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is the last sunday on that means bringing you the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days and also the weekend developments. back to friday first of all though it was supposed to go down in history as the day that britain finally divorced from the european union that's been turned on its head with drawn agreement to suffered a defeat. a look back over the u.k.'s stuttering. finally the date is here march twenty ninth twenty nineteen and 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 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 what do you think the days going to be remembered by now how we didn't leave here. today we were supposed to leave in the european union but we're not. personally as opposed to the french and you know i think this is more it is a day i don't think we should blame twenty ninth for the mess that we've made of bricks march twenty. first got the whole idea of the nine am tree voted to leave

the european union whether agree with the north most with our crossfire 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 the deadline of the final child. now postponed due to chaos how this all plays out is only yet to be figured out reporting from london and as they see with r.t. meanwhile to mark the day that should have been a museum in southwest england decided to bring out this banksy classic for public display controversial work by the celebrated british street artist showing some monkeying around in the house of commons chamber for a comment or not will leave you to the side only. here are some the thousands who turned out for the so-called march to leave demonstration outside parliament on friday off the day now many a plan to go anyway to celebrate arrested five people at the demonstrations. and i

want you i am or are you are are are are are are. i. i. i can your of to day when i brought it over and this madness to us about this it's not no do it's even going to do you cheer terms true. 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 without having speak and for whom to keep us in this is not a deal worth it it's a very bad deal. being stitched up by the e.u. it's a bad deal we should leave without it do you want w t o terms international relations professor alan scared says to reason may's days as leader are numbered. well she's

very vulnerable she's already said she's going to go. nearly everyone is expecting it to lead if you predict it in the near future and she said she would go more or less agreed to be if a deal were possible in which it was and so that she still arrives but she's lost all real authority. and legitimacy in the coleman and she can control what happens in the house of commons she can control her own cabinet members of hoops just go their own way and vote it's a please see that she really is a lame duck prime minister however. you know she's there now and she could remain there until december but that depends where the cabinet get together decide to tell her to go all together offer of a stinging defeat to resume a hope to bring her deal to parliament for a fourth attempt not vote if i happen in the next twenty four hours also unlikely to take on in the future but also the p.m.'s future as well whatever happens he's

got you covered. breaks it on are. two years of investigation and one k. revelation donald trump did not collude with russia in the twenty sixteen election the four page summary of special counsel robert miller's report says that no further indictments will be made and let the president to claim total exoneration despite that though the report does maintain that the kremlin carried out cyber activities aimed at influencing the election but according to the u.s. secretary of state that's not the full extent of moscow's meddling in american affairs my pump claimed on wednesday that russia has interfered in every u.s. presidential vote since two thousand and four is more i guess the. 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 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 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 bombers little microphone

slip where he was caught red handed reporting to putin. 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 look the man in the eye. was able to. do. 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 jokes and then posting about it the story was an american in a russian arguing about the 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 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. 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 the 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 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. accountings underway in ukraine's presidential election where voting ended a couple of hours ago exit polls suggest the voters sent president poroshenko into second place setting him on course for a runoff battle with a t.v. comedian with no political experience i discussed the exit polls earlier with a host of artes political talk show worlds apart on a boy. that's

a pretty intriguing picture of bret many would say that it was kind of expected that the fact that the incumbent president according to exit polls a number of exit polls i have to say managed to get around seventeen eighteen percent of the vote many people would say that that's quite a victory for patrol poroshenko because only a few weeks ago he was facing approval ratings in single digits he managed to grow it quite a bit to around sixteen seventeen seventeen percent which is not very impressive but still it was enough to get into according to exit polls to get into the runoff reach. this stage for a pretty interesting second round. to say that it's a success to be this far short of the fifty percent mark to avoid a runoff but that's you know that's what the ukrainian politics is like it's like a pendulum i mean we have had many many examples in history of one a president would secure a major victory like the five years ago he while he is struggling to get into the

second term and that happened to many of his predecessors as well so that's pretty normal for ukraine and what's his second round going to look like because it's not like he's up against an established politician here this is somebody who didn't even have any policies well we don't even know whether he is against one politician or several of them because there have been some speculations that lansky may be in consultations with the third. former prime minister who's tried for the third time to get into presidency a third time wasn't doesn't seem like lucky for her but if she joins forces with. it's going to be a very very interesting combination because. he has a lot of support among younger voters many of them deciding in the east of the country she's polling well with the older electorate so that will be quite a combination of mr poroshenko the photon is what about the process itself how is polling day gone why. well there have been some reports of irregularities in the

last thing really criminal even though there have been i think nine thousand criminal cases opened but nothing that would call the whole boat into question i have to say that outside the regulator regularities there has been quite a few of novelties in the during this election process the candidates really pushed the electoral law to the limit and i would say beyond that because for example saturday was supposed to be a day of silence with all complaining supposed to be suspended but it began with the incumbent president taking part in the widely televised prayer praying for the wisdom of the ukrainian people believe it or not he is main contender is a lansky who as you mentioned is most famous for his part in the t.v. series now the channel that where she actually has a contract with decided to run those series for the whole day so it was from the

morning till the to be evening he's face on the screens on these suppose that silence they say let's talk about some of coleman who's director of the crisis research institute in oxford walkabouts who are. a lot of the landscape was always tipped to be a front runner in this poll are you surprised that he's come this far ahead of petro poroshenko though. not really in some ways mr porson because we've just heard improved his ratings from the completely disastrous to the merely paul that said in a run off the sitting president and only a few of them twenty percent of people have decided to vote in the first round is unclear where you're going to get a little thirty percent of people to come from because after all they have experience of your rule whereas his rival of course has a great benefit of being completely unknown figure in terms of politics although of course universally you know because to lucian appearances and in that sense his role the trump. he's an anti-establishment candidate he's

a universally known person because of television appearances but he doesn't have a political recalled that you compassion with i was this selection being viewed west of ukraine by both politicians and the public hasn't even had any public resonance. i think probably the public because mostly there has been a serious fighting in in the southeast of ukraine now for several years is largely ignorant of what's going on in ukraine in western europe and in much of europe but of course the political class is very concerned about it and in a sense that's what they're worried about. who's going to win because portion co has made himself very well known through nato and the brussels he has tried to steer ukraine both into an association agreement with the you but also had close military arrangements with nato and the unknown quantity that he's likely to face in the second round and if. it was to be elected then you have the problem what would his policy be and for instance he's been talking in contrast to mr poroshenko

emphasizes international relations or about his prime focus is going to be on the well being of ukrainians i'm like if elected president his first act will not be to visit brussels to visit the ukrainian people where they live in the regions of ukraine now this is a sort of populous message but it's also rings alarm bells in washington and brussels because it makes people wonder will he prioritize a western orientation for ukraine if he becomes president or will he be able to find some better mode of relations with moscow and of course the third place candidate yulia tymoshenko has also been talking that way hinting in that way i should say i just want to ask you about that because unlike previous ukrainian elections where there had been foreign influences influential figures brought in from abroad to help in the campaign it hasn't really been that much of that this time around has there been more support for one particular candidate especially in the u.s. . well i think we can see the. the international republican institute serves

who include the widow of the late senator mccain who was very much a prominent supporter a portion of her before his death had been giving a very positive coverage and emphasizing the desire for a western or interrogation of ukraine into nato and to the e.u. but i think also perhaps wiser heads a portion coup doesn't want to be tainted with being associated with foreign influences because a lot of his domestic unpopularity comes from people who say you're doing what the international monetary fund wants to do more european union ones we're getting poorer and that has been i think one of the core problems for his reelection campaign it's very difficult so after five years are you better off under my rule or not because most ukrainians are not ok as i always appreciate your expertise on my part of the world and director of the crisis recess institute in oxford thanks very much. still to come after the break round twenty of the yellow best movement in france and a bold admission from donald trump all that i'm more just ninety seconds away.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. what politicians to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. it's a going to be close it's like the full three of them all can't be that. interested

in the waters of. the city. back to the weekly double trump broke with fifty years of u.s. foreign policy on monday by formally recognizing the occupied golan heights suffered in israeli territory the controversial announcement was made during a meeting with israel's prime minister who told at the decision. a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereign right over the golan heights. its president ladies and gentlemen this is. surely you know storing. your proclamation comes at a time with a girl alone is more important than ever for security when iran is trying to

establish bases in syria to strike it israel the strategic territory which belongs to syria and also borders jordan and lebanon was seized by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and then formally annexed in one thousand nine hundred one the move was never accepted by the international community. and the signing triggered a wave of protests across syria on tuesday including in aleppo and damascus the country's two largest cities the government there described the move as

a blatant attack on the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity and also drew the ire of the u.n. security council some of the members there even washington's close allies emphatically rejecting the decision saying that it sets a dangerous precedent this decision is of critical critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel the decision by the united states to recognize these really substantive over the golan heights is in contravention of security council resolution four nine seven. we are concerned that this unilateral decision not only complicates the prospect of finding a comprehensive settlement in the middle east is that would lead to instability in the region i'm a trumpet in the street apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs the golan heights either it will always be either or sovereign territory this is their plate many others it has taken before all showed their willingness of the united states

to honor reality on the ground and we asked israeli scholar mordechai kadar and investigative journalist my grabbing for their views on the move. there's a couple of dangers here one that that does set really dangerous precedent to anyone any country can take another. land by force but it's also i can trump look very all solution is to use only zones here really this is israel in one or two other countries in the us of course but all the nonaligned movement countries have rejected this this move as has the e.u. for instance as well as the people of poland thousands of people from the druze of syrian troops have had no say on this matter through time so they're now still living on occupied territory which is now been recognized by the most imperialist power on the planet we are all within in control of the golan heights for fifty to use the golan heights is actually a heaven on earth unlike the rest of syria which became where is there

is some kind of a good thing for the existence and everybody else josel it was also not recognized as the israeli capital so what was our the jewish people. all it did for more than flee thousand years so what do we need this mission of the world. for the twentieth consecutive weekend yellow vest protesters in france have rallied against the government recent measures to ban protests in specific areas of the french capital like the iconic show and in other major cities have apparently had little effect officials claim around thirty thousand protesters turned out nationwide well organized has put the figure of more than one hundred thousand clashes with police take aspers used to disperse some of the rallies dozens of arrests were made in paris violence also broke out in the southeastern city of opinion.

we are some of the protesters why despite dialogue and some concessions they're still furious with the government. if we have to express our discontent especially about the purchasing power of retired people which is unacceptable. to the stories they haven't got any help with our salaries this patrol crisis or on democracy or climate change policy it's. that close to that that they did at their best and we want a decrease in the value added tax in necessities like food so people could have higher purchasing power so both distributions an equal justice.

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on the shoulder and i said how bad is it and i got a laugh my brains pouring out and he said no you've got smarts you've got sprucing you've got some issues but your brains are intact. the budget released the board has conducted a comprehensive internal investigation into the officer involved shooting of dawn tre hamilton at red arrow park on april thirtieth two thousand and fourteen based on the car.