oh. headline stories this hour monday the u.k.'s embattled prime minister prepares to return to parliament today with a revised divorce deal top cabinet minister warns the whole brains of process is now at risk of being to reach. the u.s. led coalition acknowledges a suicide car bomb attack on an american kurdish or it follows some assault on the news site buzz feed house donald trump paid her smelling blood after a report accuses the u.s. president of telling his lawyer to lie to congress but after a unlikely source rejects that claim its authors are forced to defend their article on primetime t.v.

. indeed the same sources that we use in the story are standing behind it. twenty four hour news live from moscow every hour of the day this is our t. international welcome to the program. we will get to those headlines stories in just a moment but some breaking news coming into us on the program comes from afghanistan where not one hundred twenty six security force members have reportedly been killed in an attack by the taliban according to reports the taliban struck a military training center in my town war doc province in the mountains and the mountainous area of the country and that's a senior official from the afghanistan defense ministry speaking on condition of nimitz see we've also been hearing some reports unverified. from the taliban saying

that multiple members of their group participated in the attack that number as it stands one hundred twenty six people dead in afghanistan more on nava soon as we get it on the program. the u.k.'s prime minister will face serious pressure if she fails to sway across party m.p.'s in parliament this monday treason me is obliged to table alternative or plan b. after her first break to deal suffered a humiliating defeat last week but there are already concerns that little or nothing has changed after a triple setback from the e.u. as our london correspondent polly boyko takes us through. plan b. looks an awful lot like plan a but in different packaging to reason may appears to be trying to tweak her original deal just enough to push it through parliament by getting support from the doubters on her own side from inside the conservative

party and from the g.d.p. the democratic unionist party of northern ireland which is propping up trees the maze minority government and the prime minister appears to think that if she secures changes to the thorny issue the irish backstop then she'll be able to squeeze it through on the twenty ninth of january which is the next scheduled vote in parliament now one option floated over the weekend is that reason may could try to negotiate some sort of bilateral treaty between london and dublin which is an idea that dublin has already rejected saying that any negotiations taking place here are going to be between london and brussels 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. an agreed through the european union. is much stronger negotiating through the taskforce and in regards to this new plan which isn't so new a lot of politicians are saying that to reason may is flogging

a dead horse here they're dead set against it no matter what she does to it and of course a lot of people remember that after her deal failed spectacularly in parliament just under a week ago to resume a pledge to hold cross party talks and start listening to politicians on the other side of the aisle to see if she can get some sort of consensus on bragg's that going forward but that idea has crashed and burned also quite spectacularly just like her original deal she's failed in these talks with the opposition parties she had too many red lines according to them but there is now a cross party code. alicia and forming with a plan to block a no deal brags it via a parliamentary route and it's really gathering steam one group of m.p.'s wants to introduce a parliamentary bill that could delay britain's departure from the european union if there is no plan in place by the twenty ninth of march which is of course the

scheduled brags that day and the same group of m.p.'s could try to trigger a second referendum and depending on which side of the fence you're on this whole plan is being called either of the seize control plan or a plot and an insurgency to topple brags it really am and downing street is warning of the dangers of hijacking the deal. there is a danger that parliament you'd stop brags that 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 parliament's to the people of this country we will make a we make a contract with you you will make the decision and we will honor is what we are now getting are some of those who were always absolutely opposed to the results of the referendum trying to hijack bricks at an effect steal the result from the people and just off the back of that comment by liam fox there is

a growing sense that regardless of the way that people voted i originally had conversations with the public and paid to show you that people are growing increasingly frustrated with this parliamentary deadlock that we appear to be in. well the debates in the house of commons is expected to be held a little later on monday and here on r t we'll bring you all the latest of course on the turbulent crisis and what could well be done as a defining week for u.k. politics. just across the irish sea from there are four men have been arrested in northern ireland in connection with a car bomb on saturday night in the city of derry police describe the attack as being on believably wreckless they suspect the new irish republican army to be behind the incident and let's just go through what we know here the bomb exploded outside a courthouse at around eight in the evening local time no one was injured the pizza delivery vehicle had been hijacked packed with explosives

a bomb threat had been called in ten minutes before the blast hundreds of people were evacuated from the area. the new ira is offshoots of the decision parliamentary group internationally recognised the us a terrorist organization there are strongly opposed to the one thousand nine hundred good friday agreement which brought an end to decades of conflict in the region they believe the fight against the u.k. sovereignty of northern ireland should continue. calls for a united ireland have grown larger with brags that threatening to complicate the border on relations between north and south will let's try and pick apart what we know with this speak of peace campaigner and member of the occupy movement george barda a friend of the program as well joins us hi george northern irish police have linked the attack as we're seeing to the new ira why do you think this is happening. the understanding is that this is a one hundred year anniversary of there were of independence in n.

ireland and i think the new ira and the political party it's sort of loosely affiliated to suru have time to see a tactic to try and make a statement of both historical continuity to say that you know the fight for for a united ireland is not over and you know we stand in the tradition of the of this worthy cause i think it's important to understand for international viewers the support for you know violent insurrection in northern ireland is an across island in fact is very very low since the good friday agreement the vast majority of people are committed to it to a peaceful solution but obviously the timing of this coincides not surprisingly with with the whole brics that problem and the central ety of the question of what happens there is quarter to those discussions. and i think it's worth it's worth stressing here that the way the brakes it deal has been presented is just that there is this one sort of technical problem that people can't seem to sort out

which is the irish backstop the reason this is so significant is that any deal down the line that decides that britain is going to have a different relationship to it has now or has implications for that border any move or way we make any move away from the customs union means that goods going cross that border have to have customs checks any any move away from the european single market as well brings also to regulate three questions. so while this new trade is a sort of technical problem to be overcome it's actually very very fundamental what what happens in ireland as a whole and to the nature. of this that you have george the vast majority the vast vast majority of the northern irish public do not want to see any return to any kind of violence but we have been hearing in the in the last number of months where bragg said in the forefront. this may lead to an insurrection to an increase of things like this happening do you think that the conservative party the d u p party

propping up the tory government that this is going to affect their talks in any way surrounding breaks it. he's difficult to comment precisely certainly the u.p.a. is in is in a very very powerful position in terms of brics that for those people that don't understand the sort of peculiar electoral arithmetic going on here what happened in the u.k. is the reason may two years ago went to the electorate to try and get it and it rounded majority and because she understood that you couldn't push grex it through without a significant conservative majority because there are a whole bunch of remain is in her party and a whole bunch of bricks that is what happened in that election was that it. actually back rides and jeremy coleman's labor party almost won the election results the reason why now is totally dependent on these twelve the p. and p. s. and so they are sort of the king makers but they certainly don't want to see

a hard border either in their insistence is there any arrangement that. doesn't in any way create a different situation or go into the rest of what is it you like the matter where you are for ardent as a whole breaks if it goes ahead. and i think that there is just a giant question mark over that you know as i said any breaks other than the softest breck's it which would say is staying the u.k. staying in the single market and the customs union has implications for our obviously for from the point you have many people in ireland that would still love to see a united ireland eventually and they see this as as an opportunity in new york at unity to sort of make the case for a change to the status quo. but the p.r. curiously position is so they don't want to see a hard border but they certainly don't want to see a united ireland. and you know there are all sorts of. questions surrounding the money that went into the brics it via the d.p.a.

there were these secret donations by a company that involves one of the former heads of saudi intelligence so there's also sort of murky stuff going on or around that the. but the. as far and ultimately will depend on the deal and that's the reason that this is the this process is being held up so fundamentally because anything other than roughly the same situation we have now basically and anything other than no breaks it creates and. probably creates problems that are going to be difficult to resolve in it in any kind of obvious way ok we've been speaking live to peace campaigner and member of the occupy movement george bar the george thanks for your take on this developing issue. thank you. ok let's return now to breaking news from afghanistan where one hundred twenty six security force members have reportedly been killed in an attack by the taliban according to reports the telamon struck a military training center in my town wardak province high in the month and it's.

more on this when we get it on the program staying in the region that we want to move to another story the u.s. led coalition in syria has confirmed a convoy carrying both its troops and kurdish militia members has been targeted in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwest of syria as you may understand information on casualties in particular very difficult to verify at this stage but no u.s. troops were injured according to coalition officials or middle east correspondent paula sleep been following developments on this paula. this is a region in focus isn't it since donald trump really stated american troops would be pulling out of syria is violence on the rise there. and said he seems as if islands is on the rise what we know is that

a car bomb exploded near a militia checkpoint as a kurdish led force was accompanying american soldiers close by now we are hearing that five kurdish fighters have been killed this happened in the northwestern syrian town of data so far we have heard from a spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition who has said that there are no americans among the casualties. we can confirm a combined u.s. and syrian partner force convoy was involved in an apparent vehicle borne improvised explosive device attack today in syria there were no u.s. casualties we will continue to review the situation and provide updates as appropriate. now last week a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest outside of restaurants in the northern syrian town of mann bridge and in that explosion there were four american troops who were killed.

now this is just yet another attack on kurdish and coalition forces since the american president donald trump made the surprise announcement that he was withdrawing all two thousand american troops from syria in december at the same time turkey has said that it is waiting to take over security in man because. we do not support and we would oppose efforts to move south and indeed age in

activities against the syrian democratic forces. as i said before our relationship is a critical juncture either we must put it back on track or move further deteriorate we have agreed essentially to normalize our relationship again but in a man is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint work you are there for and this is one of the his vision for measuring the good one of the issues fresh to work together the. new sites buzz feed is standing by an incendiary reports which claims that donald trump instructed his former lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed business deal in russia. the article details an alleged confession by michael cohen to special counsel robert mueller is investigation into election meddling though it was dismissed the story broke in the media as a bomb shell moment that hawkins can bring us up to date with this.

it's been awhile since we've seen another leak story or accusation linking president trump to the crime and just about a week or so in fact one of the latest allegations coming from democratic representative eric swalwell what i said we see to add to the mounting collusion evidence. of the president right now has been an agent of the russians yes so i think there's more evidence i mean there's yes and i think all the arrows point that direction i haven't seen a single piece of evidence that it's not that sounds like a double negative or logical fallacy don't be confused turning the burden of proof upside down being lenient with evidence required to prove guilt or innocence in this case is the latest trend is there even a need to show evidence anymore to take the recent busfield report alleging trump ordered his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress the evidence being sources news travels fast and the story was soon jumped on by the media. 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 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 special counsel moved his office has a reputation for stonewalling questions no comment the most common response sources or not but even they took the highly unusual step of denying the story and when pressed the buzz feed were less than clear exactly what evidence there was already even if it had been seen by the authors of the report's authors. 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 its actual counsel's investigation i don't think

that we haven't seen much but i will say that i'm very confident that your colleagues 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 and we're very confident in our lindsey graham is the latest victim of wildfire news seem to have begun with questionably jokey allegation from comedian chelsea handler that graham was the victim of blackmail based on his sexuality it was then taken up by the chairman of the democratic coalition citing you guessed it republican source before going even more mainstream and both media and politics before donald trump got elected lindsey graham called donald trump a racist xenophobic bigot or it could be the donald trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about lindsey graham they got him to triumphant tweet from representative on the latest kremlin compromise. i am pretty sure there

is something happening with him based on what evidence what fact that's a remarkable comment to make about a sitting u.s. senator. the the as the evidence really is. present to us it's being presented to us in the way that means it is the whirlwind of smoking gun stories leaks from unnamed sources and allegations on collusion intensifies impeachment remains at the forefront of the agenda evidence that's a secondary issue. daniel hawkins well political analyst charles or tell things it's alarming how quickly media spread such serious on corroborated accusations but here is 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 a 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 to say what is the story's totally bogus. i want to return to our breaking news now from afghanistan where one hundred twenty six security force members have reportedly been killed in an attack by the taliban according to reports the taliban struck a military training center in mind on war doc province where local reporter sue town phasey is in the afghan capital and joins us live with what we know so far so the town. what we know is that almost we know nothing officially because journalists have been complaining about the access to the local officials

because the last figure that we heard from lord was the comment of the local health official who said that twelve have been killed and twenty eight others wounded all of those twenty eight four are in critical condition but after that we have been seeing lots of reactions from the journalists from the journalists associations and other media that the local government actually is not responding and they're not accessible so this was one of the other bloodiest attack that last week with. had a similar attack in kabul that many people were killed but still we also had a lack of access to the information again the similar case but what is very visual and obvious that is the taliban has carried out two deadly attacks in the past two weeks however how wadekar witnessed another major attack back in late november and twenty eighteen which was the police recruitment center many people were killed

there so this is still not very clear no official accepted or confirmed that that's . the exact figure but there are many concerns that people are actually already talking about which is did rate of the casualty because it sounds like it has been a very deadly attack on many actually an essay for afghan security forces have been killed yeah exactly one thing we do know for sure that it is another deadly day in afghanistan thank you very much sue town phasey live in kabul for us this hour. well that is your news for now but stay close has some great programs begin in moments live from moscow every hour of the day this is your r.t. international. when gold make good manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the

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or is catastrophe just around the corner. jacob frenkel it's really great to have in our show today my pleasure all right so lots to talk about after last year's davos i want you have actually cited it the growing global doubt level as a concern but this year we have a china u.s. standoff that you think is also a big problem to the global economy do you think we're looking at a recession to come. to. the world is a very global. countries in the world connected. in a way begins the nature of the integrated world to have burials and. to create trade tensions so as an introduction i would like to say that in my judgment the chinese us standoff as far as the trade skill mischa's is the

major issue but you are perfectly right that. we arrived to this year which is the tenth anniversary of the large financial crisis crisis that started from large debt levels we arrived to this year from the legacy of large debt levels and now we see the debt continuing to grow so to gether the rising debt which is fragility of the financial system and the rising trade tension which is for djibouti of the trading system can translate itself into fragility of the world international and that's something to watch for do you think the same as your colleagues from j.p. morgan the twenty twenty stare when the big recession is going to hit the world and we're going to see a social unrest in st since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and iffy think that's the case do you think could be averted and how.