we expose it is clear that the government's approach had to change this is because this really does feel a bit like groundhog day. monday the u.k.'s embattled prime minister hammers home the message that the best way to avoid a break no deal is to vote for her deal as fraser may looks to rally m.p.'s in parliament instead of offering an alternative plan for divorce. the taliban says is behind an attack on a military training base in afghanistan that is really cool to be killed hundred twenty six military personnel plus. you leave the present right now has put in agent of the russians yes i think all the arrows point that direction would seem a single piece of evidence but it's not we take

a look at the other corroborated and he trunk claims that swept through the media. buzz feed defends its controversial report that was rejected as inaccurate. it's ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from a studio with mina david tudor welcome to the program. the prime minister looks to garner support for her divorce deal think she will not betray the twenty sixteen brags that referendum but as tries may focuses on the go shaping the plan heavily defeated in parliament last week the opposition leader has said she's in denial our correspondent polly boko has been following all the ins and outs of the debate in westminster following last week's vote it is clear that the government's approach had to change this is called the cross parliament from different path. it is and

with different views the government has approached these meetings in a constructive spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased that everyone we met. i'm pleased that everyone we met with the same approach moved through your position paul two qualities came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just search there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing. well it looks like to resume a plan b. is simply insisting on plan a to resume a claim that she'd held across party talks and that they'd gone positively that she didn't go in there with any conditions although she refused to rule out a no deal scenario she refused to delay britain's departure from the e.u. which is set for the twenty ninth of march and she scrapped any idea or reiterated

her. opposition to any idea of a second referendum she said it would be of the trail of the twenty sixteen vote so to reason may is trying still to tweak her original deal the one that crashed and burned in parliament last week it was a historic defeat an unprecedented one but she's still trying to change that deal just enough to push it through parliament by winning over the doubters essentially on her own side and in the conservative party and in the heat the democratic and unionist party of northern ireland which is propping up the minority government now the main change is that she wants to secure her deal in order to push it through is so the thought any issue of this irish back stop she says she's going to be talking to politicians in parliament in order to understand what it is they need changed then she'll try to secure that change in. order to make them support that deal

jeremy corbin the leader of the opposition labor party reminded everyone of that he was pretty critical of the prime minister's not so new plan he said that essentially to reason is flogging a dead horse and the house is dead set against her deal especially if she's not prepared to shift any of her red lines which she isn't so it all sounds a bit like deja vu what makes us think that what you tried to agree to go shoot in december will succeed in january this is pretty good this really does feel a bit like ground hold. so the unveiling of plan b. has really entrenched both these opposing sides it seems on one side to reason raise trying to tweak something which failed spectacularly last week and she's tweaking it she wants to tweak it just enough to win over her side of the house the leader of the green party in that debate just there said she's acting like she lost

that vote by thirty votes are not two hundred accusing her of being in denial and on the other side there is this quiet growing push to wrestle control of the braggs it process from to resume and her government and to try to have a softer bragg's it all or none at all via a second referendum so rather than seeing a coming together of the house to decide a way forward we're seeing a stratification of both sides further divisions as we hurtle towards bragg's it day which is the twenty ninth of march and the prime minister refuses to move that day so it does look as though it is the twenty ninth of march regardless of whether there is a deal in place. we discussed event in london with professor of law tom brokaw's who believes that the mayor has abandoned one promise after another. the real heart of her argument today was that she was going to be if members of parliament agreed

this this deal which they rejected in the biggest defeat in modern parliamentary history if they were only to support it but she promises that she was going to be open to a constructive of the way forward but yet for almost two years she's been promising to work across different parties she's really promising to be open and keep people in the loop and she's been shown to do anything but that she members of her own cabinet didn't know what her deal was until this past september when they begin to resign from a government over the deal so i think this is really too little too late it's a lot of it done in bad faith she has no imagination really for who got to move forward she seems to just want to stick with their plan and force it through a parliament and the public who doesn't want this is publicly popular and i think that really constitutionally intolerably. at the latest from afghanistan now 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 the maidan want a province an area just southwest of kabul we heard from a local resident. it large explosion hit this area and broke the window panes in my house ambulances transferred the injured and that from the same to the hospital. it was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong. local reporter sultan fison says it's been difficult to get accurate information on the attack. there have been some conflicting reports about the casualty figure because early in the morning local officials announced that the casualty figure was twelve and around thirty others have been wounded but later the government office shows actually were not providing access to journalists to know more about the figure

because it was quite a huge blast as we spoke to the locals there the building that was directly attacked by a humvee type of military vehicle packed of explosives partly part of that was collapsed and many of the intelligence officers and personally who are joining for breakfast actually left on the. remnants of the building and lost lives it was two vehicles and five attackers involved into the attack and the second vehicle was diffused by the security forces but also it took four and a half hours to encounter all the insurgents there then later prevent shell council member claim that more than fifty people have been killed that all of them were the member of the afghan intelligence security forces

a source from the ministry of defense told us in a condition of anonymously that the casualty rate is beyond one hundred which is really shocking because it could be the deadliest type of on the n.d.s. or afghan national security services members. you heard from political analyst abdel bari atwan who believes this attack shows the taliban's power in the region and it marks a huge setback for the u.s. and its allies i believe this is actually a message from taleban to i mean the street should take place today we. are saying this message that we have. on the ground and you have to listen to us and accept our otherwise we are going to leave all the talks it is really really you will sit back while the americans and their allies. president.

is actually he doesn't know what to do with up and i wouldn't be surprised i mean it can actually do something to the taliban to. reach an agreement although forces to be actually pulled out seat lee from this cracked. me aside buzz feed is standing by an incendiary report which claims that donald trump instructed his former lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed business deal and bestir the article details of an alleged confession by michael cohen to special counsel of up when this investigation into election meddling though it was dismissed the story broke in the media as a bombshell moment hawkins' breaks it all down for us it's been a while since we've seen another leak story or accusation linking president trump to the kremlin just about a week or so in fact one of the latest allegations coming from democratic representative eric swalwell telling whatever some we see to add to the mounting

collusion evidence do you believe 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 but it's not so unlike a double negative or logical fallacy to be confused so on in the burden of proof upside down being lenient with evidence required to prove guilt. innocence in this case is the latest trend is there even a need to show evidence anymore take the recent buzz feed reports alleging trump ordered his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress the evidence being source is news travels fast on the story was 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 tonight 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 the trial must be impeached at the story is true the special counsel moves 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 when pressed buzz feed were less than clear exactly what evidence there was or even if it had been seen by the report's authors have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence no i don't see them personally i don't think that we've said that we haven't and your colleague 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 reporting sen lindsey graham is the latest victim of wild news seem to have all begun with a questionable 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 an unnamed republican source before going even more mainstream and both media and politics before donald trump got elected lindsey graham called donald trump a racist xenophobe bigot or it could be that donald trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about lindsey graham. they got him a triumph a tweet from representative omar on the latest kremlin compromise i am pretty sure there is something happening with him but based on what evidence what facts 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 he's behaving as 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. political analyst charles or talf thinks it's alarming how quickly we just present serious uncorroborated accusations but here is become a one johnny one note operation they they're out to get trump in the main they didn't like the election results they wanted hillary clinton in there just appeared to be a grumpy dissatisfied nonobjective. on a witch hunt here this is not a light accusation came out of 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 it was the story's totally bogus. the u.s. led coalition in syria has confirmed a convoy of its troops and kurdish militia members has been targeted in a suicide car bomb attack insult in the northwest of syria has been claimed by

islamic state information on casualties is difficult to verify but no u.s. troops are injured according to coalition officials. has more details. it certainly 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 shabda a spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition 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 it's act 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 a restaurant in the northern syrian town of man bish and in that explosion there

were four american troops who were killed. now this is general trump made the surprise announcement that he was withdrawing all two thousand american troops from syria in december there was a phone conversation on sunday between trump and the turkish president added one in which everyone said that the turks were ready to take over security in monday which of us is fighting the kurds who are the majority in that area and they've been appealing to both the syrian government and russia for support security and political analyst says the u.s. withdrawal is a huge risk that could benefit the terrorists. the attack today by isis comes two

days after mr trump himself attended the ceremony for the burial of the other four american soldiers and two civilians that were killed on january sixteenth the criticism doesn't only come from from the congress that also comes from his military political staff within the administration a loss on my mind mistake a grave error it's caught everybody off guard and will of the actually pay for it here or dramatically. this is an obama like move i'm speechless today just that's not only going to hear our current operations it's going to double or triple the ranks of isis because when we leave they're going to say look we just defeated the united states when the americans decide to declare that they're going to withdraw from syria there is that it's got clear thing a vacuum and this is a big risk and this is a very dangerous situation and it's going to give more momentum for the isis and for the terrorists this is the confusion in the american administration for so many

years they paid a lot of money and they put a lot of effort to support the kurdish forces in the northern part of syria and now they want to abandon these kurds and so they want to find a balance between the two and it's a very difficult balance to find and i think the kurds have to learn their lesson once and for all like many people all around the world that if you work for the americans abandon you at any time without any guarantees for your safety and that's what they have done for many times before in so many heated areas around the world . the e.u. has impose sanctions on russian individuals it believes are connected to the script case the former russian. and his daughter were poisoned in march last year in the english city of london and other western capitals directly accused russia of orchestrating the incident something that moscow has strenuously denied when they never takes up the story. russia has can damage this new wave. coming from the e.u.

with the country's foreign minister. that moscow reserves the right to respond our position remains firm it is illegal to introduce unilateral restrictive measures by bypassing the un security council brussels once again demonstrated its disregard for the collectively developed mechanisms for international cooperation the unilateral placement of punitive illegitimate tools is fraught with increased high handedness in international relations and the erosion of international law the e.u. has introducing sions against the had of russia's military intelligence agency the g r un and his deputy and this comes as part of a new wave of think sions the regarding chemical weapons now the e.u. council has recently adopted this new regime under which the e.u. will now be able to impose sanctions on persons and antes involved in the development or use of chemical weapons regardless of their nationality or location

and apart from the top g.r.u. officials the e.u. sanctions it to individuals whom the u.k. earlier called the g.r.u. agents allegedly responsible for the poisoning of said a gay script and the u.k. or welcome to this move and also called these thank sions tough action against irresponsible activities of the g r u today's new sanctions the live on of to take tough action against the reckless and irresponsible activities of the russian military intelligence organization the g.r.u. which puts innocent british citizens in serious danger own souls bru last year back in march last year a former double agent said he is cripple and his daughter yulia wore a poisoned and soles very england she was the nerve agent russia denied british accusations of its involvement and offered to help in the investigation however of these offer a was declined and stand to london expelled twenty three russian diplomats as

a punitive measure and a many you stay. forward to this move in moscow expelled an equal number of european diplomats in response to this whole incident agreed the fact it's russia uki relations. at least eleven people have been killed and fourteen crew rescued after two ships caught fire on the coast straight off the russian coast and maritime operations still hunting for the five remaining crew members witnesses say they saw explosions coming from one of the vessels with the blaze spreading to the second clouds of smoke was seen billowing from one of the ship's initial reports claimed both are flying tons of tons i mean flags and transporting it liquefied natural gas turkish an indian nationals were on board. now a new york federal judge has blocked a trumpet ministration initiative to add a question about citizenship to the twenty twenty census the decision to

citizenship question to twenty two in two census even if it did not violate the constitution so was. for a multitude of independent reasons and must be sort of side a question about citizenship has not appeared on the survey since one thousand nine hundred fifty the would marginalize democrat 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. kind of funny that the g.o.p. is finally concerned with the voting rights act after spending so long and trying to basically get rid of that which they successfully did in two thousand and fourteen the a 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 are worried about proud in country afraid about electorate of in a lecture and that is increasingly becoming hostile so

a party that is going to extremely hostile to them i mean let's be honest our country of laws not a country of men and their opinions you know what is right and it the republican and it one hispanics you know how good the bad guy in the presidential race played a bit between between mitt romney john mccain and donald trump with hispanics donald trump so many many hispanics like republicans like this dance like what we're saying so let's not make it seem like it's black against white and you could categorize abounds evil people just as spanish 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 republican voted for them in jail if ferguson like a criminal like a criminal not steve elliott called i would rather be august the rapist and i would

ride joke after voting rights absolutely i mean still is that the republicans just got shellacked and california and the house orange county 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 the scariest questions that are really meant said manufacture 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 will. lose the house of representatives twenty twenty maybe want it back but this is this is a reaction. i would like i would like everybody to run on 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 and right 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 of course they should it's common sense. when runner has company today standing feet of physical n.g.o.s running fifty kilometers through the siberian wilderness and minus sixty degrees cold he took on the girling challenge to raise awareness about policy and to help youngsters suffering from the disorder.

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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 on the show we speak to one of the most prolific war correspondents of the late twentieth century martin bell about war and the death of news dollars or more 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 at the first meeting of the boy lay around frame pledged not to take up seats in westminster and within hours the war of independence began at the swallow had bag ambush opposition to deals made from dublin would lead to the creation of the provisional ira infamous 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 of the heat by the mistake 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 arlo. and is one of the richest countries in the world yet 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 alone parents are one of the groups most at risk of poverty half of one parent families experience deprivation so is it time for ireland to join the u.k. and leave the e.u. just business t.v. to cover the story david cameron's former advisor steve hilton on whether island should leave the e.u. i think they should i was a great greatly in favor of of bragg's it because i felt that it was important for a country like the u.k. and why why and why it's just not in the culture they think they seem to like i mean my experience would be that the irish seem to like europe more than that or the british i think money has got a lot to do with it because ireland gets more money from the e.u. .