after 47 years united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as breck's it officially comes into a fact but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. the us democrats are not back in getting new witnesses to stand in the donald trump impeachment trial it means a final vote on the president's time in the oval office is expected next week. a sweeping new study by academics up the university of cambridge finds that democratic discontent in developed countries is at its highest level in 25 years with american citizens among the least satisfied.

2 pm here in moscow where if you cheering up from a very warm welcome to the program this is our international a big day for great britain it's taken more than 3 years and divided people up and down the nation but off to almost hall for a century if you can has finally bid adieu to the european union i love in pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic referendum in british history was finally enacted parts of the u.k. bust into celebration with the voters turning out in force but while bricks it is party it in london's parliament square some want to enjoy the festivities quite this march north of the border in scotland which was voted overwhelmingly to remain vigils were held all colleagues in london were covering historic event as it all happened here are just some of the highlights.

that was a bit out of. the we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah to begin with you how you can actually solve the. course when the sally who has the truth of being in the thick of things that is a pro breaks it party to what is the atmosphere like now. well just as you're doing me it's not surprising at least 50000 people to just work out it's a pretty should go to save the queen that i. just know. she is sadly being good at singing was a bit of a shitload of the folks. here appear to be that cools 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 here at least in the future represents one of opportunity but of course in other parts of the country. will be much less some of my career not admitted i hear. the full power of the ronnie you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel very pleased very pleased 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 got to the end of 3 and a half years with them frankly we've got a functioning palma that's actually delivered the result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a full the lib dem minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems were the revoke article 50 well i did not should be without particular policy of the site

but i feel very worried for the country i mean by answer you on this politician there are so you and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she you know what i believe is the best thing for britain i think happen to believe the open. why was the problem what we were up miss that we were in a world of power blocks for this us over that china russia the e.u. and britain are very small fish and very big on full of sharks the whole economy has integrated absolutely you if we end up leaving a single market and having it and having trade barriers that would your mental damage to car history amongst others boris johnson addressed the nation a preacher called it video message and he claimed we are at the start of a new era this is not an end but a beginning 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 now confirmed at the polls not once but twice well over on the continent the e.u. has been saying its goodbyes b.

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 you see you know the parts of the u.k. as well as in the british capital as well but what 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 brig's it party well being piped out all for brussels as they were leaving heading back to london we've also heard some reaction from the european institutions the high representative for foreign affairs your set boil he'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 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 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 well 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 out of 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 transition period of course all of those lovely trade talks that are set to start on the 3rd of march so it's not done with yet with bricks 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. educate trade negotiators it's game on well they have to get a trade deal signed off by december 31st 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. it's 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 use preferred option for the negotiations. michel of set the level playing field is of utmost importance if social rights are an event of an

environmental or a rights state aid or others 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 way 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 finalize. nor does 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 econd to 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. well is there another way well then it gets tricky we're into sector by sector deals and 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 arms down in time you guessed it we crash out i hope that's made everything a little clearer i have a feeling the last time i saw you let's get this out of the way that you were 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 think it and instead of just letting them be regulations in order to describe how much we were ruled by the commission we enact those regulations for bait and as acts of parliament. and let's head across the atlantic to the us where the democrats have been dealt a blow in the push to impeach president donald trump in a close ballot senate republicans on friday defeated an attempt to allow new witnesses and evidence to stand in the trial yaser 49 nays are 51. the motion is not agreed to. trump was impeached by the democrat controlled house of representatives in december on charges of the piece of power structure of congress just trial in the senate

which now has a republican majority got underway on january 21st friday evening paves the way for a final decision on whether to acquit all convict which is expected next wednesday . we talked to the editorial director for the reaction times dot com who believes trump is now essentially in that. as of wednesday they're going to have the up and down vote he's going to be acquitted you know where america is going to move on from this and i think the american people deserve that the democrats alternately they had their crack at the apples in the house and they called i believe it was upwards of about 17 witnesses they had smoking gun evidence something that would have risen to the level of you know what 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 yes adam schiff kind of you know my

you mean what he thought you know the content of the phone call was their only intention is to try to regain power. not the headline story a major new study by academics in the u.k. it's found in developed countries popular discontent with democratic politics has reached its highest level in 25 years the report by cambridge university's center for the future of democracy says americans are among the least satisfied and reports 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 impeachment is no exception this is not a banana republic. it's a democratic republic. of the united states of america a moment when our democracy was gravely threatened embattled 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 you are 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 rights 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 private cloud big money and corporations but it's not just americans according to the poll that was conducted around the world there 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 anymore there's a lot of groups and minorities that. not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and in particular those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving those who are disadvantaged then i don't think that democracy is working in some of the parliaments in the world's especially the

a you know you are not listening to the people one thing off on democracy being that is i think people need to have. information more each occasion to realize when to use these things that people should fight for it or not most of the people start. but this points to a bigger question what does 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 caleb artsy new york. well we discussed the story within fast because john les david lindorff he thinks the politicians are news in touch with what for you to really want. i wouldn't say they're dissatisfied with democracy they're dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working these days that it has really lost its connection to the people all the money in the 'd 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. still to come facebook loses i'll move on hop a $1000000000.00 if a privacy battle in the u.s. i'll tell you all about it in 90. media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being that. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or in making the shallowness. i actually don't think we can all. please proceed on the problem monopolistic access that monopolies have to credit or to politicians and probably both crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem.

welcome back a growing controversy imho facial recognition technology has hit facebook in the pocket after a failed legal battle over how it tides and scams photos on its platform a case filed in the u.s. state of illinois has resulted in a payout of more than half a $1000000000.00 in illinois inactive the start shoot not to want 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 a tour group of account holders who argued the facial recognition tool violated state privacy laws facebook went as far as the u.s. supreme court to get the case thrown out but that was ultimately declined and worldwide the technology is being met with growing concern.

thank. you. i. we discussed why facial recognition is such a sad state issue with privacy activist and tech expert bill mears as well as former u.k. plot police officer that's peter clarke. 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 was an enormous caution that needs to be safe 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 recognition so it's actually more accurate and affective 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 they're software there in automatically. different kettle of fish and so of i think people really should

worry more about what's normal reinforcement doing with this rover the more enforcement doing with it. can find you for this hour donald trump has again come under fire on major news networks 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 team for locking device city. 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 have 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 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 that's how things are shaping up that's i'll be back at the top coming away now that i'm going underground delves into life the fact that.

trade and investment have become magic spells to conjure economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the invest for chapter a trade agreement is a very different but what when investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all the environment. that means local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can be certain. of taking on the whole nation

philip morris is trying to use i.s.t.'s to stop oracle from implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a fringe company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage democratic choice of a trump corporate. joint says we try to fund don't want to party. through referendum the british people decide all future in europe the british people have spoken and they are where out i do not think it will be right for me to try to be the captain of the steers or country to its next destination around the whole past

5 the softer new reason may you took office as prime minister we will rise to the challenge was a vote that would shape our future for years to come and she was awesome. humiliated after 2 years of failed negotiations the house of commons as delivered its verdict on her bricks i have now tabled a bunch of no confidence in. the maze of bracks that deal has suffered another huge blow british parliament rejected her plan for the 2nd time this is now the 3rd time the prime minister's deal has been rejected 48 hours ago she relaunched her withdrawal plan it was meant to win the support of her colleagues instead it simply seems to have grown closer the last days of thought i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party i do so with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to see the country i love boris johnson has spent years waiting outside number 10 downing street today to join his mind only. in this

government to work flat out to give this country the leadership he deserves this school has already concluded that the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and that no if it corresponds to call for an early general election hoping to win more conservative m.p.'s that will back his projects it. is a fight for the soul of our country. to win the world with to deliver the people of this country yet. we are now in a position to say that this election has been won by the conservatives now is the moment precisely as we leave the e.u. to let the healing begin. i know you're going to miss i know you want to go national tax but we're going to wave goodbye from john to the 31st what we're going to do is work with our friends around the world this food to not

just. destroy it mr president this in my opinion only the. action adventure we're going underground hours after the u.k. officially left the e.u. ending 47 years membership of the world's largest new liberal trading block with me in the studio of the daily mail's consulting editor and your peers former liberal democrat leader and century save the business of its cable and front man of sheffield band revenue makers john mcclure who campaigned for labor in the last election welcome to we're all of you we've got the eve of bricks of papers here not today's ones our time has come from the murdoch sun with the 50 quid they giving out saying 50 p. coins and your paper and you do one for britain and drew a momentous day because the guardian will be getting to that in the in the 2nd predictably again spread but i drew how do you stand up for this as a front page momentous day we salute

a new dawn for britain directly from 10 downing street and yet the head has spread because the white.