donald trump takes his space and force ambitions even higher revealing plans to put u.s. missile defense systems into orbit. it's ultimately going to be a very very big part of our defense and obviously. offense.

italy's interior minister heads out of france accusing the country of harboring dozens of dangerous fugitives and demanding their extradition. this was the old cock contrary i defeat for the government i'm pleased that this house has expressed its confidence in the government. the british prime minister narrowly wins a confidence vote in parliament a day after and he's decisively rejected or hurt you divorce do you. are broadcasting. this is our team international and certainly glad to have you with us drones lasers in space sensors 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 earlier it

would be tranquil joined by colleague nuclear tutor in the studio to talk about this latest step in a possible new arms race how far are we from an actual arms race that it is actually possible that we are getting there and some would say that we are there already because in the first review of america's missile defense program in almost a decade besides plans to develop twenty new interceptors in alaska as well as radars and centers and sensors sorry besides plans to use laser armed drones and stealthy f. thirty five jets the donald trump administration now once a leap in take the logical development specifically the american president is keen to get what he calls a space force 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 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 more than three decades after the year of ronald reagan george h.w. bush the american president is talking ok maybe not about star wars but definitely about something that sounds like the militarization of space and the ultimate goal here is to be able to take down the missiles and of the enemy in the air space of what donald trump calls rogue states by the way in his speech he did call out north korea and iran but in the review itself in that document you can also find the

names of russia and china now i mean what does this actually entire does it mean that in the near future we'll see u.s. missiles being deployed on satellites for example if we talk specifically about the president's ambitions to get a space force and this particular case most of the technology has not been developed so by giving this speech donald trump is trying to make sure that the money goes the right way however according to the pentagon actually it was the deputy secretary of defense he just said that work on the first elements of this cosmic missile shield will begin this year now if we go back to the president's speech among the threats that he specifically mentioned were hypersonic missiles and that is something that russia tested successfully i mean it was just the end of this december lot more putin said it was a great new year present for russia well i can say though that moscow says that it

is ramping up its technological development efforts as a response to what they call hostile actions by america and their aggressive military expansion so both sides are definitely blaming each other but if we're talking about an arms race it's definitely out there in some form already. we spoke to former u.s. 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're already running

a tree and our debt every year and in this this can't be paid for other than bar and money and i just don't see see the danger that 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. 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. there's been a turbulent week for the u.k.'s prime minister after her proposed bragg's a deal was overwhelmingly rejected by lawmakers theresa may managed to survive a no confidence motion on wednesday by a margin of one thousand votes a 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 was to the right one hundred three was no use to the left three hundred twenty five so the know so i mean god knows i mean. i'm pleased that this house has expressed its confidence in the government. mr speaker the right honorable lady with the nose as the nothing has changed prime minister and we will also 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 deal breaker for me and all the chaos that would come as

a result of that do not take this responsibility likely in my government will continue its work to increase our prosperity the opposition or should we cut and smell the coffee. theresa may as soon expected in a brussels for crisis talks on brags that she will be hoping to win concessions from officials and negotiate changes to the current deal ms it 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 u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march as things stand it may leave with no deal at all on world trade organization the terms. meanwhile france has activated its no deal bragg's a plan setting aside fifty million euros for any contingency and a german foreign minister heiko must says that berlin is also stepping up

preparations for a hard drugs it. we are prepared for every scenario we will continue and step up our planning for a chaotic breaks it. all throughout her tenure theresa may has promised to deliver on the results of the two thousand and sixteen regs at referendum but now fulfilling those promises seems to be in doubt artie's i sallied reports. government document has been leaked outlining how long it will take for legislation to pass the. lethal rise to the holding of a second referendum the so-called people's vote regarding the u.k.'s decision it's a review of the elite you know this document as dramatic by civil servants and it was handed out to and police during meetings between downing street officials government officials and those members of parliament and it's a one page of a memo and it says that it would take around seven months for that legislation to be drafted and to pass and then another twelve weeks for the electoral commission

who are responsible for organizing elections here in the u.k. it would take them twelve weeks to come up with the question that would be on the ballot paper and the potential question on the potential second referendum is also something that would be hotly contested and hotly debated by the different sides of that debate now that time frame which is around ten months to a year would mean that it would be impossible to hold a second last round of by march twenty ninth and not of course is the date that we would do that the u.k. is the e.u. so presumably if it is to be an option then there would be to be an extension of article fifty and the for the u.k. to continue to remain in the e.u. while they try to sort themselves out now the government they've been asked about this document and they say it's merely for illustrated purposes and that they're not planning on proposing a second referendum it was a short paper setting out factual detail on the number of months that would be

required it was produced to inform the discussion respected this issue to be brought to the meeting it was illustrated the only opposition is that a second referendum won't be happening and it's not just the conservatives who are under pressure to hold that second referendum jeremy corbyn he's the leader of the labor party the leader of the opposition here in. i i just thought that up to a hundred of his own labor m.p.'s would like him to hold and put out the position that labor wants a second referendum but of course with the corbett is a little bit hesitant to do so because many labor voters particularly in the north of england also voted to leave the e.u. mr corbett nevertheless laying out his condition for his support for a second referendum also said made it very clear that all the options are on the table including the public vote option which we make clear in our conference motion which was i have to remind you unanimously agreed by our conference last september

eleventh. and all of this comes as a new poll by a u.k. of indicates that if there was to be a second referendum that fifty six percent of respondents indicated that they would now vote to remain in the e.u. while forty four percent said that they would leave now that would be a larger tied around of course fifty two percent of the u.k. voting public voted to leave the e.u. in june of twenty sixteen so that would be a remarkable swing but still would do nothing to get rid of the significant divisions which are risen up as a result of the bags that process. gerard batten the leader of the u.k. independence party and mark allman 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 show 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 organized the leave campaign and i had imagined that they would have a whole shed drawing of parts of the european legislation they had to go up of course so they could quite have to look with them so they would come out of the traps after the war for them if they wanted to and so this is what wolfowitz tribute to the new year to begin that process and that's partly because the conservative party is very divided on what 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. in greece and school teachers are continuing their protest over a bill seeking changes to the hiring system for educators on thursday around three thousand people gathered in athens for

a twenty four hour strike which turned into clashes with police. was. officers had to use pepper spray against dozens of people who tried to enter the greek parliament response protesters hurled objects by police forces no arrests or injuries have been reported pasha's were canceled. excuse me classes were canceled in most public schools in athens and many places elsewhere in grades teachers have already held several protest marches in the top of this month those also resulted in clashes between some demonstrators and riot officers. italy's interior minister matteo salvini has accused france of a harboring a fugitive terrorist suspects and is calling on the manual to hand them over with the story here is art. after decades on the run one of italy's most new tourist

criminals finally steps back on to home soil says operatives steve charged with four murders was part of the so-called great but gates that terrorized the country back in the seventy's. to me is into a prison sentence but tiste escaped to france now under the so-called to me to hong doctoring by which foreign terrorists were given safe haven if they had to announce their past crimes fraunces welcomes 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 hall bring terrorists. to the french president to return to italy to fugitives that should not be drinking champagne under the eiffel tower who should be rotting in jail anytime it's really wants 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 over 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 am absolutely 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 big but french officials have said extradition conte to 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 migrants the forthcoming elections and italy support for the movement they seems to be no sign that president has any intention of allowing salvini to claim a home run show that even ski altie shall let the law. all right russia's

president has received an enthusiastic welcome in serbia signing a number of important deals i'll tell you more about that after a short break this is our international. affairs albeit a whole costs 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 these relational and the frats protests and i see that is growing and 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 the sense.

that entire collection of countries and regions that have been the main economic. players for decades now over time they're going to become this much more players of the world is going to evolve china india the middle east africa. under certain scenarios they're going to represent about eighty percent of world g.d.p. at the end of the century and that scenario is where they do catch up in terms of productivity growth. this is our two international now president vladimir putin has made an official visit to serbia which has seen a number of new deals closed and seemingly cemented historical ties the balkan country is currently at a crossroads with possible you membership and the issue of kosovo high on the national agenda at thousands of serbians march to show their support for the talks

with russia on thursday for more on the meeting in belgrade here is equal just off . i'm in front of thousands of people who marched through central belgrade 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 tune an opposition rally against the current government so base divided politically to its 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 counterpart with a medal the serbian president gifted vladimir putin a puppy but it wasn't just about the 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 it. as in too soon 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 kosovo settlement issue based on the un security council resolutions unfortunately has made a number of provocative steps aggravating the situation and course will make the first steps towards creating its own army russia fully shares serbia and its people's concerns and understands that these a response to actions of the cost of a new 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 the words we already to lengthen the turkey to european countries and to european consumers we have more than enough resources for that we are dealing with here on this issue this is also true for infrastructure development and also if a transitional infrastructure development territory we all ready to invest in it and these investments will be about one point four billion dollars. well the challenges. of reporting from. presidential rivals are always a draw for the media. expected by the mayor putin and his counterpart alexander to make to. take a look. so.

serbian film director. also had the chance to meet with during his visit to belgrade afterward the filmmaker spoke exclusively to r.t. about the conversation and also shared some of his views and future plans. they should put in the idea of independent not still

serbia as the state i think for not so as much as it's possible but mostly i have put the accent on and also the situation in republic of srpska where. i would say a minority of so. most of the time suppressed by the politics and not leaving the old ways free to to be making straightforward connections to russia setting it needs to be done to. i'm very much deeply rooted into the russian classical literature and cinema and what i'm trying to do something in china which is going to be really based on the novel or i don't know if it's not it's not that long but it's called the wide cloud of jing it's got a lot of i'm preparing for a long time and you know nicer way to many. months but it happens

today in in the past. in syria in the war and the story of ski is on my agenda every day so there is no day that i don't remember him. you know worst is the consequence of put it corporate of the world taking over and leaving the france with a capital and the french people are the most comfortable people around the world and they have lost and they're starting to lose the privileges and i think this privileges of just giving up with a syndicate a movement that is. becoming even getting in. to the roots and i'm thinking about this as really a consequence of what the ninety's go to put it. was they were in fact exporting their factories to the cheap labor countries that. do most of the

momentum and the student of economy which is. getting reaction from the people. and interview on the american radio station sirius x.m. took an ironic turn on tuesday c.n.n. analyst reva martin appearing on political talk show host david webb's program suggested that white privilege was a key factor in web success however the claim backfired spectacularly late and by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege you told all conversation i don't have time to read i hate to break it to you by but you should have been better prepped i'm black. twitter users blasted martin on the social network following the gaffe with many criticizing the rise of identity politics political activist anthony rogers' right to believe that while white privilege the is real the abuse of the term undermines the push for equality. yes it's very unfortunate that she made that

gaffe because i think it precluded from having a much deeper conversation but there are definitely some people who use it as an ad hominum attack and we have to we have to call that all joe you know we have to keep it germane and we have to have cogent discussions i mean we we have to be honest that white privilege does exist in united states of america but if i'm not doing my part you know i'm not going to go as far as our former president obama said and said that anyone who pulls up their bootstraps is automatically going to get success but i but at the same time yeah there are definitely people out there who don't want to do anything and would sort of use this narrative and it does week in with people who would just throw it out there without any basis because it does weaken actual instances of white supremacy and racial bigotry when it doesn't mean more news and let's say thirty two and a half minutes you're watching international. i i

. when the whole make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. can all middle of the room signal. room real new real world. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever

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but the. everyone's story is different everyone's path is different you don't know what's going to change. like i was pretty comfortable in my life before this happened. earthenware dad for a. got me into this. you know i was a middle child. contrary he was the day. this is some day he was doing to just you know make sure you have money in his pocket.