it was. very simple you cannot wish away no deal on these are you saying the european union or you know the deal is really just feel a bit like groundhog day. the prime minister presents hebraic said plan b. to parliament after plan a was resoundingly rejected but critics say she has failed to make any real changes since. the taliban says it was behind an attack on a military training base in afghanistan that killed more than one hundred military personnel. it's only a q. says france of treating african countries like colonies fueling the microphone crisis plus. you believe the present right now but it is

a joke of the russians yes and i think all the arrows point that direction i haven't seen a single piece of evidence but it's not. a new rounds of trump russian room mistakes over the us media we find out where the claims are coming from. watching t.v. international with me on issues that the good to have you with us this hour. the u.k. prime minister is trying to salvage his aide to force steel after suffering a record defeats in parliament last week a correspondent's party boy who has been following the developments in westminster following last week's vote it is clear that the government's approach had to change this is called parliament from different parties and with different views the government has approached these meetings in a constructive spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased that everyone. i'm

pleased that everyone we met with the same approach moved through your position prior to politician. meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister's 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 votes

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 northern ireland which is propping up 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 backstop she says is 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 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 good. 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 taking it she wants to take 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 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 no professor tom brokaw to reason may 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 poetry history if they were only to support it but she promises that she was going to be open

a constructive of the way forward but again for almost two years she's been promising to work across different parties she's are 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 began to resign from a government over the deal so i think this is really too little too late a lot of it in bad faith she has no imagination really. to move forward she seems to just want to stick with her plan and force it through a parliament and up public who doesn't want this is publicly popular and i think that really constitutionally intolerably. to afghanistan now where one hundred twenty six security pass now have been killed and the taliban bombing according to defense sources the taliban struck a military training center and made an wardak province to the southwest of the

capital kabul we had from a local resident. a large explosion hit this area and broke the window panes in my house ambulances transferred the injured and that from the same to the host. was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion what i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong. the core of poor test sultan face he says it's been difficult to get accurate information on the bombing. 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 personnel 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 we had from paris columnist tapped albury out swine he believes the bombing was intended as a direct challenge to u.s. forces in afghanistan. i believe this is actually a message from. a meeting or a little strange in taking place today and door. saying this message that we have. on the ground and you have to listen to us and accept our conditions otherwise we are going to leave all the talks it is really really you will sit back while the american people their allies against president crime is actually he says that he doesn't know what to do with afghanistan i wouldn't be surprised if the american actually to submit to the taliban pressure to. reach an

agreement for their forces to be actually pulled out safely from this crap. francis summons the italian ambassador for some provocative remarks from the country's deputy prime minster they waited to my kids paris of pursuing a colonialist policy in africa and west wing the migrant crisis china depends kaye reports. france and italy have quite a long story of fighting as e.u. elections closer the two countries are increasingly looking to bolster their allies and to drown out the rival italy's it deputy prime minister has laid the blame for the on going my current crisis here in europe with france saying it's impoverished african nations with its colonialist policies. we must address the causes of this crisis because people are leaving africa in part because some european countries

led by france have never stopped being colonizers he even went as far as calling for brussels dissension paris now some might say that it's a bit rich to lay the blame on france's colonial past given that italy too had colonies but to my use beef is that a cooling to him france has never let go there are dozens of african countries in which friends prints its own currency the franc of the colonies and with that currency french public debt is financed by italy's been ruffling matt corns feathers for a while including in its support for the yellow vests movement be adopted by a french as i hope for the good of the french who are a great people that they come out of this moment of crisis macro's a laboratory invented product to stand in the way of any change on the horizon that seems obvious to me now. while rome's hand of friendship is being offered to

world's other e.u. nations disgruntled with an influx of migration including hungary in poland they calling for a european spring french president has taken up the fight me because already on it he's just like it is indeed clear that today there is a strong opposition between nationalists and progressives and i will not give anything away to nationalists and to those who deliver this hate speech and so if they wanted to see me as. their main opponent is on their right france and italy have many bones of contention immigration settlement in libya relations with russia and they can't even decide on leonardo da vinci's legacy but they do have one thing in common both want to take the lead within the e.u. charlotte even ski. paris. news site to 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 miller's investigation into election meddling there 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 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 is not so unlike a double negative or logical fallacy though because if used so and in 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 trump ordered his former lawyer michael cohen to lie 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 investigate. and here's what buzz feed news is reporting on tonight's bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president trump 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 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 that personally i don't think that we haven't seen your colleagues said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents 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 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 fact that's a remarkable comment to make about a sitting u.s. senator. the the the evidence really is. present to us it's being presented to us in the way that as the whirlwind of smoking gun stories leaks from unnamed sources. and on occasions on collusion intensifies impeachment remains at the forefront of the agenda evidence well that's a secondary issue. political analyst charles will tell thinks it's alarming how quickly media spreads that serious and crop rated accusations video 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 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 to say what is the story is totally bogus still to come on our face because to crack down on election meddling that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

country is gone into a nihilistic fever i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlotte. merican era this is it we've come to a point much olive garden so we always are on the verge of some what this whole culture thing for you. oh. we're starting west where the mist is going to head east it's a just want to go into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't know any more ground zero than that it may be completely different but it is.

welcome but. social media giant facebook is planning to tighten its rules in place the ties saying to prevent election into ferentz our goal was to get to a global solution and so until we can get to that in june we have to look at the different elections and what we think we can do. facebook's new rules will however depend on the region in nigeria and ukraine for example when you advertise is located inside the country can run on the torah out in india facebook files to create a library of all outfits used during campaigns and elections in the your opinion will get a similarly transparent system. in. and i've across a discuss the role of social media and political campaigns with our guests. i think we're seeing a massive increase in the volume of political advertising across all social media

platforms and arguably it is having an enormous effect on most recent elections because it is a technology a hugely enormously disruptive technology that's deployed at a scale that's absolutely unprecedented in modern human history and one of the big problems i think for for people who are trying to deal with facebook and trying to control those advertising is first to establish to what extent these advertising. influence operations what everyone's goal and what impact they're having you know in terms of regulating facebook that's obviously another story and you know i think facebook realizes it's kind of living on borrowed time relatively unregulated what comes next is another question how much frankly regulation of facebook outside the u.s. is a trade barrier as opposed to something that's truly done to protect citizens that's another question as well there are always a element of vested interests in any kind of regulation facebook needs to

act globally in terms of its transparency just just looking at a line here seventy four percent of facebook members don't know that the social network maintains a list of their traits of their interests in order to target them which was the whole the whole principle around the advertising based internet model that facebook and google are kind of par excellence example zoeth then people could receive highly specified advertising in highly particular places a particular times of the day that increase the quality of their lives obviously you know in many respects the technology was there in my opinion and i don't think the technology has made of the kind of contribution that everybody was hoping for but i think if people were exposed to the. to which all that data is being used and where somewhere out in the ether there's a profile for them that's in explicit detail i think they'd be freaked out i think the big challenge here is literally the volume of information facebook and twitter

and other people are trying to improve the efficiency of their algorithms but they have a long way to go do i and the further they go the bull the doctors are actually going to try and innovate in order to try and beat the algorithms it's going to be a very difficult tells the greater issue is around. who is going to do next so face because already describing itself now as it looks like it they don't say they're a technology company on the one of but now they're becoming an ai company that's an algorithm based company i would say the problem for regulating legislating about facebook is that we saw this at the zuckerberg here it's october hearing that these members of congress were clueless about how facebook functioned remember senator orrin hatch talked about the internet being a bunch of tubes several years ago and it's kind of almost twenty eighteen interation of that in the six months before the congressional hearings where jack dorsey was brought in and some people wrote in and there was an empty chair for

google at some stage they didn't make us somehow you know there was there was a very definite change in the air and you could tell the government u.s. government was asking the silicon valley giants very very serious questions and i think what we're seeing now is some of the responses that have come out from the kind of you know pressure that the silicon valley found itself in the way that facebook is going to be brought to kind of bear. is to litigation somebody like what happened with eighteen t. the big phone try it was that not only was broken up in the court because then you had to submit documents submit yourself to testimony under oath if you lied that would be penalties that's the way to facebook i don't think congress frankly has the car acidy to get to the bottom of it in a way that the litigation process does. it we'll see. twenty six richest people now own as much as the poor half of the world's population that's according to reports from the british charity. he's going underground slipped into the story and

you can watch the full show on wednesday but harris some of the highlights. seeing that picture getting worse and worse we're seeing more and more wealth being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people each year but we're also seeing these really stark pictures of you know these vast numbers of people who don't have access to education or how you know vast number of people living really very little money with very little well then you know what we see consistently is that wealth is undertaxed actually. we see the poorest people in the world paying huge amounts of tax income tax will be eighty whilst wealth is not really taxed appropriately and then very little money being able to be spent on public services like health and education that could be a real equalizer for those people living in poverty in their report we identified a number of countries the brazil are two examples where the poorest have spending a higher proportion of their income on top three things like income tax and the eighty the richest are

a big part of that is because it is also small just four cents in every dollar of tax revenue that are created worldwide it comes from wealth taxes the rest comes from taxes on purchasing i think the. russian search teams have pulled eleven bodies from the water in the straits after a deadly fire involving two ships near the coast of crimea the death toll is so far unclear with nine sailors still missing twelve people have been rescued according to russia's transport ministry all of those onboard are believed to have been from india and the explosion happened in neutral waters neighbor russia and ukraine one of the vessels was carrying liquefied natural gas and the other was an oil tanker the fire is believed to have broken out while fuel was being pumped from one ship to the other. you know up to date with the latest world news star programs continue on r.t. in just

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