does it mean to be conservative it's coming from the conservatives and the change with needs to be. the issue in mind existed for conservatives to believe. headline stories this hour donald trump refuses to approve a stimulus package negotiated for months congress u.s. presidencies the spending. on foreign aid. and support for american congress found plenty of money for far john trees lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the american people. for u.s. military contractors who were jailed for their involvement in the months of her rocky civilians in 2007 given presidential pardons. clemency lists which notably excludes prominent whistleblowers. the french government

controversial bill and so-called green passports allowing travel and other activities to be allowed for people vaccinated against critics say the move will turn everyone else into a 2nd class citizen. broadcasting live from moscow every hour of the day this is your artsy international my names you know neal you're welcome to the program. donald trump wants congress to make changes to the much force over $900000000000.00 coba relief bill he's called that of this crisis for including provisions not related to the pandemic such as foreign aid funding the us president is also demanding a one off payments to eligible citizens to be increased from $600.00 to $2000.00

congress found plenty of money for far john trees lobbyists and special ijaz while sending the bare minimum to the american people who need it it wasn't their fault i am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculous lelo $600.00 to $2000.00 or $4000.00 for a couple speaker nancy pelosi was quick to react blaming republicans for not providing information on what among the president himself expected to be written down in the package she said democrats are ready to discuss the matter as soon as lawmakers gather again this week you know there are other things in the bill the trump teams i'm happy about since combining the code relief package the government spending plan in one document it features a lot of proposals including military spend foreign aid more obscure issues to the outgoing president has threatened not to sign it if amendments are not made dimitri

polk takes a closer look ha louis the warring sides in congress have finally set aside some of their differences and agreed to dish out $900000000000.00 in covert 19 relief for families and businesses but the $600.00 stimulus checks which are half of what people got back in april have left many underwhelmed one team in $600.00. is this a joke and jobless no health insurance this isn't going to cut it congress. some senators even took offense at people questioning their life saving bill all wish real help. it's a trillion dollars for god's sakes what is that $1000000.00 and. 1 there is no money fairy we don't have this money we don't have 5 percent of it sandra we had to borrow it is real help will it be enough i think it will be but we're just going to have to wait and see but the covert relief package didn't come

alone the absence of the money fairy didn't stop congress from slapping on a $1.00 trillion dollar spending bill which combined with the covert bill made the overall document over 5 and a half 1000 pages long the behemoths took so long to upload to the internet that congressmen only received it on the day of the vote and it's kind of hard to believe they managed to read the whole thing before passing it. for congressional leaders refused to put any legislation on the floor to be considered and scrutinized and amended now with the release of $5593.00 page bill with no opportunity to read it let alone amend it no responsible legislators should vote for such a thing this is going to take those over 3 hours just to prove the. impossible. you need one will now be open to you to read between now and the time and we will if you take a closer look at the bill you can see there's a lot more than covert relief in there military spending for example was more of

a talking point than the pandemic and words like missile aircrafts and munition appeared far more times than anything related to health care masks weren't even mentioned once in the document foreign aid also proved to be a high priority billions of dollars are said to be poured into countries like ukraine israel and cambodia funds that could have been spent on domestic needs and then there's a whole bunch of other issues that were deemed very crucial like ensuring the integrity and fairness of the election sorry horse racing how could that sport survive without money from the government also investing in general programs is something the u.s. just can't do without be it programs in pakistan or commissions on determining gender equality in statues and even the dialogue reincarnation gets mentioned in the bill because in case you forgot he can't get reincarnated without u.s. taxpayer dollars this jumbled mess of spending proposals caused even some senators to trash the bill. tonight i voted no against the supposed that covert relief bill

because it sells out billions of dollars to foreign governments the sudan. or not more important than american citizens and now many are calling on trying to veto the bill don't trump you must veto of this farce relieve bill this isn't a stimulus package this is a message for and. every american left and right should be calling for a veto on the stimulus deal which provides more funding to foreign governments and term merican arts centers than to their merican people covert relief might be badly needed but while 600 bucks why do some good for americans in a tough spot senators are obviously willing to put a lot more money behind their own agendas if you look where the expenditures went look we know what this is this is nothing but a con it's a ruse it's a chance to to provide special interest in special issues the money that normally

wouldn't be able to be earmarked this is guaranteed to provide monies that would normally not be able to be available but now they are which is a christmas tree the idea is if you take something you slap on benefits and expenditures and bills but america needs something so we hold the american public hostage in the meantime they get a pittance of what they would normally gotten before but maybe rather than giving all this money for covert relief why don't we just remove the lockdowns what are we we move against shackles because businesses are under these more draconian measures why don't you do that instead of just give money here's your 600 bucks maybe 1200 bucks now leave me alone be happy and shut up. donald trump sparked outrage with his latest list of presidential pardons it includes military contractors jail for killing civilians in iraq but no whistleblowers despite calls

from rights activists let's get more on this from a very for us on the kill up in new york kaleb just weeks before it looks like donald trump the parts office and he's just annoyances most culture 1st go round of pardons tell us more indeed well it is the holiday season and the outgoing presidential administration seems to be in a mood for clemency at this point we have 15 pardons that have been issued as well as 5 commute ment's and there has been a wave of anger and criticism of who it is that the president of the united states has decided to show mercy to now one of the people involved is george papadopoulos this is an associate of trumps it was caught up in the russia collusion investigation and charged with lying to the f.b.i. the white house made the decision to grant him a pardon at the time that mr papadopoulos allegedly made the false statements he

was not represented by counsel and after he was arrested mr papadopoulos gave additional information on his prior statements to the special counsel today's pardon helps correct the wrongs that mueller seem inflicted on so many people. now there has been a wave of criticism of the trumpet ministrations decision around at george papadopoulos but many are looking at the fact that there was another set of individuals who got pardons that is a little bit more controversial these were guards who work for the military contracting corporation known as blackwater who were convicted of killing civilians take a listen to this they were charged with killing civilians in iraq. for the north america rhetoric.

there were dead bodies everywhere and the printing of money on the only t.v. viewing is going to be among the dead bodies ministry with those who were chosen in 7 years old. now these were guards who work for the private military contractor corp known as blackwater now paul slow evan liberty and dustin heard were convicted for involuntary manslaughter and the individual nicholas slotting who opened fire and 1st started shooting into the crowd of iraqi civilians he was convicted of 1st degree murder but now the white house is letting all of them off they will no longer be in prison serving their sentences they have been pardoned and this is the

feeling of the white house about why they made this decision. when the convoy attempted to establish a blockade outside the green zone the situation turned violent which resulted in the unfortunate deaths and injuries of iraqi civilians further prosecutors recently disclosed more than 10 years after the incident that the lead iraqi investigator who prosecutors relied heavily on survey found that there were no incision victims and to collect evidence may have had sonny's to insurgent groups himself now at this point there is widespread outrage this seems like the trump administration is almost approving of the killing of iraqi civilians 2 children were among the 14 people in the crowd who died as a result of their gun fire but at this point people are also looking at the fact that trumps education secretary betsy to vos is the sister of the founder of blackwater erik prince now there's also been

a lot of outrage about who is not on the list of trump's pardons among the 15 people pardon and 5 sentence commute meant the names that were missing that many were optimistic and hopeful about were julian a son john edward snowden these prominent whistleblowers had many people calling for the trump white house to grant them clemency among those who called for them were not just activists and advocates of civil liberties and for the protection of whistleblowers but also representatives of the united nations take a listen. on hoping that he will pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the section and criminality of those in the deep state if president trump is true as its values i think the least thing to could do is to end the suffering the purity the songs to pardon him this man has suffered enough for the interest of the public and will now trump still has time to

grant a pardon to edward snowden and to julian a son she can grant clemency up until the moment. he leaves office he could do it at the very very last minute however the number of people that were pardoned today and the information about who they are seems to have many pessimistic many of the activists supporting the whistleblowers feel like this indicates the trumpet ministration is moving in a very different direction with its clemency thanks for taking us through all of kill up and live in new york. u.s. lawmakers now being given early access snow to. some were happy to accept voters say politicians should not be given priority over a frontline minute. if

enough of us take kids we'll get back to normal life help is on the way. it isn't appropriate for me it was only gotten the virus has immunity to gets in front of elderly health care workers same goes for any young healthy person they should be among the last not 1st to. pay for fear. i'm so confident that they covered 1000 vaccine is safe and effective but i decided to take it myself it is disturbing to send them the sick us to get backs and while most from time walk his algebra and announces trips wait.

we need to distinguish 2 different things that handful of leaders or prime minister or president leading members of the senate of the senate you know we've got public the little political figures and celebrities get the vaccine to show the public that it's safe and that it's necessary that's one thing it's another thing to say that in general politicians just simply be prioritised because they have political power being politicians these are 2 separate matters they can't be conflated any humane principle for who gets the vaccine 1st should be goals that are most vulnerable and that is. specially is frontline workers essential workers the elderly and the infirm so it's true that probably some politicians might be infirm some politicians might be front line workers but they're not there's no reason why policies politicians should be pushed to the top of the list simply because they're over this. law to talk about this next story the french government is pushing for

the introduction of so-called green passports along greater freedom of movement to covert immune people critics say those who decide against getting vaccinated will be essentially treated as lesser citizens about sars 'd the latest polls suggest some 6 in 10 people in france don't want the job artie's policy report france is preparing to end its health emergency by april the so says the french prime minister john kass takes he's presented a bill in the national assembly ended establishing a so-called long term health emergency management regime simply to it is vaccination and those opposed to it might just find themselves in trouble even if they just planning a trip around the city the prime minister may under the plan measure is make the movement of people and their access to transport subject to presenting test results

showing that the person is not infected is falling vaccination or remedial treatment to some politicians the may still believe i'm vaccinated people feeling as though they 2nd class citizens if this bill has really been tabled it must be fought by all elected officials and citizens committed to democracy and freedom in the face of this senseless deviation it is up to us to bring the government back to a semblance of reason this is the bill establishing a long term health emergency management regime some day would be purely voluntary is a who is at work i want to be clear i will not make the vaccination mandatory. but the idea of a stick to a certain seat of the sole vaccinated people has the means of delivery 6 has the pose the issue of green possible it's the people who have been immunized with the public we could take the example of israel which grants each vaccinated person a green passport allowing them to go to places of culture and to restaurants and to

get back to normal living the french evacuation program will target the most vulnerable members of society 1st such as the elderly and only asked to a medical examination and come since he has. it's a great start but it's what comes next that has people here worried policia artsy paris earlier we spoke to a member of the french national party who believes the government has gone a step too far or. you know a manual marker on the prime minister the health minister livy of iran promised us there would be no compulsory vaccination and that they would leave the freedom to choose to the french in fact thanks in particular to marie le pen we see that the draw floor speaks of a measure completely very old aimed at limiting subjecting the french people the certain rules in their public lives thereby deciding for them whether they will be vaccinated or not i think that it is shameful and fact it is

a restriction of freedom which moreover contradicts the constitution this is a manifestation of dictatorship it seems to me that the government does not understand that today the patience of the french has run out. they agreed to strict discipline for many months they said yes to the introduction of quarantine said yes to the imposition of a curfew said yes to the imposition of sanitary rules they agreed to everything that was imposed on them the next day the government came up with nothing better than to further could tail their personal freedom this is called segregation if the government wants the french to get vaccinated they must restore an atmosphere of trust that's the voice of wisdom. may be finally about to announce a post break said create deal there are reports that and busters are preparing to meet soon as tomorrow christmas eve to start the ratification process shirley edwards told me war. boris johnson and his european counterparts have been working

at tirelessly and they say they're closer than ever before to getting a trade deal of course they would be closer than ever to getting a trade deal considering the amount of time left the deadline is obviously the 31st of december but today is widely seen as a deadline day the final day for any provisional agreement as both sides are quite keen to get a deal in place by christmas all that said fisheries is still one of the main stumbling blocks it's still one of the key obstacles it has been throughout all of the talks throughout the year and it is still today in fact the loss what we heard from banja the chief negotiator just last night he said that the u.k.'s latest offer is absolutely unacceptable for the european union so it is quite hard to see that we're really getting to a breakthrough moment but it seems as it has and it's all to do with how killing now the amount of percentages in the waters at the e.u. the u.k.

are now negotiating but when we look at the wider context of that we know that brics it has almost been the political death of david cameron and indeed theresa may 2 prime ministers for boris johnson we know 6 that he has predicated much of his political career that aside all of breck's it in the u.k. is general election much of it all boiled down to breakfast he'll be very eager to get the best deal in place for britain and in fact many m.p.'s within his own party are holding to ransom on that very fact saying if he doesn't get a good deal for britain that if essential he should quit if mr johnson fails to reach an acceptable trade agreement with the e.u. the prime minister will also feel the people of the united kingdom as a lifelong member of the conservative party i believe that mr johnson's position as prime minister would be untenable well in terms of ratification then that could all be done and dusted here in the united. thing and within a day or so that day that house the president diaries for and he's here in the

united kingdom is the 30th of december over across the channel then for the e.u. 27 member states the little bit more complicated they could all agree though on video link but parliament would have to ratify it to their suggesting that they would then ratify it potentially off to the event that's also not quite ideal because if anybody objects to anything well it's already being provisionally applied but all of that being said that's quite forward thinking that because still the e.u. and the u.k. need to sign on that doubted line they need to get that deal in place. a statue of confederate general robert e. lee has been removed from the u.s. capitol building following a long running campaign against symbols associated with slavery it's no being moved to the state of virginia which is the legal owner of the sculpture.

generally was a prominent figure in the coalition of southern states during the u.s. civil war and also a slave order he's become a hate figure for until racism campaigners but is still seen by many in the american south as a hero because of his military achievements and bravery the vacant spot will be taken by the statue of black civil rights activist barbara jones house speaker nancy pelosi welcomed the move the removal of a statue of robert elite and its forthcoming replacement by a tribute to barbara johnson virginia is welcome news there is no room for celebrating the bigotry of the confederacy the capitol or any other place of or not in our country. well numerous symbols of america's slave owning past have been removed in recent months the movement snowballed after the death of george floyd in minneapolis and majoring in alter cation with police it spread to several other countries with activists destroy or removing monuments associated with historical

racism. what delve a little deeper into this issue with historian gerald horne gerald good to have you on the program of a time when the country so divided general is there a danger that steps like this issue's being taken are just going to to worsen the issue and bring one side essentially to please the other. well to the contrary

that's exactly what's going on today matches if in berlin there were still statutes honoring hermann gerbils or at all 'd hitler for example that i would be considered outrageous certainly removing statues of etiquette or angers the pro nazi forces the pro fascist forces but they deserved to be angered and likewise those who defend slavery or rationalize and justify slavery they need to be embarrassed they need their symbols removed from the lands this country keep in mind that even today there are more symbols of statues honoring races and play voters then answer races and slavery advocates this is outrageous but i'm afraid the city speaks a number one be an adequate understanding of this country which after all was founded by slave owners a number to it be speaks how cavalierly least since the myths and feelings

of black people are treated in this country but as you know better than most history is never simple robert e. lee has plenty of defenders he wants to scribe slavery as a moral and political evil and there's a widely held view that he didn't want to continue to secede from the union but photo pulled the democratic will of the people does he really deserve his bad reputation as much as your equipment thing to gerbils or a hitler in germany that that's a false equivalence isn't. why perhaps lewdly not if anything robert e. lee was worse than hitler after all robert lee represented a regime that some slave ships into africa kick now you know the vigils drug moment chains across the atlantic and have them work for free the regime that mr we defended lasted for decades for hundreds of years the united states of america or in north america before the united states of america the 3rd reich only lasted about 121314 years if anything robert e.

lee is a more despicable dishonorable figure than the nazis and those comments those quotations allegedly from robert e. lee i'd like to know from what year they were taken was that were the comments after he was defeated on the battlefield not least because of the sacrifice and bravery of black soldiers or what these comments render while he was defending a slave owning regime just to get your thoughts on the big picture here that clearly there's a problem is even going through a racial inequality in the us but isn't this statue obsession really a sideshow the real issue is high poverty and car separation rates among african-americans they're not going to be addressed in this way just wasting time not at all a trip with a 1000 miles begins with once we're moving the steps and the steps a step towards redistributing the wealth in this country is just a step towards basically attacking this racial wealth bell that you just made reference to and certainly i don't see how we can accomplish those latter lot of

all goals as long as we have statutes honoring slave owner and slave masters littering and pockmarked in the landscape thank you very much for your time this hour gerald good to have you on the program as always gerald horne aurthur an historian and more great program cycling in moments here on our to sit tight to find out what's showing wherever you are across the globe today.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up economic data out of the united states and united kingdom is showing signs of recovery but how with the latest wave the copen $1000.00 pandemic effect growth moving into the end of the year will break down the numbers plus many countries have instituted new lock downs to slow the infection rate of the coronavirus heading into the holidays we'll take a look at the trends and spread of the virus and later tensions between the united states and china continue to mount after the commerce department released

a list of companies with alleged military ties break down what this means for the relationship between the world's 2 largest economies impact show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest on the economic recovery out of the united states and united kingdom a star in the united states the american economy grew by a record pace of 33.4 percent for the 3rd quarter of 2020 the commerce department reported tuesday now the number was revised up from initial estimates of 33 point one.