i. 47 years the united kingdom marks and historic day ties with the e.u. was works is officially comes into effect for britain is still unclear the. us democrats are not back and getting new witnesses to stand in the donald trump and trial means a final vote on the president's time in the oval office is expected next week. france closures the send us naval forces across the mediterranean to cyprus as a maritime dispute breaks out between nato allies over gas exploration.

from moscow thanks for joining us and. welcome to the program. that was taken more than 3 years and divided people in the country but after almost a century in the u.k. almost half a century of the u.k.'s finally bid farewell to the european union as 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the results of the biggest democratic referendum in british history was finally acted all parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leave voters at least turning out. city his party didn't run the square there were those who would not and party move north of the border in scotland which voted to remain visuals our colleagues in london were covering the historic event as it happened some of the highlights.

let's say. it was made out of. still here only now yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah to begin with you will have. a course for me sally who has the trait of being in the thick of things that is a pro briggs it party is what is the atmosphere like now. well just as you're doing me it's not surprising at least 250000 people just broke out it's really really should be called save the queen but i think the stuff. just before. the storm because of the. subway being sick of it isn't a shitload 5 also the folks. here appear to be the cool city of the 11

transition period and they're off but it will have to really be shot so it's pretty different to us what exactly not all that we live in style but so many 8 here at least in the future represents one of opportunity but of course in all the parts of the country. that will be much less sort of a tree not admitted i hear. the full power of the ronnie even campaigning this for this for your whole life for me how does it feel very placed very placed i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we've got to the end of 3 and a half years with them frankly we've got a functioning polman that's actually delivered result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a full on lib dems minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems what the revoke article 50 well did not you without particular policy. as an aside but i

feel very worried for the country i mean science are very honest politicians there are so and she's absolutely straight forward in her views and she you know to our believes is the best thing for britain i thumb to believe the opposite why what is the problem what we want them is that we're going to we're in a world of power blocs whether it's us or whether it's china or russia the e.u. and britain are very small fish in a very big pond full of sharks the whole economy is integrated absolutely with the e.u. and if we end up leaving a single mark and having her and her attorney barriers that would your mental damage to car history among phantoms forest johnson addressed the nation a preacher called it video message and he claimed we are at the start of a new era tonight we are leaving the european union the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in a direction that no longer suits this country and that is a judgment that you the people who are not confirmed at the polls not once but twice well over on the continent the e.u. has been saying its good byes be for the trade deal talks begin in our europe

correspondent peter all of a joins us with all the latest bring us up to date with what's been going on be on the channel yes it hasn't been marked with the types of celebration we've seen in london all the type of commiseration we see in other parts of the u.k. as well as in the british capital as well but we have seen is the british flag being taken down in brussels from the e.u. institutions from the the commission presidency the parliament and the council building as well we've also seen the european flag being taken down from british offices in brussels as well we also saw any piece from the braggs it party well being piped out of brussels as they were leaving heading back to london many of them as we've already seen have been at the the big party in parliament square right now we've also heard some reaction from the european institutions the.

high representative for foreign affairs yourself boyle who's basically the e.u. foreign minister to say that the u.k. will remain a very close partner of the e.u. both on a regional and global scale that's really emphasizing what we heard from the e.u. commission president on the line early on friday where she said that she hoped for a close and more productive relationship post breaks it between the u.k. in the e.u. but said that any deal that the u.k. got couldn't be as good as membership we know very well as the sun rises tomorrow and you chapter for our union of 27 will start and with it comes a once in a generation opportunity to ensure that europe leads the way on these 2 twin ecological and digital transformations indeed tomorrow almost

half a century of the united kingdom's membership in the european union is over we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership one of the key areas the. negotiations going to move on to as they look towards this trade deal is going to be the u.k.'s future relationship with ireland in particular that british border on the island of ireland well leo varadkar the irish to show did have something to say about this about briggs it about the u.k. leaving the e.u. on friday he said that he wished the united kingdom well on its journey alone but did say that there was always a seat back at the table if it didn't work out for them we do hope it works out for them but if it does not there will always be a seat for the united kingdom at the european table as the united kingdom leaves the european union we enter now into this try. shouldn't period and of course all

of those lovely trade talks with us at the start on the 3rd of march so it's not done with yet be forgiven for thinking that all this talk about trade deals and transition period is a little bit confusing is not exactly easy to explain but we've given as ago here's a little package i made earlier. with threats that day finally upon us the one question on everyone's lips is what happens next well it's the transition period until the end of the year where everything essentially stays the same for you and me it's business as usual for the e.u. and u.k. trade negotiators it's game on well they have to get a trade deal signed off by december 31st though ideally 6 months before to give businesses time to prepare the alternative well will crash out of the e.u. without a trade deal something businesses on both sides really want to avoid so we better crack on with the trade talks as soon as possible now boris johnson has said he wants to get started right now but that's a bit of an issue for the e.u. the e.u.

isn't just one save it's $27.00 countries needing to agree a negotiating position and that won't be signed off until the end of next month so march will be the earliest we can actually get started but what might the agreement look like well the easiest for would be what's called an alignment deal our trade rules already mirror the e.u. so let's keep it essentially the same and just agree on which areas to diverged that's the a news preferred option for the negotiations. michel of such a level playing field is of utmost importance if social rights are invented of an environmental or a state aid or others where the advantage of that kind of deal is that it means the u.k. can access the e.u. single market and of course that means we get a deal and easily before the end of the year however that's not the. the u.k.

government wants to go but we been very clear now for actually many months and of course in our recent election as well as we leave the e.u. we will not be in the single market we will not be in the customs union and we will not be ruled takers so let's try again boris johnson says he wants a free trade deal full comprehensive covering everything but how comprehensive could it be the one between the e.u. and canada took 7 years to finalised. i know done this negotiation will be difficult and demanding. for one reason. we'll be extremely short. 11 months or so. and if he's right we'd crash out without a deal so let's try again johnson said he wants a deal based on 0 tariffs and 0 quotas no barriers that all sounds easy

except some are worried that letting the u.k. in without guaranteeing it won't play by e.u. rules would mean it becomes a very attractive no regulation no business tax zone with watered down workers' rights and can't just singapore poaching business from the block the key issue here is around level playing field issues there is no way the e.u. will ever sign up to a trade deal that allows tariff free quota free and frictionless access to u.k. goods coming into the e.u. if there isn't a level playing field in terms of how they're produced because that would be unfair competition. is there another way well then it gets tricky where into sector by sector deals in some of those deals we've got a strong hand like fishing rights in others like financial services no deal could be ringback the end of the city's dominance as banks and firms need to frankfurt to ensure they can still operate in europe. but it all has to happen quickly as well

because the clock is ticking and if the sign deals are done in time you guessed it we crash out i hope that's made everything a little clearer. to discuss the constitutional implications breaks it we're now joined by international barrister julian millions to see good to see i have a feeling the last time i saw you and let's get this out of the way that you are indeed intending to stand for the breaks apart in the election is this a big change constitutionally for it's a huge change constitutionally because now we've become a fully independent sovereign state. disentangling ourselves from the european union will be a long and time consuming problem because when the european union issued regulations they had a director thing act and instead of just letting them be regulations in order to do sky's how much we were ruled by the commercial we enact those regulations of

abated and as acts of parliament. over to the united states now where the democrats have been dealt a major blow in their push to impeach president on trump in a close a pilot senate republicans on friday defeated an attempt to allow the new witnesses and evidence the stand in the trial yaser 49 nays are 51. motion is not agreed to trump was impeached said or done to order the majority leader is recognized by a democrat controlled house of representatives in december on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress his trial in which in the senate which has a republican majority of course got underway on january 21st friday evenings vote

paves the way for a final decision on whether to acquit or convict trump expected next wednesday we know that it was voted editorial director for the reactionary times who believes trump is now essentially in the clear. as of wednesday they're going to have the up and down vote he's going to be acquitted you know where america's going to move on from this and i think the american people deserve that the democrats ultimately they had their crack at the apple in the house and they called i believe it was upwards of about 17 witnesses so if they had smoking gun evidence something that would have risen to the level of the burden of proof that it would have taken to prove high crimes and misdemeanors then they would have had a shot of removing the president book you know quite frankly you know it's their impressions of what the phone call was you know yet adam schiff kind of you know all my means what he thought you know the content of the phone call was their only intention is to try to regain power. british academics of claim that the level of

discontent with politics is at its highest level in 25 years is the report by the u.k. center for the future of democracy says americans are among the least satisfied with their government system these kind of mope and has more. we're used to hearing that the usa is a cradle of democracy and in case you might forget they remind you at every opportunity trumps impeachment is no exception this is not a banana republic. is the democratic republic. of the united states of america a moment when our democracy was gravely threatened in battle democracy being invaded by this by the by russia democrats accuse donald trump of using his political position for personal gain and thus corrupting the entire system trump shoots back that the democrats are manipulating the constitution in order to go after him by proceeding with your invalid impeachment your violating your oath of

office your breaking your allegiance to the constitution and you are declaring open war on american democracy interestingly new data has been published by the u.k.'s cambridge university showing that among americans there's been a dramatic decline in people's confidence in democracy we decided to talk to new yorkers and see why they might be losing faith in the founding fathers i feel most people are in misinformed more than anything and they need to understand that we don't live in a true democracy where you know specifically every vote counts directly we know it's a representative democracy writes people vote for things and then other things happen or other people with you know people get more votes and then they lose that's not it's not really democracy is that i do believe that within the system we need to do a better job of including everyone into the conversation and i also think that the current state of affairs is what makes people just really turned off. to supporting democracy as a whole you know the institutions which were set out with. i think right frame book

are not being used or the loopholes are being exploited democracy sexy being taken out of the hands of the people it's in the hands of foot i would call it big money in corporations but it's not just americans according to the poll that was conducted around the world. has been a decline in democratic values in countries like france and the u.k. people just don't feel they've got a voice anymore it seems that you have you just going to do their own thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians as much i mean there's a lot of groups and minorities that are not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving disadvantage then i don't think that democracy is working some of the parliaments in the world's especially the a you know you are not listening to the people one thing off on the books today and that is i think people need to have. information morici cation to realise

my democracies think people should fight for it or not most of the people. but this points to a bigger question what those democracy actually mean now in theory it's supposed to be the rule of the people but it seems like around the world in many different countries many feel like the people's will is not being enacted and they are not happy about it and aren't see new york and we discussed the story with investigative journalist david lindorff he thinks that politicians are losing touch with what most who's really concerned about. i wouldn't say they're dissatisfied with democracy they're dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working these days it has really lost its connection to the people all the money in the political system incredible amounts of money billions of dollars to run for president are coming from corporations and rich people and the average person norm is cut out of the picture i think at least in the us. fortunately people are not saying we don't

like democracy they're saying we want to moxie that works so it's not people are saying oh we need a dictator the vast majority of americans have been brought up on the notion that people are supposed to run their own government want to have a government that works for them but they're not able to get it. a growing controllers have a facial recognition technology has hit facebook in the pocket after a failed legal battle over how it tags and scans photos on its platforms a case filed in the u.s. state of illinois has resulted in a pilot of more than half a $1000000000.00 hit in illinois enacted a statute not to innovation but to protect individuals privacy as technology advances corporations must be mindful of the privacy of their customers and more importantly comply with the law. the social network giant will have to pay $550000000.00 to a group of a car was the facial recognition to all violated state privacy laws went as far as

the u.s. supreme court to get the case thrown out but that was the client worldwide the technology is being met with growing and. we discussed why facial recognition such a sensitive issue with privacy is activist and tech expert bill me as well as former u.k. police officer who took a. you can't reset your face or your d.n.a.

or your fingerprints in the same way you can reset a password when it's lost and therefore if for some reason there was a data breach and the data was lost or in some way it is used in responsibility then there is no comeback and that person's identity has been lost forever and there as an enormous caution needs to be sake and not only only responsible use in the secure husbandry of this trend of data but we also need to start improving the effectiveness of the fake the recognition so it's actually more accurate and effective it's concerned me for some time how the likes of facebook and other social media platforms are using facial recognition is purely being used to further the interests of the social media platforms which at the end of the day combine to make you money if you are in a photograph with someone who is on facebook you may or may not wish to have your name associated with that photograph your profile associated with that photograph.

enough trust in your friends not to tag you into it but when their software they're in automatically. different kettle of fish and so of i think people really should worry more about what's normal reinforcement to doing with this rover the more a foursome of doing with. france has vowed to send warships the support greece and cyprus that's after raul would be nato allies of a gas exploration in the region turkey stepped up its drilling activity in waters around the area it controls in cyprus r.t. shot at the skis got more now and why paris could be concerned. as tensions between greece cyprus and turkey heat up from this president has decided to do the right thing and to swoop in to save the day he's dispatched walford gets to the eastern mediterranean as the age old regional rivals clash once more left. supports greece and cyprus when it comes to the sovereignty of their maritime zones

and along with our european partners condemns turkey's intrusions and provocations what might appear as some 19th century style of a conflict at sea is really largely about energy reserves as you can see the divided island of cyprus has off shore gas fields with billions of euros no surprise then that the self-proclaimed turkish republic of more than cyprus issues its own licenses to explore those gas rich areas to turkish companies while the republic of cyprus gives theirs to companies including the french giant toto which has several licenses france wants to protect its crown company its crown jewel its total its total is kind of a state within the state and if turkey intervenes put some of its contracts are.

france wants to protect its company and or wants to. protect its sovereignty and it's not just a rift over cyprus it's the whole region city unusual these past few days we have seen turkish warships deliver syrian mercenaries to libyan soil and this is a serious and explicit intrenchments of what was agreed upon in berlin and i must reiterate the prerequisite for any political solution in libya is the cancellation of this document it's clear to see much course not exactly thrilled with that agreement which sees turkey. having agreed a new maritime border with the un backed government in libya this deal took says grant economic rights to explore even more of the mediterranean gas reserves and more importantly what any other major gas project in the area like for example and is recycle risk we spiked line that's currently under construction that could

supply of around 10 percent of the natural gas how. it is no longer legally possible to conduct exploration and drilling activity or to run pipelines in the region between the turkish libyan coast without the approval of countries in 2020 licensing these areas and starting the search and drilling move quickly than ever these coasts reserves are highly contentious as they thought to be getting changes in offering europe a new supply that could lessen its dependence on russian gas whoever has control over the sea here has control over the supplies it's a huge gas program over there it's a huge gas reserve reserve it wasn't involved and still nobody called on this. and this is this is we call this is military in pipeline and turkey is part of the

east military and and the what they call a lot of them and turkey again wants to be part of this regional power and they want to show that they're one of the strongest country in this region they face a lot of opposition because. russia and the united arab emirates are against that turkey intervening in libya so they try and they try to counter turkey in this part of the world. you can always had on. dot com for more news featured from around the globe this weekend major excavation in egypt names of about 3000 years on the findings were horribly fix. what of the sky. and the. 2 star system that's twisting both space and time they say the finally gives more weight to einstein's theory of general relativity and more on those stories any time anywhere on our web site. and donald

trump has again come under fire on major news network c.n.n. after the president's latest briefing on a coronavirus task force an opinion piece published on the channel's web site has called out the new the new team for lacking diversity. coronavirus taskforce another example of trumpet ministrations lack of diversity. who are these experts they're largely the same sorts of white men and a couple of women on the sidelines who dominated the trump and going to stray should from the very beginning.

to see those board of directors. as long as c.n.n. wants to play quite a game why does the network have a grand total of one minority anchor across all the weekday shows and not one hispanic collarless news network. the coronavirus we try to have a task force but it wasn't diverse enough for c.n.n. . this is a scientific issue and you need the best people to. organize you know

a defense against against the spread of the virus everywhere and you know it's to inject diversity and identity politics into this thing is just just a silly thing to do it's science. and science has nothing to do with diversity and and racism you know there's a problem in the us of identity politics and that keeps everybody fragmented across their various identities rather than uniting them and dealing with the real economic and political problems of the country. record for the american dream with non chomsky now it off as the mantra shallow back in 30 minutes time up with the latest headlines that.

albert einstein is credited with defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result this is essentially the argument behind the trumpet ministrations deal of the century aimed at putting an end to the israeli palestinian conflict. is the american president indeed insane or a genius for breaking with decades of fruitless mediation. and the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the us and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one every week. tax student debt trade was corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running .