people. sometimes there's no explanation. headlining this hour on artsy the conservative party secures a comfortable majority in the british parliament of the opposition labor party suffers in the polls in a highly disappointing night for them live coverage from westminster kicks off in less than one. years later this hour at least $71.00 soldiers were killed in a militant attack on a military base in exposing a french foreign policy and its former colony and. stepped up its crusade in. the video sharing platform censorship.

good morning from moscow money as r.t. internationally as 10 am here in the russian capital it's 7 am in the u.k. which is waking up to 8 nights following the general election the 3rd in 5 years the big news is the boris johnson's conservative party has one neighbor sounding majority in parliament after a strong showing in what's turning out to be an historic general election the prime minister says it gives him a powerful mandate to bring home in the new year as for the opposition parties they're both going to be looking for new leaders the main opposition party labor has suffered a series of humiliating defeat and its leader jeremy corbyn says he will not lead labor into the next election as for the liberal democrats their leader lost her seat they've got to interim leaders while they search and do some reflection as much as labor will have to do in the coming weeks and months although jeremy corbyn the labor lead. hasn't said when he's going to go he said he won't lead labor into

the next election. for scotland it's been big news for them the scottish nationalists pretty much taken all but thinks that the country let's go live to r.t. u.k. and westminster now for our special election coverage s.n.p. and people want to hand and barrister rebecca boteler thank you for joining us guys but 1st we gauge isa rally on college green. now. tell us what is the latest from where you are. we've been hearing from all of the leaders or in some cases former party leaders who for election battle and of course it's been a good night for boris johnson he has won by a quite a constable majority and with that he will see that as a a mandate for him to go forward not just with any domestic policies that he might have but also of course with his main key message throughout this election which is

of course to get breaks that. this one nation conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate. to get pretty done. i know just to get pretty done but to unite this country and to take it forward and to focus on the priorities of the british people about will only n.h.s. and yes we will recruit 50000 more nurses and 6000 will g.p.'s and we will build 40 new hospitals. but it's been a good evening or good night for the conservatives and boris johnson has been a bad one for labor one of the lowest. performances on their worst performances in almost a century vote count wise the best better than 2010 but when it comes to those seats those key marginals in the north particularly in those leave voting areas

they really saw a massive swing not necessarily always to the conservatives directly but also in many cases to the brics a party that took away just an awful fool the conservatives to speak in the window seat sometimes by really close margins and it's those close margins on the 1st past the post system that can all add up and cause what was in the end a heavy defeat in terms. seats anyway and far as the labor leader german corbett is concerned well he won't be leading the party into any future election. has polarized and decided to fight 'd this in this country it is over written and so much of the normal political debate and i recognise that has contributed to the results she has received the saving all across this country ought also make it clear that i will not lead the boxing in any future general election campaign i

will discuss with up. to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and all the policies of the possible time going forward and i will lead the party cheering that period to ensure that discussion takes place and then move on to. there was also a very bad night for the liberal democrats before this election joe since it was trying to convince the country that she could credibly be the next prime minister well anything but she's not even an m.p. anymore she lost her seat and is now since resigned as leader of the liberal democrats props not so surprisingly or not front however she does say that she still believes that the united kingdom can be a kind and generous country going forward. let me say now. for millions of people in our country. these results will bring dread and dismay and people

are looking for hope. i still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbors we can achieve so much more. just as a high. as to how disappointing or not this is been particularly for the labor party they've lost said truth was tony blair's former seat seen as super safe both over of course which was 45 years the seats of a deadly skid of the veteran pete and also by a very very close margins only $150.00 votes in it kensington which of course seats the great full time tragedy took place the night of the code losing seats is the lib dems essentially splitting the vote so again it will be many post-mortems is

really. trying to figure out exactly what went wrong and way. thank you very much indeed for that. now it's just. come up to 7 minutes past 7 here in london results are still coming in we've got shot here in the newsroom following them as they appear and so shall you tell us what is the latest now from your magic screen behind you while the conservatives have indeed won the general election mark said biggest majority since 1987 as you can see here the tories all wrong top with 362 seats that's way further than that 3 to 6 threshold confirming that's a huge comfortable majority and when for boris johnson trailing way behind then is the labor party with jeremy coping has been a disastrous evening sitting there on just 203 seats so it's a very good evening for boris johnson of course he came into the general election

with a minority government now securing a quite a hefty majority and deeds but it's also been a very good evening for the s.n.p. with nicholas sturgeon she secured 48 votes there in scotland one of the biggest ones one of the key most significant ones is stealing liberal democrat leader now form a liberal democrat leader joe swinson seat in eastern boston she has now resigned as a result of losing her seat but equally. resigned because of the very poor amount of seats that she has managed to get up and down the united kingdom if we also look at the party here a complete total wipeout for them although there are still around 5 votes still to claire but probably probably they will not be able to secure any of them so seats are the key numbers headis this morning but when we look further into detail looking at the voting percentage we're still seeing quite a bleak picture being painted for the labor party when we look at the percentages i think we can just get them up here on screen that they all right we can see that

the conservatives have 44 percent the labor party on 32 percent that is a 12 point difference which is very very different from the 2017 general election where they were just 2 percentage points between them interestingly the liberal democrats have put 11 percent of the vote however they have managed to secure fall fewer seats than the s.n.p. who have just got 4 percent of the voting percentage so very interesting when you look at this system that we still continue to have a 1st past the post i can also explain to you i mean look at a wider more broad to aspect of the united kingdom and we get this map up there on screen what we're saying is getting a quite a good broad picture of what's turned red what's turned blue and mostly we can notice that these northern hartman areas have seem to be moving from red to blue they're what's called the labor red red wall seats now that is significantly usually historically safe labor seats but they of course have turned from red to

blue having said that the red will still maintains and prevails in the london vicinity labor really managing to hold on to a crucial seats there that is something that could be seen as a silver lining for the labor party but really it's quite a disaster for labor significantly good gains for the conservative party very dramatic evening indeed back to you in the studio. thank you chad are indeed very dramatic i mean some of the key points guys that that shot here raised point to rebecca labor as you say they did do well in london and they were back up yeah and labor always does well in the collaborations so no surprise there it would be really interesting to see what the percentage splits are and what the majorities now are but i don't think that's any surprise that some of the areas is more about bret's it wasn't particularly look at someone at patni. a big party we're going to see 2 michael gove pause look pause just for a moment here's michael gove's speaking.

friends. today we celebrate a victory even taree for the british people. thank you our fellow citizens reminded us why this is such a wonderful country because the comprehensively rejected jeremy called and spoke of division extremism and anti semitism. thank you and they voted in record numbers for a prime minister dedicated to restoring trust in our democracy by getting bricks it's done thank you

thank you that's what we're going to leave party's election team in westminster for now you can continue watching the live coverage online you go to r.t. dot com click live and then r.t. u.k. will catch up with him next hour with more guest analysis and updates right here throughout the day carries. on to our other headline news from r.t. international in the security situation in asia in west africa deteriorates further militants there have killed at least 71 soldiers and one of the deadliest attacks on the country's military in years and i saw terror group says it was behind the attack that also left 12 others injured it took place ahead of a now postponed meeting between the french president emanuel mccrum and 5 west african leaders over security in the region france insisted its nato allies should take the situation seriously and provide more support quarter delves into the challenges paris faces in its former colony. africa has become

a hotbed of terrorist activity as deadly attacks claiming hundreds of lives have spread like wildfire. europe will have 2 swords of damocles over its head terrorism and kidnappings but also illegal immigrants since many are traveling through this region following one of the deadliest attacks in niger or 70 people were killed by islamists the big players have even postponed a big summit to reconsider their efforts the president so fronts uneasier agreed to postpone the summit on operation bachao nya on the joint chiefs on health force

until early 2020 the 2 presidents a expressed their determination to remain united against terrorist groups and to redefine together in the coming weeks the political and operational framework for ensuring the security of the sa held countries france spends millions of euros and sends thousands of soldiers to control the situation there but with the region's poor infrastructure damage control is difficult to say the least france needs help also context a lot in this context of this and in light of the decisions that france will take a big engagement by its allies is obviously something that would be quite positive in this a hell that france is involved in acting on behalf of everyone there are other budgetary questions the means but at least as important in our eyes is a contribution of the europeans to operations to the management of prices it would not be right to spend the 2 percent without having actually done anything with the armed forces just at the moment when crisis require a response and it's not the 1st time macron has been vocal over the issue the

french president also criticized nato for bickering over defense spending instead of doing more. to help the war on terror and sahil why does france care so much about saw hell as is almost always the case it's about africa's natural resources the border of mali and niger is lined with your rainy a mind so vitally important for french power stations of course it's also dangerous if islamic fundamentalists grow an influence there they would only need to travel through libya for a direct line to the european continent and with sahil being half the size of europe it's not easy to isolate terrorist cells as for paris well it shifts the blame to the african states which can't cope with these challenges alone it almost seems like afghanistan all over again deteriorating government control and growing influence from islamic radicals government we are some parallels between france's difficulties finding terrorism in this ohio and american difficulties fighting to

reside in afghanistan both places are very advantageous from the. militants in both cases you have 0 interest for all powers trying to essentially stabilize. remotely and there are real questions. citizens of those countries whether it's worth it to continue investment company here before this problem for assistance from get involved. not only. to combat the tartarus but for their own national interests i think out in the dr about the intervention in mali in 2013 there may have been a false sense in fruits that it how to handle on this kind of terrorism though i think that france will increasingly try to figure out western countries especially

if united states and you can. counter terms of the ball. you know without a penny at this friday i don't. signed off an executive order to cut and $170.00 of them on college campuses he faces a backlash from pro palestinian groups it's all next story when we come back. each simulating civilization will be able to run using a tiny fraction of its resources. hundreds of thousands millions of runs through all of human history almost all. beings with our kinds of experiences with them to simulate that once. known simulated ones and conditional not argued we should think we're probably one of the simulated ones.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow the only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

donald trump has signed an executive order with the goal of combating anti semitism on college campuses the order threatens to withhold federal funding to colleges and universities if they fail to take action against the problem so we will not permit and jewish bigotry on our college campuses and if they want to do that it's going to be extremely costly it'll be amazing how quickly they stopped the move expands the $964.00 civil rights act to specifically prohibit discrimination against jews it already outlaws racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funds and targets the b.d.s. movement which boycotts goods from territories occupied by israel. an executive order sparked outrage from pro palestinian supporters who believe it aims to

silence them movement american antiwar activist ariel gold sees it as an attack on free speech this is it dangerous to attack on our 1st amendment right to free speech and it's an attack on students it will serve silence dialogue 8 that is real and it will serve you well. let move it means that it's going to be much harder explore advocates for tell us any rights to organize on campuses what happens is that a school could now be designated as not. one of the pieces that's not what's doing this. congress right wing in congress has been unable. bert is right yes legislation was that. i only meant it especially on all it's. really has nothing to do with it's about. shutting down in a movie or

a list you need rights it's what other. rights. changes to and the harassment rules on you tube of outrage users and content creators on the video sharing platform with a hash tag you tube is over party trending on twitter they say that the vague language of the policy is essentially an attempt at censorship in florida and became massive was you tube was having brief and drama the line between criticism and horace mint is now so blurred nobody knows where they stand veiled or implied threats very good language this highly subjective that allows them to effectively silence anything regardless of content predictable protecting a handful of spoiled public figures who didn't like to be teased is a great way to lose the crowd this policy has good intentions on the surface but it's too messy it will drastically increase both resentment and complaining across

the board don't censor criticism. explicit threats of violence were already banned but as you heard in one of those tweets now the policy also applies to veiled or implied threats it also prevents content with malicious insults based on race religion and ethnicity repeat offenders will be stripped of their ability to work out of a typing revenue and they have their videos taken down or even have their channel terminated some creators have already had content removed youtube says the decisions can be appealed we expect there will continue to be healthy debates over some of the decisions and we have an appeals process in place if creators believe we've made the wrong color on a video we'll continue to protect discussion on matters of public interest and artistic expression media commentator gina luden believes the new rules are open to abuse. i think the fact that these so-called rules are so very loosely defined therein lies the problem because when you don't have well defined rules

what you end up with is subjectivity and that's always been the problem with you to entire groups of people have been deemed monetise i've had this happen on my own you tube channel where my videos have been taken down because something didn't meet their community standards and a lot of times i can't even tell what it is i didn't think anything was offensive it may be past the major network test in the united states but it doesn't pass the you tube test so it really makes you kind of wonder you either have free speech or you don't and if you have free speech then that should be exactly that free and it should be broadly applied and just because something offends me doesn't mean that you should not have the right to say it in fact perhaps it's more important that you do have the right to say it as long as perhaps or not inciting violence which i think is where we would all like to draw that line some believe that the reason behind this is politically motivated and the problem is that when you don't have well defined rules that make sense to everybody regardless of political party

you're going to have people feeling like this was subjectively applied. to our election team in westminster boris johnson is now speaking to his supporters following a triumphant win for him. souter that as a labor city your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper as before you put your cross in the conservative books and you may intend to return to labor next time room. and if that is the case i have humbled that you have put your trust in me and that you have put your trust in us and i over we will never take your support for drugs. thank

you i will make you ok i will make it my mission to work night and day flat out to prove you right in voting for me this time and to earn your support in the future and i say to you that in this election your voice has been heard and about time too because we politicians have squandered the last 3 years 3 and a half years in squabbles about race we even be arguing about arguing about the tone of our arguments i will put an end to all that nonsense and we will get bricks done on time by the 31st of january no ifs no buts no maybes leaving the european union as one united kingdom taking back control of our laws borders money trade immigration system delivering on the democratic mandate of the people and at the same time this one nation could have to govern will

massively increase our investment in the n.h.s. the health service the represents the very best of our country with this single beautiful idea that whoever we are rich poor young old the n.h.s. is that for us when we are sick and every day that service performs miracles and that is why the n.h.s. is this one nation conservative government's top priority. and so we will deliver 50000 more losses and 50000000 will g.p. surgery appointments and how many you also little's or. and we will deliver long term n.h.s. budget. and in law 650000000 extra every week health secretary. and and all the other and all the other priorities that you the people of this country voted for record spending on schools an australian style points based

immigration system more police only. colossal new investments in infrastructure and science using our incredible technological advantages to make this country the cleanest greenest all the earth with the most far reaching environmental program and you the people of this country voted to be carbon neutral in this election you voted to be carbon neutral by 2050 i will do it you also voted to be called a neutral bike by christmas by the way. a triumphant chorus johnson that after his election gamble has paid off taken his conservative party to its biggest win since 1907 where politicking next to larry king then back with our election team in westminster collin bray in moscow ready to ring in thanks for choosing r.t. international.

i'm going to fulfill repeated promises possibly to the people and promise if you know we will box. you want to. know. how to link i can link up my are we in a countdown to impeachment the experts weigh in on this edition of.

welcome to politicking on larry king is the impeachment of donald j. trump the 43rd president of the united states and then ability at this point and if so what impact will it have in 2020 let's talk about that with the political panel and they are alex vogel previously served as chief counsel senate majority leader bill frist former general counsel for the national republican senatorial committee and david brown democratic strategist for moment john the counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional committees and they are both in one. i. think anybody's mind has changed with the impeachment hearings not so far as you alluded to in the lead in i think people's minds are pretty much

made up and at least as far as the actual house goes and their side of the impeachment process i think we've reached the stage of foregone conclusion i really can't envision what any of these witnesses or other process between now and and the final vote in the house that could actually change anyone's mind in a meaningful way david they say the senate is the judge of this now in a trial nobody's supposed to have a 3 opinion this moves the judge in on the facts in front of them that can't happen in a trial. not not not this trial larry you're right it did and ordinary criminal trial jurors are are. are instructed to be as impartial as possible they're vetted for that but this is no no ordinary trial this is an impeachment of the president it's a trial that is you.