and the week's top stories organizers claim one million people marched in london demanding another referendum on the briggs's. two week extension to the break that deadline after its failed to get support for her divorce. a bombshell report claims that a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the country's president consolidate power eight hundred million dollars we speak to. many of them without. their parents' support without going through immigration without customs the. last twenty years since nato started its quote humanitarian campaign in the new slab yet many locals see the military

offensive in which thousands were killed as a regime change operation. joining us this evening you're watching the weekly here on art. up to a million people marched across london on saturday calling for a second brags that referendum that's the number that's been given by organizers along with the public members of parliament also attended the protest the rally comes after you leaders agreed to give the u.k. a short extension to the withdrawal deadline with parliament having twice already having rejected the prime minister. that stuff just as far as got us nowhere it's got that nothing stop an international laughingstock i would say she needs to listen to what you say i feel really passionately we really really love our friends

here in the e.u. we need state that i believe the majority nowadays. the new people put this up for this great didn't even have a plan and never had it it's a shame that we're in this mess but. i don't think there's anyone in the labor party at the top of the labor party who's really taking control of. the of the brics it fights. for the promises not be given a short extension two weeks if she fails to get a deal through but that would be moved to may twenty second if she does however the pm has warned that she will put off the vote until she can be guaranteed enough support in westminster that throws bragg's it into further disarray.

they would be able to agree still an extension until the. twentieth of april. boot. to fill in the yes. on to the various. i. think two to our poll. and there's still empty you learnt it's nice to see that a lot of space. it was certainly long nights of discussion the decision making and chopping and changing plans multiple times at the e.u. council summit and finally a decision that was reached officially and that was an extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional of course of to resume

a passing up plan through the house of commons should that fail if the e.u. council has provided for a further extension of the twelfth of april for the u.k. to come forward and come up with a plan and a process of what exactly to do next that also the sort of course if they do intend to participate in the european parliamentary elections something which a would be rather pointless given their leaving the european union and be something that's the reason why he has said that would be almost a red line for something that she would not consider now to say that this decision was an easy one or a unanimous one at least from the very start would be misleading and there were quite different positions on the e.u. council countries such as belgium and france president micron for one playing hardball stating that a no deal. it was still on the table others such as angle are called playing a more conciliatory tone calling for more understanding of the u.k.

. we discussed the issue with political consultant cliff marotta he says that every step in the budget process is making the situation more complicated. when briggs it was first announced as an idea as a concept and there was no meat on the bone as to what the concept of what the process actually would mean and we start off in a place with such uncertainty there's no surprise us to the situation room now so unless the identity of breaks it is made clear in you i think the sentiment right now in parliament is that. it's almost an impossibility of this deal going through and if it does go through it will go through under very pressured measures which means peace in parliament won't vote with what they believe is to be the best way for forward but will do it because the time pressures are so tight which almost holds parliament to ransom saying this is the only deal we have and you better put it through because your certainties are too big and too widespread to even imagine

. it's being claimed seven american mercenaries trying to help haiti's president consolidate power by scoring a presidential aide carrying eight hundred million dollars they allegedly arrived in the caribbean country and they down to government protests they were arrested a day later but then released without charge. just when they missed. most scenarios he says if he were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government.

you see those reports due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment further . broke the story for news website the intercept. they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joe from malmo we the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister nuri say or and the bank president john dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their

passport without going through immigration without going to customs they come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but of haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had them released in a completely illegal manner i spent a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation secure it disclose our source the. requested anonymity and so we have to protect our source. however one of the mercenaries a retired navy seal to speak that version of events chris elfman says that they were hired as security for businessmen never actually met the presidential aide in an odd deleted instagram post he said they were pulled in a public fight between the haitian president and prime minister u.s. senator marco rubio has met with the haitian president said that the situation in

the country demonstrated sharp political divisions protests in haiti continue of a soaring inflation and claims of government corruption they blame the current president who was sworn in on the pledge to increase employment and improve living conditions. certain irritant or certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last of the latest spasm of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what happened with these mercenaries so i think yes the whole mercenaries story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it. that our story has come out

and basically. torn off the luger pulled back the curtain on this story i would think that this is going to create even more outrage and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. today marks twenty years since native started this bombing campaign against then yugoslavia what nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country separatists local soras a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed nato became involved in yugoslavia march one thousand nine hundred nine after sectarian tensions between serbians and cos of an albanians became violent the alliance backed the latter without any un mandates nato bombed yugoslavia for almost three months in a row leaving many parts of serbia devastated. for the sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslav capital they condemned the nato

bombing that ended rule over a territory that many who gathered still view as their nation's historic heartland america correspondent alex because of its has more now on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city northeast side which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilling out on the couch watching t.v. with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned a bright red warning the air strikes and i've been going through the first

explosion a ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next phone was going to hit. the second i stopped at the store. looked up in the sky and there was a cruise missile flying over the house over there seconds later another explosion. that tomahawk missile hit a target in the hills above nobody saw it was one of fifty five u.s. cruise missiles used against yugoslavia that night after by hundreds of fixed wing bombing operations well nato feel to destroy most military targets it was effective when it came to killing civilians this is the city of nice in southern serbia it's the location of one the most serious bombings of the nato campaign event happened may seventh nine hundred ninety nine cluster bombs dropped fifteen people dead in the middle of the day one of those bombs killed a twenty seven year old woman who was seven months pregnant earth.

did you see that it happened on the girdle it's a bridge on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred nine nato planes targeted a civilian passenger trade not once but twice at least. nine people died in the incident some say the number could be as high as sixty today the bridge where the attack occurred has been rebuilt walking around the site which has become a monument to the dead you can't help but reflect on the horror that happened here . that its actions were motivated by quote numerous human rights violations in costs of ai and says that it says strike campaign achieved its goal which was to halt any military activity and repression in the region we spoke to dr william nor they could was working in yugoslavia with a team of u.s. doctors and nurses in march nine hundred ninety nine we asked him about his

experience on the day the bombing began. every signal started going off not long after sundown and the bombs started dropping within a few minutes after that. we were at a very critical juncture operating on the shoulder and i looked up through the child chest and said listen you know. my country for whatever reason is bombing your country tonight and a number of your countrymen are going to die but this child that is on the table that is ten days old is not going to die tonight we're going to take this safely downstairs and then all of you can go home to your families. i want to jay that. that was one of the most horrific nights. that i've experienced. in the children's intensive care unit is on the top floor and there's a balcony that goes about seventy percent of the way around the building. and i

went outside with my coffee and i saw a number of fighter bombers as well. thousands of people have gathered in the city of christchurch new zealand for a vigil to commemorate the fifty people killed in a shooting massacre earlier this month following the attacks on two mosques the government has proposed tough new gun laws all types of assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons to be banned lore of past comes into force on april eleventh some immediate changes that are already in effect with gun shops now banned from selling those types of weapons by banks came as part of an amnesty the prime minister says that the cost of thought is the price that must be paid the suspected attacker and that assault published a manifesto a few hours prior to the shooting describing his motives and plants.

this is one of the new zealand's darkest days. or shooters streamed the attack via facebook the video quickly spread something facebook was criticized for especially given just how quickly it can crack down on certain types of political content he's in his prime minister demanded answers from social media platforms over the streaming and sharing of the attack i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there's a lot of work that needs to be down. facebook responded saying that the video didn't trigger its warning systems it's introduced steps to improve the way

combat's hate speech we've put the issue up for debate. i respectfully submit that when you show violence against human being it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it would inspire the next shooting which you very well could because these losers need some form of acclimation out of his human decency or hearing from officials government officials from the prime minister in new zealand talking about preventing future attacks like this and then going on to censoring when this attack happens how in the world does that prevent this attack one of the main problems on the scene here is that we continue to put band-aids on gunshot wounds and we need to stop that we need to stop putting band-aids on we need to stop saying let's just stop everybody from there that he doesn't you know we can get rid of x. rated movies should it come down immediately yes should this be kept from the

public yes take it down i want facebook and others abroad to have exactly who you whatever and out of the aisle here we're not they have we're talking to you now and you're telling me about t.v. do you know they're talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow lying dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent it nobody's talking about prevented the question is should be banned them say yes and what i want facebook to do is if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad show fast and i want them to use that technology in their genius to figure out wait a minute we're having somebody right now people are being killed this is going to come down from our platform what my concern is when we continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadel band but we're giving subject and our and authority to social media platforms to content that that is allowed so when to hurt us later now listen dr berg do me

a favor if you see somebody shooting and killing people shut it down we'll talk about it later. you don't have a debate do you think that maybe we're giving one person die die die die die die the right to automatically and who is to say whether this could one day be that i don't people being shot and whether this might include war coverage or report this is horrible that i never want to see this i never want my children to see this i don't want any person to be subject to this kind of violence in this horrible obscene material these publications but this is what i have seen governments cannot stop this these companies cannot stop this people who post something positive about donald trump are being taken off of social media because of social media heads and managers and so we want them to ban other things instead of us and that is my main thing is that they can't they will not. german politicians of call for the expulsion of the us some bus the richard grinnell came after he openly criticized

burns plan to reduce the fed spending nato members clearly pledged to move towards not away from two percent by twenty twenty four that the german government would even be considering reducing its already on acceptable commitments to military readiness is a worrisome signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mr grinnell is a total failure of a diplomat all of this behavior is rather borish with his repeated clumsy provocations mr goodnow is harming transatlantic relations since mr grinnell to cup his post as ambassador in berlin he has and several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the internal affairs of the federal republic of germany his behavior in those countries anything but diplomatic and rather reminiscent of the governor of an empire. well this comes despite german military spending increasing last year by five billion dollars it's not the first time going out at the country's policies

either slamming everything from its relations with iran to use of equipment from chinese tech giant huawei donald trump's also been a vocal critic of berlin spending accusing it of free loading of the u.s. military. german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations and media. never tell a host country what to do. we're not a banana republic. one side trade term. for us the

production jatra stinks the berlin is starting to question its alliance with washington. mr grinnell does have president trump personal support now there was talk that mr green l. might be moved to the united nations when nikki haley left but that didn't happen so i think it would be very embarrassing for the administration who would draw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is on polish about it especially with demands about spending more money on nato and you can't have five g. from walk away and you must not be buying. russian gas in complete the north stream to pipeline that it's starting to get on their nerves and maybe beginning to dawn on some people in germany that maybe this american relationship is not all it's cracked up to be now some people want to say this whole question of style but i think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of. the stricken actually ship has finally arrived in port

five to twenty people were wounded in victims were airlifted to hospital in extreme weather off norway's atlantic coast the viking sky sent out a distress signal after it began drifting in rough say some lifting of hundreds of passengers was hounded by conditions as well as engine problems witnesses said that the ship was just minutes from hitting rocks and risky boats arrived. bring it right up to date thanks thing with i'll tell you this evening i'll be back with updates on the top of the hour. on. a shot i had to get up on soldier that i. was on the sad left foot and i thought this was the one.

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on. earth. hello and welcome to worlds apart of twenty years ago nato launched its first military operation with the approval of the un security council the talent bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a turning point in the history of warfare proving a conflict can be won by air power alone to take its on does it still seem like a victory to discuss that i'm now joined by. professor of political sciences at the

university of belgrade professor good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth nine hundred ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started late afternoon on the fourth of march. expected that because. we're process was finished with. the preparation for the war. we're very frightened. by the government and by media so we did expect. to situation but you said

a moment ago that you saw it coming and yet i read somewhere that because of the tide state control over the media in the weeks prior to the offensive very few ordinary people expected to belonging or that it would be as massive as it was most of the people hold that diplomatic deal with be made was it perhaps because you were a part of the government that you were better informed than people at large. as a matter of fact it is a difference between. believing the. bombing. probably because i mean rationally speaking nobody expected by the end of the twentieth century but for everybody her. objections best in countries particularly neat and usa i could expand expect this scenario those aries did bring slobodan milosevic into compliance he did what the

west wanted and withdrew all the forces from costa but obviously at a very huge cost around five hundred people killed many thousands injured enormous damage to the infrastructure looking back at it do you think the west could have achieved its objective without such some would argue disproportionate show of force . in terms of military action the western. is the not. objective because. army was not actually removed from. you know orders to the. agreement but it was not so. damaged as nato forces expected in terms of. serbia should

accept that isn't a very unfair forty four but it was not of the forty feet but something i would same positive zero point from which serbia enough of the rest. and defined international international position reserving the cost of an indoor here it is well documented at this point that the campaign was initially designed to destroy the yugoslav air defenses and high value military targets but it went far far beyond that heating a television station the china's am busy many other public buildings even a passenger train that was crossing a bridge at that time how do you explain this mission creep and was it a mission creep as opposed to a deliberate intimidation. as a matter of fact it was a real war war without roofs. because

a military a wreck is where not to the only one i mean nato particularly in the second bought part of the war plan to save the last month and back to civilian objectives bridges over example they destroyed fifty four bridges in serbia and electricity. equipment and managing. out of. normal civilian. why for the advance so. they tried to make and. collecting a whole article situation between the population that in the war cannot be. yet and . should. be.