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the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. . he's invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. among the stories that shaped the week the u.k. plunges into political chaos with the prime minister deal suffering a mammoth defeat but theresa may have positioned now only surviving a confidence vote just twenty four hours later. called intensify for donald
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trump's impeachment from the democrats as the u.s. president is hit with a slew of allegations of wrongdoing but he says he's not going anywhere. but it's doing a great job that's the way i view it. and italy's combative interior minister hits out at france accusing the country of harboring dozens of dangerous fugitives and demanding that their extradition. back at the top stories from the last seven days and all the latest news it's the week here on all three international with me. welcome to the program. the u.k. was thrust deeper into political tool turmoil this week after teresa mayes proposed a 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
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closer to a breakthrough on bragg's it here's a quick recap of the drama. i . bought a book just don't even know what i'm doing with. the country and the fear and this old me to you frankly i have little confidence that five hundred years from now we're going to resolve these questions with this deal reject this deal because of the mom who could do. riyaaz the right two hundred and the no use to the left four hundred thirty two children. it is clear that the house does not support this deal.
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more to resolve to completely able to come up at a long. list to little rocky mountains. to the last three hundred twenty five please of this house has expressed its confidence in the gulf. look at the. other way that. in the wake of those votes the publication of a leaked government document on says i added to the controversy over brunstad the paper exposed the possibility of holding a second referendum and estimates that the whole process would take up to a year that includes seven months to lay the legal tender for the three months at least the testing the actual question the leak came as a surprise to many as to resume has remained adamant that she will deliver on
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briggs it while downing street confirmed that the paper is genuine it denied. the government has been actively planning for a second vote it says the paper is purely for illustrating purposes and has reiterated the p.m.'s position that britain will leave the e.u. meanwhile jeremy corbyn has set out the conditions under which he would support a second fact blee 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 unanimously agreed by our conference last september eleventh 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 drawing of parts of the european legislation they had to go off the course of they could quite have to look with them so they would come out of the traps profitable for a little while later so this is what wolfowitz tribute took to the year to begin the process and that's partly because people he's very divided on what to do the
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opposition is very divided so we have all these two traditions and they council cross parties and they cut across the country to. a recent poll has found that if a second referendum were to be held a majority of voters but now choose to remain in the e.u. it shows that support for maine is at its highest level since the two hundred sixteen bags that vote and as polyploid explains a rerun of a 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 lately you should look like some politicians get their 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
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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 what 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.
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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. before the break that shambles it was the greek debt crisis keeping e.u. officials often late. in twenty fifteen they need greek prime minister staged a referendum in which weak citizens overwhelmingly rejected the evening news
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austerity policies but brussels imposed them anyway those living in the birthplace of democracy well pleased with what they saw as an undemocratic. 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. 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
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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 he can break the brands that promise and sell it as the noble thing to do. well as calls for the second referendum continue continue to grow trace may well be back in parliament in twenty four hours to present a revised version of her bracket plan to m.p.'s. critics of downtime hit the president with a new parish of new misconduct claims this week they range from obstructing justice to holding the u.s. hostage over his controversial plan for a five billion dollars border war and for his opponents there's only one solution.
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from dirty filthy dossiers to sexual misconduct allegations elicit business deals on and on you name it chances are trump was accused of it weekly this week it's this 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 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
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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 are 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 did say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed and we're very confident in our report you can imagine our. barrison it must have been for buzz feed when robert 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 claimed that trump tried to can see details of one of his meetings with
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putin according to current and former officials anonymous as is tradition the constraints that trump imposed the part of a broader person 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 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 the present trump of course dismisses it all as 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
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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 if i had a choice i'd rather not do that. with the with the interference but we may have no 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 fetish of theirs at this point the trump seems particularly concerned you can. impeach somebody that's doing a great job that's the way i view it. isn't going to say ten officers have been injured after they were reportedly forced into using crowd control equipment to
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disperse protesters clashes broke out of the parliament building this sunday against a deal between greece and its neighbor macedonia to rename the country and in turn allow it's a session to name tag. was . the deal will see the country renamed to the republic of north in order to try and a dispute over the northern territories brings however some greeks feel it's an attempt to appropriate historical and cultural heritage and are strongly against it the mitchell deal could be ratified on monday and will then go to a vote later next week. for decades greece's fourth bristly over neighbor macedonia his name because it happens border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official name safeway i am sure for the former yugoslav republic of
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macedonia to stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after all military genius alexander the great still studied your cabbies round the world. without blocking it's made his native and the leadership of the issue finally agreed it made the republic of north macedonia macedonia's parliament probably amended its constitution to ratify that i'm sure but greece is terrible in politics means it has. yet to do the same. italian interior minister. has called on emanuel micron to hand over tens of fugitives terrorist suspects believed to be sheltering in france with a story his charlotte depends off to decades on the run one of italy's most new tourist criminals finally stepped back on to home soil and says operatives steve charged with four murders was part of the so-called great but gates that terrorized
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the country back in the seventy's. two years 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 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 hall bring terrorists.
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to the french president to return to the fugitives that should not be drinking champagne under the eiffel tower who should be rotting in jail anytime it's really worlds france to hand over more than thirty over these champagne terrorists. list includes no 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
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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 a 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 e.u. elections and italy support for the movement they seems to be no sign that president marc corn has any intention of allowing salvini to claim a home run show that even ski altie shall let certain law. in their own are running for the release of a journalist being held in the us all to his from a family friend who claims her rights have been violated that and plenty will of the week's big stories after this break.
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it's seemed wrong. when old rules just told. me you didn't get to shape out just to come out to it and in detroit because 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 start of the believe how can you have a rise in the standard by having. ritual saving
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investing. roldan in increasing the size of the national park so that you can distribute everything. welcome back to the weekly to libya now when journalists in the capital city tripoli have been paying tribute to people killed in renewed fighting this week among them a journalist for the associated press who also works for all teams the dia news agency ruptly at least thirteen people were killed and fifty two others wounded according to the country's health ministry mohammed ben had been contribution to write me since twenty sixteen and had produced around thirty stories for the agency his colleagues have described him as
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a courageous and talented journalist he survived by his wife and seven month old daughter has some of the last images that captured during his reporting along with a recap of recent events in tripoli. and. what. 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
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family. protesters in the rainy and capital they're calling for the immediate release of an american born journalist in u.s. detention the president of iran saying this line which news channel press t.v. was arrested on u.s. soil last sunday. last year has shame he was confirmed as a material witness by court documents in an undisclosed case but has not been charged with a crime the rai took place outside the swiss embassy in the wrong which acts as a mediator american interests in the country as tensions between washington and tong remain high.
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generation seems ok but. the fact that certain data restrictions was just natural instructions were not being accounted. for headstands had been the answer will. be. we are concerned by the arrest of a journalist for iranian say to be shamy we have serious concerns about her detention and we urge american authorities to clarify the situation. she is a statement should. she's done nothing but. mrs machinery. different freedom of expression a political and. innocent individual. i believe united
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states should. be. called into the order issued by a court in washington d.c. as amy must testify before a grand jury after that she'll be released however some have raised serious concerns about the conditions of detention she spoke exclusively to a friend of the jailed iranian t.v. anchor. the only information and contact the family have had with my eyes he is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received wiring information from him as he told her daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was her job a veil covering such as what time wearing at the moment that was taken off against her will the mug shot was taken without her job on that she was given only a short sleeved t.
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shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code her 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 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 are. for their mother and how nervous they are about the situation marcy is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she has been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. you've
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been watching the weekly head on international i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines but in the meantime for a documentary about us that's right that's. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something wanted. to try to be for us this is like the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of our. city.
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you know world of big partisan groovy 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 we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent so. it's nice to ignore middle of the room signals. rooms i mean real need is
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page yeah. the next team. that arrives to the. guy says welcome to tells me i'm done. josh josh. bello. my partner jeremiah are you ok. you know this is a very little b.s. with all of us that really. america interval see national civilian community corp's they are young men and women between the ages of eighteen and twenty four they receive four dollars and fifty cents a day in stipend for food four dollars for incidentals so they make right at eight fifty a day and they work for eleven months at that rate when they're completed with
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