i. rate nations do not fight endless wars. from bolstering border security to upholding the venezuelan opposition the us president delivered a wide ranging state of u.t.m.

speech to congress we'll tell you. also this one is a lunchtime yellow vest activist and trade union workers marched for. french and approved a controversial new. facebook to fifteen years old happy birthday then it's found defiance of the social media. it's helping connect people around the world. welcome to the program it's one pm now here in moscow my name's kevin owen he life the next thirty minutes for me out international news center first the u.s. president delivered his annual and highly anticipated state of the union address to a deeply divided congress spoke at length about critical domestic and foreign policy issues as well as the perceived successes of his administration thus far

there are some of the highlights of his speech. i loudly pledged a new approach. great nations do not fight endless wars. i. buy we stand with the venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom. and we condemn the brutality of the more dero regime the united states is developing a state of the art missile defense system under my administration we will never apologise for advancing america's interests chairman kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh and twenty eighth in vietnam it is time to give our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome home while the president was making his address protestors rally

near trump tower in new york to denounce the u.s. leader they criticize the administration's divisive policies and also mocked trump's campaign slogans meantime our sister channel to america was joined by a panel of experts to discuss the address and its implications for it you can find it on our you tube page. he did attempt to reach across party lines more sort of that we've heard from any speech in the past where he really did reach out to democrats tried to find middle ground solutions on the issues he laid out the points where he's going to stay to the right but he also came back to the middle terms of foreign policy area you talked about food wars everything that he talked about even though it was to show a very strong united states what he's pursuing in these other countries may actually have the effect of prolonging a war we're also looking at him and talking about this in iran these are very scary times he may have at the end invincible military but we're so over overly committed

now that if we go that route go any one of those routes we could we could get bogged down in another vietnam in many locations throughout the world and portions of what we have in a speech like this is putting old neo con wine into a new america first rhetorical bottle and it's sad because i think he wants to get out of afghanistan he wants to get out of syria i think the one bright spot is probably korea but there are people of his administration who would like to take that one as well we spend ten times as much as the russians three times as much for the chinese not enough money isn't our problem here is because the strategy is all wrong i think he knows that but if you look around that big room in there those are the very people who will not let him do what i think he wants to do including also the people he's appointed to his administration i was really excited that he started out with criminal justice reform some of the changes that he may with a second chance were good for all americans but after that you can pretty much for the entire rest of the speech away because he went back to his partisan bias ways

particularly when talking about the law so much division and what do you think is the rhetoric is uncalled for and it overshadows the good that he does do because we're so caught up to do good in the next thing you know tim is like he's tweeting and it's this it wrote everything positive you say it's now you know what he's going to have thought. about talk about actually there was moments i felt like i was watching mom and dad look over their group and while we didn't see mike pence his face and very often we did see nancy pelosi is in it sometimes you could tell she was kind of like looking at her children better behaved no no not now and i would say across the board i am actually surprised pleasantly surprised at how civil because we do know that there were people that were quite upset with this president and the congress i do want to go around quick and say what do you think is going to happen tomorrow like with everything else of president trump you can say one thing but it comes next i actually got to say are we going to get more information via twitter from trump you know he's going to react to a response and he's not going to like it ok tomorrow the cold civil war resume that's similar to what we were doing chris

a lukewarm civil war resumes i'm going to say i hope we have bipartisan change and we can actually work across party lines the civil war continues. and i hope for the best but i think as my my colleagues say it's going to be back to business as usual and went on. but we're probably going to see what we have to see trying to do which is compare everything that he said to what obama did just like the employment growth and women which started under obama and vienna i hope that he continues this talent of choosing unity choosing greatness and choosing victory over vengeance if he keeps this up i think we'll have a much more unified country. next lunchtime in europe french m.p.'s have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a controversial bill in an effort to violence among yellow vest demonstrate his the move immediately triggered protests in the capital which has been the epicenter of the unrest in recent months charlotte do bensky reports from paris to. eighty

eight. it seems like it's been a week two nights this lighting to professional strike gold strike fronts he said largest you see she no they hates of protesting. really against the reforms made by president marcos government but they've also noted they are against this new anti castillo's old now that anti hooligan though is unpopular anybody who goes to a protest in covers their face to face up to a year in prison and a fine of fifteen thousand euros that's because the authorities say that they will to crack down on those people who've cause destruction and violence at the end of this protest over the last few months and people here in the process very unhappy with this new rule look i'm against this law because where is the proof that these are real hooligans the government can choose who's a whole again who is not the critical this law is against the march this is to stop

people rallying to scare people see the cookies or to this organised the rioters craze question it's like i find it a bit o. pulling i guess it's a complicated issue will they detain the real writer best interest question or will they just pick up any a gallon of gas but you know the law is quite tough i assume it doesn't need to be so strict but the same time we need to limit the number of disturbances we have the right to protest but without crighton we saw scuffles breaking out between the police and the protesters at first what we saw in response was just the security forces trying to push back in a bit of a cat and mouse game but later as the protesters as those on strike got here it's a plus to the phone calls that we saw with the police then responding with tear gas as you can see tear gas now coming down behind us at london close to us one of the protests is i just gave us this canister this is sort of a canister that the tear gas is kept in as these will have to be pushed back as

a result of such a gas which is now old around us and it's not just protesters here across or seem to be unhappy about this who is even being criticism from the human rights commission of the council of europe the government particularly the interior minister christopher cast and it has. defended this this law is not intended to prevent demonstrations on the contrary it's aimed to protect them more than twelve hundred police officers and emergency workers and nearly nineteen hundred yellow vests have been injured since the start of the movement to do nothing is a free pass for some to wreak destruction at each protest people in france you fear that it will road civil liberties remain out on the streets and there remain unhappy with many of the policies of the government so that you can ski arty paris i can tell you we talked to a number of french champagne is about the new anti rioting bill making its way through parliament while some supported it others told us they thought it was just a step too far and would erode civil liberties and more as we went poorly this is

bad news for freedom of assembly this is a very sensitive issue and it could aggravate an already fragile situation is the government has a responsibility to uphold our legal rights not restrict then. you get to see that this is not about freedom to protest the government needs to protect our freedom of speech but it's not acceptable when every demonstration turns into street violence that undermines the message that the protesters want to put across this is a peaceful assembly this really is unfortunate when most people in the national assembly voting for something that contradicts our laws because ministre to impose a regime that's far from democratic it's getting more autocratic and watched i thing this law is a good things it creates a distinction between hooligans and legitimate protesters so the national assembly was right to approve it. it's a birthday cake for facebook it's fifteen years old and its founders published an impassioned defense of the social media platform to market to mark zuckerberg

claims his site has been a force for good and has helped revolutionize the ways in which people communicate nonetheless all that coming of course as the company faces increasing scrutiny over how it's using uses personal information to report. this has been an intense year. yeah mark wouldn't say that for nothing last year transferred facebook data to cambridge and living in violation of fair use for its data policy personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users the largest security breach in the company's history this is this is a challenge for more cloud companies and that was a big mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened i'm sorry you think having to do so much damage control must have definitely taken its toll on facebook but apart from their fiftieth anniversary mark zuckerberg and co have another great reason to

throw a big party not only they didn't lose money actually they've set a record in profit for the final three months of twenty teeing it almost reached seven billion bucks privacy issues illegal datta harvesting and not doing enough about what the russians were up to all attempts to bring the tech giant to account made people on capitol hill realize the many many times that marks our cover has had to apologize and the takeaway for me from that is that we can't rely on self-regulation that facebook is not going to regulate itself and that we have to pass some laws well for now realizing and saying that way too often hasn't led to much action is facebook really being regulated the answer is no and with all that big money could they care less well to keep enjoying that comfort at least for now he once hired some very smart and influential people like joe kaplan as the

president said in his remarks president the president the president laid out in his speech yes here's george w. bush and here's mr kaplan he used to have an important job in the second bush administration and here you can see what he's up to now. being called facebook's policy boss who else would be behind sucks shoulder at all these trouble some government hearings. now that is him again alongside mariah jordan the tech giant's director of public policy guess what she worked for the white house administration to anything from the democrat era there you have it. he was once in charge of writing what president obama says here they are an american century. welcoming. of everybody.

who was spiers to do something oh that was emotional well nowadays his dealing with economic and social impact issues at facebook and that's just a few such career twist examples it helps to know people i mean even better if the people you know no more right people. recent opinion pieces claim controversially that corruption is hardwired into russian society and its very nature. corruption is in russia's d.n.a. sharing is not the russian wait well the piece is accompanied by a menacing photo of the duma posted a number of russian words and thrown in for dramatic effect to including those winning lies in this information one instead he's been mistranslated means compromising material not compromised but either which way the article was met with harsh criticism from a number of journalists and crucially readers of the publication. imagine

a new york times op ed casual stating corruption is in the jewish d.n.a. but as long as we're talking about russians this kind of group xenophobia is totally fine corruption is in russia's d.n.a. this is racism masquerading as analysis it also undermines the author's argument because if true who can blame volodya scary photo by the way this photo and the article are reminiscent of the hearst papers in a phobic and hysterical war fever drummed up to sell papers before the spanish-american war it is designed to build up hatred and not knowledge it's not the first time the russians critics have made reference to genetics either former u.s. national intelligence director once said the russians are quote genetically driven to co-opt to manipulate illegal media outlets lionel told us he thinks this new york times piece is out rageous i don't even know the adjectives though the word shocking disgusting deplorable racist let me make this very very clear if you had

replaced the term russian with any other ethnicity nationality group of people there would have been eight just a cavalcade an avalanche of attacked you would have been indicted for that but. russia. that goes without jay that so kay i never thought i could say this we always say well this hits a new low i knew or lower journalistic. netgear or a a new chasm of the this has no depth this is the black hole of journalism this is so much so so consumed so did the gravity is so intense that light kitty scape truth can't escape i mean this is for lab or gas tank. something different as i say next a performance art piece currently showing at a gallery in washington d.c. has provoked an angry reaction from none other than the president trump family the

wider one who have labeled it as sexist it's called ivanka vacuuming and runs for two hours every evening at the flashpoint gallery the peaceful each is a model simply dressed up to look like if one could try pushing of a plane a back and forth across a pink carpet nearby is a pile of bread crumbs the visit is that of watch the show are invited to throw crumbs under the carpet so that if i can double can clean it up again. ah the left has no respect for women unbelievable not only is this disgraceful and humiliating towards ivanka but this is humiliating to the woman the has been hired to impersonate onka what kind of society have we become no seriously this is a thing and yet another example of progressive privilege art exhibit invites people

to throw trash at vacuum and yvonne could trump lookalike. before vying to trump stepped into a role of course at the white house she developed a brand as a businesswoman a working mother she's responded to the art exhibit by saying that while some women prefer to quote knock each other down she believes they should be supporting each other the gallery for its part says the piece is a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon and encourages people to question their relationship with it they were joined by two commentators discussed how appropriate they thought this performance was. i think a lot of americans see this as very very political i mean that they're entitled to their opinion and i think everybody needs a voice. but the one good thing i have to say is i think our stimulates conversation and it stimulates to it stimulates debate what i find interesting is that the artist made this very ambiguous seems that the trumped arrangement center has gone overboard and certainly if they had done this with michelle obama i'd like to see the art communities and the left's reaction to them putting michelle obama

for example with a vacuum cleaner hand vacuuming crumbs i don't think it would have gone over quite as well with the regressive left but they love you were used to the hypocrisy on that side of the aisle so anyone i would say who want to cut evocate down is doing it most likely because they're jealous and i can see why because they've been incredibly successful talented capable competent american woman i mean i think it's acceptable because first of all if anybody in the trumpet is ministration is a public persona so i think once you once you have that sort of platform and you are a public persona and you actually are also a government official anything anything goes i mean you know anybody can. you know say whatever they want to about chew and i think art is a really good way to know sort of to stimulate ideas so i think everybody sort of fair game in this here is a situation where you know to me that piece looks like. she's like this one nine

hundred fifty s. housewife with no voice no will i think has done a masterful job of complimenting her father's very pro woman administration again lending women opportunities they've never had in the history of the world not just the history of america but in the history of the world more women today are successful more women today are employed more women today own company to druce lead to the arrest of over one hundred students return to the role of a free american university to take you through that in a few moments from about. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to.

have to go right to be close this is like the most three of them all can't be good . i'm interested in the logs it. makes it. seem wrong. to say proud. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just a look for common ground. again

this is out international so dozens of celebrities and media outlets in the u.s. have been warned they could face legal action over their treatment of the teenager involved in a confrontation with a native american man maybe even following the story nick sandmen drew global condemnation of the video went viral appearing to show mocking the indigenous elder is lawyers say the youngsters been slandered though his actions misrepresented. starving viral video has sparked outrage toward covington catholic high school just stir being viral video shows a model team saying make america great again something around singing native american also in washington named these kids i want names seeing them if you think these wooden dogs you know heartbeat think again. i believe lead poisoning. parenting you know yeah i blame. what a little. to

read much to heart is the new white hood. the teenager at the center of the controversy says that his family have even been receiving death threats that's despite the fact that subsequent videos including the room one released by his lawyers show events in a different light reveal that in fact he didn't initiate the confrontation. didn't from kentucky's covington catholic high school were instructed to meet on the stairs of the lincoln memorial to await their bus home a few yards away where five black men who identified as hebrew israel lights after nearly an hour of enduring the verbal attack the boys asked a chaperone if they could perform one of their pep rally chance to drown out the hate group which attracted the attention of a group of needs americans led by veteran activist nathan phillips. they began to celebrate by chanting and dancing to the beat mr phillips began moving to his right down a line of boys eventually stopping face to face with nic the young man remained where

he had already been standing placing his undivided attention on mr phillips. breeden told us that celebrities like those long into the team and you were talking about to worry about make america great again cup if you are more cautious with making inflammatory public statements. this is case is going to be definitely a landmark i mean there's certainly a foundation to go to trial for this and a lot of americans realize some celebrities are taking this way too far they're using their celebrity platforms to speak out against things that they really have no expertise or knowledge on now that being said celebrities should be held to a certain standard when making statements because they have so many followers and it so damages reputations the media has journalistic integrity and has to do due diligence it has to ensure that the stories that they publish are factual are based on context that they've gotten full information that they've talked to two or three people but this rush to judgment all shows that that is that there is a bias that is so quick to rush to judgment against donald trump or his supporters

that that it's now harming people and damaging their reputations and it's really putting a scrutinising eye on things and it's making the media less and less plausible. rare official complaint to the u.s. embassy protesting washington's arrest of almost one hundred thirty indian students who applied to a fake american college the university of. farmington supposedly based in this state of michigan had no classes no teachers and apparently was run by undercover homeland security agents as part of a push to catch illegal migrants u.s. law enforcement even created a website for the college and set up a network of fake recruiters india's foreign ministry though says those students were misled students me had been into enrolling indian university we have urged u.s. side to release them from detention at the earliest and not through resorts deportation against their well it's reported that some of the indian students did think that

university was genuine the indictment though says no they knew it was an illegal scheme that would allow them to stay in the u.s. they hoped each of the foreign citizens who enrolled and made payments the university knew they would not attend any actual classes in credits or make academic progress towards an actual degree in a particular field of study. jake i'm sorry of the hindu american foundation told us this type of operation shows that a major flaws in the immigration system. these hundreds of students have been arrested it seems like a fake university has been uncovered that was created by the u.s. government using u.s. taxpayer dollars so i believe the u.s. american people are going to want to know if this was a good use of their taxpayer dollars these types of scams luring students to come here only showcases that immigration system is broken and unfortunately we are not seeing the impetus of the u.s.

government to try and fix it now we hope that there is a congressional resolution through through legislation soon. as kevin always. call the main site to get all the latest figures out and if you've got her up all those stories when they break go straight to mobile device for now for me we have you what you have time to date is have a great wednesday. when the lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts certainly the one percent. of the time we can all middle of the room signals. are losing ground the real news is for

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle as a presidential candidate donald trump lambasted america's endless in wasteful wars but as president he has surrounded himself with individuals who have made defending and advancing american empire a full time career why did trump cave and what could be the consequences for him and his president's. foreign policy i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace in dallas we have lee speaker men he is a us political consultant and policy advisor and in auburn we cross to jeff dyson he is president of the muses institute all right gentlemen crosstalk.