friday morning marks the day that was supposed to be historic for britain not divorced from the instead the country is left with. the state rushes interfered in every single election in america since two thousand and four the george w. bush era. and race is a renowned french university slammed for its students production of a greek. international's

main studio h.q. here in moscow with his thirty minute updates kevin zero in here great to have your company so well was supposed to be huge the twenty ninth of march going down in history as the day that britain finally divorced from the european union is mentioned below head of his stead there's expected to be another crucial vote later today on tourism may's breck's it was drawn agreement and this is it takes a look at what's in store. finally the day is here march twenty ninth twenty eight . or wait a second. a day like any other except with less clarity about what happens next then the very day the twenty sixteen referendum shocked the world the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. article fifty

was triggered on march twenty ninth two years ago the article fifty process is now underway and in accordance with the wishes of the british people the united kingdom is leaving the european union so many promises made and shattered since then it's within our grasp to leave with a deal on the twenty ninth of march on the twenty ninth of march the twenty ninth of march with a deal with a deal on the twenty ninth of march we will be leaving the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen is eleven pm a declaration made not once not twice but the prime minister in this house has said on one hundred times that we will be leaving the european union on the twenty ninth of march pile on to votes of no confidence against the british prime minister who deal struck down in parliament twice already and the house of commons voting against alternative after alternative after alternative showing no way jordison now how we didn't leave here. today we were supposed to be leaving the european union

but we're not. personally as opposed to very much and you know if there's an it is a day i don't think we should blame twenty ninth for the mess that we've made of bricks march twenty ninth well it's a perfectly good day i would personally like to come up with a new day. that's got the whole idea of your friday night yeah improve over it so the european union whether agree with the north must the door across a choice march twenty ninth was meant to be the grand departure of the u.k. from the e.u. . with hopes of a brand new future ahead instead brags it is now a saga so lengthy and convoluted it's hard to keep track of all the plot twists all plays out is only yet to be figured out reporting from london and stacy churkin out with r.t. make time to mark the day that should have been one museum in south los angeles is cited to bring out this banksy classic for public display a controversial work by the celebrated british street is all monkeying around ferran tommy comment on the breaks it fiasco or far from it show you've got your

own for. well for testers from both sides of the debate expected to rally across the u.k. later than the director of the political risk analysis group thinks the british public really unsure right now where to go from here really counts are we going to have a second appear a second chance to vote on this is article fifty going to be revoked at least temporarily until people can sort themselves out i think that's the key question that's what hopefully will be answered in the next weeks to come people have a lot of different mixed emotions about what our conscience turned into what we do see i think is confusion in what people want to see for example the petition that was online though called for article fifty to be revoked but at the same time we had as it was reported almost a million man march for a second referendum so i think the people themselves if they come if they do do not want britain to happen they need to come with one aligned message instead of two separate things we truly want the same thing you see the truck in the next this the

conclusion by the report of the special counsel robert mueller that there was no conspiracy between donald trump and the kremlin was supposed to put the whole issue to bed but while answering a question from us democrat secretary of state might surprisingly now as expected his list of elections russia interfere did all the way back to the george w. bush era our senior correspondent reports this morning. for two years they dug and dug investigated and questioned as sad as it may be trump is not a russian agent who so they think but she officially russia gave collusion was a hook for the style if you only knew just how much could lose and that was in the past do you believe russia interfered with the twenty six thousand u.s. general election yes they did in the two thousand and twelve and the two thousand

and eight thank you and the tea literally or that's a bold claim especially given the evidence he mentioned he didn't mention any evidence begs the question of course why washington waited for more than a decade to say so but there could be a simple explanation the presidents before trump were get this compromised agents russian agents and contrary to miss the pomp a oh i have evidence it's so obvious if you think about it let's go back how else could you explain the bombers little microphone slip where he was caught red handed reporting to putin. before that it was george bush who russia put into the white house twice in

two thousand and two thousand and four look at them together putin and bush all that touching and feeling hugs and shakes romantic almost and don't get me started about the size and look the man in the eye. was able to. get a sense of his soul and you want to tell me that bush wasn't a rush. stooge come on if you presidents this meddling goes back decades reagan who presided over the collapse of the u.s.s.r. was also compromised this is all just part of the plan i mean what kind of sick man a traitor makes the whole be of collecting and translating russian jew and then posting about it the story was an american in russian arguing about the two countries in the americas said look in my country i can walk into the oval office i

can pound the president's desk and say mr president i don't like the way you're running our country and the russians said i can do this i can go into the clinic the way president reagan is running used by. russian meddling is obvious it is going on for more than one hundred years abraham lincoln surprise was a russian agent why do you think russia sent two fleets of warships to new york and san francisco in a show of support for him and the unionists during the american civil war the coming of the russian fleets was decisive in helping lincoln get through the last and most serious threat of anglo-french intervention you don't hear much about that and for good reason you need to leave evidence lying about say that comrade lincoln rest in peace lenin's blessings be upon him there you have it concrete proof of president after president being russian agents you got it right mr pompei oh about

the whole russia meddling. who would get a reporter there were joking aside for the past two years american mainstream media has given the a nonstop coverage doesn't it to the trump russia collusion saga blow over the t.v. ratings money spiked after the port was released this c.n.n. t.v. network whose critical coverage of trump has been labeled as fake news by the us president himself has seen a noticeable decline of parity jim prime time was likewise one of the most popular m.-s. n.b.c. anchors rachel murders lost half a million viewers in just one week this but twenty percent of her audience has been reported all of this happening as trump friendly fox news has seen a jump of over a million viewers why well c.n.n.'s chief correspondent try to explain the trend saying there's just not been much dues around since the bombshell miller findings were announced but some of the media are still not prepared to let it go. i think we've done the media the press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the

history of especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations have trust in his prosecutorial judgment but that doesn't mean of course that there isn't compelling and incriminating evidence that should be shared with the american people this president has a way of trying to get into people's heads and indoctrinate them he's been saying no collusion no collusion no collusion he does this all the time this is not the end of anything investigative journalist valder still believes the u.s. mainstream media has destroyed its own credibility. this report the went on for two years to the making has proven out that this president won fair and square and the mainstream media c.n.n. m.s.n. b.c. and others took it to such an extreme and have absolutely burned their reputations and they have also commented jeff zucker over at c.n.n. said we don't do investigative journalism well then what kind of journalism is there if you're not actually looking for the information sourcing your information

as opposed to just taking bad circular reporting off phony information we have trade deals that are going on ongoing with china very exciting news there that you have stuff going on overseas and brags that and they're talking about there is no news out there that is not the reason for their lack of a rating if you look at the exit is from mainstream media into online media and citizen journalism you will see that this shift is going to where people can actually get accurate news. u.s. authorities have issued an official extradition request for enough food chilean businessman over his part in weapons to saddam hussein's regime in iraq that was three decades ago but washington didn't regard the entrepreneur's activities as criminal quite the contrary it explains next. the u.s. department of justice wants to extradite a wealthy chill léon wine manufacturer carlos car dolan to stand trial one of the charges well according to one thousand nine hundred ninety three indictment he sold weapons to former iraqi strongman saddam hussein cardo and maintains he did not

however commit any crimes. judges. didn't my complete innocence and. now the indictment says that cardo one made these weapons sales without the permission of u.s. leaders however we have the sworn testimony of a member of the national security agency this official says that his weapons deals were carried out with the complete approval of the united states my files will contain my notes and memoranda from meetings i attended with cia director casey or cia deputy director gates which included discussions of cardew ins manufacture and sale of cluster bombs to iraq the cia authorized approved and assisted to end in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to iraq cargo and started out as a man who manufactured mining explosives however button's around the world now one

of those u.s. allies that cardo and happily did business with was the baathist government of iraq back in the one nine hundred eighty s. iraq was at war against the islamic republic of iran iran ayatollah khomeini was certainly no friend of washington or the pentagon so the united states gave saddam hussein a large amount of support in his war against the iranians in one thousand nine hundred eighty four the us ambassador to chill a cold card owens business quote a lucrative market for cluster bombs but a lot has changed in thirty years so adamant started this cruel war against kuwait tonight the battle has been joined american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations. to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger sort of appears that they now want to extradite cargo and for a crime they gave him the full go ahead to do it shows that just like in the case of saddam hussein himself working with the united states never really comes with

a guarantee what they help you to do today they might extradite you for doing tomorrow kaleb mop and all and university of france has been cancelled after it was labeled afro colonialist and racist in this place should have been part of an annual ancient theater festival but students blocked actors from entering the theater because blackface make it was used during last year's performance to try and get round the problem this year as actors were supposed to put on black masks according to the university's administration the founder of the french think we spoke to says this but as an act of violence. this is an absolutely to literally measure to ban a type of performance an act of violence took place in some form the biggest french university where they have blocked these play from going ahead and performance we choose two thousand five hundred two years old and as you mentioned in greek fear to use of masks with a different color six traditional the portray different characters and black masks

there that's why all we hear about which is less than a year old also to put it to french ministers publishing a joint statement opposing the cancellation calling it an attack of freedom of speech and the president of the council of france's black associations thinks that act is good indeed put on african coast no problem. a pot of electricity a party black face originally came from europe and was condemned by human rights defenders the un and the european parliament yesterday the point of black faces for a white person to change their appearance and act like a dark skinned person because if his first appeared during the times of slavery it was done to mock and demonize black people francis communities forcibly reconciled with crimes against humanity turning this into a joke with thinking at least this is funny we can dress like black people we can be black people this is so funny and so devilishly but if they don't want to see black people on stage one or just use african costumes instead of i can't dictate

how these performances should be done of course so there are thousands of different ways to get round this this is a live it's coming the same time as president of the morning head the united states bills china now as its biggest threat since the soviet union where to go live get some reaction from hong kong to that when we come back. the great tragic comedy known as russia gate is slowly becoming part of history the resistance continues to resist but clearly the president has the wind at its back now is a time for a great awakening what are the lessons to be learned and can the liberal media recover from this fiasco. in terms of mr. so to say that the venezuelan people and the international community i've done my

role which i believe is a constitutional one is the interim president but don't look for me to think if he were to do that the situation in venezuela be perceived as less one of the states. again as mentioned before the break in a cold war era advisory body is being revived in the united states but this time its focus is on china the group says it's a ms to tackle the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by beijing. the existential threat presented from the people's republic of china every university in america has penetrated to gain as much intelligence about america

pretty much everything they do is in one way or another in influence operations and many of those influence operations are designed to have psychological effects on us the russian charges of political meddling or especially ridiculous when one considers the array of threats posed by the people's republic of china. the committee on the present danger was first set up by the early one hundred fifty thousand task back then with country in communist influence in the us it resurfaced twenty years later once again challenges of eat into the cold war now today the committee claims china is now the greatest threat america is facing as with the soviet union in the past communist china represents an existential and india logical threat to the united states and to the idea of freedom let's bring in its national child especially under learn always nice to see you on the program sir from hong kong big raises to be worried about where you are yet is china this big threat around the world. this is almost all or.

this really is. at the beginning. at the time in a strange. staging a comeback. when the eyes of. each. of the united states and. if you look at what was happening in africa tens of thousands of chinese companies they've look at the people live there then there's the big trade thing the belton road initiative across the globe americas feeling threatened and is going to reason too. oh of course the truth is this is always on a mixed sense that on the one hand. almost insert eating a lot of. those countries all infrastructure on it you know

but also. in other parts of the world and on the other hand seem pine so as china's in its in subtle ways and also. making all those countries of the loans creating a kind of. typical example. is the fact that we. the supermarket bosses this is the control is to the chinese because so this is not about to eat and then this is a kind of whole ball. game kind of mentality so we're going to see if we're going to see a more hawkish approach to china from washington china going to react

well i mean this is not. is that nothing new actually i think at me james weldon that. because this is. back it's not just the train there's a technology. and there was the. i think the c. transgression special. or you can be. and also the kind of military confrontation china sea so i think that the. most. when you look at history. and existing superpower. it leads to a kind of. trap i think china. shop burning sometimes you. to solve a problem they're always on star always the. national interest.

you know the noise to leave andrew thank you for the positive earth thought of nothing else not that it'll turn out like that i guess as ever it's an official china spaces andra logo on the line from hong kong thank you have a good day. british n.g.o.s the integrity initiative has been trying to create a europe wide network to counter so-called russian propaganda a new leaks reveal those apparently revealed the u.k. government funded project has been sending spies abroad to test the capabilities of potential agents and then report all that data back to the british foreign and commonwealth office a little quarter's call that story this morning. yet another plan of the u.k. funded integrity initiative has surfaced in their fight against misinformation the expose network sets out to identify civil society organisations of the reaching across europe countering disinformation upscale there's an organisation's in research and communications and through the provision of support grants and training and coordinate their activities the documents are the seventh part in

a string of leaks that began in late twenty eighteen they outline plans for the exposed network a web of european wide companies combating misinformation the documents map illustrates just how wide it is stretching from the u.k. across to eastern europe according to their terms outlined in the documents participants are required to handle sensitive information for the state and they also need to sign a strict non-disclosure agreement as for who is spreading the misinformation well most parties seem to have a fixation on russia. they've

been targeted by the russian media the russian government's critics criticize directly and. that's not going to stop this because there's so many of us who can do this we're going to keep going while another striking example a ukrainian media watchdog called detector media it's responsible for. monitoring the professional quality of news and television programs in the ukraine to them a pro russian position could be considered a violation of professional standards have a look at this article about the ukrainian intelligence services performing raids against what they call pro russian media the watchdog was disappointed at how little the government succeeded with their patriotic agenda those organizations may

or may not have accepted money from the integrity initiative nevertheless exposes planned budget is around three million pounds annually from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one and it's not like the british government didn't throw millions of pounds at integrity initiative last year the government funding this initiative with nearly two million pounds this financial year although when government misinformation is the concern it might be hard to be sure your government isn't the culprit even if you can tell you if you should do those who do start fund in these activities you're going to find that western governments will be their resources to another organization in order to engage in propaganda that people in the west need become aware of the extent to which our classes go. gauge in manipulation of. an economic oh this is this thing is. to and it's been going on for much longer

need to it doesn't seem to me that the mainstream media is doing its job to the attention of western publics this kind of problem amber or it should be even worse than if your problems were aware of this they would be cross angry and outraged no being subjected to this kind. footnote to this the integrity initiative says websites now closed pending investigation into the theft of data responding to the early leaks organization denied any covert activities and said much of the published material was a day to day anyway we sent a request to to the british foreign office regarding the latest batch of leaks so far there's been no response so far thanks watch out international that should yield update just over half an hour. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where

everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to the. by the way what is that that's like here. can. investigate president bill clinton outline grounds for impeachment against him is our special guest. we'll hear his take on the mulla report on this edition of politicking. special

counsel robert mullins report on his investigation into ties between the trunk campaign and the russian government is over and his report rests in the hands of attorney general william barr who will decide what parts if any of his will forte will be released to the public for his fought for as the interim calls the report a complete and total exoneration of him and his associates but is it let's talk about that with ken starr he served as the independent counsel who investigated bill clinton and his administration and then on to out on the eleven impeachable offenses of mr clinton to congress his latest book will leeson september is content a memoir of the clinton investigation he joins us from waco texas then quite a couple of years ten the president says most his report is a complete and total exoneration of him what's your read.

i think is a great exoneration with respect to the key issue of collusion obviously bob mueller left open the obstruction of justice issue kicked it up stairs to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general and they've made their determination so if you take the two together it is but of course we have to see them all or report and that's under review right now so it's a wait and see tell me why we have to wait why don't we all just see it. right.