time. prime minister of. parliament. in westminster in moments. coming up on the program the new side buzz feed to fans a controversial report implicating. investigating the president has rejected it. indeed the same source that we. are standing behind. a federal judge in new york blocks an attempt by the trump administration to question. to the twenty twenty census describing it.

we've got reaction to it. so this isn't about. this is a. country this is all about people here illegally fill out the set. to say yes i'm here illegally no i'm not a citizen but they should it's. just gone five am in houston six pm in hanoi in the afternoon right here in moscow this monday january twenty first welcome wherever you maybe to r.t. international our top story the u.k. prime minister there for another tough week well addressed parliament out some stage today. b four brags that following the historic defeat of her proposed

e.u. divorce deal last week well for more on this let's cross to. polly there polly what can we expect from trees a maze lives attempt to break the braggs deadlock. well to reason may's new plan appears to be trying to tweak her original deal just enough to win over the doubters on her own side so that we the doubters in the conservative party and in the d.v.d. that's the democratic party in northern ireland and the prime minister seems to think that if she secures these changes then perhaps to the thorny issue of the irish backstop she'll be able to squeeze this deal through parliament on january twenty ninth which is the next scheduled vote that we have on it now one option floated over the weekend was that to resume a could try to negotiate a special bilateral treaty between london and dublin on the issue of the irish

backstop but dublin has already rejected that dublin said that effectively any negotiations taking place here have to be between the u.k. and the e.u. take a listen. it is not something we would entertain it would not work the same many of the issues pertaining to ireland are related to and to negotiate an agreed through the european union ireland is much stronger negotiating through the e.u. taskforce. just when we thought polly would reach pick breaks that there's no being talk that some m.p.'s are trying to actually hijack if that is the word to use the bridge to process what are we learning about the. well first of all a lot of people are saying that the prime minister's trying to flog a dead horse head that deal isn't going to make it through parliament no matter how hard she tries to repackage it they're dead set against it no matter what and

having failed to come to some sort of cross party agreement and a lot of people are saying that chill failed to secure any cross party agreement on anything there is one idea that is gathering steam at the moment from a no ray of political parties and that is a plan to block a no deal brags that some people are calling it the seize control plan and those that are pro bragg's it those that it will in government they are calling this a plot and an insurgency but it is really gathering steam predictably downing street is warning of the dangers of hijacking the deal take a listen there is a danger the parliament to stop bragg's it any attempt to remove the government's power to meet the legal conditions of an orderly exit at this moment of history significance is extremely concerning parliaments to the people of this country we will make we make a contract with you you will make the decision and we will order is what we are now getting or some of those who are always absolutely opposed to the results of the

referendum trying to hijack bricks and if i steal the result from the people. so according to waves of reports over the weekend there are reportedly two groups of m.p.'s both reportedly seeking to take a no deal bragg's it off the table which of course the government refuses to do because they say that's one of their sort of negotiating tactics with the e.u. and one of the groups of m.p.'s is planning on presenting a bill in parliament that could force the extension of article fifty delaying britain's departure from the european union or sort of beyond the withdrawal deadline in march and they could also attempt to trigger a second referendum so in the labor party is also calling on the government to rule out that scenario and preserve close trading ties with the e.u. so this is the main clash right now we've got to resume a abandoning all hope of any cross party negotiations that she spoke about so to

mystically this time last week or a bit earlier on she's trying to tweak something that failed spectacularly in parliament last week just enough to win one side of the house and push this through and on the other side we've got a very quiet but growing lot to wrestle control of the brags that process entirely from to resume a antigovernment and one more thing to add here which really can't be missed out. consistently and conversations with members of the public one thing is coming up and that is that the public the voting public care is sick and tired of the way the parliament is handling is handling this that inability really to deal with brags that there's a bit of. people getting quite frustrated here i have to say yes not much happening in westminster today then polly boyko bring us up to date with all the valves we'll

weights what p.m.a. comes up with things probably from the. all right moving on to another headline this hour the news site feed is standing by and in century reports it recently published which claims that donald trump instructed his former lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed business deal in russia buzz feed insists it trusts its sources who are unnamed in the article so i can't talk about the timing of when we've spoken to people but i can tell you that yes indeed this is the same sources that we used in that story are standing behind it as are we ok the report which details on the alleged confession by michael cohen to special counsel investigation into election meddling caused quite the sensation in the media and it wasn't long before the president's critics were talking about 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 tonight a bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president 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 however it's a big however special counsel robert miller's office took the unprecedented step of speaking out on the report caracter rising it was in october it that statement drew praise from the us leader. mr president did you really say that why would he all of a sudden thank robert miller the man who's had collusion allegations under the microscope who's been busy trying to look for stuff that would easily mean the and for mr trump if there's anything to be found weird i hear it right.

coming out. i think was very appropriate so i very much agree. this is what we got for miller speech will buzz feed's description of specific statements and characterization of documents and testimony are not accurate we're used to not hearing from mr miller after compromising bombshells explode but it's not like there is now some good new chemistry between the president and the special counsel or that the hunt for collusion evidence is over it's that the quality of this particular bus fede piece put robert miller in a position where he had to say something but when it comes to what it says in the report 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 so why would god trump haters smelling blood evidence

from sources which the reporters don't name. sources. sources you can find this word all over the article eventually though we find out from one of the authors they've never even seen the papers i.e. the evidence have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence no i don't see them personally but the folks that we've talked to the two issues that we've spoken to are actually one of the recently read in to that aspect of it especially counsel's investigation i don't think that we've had 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 did say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents we're very confident in our report but anyway we're guard loose of everything i've just told you about what was the instant effect of the buzz feed scoop everyone's getting the impeachment buzz

this information if feeling to be true this show is there was obstruction of justice if these facts are true this is suborning perjury and there's no question it's an impeachable offense if the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress she should resign but if he doesn't resign he should be impeached they only want to impeach me because they know they can't win in two thousand and twenty two much success india has become a one johnny one note operation they are out to get trump in the main they didn't like the election results they wanted hillary clinton in there they just appear to be a grumpy dissatisfied nonobjective. on a witch hunt here this is not a light accusation came out of buzz feed this is a very serious accusation it's like crying shouting fire in a crowded theater theater when there's no fire it is amazing to me how much the mainstream press jumped on this story in the last twenty four hours and it's also

frankly quite amazing that the special counsel's team has come out. the story is totally bogus well it's simple calendar mouth the next white house election is already next year so whatever is dreaming of impeachment is running out of time you can't impeach somebody that suing the great job that's the way i view it. to turn attention to greece where seven people have been arrested during clashes with police sixty thousand protesters rallied in the capital a journalist working for the sputnik news agency and twenty five officers were injured. was. god. the greek authorities use crowd control

equipment to disperse protesters clashes broke out in athens the parliament building on sunday against the deal between greece and its neighbor must a donia to rename the country and in turn allow it secession to nato the deal will see the country named as the republic of north must to do it in order to try to end disputes over the name shared with the northern province of greece however some greeks as we're seeing feel it's an attempt to appropriate historical and cultural heritage and are strongly against that the agreement could be ratified this monday and would then go to a vote so that literally. for decades greece is forced basically over a neighbor macedonia's name because afghans border region is also called macedonia one of the country's official names safeway on short for the former yugoslav republic of macedonia stop the laying claim to the rich history of that name after

a little treat jenius alexander the great still study to walk out of these around the world was born in macedonia without blocking its neighbors nato and the e.u. membership over the issue they finally agreed it made the republic of north macedonia macedonia as parliament be amended its constitution to ratify the. greece's politics means it has yet to do the same but a former greek ambassador to canada sais us far as the west is concerned it's all about nato. holding. are very angry about this name and is that for the first time really is giving the name of macedonia a slap in. the door and they cannot accept that and that's why i. reacted but the worst thing is that.

they don't care very much about the agreement say what they want to have scope. that's that's there's big pressure exercised. a resolution was adopted by the that much variation which this if action is to be taken to the president of the republic to the parliament trying to convince the members of parliament not to vote for that because it would have disastrous effects on these. two my favorite story of the day no modo been run or completed a stunning feats of physical injury and running fifty kilometers through the siberian wilderness in minus sixty that's minus sixty degrees colder incredible stuff he took on the grueling challenge to raise awareness about sir paul and to

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i think we know now i want to hear oh actually it looks like the news continues in ninety seconds to. seem wrong well we just don't all. get to shape our. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. chance to look for common ground. you know world big partisan movies. and conspiracies 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 on the back 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. start with a story about people debating stateside and new york a federal judge has blocked a trump administration initiative to add a question about citizenship to the twenty twenty census the decision to

citizenship question to the twenty twenty census even if it did not violate the constitution itself was on rule full for a month to choose of independent reasons and must be set aside a question about citizenship has not appeared on the survey since nine hundred fifty and the proposal to add one is highly controversial as the census numbers are used to determine the amount of heiser representation as well as funding that each state gets critics say that such a move would marginalize democratic voting migrant communities and play into the hands of the republicans we asked commentators from both sides of the debate for their thoughts on the judge's ruling. i find it funny that the cio t.v. is finally concerned with the voting rights act after spending so long and trying to basically get rid of it which they successfully did in two thousand and fourteen via shelby county versus eric holder i mean so this isn't about expanding voting

this is about a republic can be said is majority white people was worried about browning country afraid about electorate of in a lecture and that is increasingly becoming hostile to a party that is going to extremely hostile to them i mean playlets let's be honest are country of laws not a country of men and their opinions you know who what is right and it the republican and it one hispanics you know how good the bad guy in the presidential race later bit between between mitt romney john mccain and donald trump with hispanics donald trump so many many hispanics like republicans like this fans like what we're saying so let's not make it seem like it's black against white and you could be categorized amounts of evil people just mr banneker we're talking about asian people we're talking about people from africa and the caribbean and you're talking about florida for instance the one point four million people who just got their voting rights back ok are the majority of them are black and brown people who

are probably not going to be voting for the recall like you started your them in jail it is ferguson like a criminal like a criminal not steve elliott called i'd rather be august the rapists and violent crimes joke after voting rights absolutely i mean style is that the republicans just got shellacked and california and the house orange county turned blue and this is a reaction to that i mean they think that the republicans are trying to manufacture a situation where they will still be able to retain power through an outdated an antiquated electoral college and also through spirits questions that are really meant so manufactured republican control what they really need to do is prove to the people that they have better policies and that's why they will and if they can do that they won't lose the house of representatives and twenty twenty maybe want it back but this is this is a reaction to you know sit. i would like i would like everybody to run and i would like the next presidential election to be on if you're here illegally should you be forced to tell the government you're here illegally and seventy five to eighty

percent of americans would say of course just like they say of course the fed up borders of course advice of course those sanctuary cities your your your democrat party as losing on immigration left the right but this is all about should people here really big really fill out the census and be quiet to say yes i'm here illegally no i'm not a citizen off course they should it's common sense. over eighty thousand people participated in yellow vests protests in cities across france the weekend led by lance continuing to flare over rising living costs it's got the country's medics i lurk.

around who do not say that we have first aid equipment on the bus bandages and the septics first aid equipment to try to help as much as possible at the scene so that when emergency services arrives the injured are in a much better condition. and . i don't want a lawyer here to help the injured no matter who is injured and would help everyone who needs our health. three of my colleagues were hit last week on the seans elisei helping as street medics including me you know sigh and head. come to france and hope for the people of french demonstration here are many and friendship a very friendship so come on the last ten weeks coming here saturday for so you do

and held for the people it's here is this. the west's. i'm not even going to tell you. we're not going to go into details it's horrible. to look at. them do not i want. to move. now from the one nine hundred sixty s. to the turn of the century the man in the white suits was an ever present for the b.b.c. in war zones are wrong they world next martin bell speaks to going underground about the state of news today this is our internet.

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for impeachment russia gate morphs into treason. and twenty four to you know bloody revolution to to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean you are liz put video of me in the. school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i'm after a time they were going underground one hundred years since the paris peace conference kicked off after a war that was supposed to end all wars coming up in the show we speak to one of the most prolific war correspondents of the late twentieth century martin bell about more on the death of news all of them all going over today's going underground but first the future of britain is arguably in the hands of brussels via dublin we as european union stand by that withdrawal agreement that was negotiated we don't believe it's up to go see asians and that man is in power because a century ago today shin frayne adopted islands first constitution and the first

meeting of the doyle air around frame pledge not to take up seats in westminster and within hours the war of independence began at the sala had big ambush opposition to deals made from dublin would lead to the creation of the provisional ira in from as for attacks like the one on teresa mayes heroine margaret thatcher but what about ireland today has it been stronger in europe because the e.u. and the i.m.f. arguably control ireland here's former governor of the central bank of ireland patrick it was clear that something had to be done was a classic moment for appealing to the i.m.f. far financial assistance. cut to even us mainstream media covering irish austerity in spite of the freezing weather thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of dublin our government has told us those that are penalizing people at the bottom up by the mistakes that they made got got got back. everyone in this

crowd knows rough times are on the way and so ten years on up to e.u. i.m.f. financial control what is ireland like some might find this predictable because it's repeated across the you are low. and is one of the richest countries in the world you know almost eight hundred thousand people are living below the poverty line one in three of those in poverty are children one hundred two thousand are in paid employment lone parents are one of the groups most at risk of poverty of one parent families experience deprivation so is it time for ireland to join the u.k. and leave the e.u. trust business t.v. to cover the story here's david cameron's former adviser steve hilton on whether i'll and should leave the e.u. i think they should i was a great greatly in favor of. felt that it was important for a country like the u.k. . it's just not in the culture they seem to like my experience with the irish seem to like europe more than. the british i think money has got

a lot to do with it because ireland gets more money from the e.u. and it pays into the e.u. well let alone ireland where the yellow vest movement is now taking hold governments are arguably also in chaos both here in the u.k. and in the us i'm now joined by the b.b.c.'s former chief washington correspondent and once independent member of the u.k. parliament martin bell his new book war in the death of news from battlefield the newsroom which recounts his time as a war reporter in vietnam the middle east. and northern ireland is out now martin thanks for coming back on you begin the book on the fields of occupied cyprus this week turkey saying brics it may affect the u.k.'s role as a guarantor power maybe some people may not even realize it is where u.k. troops are right now stationed you or your books as u.k. strategy in cyprus was a disaster i know this from personal experience i was a squaddie along in cyprus of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine hundred fifty nine and. colonial was disastrous and i think in a.