very simple you cannot wish away no do you. use the european union or you do you really does feel a bit like groundhog day. manic monday the prime minister hammers home the message that the best way to avoid a break that no deal is to vote for her deal made looks to rally m.p.'s in parliament instead of offering an alternative plan for. the taliban says it's behind an attack on a military training base in afghanistan that has reportedly killed one hundred twenty six military personnel plus. you were the president right of the russians yes. direction a single piece of evidence but it's not. we take a look at the other corroborated aren't you trying to claim that swept through the

media that says new sign buzz feed defends its controversial report that was rejected here it. it's eleven o'clock here in moscow you're watching r t international live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program he is prime minister looks to garner support for her divorce deal saying she will not betray the twenty sixteen brags that referendum but as theresa may focuses on negotiating the plan heavily defeated in parliament last week the opposition leader has said she is in denial our correspondent polly boyko 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 parties and with different views the government has approached these meeting. in

a constructive spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased everyone. i'm pleased with everyone we met with the same approach every year all position wrong to quality. meetings with the 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

a betrayal of the twenty sixteen vote so to reason may is trying still to tweak her original deal the one that crashed 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 nor the night in 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 the 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 called in the. of the opposition labor party reminded everyone of that he

was pretty critical of the prime minister's not new plan he said that essentially two 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 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 bags that 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'll get further details now on inside from david coburn and i mean people scotland and a member of the freedom and direct democracy david has a coming on to the program now tazer may she's affectively ruled out every alternative apart from her own deal where the red lines that she could move on to

win over a majority in the house of commons. well she might consider resignation who has a pretty good start she's not so much in denial as someone accused or all of it is more like she's should be in the remainder rehab she seems of lost completely the plot point she's was reviewing she doesn't really realize that she's destroyed the conservative party spanish not just for roger starting a new party breaks a party we're going to make sure the country gets a break said that will be the end of the conservative party everything's breaking up with the bill which is a good thing as far as the the problem with the archer public this is a whole there's no problem with with with our land this is we need vented by the other mainers as an excuse to give us in the european union and the irish well quite frankly if we don't behave themselves or we get the world trade organization to leave well out of ireland there are republicans going to be in serious economic

problems so mr varadkar had better behave himself and stop behaving like the we as we treating britain as some sort of plea thing i think people are sick to death of the irish republic quite frankly david as as some of our contributors have said that she seems to have tweaked plan a and turned into plan b. despite the the catastrophe catastrophic lack of support why do you think she's doing that. because she hasn't got a plan b. plan anything she's a plan for titanic she has absolutely not a clue what she's doing she should never have been prime minister is a pure accident she was there she's not fit for the job she's been mucking about for two years she's obsessed with remaining in the european union everything's been good to keep because of the european union and avoiding british democracy she needs to get out of the european union she should respect that and just get on with it

that's why she was elected that's what she told is you're going to do she's not doing it and quite frankly you've got to get rid of her. others have spoken of course david german officials and even celebrities they've been urging the u.k. to have a rethink about leaving the considering the british pm is sticking to her guns over a deal that was roundly rejected is revoking article fifty an actual possibility at this stage. people voted to leave they didn't vote to have a deal that was interesting deal we want to leave you should respect that if you get on with it we should have worked originally on having a world trade organization deal if that wasn't possible toll european union come back with a better one did it and that's what should have happened they didn't do that they mucked about for two years who cares what celebrities think celebrities be much better off tending to being on television or of being in movies the should keep

their noses out of politics you should really listen to what they have to say as far as i'm concerned britain needs breck's it in order to be able to meet the deals we want to make round the world and unless we get a clear brics it that will happen. the no one has asked her to come out do you they were told or to just get on with brakes that's what we want. i mean what do you you know. what you're saying is you know that they voted for it and you know the case should leave but there is an orphan a lot going on in the polls at the moment you know the highest numbers that we've seen people saying that they would remain if they were the second referendum what do you expect to actually. on january the twenty ninth. oh goodness knows what's going to happen on the twenty ninth and anything could happen if she doesn't know what she's doing as to say she doesn't apply and be anything could happen but quite frankly we need to leave on the twenty ninth the best

outcome for us would be the world trade organization times we leave we can sign whatever trade deals you want in the world that's the best thing for the united kingdom. at the moment this can keep on harping on about this irish nonsense who cares who cares about this irish and says quite frankly there's more important things our freedom and quite frankly if the irish republic want to build a wall let the irish republic pay for it and them over they don't seem to be able to pay for anything they already in a great deal of money we should be helpful to britain and not spend our time trying to destroy our freedom and our breaks and it's what we have democratically decided and they are sure public should just try and fits in with that and it's their economy that's going to suffer and that that's that's why can some of radicals playing at he's the one who's going to be in serious balled up if they don't you know if we don't get a good deal. believe that david i mean pay for scotland on

a member of the freedom direct democracy great pranks david coming up for a program. there's a pleasure. to 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 maidan wardak 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 transferring the injured and dead from the soon 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 fires he 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 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 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 we have found 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 that exactly a message from. 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 there is actually he doesn't know what to do with up and i wouldn't be surprised if the american actually do something to the taliban to. reach an agreement although closer to be actually pulled out seat lee from this cracked. your side 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 in russia the article details an alleged confession by michael cohen to special counsel robert when his investigation into election meddling though it was dismissed the story broke in the media as a bombshell moment donahoe breaks it 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 one of us and we see to add to the mounting collusion evidence do you believe the president right now has been an agent of the russians yes i think there is 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 he's not sound like a double negative or logical fallacy so be confused so ending 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 take the recent buzz feed reports alleging order trump. his former lawyer michael cohen lied to congress the evidence being sources 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 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 when pressed bus 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 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 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 wildfire 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 the donald trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about lindsey graham they got him a triumphant tweet from representative no more on the latest kremlin compromise i am pretty sure that there is something happening. with him based on what evidence what were 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 means 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 that has planted this child or towel thinks it's alarming how quickly media spreads have serious and corroborated accusations 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 just appeared to be a grumpy dissatisfied nonobjective. on a witch out 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 stories is totally bogus. us led coalition in syria has confirmed a convoy of its troops and kurdish militia members has been targeted in a suicide car bomb attack the assault in the northwest of syria has been claimed by islamic state information on casualties is difficult but no u.s. troops were injured according to coalition officials artie's policy 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 data 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 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 a restaurant in the northern syrian town of man british 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 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 man bridge

how this 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 birth of your love for the other for a poor american soldiers. two civilians that were killed on january sixteenth the criticism doesn't only come from from the congress it also comes from his military political staff within the administration last on my mind mistake a grave error it's caught everybody off guard and will of the actually pay for it here would dramatically. this is an obama like move when the americans decide to declare that they're going to withdraw from syria that there is a risk of creating a vacuum and this is a big risk and this is a very dangerous situation and it's going to give more momentum for 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 and the new 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 imposed sanctions on russian individuals it believes are connected to the script case the former russian double agents and his daughter were poisoned in march last year in the english city of salt spray london and other western capitals directly accused russia of orchestrating the incident something that moscow has a strenuously denied. takes up the story. russia has can damage this

new wave first saying sions coming from the e.u. with the country's foreign ministry saying 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 demonstrates it is 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 and it is 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 scrip ali and the u.k. are 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 brew last year back in march last year a former double agent said he is cripple and his daughter yulia wore a poisoned and souls very england's with a nerve agent russia denied british accusations of its involvement and offered to help in the investigation however of these offer of. was declined and stad to

london expelled twenty three russian diplomats as a punitive measure and a mania e.u. states afford to move and moscow expelled and equal number of you rupie and diplomats in response to this whole incident agreed the fact it's russia yuki relations. now moldova runner has completing a stunning feat of physical injury and running fifty kilometers through the siberian boldness in minus sixty degrees cold he took on the grueling challenge to raise awareness about south poles and to help youngsters suffering from the disorder. look.

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and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle buckle up and brace for impact trump introduces star wars two point zero and calls for impeachment russia gate morphs into treason game. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor allege he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with international right jump across the girls in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated mark let me go to you first hear more calling this program a star wars two point zero on the back of the release of the missile defense review of two thousand and nineteen how different is this from what was called in the one nine hundred eighty s. under ronald reagan star wars yeah i.