they're rats. and they save lives. time unlucky for two reasons lawmakers roundly reject the prime minister's last ditch attempts to force you divorce deal through parliament. and other headlines the u.s. secretary of state claims russia's interfered in every u.s. election since two thousand and four. and then existential threats and a totalitarian follow a group of us hawks resurrect the cold war era advocacy group calling for pushback against china the move immediately draws the ire beijing.

a lot from moscow i'm down on who you are today thanks for joining us on the program. following a turbulent week in the u.k. parliament another pivotal vote has seen the british prime minister's breaks the deal firmly rejected for a third time speaking immediately after the much of the results to resume a war that britain a just closer to leaving the e.u. on april the twelfth with a no deal scenario. the implication of the house's decision. the legal default is that united kingdom is due to leave the european union on the twelfth of april in just fourteen days time has rejected no deal it has rejected no brics it on wednesday rejected the fairy ations of the deal on the table and today it has rejected approving the withdrawal agreement alone. let's go live now to a correspondent on necessary. to syria. another twist and turn in this book saga seems to be never ending doesn't it so when you option syria what's next what can

we expect next from westminster. well a down it looks like there is more uncertainty next because of course this is an extremely nerve wracking time here in the u.k. as these attempts of figuring out what kind of shape and deadline and substance breck's it is going to have and attempt after attempt is really not working out in terms of figuring all of this out while britain edges closer and closer to the cliff it seems without any kind of backup plan indeed we saw the house of commons voted down to rescind means withdrawal agreement her deal for a third time around as many as three hundred forty four no votes in comparison to just two hundred eighty seven yes votes a majority of fifty eight of voices in parliament despite her hoping that she would just be able to break through with this agreement allowing for the

deadline for grex it to be extended to me twenty second as it was read with the european union that indeed has not happened despite the british prime minister yet again for m.p.'s to support her she promised again to step down as her deal was supported in this particular vote hoping third time would be the lucky. one she said that. this this deal would avoid european elections it would avoid a cliff edge and avoid a long delay possibly destroying the idea of rexx it all together still this apparently does not scare and he's enough in this make or break time so what happens next is of course the deadline now is april twelfth as agreed with the european union as this country edges closer to a new deal bracks it certainly there will be lots of work underway to see if other

alternatives are available as soon as next monday those are going to be within this government and the house of commons we have seen we know that up to a dozen different protests forming against threats that are taking place here in westminster as people walk out onto the streets to show their indignation. no matter what side of the political spectrum they are on and we have seen some reaction already from europe in terms of this latest vote donald tusk european council president has tweeted that he's calling a european council meeting to take place on april tenth and we know that you will commission they have said this previously that they are prepared for a new deal scenario already but all of them acknowledging that april twelfth this was meant to be the day for the original bracks a deadline to take place. finally the date is here

march twenty ninth twenty maintain this story for britain marking its departure from the european union. 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 on 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 as eleven pm

a declaration made no once not twice but prime minister in this house has said on one hundred eight 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 her deal struck down in parliament twice already and the house of commons voting against alternative after alternative after alternative showing no majority support for any of the bracks it options what do you think the day's going to be remembered by now how we didn't leave here. today we were supposed to be leaving the european union but we're not. personally i suppose the french and most well you know i think it's a small 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 it would personally like to come up with a new day. has got the whole idea of yours right. yeah entry very easy to leave your opinion whether you agree with it or nor most with your 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 breck's it is now a saga so lengthy and convoluted it's hard to keep track of all the plot twists with a deadline of the final chapter now postponed due to chaos how this all plays out is only yet to be figured out in the meantime to mark the day that should have been one museum in southwest england has decided to display a banksy classic this controversial work by the celebrated british street artists all that monkeying around perhaps found time to comment on the bricks of fiasco will let all viewers decide. there's been warnings from police that the sword riots could break out both supporters and opponents of bricks that are running across the u.k. just behind me there you can see the latest pictures from the so-called march to leave in support of bricks demonstrators already have reached parliament square in

central london at this particular rally actually began on the sixteenth of march two hundred seventy miles away in the city of sunderland it's been morning its way towards the capital and we can go live now to. london now for just isa warnings of potential disorder going on at the protest was the atmosphere like i presume that the news has filtered down to the people on the ground already . yeah absolutely there were. concerns by police that there could be violence but actually at the moment it's a very peaceful atmosphere a very subdued atmosphere if you will because of course today is march twenty ninth and it was supposed to be day but as we know that it's likely going to be. looks like it's going to be pushed back to a pool of twelve because obviously the parliament voting against the reason still

for the first time and she requested for an extension to the process to basically be you came in today so what happens next and i didn't say there will be another bunch of indicative votes that people try to find a way forward but as far as these protesters are concerned if the twelfth the u.k. leaves without a deal on the world trade organization rules well that would suit them many of them that we spoke to saying that they knew exactly what they were voting for that's despite m.p.'s telling them that they did it and they're saying that they would be perfectly happy to be on the world trade organization he wills and we're expecting a number of speeches to be taking place on the stage just behind. to the right hear those speeches will be taking place clued the leaders of the ukip party gerard butler and the far right activist simon robinson as well and so there will be a number of speeches taking place there again a subdued atmosphere here because it's not the celebration that many of these

people thought it would be in terms of today being very. rugged stuff he said earlier from central london will get back to you with an update from london. the conclusion of the report by special counsel robert muller that there was no conspiracy between donald trump on the kremlin was supposed to put the whole issue to bed while answering a question from u.s. democrats though secretary of state mark composer surprisingly expanded his list of elections russia interfered in back to george w. bush our senior correspondents one of the guys they have has more. 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. officially russia gave collusion was a hook for the style if you only knew just how much could lose and there

was in the past do you believe russia interfered a thank you and the to you didn't we or that 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 mr pompei oh i have evidence it's so obvious if you think about it let's go back russia meddled and one year election for barack obama how. could you explain a bomb has little microphone slip where he was caught red handed reporting to putin let's. just.

say. that for 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 eyes and looked the man in the eye i. was able to. get a sense of his soul and you want to tell me that bush wasn't a russian stooge come on get real as red as a cherry and that's just the last few presidents this meddling goes back decades reagan who preside all just part of the plan i mean what kind of sick man a traitor makes the whole beat of collecting and translating american into russian

arguing about their two countries and the americans 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 a russian said i can do this i can go into the crim and to the general secretary's office own his disk and say mr general secretary i don't like the way president reagan is running used but i russian meddling is obvious it is going on for more than a 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 becoming 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 lennon'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 jokes apart for the past two years american mainstream media has given nonstop coverage of the trump russia collusion saga although the ratings might have spiked after the twenty six the election they're now experiencing a significant drop after the long awaited report was released another c.n.n. t.v. network whose critical coverage of trump has been labeled as fake news by the us president have seen a noticeable decline during prime time hours likewise one of the most popular m s n b c anchors rachel maddow has lost half a million viewers in just one week that's about twenty percent of our audience now was all this happens trump friendly fox news has seen a jump of over a million viewers. c.n.n.'s chief correspondent trying to explain the trend saying

there just hasn't been much news since the bombshell moola findings were announced some of the media though 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 especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations 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. and we've discussed the the limit the mainstream media faces weighing ratings against accurate reporting with investigative journalists and just . because of the nature of. this thing sort of like hotcakes or you know ratings

for cable stations went up after the election are down. enormous number so that provided a huge disincentive to steer away from not going on air and saying god we got a wrong we're really sorry we're going to go back and fix that they're actually just basically doubling down on this and moving on to a new. idea which is that the thing that's important is obstruction and not collusion 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've also commented said jeff zucker over at c.n.n. said we don't do investigative journalism or than 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 the shift is going to where people can actually get accurate news. so africa's human rights commission has ignited debate in the country over where the boundaries of free speech lie and soft rule that a string of racially charged remarks by julius malema a controversial left wing politician did not amount to hate speech one of the things i had said he wasn't calling for the slaughter of what people yet. came to the conclusion that while the ex the subject of these complaints may be quite of friends of the do not need to be legal for racial equality is heat speech. julius malema is a leader of the economic freedom fighters party which argues that black south africans continue to face systematic discrimination was previously convicted of hate speech in two thousand and ten and eleven subsequently expelled from the

african national congress the country's ruling party here are some of the statements that critics have claimed amount to incitement to violence against white people. why we don't care now. why not go out there might be why not according to you know the time i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of wade people at least for now i come together to the future i don't want blacks to work for whites i want you to work for yourselves and white people will work for you that will be true freedom you must teach them how to carry babies on their back they must feel what our parents have been feeling we are not calling for white people to be killed but for white people to be our domestic workers. also reaction to this we're joined by south african talk show host ashraf garda who is also a co-founder of the champion south africa social movement thanks for joining us a good to have you on the program today so the commission found no indication in the comments looked into whatever you think of judas whatever he's not shy of

controversy. how do you think communities and politicians are going to react to this. well i think you know two parts there are some parts certainly many supporters of julius malema supported to say well we told you so we don't this is just the type of rhetoric we use and it certainly should not be ever taken is much more than that there's another opinion simply from many legal people and people around issues of human rights to say i mean these type of statements are a board even though the south african human rights commission didn't find that constitutes hate speech but they did find it very offensive i have to ask yourself the question in the south african context so it's not. hate speech but is offensive and offensive alone i think is is a very offensive term to try and internalize so i think people are divided. the two the commission did stress however you had to take into context the the social and

political context of south africa or the divided past and that's the context that the leader of the f.-f. made that particular utterance of route you know we want to white people is as yet but there is opinion that i certainly believe that i think it is wrong because i think it. almost gives a license to be extreme in your thoughts there's a there's a message needs to try and redress imbalances but you cannot do that at the level with the type of words and the language that is being used in south africa at this point in time. i mean obviously when i'm a supporter will say he's been vindicated despite of course being convicted previously of hate speech others are going to say this just gives justification for as you say violence and more. comments like this how do you think this is going to affect the political landscape in south africa and you know that dichotomy that you described. well well look at. so it's already affecting the political landscape in

sense that we have to give credit to to the same party that first of all is being you know disruptors in the marketing sense they've certainly changed the political landscape in terms of raising issues that the ruling african national congress should have raised and they haven't done and they haven't seemed to in twenty five years and that is given rise to the type of of extremism or desperation rather from the masses to say you haven't delivered for so i think it's already changed the landscape in malema defames however and it does sound very confusing he's also said we would never grab land illegally we would never do in terms of killing or slaughtering people and then of course we knows he knows we all use the word as yet but you have to wonder then why would he use those words in the first place i think what's concerning is there's a there's a lack of clim down from all sides about saying let's let's agree that there's a divided past but we will not speak this type of language because it certainly can

fan the flames yet certainly does raise the questions of the boundaries of free speech in politics and where they lie and don't like god a radio talk show host thanks for joining us tonight international. and china's foreign ministries dismissed the allegation of beijing poses a threat to the united states as a cliche so after it was announced that a cold war era advisory board was being revived to focus on china the group says it aims 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 that 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 operation 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 original threats posed by the people's republic of china of

the committee on the present danger was first set up in the early one nine hundred fifty s. it was tasked with countering communist influence in the united states it's a resurfaced twenty years later to once again challenge the soviet union during the cold war now the major threat named by the first committee was the so-called aggressive designs of the soviet union as a counter this europe was urged to rearm while the u.s. was asked to show greater commitment the committee also condemned the spread of communism in the korean peninsula and the potential involvement of china. well today the committee claims beijing represents the greatest threat facing america a specialist on asia affairs andrew lloyd told us the ongoing trade war is part of a multifaceted approach to weaken china. it's only. six that. the united states against china australia is. also there are some that just. about. excess.

protection an election but also. by and that was the. transgression of our special. or you can be all and also the kind of military. i want to see so i think that even though there was a deal on the trade. german rock band ramstein has come into the firing line of the jewish community over the promo release of the group's new single the video looks at germany's past present and future but it's the part depicting the holocaust that straw major backlash described by some as frivolous and irresponsible.

titled the video is nine minutes long and shows defining historical moments like the formation of the viable republican the formation of the nazi party the lyrics are said to show the by and struggled with their german identity saying we want to love and damn you some within the jewish community however have called it outrageous the israeli foreign ministries even insisted the clip should be deleted . this ramstein cliff using the whole occurrence for advertisement purposes is shameful and uncalled for we joined the many voices calling for his immediate removal and the band and its record label have not given any comment as of yet we discussed the reaction to ramstein is new video with independent journalist and historian ephriam sort of. practive the matter is that they did what they did it's out there it's available to anyone who wants and this is really in that the way to

deal with the subject as sensitive as the holocaust they are if i may say on the good side of course and they bring the message of the horror of the camps to young people working class people who probably don't have a clue really even in germany of what happened sixty years ago it's true that somehow it is not bad here it is it's not clear what the messages and it's basically no no this is not education seminar this is just rammstein is way of tracking people from is not something you'd agree with that there shouldn't be any sort of boundaries in artistic expression or is the holocaust you know something of trivializing the sort of way as many people would say something that really does cross the line here. listen i'm more in favor of freedom of expression refrain pression is not the right to yell fire in a crowded theater another is there has to be some limits and by the way the people

who are followers of brands like this among them are many of the people in the neo nazi movement in germany in people who have a tendency to potentially might be inspired to commit violent that it's so this is not really a good idea and to some a test must be fought hard but in this instance in germany this is taste of the rock n roll scene and i think there is nothing much to it because if you intervene if you take them to court they will make something porous polish artist in which he had naked act is filmed playing tag in a gas chamber. and this this clip was banned in germany ok but for some odd reason totally in comprehensible to me. this was shown in the crackle museum of my not i simply want to try to defend. in this case

because it's not that bad i think of course it's not but i don't think. i'm not a fan but ok that's the way to permissive society. thanks for the national from the team and myself will be taking you through.

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