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the ball over. the. globe. among the stories that shape the week the political chaos with the prime minister's brags and feel suffering defeat but. position hourly surviving a confidence vote just twenty four hours late. polls intensified donald trump's impeachment from the democratic as the u.s.
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president with a slew of allegations of wrongdoing but he says he's not going anywhere. but it sure in the great that's the way i viewed. the developing story this sunday as scenes of finance break in the capital over a deal to change the name of neighboring macedonia arrests and injuries all reported in the mass demonstrations. a look back at the top stories from the last seven days on the latest news it's the weekly here on alt international with me material to welcome to the program. the u.k. has thrust deep into political turmoil this week to trace a maze proposed divorce deal was dealt a crushing defeat in palm and. the following day the prime ministers saw off
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a confidence vote called by the leader of the opposition leaving the country no closer to love's breakthrough on the bright as it is a quick recap of the drama school says we look ok. i. poured out. our you know what i'm doing with. the country and up here 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 the steel reject the steel because of god be good to. reality is the right two hundred until you know you still don't let four hundred and thirty two children lose i'd be. happy if you clear the house does not support this deal.
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lately or to bring somebody please be able to come look at a long list to the rocky mountains. to the letter three hundred twenty five please at this house has expressed its confidence in the gulf to. lift. up a way that. in the wake of those votes the publication of a leaked government document on thursday added to the controversy of a brags that the paper explores 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 groundwork and a further three months at least for testing the actual question the. the leak came
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as a surprise to many as three as the mayor has remained adamant that she will deliver on 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 illustrate it 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 phase of. the options on the table including the public vote option which we make clear in our conference motion which was 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 that they would have a whole should do all parts of the european legislation they had to go up or so they could quite happily live with them so they would come out of the traps of to go further with a woman and so this is what will for a good step it took three years to begin
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a process and that's partly because the conservative party is pretty divided on what to do your position is very divided so we have all these divisions and they cancel cross parties and they cut across the country too. 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 you it shows that support for remain is at its highest level since the twenty sixth vote and as poly 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 if some politicians get their way whether it should happen at all to this issue but to the elected water and. to the british public but to go back a. week this 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 we're 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
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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 e.u.'s defacto constitution the lisbon treaty suffered the same fate majority in favor of the proposal at the price of years old as a sign of confidence by the irish people and european union as a sign of their desire to be all hearted members of 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
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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 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
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nothing 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 of the u.k. voters would say no to bragg's it and given the circumstances there are now leonti of politicians to break the braggs it and sell it as the noble thing to do. was cause for that second referendum continues to resume we'll be back in parliament in twenty four hours to present a revised version of the plan to m.p.'s. critics of the president with a barge of new misconduct claims this week they range from obstructing justice to holding the us hostage of his controversial plan for a five billion dollar border wall and his opponents there's only one solution. from
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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 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 his. 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 and we're very confident in our reporting you can imagine how embarrassing it must have been for buzz feed when robert mueller by no means a fan of trump and the guy investigating the u.s. president came out and dismissed these reports those fees 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
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washington post which claim. when that trump tried to convey. details of one of his meetings with 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 is told one of the united states marine adversaries the bombshell kind fizzles 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 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
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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 if i had a choice i'd rather not do that with the with the interpreters 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't impeach somebody that's doing a great job that's the way i view it. some people have been arrested during clashes
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with police increases sixteen. thousand protesters rallied in the capital there were injuries reported to a journalist the sputnik news agency and ten police officers among them off the greek authorities use crowd control equipment to disperse protesters clashes broke out in athens outside the parliament building this sunday against a deal between greece and its neighbor macedonia to rename the country and in turn allow its a session to nato. the deal will see the country you mean name to the republic of north macedonia in order to try and end a dispute over the northern territories of police however some critics feel it's an
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attempt to appropriate historical and cultural heritage and i strongly against it and mutual deal could be ratified on monday and will then go to a vote later next week for decades greece's force basically over neighbor macedonians name because athens border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official names. short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to stop it laying claim to the rich history that name after all military genius alexander the great still study to walk out of these round the world was born. without its blocking its neighbors nato and the leadership over the issue is finally agreed and made the republic of north macedonia macedonia as part of be amended its constitution to ratify the name. but greece's politics means it has yet to do the same. syria says it has successfully ripped. an israeli air
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raid targeting an area south of the capital damascus shooting down several missiles shortly after the incident israel's military claim to have taken down a rocket over the occupied to go to new heights no specifics were given however about the source of the launch on the cross live now to our correspondent paula sleigh a in tel aviv paula whilst we in established for the from those aerial strikes this sunday we're also hearing some quite aggressive rhetoric and move surrounding all this too. this. happened is that the syrian air defenses held what is widely understood to be and israeli airstrike they shot down some sit in the cells that were talking to me area around damascus international airport as and a great day was coming into now that happened during daylight hours on sunday which in itself is unusual late in the day the israeli army released a statement in which it said it had intercepted
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a missile coming from syria that interception was seen. him on which israel's want to keep thousands of tourists who were busy at the time this is a highly unusual development because in the past you kind of syria and syria missiles that have landed in israel a space had really been understood to be this the israelis say it was a deliberate strike from the syrian side now there were no injuries reported by that incident these latest prime minister benjamin netanyahu he was commenting instead had this to say about the call to strike. presumably you. would have a separate post it to harm iranian entrenchment in syria going to harm anyone who tries to harm the suppose he doesn't change when i move the kountry and it also doesn't change when i'm making a historic resort to charge. now this is not the first time we've seen something like this in east. israel has conducted hundreds of
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strikes against what it says are targets inside syria. ok i apologize there for the interferes with the connection but i was paula slayer reporting from television thanks paula now a renewed fighting in tripoli has come at a deadly cost with one of the victims a journalist who had to work for artie's video agency that and more all of our week's big stories after this break. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to be cross this is what the forty three of them or ten people.
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interested always in the waters of our. first city. do 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 star the believe how can you have a rise of the stone the few by having people who are rich of saving investing . roldan in increasing the size of the national park so that you can distribute ball to every.
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program the italian interior minister has called on and money to hand over tens of fugitive terrorist suspects believed to be sheltering in france with a story his. decades on the run one of italy's most new tourist criminals finally steps back on to home soil says operatives steed charged with four murders was part of the so-called red brigades that terrorized the country back in the seventy's. 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
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announce their past crimes fraunces 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. my people 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 maybe it's me it's really wants france to hand over more than thirty over these champagne terrorists.
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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 for men and 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 can't 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
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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 show let law. to man have been arrested in northern ireland in connection with a car bomb on saturday night in the city of derek they say their main line of inquiry was looking into the new ira being behind the incident a bomb exploded outside a courthouse around eight pm local time police say a pizza delivery vehicle was hijacked and packed with explosives no one was injured due to a bomb threat being called into the authorities ten minutes before the blast hundreds of people were evacuated from the area. the new irish republican army is a dissident group internationally recognized as a terrorist organization it was formed from a split in the old ira and was strongly against the one nine hundred ninety eight
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good friday agreement which brought an end to decades of conflict in the region the new ira believes the fight to unite ireland should continue calls for uniting the country have grown louder with breaks it threatening to complicate the border between north and south. to libya now where 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 artie's video news agency ruptly at least thirteen people were killed and fifty two others wounded according to the country's health ministry that is mohammad ben khelifa had been contribution to me since twenty sixteen and had produced around thirty stories for the agency his colleagues have described him as a courageous and talented journalist he's survived by his wife and seven month old daughter in some of the last images he captured during his reporting along with a recap of recent events in tripoli. and.
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what. makes this. work what. goes on is a ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin a 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. he'll be watching the weekly hair on. the back of the top of the hour with more headlines but in the meantime time for
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