you. know. this hour's top headlines a big day for breakfast it was the u.k. parliament votes on whether to back to resume a.z. steel. problems russian interpreters could be subpoenaed to testify before congress as democrats suggest the president is concealing information from his meetings with

vladimir putin. three months national debate gets underway in france as president back wrong tries to turn down the temperature on the yellow vest protests . it is true that morning on january the fifteenth here in moscow let's get into your top stories for this hour on a. tuesday is perhaps the biggest day for brecht's it since the day of the referendum back in twenty sixteen british m.p.'s will vote later on tories or mazie e.u. divorce deal it does come off to five days of intense debate in parliament over these next twenty four hours if this deal the second get we save a dream finally did government to live on a bunch withdrawal deal with nothing will sort of take outline a long enough. relationship with the e.u.

will be when the history books are written. look at the decision. during the past two years of bully negotiations the prime minister has failed to listen. we should to the british people and get on with building a brighter future for our country. the state. government is in just the right age korea is a prime minister's deal is rejected tomorrow it's time for a general election it's time you. and it seems that may want to get a lot of support for the deal from our own conservative party some of our m.p.'s have already made it clear they will reject it. gives us a round up now of the events leading up to today's vote. today could make or break what has become teresa mayes life mission delivering on what the british people

voted for the twenty sixth the referendum the house of commons votes on the british prime minister's brags that if it gets their backing the u.k. will finally be able to get on with it as they say up to more than two years of vision and confrontation about what perhaps it is meant to look like but if lots of men is in big trouble and most predict that m.p.'s will be showing to recent may's deal the door today's night is nothing more than a repetition of exactly the same position that was polled more than one months ago is dead is the deadest downing street has already had to postpone the vote on her deal in december in order to avoid the humiliation of defeat and we will therefore defer the co-chair for tomorrow. and not to proceed to divide the house at this time what followed was a slap in the face at home a vote of confidence triggered by her own conservative party mate may have survived but passions continue to boil following this but we now need to get on with the job

of delivering bricks it for the british people may travel back to brussels for some extra support but didn't quite get it the e.u. made it clear there will be no reading goshi ation on the withdrawal agreement only clarifications at the shore and says it's not open for you to add insult to injury reports were flying around that the president of the european commission was calling me names and i was told the gross you know if they haven't checked. their knowledge should. fast forward to today little has changed what's continued to pile up though is criticism m.p.'s have decided that means government will have three days if the deal is rejected to come up with plan b. a plan to resubmit is likely not to have opposition leader jeremy corbyn once a general election as a way out of the deadlock the government is in disarray. right it's time for a general election it's time for

a new government but despite the resistance made continues to insist that her offer is the best one possible saying not supporting her deal would lead to a new deal brax it for new cracks if at all while no deal remains a serious risk having observed events at westminster over the last seven days it's not my judgment that the more likely outcome is a paralysis in parliament that risks that being no bret's it but isn't that something that so many politicians had preferred all along anyway with some already laying the groundwork for a second referendum well now and the possibility of. the british public we had a case here it's up to get back. to reconsider this brics it is a cause a trip a swindle a fruit a deception that will most of those people that promise to help you know why we bothering to leave and when we leave we're still subject to all the rules and

paying in cash and all of this kind of thing freedom of movement but we have no say over it it's the votes cast on tuesday evening that will indicate in which direction the ship sailing in unchartered waters will head towards next and if they see it you're going to r.t. london and one pregnant m.p. from the u.k.'s labor party has even postponed us as area and section to enable her to take part in this crucial vote if my son then says the girl even one deletes and then the doctor says vised but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between britain and europe then this war is fighting for nathan gill the u.k. politician and maybe for wales things remain a m.p.'s are doing everything they can to stop brecht's it from happening. she is the prime minister over a remain in the vast majority of m.p.'s who actually remain is so if she's telling them if they don't back a deal they will be no breaks it is they're not going to deal she's not going to

persuade them to do so it said very clearly on the ballot paper to stay in the e.u. or to leave and said nothing about arranging the deal is that nothing about you can article fifteen said nothing about any of these delaying tactics in which the remain as a trying to galvanize the support and trying somehow grasping with their fingernails to stay within the e.u. when the british people were very clear about what they wanted and the reality is five hundred m.p.'s voted to trigger article fifty fifty ses very clearly that it is even a deal that is all twenty guys who we leave without a deal and there is no option in there for no direct so i'm not sure where she's coming from. us democrats are reportedly preparing subpoenas for donald trump's interpreters who worked on his meetings with vladimir putin it's over concerns that the american president is concealing nationally significant information. if i had

a choice i'd rather not do that with the with the interpreters but we may have no choice we'll have to see down down the road what happens but we want to get to the truth it comes after the washington post reported that trump went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the content of his meetings with the russian president allegedly keeping the notes his interpreter had made other articles published for the week and suggested the trial might well be a russian asset u.s. president was quick to react. i never worked for a right you know that is your 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 hole you just don't have trump also lashed out of the media saying it's getting crazy every single day and another big story this weekend was the inquiry opened by the f.b.i. on whether trump was secretly working on behalf of russia it said the probe was initiated off to trump fired f.b.i. chief james comey last year while the u.s.

president had his say on this as well. so the people doing it best to go just for people that have been born that are known scoundrels there i guess you could say dirty jobs so would you say should i have confidence in the f.b.i. or zealots it's a disease when i see more and i see all of these see both when i see lisa and her lover as there's so says there's a good half year you see what they said about me having nothing to do with us to go to the election is next year so what the republicans and other people 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 my

respect release him again i don't think anybody really understand 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 nor we've heard a big cheer waited to it anything new anyone russian involvement here american public just have said said enough with this police give us a new country maybe make it chinese just to mix it up a little bit americans are tone deaf when it comes to everything in any they russian. french president has invited the country to take part in a national debate on issues raised by the yellow vest protests however the move has been met with cynicism by his political opponents and charlotte do penske reports as france begins a nationwide form of therapy president mike cord hopes he can find solutions to quell the anger over the yellow fast movement in doing so he's taken

a leaf out of the book of the sixteenth can you. a similar method to try and put cold water on popular discontent with the french media drawing comparisons to how the french revolution began to bubble away it's not the first time that corn has been likened to a king with this minorca call style of leadership and that seems to see through the letter he's written to citizens about his national debate for louis that debate ended in a revolution will it be different this time around for me there is no bond issue we're interviewing everything which is normal in a democracy but at least will show we're a people who are not afraid of talking exchanging debating mccaughan has promised that he will listen to all opinions but he's already come under fire for opposition politicians who've described the debates as a diversion a big debate

a big diversion it's like redoing the presidential debate but the government is fixing the outcome debate yes of course but when it comes to these big debate we don't know who is again a neat the topics are limited and before it even starts the government is announcing that it will adopt a radical policy this isn't the first time that calls government has tried to ease tensions. of course is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is poor weak. i will not concede anything to those who want to struction and disorder. if you. like take

my share of responsibility. mcewan hopes this big debate focusing around four themes will be a turning point and though he says he listened to new ideas he's also been crystal clear that the core economic reforms that he's already instigated scrapping a wealth tax won't be reversed the debates are not an opportunity for people to offload all their frustrations nor are we questioning what we've done in the past eighteen months we're not replaying the election many protesters see the whole debate as no more than a masquerade ball look we don't care about the national debate because we know it

won't change anything that really many demonstrations they used tear gas against protesters this national debate is like sleeping gas. krantz adjusted a national debate we know it's useless because the government says they won't review anything that's been done in the last eighteen months and there appears to be a real apathy for this initiative with one poll suggesting that only forty one percent of respondents saying that they would even take part it wasn't just louie the sixteenth who faced his greatest challenge when the french took to the streets the fifth republic founded to go also found his position untenable following the riots in sixty eight and with the yellow vests still calling for corns resignation it appears that this national debate may not be enough to heal the wounds of a country so deeply divided. auti paris. greece protesting school teachers have clashed with riot police over

a proposed new hiring system where tensions running high tear gas and batons were used to disperse the crowd. protesters tried to force their way into the building but the sea pushed him back. when the demonstration began. greece's public order minister strongly criticized the police response calling that unacceptable and politically dangerous she also accused them of indiscriminately

attacking the protesters meanwhile teachers in the u.s. also came out onto the streets to voice their concerns educators in demanding smaller class sizes. more support thousands of striking teachers march and shouting slogans demonstrate. to the l.a. unified school district office it's the second largest school district in america. one hundred. twenty six thousand teachers. open during the strike the student attendance was low it is the district's teachers strike in thirty. fifth grader has thirty eight kids in her room all right one for thirty eight that is too many kids it is unfair to the teacher it is unfair to the students we have nurses one day a week so if you get injured on

a day i do them the day the nurses at your school and there's nothing anyone can do it falls on the office. thirty to fifty students. pays too little for the teacher's. story still to come your way on this tuesday your program in just. what politicians do something anything. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some have wanted.

to be close to see like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the was a. six. day program welcome to it the canadian data analytics has accused the us media of having a pro israel bias and you study published by four sixteen labs says us outlets

routinely depict israel in a more favorable light than palestine. i'm often looks at how this alleged bias might be making life a bit difficult for us politicians if you want to be a mainstream politician being pro palestinian or anti israel is not your best option congresswoman tulsi gabbert was attacked after she announced that she was running for president in two thousand and twenty because she had criticized israel's use of live ammunition against gaza protesters among other things we honored. her support for israel and i consider her friend and good woman which she's dead wrong on a son in criticism of israel in gaza was must terrorists who israel attacked and it's not enough to just support israel but you have to want those who don't support israel to be punished senator marco rubio is going after a newly elected congresswoman simply because he had voted against a law that would penalize those who boycott israel and it's not just democrats who

catch flack if they don't toe the tell of the wine rand paul a republican is facing a wave of attack ads response to the rise to the military support to keep israel safe president trump strongly supports that but not rand paul. stand with israel or will you stand in the way if you want to be successful in politics follow the lead of new york city mayor bill de blasio he actually went as far as saying that being pro israel is part of his job and this is what i do as mayor it's a sacred responsibility to speak for and defend the state of israel there is no closer relationship on earth literally no closer relation to than that between new york city and the state of israel and when it comes to media coverage of israel palestine conflicts well it's not exactly balanced new research shows that for the last fifty years pro israeli stories have been amplified in american media. the large gap in israel centric headlines over palestinian ones was four to one in

favor of israeli stories israeli perspectives and narratives find greater space in the american media compared to those of palestinians now the authors don't even see this imbalance is a problem they think it's just natural that u.s. media would follow us foreign policy critically this appears to be a systemic problem and coverage rather than a result of deliberate planned bias instead of this has likely more to do with what scholars allude to as the u.s. media's affinity to broadly align and support their government's foreign policy objectives but despite the media imbalance the us public is becoming less and less favorable to israel a new poll shows that thirty eight percent of americans think that israel has too much influence in american politics and that's fifty five percent among democrats so it looks like the gap between the u.s. public and mainstream media coverage is growing up an r.t. new york. dissension in the ranks corporal daisy doherty the only

woman on a sergeant selection course failed a vital fitness test but was allowed to continue her training hoping to become one of the u.k.'s first female infantry instructors but discontent among the male troops has seen the army reverse its decision the test requires an eight mile march soldiers have to carry a heavy rucksack and a rifle over a tough terrain and they have to finish it in two hours the rules state that failed to do so results an automatic disqualification from the rest of the course and one former special forces commander says it's really just a question of military readiness. we can either abandon our ability to complete grueling military operations in order to fall into line with political correctness or accept that there was some things females cannot do biologically if standards of modified to accommodate women this will be utterly misguided meanwhile british army advocates make a point of encouraging women to sign up. on

sports i assume for the economy is dominated by men and it wasn't for me. to get into which i. meant it was just in talking to me. like in the confines. excited to get a friend and i felt. it was tasteless different than what it is a good job. recently commissioned at an office so now i need to change. it feels good to find my place. last october u.k. defense secretary governor williamson and alice that old roles in the british army would be open to women that assertion brings britain in line with countries such as america israel and australia officials said at the time that women soldiers would have to meet the same standards as men. so we talked to former israeli defense forces soldier atomic and she told us physical differences between men and women

have to be taken into account you 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 acknowledging them we can involve women into different army units and putting them in the roles in the army i take as 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 and the physical aspect is a very important one but if you are talking about an elite unit you can take women that are elite in their physical abilities but even a woman that is elite and or physical is the best of the best in our physical ability will not come to be close to the man that is the fastest or best in

his abilities. years of conflict in syria have left scars on the country and of course its people some of its citizens are still having to fight hard for their lives here is the story of one boy. in fact my friend and i were playing 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 from died in that explosion so my son got multiple injuries and doctors have to amputate one of these ladies there was a risk he would lose the others i didn't know what to do. in the hospital my trash and dr macneill young.

as nine twenty five am on tuesday morning here in moscow thanks for sharing your time with us here at r.t. international we were turn to the top of the hour with more of your choose day world headlines. it has you know where was you know my by going to know what it is understood i like . ask but i. owe. you for your hydro alaska's buskers got plenty of. resources you know just like anybody on a month all those who oppose it but that's almost i brought with it is barely a. choice as you know where i was you're not. you know just i mean what almost

bought it i'm already but it was sped up already difficult to read in the i mean i was told a lot. of it up as well i must admit that really feels i just. there's a lot of us but those. we're going to spend on one of the. this where this part of this i'm going to get my will my family. yes it will be. yours implementing. your health care executive or a bank your cost of getting a gift from the federal government of millions hundreds and millions trillions of dollars if you're not part of that cobol you are the one paying for it yes and that's why there's a lot of social unrest that's the yellow vest movement in france and around the world it's the global insurrection against banker occupation is coming to america

in twenty nineteen yellow vests in your torch and let's party on t.v. because it's all about the rebel. fighters. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton in washington d.c. we're so glad you're on board coming up today the u.s. government shutdown is now impacting more people than ever and it could impact u.s. homeland security and even those outside of the united states fred kaufman offer a bet the farm is standing by to tell us about the dire circumstances and as u.s. air carriers are about to report earnings we get ahead of those announcements and

asked if the companies will take off be in a holding pattern or yelling may day in twenty nineteen flyboys steve malls bergen alex my hail of the troll join us all that directly head first let's get some headlines let's go. if one were to simply look at today's headlines on chinese export its might seem a tale of two stories but as we say the numbers matter and we'll break them down in that regard the latest counterintuitive consequences of the u.s. china trade deficit conflict lead our global report as china post a record a record trade surplus with the united states even as chinese exports overall fell to their lowest monthly level in two years the latest figures from china's customs authorities show that in twenty eighteen the year president donald trump opted to hit china with new tariffs to compel change in terms of trade china's trade surplus with the u.s. increased by seventeen percent reaching

a record level of three hundred twenty three billion dollars as dr phil might say here in the u.s. how's that trade stuff working out for you mr president the answer is not to well of course the picture changes though when we pull back the frame for a broader view as the sum of chinese exports to all other nations fell by four percent year over year for the month of december of twenty eighteen that's the first negative monthly report for china exports since march of last year so time will tell if the trend continues but year over year for chinese exports to the u.s. the trade tariffs have not had a good impact for the united states. and turning to europe there are more signs of a slowdown in a number of nations including the euro zone's biggest economic power germany euro stats latest report list the largest your beer production decline in two years.