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a gas pipeline project with russia and as the british parliament has achieved as momentous vote on the breaks that the prime minister desperately tries to rally last minute support. hello welcome just gone seven pm here in moscow you're watching us international some of the media has gone completely mad apparently in the u.s. in its coverage of the u.s. president that is according to donald trump himself his comments come a certain outlets rounded on the president over his alleged collusion with russia one even producing an impeachment. the fake news gets crazier and more dishonest every single day amazing to watch as certain people covering me and the tremendous success of this administration have truly gone mad the fake reporting creates anger and disunity take two weeks off and come back rested cio and another outlet for

example has published a list of reasons why trump might be a russian asset and a security threat to one that even the f.b.i. wouldn't be able to deal with and hawkins has more. if you cared 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 not that america's forty fourth president is a stranger to media attacks first there's the new york times go 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 for some of the fishes 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 asterism paper another media missile came flying in from the washington post's with a warhead packed with revelations about extra secrecy in his meetings with president putin at g. twenty and surely their piece would confirm the very worst suspicions of the impeach trump camp the constraints that trump imposed the part of a broader pattern 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 oh prizes for guessing that one a few more investigations should get that 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 your son was six years old mama look you why police don't play and these are 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 have to wait and see what happens with the mahler report we shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason and we shouldn't avoid it pietschmann for a political reason and 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 went comes over the horizon or russia analyst martin mccauley thinks there could be hidden reasons behind the allegations of trump russia collusion. from your list probably if you had to come up with the worst possible analysis and then he's got to back it up because. how does he back it up because not all conversations of leaders with other leaders is transcripted or actually is. in fact recorded so therefore it's quite possible that putin said various things to him and he said

various things to put him which are private and possibly should remain private but probably point of view of the berrigan government all they can say is that trump when he is president he is president and he has every right to conduct conversations with another president limited and it's up to them to decide what they're going to do and each one will be attempting to achieve maximum advantage for his side. well this all comes amid america's longest of a government shutdown over the standoff on funding the president's border war and some americans are starting to feel the impact to traffic controllers are among those who have been working for twenty four days with that and their canadian colleagues have taken sympathy ordering them hundreds of places but the only thing most people are tasting at the moment during the shutdown is business.

we are now in the midst of the longest shutdown the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. airports risk sections risk america's credit rating the work of the f.b.i. go out it all on.

safety and security. problems will go. home. freshman republicans are just trying to take a six pack of beer on to the house floor and. it's pretty sad lassie. now is the british parliament has one of the most crucial votes in its modern history tomorrow the prime minister to reason may has been trying to drum up last minute support for her breaks in divorce deal with more details his. decisions decisions decisions it's and did make or break time for the british prime minister and despite the fact that we've said this

a handful of times before she somehow always seems to manage to get through a crisis however this time is indeed extremely crucial in terms of what is going to be happening with practice it next and what we have is on tuesday the house of commons will come forward to vote on the deal to receive me has been able to negotiate with the european union throughout the last two years really and if you remember this is a deal that was already previously postponed or to research me to try to avoid a defeat in parliament and this is why days of now heated debate and parliament yet again this is a deal that's clearly gotten quite a thrashing at the house of commons and really very few people expected to be able to go through parliament tomorrow nonetheless to recently continues to be persistent that her deal is the best deal possible for the u.k. and she's been saying that the alternatives really would be a new deal breck said as she says would be destructive for the country or even more

likely according to her is no bracks it at all and something that would be dependent on how parliament exactly decides to stir things forward and theresa may has been making a final plea with the british people and really m.p.'s as well to try to convince them to support her deal yet again let's take a listen to that while no deal remains a serious risk having observed events at westminster over the last seven days it's now my judgment that the more likely outcome is a paralysis in parliament that risks being it. that makes it even more important that m.p.'s consider very carefully how they will vote tomorrow night well there's a handful of options really in terms of where things could go from here if this deal is rejected tomorrow and that would be things like the extension of article fifty that would obviously delay the deadline for the u.k. to leave the e.u. things like

a general election have been discussed mostly by the leader of the opposition labor party things like a potential second referendum have been thrown around here in westminster so all of those things are possible next developments but really depending on how things are going to go in parliament tomorrow so that's the crucial vote and that's what we'll be watching to receive me is appearing there later again today to present an exchange with brussels that she has had providing as she believes. assurances for m.p.'s to vote for her deal whether or not this is going to be enough and whatever she has to say to them is likely to stir any opinions in her favor remains to be seen so all eyes are on the parliament here in the u.k. in the days to come. now the news tonight at least four people have reportedly been killed and forty injured after a large explosion rocked the afghan capital kabul blast is said to have happened

near a rest and recovery center for foreign workers in the east of the city will we get more details now from a washington phasey who's in kabul. and their effects situation has been described what more can you tell us. well it was quite a huge explosion we are around ten kilometers away from the blast site but we still felt and heard the explosion very loud and clearly. so far the ministry of public health confirmed that four have been killed and forty four others including turn children have been wounded and shifted to do. hospitals around and across the city we could hear the ambulances like five to ten minutes ago from here and the ministry of interior is saying that the site is under control the special unit team has a rov into the area and cordoned off the site and that the target was you know

according to the ministry of interior was the green village campus which is heavily secured and guarded by afghans and foreigners is a house for some dozens of you know ex-pats who all are staying there or working there and also it's around for about four acres house that is also hosting some offices of a national sorry. nongovernmental organizations and no one has so far claimed responsibility but it this compound was attacked back in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twelve as well and in terms of what caused this blast still a town it is still it is it that it was a bomb. eyewitnesses told me that it was a truck bomb full of explosives but ministry of interior saying that it was a car bomb it's not specific but it was quite huge and it was quite enormous

because in western part of kabul people heard and they've in central you know in a kabul town people actually felt the wave and the. power of the explosion basically so it's not clear what is you know. let's say what is the casualty rate inside the compass because as i said before there are you know many foreigners living there especially some who are working with the u.n. some work or working with other international organizations so this camp. it was quite important taliban targeted back in twenty fourteen and what obama made his visit to afghanistan back in two thousand and twelve it was also targeted so it was quite. a potential target for the insurgents specially for the taliban that analysts believe that taliban are trying to show their power in order to score more

on the talks and to have some more scores or achievements for the ceasefire at least to gain ground however the ministry of defense of afghanistan has increased and intensive farida its operations against the taliban killing their senior commanders and all for shows so it's now quite tense and the country is actually also living another experience another you know the chaos which is the ambiguity about the elections. ok so time look thank you for the update that was local journalist there in kabul still a town facing thanking. your international we're going to take a quick break now we're back in a couple of. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be present injured. or somehow want to be. that you'd like to be close but what about for three of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters of. the city. as a spy you have to really split your own personality into two you there is the committed jihad this that was the life that 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 in order to fulfill them you have to follow your own family in order to fall them.

alone again the u.s. ambassador to germany sent out warnings to german companies reminding them about significant sanctions for anything involved in the building of the north stream to gas pipeline with russia the project is currently one third complete which grinnell sent letters to several companies. as you are aware the united states strongly opposes nord 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 well the u.s. embassy later clarified that the letters weren't a threat but rather a statement of u.s. policy is however hasn't stopped a number of german politicians from then ting their anger 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 acceptable strengthening of tone in the transatlantic relationship which the federal government should protest against the matter of european energy policy must be decided in europe not in the u.s. the twelve hundred kilometer pipeline is a joint project between russia's gazprom and five western companies with germany taking a leading role it is predicted to to cost nine and a half billion euros and the pipeline is supposed to double capacity by the baltic sea and the shuttle to come into operation two by the end of the year however geo political analyst pierre emmanuel forman believes that america's pushing approach could backfire. the united states has to go. behind the spread of it put on the european union energy companies first of all the united states would

like to send their own shaded guts and competition we have a russian gas the second objective of the united states has always been to control eurasia and to prevent europe to be too close to russia the more united states put pressure on europeans the mall very serious convert europeans try to detach themselves from the u.s. and try to make a better deal we've russia we cannot abandon and. improve import of russian gas of east ruby issue economics reciting saw the americans or so is it really meet new day or the pressure of capacity. concerns are rising over a new israeli road which segregates israeli and palestinian drivers israel's transportation minister says it will make cheery some stronger although critics the

say it will any deepen divisions with more his policy. welcome to the latest controversy here in the west bank behind me is a newly inaugurated five kilometer stretch of road with a physical barrier by government up with one thing now this bury a separate israeli and palestinian drive it's going to take a drive. this is the israeli side of the road it connects to rousselin with the settlements so most of the drivers here are citizen 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 and he has to carry his permit with him all the time in case we get stopped its claim is that this new barrier strengthens the connection between the settlements and jerusalem and also helps ease traffic they do believe that primarily it's to further separate and dominate kind of jerusalem to make it

more accessible easy access to those living in the settlements so they can get to jerusalem faster we need to find a way that both sides can use the same streets even lee it's not fair it's not ok for. the group to be like that to me to be some figures we've had to travel quite a distance to do we used to turn and we're now coming back down the same road we were driving along the earlier just in the opposite direction so all the drivers you see here are palestinian they have no permits to enter jerusalem and for them this wall is nothing short of blatant discrimination they call it the apartheid or . some of. these rays open this new road is a main route for the palestinians to connect the north of the west current to the east and west because they want to control the old route which connects the mala i

do mean not to settlements with the jordan valley circumstance of course a lot of this road doesn't help without this people as the. israeli government claims they met this road to close down a lot more street in the future and made good on it for the israeli woman 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 a checkpoint here and there are other divided roads in the west bank but none of them have a war separating the two sides the road to resolving divisions here just got longer here our team west bank. ok we're going to go back to one of our top stories this hour because the on tuesday the british parliament will vote on whether to support terrorism a's draft breaks it deal on the staff the new westminster prime minister to resign mays making a final statement there urging m.p.'s to back air we're now going live to a debate that is going on at the houses of parliament. the e.u. would use their best and death has to continue to negotiate and conclude as soon as

possible a subsequent agreement that would replace the backstop and they gave a new assurance that negotiations on the future relationship could start immediately after the u.k.'s withdrawal since the council and throughout the christmas and new year period i've spoken to a number of european leaders and there have been further discussions with the e.u. to seek further assurances alongside the council conclusions and today i have published the outcome of these further discussions with an exchange of letters between the u.k. government and the presidents of the european commission and european council. the letter from president confirms what i said in the house before christmas namely that the assurances in the european council conclusions have legal standing in the e.u. mr speaker my right honorable friend the attorney general has also written to me today confirming that in the light of the joint response from the presidents of the european council and the commission these conclusions quote would have legal force

in international law. and setting out his opinion. and setting out his opinion reinforced by today's letter that the balance of risks favors the conclusion that it is unlikely that the e.u. will wish to rely on the implementation of the backstop provisions. and further. and further that is therefore his judgment that the current draft withdrawal agreement now represents the only politically practicable and available means of securing our exit from the european union. mr speaker i know that some members would ideally like a unilateral exit mechanism or a hard time limit to the backstop i've explained this to be the e.u. and tested these points in negotiations but the e.u. would not agree to this because they fear that such a provision could allow the u.k. to leave the backstop at any time without any other arrangements in place and

require a half border to be erected between northern ireland and ireland. i've been very clear with them that this is not something we would have a countenance that the u.k. is steadfast in its commitment to the belfast agreement and would never allow a return to a hard border but it is not enough simply to say this both sides also need to take steps to avoid a hard border when the u.k. is outside of the e.u. failing to do so would place businesses on the island of ireland in an impossible position having to choose between cost the new checks and procedures that would disrupt their supply chains or breaking the law so we have the backstop as a last resort but both the teashop and i have said consistently that the best way to avoid a hard border is through the future relationship that is the sustainable solution and that neither of us want to use the backstop so since the council we've been

looking at commitments that would ensure we get our future relationship or alternatively. enjoyments in place by the end of the implementation period so that there will be no need to enter the backstop and no need for any fear that it will be a hard border and that is why in the first of the further assurances they've provided today the e.u. has committed to begin exploratory talks on the details of legal provisions of the future relationship as soon as this parliament has approved the deal and the withdrawal agreement has been signed and they have been explicit that this can happen immediately after this house votes through the agreement if this house approved the deal tomorrow it would give us almost two years to complete the next phase of the negotiations and of course and of course we will have the option to extend the implementation period if the time we needed for either one or two years it is my absolute conviction that we can turn the political track to ration intrade

legal text in that time of ordering the need for the backstop all together let us also make clear that these talks should give particular urgency to discussion of ideas including the use of all available facility of arrangements and technologies for replacing the backstop with permanent arrangements and further that those arrangements are not required to replicate the backstop provisions in any respect so contrary to the fears of some honorable members the e.u. will not simply insist that the backstop is the only way to avoid a hard border they have agreed to discuss technological solutions and any alternative means of delivering on this objective and to get on with this as a priority in the next phase of negotiations second the e.u. has now committed to a fast track process to bring our future trade deal into force once it has been agreed if there is any delay in russia cation the commission has now said they will recommend provisionally applying the relevant parts of the agreement so that we

would not need to enter the backstop such a provisional application process save four years on the e.u. career deal and it would prevent any today's ratification by other e.u. member state parliaments from delaying our deal coming into force. third the e.u. has provided absolute clarity on explicit language between the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration and made that link clear in the way the documents are presented. i know some colleagues are worried about an imbalance between withdrawal agreement in the political declaration because the e.u. cannot reach a legal agreement with us on the future relationship until we are a country but the link between them means the commitments of one cannot be banked without the commitments of the other and the e.u. have been clear they come as a package bad faith by either side in negotiating the legal instruments that will deliver the future relationship laid out in the political decoration would be a breach of their legal obligations under the withdrawal agreement. for the

exchange of letters confirms that the u.k. can unilaterally deliver all of the commitments we made last week to safeguard the interests of the people and businesses of northern ireland and their position in our precious union gives clear answers to address some questions that have been raises the deal was reached that the deal means no change to the arrangements which underpin north-south cooperation in the belfast agreement that stormont will have a lot on any new laws the e.u. proposes should be added to the backstop and that the u.k. can give a restored northern ireland executive a seat at the table on the joint committee overseeing the deal. this is speaker president says explicitly in his letter that the backstop would represent a sub optimal trading relationship for both sides we've spoken at length about why we want to avoid the backstop but it is not in the e.u.'s interests are into for this backstop gives.