here for. another day another inquiry. for the u.s. president again with democratic party funds and backing from the u.s. justice ministry. president the biggest budget request in history to congress asking for a four trillion dollars to fund initiatives like countering brushes supposed malign influence. legally binding changes to her. crucial vote. nationally assembly grounds opposition leader. of emergency as an extensive blackout in the country continues.

the authors of an infamous dossier on alleged trumped russia collusion are apparently gunning for the u.s. president again former british spy christopher steel and his company fusion g.p.s. a fool to be working on a new report funded by top democratic party donors including george soros and reports. do you remember that da ca compiled by british intelligence officer christopher steele may have been full of outrageous allegations gossip and unsubstantiated claims but the late night comedians just won't let it die don't want to say what it was on the view but. it was people did some people believe that this tape proves guilt oh my god it's real i should be now steel never actually visited russia to investigate his claims furthermore he

alleged that michael cohen had secretly met with russian authorities in prague even though michael cohen has never even visited the czech republic now you'd think that spotty intelligence work like that would render mr steele jobless but it appears that he's hard at work once again it's been revealed that over two million dollars has been funneled to christopher steele and the research firm to using g.p.s. the of the democracy integrity project headed by a former intelligence committee staffer for a democratic senator. jones secured the services of steel and fusion g.p.s. to continue exposing russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen us presidential election hill and with the press indirectly the funds are being put up by a certain george soros among other wealthy donors soros had been funded fusion to pay his directly but had made a grant to the democracy integrity project which used as a contractor and it's not just wealthy democrats apparently the department of justice is in on the action as well the d.o.j. has been in touch with using g.p.s.

the research firm before during and after the twenty sixteen elections christou was on the stand that was hired by fusion g.p.s. to do research and got the information he provided information to me glenn simpson who is the standard to principle of fusion g.p.s. some a couple of occasions he provided information to me so the man who cooked up a widely discredited report that makes a great punchline on late night t.v. is currently working on a new masterpiece we're all excited to see what he is paid to come up with next caleb mop and r.t. new york meanwhile president trump has sent congress a record four point seven five trillion dollars budget request for next year clues a boost to military spending as well as billions of dollars to counter what it describes as rogue regimes such as china the madeira government in venezuela north korea and russia according to the documents countering so-called russian malign activities would cost america six hundred sixty one million dollars that some would

spend on preventing the kremlin from spreading its influence across europe and eurasia investigative journalist dave lindorff from this company happening dot net told us that the idea of restraining russia comes from neoconservatives in power. always looking for more ways to get the u.s. involved in wars and who also backed this idea of strategic dominance so there's this long running thing that's been going on of trying to and i think it's getting stepped up again it kind of feed it a little after the collapse of the soviet union but during the soviet union and now back with dealing with russia there's this attitude of well we need to get is a strategic dominance where the u.s. can consider realistically having a first strike on the the russians and whether or not they mean to wipe out russia as a rival or whether they envision being able to present the russians with

a threat that the u.s. could do that without destroying russia's ability to retaliate would cause russia to cave in and various important issues. open question it won't be accepted as as it's presented white house no chance not with that with democrats in the house let me say. british prime minister the reason may says she's secured legally binding changes to the irish border backstopping have breck's it they'll tough her meeting with european commission president and strasburg this deal to stress that the deal is final and not support for it. having an insurance policy to guarantee that there will never be a hard border in northern ireland is absolutely right the two year old attempt is voted on in january was not strong enough in making that clear and legally binding changes we needed to set that right today we have agreed to them i have just

informed the president you can council these or even ing and asked him to do a prior post if you vote in the house of commons on your door agreement there will be no further interpretation of the interpretations and no further assurances on the reassurances if the evening meaning vote falls two thirds to work. let us be crystal clear about the choice it is distilled of works it looked and looked up in the dole. all those two by been positive british opposition leader jeremy corbyn has called the negotiations a failure and the house of commons to reject made still in these days and that is what i think gets the thumbs down again m.p.'s will hold a vote on whether to leave the e.u. without a deal if that fails parliament will decide whether to delay britain's actually in bed from the london school of economics things or no deal breaker. for m.p.'s to vote with her because the alternative is no deal if the vote is lost and choose the

she's promised to be a second vote for following during the wednesday not having any deal and the expectation is that the house of parliament would oppose anything that smacks of no deal i mean for that reason i think no deal remains highly unlikely they have that is then passed in other words no deal is stopped the next stage will be to go to the idea of having an extension of the whole negotiating process with a thing that's known as article fifty and at that point it's not just the u.k. unilaterally saying we want to extend the negotiating period because it has to be agreed by the other side so we'll be in to a fresh round of negotiations come thursday if parliament votes in favor of an extension then really is into unknown territory nobody can really tell you what's going to happen at that point. breaks it down. in the us critics are

raising the pressure over remarks by democratic party representatives about jewish influence on american politics and many branded her anti-semitic for her comments and she later apologized in republican liz cheney wants that and subsequent democrat backed resolution condemning all bigotry is none of the countering. the leadership is they are protecting her you know this isn't just being silent they are protecting her by failing to put a resolution on the floor that names her and that strip server committee assignment instead they put a resolution on the floor which she then went out and said this is a tremendous victory for me congress had the opportunity to denounce anti-semitism a very specific very odious problem and democrats decided to dodge that opportunity unapologetically dressing up a resolution as and i hate and insulating the person that was meant to discourage and loves those days resolution condemned all forms of hate and intolerance including anti-semitism and discrimination against muslims who is backed by

a large majority including all democrats. the move came after she questioned the power of the israeli lobby wields over us politicians. why is it ok for people to to foreign country why is it ok for me to talk about the influence of the n.r.a. of fossil fuel industries and not talk about of powerful lobbying group that is influencing policy but we discussed it here on all three where we had a disagreement over whether criticizing the israeli government is tantamount to an attack on all jewish people. ilan omar has camouflaged anti-semitism in the united states and has turned it in to a to a chemical us issue of criticism of israel this is not about criticism of israel dairies know all that well and one can be. a reason rarely government policies certain policies without being anti-semitic in fact many jews both in israel and abroad are against the policies of the current israeli

government even though they could and they resent any such comment this is only about anti-semitism in the united states this is not about israel per se and i think that what has happened here there has been a conflation of the issue in which mrs omar who knows exactly what she's doing when you call israel a racist bigoted or apartheid state as she has done as well as some of her some of her colleagues in the in the democratic party you are you are making an anti-semitic statement if you want to make a legitimate critique criticism of israel then make it in context israel used to enjoy bipartisan support on capitol hill and in washington in the country in general but under benjamin netanyahu has publicly supported the republicans over the democrats and contributed to the democrats now coming out in force against

israel the challenge of the democratic party is will they stand up to mr omar and to mr from michigan and to ms cortez from new york who are working as a triangular power in order to to to create an unfair and biased and even at times anti semitic diatribe against israel and the jews in the united states will the democratic party stand up to them or will they collapse as they have in this resolution that essentially makes miss omar the victim as a. goes to the perpetrator of the dentist's emetic trope the power for israel's friends. jews or of other denominations on capitol hill and in american politics is not only undeniable so when it fits. the purpose it indicates to people in washington on that it behooves them not to do israel's bidding and when he does not it's purpose. all of

a sudden fears such perceptions but this is of course part of because. there's been a steep rise in knife crime in britain since twenty ten london alone has seen an eleven percent increase and that's prompted a leading supermarket chain to stop the sale of single kitchen knives his artie's honest to say a chicken or. knife crime has become a major source of concern in the u.k. even described as an epidemic these days since the beginning of the year forty gyms and attackers a huge debate on how to tackle the problem has been pushed to the forefront the u.k. home secretary has been holding emergency meetings with chief police officers last week to find a way forward as the surge in knife attacks gets dubbed a national emergency meanwhile this british supermarket giant seems to be adding its two cents to address the problem they have announced they won't be selling single nights any more by the end of april we know single knives are the most common knife products to be stolen and that is why we have chosen to remove these

items from our stores this is an issue that means a lot to our customers and to our colleagues and we are committed to playing our small part in helping to make our communities safer for all the officers welcomes the move we'll find out if locals think it can actually make any difference it's a very good idea because they're not going to spend fifty pounds to buy two and i think the problem is that it's fine because the character of the stop selling to under eighteen. take a stop selling night here and there people who are older he might need a knife perhaps it is a good idea to an offer to solve the problem are not for selling one michael selling a packet in ice that he can make a difference but he says they're going to for more money so. a lot of these guys get knives from their homes a stock that they coude buy them they'd they can mentally excess and access in their homes we also caught up with a former metropolitan police officer for

a professional take on the knife crime situation well i think it's a nice gesture but it's not very like a day on the problem as a whole. will be going to do with here is a very very stringent legislature so that the punishments and the deterrents for carrying noise in these circumstances. but it's a very small step and it's a very long journey we've got to go on so we've got to look for government and we've got to look to our legislators to give us the tools to deal with this but these tools need to be very very powerful ones because we call continue down this road for about exactly what is a call a cultural thing that's taken place this nation to address that you've got to go. right through you know sort of forming unforeseen social trying to use and that's going to take a long tolling and i think you know you need to look at government changes in social services the choice of think that but we have to do something in the sort of you know we read about a sticking plaster on if you loyd and they're sticking plaster again needs to be

increasing the amount of first officer as we do in the freedom of movement place ahead to exercise the right but we're also you know we have to put the placement in the perpetrators more and so the vial of the terran. will perhaps stop these youngsters from carrying these doors and carrying out these awful tax is a very very stringent one indeed we've almost got to go back to it but the victorian actually shoots at this because you know they deal with these things at various storms of. world war or the other. and they did it with you know it would almost be extreme like this life. but because this is an extreme program think that's the kind of extreme view of the you know we're looking for. venezuela's national assembly has approved a state of emergency declared by opposition leader and self declared interim president. comes as the country struggles through an ongoing power blackout and humanitarian crisis president maduro says the power cuts the result of cyber attacks by the united states adding that his government is working to solve the

issue he claims that two saboteurs were caught trying to damage a hydroelectric dam on monday and investigations underway meanwhile says that the situation needs to be addressed immediately venezuelan journalist norris i got a report. the president of the congress one why don't explain why the congress is assuming this competence and how and what will imply for the benefit well let's hear what he has to say. this catastrophe needs to be addressed immediately no we cannot turn our heads elsewhere no we cannot abandon our people and you are in the streets you have the right to protest you have the right to demand you have the right to raise your voice you have the right to protest for your relatives you have the right to go out to the streets and demand our rights it's not true that there is normality in the streets in venezuela there is none according to what he did reach the decree this state of alarm is declared as some adeleke of the state of

emergency throughout the national territory due to the public climate he generated by the sustained in direction of the electricity supply that has effect that the bass majority of the venezuelans since thursday march seventh twenty nineteen the valley berry and national armed forces are order to arrange the necessary mobilizations to provide due protection to build their facilities and deal officials of course so that they can fulfill their task of restoring the national electricity system. this is a lot of psychological pressure on the venezuelan people to be dealing with the humanitarian crisis and now the crisis will be electrical grid think the man on top of that to have the assembly declare a national emergency this is really designed to create more chaos and more fear and more division within the venezuelan people their plan of the opposition is to find any way that it can to bring things to a head i think the military remains pretty much consistently on the side of

euro and so this is another attempt to push the military back to and to deep in the crisis. from the committing of international solidarity believes the united states is exploiting the humanitarian crisis for its own ends. in samples. we think the concept of the humanitarian crisis is the fundamental argument used by us imperialism around the world wherever they develop the plants of intervention and interference to overthrow the national government and violate sovereign to solve determination and independence in order to take control over the strategic resources of countries and we think which has been specifically defined by the us in the country why it's been the zoya we're seeing the crisis of the capitalist system which many of the countries in the world also face and based on this argument of a humanitarian crisis on the contras also wanted to legitimize their intervention

you could direct direct. you know the u.s. has to withdraw all remaining personnel from its embassy in venezuela u.s. secretary of state mourning the will of the venezuelan people he also blamed russian media the shifting attention for venezuela's humanitarian crisis. russia has also use sponsored dissent from asian organs like russia today and sputnik to divert attention from the humanitarian disaster of the material regime they most of the means to media and the united states has fallen in line with this forcing a propaganda campaign it was interesting that the new york times had to backtrack the story about the industry should being the ones to fire to the humanitarian tracts when it was obviously true that video footage of people from the opposition throwing molotov cocktail but in general i would say the us media has gone along with a very one sided story about what's happening in venezuela almost never talking to

people who support the administration. or u.k. court has hunted down the country's first of a custodial sentence for carrying out female genital mutilation after uganda mother practice time so drew on his three year old daughter.

female genital mutilation is still carried out in a number of religious and traditional cultures usually to control the girl's sexuality and as a precondition for marriage the practice is painful and it does significant harm to the victim it's performed mostly on young girls and it's been illegal in the u.k. for decades it's often without so the quick victims consent so the f.d.m. can cause infection it threatens infertility it also presents an increased risk of childbirth complications including death for the children of mothers who've

undergone that procedure we spoke to the executive director of forward u.k. the foundation for women's health research and development she says that the practice causes lifelong problems for victims. and the reality is that. g.m. course is how i am g.m. also affects the health and well being of women and girls a number of people are going through a lot of emotional trauma but i'm not able to when we speak to some of the women that we work with women would tell us that the flashbacks when they see knives or the see blades or these are the things that are part of issues that have actually been suppressed in the mind for a very long time there is also the element of those who do have circle sexual problems as a result of going through the mill to meet on mutilation we do know that the worst cases of post traumatic stress disorder and it's something that we are from and

a lot of the supports we see in women after training their request to have additional support particularly on emotional well being. she has an aircraft make a boeing have slipped more than five percent after several countries decided to ground their boeing seven three seven max eight craft after sunday's deadly crash in ethiopia air carriers in brazil china is the opium morocco indonesia south africa and the cayman islands of all grounded them x. eight singapore has been the aircraft from using its airspace or china whose airlines operate one of the world's largest fleet says their planes will not be allowed to fly until all security concerns have been resolved. the civil aviation authority will contact the u.s. federal aviation administration and boeing company to notify the shipping airlines to resume the commercial operation of the boeing seven three seven eight aircraft after confirming the relevant measures to effectively ensure flight safety one hundred forty nine passengers and crew died when their plane crashed shortly after

takeoff from anything on sunday morning people of thirty five different nationalities were on board including twenty one employees of the united nations the pilot had reportedly been given permission to land after sending a distress call. the planes voice and data recorders have now been recovered but it may take months to extract information from as the second time in five months that i'm actually to crash a lion air flight came down off the coast of indonesia last october killing all one hundred ninety nine on board aviation expert and lawyer says that grounding the new model is necessary pending an investigation. to critias tootle of course and that big. you know the vessel issue to go in definitely in my view the fleet must be wrong and completely out of ide in russia where there is just one of these is the delivered that just recently you i.z. advised not to take this into a ration before this seems to refer to obviously the computers designed

a new way that it pushes the nose down because obviously there are source information do except it's a sense of. lifting the nose to twenty degrees which is impossible for it so the computer system pushes the nose bed there was a fire kind of fight between the computer and the pilots would obviously will it is fated to do is to train the time it sufficiently in such a case to switch of the computer and to take over the plane. there's outrage in russia after a deaf woman had her two children abruptly taken off and put into care and she's accused by tenants in her shared apartment of being an alcoholic who's incapable of taking care of her children she denies that and claims her neighbors simply want to seize control of the whole apartment. as the story. bizarre then why the at the decision. to go on yet of. her room in

a shared apartment raided by custody officials children gone that's how a single mother of two learned that her kids were taken away from her less has lived her life with the hearing impairment and it is so bad that without a hearing aid she's deaf one day she called a doctor for her daughter but didn't open the door when they showed up she says a broke and she didn't hear her call residents claiming she had passed out after a few too many custody officials took the flatmates word ordinary russians though took the side of the mother thousands of vocally outraged by the snap decision to separate alyssa from her children there's an online petition to elysees shocked by the accusations to be a raging alcoholic as she's being portrayed she has simply no time she says taking care of two children alone moreover her son has

a serious medical condition and his life depends on the daily early morning inhalations facilitated by his mother alyssa supporters say if it wasn't for her treatment and care the boy would have died a drunk woman could not do as much as a message did for her children that would be simply impossible activists say alyssa went through complete examinations with an archaeologist and they say car tryst and they determined she was stable and didn't have a drinking problem the custody service seems to brush off all of the above the law and now here are these children already turned into to lot c. in an online database for those seeking to adopt and as if taking the children away from the mother wasn't bad enough now they've been taken away from each other they've been placed in two different children homes not it seems as if. nobody had thought about what's best for the children when they decided to separate the

siblings i listen as mother has submitted an application to force to her grandchildren and has started renovating whole flat to get it up to standards. black and white. good at that slow and look at the law. and while the dispute has already been taken to court it doesn't really see the urgency . to this. well within the circle. of the book. but it's going to. be with you until the government. or even the truth. is looking into the legal system but the. news for this hour i'll be back to update you off we've taken a look at the planet's problem with plastic and what a firm which sells four thousand bottles a second to do about. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.