give me a trial. in the senate. hearings reached critical stage. public hearings. using police resources to create fake child porn videos on the dark web. poses a curfew and the. government protests on a deadly car bombing. this

hour welcome to. my names you know. he wants a trial for the u.s. house of representatives move to formally take the impeachment inquiry to the next level the president laid into rival democrats after a week of testimony which he described as a hoax they looked like fools proceedings now had to the republican controlled senate son mr trump says the whole affair has actually united his party behind. we had a tremendous week with the whole you know the great hoax the growth the impeachment hopes and that's really worked out. incredibly well and we have tremendous support i think roger's around here is known for his i don't think i've ever seen support in the republican party like we do right now we've never had this going to support you. judiciary committee chairman hit by

a republican claims the testimonies have been hearsay. democrat adam schiff also didn't rule totaling more public hearings says poll begins to draft its inquiry report but they are run the clock news coverage is falling flat with a lot of audiences. has been sharing her emotions when it comes to the impeachment to. come talk to what a year it's been and has not felt like it's just been dragging on and everyone i speak to says the same thing that that confused and anxious for the democrats to stress because they've been struggling to find a single candidate who can take on trump and 2020 and the best they've come up with is a man whose payday it was when he posed in a short sleeved button down more than 40 years ago then you've got the republicans that just riddled with anxiety they keep checks in a nutshell not phone just praying that lead to hasn't gone on a twitter wrong page all put economy in

a choke hold and then of course that the fending off attacks from the democrats left right and center you always told me doc it's bad to keep things bottled up inside and ready politicians that just like os they need that stress relief to. so the people on the hell have signed up to a group therapy session and it's a classic safe space where everyone supports one another and to see going over old ground no other president has betrayed his office like this because the president got caught the president in fact tried to trade a political favor for official government resources now this anti corruption president who cares so much about rooting out corruption and ukraine putin's primary objectives within the united states is to so as to foment unrest for their nation would you agree with me that r.t.d. is putin's propaganda machine here in the united states i would agree with honestly it's been a huge and that down it's

a bit like you and me really i mean i come every we hope he'll kill me even though i know it's hopeless but we're in so deep we just have to keep going but at least i have the decency to eat pretend i'm interested in what you have to say. even the democrats who have the most to gain from the session are suffering from what i've diagnosed as impeachment i just think we're going down this road keep spending more time hundreds of years of history no one has ever been convicted of impeachment and it's not just the people who've been sitting through the herrings that are bored it's the ordinary voter to massacre mr morris and i have some bad news for you t.v.

ratings are way down where you go i don't hold it personally i don't think it's you guys. or whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up here on the us people are buying you might not remember how it will start to dr joe biden was just being helpful father lending a hand in getting hunter setup in a good job been trumped he was just a concerned president worried that hunter biden sitting on a board of a need to ukrainian dance company while his father was the country's point man was a conflict of interest so best saying he not just ukrainian president to look into the matter may be used as a bargaining chip that $400000000.00 of aid the us have promised which reminds me even ukraine's tired of this whole impeachment saga i think everybody really is the . reason we're here although i was on the street we have all the independence we

have all the rovers and grace that is on the i've got bad news it looks like we might be stuck in this therapy session for a while because to put it simply even if the house of representatives dominated by the democrats votes to endorse trump's impeachment it still has to pass the upper house the senate and there are rumors that the republicans won't just unanimously vote to quickly dismiss the charges but what actually get embroiled in the long trial a trial that could be 6 days a week every week. until an agreement is reached the only person who is apparently not too down in the doldrums about that is trump don't know why one of the 1st orders because frankly i want to throw you know i can think i could have it you want to try whatever i want oh i wouldn't. you know one they should never ever impeach them i think about one of this the more i realize just like our

sessions it's it's a whole lot of money a whole lot of time and it leaves a whole lot of no while. the college well us democratic presidential hopeful. being the butt of some cutting remarks from the new york times for her choice of clothing the paper reports that her white suits are more cult leader than could tour. it has been at asians have refrained from. the white suits are of somewhat converts of righteousness also cult leaders. and.

only near liberals move them wear white suits apparently. that is the most ridiculous supposed to be article of. newspapers only as many of the content that we do. tulsi she challenges the democratic establishment she is not supportive of regime change and less war all the money the military is spending often needlessly so she's somebody that really calls that out and i think the democratic establishment you know really is like how dare she do that and they come after her so and they come after her in ways as frivolous as this you know. to say that like her white pantsuit makes her a sort of like you know a cult leader and she's on the fringe and a complete radical and that's really unfair to her it's an unfair characterization

. germany wants to double dog and on catching pedophiles online but a new tactic to infiltrate the so-called dark web will see it enter some ethically suspect territory by creating fake child pornography investigators will be able to use computer generated images in the future if crimes cannot be detected another way we are now laying the legal foundations and we must never forget that behind child pornography images a terrible acts of abuse against children the authorities say investigators will be given all means available to try to end sex offenders but it is proving divisive supporters of the strategy insist that will help kill off the so-called dark net of illegal websites all opponents argue that crimes cannot be solved by creating new crimes. well roger kiska from the u.k.'s

christian legal center to list that evidence gathered in such a way could potentially prove it adequate in court and you look at the crime shows on t.v. and they have solicitation of prostitution or or pull undercover policeman doing. selling drugs those are incidences where they're not committing crimes now generating child pornography certainly is so whether they're creating a crime or not is one question to me the bigger question is the issue of whether you can convict someone based on evidence that was gathered through criminal activity and i think that this might backfire on them by catching people not having to release them because of tarnished evidence the internet watch foundation report on child sexual abuse imagery fund that europe is the world's worst when it comes to online child pornography the continent hosts are on 2 thirds of all confirmed cases with the netherlands having the most over fender's political commentator under walker and former british police officer peter kirk and share their views

with us. it would oversee have to be used very carefully and will be used sparingly . there are various things that could be done to minimize the risk of it being spread further but if the aim is to close down and arrest all those using the particular platform or chat room that you're gaining access to then in a way it's sort of self destructs to a certain extent anyway in the united kingdom these sorts of images and videos would be illegal and the reason that they're illegal is not because there's a victim of them because clearly there isn't it in a simulated image but what there it what it has the potential to do is to excite offenders and what we don't want to do is have a government in your up producing material that can potentially excite people into offending in real life or outside the virtual world can understand the view but the amounts of child sexual imagery that. is absolutely enormous

anything added by the german police would be an absolute drop in the ocean i also think there's another more general concern about the issue of entrapment we have as a society have to protect our society from police going too far and i think that these potentially is a bridge too far this wouldn't be entrapment and entrapment is unlawful it would be a means of getting into a closed close space for a very long time in the u.k. the police have used informants who have participated in the commission of crimes in a minor role classically the getaway driver. in a bank robbery. would be able to pay off or oysters a surprising informant in the crime i think the significant concern is that people who starts on child pornography will begin offending against children in real life it's hard to imagine anybody saying i've only willing to consume fake child

pornography i should majed you. i just don't see that everybody would would delineates in that way if they were a sex offender and i think putting more material onto a dark web seems instinctively to me to be making the problem potentially far worse policing in these sorts of areas is a dirty business and sometimes you have to get your hands dirty to a certain extent to take out the really bad players. to another over a headline stories to buy a car bombs going off inside a police station in south west columbia killing 3 officers and injuring a further 10 it happened in the town of suntanned or to kill each other oh the kid is about 500 kilometers from the capital it is a known spot for violence local newspapers reported that the explosion caused the major blackout police have not yet spoken on who is responsible for the it. colombia has already been injuring widespread anti-government protests the murder

of the capital bucket doesn't pose the citywide curfew to try and keep the renewed wave of demonstrations are made to those lead to clashes with police. i was. i. was. protests erupted on thursday as follows ins turned against presidency found to a place to use tear gas and water kellen demonstrators threw rocks there demanding better living conditions tax and pension reforms moves to tackle government corruption but leaders say there are no plans to change course parties nicolas sanchez a donovan reports now from the colombian capital. where the day the historic national antigovernment strike has shown us the consequences both

politically and on the streets here we can see some of the damage as many others this. was completely vandalized destroyed by protesters we can see what they used not only to destroy this bus stop but right here they were throwing these rocks at police that. with tear gas with water cannons and rubber bullets. i. was i was. i i i was but mainly it was a peaceful protest and it was a massive protest as well over 200000. marched nationwide

protest in and it demanded more infrastructure and more money for education with the students but then you have the. indigenous leaders say they fight in social justice in rural areas so that's a different front and then you have the unions they fight in so that the government doesn't implement the tax reforms that they trying to implement and more importantly they don't touch so that the government doesn't touch the pension system so they see different fronts and now it's going to be very interesting to see how the government addresses all of those different fronts it's going to be very difficult for the government to try and address all of those once. that list such as o'donovan still ahead in the program testing times at tesla as the electric vehicle makers on break a whole new cyber truck fails to live up to its name that's just some of what we've got lined up for you this.

yes a few 500 high transparency has been obliterated all sound accounting has been obliterated all economic policy that is tied to any economic school that makes any economic sense has been ignored and obliterated the rule of law has been obliterated everything having to do with the sound society is being ignored to get . to a higher level and getting higher level but at what cost. would . you put them so long. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want. to go on the

press which is what. 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the war. minutes past the hour welcome russia's beano a climbing its security concern over just military alliance with the united states foreign minister sergei lavrov spoke at a news conference following the latest g. 20 foreign ministers meeting if a tranquil reports. we're at the gathering of the g. 20 foreign ministers in japan but actually we are inside a hotel every once in a while down the corridor there you can see right behind me foreign ministers of the most influential countries around the world walked past us and the bilateral

meetings happened in rooms just like the one that i'm in right now and some of them have been scheduled long before like the talks between the new japanese foreign minister and mr lavrov here's what the russian top diplomat said after he met his japanese colleague look at the showing you see this in its relations with japan washington doesn't shy away from saying that russia and china what was the main threat for tokyo and that all their military alliances will be based on countering those threats of course we've discussed the matter with the japanese foreign minister because that goes against what tokyo says that is that their military and political alliance with washington is not directed against russia on the other hand another meeting that came out as a real surprise was between the russian top diplomat and also the incoming u.s. ambassador to russia who is currently at the deputy secretary of state and here's what we heard from sergey lavrov about that meeting. we talked about how we

should resolve numerous problems in our relations taken that john sullivan head of the american delegation during negotiations on strategic cooperation with russia that was a useful conversation despite the fact that of course washington's behavior in the asia pacific region is not officially on the g 20 agenda here in japan sergey lavrov told journalists that russia did bring this issue up a few times during his meetings with the other foreign ministers here in the. little slips in the new arms race isn't on the g 20 agenda although the country organizing it could offer to at any issue during the talks i'm sure. the meetings between foreign ministers these questions are important for our dialogue with the united states europe and countries in the asia pacific region especially after washington killed off the intermediate range nuclear forces. going back to the building of surrogate new friendship with the new japanese foreign minister mr.

he's expected to come to moscow before the end of this year i mean we have to try and go in japan. back to the middle east were like clashes in the iraqi capital between anti-government demonstrators and security officers were dead at least 60 wounded it follows thursday's bloodshed in which saw 8 people killed the protests erupted at the start of a told with government corruption mussulman ploy meant on failing public services. for its supporters of spain's right wing. movement through the capital to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the death of spanish profile leader jose antonio primo the rivera protesters chanted slogans in support of spanish unity polish politician to refer it was executed touring the country civil war in 1906. blanketed pakistan 2nd largest city forcing schools and colleges to shut done for

at least 3 days the international has issued a warning over the worst thing or equality in lahore stressing that every resident in the cities at risk thick fog descends on the city every december but the problem has grown worse and occurred earlier in recent years due to high levels of pollution. now to a story that's got a lot of people talking today at electric vehicle maker test for pushing the boundaries and eco transport but they showcase launch of its futuristic new cyber truck proved to be well exactly the smush it for meto. sure yeah. well.

maybe that was a little too hard. to go through also taking a big hand after launch tesla c.e.o. we all must personal net worth it plunged by $768000000.00 the firm share price also dive 6 percent in one day all the internet's already revved up to me machines comparing this whole cyber truck to the time traveling de lorean from back to the future to a physical metaphor from musk's and doris mn to spalding its own county resemblance to old school video games well must get better on twitter that they've got some improvements to make before going into production and post the video to prove the steel ball stunt gone well in rehearsal. well it's not only the windows that don't make the cut a tesla car owner in europe learn the hard way but the very heart of the vehicle is

the batteries underneath had previously thought. if it is from the us and i enjoyed every minute of driving this car from the 1st to the last it's amazing to drive an electric car when it catches fire 10 seconds after a collision and just 60 kilometers an hour and you're happy that a passer by saved you from death i'm disappointed with. the price. lithium is used in the battery cells of electric cars the same that are used for mobile phones and cordless drills if it ignites the fire cannot be extinguished with water it continues to burn it simply provides itself with oxygen from the water it burns until it burns out completely.

the towing company said it was in a vicious circle as nobody would agree to take the car tesla had a company that was supposed to dispose of broken cars all rather their batteries but this company told me that they've still not received permission from the ministry because apparently my testimony in the 1st fully electric car in austria which needed to be disposed of. i'm now very negative towards electric cars as long as there are other cars on the market i would never buy one again. whereby they head into some more great programs here on r.t.e. international in moments they stick around for that i'll see you in just over 30.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. time after times are we going underground as a british armed israel bombs besieged gaza and the syrian capital of damascus while facing the prospect of a 3rd election in a year and made strong all trumps decision to defy global consensus on the theft of palestinian land coming on the show are israel and the us a rogue states when it comes to international law we are lots of israel's former member in washington. and the new film gaza fights for freedom documents israeli

mass killing by bullets and poison gas we talked to the film's director files abby martin all of them are going to have a debate going on the grammar 1st which countries have privileged trading relationships with the european union cited as a key issue in britain's general election campaign well he is one country famous for repeated violations of international law and one that has been bombing damascus and reportedly killing civilians in syria this week easier and has a privileged trading relationship with a european union based on the e.u. association agreement establishing that product originating in israel within its internationally recognized borders benefit from pressure and show tariff treatment upon they are entry into the european union yes special either trade treatment for violators of international law so israel's detractors might have it but there was more this month from the european court of justice thank you has a longstanding and well known position that it will not recognize any changes to

pre-one 1967 east or any borders other than those agreed by the parties to the israeli palestinian conflict they you consider us settlements in occupied territories illegal and international law illegal hundreds of national. more but not suitable for any e.u. armed action to enforce international or in israel so instead the e.u. has decided to require labeling of fruit from illegally occupied palestinian land while at the same time rejecting calls for south africa apartheid style boycott they you does not support any form of quite quite our sanctions against israel and the you reject attempts by the campaigns of the sole quote by cut divestment sanctions movement to isolate is half so that's still a no do what legendary roxy music and david bowie musician brian ino told us some 5 years ago about b.d.s. and a lot of artists have said to me oh i've been asked to play in israel what do you think i should do and

a lot of them are refusing i think of course you don't hear very much about it because these rallies aren't going to tell you about it and the artists obviously don't want to get a huge amount of criticism directed at them for making such a decision but while artists like glover del ray lauded annie lennox color santana roger waters and brian ino support the b.d.s. boycott of israel that the e.u. is opposed to the usa is not only supporting israel's illegal actions against international law it's doubling down on it we've now declared the settlements are not per se illegal under international law yes for the 1st time in 40 years the usa now explicitly instead of implicitly supporting the violation of international law when it comes to palestine the palestinians call it a war crime but joining me now from tel aviv is israeli diplomat danny aiello and former israeli ambassador to the united states thanks so much ambassador for coming on the show we're having a general election here in britain at the moment where under broadcast restrictions just one did you know what you thought about the policy positions jeremy corbyn

saying he will ban weapons sales to israel the tories disagree there will democrats and appear to disagree and the s. and p. appears to agree with corbett yeah well i think it's unfortunate. i think it's maybe a lack of understanding because anything that can keep stability in their region if anything it is. deterrence power and without our presence here i'm i'm afraid that there would be everybody fighting everybody else on this very very small piece of land of ours because it's not just in britain though bernie sanders the democrat presidential candidate for 2020 saying that military aid to israel should be conditional and that some of that military aid should actually be spent on humanitarian aid for palestinians in gaza what we have seen for the last well i don't want to go.