week's top stories. left in limbo as the original pass is. complete vindication after. evidence of collusion with russia in the twenty sixteen presidential election. and the. president is heading for a runoff.

bringing you the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days and also the weekend's developments as well when you back to friday first of all though which was supposed to go down in history as the day that britain finally divorced from the european union. turned on its head after to reason with. a third defeat. looks back over the stuttering. finally the date is here march twenty ninth twenty nineteen and the 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 for the 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 what do you think the days 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 as opposed to the french and you know i think here 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. that's got the whole idea of your friday night yeah i'm tripos with to leave the european union whether agree with the enormous that or 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 the deadline of the final chapter now postponed due to chaos how this all plays out is only yet to be figured out reporting from london and stacy churkin 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 the controversial work by the celebrated british street artist shows with a bit of monkeying around in the commons chamber whether it's fair comment or not we give more we've had this past week we'll leave it for you to decide on that while behind me are some of the thousands who turned out for the so-called march to

leave demonstration outside parliament on friday afternoon many had planned to come along anyway to celebrate britain's leaving the e.u. but instead they were rallying to vent their anger over the country's faltering departure police arrested five people at those demonstrations. i was through i thought it was odd was. i. i can you revoke it today when i brought it over i mean that's madness that's the route to us about this it's not no do it's even going to do you to go to a true prison that's what we voted for and we knew exactly what we were voting for in two thousand and sixty 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 speed confined to a cost to serious european commission one hundred thirty nine billion pounds they

would do everything to keep us in this is not a deal worth it it's a very bad. start 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 the reason may's days as leader numbered. was who's very vulnerable she's already said she's going to go. nearly everyone is. get to read it she predicted in the near future she said she would go morris immediately if a deal will pass with two wars and she's still raw but she's lost all real authority. with yours in the common in control what happens in the house of commons she can't control her own cabinet members who is just way inverted please so really it's a lame duck prime minister however. you know she's. could remain until december but that depends where the cabinet get together decide to tell her

to go all together or despite another stinging defeat to reason may hope to bring her deal to parliament for a fourth attempt that vote might happen within the next twenty four hours and it'll likely to take not only the future of bracks it but also the prime ministers as well and our team will be across it. he. breaks it countdown on our. two years of investigation and one key 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 that's led 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 pompei or claimed on wednesday that russia has interfered in every u.s.

presidential vote since twenty fourteen story since two thousand and four even longer ago more on that now for more against 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 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 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 one year election for barack obama 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 eyes and look the man in the eye. was able to. in the 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 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 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. 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. broke with fifty years of us foreign policy on monday by. i formally recognizing the occupied golan heights is sovereign israeli territory the controversial announcement was made during a meeting with israel's prime minister who lauded the decision. the presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereign right over the golan heights. as president ladies and gentlemen this is. surely you know storing. your population comes at a time with the golan 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 but also borders jordan and lebanon was seized by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and formally and acts in one thousand nine hundred one in a move that was never accepted by the international community. the

signing triggered a wave of protests across syria on tuesday including and aleppo and damascus the country's two largest cities the government described the movers a blatant attack on the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity it also drew the ire of u.n. security council members even washington's closest allies have in fact actually rejected the decision saying it sets a dangerous precedent. this decision as of credit critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel the decision by the united states to recognize

israeli seventy 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 would lead to instability in the region trumpeted in this tradition apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs they go on to hide either it will always be either sovereign territory this is their plate or many other it has taken before shoulder their willingness of the united states to honor reality on the ground. we asked israeli scholar mordechai kadar de vasselot of journalist my grabbing for their views on the move. is a couple of things you say one that that just said really changes president anyone any country can take another land by force but it's also i can trump look very or

solution is to use only zones here really this is israel and one or two other countries in the u.s. of course all the nonaligned movement countries have rejected this this move as has the use for instance as well as the people of golan the thousands of people from the druze of syrian troops have had no say on this matter to them so they have now is still living on occupied territory which is now been recognized by the most imperialist power on the planet we are only been in control of the golan heights for fifty two 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 bitterns and everybody else josel it was also not recognized as the easily copied so what was our the jewish people. all of these for more than fleas thousand years so what do we need this is

a commission of the world still to come after the break yellow vest protesters rally for a twenty fifth consecutive weekend in france and life appears to be imitating art for the front runner in ukraine's presidential race the details. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. to say proud just being become educated and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she's to look for common ground.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to be right to be close this is what the four three in the morning can people get. interested always in the water. welcome back counting is underway and ukraine's presidential election exit poll suggests voters send president into second place setting him on course for a runoff battle with a t.v. comedian with no political experience i discussed the polls earlier with i was of

political talk show worlds apart. that's a pretty interesting picture 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 which. the 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 i mean that would that's 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 top five years ago he won the elections in the first round five years ago with i think fifty three percent of the vote and now 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 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. maybe in consultations with the. former prime minister who tried for the third time to get into presidency a third term 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 would be quite a combination. mr poroshenko the photon is what about the process itself was polling day gone well there have been some reports of irregularities nothing really criminal even though there have been i think nineteen criminal cases open but nothing that would call. both into question i have to say that outside the regulated regularities there has been quite a few of noble teas in the during this election process the candidates really push the electoral law to the limits of what they can say beyond that because for example saturday was supposed to be a day of silence with all containing 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 lenski 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 the series for the whole day so it was from the morning till be to remaining his face on the screens on these suppose it's. the twentieth consecutive week and yellow vest protesters in front of rallied against the government recent measures to ban protests in specific areas of the capital. and in other major cities have apparently had little effect officials claim around thirty thousand protesters turned out nationwide organizers put the figure of over one hundred there were clashes with police and tear gas was used to disperse some of the rallies dozens of arrests were made in paris while it's also broke out in the southeastern city of avignon.

some of the protesters why despite dialogue and some concessions there's 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 with petrol prices or on democracy or climate change policy. that i visited at the vessel and we want to decrease in the value added tax necessities like food so people could have higher purchasing power so both distributions and equal justice. we are here every saturday we will be here until the end. and as well

a top several of our bulletins throughout the wake of the russian military planes touch down there with around one hundred troops according to moscow their presence in the country is allowed under an agreement struck almost eighteen years ago with caracas but that didn't satisfy washington president trump another u.s. officials say russia should leave venezuela or face the consequences. for russia to get out. or see we'll see we'll see all options are out. just so you understand all options are off. serious loss than the people whose ears ring the russians the supporters just brought to term to keep them in a zone people from hearing in through president maduro calls for hands off venezuela while he invites security forces from cuba and russia so he and his cronies can keep plundering venezuela it is time for venezuelan institutions to stand for their sovereignty russia and cuba hands off and as well supporters of

venezuelan president nicolas maduro and opposition leader held rival rallies on saturday in the capital caracas the south american country experiencing a series of nationwide blackouts which have had water transportation and telecommunications services a spokesman for the red cross says the power outages are a primary cause for concern and aggravate the humanitarian situation in the country . it's interesting that it's. going to loosen the few votes in the. last few days when each point i mean and forward it goes with your money. for the international federation of red cross and i mean for some of our we want and swearing also to go simply unique sort of problem for us to only to imagine that we could and we could probably really crazy for instance also a little more you know there's a pretty good easy these means that you know the associate ignore the ozzies for

instance just you exhibited enormous you were quite aware there are problem of one tradition there over clean water but we decided to focus our circles on it because we're quite comfortable it's i mean it's our it's. where we know how we are and also because it was only recently in a sort of regret so i don't know the moment where it was because it or the getting to be nice only for you and he is where we are working. and just got time to tell you that a light aircraft has crashed near frankfurt in central germany killing all three people on board including the cohen of one of russia's biggest airlines seven airlines confirms that flair for was on board the single engine six seater aircraft which came down around twenty two kilometers south of frankfurt earlier on sunday the plaited earlier taken off from cannes in the south of france it's not yet known how the flight got into difficulty adding to that tragedy nearby two people died after their car was hit head on by a police vehicle that was responding to the crash. and that's all for this

edition of the week and your next update from me on the moscow news team is in just over half an hour i hope to see that. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. saying the numbers mean something they've mattered the u.s.

is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich eight point six percent world market rose thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overrule. the only number you need to remember in one one business show you know bored to miss the one and only boom boom. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development the only place really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be

successful very kate. when the right to protect. you.

the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. within a decade my country was ruined. it lost

a quarter of its manufacturing. a million people emigrated and public debt kept rising. in twenty fifteen a government claiming to be left wing promised it was an end. however it agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mass privatisation . motors on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on death row . in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

that some. of. us. love the supporting cast we see just to live up able to see if it is going up and up and would send them off the busy. on another human as well again a good moment though. when a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.