there was the marconi scandal in which three cabinet liberal members but shares in marconi. knowing theyinjail. eventually a select committee of the house of commons is said to them all. —— exempted. they were totally guiltless. in fact one of them was later named lord chief justice. lord baker there finding humour. the government was defeated in the lords. they demanded an independent review of the programme. a former co—chair of the conservative party was among critics of the programme. what started off as a policy specifically designed to be run as an internal discussion within communities as to what could be considered to be extremist views, it was supposed to be a genuine non—criminalised safe space. something that i supported, it became a policy which was not done by the community but became a policy which was done to the community. the government now has to decide whether to try to reverse that defeat when the counterterrorism and border security bill returns to the commons. earlier the government rejected criticism from the united nations expert who accused ministers of being in

spot of emotion was involved ok well leave it there william and sir and professor at rose go gala marconiuniversity thanks very much for coming on to r.t. thank you lou welcome bill glasson happy christmas friends here which isn't your christmas you've got another twelve days i think. my vote. now in the u.s. congress has expressed concern ever any corporation tail between the associated press and chinese news agency and somewhere in china lie to exploit the american outlet as an instrument of propaganda. explaining. the u.s. government is on red alert this time quite literally after the a.p. news agencies signed a memorandum of understanding with the chinese counterparts who are the letter lawmakers sent to the boss of associated press explains that senior journalists are well basically all spies and shouldn't be dealt with at all. singh who are serve some of the functions of an intelligence agency by gathering information and producing classified reports for the chinese leadership on both domestic and international events because the grisman and women who signed the letter seem to be a

torture of the student prior to his death when the imbalance and a professor at rome's guglielmo marconi university believes both countries are using won't be for political gain. what we do know is that there is already political interference in the life of an individual and that political interference i think is coming probably more from the united states military industrial congressional complex than from the rather harsh regime in north korea this boy. may not have been tortured but he may have been badly mistreated and that does happen i'm afraid in a lot of countries including america he's being used i think possibly by both sides now as a bargaining chip bargaining chip like some kind of poker game called shop was released i think at exactly the same time as trump was neat in the north korean leader was told us that this this life this human life is simply being used. diplomacy which frankly i find quite medieval. in light of all that is the description given to a major new strategic a weapon called apple which will enter the veterans have a thanks to president putin says our heads

protesters and police of plastering more demonstrations in the french capital paris against president marconi's government fighting broke out in one area and protesters started throwing missiles one policeman took out a gun to disperse the crowd but then had the opposite effect the officers were surrounded and forced to flee on the motorbikes so-called yellow vests protest began of a five weeks ago against plans to increase the tax on fuel opposing which will later scrapped the bonus smith was with the protesters in paris. this is been an all day protest march nonstop through the street. from the town of owning right on. the day. to follow them all the way as police try to block various routes. peaceful in a couple of small stations but they all of us protestors have wanted it to be peaceful and they try to make sure that everybody has stayed on the right side of the law there are about a thousand people left at this time of the day number similar to last week and many people here that we've spoken to not a troll interested in the concessions present manual on how to make they say they don't go