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europe. with a new treaty to. the new treaty of. twenty. nine am here in moscow where it's now about minus sixteen degrees celsius. over what is reportedly. made by the country's deputy prime minister luigi. pursuing a colonialist policy in africa and of worsening the crisis even going so far as to coal. here's our correspondent charlotte happens. france and italy have quite

a long story of fighting as e.u. elections edged 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 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 to be adopted by a french is it 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. 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 media careful who is 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 they are right. france and italy have ninety bangs of contention immigration settlements 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 with a. professor of politics at the university of maryland he things to my zero makes a fair point i think there is a basis for the ija demaio accusation against friends little group of countries in central africa in that treat francis the us there look for them for recognition during the civil war or they reach out for minister it's in france they use the currency that is backed by the french treasury and so on him i'm saying if you don't call it media colonialism i wonder what what kind of policy could you call me

of colonialism it's they are and i'm at an all time low those were lation two thousand the france or nearly noon and it's clear why you know at this point my craw on the government in france is really sort of even steven regime what kept together the european union the sort of the old believed for thirty or forty years i made tensions between paris and rome germany and france are seeking to strengthen ties the two european heavyweights assigning a new treaty on tuesday which will set the stage for a closer bilateral relations on multiple levels however not everyone is entirely sold on the idea as it is peter all of us now explains. germany and france will put pen to paper on a commitment to close the times this tuesday for the globe and us we believe that the world has changed dramatically and now more than ever when one to build on what

germany and france have already created together 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 now it's going to be in writing there's also plans for both fiscal integration and what's being called the franco germany konami zone. on the military front both nations want their armed forces to be as into twined as their economies with germany and france combining to reinforce nato and defense also what's being called the fostering of a common culture in the ranks and a franco german security council so the brass 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 german 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 are seen also triggered by sending the sacked on the quiet in the way to market on committees treason with briggs it's on the rise of euro skepticism it makes sense that berlin in paris would look to team up. not brings us back to the question of foreign policy how will the interventionist french sit with the germans we now know for that coalition.

expects a lovely display for the cameras in the border city of aachen on tuesday but we've seen before with how many fundamentally changing global military outlook it's hard to see how they deal change much or anything at all. in german political commentary. told us the new treaty is designed foremost as a safeguard against opposition. in my point of view it is more then just a statement it is the release of the rulers and arrows and bow in fear that the

citizens. bowed against them or rebel against them as you can see the yellow west's in paris now it is. quite a day there is going to every cell of the vast majority is against it but mrs merkel doesn't care cheers show that it is in all thirty decisions in the us that she doesn't care at all on whether she has a man from the brutalist are nor from the citizens of it. there are always two sides to every story something that appears to be true about the standoff between a student wearing a make america great again cap and a native american veteran a video of the two taken to washington d.c. went viral sparking outrage in the media are to correspondent now assesses what is 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 trademark tat disrespecting an elderly native american just starving viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stirring viral video shows a model seems to make america great again around singer 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 a pulling 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 who is 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'd not make it look 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. the date of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. looming the country on this politicians remain riven opposition leader jeremy koeppen has endorsed a plan by m.p.'s to force a second referendum while prime minister to resign may's insisting she can tweak oh roundly rejected divorce deal and squeeze it through parliament. blowing 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 has approached these meetings in a constructive spirit without preconditions every your position prior to politicians came out of those meetings with the same response contrary to what the prime minister's just search there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing. but doesn't look as though to resume a's plan b. is simply 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 the main change that reason may want to secure her deal is to the thorny issue as the irish backstop she says she's 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 various

politicians from all 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 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. scottish i mean he david coburn and law professor tom brooks think that's the reason may is out of options and has broken too many promises because of plan b. she got a plan and i think she's a plan 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 and keep people in the loop and she's been shown to do anything but that she members of her own cabinet didn't know what her deal was until this past september when they begin to resign from a government over the deal so i think this is really too little too late it's a lot of it done in bad faith she has no imagination really poor to move forward she seems to just want to stick with her plan and force it through

a parliament and a public that doesn't want this is publicly popular and i think that really constitutionally intolerable are still plenty more coming on the program here your choose their program adopting international are the leaders of russia and japan meeting later on tuesday right here in moscow to try and thrash out a formal and to the world war two hostilities we keep the details on that in about . you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room real news room. truth their program welcome to it or not see the leaders of russia and japan

a meeting 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 to russia's a coup real islands which to japan is still lays claim to the head of the talks hundreds rallied here in moscow calling on the kremlin not to see the territories. 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. which also in this case means defending what came out of world war two without digging into history too much 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 who it is that he should be meeting me to go to. meeting in the summer with. this shake you be ready to fully wear 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 keeps saying it has

a historic right to claim the south corals 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 the inhabitants of the northern territories or russians. position in the negotiations is not about saying please get out of there or rather work ie thing to say when nothing's been decided but moscow wasn't happy with that at all so when smiles and all kinds of positive signals get mixed with a bunch of 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 historic cold peace agreement finally emerge. germany has bought a major iranian airline from using the country's airports citing security concerns a government spokesman explain the move. so for us all there is cannot be ruled out

this airline could be used to transport things to germany that affects our security concerns this is especially true against the backdrop of terrorist activities intelligence on terrorist activities from the iranian side and the rain entities in europe in the past for modern air is the second largest airline in iran it is privately owned with no direct links to the iranian government of the carrier operates routes across asia and europe including four flights a week between germany and terror run now mohan air 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 also of providing support to that of the syrian government the trouble ministration has welcomed germany's decision to ban the line. we fully support the action today by germany to counter reign in sponsor terrorism in europe by banning my ham air

flights man and exploits commercial add to support iranian terrorism by transporting operatives weapons and funds throughout the middle east and beyond the us welcomes germany's decision to deny landing rights to iran's my hand the airline transports weapons and fighters across the middle east supporting the iranian regime's destructive from bishops around the region we encourage all our allies to follow suit last week a fifty year old german afghan citizen who was detained in germany on suspicion of spying for iran iran's foreign ministry dismissed the allegations as a total fabrication and sheer political analyst iran iraq war says bolin is just out to curry favor with washington. iran is. really under pressure since donald trump has gotten out of the nuclear deal from germany.

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

remains under sanctions and these are imposed back in twenty fifteen when the world anti-doping agency accused the rusher of state sponsored doping and numerous clean athletes have since been barred from international competitions and sociology professor ellis cashmore told us that the punishment meted out to russian athletes has been excessive they either believe there are obviously coming in but a lot of criticism because they are deliberately excluding russian athletes that they know are clean but b. course it won't be fair or is allowed individual athletes to compete by saying not really russian athletes they're neutral athletes you're almost in a. writing every single person who will be watching them to realize that they are russian athlete athletic simpler to killer and sport in general really does need

russian participation every major global event suffers as a result of not having russia there and there are just some of your top stories for this hour live from moscow on this tuesday program we are back at the top of the hour with more of your worldwide stories. so there's not any gold left essentially in the earth's mantle i predict as i've said before that was the central banks find it difficult to buy any gold whatsoever they're going to start buying bitcoin to manage that point to their strategic reserves of course russia's been rumored as a possibly the first to go down this pass and we don't know the details but some

one of the major central banks will start putting a big call in along with gold into their strategic reserves and this will set off a mad scramble for bar gold and that. would pose an age to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to listen. to going to be approached this is like the before the in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first. place.

how do you hide this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business of finance and the impact on all of us i'm for children washington we're sure glad you're on board well coming up today there is just released review a new new new news rather about the global economy in china growth our economies and markets doing danielle she and steve malzberg are standing by to tell us plus it might warm your heart and some fantastic to hear about you know why it's to end ways. in plastic but you'll be less enthusiastic when alex behala bitch tells us more about the group and later we'll bring you a walk around and talk with exhibitors at the north american big point conference we don't have time to get it to you on our last broadcast but we have it today from a crypto artist to a hollywood t.v. producer it was an eclectic an electric group of people all that directly had but first we had some advice let's go. darkening prospects for the world economy lead our global report today as the international monetary fund once again downgrades

its forecast for a world in twenty nineteen i.m.f. researchers now say they expect the global economy to grow at a rate of three point five percent this year that is the second downward determination by the i.m.f. last summer they expected twenty one thousand to grow four tenths of a percent higher at three point nine percent a familiar litany of slowdown reports especially in europe are likely causes for the adjustment though the i.m.f. forecasts for growth in the u.s. and china are notably unchanged since the last i.m.f. review which occurred in october i.m.f. managing director christine lagarde characterize the latest economic indicators earlier today and the bottom line is that off to two years of solid expansion the world economy is growing most slowly than expected and risks are rising. does that mean that a global recession is around the corner no but the risk of

a show up a decline in global growth has certainly increased. to this. the uncertainty the geopolitical where is and disappointing long term growth prospects and you have an economic pitch with a pretty clear message. and another disconcerting data point has been added to that litany of disappointing growth numbers as china post its worst growth bigger in almost thirty years china's economy grew by six point six percent overall and twenty eight thousand according to the chinese bureau of statistics that announced figure which most other nations of the world would envy is for china the lowest growth rate since one thousand nine hundred ninety you may recall that the chinese economy had been growing in the range of seven to eight percent from two thousand and twelve to two thousand and fourteen the new statistics suggest that china which by.