i. was saying that i love but i. think simply you cannot wish away no deal oh you say the european union or you are a diva is really does feel a bit like ground hold the. u.k. prime minister presents hyperactive feats of parliament off to help plan a was resoundingly rejected but its critics say she's failed to make any real changes to

the taliban says it was behind an attack on a military training base in afghanistan that killed more than a hundred military personnel. this week uses fronts of treating african countries like colonies and fueling the migrant crisis. is just ten three am head in the russian capital this is arcing international. the u.k. prime minister is trying to salvage a divorce deal after suffering a record defeat in parliament last week a correspondent 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 exhaust parliament from different parties and with different views the government has approached these meetings in a construct. to spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased that everyone we met.

i'm pleased with everyone we met with the same approach every all position paul two qualities. meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just search there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing as. 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 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 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 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 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 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 a brags that 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 law professor tom burke's believes 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 to a constructive of the way forward but yet poor 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 begin to resign from the government over the deal so i think this is really too little too late a lot of it done in bad faith she has no imagination really. 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. to afghanistan now where one hundred twenty six security pass now have been killed in a taliban bombing according to defense sources the taliban struck

a military training center and made in more take province to the southwest of the capital kabul we had from a local resident. it large explosion hit this area and broke the window panes in my house i'm the one says transferred the injured and that from the same to the host what. was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong local reports heseltine facey said 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 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 we heard from pets columnist abdel bari atwan he believes the bombing was intended as a direct challenge to u.s. forces in afghanistan. i believe this is a clear message from. a meeting or a little strange to take 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. 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 the subject of something to the taliban pressure to. reach an agreement for their forces to be actually pulled out safely from this crap. francis summoned the italian ambassador over some provocative remarks from the country's deputy prime minister louis to my our kids paris of pursuing a colonial us policy in africa and twisting the migrant crisis chart it 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 rivals italy's a 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 in 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 no. have a leg 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 italy's been ruffling feathers for a while including in its support for the yellow vests movement in a french i hope for the good of the french who are a great people that they come out of this moment of crisis macro no celebratory invented product to stand in the way of any change on the horizon that seems obvious to me now. while the rooms hand of friendship is being offered to worlds

other e.u. nations disgruntled with the 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 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. to discuss this further we can

now bring in george samueli a senior research fellow with the global policy institute of london george welcome to the program so as we head the deputy prime minister accused france of colonialist policies in africa do you think there's any basis to this accusation. well obviously there is i mean the french a quite unique in the sense that they are actually still maintaining their own currency within the former colonies that do something quite extraordinary and of course as a result of that they enjoy all of the advantages that their own strong currency it gives them gives them a captive market it makes their products. very accessible to their former colonies and it also makes their former colonies rather uncompetitive in the world markets so it's a nice built in advantage to the french which are actually very few people know

about so it's the time is to have a point of saying you know what crohn's actually you know still maintains it's a quasi empire in africa well let's look ahead to elections then because luigi to my eye was the need to have a sneeze five star on the front which wants to form a new bloc in the european parliament the main action is he didn't apparently provoking fronts ahead of the things. well i think that's probably true i mean what politics is local as they say and here that you'll teach seeking advantage from france there's no love lost between the french and the italians and my crown is a useful punching bag is very unpopular. in france all this at the moment with the yellow vests movement and he has gone out of his way to antagonize the italians ever since the last elections in the formation of this new government so obviously . this is actually it's good politics to attack mccrone but the real

issues involved in this there's no question the migration into your it is a very serious issue i mean it it is the fundamental issue in europe about time to whether europe will retain its european character italy will retain its its out in character or will it will be transformed beyond recognition within a couple of decades so it's a real issue even if they are obviously political opportunists making the most of it and asked things down this well the european parliament is dominated by centrist groups if we do see a new populist alliance imagine may how could this impact you know opinion. well i think obviously it's going to make the even be even greater pressure for. changes in the immigration policy that we've already seen.

over the last couple of years but now is there's going to be even greater pressure to bring the migration to europe under control i mean you haven't just in the last few days i mean you know a couple hundred people dying in the mediterranean trying to get to italy i mean this cannot go on and i think that the pressure from countries such as italy from hungary poland austria it's going to make an impact i mean did this because this this really just congo on any longer and as you just mentioned as well it's leaf has found itself at the front line of the migrant crisis and just last week hundred seventy migrants like you said have believed have drowned while trying to cross from north africa do you think other states including france have provided enough support to italy. no not really. it's more or less been left up to basically because of the way that the. the migrant

system works i mean it's you know the first country you come to is the country that has to look after them and so italy is right there it's the easiest country to get to and so the obligation is a form italy to address the migrants arrive and the town is of a very good before the french are saying well we're really in the front line and we're not getting a whole lot of support from the rest of you and of course you know this you know other issues that come up such as the destabilization of the middle east and north africa of which france placed to largest roll well among religious rules and christian thoughts that church time you any senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london thank you very much thank you. facebook has pledged to crack down on action meddling we have that story and will coming up

after the break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to reach.

out to the right person it's like the three of the four people that i'm interested always in the lives of our. pleasure to. welcome back to r.t. venezuelan security forces have detained twenty seven members of the national guards accusing them of launching an uprising against the government the arrests were made storing a pre-dawn rage in caracas this happened off that national guardsman reportedly captured a police captain and stole a cache of weapons that incidence was followed by street unrest near the play station president set fire to trash and chanted calls for president nicolas meant.

to resign and we're dispersed by riot police. social media giant facebook is planning to tighten its rules on political advertising to prevent election interference. 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 in ukraine for example only advertisers located inside the country can run an act or ads in india facebook vows to create a library of all adverts used during campaigns elections in the european union will get a similarly transparent system. t c n n n e l and i discuss the role of social media and political campaigns without gas. 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 in trying to control its advertising is first to establish to what extent these advertisements. influence operations what everyone to call them 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 that 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 of high 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 is i don't think the technology has made the kind of contribution that everybody was hoping for but i think if people were. as to the extent 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 mall 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 that 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 want to 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 some very very serious questions and i think what we're seeing now is some of the responses that have come out from that 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 trying 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. the international athletics the satiation has forty two russian track and field athletes to compete in international events but the neutral status. the eye of the open relieved board has agreed that the

applications of forty two russian athletes have met the exceptional eligibility criteria to compete in international competition as neutral athletes despite the latest ruling the russian athletics federation remains and the sanctions those have been in place since twenty fifteen when the world anti-doping agency accused russia's state sponsor of taping many clean athletes have been barred from international competition since then so charlotte a professor ellis cashmore told us that the action taken against russian competitiveness has been excessively harsh. the idea but there are obviously coming you bring a lot of criticism because they are deliberately excluding russian athletes that they know are clean but because it wants to be fair it is allowing individual athletes to compete by saying though not really russian athletes their

neutral athletes you're almost inviting every single person who will be watching them to realize that they are russian awfully athletics in particular and sport in general really does need russia to suppose should every major global event suffers as a result of not having russia there i think at some point possible over the next eighteen months that has to be. which we call it a relaxation of the punishments on russia. the world's twenty six richest people now own as much as the poor half of the world's population that's according to a report from the british charity oxfam is going underground slipped into the story they 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 health 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 actually spending a higher proportion of their income on tax through things like income tax and the eighty the richest are a big part of that is because a while for taxes are so 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

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