Powells big and that is that and this weekend in syria the will for partition of syria and. Occur this see without coordination with russia with syria with iran and with and now i believe that. A very very clear cut message that you know the americans are actually out of the liable. And they cannot actually count than them. The rallies against the military operation have been held in turkey as well in a number of other European Countries as you can see there police in istanbul reportedly used force to disperse a demonstration earlier detaining and least a dozen people we are keeping a watch on the situation along the turkish Syrian Border and the and all states before them. Three days into a u. S. Government shutdown and the senate has voted to clear the puck for funding u. S. Institutions until the eighth of february with the details what it all means kaleb open is a new york joins us live now on the program hi there yeah the update the eighth of february if it just covers the funding for another couple of weeks is it just a temporary solution or does something more permanent look to be in place finally here while people are holding their breath we now have the u. S. Senate voting eighty one to eighteen for this resolution that would just simply extend the funding for another two weeks so we could be back in this situation once again people are waiting for the house of representatives to see what happens now at the moment the statue of liberty here in new york even though its a federal property remains open with the new york state actually paying the bills in order to keep this big symbol of the United States and this kind of iconic monument in the usa open furthermore our weve heard from the white house that cabinet members from the trauma administration actually delayed their trip to the davao Economic Forum now to give you more of an idea of what exactly is happening and what it means for the u. S. Federal government to be shut down i want to take a listen to this upcoming clip. America knows this is the trump shutdown my favorite still sure shot down so i took that nice little ring to it doesnt it Senate Democrats shut down this government a big fat failure yes. Thanks. Unfortunately we cannot see your call today because Congressional Democrats are Holding Government funding to an honorably need immigration to each of the third direction the Government Shutdown. Now as you just heard there has no been no shortage of people in congress blaming each other the democrats blaming the republicans the republicans blaming the democrats for the shutdown now there has been an International Reaction to the shutdown as well Chinese State media ran an interesting article over looking and describing the process of the u. S. Federal government being shut down and saying that it was indicated of what they call the spirit of noncooperation in washington d. C. Very interesting article now of the article went on to talk about how the shutdown is essentially a slap in the face to donald trump and that pointed out that donald trump is basically undone many of the major policies of his predecessor barack obama now the article in the Chinese State media goes on to talk about how in the developed world the u. S. Political system is kind of held up as an icon is almost the perfect system the perfect political model but it seems to indicate that its this system in the u. S. Isnt exactly capable of delivering swift results and getting things done and the Chinese State media referred to the Government Shutdown saying that it showed that what we have here in the United States is essentially a chaotic political system very international interesting International Reaction to the Government Shutdown so people are watching and waiting to see what happens next hoping that we will at least get a two week a reprieve to the shutdown of the u. S. Federal government ok thanks very much caleb open line from new york. Guards on europes largest prison north of paris barricades some block the entrance to the facility in protest over working conditions and it comes part of a nationwide strike triggered by a series of attacks on prison stuff across the country the latest incident was on sunday when two guards were assaulted by an inmate the union say used up the demonstrations will continue until the government takes steps to. Protect personnel working. Some of the protests over the past week have led to violent clashes with police. Going back to the u. S. No where Americas NationalSecurity Agency has the power to identify people by the sound of their voice the n. S. A. Is thought to be using Technology Much more advanced than say a couple or almost all uses amounts according to a report based on documents leaked by the agencys former contractor Edward Snowden picking up the story. Of my voice there isnt much and my identity can tell im female and before my accident were going to im american i love. The n. S. A. However could do a lot more easily using my voice to identify who i am what language im speaking my gender and my dialect according to classified documents from the snowden archive the n. S. A. Has been developing technology to identify a speaker using just their voice for years when sigint transcribers worked the same targets for a long time they sometimes can identify a certain individual in recorded conversations just by the sound of his voice and by his unique way of speaking this process was traditionally known as voice identification now rapidly improving technology is available that can do the same job but mathematically the Technology Works by analyzing your voice is unique features to create an individual voice print and once the n. S. A. Has that a single speaker can be almost instantaneously pinpointed even among massive databases now in two thousand and sixteen alone the n. S. A. Courted more than one hundred fifty one million records of american phone calls and that was after their bulk collection abilities were limited by congress so theres no telling how many voice print they could have at their disposal and theoretically a person could be instantly located and tracked down as long as a microphone is somewhere nearby and as Edward Snowden pointed out theres almost no escaping mikes these days i think they need. He would argue the police. Chase terrorists paedophiles who we dont talk about so i just told he surveillance what were talking about is everybody everything piece of data by everybody being collected and scanned by software they he looks devious and he could stop talking to people involved in very lucrative things like demonstration straw eeks even you know people who vote for the wrong way this was the American Government is considered another fear is that speaker recognition could end up discouraging people from speaking out it has the potential to unmask Anonymous Sources or tracking journalists or whistleblowers and according to the intercept this technology isnt only in american hands either it looks like interpol the European Union and china have their own version as well among others so you can run but you definitely cannot hide well from collecting information to losing it the u. S. Federal court has revealed the n. S. A. Deleted crucial data connected to illegal wiretapping carried out by the george w. Bush administration the Agency Responded saying the data was removed to simply free up space on its hard drives the president ial Surveillance Program they to most criteria that were broadly used to delete dates of a certain type in response to Mission Requirements to free up space and improve performance of the backup system of a dating question most controversially collected in the aftermath of the nine eleven terror attacks it was initially ordered by the court to be preserved for further examination but has not been a raise that long but the backup tapes the information was deemed important to a number of pending lawsuits a former n. S. A. Director and whistleblower we spoke to say this sort of data tends to disappear far too often. But its a way of covering your backside so that when the investigation started in the get that they they just cant let that data be exposed thats all its just more evidence of their criminal activity the department of defense Inspector General did the same thing with material against whistleblowers even when the whistleblowers were in a court under to under criminal and his age in a criminal trial they destroyed evidence and it was only because it was exculpatory and they didnt want that out so now this is all deliberate even when they lie in front of Congress Though or to the people the United States or even to the president or any of the cabinet it doesnt seem to matter theres no accountability here to be Intelligence Community is so much power i mean even senator schumer told the President Trump that he shouldnt be attacking the Intelligence Community because theyve got six ways to sunday to get back at you and these are the ways they do it. Back in Europe Germany strollin our Coalition Talks could be on the verge of a breakthrough the social democrats leader Martin Shultz has persuaded his Party Members to vote in favor of reestablishing the Ground Coalition government with chancellor Angela Merkels party however this could save the anti migrant im turning to for Germany Party become the main Opposition Force in the country as peter all of and i break start. All this was the result that Martin Schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for both it was a visibly very worried martin childes waiting for those results that came in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with Angela Merkels conservative bloc or theyd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one he prefer you dont you know you everyone should realize the question is Coalition Talks for you elections my take on this is very clear i dont think you elections are the right way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag how would the book to stagg look if a new grand coalition can be formed well what it would do is it would mean that the social democrats were no longer the Largest Opposition Party that would go to the new kids on the block of turner to germany they would be the Largest Opposition Party they would also get all of the or perks and traditions that come along with that including being the chair of the Bundestag Budget Committee all new ground for the right leaning and t. Establishment party a party in fact in which Martin Schultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldnt be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself he may well catapult them up into the position of being germanys largest opposition. While the push for a second grand coalition has had a paul arising effect on s. P. D. Members other parties on the left are also warning the social democrats that they are jeopardizing their future. As of yet. There is no more appropriate term than political suicide to describe this because if the s. P. D. Really carries on like all the things they were punished for in the last election then i dont know what will be left of them in two or four years time and thats the vicious circle with them trapped in for so many years now and that we should break it with. Another coalition with another four years of government government. Bring us to this point i think that the people of the body of thinking long term that the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition martin daughter a hamburger m. P. From the dealing party believes the social democrats have been drifting away from their quirky news that is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years big gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. The interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population is just. This process. Turning to the u. K. Where the head of the army has outlined the main threats facing britain and russia turns out to be top of the pile general certain carter wants money to be allocated to bridge the gap between british and russian capabilities. The arch exponent of this is russia i believe it represents the most complex and capable state based threat to our country since the end of the cold war they represent a clear and present danger they are not thousands of miles away they are now on europe store. I believe our ability to preempt will respond to these threats will be eroded if we dont match up to them now we cannot afford to sit back. Here the words of the general ortiz poly boy who has been listening to that has more now on the pali hum indeed did the general justify his plea for more funds here well look normally military chiefs asking for more money for more equipment is pretty Standard Practice normally its retired generals in this case it was somewhat unusual because it was the acting head of the army nick carter hes basically risking annoying his paymasters by coming out with this plea for more money but the purpose of the speech was to secure more funding for the military warning of the dangers of underinvestment at a time when when theres this threat of russia or as they say he spoke of the dangers of failing to keep up with russias defense spending and also what he called russias unorthodox and hybrid warfare one thing that was certainly on orthodoxy in that speech was the part with the or dio clip the russian audiotape take a listen. Now through that indication of the scale of the modernization is clear from a three minute video clip im now going to show you this was run on russian t. V. A couple of years ago you dont need to understand the russian just simply listen to the tone of the commentary. So this audience recording from the ministry of defense about investment in russian weapons but certainly in our news room and it may not be a good indicator because after all we are on t. V. But it caused a few people to scratch their heads. And obviously the clip is in russian what informational value it could have for the people that is not clear and it felt as though it may have been sort of playing on this stereotype of russians being aggressive and hell bent on World Domination nick costa isnt the first person to talk about the threat of russia recently to resume a used a very big sort of Foreign Policy speech the Mansion House speech late last year to set out what a threat russia red and in december you had another big sort of military chief here in the u. K. Defense the head of u. K. Defense stuff talking about the threat to russia cutting vital undeceive cables as sort of a way of encouraging investment but none of this seems to be affecting the people who are holding the puss strings because downing street didnt have much of a response to this speech the spokesperson today from downing street said that the u. K. s Defense Budget is the highest in europe on the issues outlined by cars already being addressed so varying degrees of consent from the ministry of defense and from downing street who decide how much money is meant to be spent now its also worth pointing out that when theyre not all skiing from money members of the British Military tend to be a little bit more blog say about the whole russia thing last summer then defense secretary Michael Fallon joked that moscow is probably jealous of britains new steady state of the art and craft carrier because that as well because russias is so lapper dated that was a joke by michael fall and then defense secretary and also youve got Boris Johnson and Rex Tillerson meeting for talks today in london theyre discussing iran north korea and syria they havent mentioned russia. Live from british capital this summer our. Thank you. To something a little different during the hucks hold shores isnt exactly everybodys idea of fun is that the though one russian cosmonaut might beg to differ the following are pictures sent from the International Space station showing him hovering around on a vacuum cleaner. If you ever wondered what cosmonauts and astronauts to on their downtime there you go using to use direct from your with r. T. International more program started in just a moment