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its confidence in the gulf and. the british prime minister narrowly wins a confidence vote in parliament today after m.p.'s roundly rejected her e.u. divorce deal. 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 nicholas my duros presidency. it's ten o'clock am in moscow watching r.t. international live from austin king with me welcome to the program. it's been a turbulent week for the u.k.'s prime minister after her proposed deal was overwhelmingly rejected by lawmakers trey's may manage to survive a no confidence motion on wednesday by a margin of nineteen votes a victory which sold. divided conservative part of the valley around followed an

impassioned and wide ranging debate in the house of commons on the country's future . like this to the right hundred and. the nose to the left three hundred twenty five so the no no no deserving. thank you i'm pleased that this house has expressed its confidence in the government in our area err mr speaker the rights owner paul lady. as we know that 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 these here. big government must remove must remove clearly once and for all the prospect of the catastrophe of it no do all right surely you can do 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 in the opposition or should we got up and smell the coffee ok. with the latest on what's happening in westminster his anasuya joke and what we have going on right now is these political games are figuring out exactly what 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 badges because of so many different views on how exactly it should shape up and indeed in 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. it didn't work out she rummaged to survive by

a very narrow strips majority of just nineteen votes a vote of no confidence that took place here and now the question is what happens next indeed what we've seen as too recent may need to be really after surviving a vote of no confidence called for an opposition party leader jeremy corbyn 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 new talks will be taking place until a new deal brags that 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 the first three things 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 off for 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 make clear. conference motion

which was a five to remind you you know it was the greek for your conference last september eleventh. however the difficulty there is when pushed for 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 is specially given there's only just weeks to go before. kicks in so he's also written a letter to theresa me earlier today urging her if she if you want to deal with the possibility of new 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 does not 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 brics it just to recap on the possible scenarios and what's ahead in the next couple of months to resume is soon expected in brussels the crisis talks and brags that she'll be hoping to win concessions from fishelson negotiate changes to the current deal is may well 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. is shuttle to leave on the twenty ninth of march and as things stand it may leave with no deal a toll on the world trade organization times. gerard batten the leader of the cain dependence party in marco arment of the oxford crisis research institute gave

us their thoughts on the impasse in parliament and what it means for the country the establishment remind us of being counter-attacking for the last two and a half years with the assistance of mrs my with the assistance of the commission to get to this position where we are now not really leaving this whole two and a half year political sure rod has been conducted on the false premise that you can't leave without a deal and of course you ended up with a deal that nobody wants even before the referendum i remember talking to some of the people who organize in the leave campaign and i had imagined that they would have a whole shed jewel of part of the european legislation they had to go up or so they could quite happily live with them so they would come out of the traps of to go further if they wanted to and so this is what we're for against it it took the year to begin the process and that's partly because the conservative party is very divided to want to do the opposition is very divided so we have all these divisions and they council cross parties and they cut across the country too. venezuela's

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 overthrow saying the army must reject his leadership in the wake of last year's disputed election they voiced their support for the opposition need to. also has washington's backing and says his party is ready to form a government with more on the crisis. one has declared himself to be the interim president of venezuela he's choosing not to recognize the inauguration of nicolas maduro the president who was just sworn in no election took place to select one who is 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 u.s. government loves him this is what was said by u.s. vice president mike pence is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who is

a precise the villa's wailin people who for. the united states strongly supports the courageous decision by. the president of the national assembly to invoke constitutional protections and declare the country's presidency vacant 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 dural appointed investors and allow 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. 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 peoples in latin america it is time for men to 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 of the bettas wayland government. a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military of the military. the washington post in the new york times two top newspapers in the usa have both published op eds 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 for 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 havre to 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 then the us has been trying to topple this government since the year two thousand two thousand 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 overthrowing 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 archie new york. translates as an space send says donald trump is pushing for the expansion of u.s.

missile defense capabilities as the pentagon publishes a review outlining new ways to deal with the threats facing the country a possible weapons race on the concert and up. joins me in a seated to discuss just found. could this be the catalyst for a global ramping up of minute tree capabilities that era high well some people could be saying that we're definitely getting there others were already say that we're already in this new weapons or arms race and the first review of america's missile defense program in almost a decade besides plans to deploy twenty new ground based interceptors in alaska as well as new radars in centers sorry sensors besides america's plans to use laser armed drones and also stealthy f. thirty five jets the donald trump administration's once a leap in technology the president is keen to get

a space force as he calls it. we will recognize that space is a new world striding domain. with the space course leading the way it's ultimately going to be a very very big part of our defense and obviously our offense we have some very bad players out there. and we are a good player but we can be far worse than anybody. if need be. so dear almost actually more than three decades after the ronald reagan and george h. w. bush era the american president is talking ok maybe not about star wars but about militarizing space and the ultimate goal according to the u.s. president is to be able to take down and amaze missiles even before they leave the

airspace of what the president calls rogue countries donald trump specifically mentioned north korea and iran but if we go back to the review of the missile defense program there we also see the names of china and russia it is interesting in this new development is talking about now what exactly do you think this is going to entail are we about to see u.s. missiles being deployed on satellites has it got a leg well if you take the aspect and the aspirations of donald trump of getting this space for specifically most of the technology for that is yet to be developed by giving this speech what donald trump wants is to see the cash go in the right direction however according to pentagon the process may start this year already the deputy secretary of defense already said that the first elements of

this so-called cost make missile shield will start to be probably sent there already in twenty nineteen now back to the president's speech among the specific threats that he mentioned were the hypersonic missiles developed by other countries and that is exactly what russia successfully tested in late december the missiles cold haven't gardened but if you think that america is trying to defend itself against russia if you take russia's stance on this they're saying that the reason they have to develop all these new systems is because the one balance in. world and its moscow's response to america's aggressive military expansion i mean we will wait and see how far this new program goes if a tool is obviously going to take a long time to develop thanks for the update on that thank you. we also spoke to former us a congressman ron paul who says this is not just about geopolitics. well

i think the biggest issue here is somebody going to make a lot of money on it you know it reminds me of star wars a few years back that never really developed but people got excited about it and 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's questions on how well it would work but we were already running a trillion dollar debt every year and in this this can't be paid for out of the bar and money and i just don't see see the danger that that they're claiming but and there's a lot of a lot of support for it especially the people who get to build this 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 in the states here has

some type of military operation that is they build weapons so there's a there's an interest in the house and the lobbying is very heavy and frequently it goes along further than most people would guess that it should. and kate's interior minister salvini has a case france of harboring a fugitive terrorist suspects on his calling on the money i'm not calling to hand them over with the story his shall it depends. often decades on the run wanted it to be smooshed new tourists criminals finally steps back on to home soil and says oh pretty steamy chaunced with full moon is was part of the so-called great book gates that terrorized the country back in the seventy's.

q he is into a prison sentence but tiste escaped to france now under the so-called to me to hone doctoring by which foreign terrorists were given safe haven if they had were announced their past crimes france welcome to him with open arms for decades he enjoyed something of a celebrity status becoming an author he mingled with the literary elite and politicians now the success in bringing him to justice has led to italy to call on other countries including france to stop harboring terrorists. people to the fridge president to return to italy to fugitives that should not be drinking champagne under the eiffel tower who should be rotting in jail and it's

only it's really worlds france to hand over more than thirty over these champagne terrorists. the list includes new cisco an n.t. who said to live in this house south of paris. i think that of the forty years we could find a solution to this story as has already been done in the history of the world in civilised countries it's time to turn the page but i've never done what they accuse me of i'm absolutely innocent a warrant from an n.t.'s extradition is currently being looked at and it's likely that he won't be alone in wondering if onse is about to give him up but there is.

is big but french officials have said extradition can't be pursued in most of the cases as the statute of limitations here would quash the proceedings with tensions between the two countries already at a tipping point over the migrants the forthcoming elections and italy support for the movement this seems to be no sign that president mccall has any intention of allowing salvini to claim a home run show that even ski r.t. should let so door. to meeting democratic senators in the us are turning up the heat on donald trump requesting access to the interpreters who were present as meetings with a lot of mere putin. we believe it to be in the national security interests of the united states that any record of these conversations be preserved and immediately

provided to congress we insist that the interpreters for these interactions especially the individual who interpreted for your meeting with president putin in helsinki be made immediately available for interviews with the relevant committees in congress the democrats lots of follows an article published by the washington post on sunday it claimed that trying to deliberately conceal details of his meetings with a mere print and including talks in helsinki last year and that apricots have also joined m n n days and read in calling on the interpreters to testify. do you intend to try to subpoena the interpreter or get the notes we do want to pursue this we certainly could subpoena the interpreter would say subpoena interprets notes the question is on what basis will they refuse because they will refuse and what is our chance of success on that. don't trump has responded to the allegations by lashing out at what he calls the fake news media he says they're becoming crazier every day political scientists call and told us that if the interpreters are interviewed and

the thing they say will be taken by the democrats as evidence of wrongdoing on the president's part. i think president. the president. says he doesn't turn over records until he leaves office however if. they are able to. interview with the interpreter then of course we're all sorts of claims or both whatever communication is provided by. the. want to dismiss. anything the president. does not matter what the jurors are going to make charges and. whether to follow the path of the cost of an issue and the exchange of an honorary

award with a scottish duck president putin's official visit brought about a number of new deals and seemingly cemented historical ties and fountains a serbians have been launching in support of the talks today for more on the meeting in belgrade. in front of thousands of people who marched through central belgrade today to greet the russian president in serbia but if it does highlight anything at all that would be the division in the serbian society on wednesday also a thousand strong march swept through the city but it came to a very different tool an opposition rally against the current government so today's event is something of a response to that so be divided politically to the country that wants to join the european union but also at the same time wants to stay a friend of russia a big geo political and diplomatic challenge but the two leaders still met with the

russian president awarded the serbian his serbian counterparts with the. the serbian president gifted vladimir putin a puppy but it wasn't just about symbols of friendship serious geopolitical issues were on the table as well like for example kosovo and it creating its own army glad i'm a potent made a comment on that in fact i see. this into sort of russia as well as serbia is interested in the situation in the balkans to be stable and secure in particular in terms of kosovo russia's position is well known we are in favor of belgrade and pristina coming to a healthy and acceptable agreement on the consular settlement based on the un security council resolutions unfortunately has made a number of provocative steps aggravating the situation and course we made the first steps towards creating its own army of russia fully shares and it's people's

concerns and understands that these irresponsible actions of the cost of bringing ministration could lead to the destabilization of the situation in the balkans. also more than twenty documents have been signed here in the serbian capital some of them deals totally moving to one hundred million euros in transport and energy sectors we've got to realize that words we are ready to lengthen the turkish stream to european countries and to european consumers we have more than enough resources for that we are dealing with serbia on this issue this is also true for infrastructure development and also for transitional infrastructure development on serbian territory we are ready to invest in it and these investments will be about one point four billion dollars. and while the day most definitely wraps up on a positive note for the leaders well the challenges they stand on of reporting from

belgrade in serbia. presidential rivals are always a draw for the media cameras however no one quite expected to report on his counterpart or. to make to. take a look. i'll be back around thirty minutes time with more updates but first. it's worlds apart.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is all off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. all.

conan welcome to worlds apart the chinese used to compare the american presidential elections to a beauty pageant that values appearances over married they stop saying that after the election of donald trump but while the current american president is clearly on many levels including aesthetics is the master of his governance really so much wars damage the flick that by his more organized picture perfect predecessors to discuss that i'm now joined by daniel drezner professor of international politics at tufts university and suggest that it's good to talk to you again thank you very much for giving us some time and it's also.