oh. jeremy sent south install on saving a key cold war era nuclear arms treaty with the u.s. about to pull the plug on the agreement that says russia wants washington could threaten global security saying it's ready for dialogue. u.s.

president donald trump slams a report by buzz feed news claiming trump instructed his former lawyer michael cullen to lie in congress. and as britain's prime minister rushes to conjure up a new. government documents suggest a second referendum could be on the cards. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program russian germany's top diplomats have condemned to wash undermines a global stability. after the u.s. leaves the i.n.f. treaty the whole system control and the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty will be on the threat. we are really interested in saving the i.n.f. treaty and russia. but the i.n.f.

treaty as it is now is not enough we need to expand it because there are plenty of new autonomous weapon systems including those in cyberspace and they should be regulated not only the u.s. and russia should be included in the treaty but other states as well like china the u.s. has said it will withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty agreement with russia at the beginning of next month says it's invited us inspectors to examine the missiles which washington claims violate the treaty but to no avail the i and i've treated it was signed in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by ronald reagan and the car gorbachev and took effect a year later is to plaited that both the us and the soviet union destroy all ground based missiles with ranges between five hundred and fifty five hundred kilometers. fears of an arms race were not only prompted by the missile treaty dispute they were further exacerbated by donald trump unveiled plans for an ambitious expansion of america's defense capabilities. token defense and we're also talking offense you

know we can't forget offense either can we we have the finest weapons in the world and we're ordering the finest weapons in the world america's just published the first review of its missile defense program it almost a decade and it besides plans to deploy twenty new ground based interceptors in alaska as well as new radars and sensors besides plans to use laser armed drones and stealthy f. thirty five jets the donald trump administration wants a leap in technological development the president is keen to get a space force we will recognize that space is a new world striding domain. with the space force leading the way. the u.s. president is talking about ok maybe not star wars but militarizing space for sure the ultimate goal is to be able to take down enemy missiles even before they leave

the airspace of what the president calls rogue countries did call out north korea and iran but in the program review you'll also find russia and china we are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can shield every city in the united states our goal is simple to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the united states anywhere anytime anyplace among the threats donald trump pointed out specifically were hypersonic missiles a system capable of launching such weapons called was successfully tested by russia at the end of december. with the us withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile treaty which was the cornerstone in the field of non proliferation of nuclear weapons and deterring an arms race has forced us to respond. by creating new weapon systems to overcome

these missile defense systems there is no analogue of this system in the world according to the russian side the reason they're ramping up their r. and d. in strategic defenses is america's overblown military budget and everything it's being spent on parity means global security the version of foreign ministry says that america's new defense strategy is of a clearly confrontational nature and aims to assure washington's military leadership political analyst chris bambery things the trump illustrations policy is bound to lead to a greater arms race. what we have in the white house is very much a president who's pushing for pushes on way despite criticism of our eyes and despite criticism within the administration within the defense of the defense department's any new arms race no which is what trump is threatening particularly with china china is not going to go bankrupt and in fact one of the concerns of american defense in the defense department the pentagon is is that this is going to

encourage the further militarization of china which up until now has not gone don't the rules of trying to catch up with the united states militarily happy to have its own economic power but if this begins its own arms race gets under way attacking china and russia by the americans actually the china could step up to the mark and that is a concern in the mirror american military who are criticizing trub over not the treaty but over the decision to launch this new militarization of space. yes president has slammed a new report by because he claims trump instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress white house press secretary cyrus and says no credibility should be given to those claims. it's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in

a statement earlier today this categorically false. let's cross live now to correspondent dan cohen in washington dan what do we know about this report. well buzz feed news released a report thursday evening that claims u.s. president donald trump received ten personal updates from michael cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with russian president vladimir putin now the two journalists wrote in their article that they didn't actually see the court documents or any of the evidence they based their reporting on rather they were briefed by two anonymous a law enforcement officials. president donald trump directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie to congress according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter and even as trump told the public he had no business

deals with russia the sources said trump and his children if and can and donald trump jr received regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project. michael cohen is the former lawyer of donald trump he was sentenced to thirty six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about the trump tower plan he also admitted to campaign finance violations tax evasion and bank fraud and of course he's a key figure in the moeller investigation or the so-called russian collusion probe but this report is being treated as a bombshell. president trump is facing new scrutiny today over a report that he told his personal attorney to lie to congress about his business dealings with russia we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation here's what buzz feed news is reporting that ice bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow

tower project congressional democrats calling for an immediate investigation declaring the trial must be impeached if the story is true. jason leopold one of the authors of this buzz feed article has a history of fabricating sources back in two thousand and two he had an article retracted on salon dot com alleging that thomas white who was then secretary of the army attempted to cover up massive losses of the energy giant enron while he was an executive there and in two thousand and six leopold reported that a senior adviser and karl rove then president bush told the president and a number of other officials that he was going to be indicted in the case of the former cia agent valerie plame rove was never indicted and the story fell apart as just a small sample in a long career of this kind of chicanery regarding the cohen story today leopold

told m s n b c that he had actually seen the evidence showing that trump instructed michael cohen to lie to congress and is a total contradiction to what leopold wrote in the article and what it's. co-author has publicly said. i don't. remember but i will say that i'm very confident that your colleagues said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents i'll just say that we can document we. were very confident in our reporting. that despite these discrepancies the story being based on anonymous sources and leopold history of journalistic malpractise we've seen some democrats promise that they will investigate the report calling the allegations against trump quote among the most serious to date so some have even gone as far to call for impeachment of president trump so we'll have to see how this one pans out ok dan cohen reporting there from

washington thanks dan. a new legal document shows that despite today's amaze objections the u.k. government has been exploring the possibility of a second referendum revelation comes off from peace and franticly rejected the prime minister's original divorce deal this week plunging the country deeper into political crisis the papers set out a timetable for a second vote to the katyn that the whole process could take up to a year that includes seven months to lay the legal groundwork in the for three months at least the testing the question it also discusses other practicalities including the length of time necessary for campaigning initially media outlets question the legitimacy of the leak. however downing street confirms such a document exists while denying the government is actively planning for a second vote they've said the paper is purely for illustrator of purposes reiterated the prime minister's position that brags it will go ahead. there are

those who want to see no deal and those who want to see a second referendum and potentially frustrate breaks it a second referendum would lead instead to further division it's my duty to deliver on the british people's instruction to leave the european union and i intend to do so meanwhile the leader of the opposition labor party has set out the conditions under which he would support a second vote. a so-called people's would be better than no deal and i had to spike the initial referendum and once in a generation tank. 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 you none of us they agreed by our conference last september eleventh what should happen right now is that we leave on the twenty ninth of march on w t o terms because that's what's written into the law but the problem you. parliamentarians

the m.p.'s are against the people the people's decision back in the referendum in twenty sixteen so i think over the next ten weeks the six hundred fifty m.p.'s are going to try to do everything they possibly can to extend article fifty overturn article fifty or have another referendum and assert themselves against what the people have decided i really don't think that there's a majority in parliament for completely overturning. repealing article fifty it's doubtful whether there is actually a majority for extending or to article fifty either or or having people's vote so without a majority for any one of these particular options we will leave. w t o because that's what's already written into law. a recent poll has found that if a second referendum were to be held a majority of voters would now choose to remain in the e.u.

it's the biggest surge in support for remains since the twenty sixteen breaks in vote and as poly explains a rerun of the referendum wouldn't be without precedent. the people may have voted but the british parliament is in political turmoil over what the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. should look like and if some politicians get their way whether it should happen at all to this issue but to the elected and possibly of. the british public but to get back. to reconsider this brics it is a cause for deception but most of those people that promise to help you know why we bothering to leave and. still subject to all the rules over on the continent these slighted politicians will be hoping that perhaps the imperfect but stable relationship between brussels and london could be heading towards their union if

a deal is impossible and no one wants no deal then who will finally have the courage to say he was the only positive solution is so if you think their people have voted then think again governments have been known to ignore a referendum result or to. ireland learned this the hard way twice in two thousand and one after a smallish campaign irish voters rejected expanding the bloc east island effectively put a spoke in the e.u.'s wheels when it was keen to invite nations like romania and bulgaria into the club so the e.u. irish government invested in a big yes campaign and a year later the vote was rerun. but the majority of votes against the proposal. was the irish

decision on the use defacto constitution the lisbon treaty suffered the same fate majority in favor of the proposal. i see dear sloth as a sign of confidence for the irish people in european union as a sign of their desire to be all hearted members of the european union. before the break that shambles it was the greek debt crisis keeping e.u. officials are put night. in twenty fifteen the new greek prime minister staged a referendum in which greek citizens overwhelmingly rejected the e.u.'s austerity policies but brussels imposed them anyway those living in the birthplace of democracy well pleased with what they saw as an undemocratic process.

and this one may not be related to the e.u. but it is related to britain in twenty twelve voters in the city of manchester rejected having elected mayor but a couple of years later david cameron's westminster government imposed them on the region anyway late last year the e.u. is top court ruled that the u.k. can unilaterally stop gregg's it stressing that the twenty sixteen referendum here wasn't legally binding so technically in terms of the law the u.k. government is free to do whatever it chooses be it plowing ahead with leaving or nothing into river shore stopping brags it would be a failure to deliver on the will of the people but after two and a half years of political turmoil here in the u.k. public opinion has shifted the latest polls now show that some fifty six percent of u.k. voters would say no to bragg's it and given the circumstances there are now plenty

of politicians to break the bread as it promised and sell it as the noble thing to do. and while speculation over a second vote continues trisomy has just three days to come up with a new deal to present to parliament on monday. america's longest ever government shutdown shows no sign of ending soon as donald trump seeks to raise funds for his controversial mexico border war plan the us president has now halted all travel for congressional staffers until the crisis ends it comes after trump went toe to toe with house speaker nancy pelosi the democratic representative had called on trump to postpone his state of the union address in an unprecedented request and in typical fashion trump responded.

i'm not denying the platform rob was saying let's get a date when the government is open let's pay the employees maybe he thinks it's ok not to pay people who do work i don't and my caucus doesn't either. due to the shutdown i am sorry to inform you that your trip to russia egypt and afghanistan has been postponed we will reschedule this seven day excursion when the shutdown is over. i am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate i also feel that during this period it would be better if you were in washington to go shooting with me obviously if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial that would certainly be your prerogative.

if you wish and look you except even. for his pleasure in all of these fields. i think that. i shall i find out. anti-government protests in a town near to news in southwest france have ended in face clashes with police the demonstrations come ahead of the french president's visit and yet more yellow vest protests expected nationwide over the weekend. who. was. brought. up. to such people we would like president

to hear us the king fills his pockets while his people are dying at any moment we could be left earning minimum wage and we can no longer survive what he had to find a solution to this situation he turns deaf ear and we're tired of it. this. president has met with around six hundred french males to discuss how to tackle the yellow dress movement the town where this latest rally took place was put on lockdown prior to my colleague's visit the protests were first triggered by proposed fuel price hikes back in november with a grassroots group claiming tax reforms have decreased living standards in the country earlier we were joined by a french journalist and of equality and thinks only recall his departure will appease the yellow vests only the resign nation of president mccrone could become people's anger he's now trying to to organize

a big debate and that is due to his last card but according to a poll fifty two percent of the french do not intend to participate in this big debate and sixty seven percent think it would not sold their yellow vests kruk crisis even to the french can get rid of micro. they have to get rid of macross policies and macross policies if it means the e.u. mccrone the government are highly connected with their image with their program or more who. doesn't seem to suffer from this lack of legitimacy and he doesn't realize how serious and they. it is for everybody in france is completely dismissive or stoned. at least thirty civilians including members of the press and medical personnel have been injured during clashes between the palestinians and the israeli forces at the gaza border the palestinian health ministry has reported that

botts after palestine witnessed another day of great march of return protests which started almost a year ago in spring twenty eighty zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero up till now there are hundreds of palestinians that are still coming to the site to protest this friday in the forty third friday of the great march of return we can see that the israeli forces are using greet amounts of gas cans to use in gas to disperse the protesters today we have plenty of people who have been suffocated by the gas can stay as we had journalists that have been targeted and wounded one of the palestinians has been targeted by bullets we have an ambulance that has been directly targeted in the wind chill the protesters continue to get close to the person who has been i

believe shot as we can see it on. the wind chilled off the ambulance it has been directly targeted by one of the gas canisters by the israeli forces as it was trying to save one of the palestinians that was also shot in that area and. other people who have been full of as injuries today. over two hundred palestinians have been killed and tens of thousands injured since the beginning of the protests and says the first day of clashes the i.d.f. and justify their actions as a response to aggressive acts by the palestinians. moscow's municipal court is reading to hear the appeal case of paul whelan next week the man detained in the russian capital on charges of espionage is spoken with his lawyer who gave us some insight into women's life in prison and the ongoing investigation

. absolutely we've been considering his case he's very confident was sometimes jokey with a positive mood and he believes it was an investigative error and he can prove his innocence but he claims he didn't collect any classified data on the story he didn't have any intentions and he didn't work for intelligence you know he denies any guilt. just not that the money happened i find the current evidence insufficient it's only five to ten percent of the whole picture so we will receive all the documents from the investigation which we will of course dismiss there are a lot of questions to answer and it will likely take six months to a year. because of in his area there is a t.v. in his cell good food and medical care as well what if there is an extraordinary library in there with eighteenth or nineteenth century literature which there is a good attitude towards paul which is correct i mean there is no psychological

pressure on him that the investigator has been adequate and acts under the law to provide support you go with her so i hope that we have a chance it's fifty fifty in my opinion. paul william is a former u.s. marine and was arrested in the russian capital on new year's eve he is a forty eight year old canadian to have multiple citizenships including canada the u.s. the u.k. and ireland as we heard from his lawyer he denies the accusations against him and claims he was in the country for a friend's wedding he's been a regular visitor for work over the last decade. this saturday also dogs christians begin celebrating a perfectly which marks the baptism of jesus in russia the holidays observed in a very special way with many people plunging themselves into ice cold water in moscow alone over one hundred thousand believers plan to dip into over two hundred icy ponds and rivers equipped especially for the ritual russian worshippers imitate

baptism of christ by entering the water and submerging themselves three times on making the sign of the cross to ensure safety rescue workers and medics are nearby at all times and in addition the ceremony involves that clergy consecrate in the water in memory of the events. but it's all our news for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with more but in the meantime stay tuned for crosstalk.

i think. it. was. 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 the world is going to evolve china india 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 quarterly growth. feverish terminal debt

build up that no amount of economic activity going forward will ever provide the tax revenue sufficient to pay down the step we're past the point of no return we've gone through the debt looking glass this means only one outcome that central banks will continue to print to keep the interest going on this insurmountable pile which means wealth and income gap are guaranteed to increase which means the g.l.a. show movement is going global and the global insurrection is upon us and that's a guarantee.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle when british voters said yes to leave the e.u. the clock started ticking towards march twenty nine which brags that looming it is clear what members of parliament are against but it's not clear is what they support time is running out is a compromise still possible. breaks that i'm joined by my guest ken livingstone in london is a former mayor of london and in brussels recross he is an independent journalist and lancaster we have mark he is a senior lecturer in politics at lancaster university crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want i.