so. time unlucky for to resume a british lawmakers roundly reject the prime minister's last attempt also. the. us secretary of state claims russia has interfered in every election since two thousand and four. german rock band faces a huge backlash for the group's controversial depiction of the holocaust in the new singles video we discussed the reaction from the public and. hello for me the team at the. moscow where it's now midnight it's nine pm friday

evening in britain where a couple of i was a date and time there was the national consciousness britain was jus' to be marking its exit from the european union kampala deal afterwards to resume a war and the britain had edged closer to leaving the e.u. in two weeks' time without a plan in place. 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 mr speaker i feel we are reaching the limits of this process in this house this house has rejected no deal it has rejected no brick sit on wednesday it rejected ations of the deal on the table and today it has rejected approving the withdrawal agreement alone britain edges closer and closer to the cliff it seems without any kind of backup plan indeed we saw the house of commons vote down teresa mayes withdrawal agreement her deal for

a third time around as a majority of fifty eight of voices in the parliament despite her hoping that she would just be able to break through with this agreement allowing for the deadline for bracks it to be extended to me twenty seconds as was agreed 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 possibly hoping third time would be the lucky one she said that. this deal would avoid european elections it would avoid a cliff edge and avoid a long delay possibly destroying the idea of bragg's it all together still this apparently did not scare m.p.'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 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 looked at most certainly again here in west. minister at the same time as all of this political stalemate and chaos and crisis unravels within this government and the house of commons we have seen some reaction already from europe in terms of this latest vote donal to ask european council president has tweeted that he's calling a european council meeting to take place on april tenth and we know the euro commission they have said this previously that they are prepared for a new deal scenario already but all of them acknowledging that april twelfth is now the new march twenty ninth and if you remember this was meant to be the day for the

original breck's a deadline to take place and the situation of them a wall to mark the day that should have been one museum in southwest england decided to display a work by british street artist banksy one which more than ever perhaps captures the mood in the country. these are some of the thousands who turned out for the so-called march to leave demonstration outside parliament on friday afternoon and many are planned to come anyway to celebrate britain leaving the view but instead they were rallying to vent their anger over the country's faltering departure police had earlier warned of possible disorder of the protests but that didn't come to pass on t.v. sally has been meeting some of the people at the rally in parliament square. there are tens of thousands of people gathered here in this parliament square in central london many of them gathered here to make the point that leave means leave there is of course a big stage there showing videos and speeches on what was supposed to be briggs that day march the twenty ninth the day the u.k. was supposed to leave the e.u.

but of course that is now looking like it's going to be pushed back to april the twelfth at the earliest but this isn't the only stage here where the only protest it as a rival want just to this side being addressed by the far right leader tommy robinson and his protests very different you could say to this one here dressing many grievances that he seems to have with the major media and so on but it just goes to show that even within those who are calling for brags that there are divisions in the best way to approach that however one thing which we've been noticing we've been going round and talking to people is that the idea of a no deal brigs it over leaving one world trade organization rules is something that the people here at this protest are quite comfortable with. do you think the prime minister will be invited down for the time good. moments of my youth and what it would i want to know until i can revoke it today when i brought a well i mean this madness that's the route to us about this is not no do it's even

going to do you to your terms of true press that's what we voted for and we knew exactly what we were voting for in two thousand and sixteen so i think our chances are better spent elsewhere beyond the european union you know where we can engage in free trade arrangements for having speed confined to accost to suit the european commission today say that on twelve april the twelfth there will be a no deal is there something that you would say european commission one off thirty nine billion pounds they would do everything to keep pursuing this is not a deal worth it it's a very bad. start by the e.u. it's a bad deal we should. regard to your w t o terms normally parliament square is filled with the e.u. but of the e.u. flag but today it's a ton of those on the leaf side of the argument so make that try to follow this military style march taking place by union jacks on showed up the flag of the

united kingdom has many of these because thirds vote for a thing wishing to make the point that it's a day the day that should have been the day the u.k. government european union but they won't go protesting until they read about the objective. he's really in parliament square earlier in the last hour i got reaction from european law professor francesco retorts who claims that the claims to be prepared for a no deal breck set is only a facade when navigating unfold here nobody would have predicted what in goodness gracious just named as happened over the last two or three three months and certainly the last couple of weeks the deal has been voted down three times so whatever the reasons it's been voted down by most heartbreaks it is remain as in someone i think that in a democracy we have to accept that parliament has a right to vote in this motion to deal don't of course in our democracy we also have to accept the referendum happened in two thousand and sixteen and voted to

leave the european union the government clearly has not made a great deal of negotiation itself out of the meanness managed to alienate everybody i don't know why the european commission said well it looks like it's going to be no deal the reality is the brussels doesn't want to know the deal nobody wants a new deal allan doesn't want to no deal. breaks it. tore up the headline news the conclusion of the report by special counsel robert muller that there was no conspiracy between donald trump in the kremlin who are supposed to put the whole issue to bed during a question from u.s. democrats secretary of state mike compared surprisingly expanded his list of elections that russia apparently into faded all the way back to the george w. bush era has more not because they have. 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 the fishery russia gave collusion was a hook for the style if you only knew just how much conclusion there was in the past do you believe russia interfered with the twenty six thousand us 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 would get this compromised agents russian agent and country to miss the pompei oh i have evidence it's

so obvious if you think about it let's go back russia meddled and won me an election for barack obama how else could you explain the bomber's 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 eyes 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 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 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 a whole be of collecting and translating russian jew and then posting about it the story was an american in russian arguing about their two countries in the americas said look in my country i can walk into the oval office i can down the president's desk and say mr president i don't like the way you're running our country and the russian said i can do this i can go into the criminal to the general secretary's office pound is disconcerting mr general secretary i don't like the way president reagan is running used by the. 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. well joking apart for the past two years american mainstream media has given near nonstop coverage to the trump russia collusion saga

but although the t.v. ratings might have spiked after the twenty sixteen election and experiencing a significant drop after the long awaited report was released c.n.n. who is critical coverage of trump is often dismissed as fake news by the us president has seen a notable decline during the primetime hours likewise one of n.b.c. m s n.b.c.'s most popular anchors rachel maddow lost half a million viewers in one week that's about twenty percent of her audience or the trump friendly fox news channel has seen a jump of over a million viewers c.n.n. chief correspondent try to explain the trend saying there was just as much needed since the bombshell of findings were announced and in the u.s. congress it seems that some democrats are still not ready to throw in the towel on collusion. no thank you mr attorney general we do not need your interpretation shell less so unless cuba collapsed and we can draw our own conclusions my colleagues may think it's ok that the russians offered dirt. on a democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as the russian

government's effort to help the trump campaign you might think that's ok what would be the proper adjective shameful sad. irresponsible of the president of the united states and the republicans on the intelligence committee to take the actions that they have i think it's an ethical i think it's unpatriotic and yes i think it's corrupt. and evidence of collusion. ok let's bring in attorney michael patrick flanagan his presence of the lobbying firm flanagan consulting welcome back to out say so leading democrats don't seem convinced that we are the summary of the reports that there was no collusion you think when the full report comes out in a couple weeks from now they'll be satisfied that. dollar they'll never be satisfied the report was political from the beginning it was never about rule of law it was about political advantage they saw their political advantage of

apparation because they were sure that moeller who came in as a deep state guy who was surrounded by sixteen lawyers all over the hill or research or as you know most of them donors to her campaign many of them. had some function with her at one time or another in their past they were certain that this group of highly partisan investigators would come back with something anything and when they came back with nothing because there was just nothing defining what they're losing their minds and nancy pelosi was just her particularly hysterical considering this is the woman when we passed it was when the democratic the last time the democrats won a majority white. she passed the national health care presence on obamacare as it's come to be known and it was such an enormous document that it was passed at the last minute no one got a chance to read it and her famous quote at the time was well we have to pass it before we know what's in it and this is a similar size document and she's upset with mr barr for for giving the short

shrift to a big document in a short summary you know she's she's she's become older and more ridiculous as time has gone on it's about political advantage it's about winning elections it's about cold ing on to power and trashing anybody absolutely anybody to get it the democrats have demonstrated time and again and so are the elected democrats that they are perfectly happy in cobbling the foreign policy of the united states visa v. russia and those countries in russia's orbit so that nothing can be done in order to gain political advantage at home it's revolting it's disgusting and i'm glad it's about to stop the report puts an end to this we can move on and the president can enjoy hopefully a more robust and more healthy foreign policy involving the russian state and countries in that orbit but it doesn't put it to bed yet does it for sunday far as the democrats are concerned the chairman of the house intel committee adam schiff

said on c.n.n. that there is ample evidence of collusion but if that's true why was now unearthed by the minutes team. it's a great question and you got the quote just a tiny bit twisty if you'll forgive me he said there was ample evidence of collusion in the public domain which is to say i've been watching m.s.m. be seeing one thing day for two years and it's all there what do we need in a vest a geisha team for what do we need a special prosecutor for what do we need grand juries for we have rachel maddow now she told us that indictment by m.s.m. b.c. is what schiff is advocating here information in the public domain this poor man sounds a little bit dumber every day he can't possibly be as stupid as he sounds but he's quickly going into dumb as a bag of hammers land and i hope he finds his way back from it because he is he is in one indefensible position after another. there are still a number of ongoing investigations against trump and his business interests the

military it's led to three dozen also indictments isn't it still quite possible the prosecutors will find some evidence of wrongdoing it's out of overstating it to say that president from side of the woods on this. i don't think you're going to find any official misconduct by the president as candidate trump as president elect trump or as president trump entrepreneur trump ten years ago as as man afford has shown us that no one lives a perfect life and if we dissected anyone's life i'm sure we could find problems in anyone's world and if we're going to go back ten twenty years in and sift through his existence i imagine you're going to find all kinds of things you'd find them in anybody i shudder to think of the things that you'd find in the most downright forthright upright folks we have in public life today if you really go to the level of microscopic examination that motor has gone to and others they're determined to

find something they want his tax reports because they want to look at his business dealings they want to look at his is real estate dealers they want to pull of a part in some form or fashion moeller puts paid to official misconduct it's over it's done let's move on and let's find a way to function in the nation and hopefully together but at least function in a healthy thoughtful way that the report didn't say with a trump was guilty of obstruction of justice but is it possible the democrats in the house might still conclude that he tried to obstruct the investigation and still push for impeachment. it's possible there was struction is in the eye of the beholder and this is why muller punted on the issue he could have said that there was no and obstruction but he didn't he left it to the attorney general to make that assertion the official statement of whether or not there was a. struction of justice is a matter of law for the a czerny general to say the attorney general has said so

therefore whatever characteristic the democrats wish to apply to the set of facts or that set of facts or however contorted way they want to read it and therefore scream it's obstruction it's not because the attorney general says it's not and that's an end to it. in washington michael patrick flanagan thanks for joining us on r.t. . x. the german rock band ramstein has come into the firing line of the jewish community over the video for the group's new single it looks at germany's past present and future but it's the pot depicting the holocaust that strong major backlash described by some as frivolous and irresponsible. titled deutschland the nine minute video shows defining historical moments like the

formation of the weimar republic and formation of the nazi party the lyrics are said to show the band struggled with that german identity saying we quote want to love and damn you some within the jewish community say it's outrageous while the israeli foreign ministry is insisting the clip should be deleted. this from stein cliff using the whole coast for advertisement purposes is shameful and uncalled for we joined the many voices calling for his immediate removal of the band and its record label yet to respond to the criticism daniel hawkins discussed the reaction to ramstein new video with independent journalist new group and historian efraim zuroff. practive the matter is that they did what they did it's out the 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. in favor of freedom of expression refried of expression 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. follows of brands like this among them are many of the people in the neo nazi movement in germany 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 the bed taste of the rock'n'roll scene and i think there is nothing much to do because if you intervene if you take them to court they will make something porous after there was a. and clip done by a polish artist in which he had. a good actor is filmed playing tag in a gas chamber. this this clip was banned in germany ok but for some odd reason totally income prehensile to me this was shown in the cracker museum of my not i simply want to try to defend what i'm stein in this case because it is not that bad i think of course it's not brilliant i don't proof i

think it's for i'm not a fan but ok that's the way to use in our permissive society. south africa's human rights commission has ignited debate in the country over where the boundaries of free speech lie it's after rule that of string of racially charged remarks by a controversial left wing politician did not amount to hate speech among other things julius malema has said that he wasn't quote calling for the slaughter of white people yet. came to the conclusion that while the ex forming the subject of these complaints may be quite of. the do not meet the legal threshold to qualify is hate speech julius malema is the leader of the economic freedom fighters party which argues that black south africans continue to face systematic discrimination he was previously convicted of hate speech in two thousand and ten and twenty eleven and subsequently expelled from the ruling african national congress party here's some of the statements that critics have claimed amount to incitement to violence against white people. why do you want to

tell. me why not go out there might be why don't you do you know what. i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing off way people at least for now i can go 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. and while the commentators we spoke to agree that malema is words are reprehensible they ultimately had mixed feelings about the commission's ruling. 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 certainly from

many legal people and people around issues of human rights to say i mean these type of statements all aboard even though the south african human rights commission didn't find that constitutes hate speech but they did find it very offensive you have to ask yourself the question in the south african context so it's not hate speech but is offensive and offensive for lol i think is is a very of things of term to try to internalize even though mr malema claims not to have called for things like genocide and what have you his comments have still been quite extreme he has specifically said that he is not yet calling for the slaughter of all white people if someone on the right wing were to say something like this about black people he would be sent to jail possibly for the comments that he's made we've seen examples of this i am baffled as to why they came to this conclusion either it is because they politically sympathize with mr malema or they

are afraid of him because they know that his. political party continues to grow in popularity and they worry that they will be on the wrong side of mr malema should he ever gain more power. the chinese foreign ministry has dismissed the allegation that beijing poses a threat to the united states has a cliché it's after it was announced that a cold war era advisory body was being revived to focus on china the group said today to tackle the full array of conventional or 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 operation and many of those employees operations are designed to have psychological effects on us the russian charges of political meddling or especially ridiculous when one

considers the a rate of threats posed by the people's republic of china the committee on the present danger was first set up in the early one nine hundred fifty s. when tasked with countering communist influence in the u.s. it resurfaced twenty years later to once again challenge the soviet union during the cold war the major threat named by the first committee was the so-called aggressive designs of the soviet union to counter this year with. the us was asked to show greater commitment the committee also condemned the spread of communism in the korean peninsula and the potential involvement of china. and today the committee claimed beijing represents the greatest threat facing america asia affairs specialist and really i'm told us that the ongoing trade war is part of a multifaceted approach to weaken china. trade more but it's only. six that. the united states against china australia is. also there are some.

excess. production of election but also. off by it and that was the. i think. question our special. or you can be all and also the kind of military. on a seat so i think that even though there was a deal on the trade. and i are up today thanks for watching i'll have you next on he will he was off to cross to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

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