good to see all. this. off to 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. the u.s. democrats are knocked back can get some new witnesses to stand to the donald trump impeachment trial it means a final vote on the president's time in the oval office is expected next week. and a sleeping new study by academics of the university of cambridge finds that democratic discontent in developed countries is at its highest level in 25 years but the american system is among the least sophos by.

its 4 pm here on must go on this saturday the fast of for free thanks for joining us as we talk through the biggest stories of the day so far probably nothing bigger than what's going on and great britain has taken more than 3 years and divided people up and down the nation but after 8 almost hall for a century the u.k. has finally bit from go to the european union out 11 pm london time on friday the result of the biggest democratic referendum in british history was finally and marketed parts of the u.k. bust into celebration with need photos turning out in force ballparks it is party in london's parliament square and some weren't enjoying the festivities quite as much north of the border in scotland which go to joe full well may need to remain county let victuals warehoused all colleagues and loves him a busy covering the historic value on bravo's hit i just saw of the highlights.

well let's. see if. it was a bit louder. we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know the big games you will have all the. right. of course when the sally who has the treat of being in the thick of things that is a pro breaks that party but what is the atmosphere like now. just as you've joined me it's not surprising at least 250000 people to throw out it's really really should be called save the queen that i. just. sadly being sick of it isn't a shitload also the folks. here appear to be that pulls up the 11

transition period and are off to bed and will have to read the charts it's pretty different here just what exactly not all that we live in style but for many here at least 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 writing you've been 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 got to the end of 3 and a half years with them frankly we've got a functioning palm and that's actually delivered a result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a full on 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 as it is. site

but i feel very worried for the country i mean tyrants 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 we're in a world of power blocks for this us over the china russia the e.u. and britain are very small fish in a very big pond full of sharks the whole economy is 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 the 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 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 of the 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 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 state boyle who's basically the e.u. foreign minister to say that the u.k. will remember. main 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 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 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 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 bracks it 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 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 use preferred option for the negotiations. michel of set the level playing field is of utmost importance for social rights or invent of an environmental or a rights state aid or others or 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 rude 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. 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 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 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 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 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 bar 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

describes how much we were ruled by the commission we enact those regulations of abating as acts of parliament. well let's head across the atlantic because i mean us the democrats have been dealt a blow in the push to impeach president donald trump in a very 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 abuse of power and obstruction of congress and his trial in the

senate which at the moment has a republican majority got underway on january the 21st friday evenings a vote paves the way for a final decision on whether to acquit convict trump expected to vote well while we talk to the editorial director for the reaction times dot com who believes trump is not with actually 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 is going to move on from this and i think the american people deserve that the democrats ultimately 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 what the burden of proof that it would have taken to prove high crimes and misdemeanors and 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. what he thought you know the content of the phone call was their only intention is

to try to regain power this episode is a horrible mark in american history in our system you're innocent until proven guilty whether you're. a pop for the president states and paupers in this country get more due process more benefit of the doubt than this president has got in this sham of pietschmann trial so in the 1st this is in the house you have serious leaders in the house arguing that you could impeach somebody without showing crime you were supposed to give the defendant in this case donald trump. due process you're supposed to call witnesses that didn't happen in the house then we've got the the managers getting up there are high horses and saying that they have already proven with the evidence they've marshall so far beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump is is guilty and should be removed you can't say they wanted that in the other hand that you need to bring in more witnesses

their whole behavior of positions i think are contradictory illogical. another headline story for you and maybe check new study by academics in the u.k. it's found that in developed countries popular discontent with democratic politics has reached its highest level in 25 years the report by cambridge university center for the future of democracy says americans are among the least satisfied and explains. 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. if the 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 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 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 to you by just going to do their own thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians it's about time you know there's a lot of groups and minorities that. not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving a disadvantage then i don't think the democracy is working parliaments in the walls

especially the a you know you are not listening to the people one thing. i think people need to have. information more education to realize my democracy think that 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 acted and they are not happy about it. artsy new york. while we discuss the story with invest because john that's david lendl and he thinks the politicians are new think touch what protests 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 political system incredible

amounts of money billions of dollars to run for president are coming from corporations and rich people and the average person 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 to look at this hour face the good news all the more than hump a $1000000000.00 in a private bottle and i'll tell you what about. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

i'll come back and just and the president of the palestinian or flora to mahmoud abbas has said that he's suspending all ties with both the united states and as well the announcement came up an emergency meeting of the arab league and following the release on tuesday of the trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan. here that we are causing a relationship with you and with america we have said the same thing to america including security relations. the trumpet ministrations peace plan which is up odds with international law has been roundly rejected by the palestinians who described it as the slap of the century they say it would formalize the israeli occupation of parts of the west bank and need to the creation of

a fractured palestinian state with no real sovereignty that has been no comment so far from the u.s. on the subsidies announcement but we will be joined by our middle east correspondent paula split with all the details on of course the implications of this move next hour so sit tight. a growing controversy over facial recognition technology has hit facebook in the pocket after a failed legal battle over how it tags on scans 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 to destruct shoot not to thwart innovation but to protect individuals privacy as technology advances cooper asians 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 account holders who argue that 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 ultimately that was declined while twice the technology is being met with growing concern. we discussed why it is that facial recognition is such a sensitive issue nowadays with privacy activist and tech expert bill mears what is for my u.k. police officer that's critical. you can't reset your face or your d.n.a. or 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 sick not only only responsible years 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 effective it's concerned me for some time the likes of facebook and other social media platforms are using fresher recognition spirit 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 graph 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 graph spread enough trust in your friends not to tag you into

it but when they saw for that success and automatically. different color fish and. i think people really should worry more about what's normal rainfall than i do and with this rover the more foursome are doing with it. the rounding off and for the donald trump has again come under fire on major news network c.n.n. helped to the president's latest briefing on a corona virus tossing force an opinion piece published on the channel's web site has called out the new team for liking to have our 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 women on the sidelines who dominated the trump and going to stray should from the very beginning. 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 racism you know there's a problem in the us of identity politics and that keeps everybody fragmented across their various their identities rather than uniting them and dealing with the real economic and political problems of the country while that's a wrap for i'll be back with the very latest in fact when it's time until and step

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listening to who are going to be out in seoul crystal's up on i must. say so i thought there's not so much of a thing as i was it is a constant basis with your mouth a 1000000 years. albert einstein is often 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 breaking with decades of fruitless mediation.

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