be like that to me to be some food groups we've had to travel quite a distance to do you cheer and we're now coming back down the same road we were driving along earlier just. in the opposite direction so all the drivers you see here are palestinian have no permits to enter to resell them and for them this war is nothing short of blatant discrimination they call it.

so some of. the israelis to this new road is the main route for the palestinians to connect the northwest current to the east and west because they want to control the old route which connects the modern and to mean and not to settlements in the jordan valley section of this road plan fits israel moving the palestinian. israelis confiscated future amount of land for much to open this road and that is thirty three thousand square kilometers and now we only less than two thousand square kilometers of this road doesn't help but now this people as the israeli government claims that they made this road to close down a lot more street in the future and make they don't leave for the israeli it took more than ten years for this road to open because of a dispute between the israeli police and army over who would control the checkpoint and there are other divided heard some of this bank but none of them have a walk separating the two sides the road to resolving divisions here just got

longer for three hour with bag. has been stopped on stage during a charity event he is right now in a critical condition after the assault via taco walked around the stage shouting that he was wrongfully imprisoned under the former government he blamed the mayor of good bands of them over this he was previously a member of poland's ruling party a suspect was held down by security guards and is now in custody. after years of conflict syria is now trying to recover as are its war scarred people here's a story of one boy's fight to save his like. my friend and i were trained ball when we found something in our backyard was even

though it was a mortar shell started to play with it down we decided to put it in the basement and that's when the explosion happened. a few minutes friend died in that explosion so my son got multiple injuries and doctors had to amputate one of his lives there was a risk he would lose the others i didn't know what to do luckily in the hospital my trash and doctor if. it is r.t. international donald trump has threatened to devastate turkey's economy if the country attacks the kurds in syria in a tweet he also insisted that the us military pull out would go ahead as planned. starting the long overdue pullout from syria while hitting the little remaining

isis territorial caliphate hard and for many directions will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms will devastate turkey economically if they hit kurds from st comes days after turkey renewed its threat to launch a military offensive against the code is why p.g. and northern syria the group received support from the us and has played a role in fighting islamic state but why p.g. is viewed by ankara as a terrorist organization dispute has put a strain on the u.s. on turkey's long standing alliance with a nato a former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes trump cannot afford to escalate the situation with to. try to keep any kind of reach and he's got to be careful he's also going to watch his words. because people are only getting sick and tired of threats especially you can one week and then i think that this is actually have an adverse effect because it is driving turkey more away from the

west and nato then and push you everyone more toward the east and comments like that from trump only reinforce it it was determination to look more peaceful and then. the last. one person has been killed and eight injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in shakti city in southwestern russia i think splosion happened on the top floor of a nine story building a two of the stories that a collapsed destroying full flats eight people including a child were reportedly rescued while it's feared others may still be trapped under the rubble we will keep you updated. so there are just some of the top stories for this hour on this monday live on r.t.e. international we are back soon with much more.