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please. please. please. among the stories that week the u.k. plunges into political chaos with the prime minister's breaks it deals with defeats treason may. her position and our only surviving
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a confidence vote just twenty four hours later. testified for donald trump's impeachment from the democrats the us president has had with a slew of allegations of wrongdoing but he says he's not going anywhere. you can. impeach somebody that's doing a great job that's the way i view it. to at least come pontiff interior minister from secure using the country of harboring dozens of dangerous fugitives on the mounting extradition. just gone four pm here in moscow this sunday january the twentieth a warm welcome wherever you're churning in from to this edition of the weekly our top story the u.k. was thrust deeper into political turmoil this week after trees. mase proposed edu
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divorce deal was dealt a crushing defeat in parliament the following day though the prime minister saw off a confidence vote called by the leader of the opposition leaving the country no closer to a breakthrough than breaks and here's a quick recap of the drama. i . put those who. know what i'm doing with. the country and in this only to find i have little confidence that five hundred years from now we got a result of these questions bring to the steel reject this deal because of the moniker to. the right to under them to the no use to the left four hundred thirty two so the new savvy. having it is clear that the house does not support this deal.
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would have resulted in the company would be able to choose the common good thing wants. to little rock i'm going to. use to the last three hundred twenty five things that this house has expressed its confidence in the gulf. i've. got a way that. well in the wake of those votes the publication of a leaked government document on thursday adds to the controversy over breaks that the paper explores the possibility of holding a second referendum in estimates that the whole process if you add all this up
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would take a year that includes seven months to lay the legal groundwork and a further three months after least for testing the actual question well the leak came as a surprise to many histories and may has remained adamant that she will deliver on brags that while donning straw. confirm that paper is genuine it also denied that the government has been actively planning for a second vote it says the paper is purely for this illustrated purposes and has reiterated the p.m.'s position that britain will leave the e.u. meanwhile german corben has said are the conditions under which he would support a second vote blue 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. even before the referendum i remember talking to some of the people organizing the leave campaign and i had imagined they would have a whole show of politicians the european legislation has to go up to par so they
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can quite have to look with them so they would come out of the traps profitable for them if they wanted so this is what will for the state it took two years to. make that process and that's partly because people 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 to. all the posters have been busy a recent survey has found that if a second referendum were to be held the majority of voters would not choose to remain in the e.u. it shows that support for a main is on its highest level since the twenty sixteen breaks it was partly by explains a rerun of a referendum it would not be the first time. the people may have voted but the british parliament is in political turmoil over what the u.k.'s departure from lately you should look like did some politicians get their
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way whether it should happen at all to this issue but to the electorate what else can we possibly offer to the british public to get back. to reconsider this brics it is a call 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 of 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 what's the only positive solution is so if you think the 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
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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. 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. that i see dear sloth as a sign of confidence by the irish people and european union as a sign of their desire to be all hearted members of dupion union.
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before the break that shambles it was the greek debt crisis keeping e.u. officials off the right. in twenty fifteen the need greek prime minister staged a referendum in which greek citizens overwhelmingly rejected the evening's austerity policies but brussels imposed them anyway those living in the birthplace of democracy well pleased with what they saw as an undemocratic basis. 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 men as 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.
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can unilaterally start 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 snapping into river shore stopping gregg's 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 in the u.k. voters would say no to bragg's it and given the circumstances there are now plenty of politicians keen to break the bread as it promised and sell it as the noble thing to do. polly barker on the banks of the thames well as calls for that second referendum continue to grow trees and they will be back in parliament in twenty four hours and what a busy monday it's going to be for her to present
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a revised version of her break the plan if she's got one of course to. our rights moving the program heading stateside critics of donald trump hit the president with a barrage of new misconduct claims this week they ranged from obstructing justice to holding the u.s. hostage over his controversial plan for a five billion dollar border wall for his opponents there is only one solution route guys the talks through. from dirty filthy dossiers to sexual misconduct allegations illicit business deals on and on you name it chances are trump was accused of it weekly this week it's the seat 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
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trump and his children if donald trump jr received regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project specifically to alleged law enforcement officials anonymous of course as is tradition claim to have seen documents regarding the proposed construction of a trump tower in moscow markedly one of the original authors couldn't clearly state whether he's even seen the documents he's our answer would put any lawyer to shame i don't think we've said that we haven't. 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 document i'll just say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents we're very confident in our report you can imagine how embarrassing it must have been for buzz feed when robert
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mueller by no means a fan of trump and the guy investigating the us president came out and dismissed these reports buzz feed's description of specific statements and characterization of documents and testimony and not accurate yet still the pundits call it a bombshell why is anyone's guess the other recent bombshell came from the washington post which claim. in that trump tried to can see details of one of his meetings with putin according to current and former officials anonymous as is tradition the constraints that trump impose the part of a broader pattern by the presidents of shielding his communications with putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high ranking officials if he's been destruction from fully knowing what he has told one of the united states marine adversaries the bombshell kind of fizzled out in the twenty fourth paragraph where the washington
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post admits that trump allows most of his contact with putin to be monitored like his meeting in hamburg where then secretary of state rex tillerson this present trump of course this misses it all is fake news attacks against him defamation never worked for russia you know that answer better than anybody i've ever worked for russia not only did i never work for russia i think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question because it's all big fat hoax it's just dark but the democrats being democrats now want to raise hell over this they want the interpreter from the helsinki meeting between trump and putin to spill the beans they hope anything to get a trump but if i had a choice i'd rather not do that with the with the interpreters but we may have no
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choice we'll have to see down down the road what happens but we want to get to the truth impeachment they cry impeachment impeachment impeachment almost thirty ish of theirs at this point the trump seems particularly concerned you can't impeach somebody that's doing a great job that's the way i view. the attorney an interior minister material solving his cold on a money to hundreds are tens of feet of terror suspects believed to be sheltering in fronts of. the story. after decades on the run one of italy's most new tourist criminals finally stepped back on to home soil says operatives steed charged with four murders was part of the so-called great but gates that terrorized the country back in the seventy's.
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cuny is into a prison sentence but tiste escaped to france now under the so-called to me to hold on doctoring by which foreign terrorists were given safe haven if they had to announce their past crimes fraunces welcomed 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 the fugitives that should not be drinking
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champagne under the eiffel tower should be rotting in jail eat it silly walls france to hand over more than thirty over these champagne terrorists. the list includes nisus coachmen 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 innocent a warrant from an n.t.'s extradition is currently being looked at and it's likely
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that he won't be alone in wondering if onse is about to give him up but there is a big but french officials have said extradition contre 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 e.u. elections and italy support for the movement they seems to be no sign that president mccall has any intention of allowing salvini to claim a home run show that even ski altie should let certain law troubles brewing for a venezuela's president as the us backed opposition plumbers for regime change that is among the stories of two the brick.
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one else seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to seep out just the attic. and indeed it was betrayed. 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 the it also is associated with the rise of believe how can you have a rise in this stuff. by having people. saving and investing . roldan in increasing the size of the national park so that you
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can distribute will everything. ok we start back in north africa this hour we're in huge fighting in the libyan capital this week in tripoli left thirteen people dead fifty two others wounded according to the country's health ministry a journalist who had worked with the associated press with artie's video news agency ripley was amongst those killed mohammad had been honey for had been contributing to the since twenty six the producer on thirty stories for the agency his colleagues have described him as a courageous untalented journalist he survived by his wife and seven month old daughter here are some of the last images he captured during his reporting along
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with a recap of recent events in tripoli. this . includes. well. ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin khalifa 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. venezuela's embattled president is facing
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fresh challenges to his authority as he begins his second term in office on wednesday group of exiled military officers call for nicolas maduro his overthrow saying the army must reject his leadership in the wake of last year's the speed of election that they force their support for the opposition leader. he also has washington's firm backing and ses his party is ready to form a government with more on the growing crisis. 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 u.s. government loves him this is what was said by u.s. vice president mike pence nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who is
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a precise the villa's wailin people 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 kwaito as venezuela's head of state marco rubio the u.s. senator is trumpeting the call from the u.s. is perspective since we recognize the legitimate president of the national assembly president pending a new election. i think that the time has come to expose them a girl appointed ambassador 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 at the united nations the systematic oppression of the
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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 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've actually heard donald trump calling for the violent overthrow of the venezuelan government. a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military is the military to do that now the washington post in the new york times two top newspapers in the usa have both published an 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
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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 end 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
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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 no longer import bennis well than oil and we find it in the united states the purpose is not to bring democracy the u.s. doesn't into he in other countries in order to bring democracy to those countries that equate intervenes in order to secure its own interests so it if it bolsters recognizes and props up dictatorships when it's in it's in the u.s. interest to do so and a choice to bring about regime change through elections in which it intervenes and those are 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. another doping scandal has rocked the world of sport this time an activity regarded as relatively genteel as in the spotlight.
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if. we were away and hadn't had played flawlessly than they went to the bathroom for ten minutes and came back with huge odds everything went well for them they go to the toilet and then don't throw another bad ball when they come back. because of. the dutch certainly lost against the belgians and found an excuse i've never heard of cocaine in its own competitions. ok. kayne no i stick to beer and pasties but. if you are unwilling to export you get money now with console a possible problem with the cane. there you go next
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artie's cameras follow a former hetman all of colombian drug kingpin pup go escobar run to his hometown after twenty three years in prison the testimony is often chilling the program starts in moments. the country's gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i got to hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the genius is this the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around much on what is going inside we always are on the margins something . called the culture listening party the america.
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we're starting last with is we're going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more gonzo them it may be completely different but the end of this to. reflect there's someone else moving inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is because like severe depression. because it literally made him into a zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault you know since crazy and all that. took years traumatic takes a long time to get rid of. it's
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. just. this incremental into which a kid like it doesn't feel like you know say the rules are simple and should be in full service of it that the army. is to let. me just go out of the media. if i thrown. it will be myself with thing you know let them yesterday just a little bit and he's also a kid we know he is our best. yet so yes that i will not let.
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me just as imus ask you hint that those will do. in in the they will leave. you know just a massage about their own aka like you lying to me loud littles get up eat him play oh you know pay the needle i kid you know in this heat out of my spot a comment that only see the us law school going to live in d.c. put up with. a client there any intellectual kind enough to abide by their own i could be any body wanna. put a look at the nikos get into the public school in which of my heels. i came when not of my thought in colombia. by the i mean in my tummy some eagles joy i mean there was a special on us about them which are special in us you know most of them acquitted all of us yeah. but i have. waded out of
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