president recalls the events of twenty four. he's invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. tear gas and water cannons are called into action in paris as anti-government yellow vesta rallies are staged for a ten consecutive weekend across france that is despite president. launching a national debate placate the protesters. u.s.

president trump addresses the nation with a border security proposal which he says could end of a government shutdown but the democratic leadership in congress says the offer brings nothing new to the table. special counsel robert muller casts doubt on an incendiary new buzz feed report claiming donald trump told his lawyer to mislead congress the u.s. president has forcefully rejected the allegations. and from the airport to a jail cell are two speaks to a friend and former colleague of an american born iranian journalist detained in the u.s. thank her freedoms are being abused press t.v. anchor is a material witness and a case which has yet to be made public. she is an american. without charge without information that's truly very concerning.

this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now a tenth consecutive saturday of yellow vest protests time taken place nationwide in france over what they call rising living costs and government policies that is despite president micron's efforts to quell the unrest by launching a national debate which he has promised will result in a new social contract tear gas and water cannons were again deployed by police to disperse the demonstrators. we're seeing the first tensions here in paris today as act ten is underway of those relations over in the distance you might be able to see the warts i can and they're trying to disperse the protesters away from this area we did see protesters

actually trying to break down some of the traffic lights and we've also seen tear gas being just face it looks like there's some people down on the ground a little bit further over that boy a tree looks like a potentially kind of remains she is now as you can see the protesters are trying to throw back at the tear gas a pellets now she would say the police. official figures from the interior ministry say around seventy thousand people are out in paris today taking part in this tense weekend of protests but the generations of old didn't just speech egypt those figures from the ministry over the interior well as we can see there is anger on the streets now let's take a look back now at that anger that's been bubbling owes us since november seventeenth you. know the course is the right one and we don't come to change it just because the wind is

blowing. i will not concede anything to do see one destruction and disorder. take my share of responsibility. as you can see some damage to a vehicle that protests just four inches rojak does two wards of police on sunday that being dragged away looks like they've received an injury as a result of something that's been hit and there you can see just chaos ensues as

they trying to get somebody injured out of these crowds for the moment there's also feeling the violence against journalists in these protests and it was actually a protest underway today against that violence i can just hear behind us something sounding like it's being smashed up i mean really has just gone from total cohen even to chaos in just a march so over moments. this protest was meant to be in tribute to the people who have joined in these protests since they began and also being injured in these protests and it looks like it could be even more injuries today. that. one of the best movement leaders shared his view of the current situation in the country with r.t. france and puerile coppin there are more protesters compared to last week as the

number of people grows every time as from across we still have not seen any change things are continuing just like before we have not received the response that we were expecting whether there are national debates or not he still doesn't want to answer our main questions and the question of rubber bullet used by law enforcement has become a topic of discussion we need to talk about it because there have been lots of seriously wounded people there's not much information about it on t.v. is this rubber ball. have been frequently used for unknown reasons there were reports last week of people being shot by rubber bullets when they hadn't done anything. donald trump speaking from the white house hasn't presented a proposal he says it could solve the current crisis over government funding the shutdown in the u.s. is now in its fourth week sponsored by a disagreement over border security trump offered what he calls a compromise to democratic leaders. eight hundred million dollars in urgent

humanitarian assistance. eight hundred five million dollars for drug detection technology to help secure our ports of entry. an additional two thousand seven hundred fifty border agents and law enforcement professionals to physically secure our border the plan includes five point seven billion dollars for a strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall the president promised that he would have a major announcement today and there were some details about at least beforehand and that was that he was going to provide to three years of protection for darker recipient here in the united states now that is what he mentioned in his speech he is still asking for that five point seven billion dollars in border wall funding

however his language on that was a little bit different this time around he mentioned that he wasn't looking for a wall to cover the entire southern border however he does want structures in certain areas and he's asking for more in terms of border security and a lot of different areas now house speaker nancy pelosi has already responded she released a statement and said that she does not accept what trump called a commonsense compromise unfortunately she's proposal is a completion of several previously rejected initiatives each of which isn't acceptable and in total do not represent a good police effort to restore certainty to people's lives it is unlikely that any one of this provision saloon would bust the house and taken together the nonstarter so it looks like in the next week we could see some what is lation presented by trump and the republicans and we could also see some legislation presented by palosi and the democrats however it remains to be seen exactly how they're going to

come together or if that is going to happen we asked conservative commentator john griffin and independent political analyst alessandro bruno to comment on to trump's plan. trump speech was completely aimed at his base he knows he's not going to win over democrats in this climate continuing on with russia gate investigation and so on whether or not are true that's another matter but immigration has become the issue that the blinds democrats from republicans so he is counting on securing the vote those who voted for him in two thousand and sixteen in two thousand and twenty and he's not going to relent on their wall he has already made a number of compromises in the language history if you were a windbag just twenty years ago you had newt gingrich sitting in

a series of i said we're. all in sequence you know we're so that's what really concerns me that the shutdown becomes a threat to our credit. as firmly rejected a damning new report by buzz feed which claims that he instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lot of congress about a planned business deal in russia cohen is among those being investigated in a russia collusion probe the investigation itself is being led by special counsel robert muller whom the president thanked for his office's statement disclaiming the buzz feed article. i think that the. great work it was a great journalist and. i think was very appropriate. all right the report

detailing cohen's alleged confession to special counsel mahler's election meddling investigators has caused a sensation the media it was branded a bombshell article and immediately led to talk of impeachment. 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 as 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 that trump must be impeached if the story is true. the media quickly picked up on the story despite the fact that the whole piece is based on anonymous sources our washington correspondent dan cohen has commentary. buzz feed news released a major report alleging that u.s. president donald trump has received ten personal updates from michael cohen and

encouraged planned meetings with russian president vladimir putin 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 i think and donald trump jr receives regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project a 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's also admitted to campaign finance violations cash t.v. and fake fraud and of course he's a key figure in investigation for the so-called russian collusion probe and the two journalists wrote in their article that they didn't actually see the court documents or any evidence that they base their reporting on rather they were

briefed by two anonymous law enforcement officials and jason leopold that one of the authors of this buzz feed article has a history of fabricating sources 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 it's a total contradiction to what's written in the article and what his co-author has said i don't think that we've said that we haven't seen that but i will say that i'm very confident that your colleague said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents we've been i'll just say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents and we're very confident in our reporting because feed has problems all the way around not to mention the people who actually write for it. the authors have. real credibility problem is they can't get their story straight and their sources whatever those are named an unknown which we've gotten used to in this country is being credible so maybe this

is been manufactured to give some interest and relevance to to to that continued testimony by this perjurer by this liar by this guy you can't form a sentence in the english language without indicting him self over it i mean a loss as to the excitement over this there's there's no there there on top of which the president through his counsel denies it flatly so you know if there's evidence it's hard to say that you deny something if there's evidence for it did journalism it's groups of people who slap together a website you get people who are paid to report who are wrong including one of these fellows who has a bit early heated layer on and who perhaps allegedly his own may call into question his veracity and nothing's ever done you have a new it's a journalistic force and sachems of the american people who don't care whether this

story is true they like the story because it makes trump look bad and that's the story makes trump look bad they like we've seen some democrats promise that they will investigate the report calling the allegations against trump quote among the most serious to date some have even gone so far as to call for president trump's impeachment so we'll have to see how this one pans out u.s. court finally shed some light on the case of an american born iranian journalist who has been detained without charges more than after a short break this is our two international. chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out this day become educated and engage with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you want to make sure that the quality is not just a slogan of misery but it also is associated with the rise of the startup of leave how can you have a rise in the stuff. by having. savings investing broadening increasing the size of the national park so that you can to stephen hall everything. and.

welcome back this is our international now an american not born journalist who works as a news presenter on iranian state t.v. has been arrested in the u.s. as a material witness in an undisclosed case the court order revealed on friday that although she has been detained she's not been charged with a crime. generation seems ok bad. she was not happy. the staff had certain doubts her restrictions were there just as her instructions were not being accounted. for headstart had been the answer will. be.

we are concerned by the arrest of a journalist for iranian say to be marzia hashemi we have serious concerns about her detention and we urged american authorities to clarify the situation. and she is just a mature than this she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs hosiery is a very clear affront to freedom of expression a political abuse of an innocent individual. i believe the united states should review to eat you've got to debate the. archie has spoken exclusively to a close friend of the jailed iranian t.v. anchor she shared her concerns about the legality of mars yeah. detention and of

the conditions she is being subjected to in custody. the only information and contact the family have had with my z. is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received information from my . daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was job a veil covering such as will time wearing at the moment that was taken off against her will mug shot was taken without her job on that she was given only a short sleeved t. shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code her islam that she that she was and that she had to gain another t. shirt just to be able to cover some of her hair she also told her daughter that she wasn't absent given adequate food because she was not given allow muslim option or a vegetarian option on tuesday the only conversation they've had with her she told her daughter that she only been able to eat

a cracker or some bread that came with that food since being detained if they had questions about four miles here in regards to an issue she would have all this of them that is what her son has said the children have been subpoenaed as well and they have no idea why you can imagine how worried they offer their mother and how nervous they are about the situation my see is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she's been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. according to the court order which was issued by a u.s. district court in washington d.c. how shamim must testify before a grand jury investigation after that she will be released however many are still concerned by the detention including a number of human rights groups. there's a grand jury investigation nobody knows what it's about and she's being held as a material witness which means that she's not the person accused but they think

that she knows something about a crime a felony a very serious crime and it's serious enough that a judge has authorized her arrest so whatever is happening it is under the supervision of the judge what's disturbing is that two of her children were also subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury here in washington d.c. so what could she possibly have been involved in that her children also would know about she has the rights to do journalistic walk for whichever outlet she chooses to do in any part of the world that she chooses to and she also has the right to travel freely as a journalist and as a citizen throughout the united states that she's a journalist on this we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is a crime you know i have no other answer to that that the children i have a cat all the organizations they also give information as to why she is being

detained that's something very dark going on in the united states at the moment you know there's islamophobia there's this anti iran sentiment there's this anti media anti journalism sentiment unprecedented times in the united states and i said that my friend i'm a journalist and she's a fighter a journalist as has been victim to that and it's unacceptable and the lack of information is unacceptable and the family is demanding to know what is going on with their mother their grandmother that you know she is a sister she was traveling to the united states to. see her ailing brother she has the right to do so without fearing to tension taking an internal flight. fighting this week in libya's capital tripoli has left thirteen killed and fifty two wounded including children this is according to the libyan health ministry. the shooting broke out between forces allied with the government and

a group called the seventh brigade in august two thousand eight hundred violent clashes killed one hundred seventeen and injured more than five hundred people un mediation managed to secure a ceasefire agreement which and now seems to have collapsed. sadly a journalist working for artie's video news agency ruptly has been killed in the violence mohammad that ben. started working with roughly in two thousand and sixteen and produced about thirty stories for the agency here are some of the last images mohamed captured during his reporting along with a recap of recent events in tripoli.

let's. go to some of those rooms ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin a colleague who lost his life during clashes in tripoli over the past three years he worked with us to deliver high quality reports in difficult circumstances we send our deepest condolences to his family. right that does it for me i will be back with more news at the top of the hour you are watching are to interact with. the country's gone into a nihilistic fever just want to thank god it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius of this

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popular styling himself as a blog that and political activist. who came to madeline to meet him to try and understand this colombian paradox why he is treated like a superstar. i must admit i was very nervous before a meeting. like that but. one of the interview too easy to hide or that's what about the next meeting if we have. to. settle. the police you know. if the security you have the sort of. other than you don't leave those. best i mean pretty heavily with all. this the leader said about the misery and there are a lot of problem either.