you. shot last year over near. star cool under which these guns are going through to. you. or. you need to be built. really should be looked at like numbers they should be looked at by people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention. for. this job or just plain old country and defeat the government's priorities that this house has expressed its confidence in the gulf and. the british prime minister narrowly wins a confidence vote in parliament today after i'm pleased roundly rejected her e.u.

divorce deal. reveals plans to take missile defense systems into all but using space as a way for the pentagon to tackle so-called rogue nations. and venezuela's political crisis deepens with the u.s. reportedly considering throwing its full weight behind the country's opposition leader after rejecting the legitimacy of nicolas maduro presidency. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me welcome to the program it's been a turbulent week for the u.k.'s prime minister after her proposed brags that deal was overwhelmingly rejected by lawmakers trey's may manage to survive a no confidence motion on wednesday by a margin of nineteen votes the victory which saw her deeply divided conservative

party rally around her followed an impassioned and wide ranging debate in the house of commons on the country's future. i use to the right to see the nose to the left three hundred twenty five so the new service. thank god i'm pleased that this house has expressed its confidence in the government in our yeah ok mr speaker the right so noble lady with the nose as the nothing has changed prime minister we will continue to work to deliver on the solemn promise we made to the people of this country to deliver on the results of the referendum and. the government must remove must remove clearly once and for all the prospect of the catastrophe of it no do all right simply you and all the chaos that would come as

a result of not take this responsibility likely in my government will continue its work to increase our prosperity and the opposition should we got up and smell the coffee ok. but the latest on what's happening in westminster his alycia choke and what we have going on right now is these political games are figuring out exactly what it is going to look like and who is going to end up getting what they want really continuing in full swing and it's really clear that there is going to be a bunch of people that are going to end up to with rights it looking like something that they did sixty bags because of so many different hosing views on how exactly it should shape up but indeed a very busy difficult time for the british prime minister she has massively failed with the deal that she has been pushing forward through the house of commons for her country to accept that didn't work out she managed to survive by

a very narrow slim majority of just nineteen votes a vote of no confidence that took place here and now the. question is what happens next indeed and what we've seen as too recent may need to be really after surviving some sort of you know confidence for the for an opposition party leader gerry corbin who initiated that vote of no confidence to get together for talks and start moving forward with figuring out what to do next he however declined that meeting and he says no talks will be taking place until a new deal drugs it is completely off the table this is what he said earlier today the process of the last two months has been one of threatening people by saying well if you don't vote for this to them is no deal and it's going to be the crisis of no deal i just said quite simply i'm happy to put forward our views on it but you've got to take no deal off the table first. well that theresa may taking no deal off the table seems extremely unlikely at this point

although again with so many things having happened anything could happen but for now we have jeremy corbyn there see that she has survived as he put it for now hinting that a more motions of no confidence could in fact follow depending how events unravel he said that this is a government only in name as he put it and he's called again for another general election to take place because according to the labor party leader that is the only way out of the deadlock and he's said that the tourism is offered to discuss this. process of moving forward as a stunt and he does believe that if the government keeps pushing forward with the keeping the idea of a new deal drugs that on the table anything is possible and including a second referendum but also said made it very clear that all the options are on the table including the public vote option which we made clear in our conference

motion which was i have to remind you unanimously agreed by our conference last september eleventh. however the difficulty there is when pushed for. the details in terms of what labor's position would be on this whether to leave or remain what kind of specifics they would put forward if there were a general election that's where the things become extremely vague and that's the problem there specially given there's only just weeks to go before. kicks in so he's also written a letter to theresa may earlier today urging her if she if you want to deal rule out the possibility of no deal but meanwhile we have the british prime minister the ever surviving theresa may her clock is ticking because now she has to come up with a plan b. which is going to be voted on at the house of commons as soon as tuesday january twenty ninth and so not only does she have to come up with this plan b. which she didn't have certainly up until the vote that took place earlier but she

also has to make sure it's going to be much more popular than whatever she had come up with in the first place especially given that she's unlikely to get away with it if she really doesn't pull something together that is going to work for the majority which is extremely difficult given how split the country is on the issue of bricks it. just to recap on the possible scenarios and what's ahead in the next couple of months straight away is soon expected in brussels the crisis talks on bragg's it she'll be hoping to win concessions from e.u. officials and negotiate changes to the current deal mr may will then present her plan b. to parliament on monday m.p.'s will debate and vote on it on the twenty ninth of january currently the u.k.'s shuttle to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march and as things stand it may leave with no deal at all on world trade organization terms. now radars interceptors and space center sensors donald trump has revealed the

pentagon's new plan to take anti missile systems into orbit to better deal with the threats of rogue states the us president says the goal is to stop launches by hostile powers over their own territory removing unnecessary risks. we will recognize that space is a new world striding domain with the space force leading the way it's ultimately going to be a very very big part. of the asli. afterwards we have some very big players out there. and we are a good player. but we can be far worse than anybody. if need be the strategy could see senses flown into into space to spot missiles being directed at the us during the initial launch phase this means the pentagon can engage aggressive actions of the stage when weapons are considered to be most

vulnerable. now we're going to bring in a fully u.s. congressman ron paul to discuss this and give us some insight into this decision he's announced plans for a space based missile defense system allegedly in order to protect against so-called rogue states such as north korea iran russia and china. is there more to this plan do you think than just a monitoring so-called threat. well i think the biggest issue here is somebody's going to make a lot of money on it you know reminds me of star wars a few years back that never really developed but people got excited about it you know i'm all for having defensive weapons if necessary but quite frankly i can't quite see the danger that they're talking about that we have to now go much further into debt on something that may take many many years and there is

a question on how well it would work but we're already running a trillion dollar debt every year and in this this can't be paid for out of them borrowing money and i just don't see see the danger that they're claiming but there's a lot of a lot of support for it especially the people who get to build there's a boondoggle for a lot of people so i think the military industrial complex is very very powerful very very influential and every congressman in the states here has some type of military operation that is they build weapons so there's a there's interest in the house and the lobbying is very heavy and frequently it goes along further than most people would guess that it should wrong i mean what is interesting about this is you know it's almost creating. an unnecessary layer of defense why apart from the fact that they said you know to

monitor rogue nations why do you think that. this is a necessary system for the world because obviously if if they start saying create a space defense system other countries going to feel the need to do the same to you and we've already got nuclear weapons. yeah and that's sort of what's been going on to some degree it reminds me of course the cold war and of course i one thing that annoyed me a bit was about a phrase that we were moving in this direction is when we in the western united states to uphold their agreement that we would push nato to the borders of russia and yet that has happened so then when there's a retaliation for us getting too close then we yell and scream so it goes one back and forth an entire who is an accusation like we have there is there is a weapon out there faster and more damaging and we're not protected against these

really really fast missiles and i don't think we should ignore those kind of stories but should you go to the point of committing to a program that is going to cost probably trillions of dollars and then there's the question of it you know right now they're struggling in congress decide whether or not they can get five billion dollars for a fence and they're having some trouble there but it seems like the money they spend in the military industrial complex never gets the same scrutiny as some of these political issues do you know i mean if we look at the rogue states statement and they've mentioned obviously iran russia north korea and china how do you think those countries are going to react to this. well i know how they would like to react and that of course is you know increasing their militarism that they have but it can't keep going forever something obviously happened but they're not going to stand by and and ignore it ever. country i think thinks about

their national defense so often. these arguments get carried away you know to the point where both sides are you know up you know out betting that you know side building more and more and the only people that seem to be really heard from this of the people of the countries whose finances are drained so every country the people suffer and that is why war is so bad and we advocate a peaceful approach because order meant we the people who fight and pay for all these conflicts where there is a cold war or whatever it's the people who suffer and they suffer and die and they suffer the consequences and this whole idea in the states there's a lot of talk about military keynesianism well it's good for jobs and her people make a lot of money and all but when when countries build even though it's for defense they think it's good for the economy but it really isn't because it's taken out of

the economy as a negative so when we build weapons whether we put them up in the up in the atmosphere in this space or we go to places where we probably have no business being it's a distraction from that money being spent here at home. i think there has to be a better approach to peace. rather than just saying we're going to have bigger and tougher weapons than you're going to have and we can bankrupt you in a way that that was a big deal in the cold war there was a lot of building of weapons and our our efforts here are say well we've done pretty well in the states by doing this but it's all based on debt so ironic but really if you look at the will say what we have to have them run but if you look at the justification for this new stat we don't know how far it's going to go yet

because i discussing it but. justification is to maintain peace what do you think about that. they always say the opposite of what they're doing i think they're i think the main thing is that they're not sitting there and say well this start a war this provoked an antagonism it makes people fearful of a war but i think the biggest motivator behind that and they used to scapegoat the countries that they might be able to stir up animosity toward but i think it's i think it's more involved with money than anything else i've been in i was in washington for a good many years and believe me the militarists are very very powerful and very very influential and they always get what they want even when you have the republicans in especially they all go more for the defense but fiscal conservatives are big spenders as much as liberals and of course i've been involved

a lot in the say of economics and although on the surface and for short periods of time that looks like it's a benefit but ultimately it fails and i think what you're talking about using the scare tactics that will motivate them to do something else to be more antagonistic toward up to say oh well we're not passing they have to answer to their people too so we're looking really tough and saying don't mess with us they have to do the same thing then it goes back and forth for some reason is so unnecessary from my viewpoint but that has gone on for a long long time and people think that you know all we have to do is start talk to the leadership at the leadership of each country has to answer to their people and for the people to go along with irrational spending they have to be intimidated. in the libertarian movement and in my is to to for peace and prosperity we don't want to be involved but there has to be a lot of scaring we have to scare the people you know if we don't do it you know

then you're not america you're not a good. america and you're not for peace and this is good for jobs so you have to go along with it and that's an attitude that we try hard to change the attitude because i do want to be very much involved in the world i want to promote a philosophy of peace but i think it has to always be voluntarily so other countries have used force and intimidation the twentieth century was a disaster and i remember so much of that that yeah so we do have some good qualities as as a as a society and i believe in spirit ing our ideas but not through intimidation not through wars and not through threats i think that is that does the opposite and of course we have a guy that i'd like to see fall more often and that is the guide of our constitution because that's the only thing that we can resort to to try to rein in you know an overly aggressive government wrong talking about you mentioned you know

should be answering to the people and it is the international community is watching this all the confused because we've seen it all full of contradictions haven't behavior specifically north korea has been mentioned as one of those rogue states and. washington has been praising improve ties and we've seen this a lot differently where they have been successful meetings. and then something else comes along and a different start to strategy takes place does the travel administration now in your opinion see things differently with north korea. well i like that when the stance is softened and i encourage that when that happens because we we should have more of that but you know this is the same way with syria our organization praised trouble he said well this is good out of syria we

don't need to be there we said we were going to lead and yet just look at him. many people are coming down hard on him for merely mentioning well two thousand troops we're going to move around and then as if we've just created world for three by suggesting that we're not going to stay there so it's usually done by scaring the people and but that's been around throughout all of history that in order for the people to go along with it you say why do the people go along with why do young people in one country go thousands of miles to another country and start fighting each other they don't there's this is not a natural hate but there's a natural animosity when the governments the politicians and the and the profiteers they get involved and then they get control of the propaganda and this is true in just about any nation the propaganda machine to support these views very very dangerous and that's why i was had always been hopeful that we could get our message out on the internet and try to explain to people there is another option there such

a thing is volunteerism and work toward peace rather than threats and intimidation ok we're going to leave it wrong we could talk for ages going to say that was wrong fulfilment us congressman thank you so much for coming on to the program and airing your thoughts. you're welcome. now men as well as embattled president is facing fresh challenges to his authority as he begins his second term in office on wednesday a group of exiled military officers called for nicholas meant to overthrow saying the army must reject his leadership in the wake of last year's disputed election they've always says support for the opposition one way to be also has washington's found backing and says his party is ready to form a government with more on the crisis his. one has declared himself to be the interim president of venezuela is choosing not to recognize the inauguration of nicolas maduro the president who was just sworn in no election took place to

select one was the head of the national assembly. at this point he is granting no legitimacy to the venezuelan state and it's worth noting that the us government loves him this is what was said by us vice president mike pence because we do as a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who is a prisca venezuelan people who for. the united states strongly supports the courageous decision by. the president of the national assembly to invoke constitutional protections and to clear the country's presidency vacancy now at this point rumors are circulating that donald trump is planning to recognize the unelected leader grade zero as venezuela's head of state marco rubio the u.s. senator is trumpeting the call from the us his perspective since we recognize the legitimate president of the national assembly president pending a new election i think that the time has come to expel them a girl appointed ambassador and allowed the new constitutional president to appoint

replacements the washington post even gave a platform to publishing an op ed that he wrote now doesn't that sound a lot like foreign meddling the usa has been pretty open about choosing to side with the opposition against venezuela's government back when she was in office this is what nikki haley said at the united nations the systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the security of all people in latin america it is time for to go back in september the white house would not deny that it had met with people that were plotting a coup to overthrow the venezuelan government when asked about the issue it simply gave a vague statement about democracy and since then we actually heard donald trump calling for the violent overthrow that is wailing government it's a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military or the military . now the washington post in the new york times two top newspapers in the usa have

both published on. ads calling for the military to overthrow the elected government in venezuela now u.s. leaders say this is simply out of humanitarian concerns they only want to intervene to rescue those poor oppressed venezuelans socialism has bankrupted the oil rich nation. and driven its people. into abject. poverty as we've seen the completion of venezuela's collapse into dictatorship we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option there is no greater chose today than the full scale dismantling of democracy and the heartbreaking humanitarian disaster in venezuela but how exactly can u.s. leaders claim that they know what average venezuelans want venezuela is facing a deepening economic political and social crisis but we can't possibly understand this crisis or see a way out of the crisis without understanding u.s.

intervention the head of the us has been trying to topple this government since the year two thousand two thousand and ten and one and so i mean the us is not promoting democracy in venezuela the u.s. is stepping up in intervention in a moment in which it sees that it now has an actual possibility of all with growing the government the u.s. particularly is threatening to recognize this opposition as the legitimate government and it is threatening to impose heightened oil sanctions so that it would not only import bennis well than oil and refine it in the united states the purpose is not to bring democracy the u.s. doesn't intervene in other countries in order to bring democracy to those countries that it intervenes in order to secure its own interests so it if it bolsters recognizes and props up dictatorships when it's in its in the u.s. interest to do so and a choice to bring about regime change through elections in which it intervenes in those actions so the usa says that it wants democracy in venezuela well nothing sounds more democratic than having the military roll into the capital and overthrow

the elected leaders caleb mop and r.t. new york. lasagnas now be back around thirty minutes time with more time spent on our team's national instinct alex simon sam. there's albeit a whole cost going on in america for profit and the drug companies are killing millions of americans for profit and if no politician does anything about it i mean i look around the world and i see this relational in the france protests and i see that is growing growing globally and john locke said in sixteen of the ninety i believe that if the social contract was broken that it's up to the people to revolt

the social contract has been shattered revolution this in a sense. because you know provision of my by going to i want to. get. your. resources you know. better than people. so i says you know what i was going to say. you know. what i'm already. we're going to. give it up as well i might. get it. but those were the. one of the. this where this part of. my body and we've. just been there

already and yes it will be in the. trunk when he was running in two thousand and sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly and with what you would consider the sort of post-war liberal international consensus that that americans want. and your might be. some claim that there are elements of that critique that house and the liberty here's the problem though it's not enough to offer a critique you can see that there are problems with the existing foreign policy and then you have to offer something that's a better person pure alternative and this is where i think trump is this is a. welcome

to the alex salmond show and t. it another brics special and a week of high drama westminster the prime minister's plan went down to a devastating defeat but still she's hanging on in there for dear life to see what a pile of m.p.'s and commentators marvel about her instinct for political survival in circumstances which should have been the end of any previous prime minister she's managed to stick around she said caustic ability whether or not it's about you know about that decision as well what will last i don't know she said we were samsonite we asked the people with positive ideas what value for breaks it and what knife for the country today we also question whether bedsit really is the ill wind that blows nobody any good or bad picks it actually be good news for scotland

ferdy's but first your tweets your messages emails i mean hear from calum fairweather he says really love this interview on alex salmond's show tonight tonight calum is of course referring to the interview with chris may claim me when i managed to find this very useful and informative keep up the good work david still on the subject of chris says what a measured and informative interview you gave on alex salmond show a great introduction to the issues involved and what's at stake in your case martin says i disgraced the should happen with the ministry of defense they're not. above employment law we should add more in we are still waiting for a response even a statement from the ministry of defense the questions he put them last week off the back of the christmas interview ruby says well done chris i share your philosophical belief and finally from tommy who says this is been an important case it puts to rest the thought of discrimination that s.n.p. activists have always quite being cured now let's take a look at a new angle on bricks that a scottish m.p. albeit a passionate pro-u.

to pm has still feast on bricks a town certainty to advocate a divide to direct fady link with the continent alex picks up the story one of the most unexpected aspects of the brakes at debate has been to focus attention on the ferry business the danger of twenty mile tailbacks and the guard fingal the current of those even a two minute delay the dollar has concentrated mines and then there was the controversy about the let it go to a contract to a company to operate a ramsgate who didn't seem to of any families. but the firm in the west famed be douglas chapman has another idea another prospect the sort of breaks that might open this charm and welcome to the examine show oh yeah there was this idea you've got a bit restarting a ferry route to the continent from scotland well we've. goes from resized to supergirl and that's been in the past and forward looking and though is there a option of going in that.