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with a new treaty. the new treaty is just a smokescreen for. let's go straight into the top stories. over what is reportedly calling a hostile remarks made by the country's deputy prime minister louis. of pursuing a policy in africa and a crisis. france and italy have quite. as. clue said the two countries. looking to bolster their allies and to

drown out the rival 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 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 of dozens of african countries in which france 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 they have been any

french i hope for the good of the french who are a great people that they come out of this moment of crisis macron was a laboratory invented product to stand in the way of any change on the horizon that seems obvious to me now. all while rome's hand of friendship is being offered to world's 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 holding on and 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 they are 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 we spoke to marco bus on a professor of politics at the university of milan he thinks tomorrow makes a fair point. i think there is a basis for the ija to my new accusation against friends all the rest of the world look at the us if there is a little group of countries in central africa in that treat francis they us they look for them for recognition be during the civil war or they reach out for minister is in france they use the currency that is backed by the french treasury you don't call it meo colonialism i wonder what what kind of all is could you call neo colonialism its about ninety five percent of the money that comes from france

italy or europe anywhere goes to africa you know and comes back to you at least there is a very amazing relationship between the french elite one that is under attack by the l. yvette's and the african elites. i made tensions between paris and rome and germany and france are seeking to strengthen ties that to hear a pin heavyweight so signing a new treaty on tuesday which will set the stage for close up bilateral relations on multiple levels however not everyone is entirely sold on the idea as peter all of a now reports germany and france will put pen to paper on a commitment to close the times this tuesday but the club and us we believe that the world has changed dramatically and now more than ever i want to build on what germany and france have already created together in the draft of the deal was a little light on real details but there is a clear intent with it let's have

a look at the deal was set for an increase in bilateral statements when it comes to major e.u. issues now this is something that's already fairly commonplace from the two but now it's going to be in writing there's also plans full fiscal integration and what's being called the franco germany can only zone. from the military front both nations why. their armed forces to be as into twined as their economies with germany and france combining to reinforce nato. defense and so what's being called the string of a common culture in the ranks and the front and security council so the brass on the politicians pulling in the same direction there's also foreign policy goals which may prove a little less straightforward including a permanent seat for germany on the un security council but not everyone is happy about these e.u. powerhouses getting even more chummy and cementing their position within the bloc.

europe is used to the franco axis but we're seeking a new balance a new energy and in this sense poland and italy will be the protagonists of this new european spring there's also domestic upset over the deal alternative for germany say it erodes german sovereignty while the same sentiments have been echoed by the usual suspects in france you know so could my sending the sax on the quiet in the way to market on can be treason with briggs it's on the rise of euro skepticism it makes sense that berlin and paris would look to tomorrow but not brings us back to the question of foreign policy how will the interventionist french sit with the germans we now know and for that caution.

expects a lovely display for the cameras in the border city of aachen on tuesday but we've seen the full recount many fundamentally changing its global military outlook it's hard to see how deal will change much or any. thing at all peter all over r t berlin germany political commentator and publisher i care how told us the new treaty is designed first and foremost as a safeguard against the opposition at home. and made a point of view it is more then just a statement it is only the rulers and arrows and bowing that the citizens. bought against their own or rebel against them as you can see the yellow west in paris now it is. quite

a dangerous every cell of the vast majority is against it mrs merkel doesn't care here's shoulders in all three of the big decisions in the us that she doesn't carry on whether she has a man or from the bottom of our nor from the citizenry to have it to do. with the date of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. looming the country and its politicians remain riven opposition leader jeremy corbyn has endorsed a plan by m.p.'s to force a second referendum while prime minister to resign mays and sixteen she can tweak the rejected divorce deal and squeeze it through parliament calling last week's vote it is clear that the government's approach had to change i've listened to colleagues across parliament from different parties and with different views the government is approach these meetings in a constructive spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased that everyone everywhere. i'm pleased that everyone we met with took the same approach everything

our position party politician came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister's just said there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing has i like doesn't look as though it's a resume a plan b. s. in. insisting on her plan a claim that she held across party talks where she went in with an open mind and without any preconditions but she has refused to rule out no deal she's also refused to delay britain's departure from the e.u. which is scheduled for the twenty ninth of march and she reiterated her opposition to the idea of a second referendum saying that it would be a betrayal of the twenty sixteen vote so to reason may is still trying to tweak her

original deal which she negotiated with brussels and which crashed and burned in parliament last week it was a historic and unprecedented defeat that she suffered in the house of commons but she's still trying to tweak it just enough to push it through parliament now the main change that reason may want to secure to her deal is to the thought the issue as the irish backstop she says is going to be talking to politicians in order to understand what it is they want in regards to securing some sort of assurances on the irish issue and finding out what it is they need in order to support the deal and it's not clear what she can secure in relation to ireland whether she wants to change the legal text of the withdrawal bill itself or whether she wants to enter into some sort of separate bilateral treaty between london and dublin which by the way dublin has already ruled out jeremy corbyn the leader of the

opposition labor party was rather critical about this not so new plan what makes us think that what you tried to agree to go shoot in december will succeed in january this is pretty this really does feel a bit like groundhog. various politicians from also. sides and all parties are tabling amendments to block a no deal bragg's it and it's really gathering steam one group of m.p.'s wants to introduce a parliamentary bill that could delay britain's departure from the if no plan is agreed by brags that date which is the twenty ninth of march and the same group of m.p.'s also want to attempt to trigger a second referendum so rather than there being any sort of coming together of the house to decide a way forward we have further stratification further division and as we hurtle

towards bragg's that day which is the twenty ninth of march which to reason may refuses to move so we're going to be leaving either way it seems on the twenty ninth of march deal or no deal. scott has jamie p. david coburn and law professor tom brooks both think to reason may is doomed to fail on purpose. because of plan b. plan and i think she's a plenty for titanic she has absolutely not a clue what she's doing she should never have been prime minister it's a pure accident she was there she's obviously 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 as you're going to do she's not doing it the poor almost two years she's been promising to work

across different parties she's a promising maybe open keep people in the loop and she's been shown to do anything but that she has a room 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 poor to move forward she seems to just want to stick with her plan and force it through a parliament and the public who doesn't want this is publicly popular and i think that really constitutionally intolerable. there are always two sides to every story something that appears to be true about the standoff between a student or students wearing a make america great again cap and a native american veteran a video of the two was taken in washington d.c. it went viral sparking outrage in the media a killer looks at what's not being reported

a visual like this will get your blood boiling. the catholic high school student who comes face to face with a native american elder in a viral video is now responding the media went wild a youth in trump's trade. mark tat disrespecting an elderly native american disturbing viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stir being viral video shows a model seems to make america great again caressing a native american out there in washington a troubling incident at the foot of the lincoln memorial and it wasn't just any native american this guy is a vietnam veteran he was instantly turned into a hero by celebrities and the media this is appalling the ignorance the goal the disrespect it's shameful that native american man showed incredible strength and dignity and i heard him say you know down. here i sit here because we have to stand strong all of this on the one.

all that anger and all of that wanting to. have to freedom to just rip me apart but there's always more to the story than a single snapshot. that make america great again. look at it. we think. we've not thank you again. it turns out that the boys were taunted rather hatefully by black nationalists and others and all kinds of hate was unloaded on them simply for wearing trunks a baseball cap and furthermore unlike those trying to provoke them the boy in the picture he simply stood silently however he did put a defiant grin on his face. compared

to. the young man is now penned his version of events he's getting death threats from across the globe i'm being called every name in the book including a racist and i will not stand for the small black character assassination of my family's name so some channels are now editing the story but the damage is already done this is turned into a huge story only because this child was wearing a make america great again i think that there is a serious lack of integrity in reporting at the end of the day everybody wants to put their own spin on a story it's no longer about who what when where and why it's about how could we spin this in a way that benefits our narrative. 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 and ukraine for example only appetizers located inside the country can run electoral ads in india facebook valves to create a library of old adverts used during campaigns and elections in the european union will get a similarly transparent system a lot of across the 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 face 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 i'm trying to control those advertising is first to establish to what extent these advertising. 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 of 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 but facebook needs to act globally in terms of its transparency the whole principle around the advertising based internet model that facebook and google are kind of par excellence examples of people could receive highly specified advertising in highly particular places of

a particular times of the day that increase the quality of their lives obviously you know in many respects the technology has in my opinion is i don't think the technology has made of the kind of contribution that everybody was hoping for 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 and the further they go the more the bad actors are actually going to try and innovate in order to try and beat the algorithms it's going to be very difficult the greater issue is the. around what facebook is going to do next so please because already describing itself now as it looked like they don't say they're a technology company on the one of but now they're becoming an ai company and 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 iteration of that in the six months before the congressional hearings where jack dorsey was brought in and some people wrote in 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 my forecast is the way that facebook is going to be brought to kind of bear. is through litigation somebody like what happened with eighteen t. the big phone try and with that novel he was broken up in the court because then you had to submit documents submit yourself to testimony under oath if you lied there would be penalties that's the way to facebook i don't think congress frankly has the capacity to get to the bottom of it in a way that the litigation process does. germany has banned

a major iranian airline from using the country's ports citing security concerns a government spokesman explained them. all to. be used to transport things to germany the effects of security concerns this is especially true against the backdrop of terrorist activities intelligence from terrorist activities from the iranian side and the rain entities in europe in the past. is the second largest line in iran it is privately. and with no direct links to the iranian government they carry operates routes across asia and europe including four flights a week between germany and terror ron. has been under u.s. sanctions since twenty eleven and washington has accused the company of transporting arms to so-called terrorist proxy groups including hezbollah and are providing support to the syrian government the trouble ministration has welcomed

germany's decision to ban the line. we fully support the actions today by germany to counter iranian sponsored terrorism in europe by banning maneuvered flights manner exploits commercial air to support iranian terrorism by transporting operatives weapons and funds throughout the middle east and beyond the u.s. welcomes germany's decision to deny landing rights to iran's my hand a are the airline transports weapons and fighters across the middle east supporting the iranian regime's destructive from be sure it's around the region we encourage all our allies to follow suit. political analyst iran or office says berlin's decision is an attempt to gain favor with the us administration. iran. under pressure since donald trump has gotten us out of the nuclear deal germany. a request of nato countries about all united states.

air during many years to all the ruble and to all we. in respect of that relations to the to the united states to with stand their wish this move has happened just two days before our foreign minister. says it will be restricting washington so maybe it's also thought to be like the president like a gift that there wants to bring to washington. the international athletics association has cleared out forty two russian track and field athletes to compete in international events but only as neutrals. the eye of doping 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 just by the way his ruling the russian athletics federation

remains under sanctions and these were imposed in twenty fifteen when the world anti-doping agency accused the rusher of state sponsored doping numerous clean athletes have since been barred from international competitions and sociology sociology professor ellis cashmore told us that the punishment meted out to russian athletes has been excessive. the i do believe there are obviously coming in but a lot of criticism because they deliberately excluding russian athletes that they know are clean but because he wants to be fair russia is allowing individual athletes to compete by saying not really russian athletes than usual athletes you're almost inviting every single person who will be watching them to realize that they are russian athlete athletics in particular and sports in general really does need russian participation every major global event suffers as

a result of not having russia get. the leaders off russia and japan a meeting here in moscow later on tuesday for talks on finally signing a world war two peace treaty between the two countries a major sticking point up until now has been russia's karylle islands wished japan still less claim to also ahead of the talks the hundreds rallied in moscow calling on the kremlin not to seat the territories. good rules you were good. it's guaranteed barely anyone possibly even zero people in this crowd have been all the way here seven thousand kilometers away roughly the distance from london to miami but the protesters are out there standing in the cold to defend the fate of this group of little islands. who.

was which also in this case means defending what came out of world war two without digging into history japan was then germany's ally and eventually lost along with the rest of hitler's axis and. these three men the winners agreed on see item three the handover of the karylle islands to the so that union some ten years later the u.s.s.r. and japan officially ended his still ities but never signed a peace agreement more than six decades later we're in a whole new reality where the russian president can say no it is official me me to maybe go to. meeting in the summer with. a b c h u b what do you hopefully where japan's prime minister makes an oath on his father's grave to sort the russian issue as journalists have reported but despite the apparent

friendship i mean putin and i have been seen clinking glasses enjoying ballet at moscow's bolshoi watching a judo showdown and even having a fun moment with mr putin's japanese dog something has always gone wrong with the peace treaty progress tokyo keep saying it has a historic right to claim the south coral's they call them northern territories moscow keeps repeating its sovereignty over the islands can't be questioned and some of the words that come out when russian and japanese politicians are not together aren't helping all the inhabitants of the northern territories or russians a position in the negotiations is not about saying please get out of the a rather for key thing to say when nothing's been decided this moscow wasn't happy with that at all so when smiles and all kinds of positive signals get mixed with a bunch of tough disclaimers you won't call pleasant even the journalists are left

baffled what's up for discussion and what's not but what if this tuesday sees a historical peace agreement finally emerge. just sitting here in moscow that's the program for this hour though plenty more stories on this thursday still to come your way we are back every soon. there are mental illnesses that can't be fixed maybe without the medicines. you know the medicine fixes the issue once or twice or three times and then all of

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