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u.s. media coverage of alleged russia collusion provokes the ire of the american president after one outlet even published a complete guide to his impeachment. people are killed ninety injured after a huge explosion rocks the afghan capital near
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a recovery center for foreign workers. and as the british parliament prepares for tuesday's momentous photon breaks it's the pm desperately tries to rally last minute support. for joining us this is r.t. international. if you thought relations between the media and on the trunk really couldn't get much worse well the president's now accused some of them of going completely mad after outlets of them of going completely mad after outlets rounded on the president over his alleged luzhin with russia one amazing to watch a certain people covering me and the tremendous success of this administration have truly gone mad fake reporting creates anger and disunity take two weeks off and come back rested. drums meetings with putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty gathering along with the helsinki summit also came into the spotlight now
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the president's interpreters who are one of the meetings could reportedly be made to testify before congress party's killem open has details. well there's just been a real escalation of heated words between us president donald trump and the media in a recent speech donald trump blasted the media for their recent reports alleging russia collusion and such this is the us president talking about the press i never worked for russia and you know that answer better than anybody i never worked for russia not only did i never work for russia i think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question because it's a whole big fat home exists now there's been an avalanche of anti trump claims in the press over the past few days that we've seen allegations that trump was possibly a an agent of the kremlin and so much of a kremlin agent of the f.b.i. couldn't even deal with him we've seen allegations that trump has concealed the
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record of his meeting with russian president vladimir putin and prevented that record from being out there we've seen a guy do his impeachment a kind of a roadmap for removing him from office that's been published in addition to all of that we have seen the revelation of a previously unreported f.b.i. investigation into u.s. president donald trump and alleged ties to russia and we've also seen a previously unreported in an revealed fight that took place or disagreement i guess you could say between james komi the former f.b.i. director and u.s. president now that that disagreement between comey and trump has been made public we've heard trump come out and basically explain that he lost faith in the f.b.i. as a result of their behavior during this probe into his alleged ties to russia this is what trump had to say so the people doing that investigation were people that have been caught that are known stone tools there i guess you could say dirty cops so
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when you say should i have confidence in the f.b.i. your intelligence agencies when i see more and i see all of these people when i see lisa and her lover and there's no. yes that's right you see what they said about me having nothing to do with adversity. and now relations between us president trump and the media have never been good but in the way of many unsubstantiated allegations that have been published in the last few days things have certainly escalated we discussed the calls for trump's impeachment with legal and media analyst lionel. the election is next year so what the republicans and other people are going to be asking is why don't you just wait and get him out the old fashioned way by beating him by coming up with somebody better than actually the asons of what this thing is because in this froth and in this frenetic this move to say impeach impeach i respect lisa miller again i don't think anybody really
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understands what impeachment means the american public is complete and totally tone deaf at this point by virtue of this incessant russian collusion russians buying russian does. the american public it doesn't make any sense and more we've heard a big cheer waited to it anything new anyway version of russian involvement here american public just have set said enough with this police give us a new country maybe make it chinese just to mix it up a little but americans are tone deaf when it comes to everything in any they russian this comes amid america's longest ever government shut down over the standoff on funding the president's border war and some americans are starting to feel the impact u.s. air traffic controllers are among those who've been working for twenty four days without pay by canadian colleagues have taken sympathy ordering them hundreds of pizzas to their own thing but some people are tasting during the shutdown is bitterness.
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we are now in the midst of the longest shutdown the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. airports brisk. actions risk america's credit rating the work of the f.b.i. didn't go out at all on. the up front on the show. but on the stump the sound of my one true
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promise safety and security. will go. home. freshman republicans are counting down to just trying to take a six pack of beer on to the house floor and was told this battle out it's pretty serious that last night as he turned around. at least four people have died and ninety three have been injured including twenty four children after a large explosion rocked the afghan capital the blast is said to have happened near a rest and recovery center for foreign workers in the east of the city is a local reporter with the latest from kabul. four that have been killed three are military personnel and one civilian so the neighborhood was quite affected of the
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blast wave as the kabul police confirmed it was a truck bomb gascon presidential palace issued a statement for. condemning the attack and ordering for a comprehensive investigation about it because the. majority of the victims have been civilians in the neighborhood that have been affected seriously is coming back to devolve volatile off this compound of i was standing on my praying and it was around six fifty five pm when i stood for a while i was all of a huge explosion occurred at first i didn't realize it was only after that i saw the whole roof of the fallen on top of us back in twenty fourteen taliban launched a complex attack and no casualty was reported but back in two thousand and twelve when obama made his visit to afghanistan there was another attack that left eight
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dead so this compound has been all for some dozens of foreigners that are working for the united nations as well as for some other nongovernmental organizations so this compound has been quite vulnerable in the past years. the u.s. and turkish presidents of held a phone call discussing the creation of a buffer zone in northern syria in the region mainly populated by kurds this is after donald trump infuriated ankara by threatening to devastate turkey's economy if it attacked the region. tweeter to turkey renewed its threat to launch a military offensive against the kurdish y.p. gene in northern syria the group received support from the us and has played a role in fighting islamic state the y.p. g.'s viewed by ankara to be a terrorist organization this piece put a strain on the u.s. and turkey alliance within ninety. former turkish minister for u.s. fares agreement by august doesn't think the situation will escalate. i don't see
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this. crisis because once president trump understands that he actually embraces the currents and is widely against all terrorists he will realize that he made a mistake i think president trump is using fools and oranges and he has a lot of issues that this will report coming up and he's trying to change the agenda and he knows that you will not go it right but he is saying the troops and he knows we have nothing against the kurds as one fifth of turkey's population as grits and more and. refuge in turkey so i think he got that confused maybe intentionally or maybe unintentionally but he is trying to change your gender. politics.
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today the british parliament will vote on whether to support to resume a strap bags deal in a final bid to convince skeptics the pm made a statement to the house urging him peace to back her deal the words who either didn't get the warmest of receptions. no more playing for time no more running down the clock just scare people into backing this damaging shambles of a deal the only people who are undermining faith in our democracy is the government itself didn't it's korea if the prime minister's deal is rejected tomorrow it's time for a general election it's time to bring new government. with all the details ahead of tuesday's vote his artie's honest. decisions decisions decisions it's an 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
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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 rescind may 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 for to receive me to try to avoid a defeat in parliament and despite 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 to morrow 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 bracks 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
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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 so i say should members on all sides of this house whatever you may have previously concluded over these next twenty four hours give this deal a second look no it is not perfect and yes it is a compromise. we should to deliver for the british people. with building a brighter future for our country. the statement about how. 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 the general election have been discussed mostly by the leader of the
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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 recently 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. the u.s. ambassador to germany sent out to warnings to german companies reminding them about significant sanctions for any firms involved in building the north stream to gas
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pipeline with russia the project is currently one third complete richard grenell so letters to several companies 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 u.s.m.c. later clarified that the letters weren't a threat but rather a statement of u.s. policy this one hasn't stopped a number of german politicians from venting their anger. the u.s. ambassador seems to give the impression he's the viceroy 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 pipelines
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a joint project between russia's gazprom and five western companies in germany taking the lead role is predicted to cost nine and a half billion euros the pipeline supposed to double capacity by the baltic sea is sure to come into operation by the end of the year your political analyst pierre emanuel to man believes that america's pushing approach could backfire. the united states has to go. behind due pressure of it to turn european union energy companies first of all the united states would like to sell their own shaded guts and in competition we have a russian gas the second objective of the united states has always been to were controlled eurasia and to prevent europe to be too close to russia of a more united states put pressure on europeans the more there is a risk that the europeans try to detach themselves from the u.s.
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and try to make a better deal we've russia we cannot abandoned. import of russian and hours of east ruby issue economics reciting saw the americans or so is it really meet new wii or the pressure of capacity. by calling a visiting japanese delegation friends the russian foreign minister has effectively told them to forget about claims to the carrillo and if follows talks with japan's top diplomat on a peace agreement that never been signed because of the dispute over the territory surprisingly the u.s. and china made their way into the conversation as well but he said if you're trying to has more. it was the first round of intensified talks on a peace agreement between japan and russia ordered by the leaders it hasn't been ever since the days of world war two and the number one stumbling block has been
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japan's claims of ownership to a group of tiny islands in a rather unusual twist to this monday afternoon sergey lavrov and his japanese guests decided to talk to the journalists alone separately and in quite a tough manner mr allowed made it clear that japanese officials should forget the idea of questioning russian sovereignty over the islands if they want to get the peace agreement talks go on the. basic position and if progress on other issues is very difficult without a step in the right direction drew the attention obama france from japan to the fact that the issues of sovereignty over the islands are not discussed this is the territory of the russian federation just a little later the japanese top diplomat said that despite the differences the two sides must find common ground so the moscow summit and the ministers appearance was meant to be all of the moscow and tokyo's attempts to fix everything and sort their
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issues out but the u.s. and china and it up being mentioned too that's all because just a little earlier the japanese prime minister's eight said that america should be looking to the appearance of the signatures for that peace agreement because according to him that would help stem the tide of china's influence in the region mr lavrov called that statement outrageous and went on to say that he warned the japanese delegation that moscow is absolutely not a fan of the idea of america developing its missile systems in japan according to. that would hurt russia and china as well that's how china was mentioned twice. concerns arising over a new israeli road to segregate israeli and palestinian drivers israel's
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transportation minister says that it will make jerusalem stronger critics say it only deepens divisions reports from both sides of the highway. 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 now this berry a separate israeli and palestinian drivers it's going to take a drive. and this is the israeli side of the road it connects to loosen them 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
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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 you turn and we're no 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 very this wall is nothing short of blatant discrimination they call it the apartheid or. some of. these rallies 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
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do mean not to settlements with the jordan valley circumstance or sort of this road doesn't help without this people as the. israeli government claims they made this road to have a lot more street in the future make it only for the israelis 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 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 for three hours with a bang. up to in south africa after a local health department reportedly told white doctors not to apply for a number of new positions document shows the department's aiming to heart four hundred sixty six black doctors its targets also include thirty two indian twelve white and four mixed race professionals we are unapologetic about addressing these
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imbalances of the past south africa including. remains an unequal society with limited opportunities to self development those who historically oppressed the political party the democratic alliance has expressed outrage over the policy claiming the health department is being racist and going against constitutional values white people can really make up around nine percent of the south african population we spoke to guess with different views on the race divisions in the country. 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 ny 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 bit more people that use them to play doctor as we rejected the priorities was given to the white people unfortunately that legacy is
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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 white people having all these legit e.s.q. villages that today i changed from the previous government of up but date but instead of trying to lend a. hand in hand with their counterparts they see themselves as it's the black people that they are the elite group they control the governments they control the business they control the education our black people i speak live people are poor
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and white doctor has immigrating only to either countries or. graduated they don't watch two or two i was brought out of it because in a black township to to save in the hospital stairwell clinics the only solution would be to recruit small blip people so that to people who can be separate 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. a video of canadian authorities taking a newborn baby girl from the arms of a crying mother has sparked outrage when you may find these upcoming scenes disturbing. are you going to comply we're going to physically or. i don't want.
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you to work on the steps. in the video the policeman explained that the baby is being taken into care the woman to being accused of being drunk when she arrived at hospital to give birth but according to the family lawyer doctors said she wasn't intoxicated the lawyer also said the authorities have demanded the family removed the video from the internet or else it might hamper their case in getting back the baby. 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 breakin sealy ation on every front imaginable when it comes to discriminatory treatment of indigenous people the united states and canada follow the same ill principles the
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mother was already seeking help from manitoba child and family services than they took a baby with scant 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 around eleven thousand children are currently in care in manitoba province where the incident happened nearly ninety percent of them are indigenous and cooper indigenous activists lorelei williams thinks that this practice is jus the residential school system. creamery expensive every weekend and it's going to have been a q. and a in the very beginning when they got her rank made it a right to take a shower and they were in a residential well how far back. you know when you have the police who are taking you know each other and there are remember in his residential well rather church where they didn't were tortured raped beaten used for child labor you know you have
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all these things how are back. you know rather have the workers there already are that will to try to get her children back that they are no where to children are taken and that. kind of housing so that howard has you know no other children and then national moves are in you have if you're not going. there she would basically down to two hundred dollars there writing or two hundred dollars in writing trying to get her children back. if there's no mission like our. the british army is reportedly being forced to climb down following a revolt spahn male soldiers according to reports in the u.k. press a female recruit was given a pass despite failing a key fitness test for nearly eighteen it we can either abandon our ability to complete grueling military operations in order to fall into line with political correctness or accept that there were some things females cannot do biologically if
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stand is a modified to accommodate women this will be obsolete misguided the test requires a thirteen kilometer monch so just have to carry a heavy backpack and rifle over to right on the must do so within two hours rule state failure results in automatic disqualification from the rest of the course on british army out of twenty eight thousand calls on women to equal that male colleagues by joining the troops. i grew up with brothers always played sports i still full was dominated by men and it wasn't for me. to get to know each other. that it was just until came to me. i felt like i didn't have a voice. so excited to go for it and i shall not. taste the difference. is a pretty. recently commissioned officer. to change. it
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feels good to find my place. we spoke to former israeli defense forces soldier tommy got the who told us that physical differences between men and women have to be taken into account they think that we have to understand that there are some physical differences between men and women and we can't. disregard them we have to look at them and the knowledge of them and only by not enjoying them we can involve women into our different army units and putting them in key roles in the army there are physical differences between men and women and putting i think is the truth that putting women into into these army units are important because the army can only gain from it you gain compassion you gain a different kind of dialect you gain a lot of different things.

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