it was and. give me a trial donald trump wants his day in the senate as the impeachment hearings reach the next critical stage while democrats say they won't rule out yet more public hearings. as concern over germany's new attempts to tackle paedophiles online is critics and both could be using police results is to create a child porn videos on the dark the web also has to. be imposed a curfew in the campus a limit when you do large scale anti-government protests and a deadly car bombing in the south american nation.

to. a very warm welcome your chin aussie international with me. donald trump says he wants a trial after the u.s. house of representatives moved to formally take the impeachment inquiry to the next level the president laid into rival democrats off the week of testimonies which he describes as a hoax and so they look like fools proceedings now head to the republican controlled senate and mr trump says the whole affair has actually united his party behind him. they had the tremendous week with the whole you know the great hoax the the growth of the m p 3 hole and that's really worked out. incredibly well and we have tremendous support i think roger's around whose numbers i don't think i've ever seen support in the republican party like we do right now we know that it's going to support you judiciary committee chairman hit back at republican claims that testimony's had been his say and observe democrat adam schiff falso didn't

rule out holding more public hearings as his panel begins to draft this inquiry report but the around the clock news coverage is falling flat with a lot of fortean says sounds good taylor has been sharing her emotions when it comes to impeachment fatigue talk to what a year it's been and hasn't 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 the best they've come up with is a man whose payday 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 checking alerts on the phone just praying that lead to hasn't gone on a twitter wrong page or 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 reap petitions that just like costs they need this 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 wish it could be honest it's been a huge and that down it's a bit like you and me really i mean i calm every week 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 of 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 don't want to go to to mass or mr morris and i have some bad news for you t.v. ratings are way down. well you know i don't hold it personally i don't think it's you guys. whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up you're on the. american

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 set up 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 nudged ukrainian president to look into the matter may be used as a bargaining chip that $400000000.00 of aid the u.s. have promised which reminds me even ukraine's tired of this whole impeachment saga i think everybody really is the. reason we're all going along on the street we have always. been this we have 0 problems and grace that's right 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's apparently not too down in the doldrums about pot is trump who i want as the 1st witness because frankly i want to throw you know i didn't think i could have it you want to try out every one 0 i wouldn't do it for number one issue never ever been breached by think about with 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 one. meanwhile u.s. democratic presidential hopeful toasty gap has been the butts of some cutting

remarks from the new york times for her choice of clothing the paper reports that one suit some coke lead or dakota. it has been at asians have refrained from the center and white suits are of somewhat competent righteousness also called leaders. 'd ringback ringback near liberals and. that is the most ridiculous pose debate article of. newspapers not only has many

of the content that you. 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 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 down on catching paida files online but a new tactic to infiltrate the so called dark web see it and to 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 the behind child pornography images are terrible acts of abuse against children. you'll thora to say investigators will be given all means available the track down sex offenders but is proving divisive supporters of the strategy insist it will help kill off the so-called dog net of illegal websites while opponents argue that crimes cannot be solved by creating new crimes want to kiss go from the u.k.'s christia legal center told us that evidence gathered in such a way could potentially prove inadequate in course you look at the crime shows on t.v. and they have solicitation of prostitution or or poor undercover policeman doing. selling drugs well 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 found that europe is the world's worst when it comes to online child pornography the continent hosts around 2 thirds of all confirmed cases with the netherlands having the most offenders political commentator andre walker and former british police officer peter cook m said their views with us. it would obviously 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 is what he 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 and i can understand that view but the amount of child sexual imagery that's out there is absolutely enormous anything added by the german police will 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 be off arised as a participant it's an 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'm only willing to consume fake child pornography i should majed you. stuff i just don't see that everybody would delineate 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. oblivion senators avoided october's election in the country which was won by now ousted president evo morales that's after the interim government also accused him of terrorism its claims morale is masterminded a blockade that prevented food from entering the latin american nation government representatives say they have recordings of the former leader taken from the protesters confiscated phone the voice alleged to be that of morale is heard a devising ways to shut down roads and also mentions returning to bolivia the bolivian foreign minister says the lawsuit goes against his status of political asylum or morale as himself has called the recording fabricated. i denounce bolivia's to facto government for making this up with the intention of forming an international lawsuit against me this is judicial manipulation to imprison and she imperialist leftwing and liberal leaders this comes as the interim

government has announced it plans to shut down left leaning media outlets the move would include international channel telesur that reportedly received a notification it will be taken off the airwaves as part of the so-called reorganization that china was founded back in 2005 in venezuela and is mostly funded by left wing governments around south america including bolivia it was promoted at the time as a latin socialist answer to c.n.n. a reminder now of how things are so quickly in bolivia even morale is resigned after mass protests and accusations hit rick to the election victory last month his place was taken by a vice president of the same. that's janine and yes you had the support of the country's military and the protests against her she granted immunity to law enforcement officers responding to the demonstrations we heard from a former u.n. officer who believes there is foreign pressure behind the accusations against. the

wall the circulation of being a terrible script coming right from word problem or big bomb or print that will i mean they're doing i mean they're trying to convert figure of your out in that kind of like you know american so i'm hussein i'm excited arabia but more lives toward that direction somebody who can be tarnished that should be punished and should be persecuted it is by international law and this is a very much an american disarm sort of this should be very clear agenda for the security council i mean the u.s. cannot do this. because they can do it with anyone who poses north american or u.s. so you don't want i mean these are the problem you know isn't it the national guard so there's a coup to constantly my view should you know take part in this media. complex

situation that has been invented from from from the usa with the with the. overthrow couldn't. so lead testing times that tesla as the electric vehicle make its own breakable new side of the track in about 2 weeks named iran that after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on all sides very dramatic development the only really engaging loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical guy trying to sit down and talk. welcome back the car bombs going off i was find a police station in southwest colombia killing 3 officers and injuring a further 10 happened in the town of suntanned kill

a child ok to about 500 kilometers from the capital it's a known hot spot for violence local newspapers reported that the explosion caused a major black ounce please have no yet spoken on who is responsible for the attack . colombia's already been enjoying widespread anti-government protests the mayor of the capital both those who has imposed a citywide curfew to try and keep the renewed wave of demonstrations at bay for that to lead to clashes with police. oh. god. no. protests about the say as thousands turned out against president avon decay police used tear gas and water cannon as demonstrators threw rocks that demanding better

living conditions tax and pension reforms and move to tackle government corruption the leaders say there are no plans to change course nicholas sanchez o'donovan reports now from the colombian capital. from bogota where the day the historic national anti government 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 what i'll answer in with tear gas with water cannons and rubber bullets. i was.

i i i. was but mainly it was a peaceful protest and it was a massive protest as well over 200000. marched nation wide. protest in and it demanded little infrastructure and more money for education those were the students but then you have the indigenous. they fight in social justice in rural areas so that's a different drug and then you have the unions they're fighting so that the government doesn't implement the tax reforms that they're trying to implement and more importantly they don't touch the government doesn't touch the pension system so these 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. electric

vehicle make a tesla maybe renowned for pushing the boundaries in eco transport the showcase launch of its futuristic new cyber truck proved to be well not exactly the smash hit the firm had hoped. sure yeah. well. maybe that was a little too hard. to go through. also taking a big hit after the bush launch tesla see musk's personal net worth has plunged by $760000000.00 the firm's share price also dived 6 percent in one day the internet's already revved up the meme machine comparing the smashed of the truck to the time

traveling to laurie and from back to the future is to a physical mess of all the most embarrassing moments to an sporting is uncanny resemblance to old school video games must give a message on twitter that they've got some improvements to make me for going into production and post a video to prove that the steel ball stunts have gone well in rehearsal. but it's not the only windows that don't make the cut the tesla car you know a new europe learned the hard way that the very heart of the vehicles the batteries could prove lethal. you covered this for i enjoyed every minute of driving this car from the 1st to the last if 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. on.

the price. lithium is used in the battery cells of electric cars the same that are used for mobile phones and towards israel if it ignites the fire cannot be extinguished with water it continues to burn it simply provides itself with oxygen from the water burns until it burns out in cleveland. 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 it's all rather their batteries but this company told me that they've still not received permission from the ministry because apparently my testimony from the 1st fully electric car in austria which needed to be disposed of. i'm now very negative towards electric cars long as there are other cars on the market i would never buy one again of. thanks for joining us here on r.t.

international thomas will be here the top of the hour with the latest headlines. and we're going to fulfill that promise is possible for the people. you know we've all pots the. now you want to work. no

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poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implement from the inside but in this way those things move different we're going to announce sanctions against the truest of venezuela associate the famous school campus on a political move to. get out of some. political baggage assume the petty. focus the who story isn't new nixon cool henry kissinger to tell him that he would not be taller. in latin america. an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela screed.

i'm actually retired so we're going on the ground 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 form of in washington. and the new film gaza fights for freedom documents israeli mass killings by bullets and poison gas we talked to the film's director files happy moments all of them all coming up a days going underground a 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. israel association agreement establishing that product originating in israel within its internationally recognized borders benefit from pressure and show tariff treatment upon they are empty into the european union yes special even 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 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 the israelis 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 lord 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 wanted what you thought about the policy positions jeremy corbin 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 . understanding because anything that can keep stability in their region

if anything it is is a rose if you turn.