much bigger economic power lunch or wall inter. i think. you have to live with. and there's lots of advantages that the europeans jethro but as well as america. will trump takes credit for defeating islamic state terrorism series and is now considering a total troop withdrawal also ahead. of the. price exchange again in the british parliament histories of many faces all run postal if

the overhead contingency plans for a no deal break. after weeks of tackling yellow vest demonstrations french police launched their own protest at the working conditions in unpaid overtime at the same time some major no blaming russia for the yellow vest on red so we dispatched correspondents look out for those suspected to be in full trade thing for me. by you in paris so you make people protest known the two look neat. and clean the prettiest. thing in. the morning so to internationalise just turned one am here and now hope you stay with me kevin owen for next thirty minutes as we go through the latest headlines this morning then and this is the top story then the u.s. president has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria huge news that donald

trump did it on twitter giving the u.s. it himself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists. we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency we now have official confirmation that u.s. troops will be leaving syria now president trump's tweet contradicts everything that we've been hearing from the state department and the pentagon over the last several months here's what the head of the coalition to defeat isis said just over a week ago we want to see a resolution to the syrian civil war through the un security council resolution process and we also want to see the removal of foreign forces from syria particularly the iranian commander proxy forces from syria his various americans will remain on the grounds that they have to the physical to be to the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is and are now there at least two thousand u.s. troops in syria and removing them would be fulfillment of one of president trumps campaign promises white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders released

a statement saying the process of returning troops back to the u.s. has actually already begun and the statement also says that this doesn't signal the end of the global coalition to defeat isis or its campaign to isis has been defeated in the sense it holds no territory perhaps president trump is overstating the the u.s. role in that effort isis was largely defeated by the syrian and russian militaries along with the lebanese group hezbollah and the timing here is very curious turkey is threatening an offensive on u.s. backed kurdish forces in northern syria and president ever to one has demanded that the u.s. backed forces withdraw and said that the operation to attack them could start any moment so turkey is unlikely to attack u.s. forces and this could very much factor into president trump's decision to remove american forces. earlier i was joined here to moscow be gauche done offer

a broad low buck over the u.s. come pain in syria. but it's not the first time that the donald trump announces the withdrawal of troops. from syria but last time that happened he backtracked pretty quickly you turning and staying in syria for another year or so well now yeah indeed and he is taking the credit for it and just to give him the credit that he deserves in really the united states did do a lot to defeat eisel in syria i mean that can can't really be taken from them they pretty much liberated all of the eastern and northern much of the northern syrian regions of course not their soldiers not their troops but their proxy a sort of army as the kurds i mean the self-proclaimed capital of the caliphate rucka was liberated by the united states and their allies but the thing is the means that the because they did kick i sell out with the their favorite tool with their favorite approach and that is blunt stupid force so that's what they used on

rocket for example they pretty much a blitter rated the city with bombings once a flourishing prosperous city now it still lies in ruins i mean we've heard a very very big outcry coming from human rights groups for instance who have been accusing the united states of indiscriminate bombing and even using a term as an annihilation war and saying that this should be considered a war crime what the united states bombings they did there just to give you the scale of how bad it is bodies are still being found in rock or complain and in twenty seventeen. thirty year we were forced to leave our homes because of eisele when we returned we found everything which used to rubble look at all the devastation rock is a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned

everything around has been destroyed. this is in rubble you have to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to in. the u.s. coalition cause the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble. i found a mine on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mine didn't work and walked towards it it exploded my friend was killed. so the white house and confirming u.s. troops as they put it but we heard there were

a trooper devises along the way but either which way started to come out is it all happened at once what's the plan here what's been said about a timeline for all this while this is this is a very good question i should say because yes indeed right now we're hearing that some of the troops are being withdrawn already but i mean the united states they do kind of send troops in and out of syria regularly this is called military rotation this is this is a thing so they send out a number of troops and send back in another group roughly the same size of so this is what's been happening in iraq for example in the years that came after the official and of the military campaign there and this is sort of the question that stands right now with syria whether or not how will they be withdrawing troops what scale will this what the drool take will be all of the troops or will this be again an iraq war in afghanistan sort of a situation so we have no details on this and i mean

a lot of that stems from the front that the united states. have been changing the rules. game as i said game was and go in when it comes to why the in syria in the first place because it certainly wasn't an official invitation from the un recognized leader bashar assad and to the country saying they want to fight terrorists. so now they've defeated unlike the how to already introduced a new reasons a new pretext as why the should stay for example combating and kind of countering iranian influence in syria where did that come from so now they say that their priorities have shifted again we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to ante up money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to

compromise a notion are created yet another horror in the years ahead one thing that is obvious is that the united states there are still unhappy with the bashar assad being at the helm of syria so the are bound to keep some influence so they will in a way looks like they will remain there in syria just to what extent it's still to be seen he goes down in a studio with me really with more meat on the bones of the spoke to just not a former u.s. diplomat. he thinks trumps decision will meet with a huge wave of criticism as a good thing that helps to lead to what the only thing is that's going to restore stability in syria that is to put the whole country back under the gun troll village of government no question is is will the so-called experts that he's appointed to run his administration sandbag him and drag their feet and find some way to dig gate this decision and that's the real question we don't know the answer to a lot of people of fact virtually everybody in this administration except the president

himself will be opposed to this decision and that's why it's been so long in coming remember. he also said he wanted to get out of afghanistan but all the so-called experts told him the reasons why he couldn't do it. with one hundred days left more like ninety nine out of five until the u.k. parts ways with the trees amaze government is ramping up no deal breaks it preparations even more it says the prime minister's divorce plan continues to face serious opposition with m.p.'s should have a final vote on the deal january right about the fourteenth of may he made her case in parliament on wednesday triggering again a heated exchange with opposition leader jeremy called it. until the deal has a date has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal no deal would read his ouster for our country and no

responsible government would ever allow each yes i know it's christmas i know it's not to miss talking down the chimney under the christmas tree he still hasn't found . the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation was the prime minister the trial to bring an acceptable deal but why didn't the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting four billion pounds in a cynical attempt to drive you could deeply damaging deal through their house you know who is a right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's governed easy also so this is day to go. the stakes are getting higher and higher and the debate is getting hotter and hotter and is in fact one hundred days to go before bracks it turns from being this vague concept that everybody in the u.k. seems to be arguing about into something very real and it's been now two years of

attempted negotiations and it's absolutely clear at this point that some of the situation is more uncertain than ever and certainly passions are flying high so how do i see the i try to bojo job you know. in syria that ought to go. get it appears that the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn apparently had called the british prime minister a stupid woman during prime minister's question time today i referred to those who i believe are seeking to turn the debate about the national crisis facing our country into a pantomime as. people. this is speaker did not use the words stupid woman about the prime minister or anyone else and i am completely opposed to the use of sexist or resort to his language in absolutely any

form at all so what we can know certainly leave this lip reading to the experts in terms of who said what the key is that once again attention has shifted from the substance of bracks it to now this scandal and alleged namecalling making up the headlines moving forward for at least for today and while it's clear that the problem has gone nowhere and specifically the european commission this wednesday has officially started preparing for a new deal brax its contingency action plan so things are getting quiet real the debate as hard but where all of this is going to lead remains a massive question well at the moment if there's no deal more this is been talked about more than three thousand troops yet to be put on standby as part of a no deal contingency plan other measures include securing medical and food supplies over the coming weeks families and businesses are also going to get official guidance on how to prepare for

a no deal now depends who you talk to hear about it's going to be on one side you hear the doom and gloom there's another school of thought too like independent british and repeat genocide concerned who believes that fears over a chaotic exit from the e.u. could well be misplaced. they're actually playing up the no deal scenario letters going out to households and businesses project fear with nuclear. warheads on at the moment so they're ramping up the fear of this. by brussels is an option that's on the table and under government legislation if we don't have a deal in the next few weeks that we just leave under world trade organization rules and there is no problem without the problem is in westminster is that we have too many m.e. and pace and any pay standing behind cameras going on radio just just all here among themselves not listening to what the voters want we've got to remain prime minister that are in main opposition and we've got remain m.p.'s in the house of westminster when they were given

a clear mandate by the people to leave and we knew exactly what we were voting for and that is leaving without a deal if that comes down to it but i mean brussels now broadcasting to you they really don't get its and understand the brussels brinkmanship that takes place here of course it goes to the wire and we should hold their feet to the wire as well oh we've got one hundred days to work this out because this lot will cave in because they need us more than we need them well of course paul london just very solid like this whole thing despite all the breaks of drama wednesday one moment from the parliament sessions on everyone's lips i'm over going to read lips maybe you will that's exactly what came out of jeremy called when decide for yourself did you say woman here or did he show you paypal anyway this is the labor leader and what he muttered let you decide.

which kind of mr journalistic language must not be tolerated. he did not call it a stupid woman and so i do think there is any basis for an apology. i understand it he said stupid people. it doesn't look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not the woman. with weeks of protests all simmering in france to police officers they have now started their own protest against unpaid overtime and what they say is dangerous working conditions in at least one terminal in the french capital's main airport now officers have been causing long lines at passport control by staging a slow down protest reporting from paris charlotte dube and ski. well it seems is

out with the yellow vests and the blue vests police are now trying to squeeze concessions out of the government they're unhappy you hear what they see is deteriorating conditions the amount of overtime they've done some twenty three million hours and that includes because some of the work that we've been doing over the last five weeks with the best test is and. increased security that we seeing around christmas markets and some sites across france in the wake of that strasburg attack and they say it's simply not enough the unions describing the situation for policing as being the city. do not get the grease was too cautious or even considering the social and professional obligations of our colleagues when they are not in uniform they become yellow vests because we are middle class or even lower because of our salaries our origin that's why some colleagues feel that

they are yellow vests because of the yellow fasts really resonates with police well those mean cry from some of the police unions who've been in discussions with the interior minister since tuesday there's discussions are ongoing but already the government is offering some concessions being put on the table trying to quell the sunnies the last thing they want is for the police to continue strike which has been described as many as act one giving the suggestion that they prepared to go a little bit further as a yellow vest and be going over the last few weeks the concession on the table so for is a three hundred. to be paid to the officers who've been involved in the deployment of the yellow vests protest but the unions say it's just not enough and actually what they want is for those twenty three million hours of overtime being paid a huge bill according to the interior minister. the state currently goes almost two

hundred seventy five million. uro's to its police officers for over time not in recent months or years but for decades we cannot have debt at that level they're also unhappy the unions about what they see is being moved to enough in the port that the police budget which is due to be discussed as part of the two thousand and nine hundred budget in the national assembly on that day they say it's not enough money to pay for the overtime and it's not enough money to improve the conditions nor is it enough to recruit the extra staff that they need to deal with the continuing protests those talks ongoing between the unions and interior minister but it seems it's already this slow down or the police this new blue vest protest here in france is already having some impact when we turn we saw charlie on another mission to the original widespread yellow verse demonstrations called of course for the fuel tax levies to be dropped some political reforms but some now been looking

away from the government for the source of the discord in a rush to link the movement to here in moscow shilo the earlier when the for suspects in party. i don't think i've definitely found one. yes. by you in paris to make people protest in the two look need. look. no need. to win your chest. the russians are they behind the yellow vest protest what is it that you do just like he would. leave the loop remove. the news in your mouth. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing

a yellow vest on saturday. henri. all this place suspiciously could be said of russian activity in france. france the you mean you know it is so discordant to protesting to just spit in france into chaos. here here. is a story what's your favorite color. are you sure it's not yellow. do you. see. most of the policy. it's a conversation point maybe you wouldn't expect the phrase no problem is familiar many languages of course but the translation right now is at the center of

a trademark row against the entertainment giant disney you probably know the phrase from this movie. so prominently. was. not. all but it is problem since along king came out in ninety four generations grown up knowing how tartar that phrase was trademarked by disney to protect its movie merchandising but the studio is now being accused of colonialism some people say it shouldn't have that trademark petition launched by a zimbabwean activist has got disney to drop its copyright claim that it's been signed this petition by more than sixty thousand people most of the people feel strongly about this they said the phrase belongs to african culture and is not an american invention so they say disney should butt out and to talk about that so we could see roger's right political activist and julio rivera editorial director for reactionary times dot com and said i'm going to start with you good thing this sixty thousand people are signing this or people worrying unnecessarily here i

think i've really got a point. i think they do have a point and that's why we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this is another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capital is once everything capital is need but everything capitalist don't want to paint or not everything is meant to be commodified and culture is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it but it surely just seems a bit of overreaction going on it simply just a phrase you've heard. to the rajah's rights of the say but to think is overreacting a bit think you do. i mean you know we live in the era now of phony outrage i mean at the end of the day disney is a global company so it's not to say that they can't appropriate or use phrases from

other cultures let me tell you something right now we're going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack. it is the tilted kill pub franchise going to be under attack i mean where does it end i mean does the needs to make a city endure the one thing that disney did do is they made the investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs disney's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and causes in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars to charitable causes yeah and today you know disney's helped generate interest in africa among generations of children that otherwise you know the might not even known this phrase if that movie was now that you can see that side of the point i suppose you know i certainly do i think that it's great that we want to definitely expose people so global culture is it's a fantastic way to bring us all together but i think it's a fourteen parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like women tata this knee also tried this

with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is quarterly sacre for people specifically in mexico and they and they did poor out of that as well eventually because the public pressure and i think we're going to see even more public pressure now as the world is just a lot more hip to the difference between educating people and appropriating people you know twitter. is itself it's not a super bowl last livest a baby a father will try to phrase it so that some court happy birthday to you but would you draw the line here anthony you know you can't some of this is common phrases you can't make money out of just common phrases you know no worries can you. yeah i mean i mean this is like getting close to that dangerous language of corporations or people as well which we all know is extremely ridiculous i mean you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation this is this is actually to my good brother julio's point it's going

to start a slippery slope you know towards the other direction of just like everything that is sacred everything that could possibly come out of your mouth is a potential to be copyright and you could be sued for it so again not everything is meant to be commodified and this also does kind of bring us also to thinking about what's been happening with native americans here in the united states the mascot ing of native americans the culture appropriation of native americans it's very very harmful to people not just monetary but it is i don't have everything so i think it's only you or him lots of people if there are that sensitive i mean listen i'm an african her name is a little enjoy a kenyan intellectual property lawyer an entertainment lawyer even agrees with me that this is not cultural appropriation it's not you know it's not something that they're doing that is in any way negative i mean people are still allowed to use the phrase the only problem is if there is a maybe there is an african company that would like to come out of fire as well and

now they don't have the opportunity to do so but disney had the foresight to go ahead and protect the trademark again after making a significant investment in it like i mentioned they were looking to i wonder for companies like disney to just just be the devil's advocate here there's a new live action version of the lion king coming out soon they're going to get more money on the merged in the t. shirt so maps etc etc should there be a kind of a limit all maybe should disney then be sending money back to other countries where this phrase came from should they have some thing in the contract to appease the critics of this see it or not. i don't think so i mean why should they they're not bound to have to do that and they're already doing a lot like i said a lot of charitable giving on their own disney also has a program called the sub-saharan african cultural representative program where they give jobs to people from sub-saharan africa they bring them to america to try to help create a more authentic experience in the disney theme parks. yeah you see that again is

very pernicious and that's why professor. who is a cultural professor from kenya i liken what's happening right now to a form of resource extraction you're extracting something from a consonant that and i agree with our host that at least sit down with these people at least coordinate with them it's the same thing as we're seeing with the mascot ing of indigenous people the football team from d.c. they lost their trademark capabilities at first they were eventually reinstated but at first a judge did strike down their ability to trademark it because it was so harmful to native americans the same thing is seen with the florida state seminoles we have to draw a limit and a line and be clear about cultural appropriation to get sensitive to the worry here is that you know if you plan things down so much studios have got to steer a very fine line between humor and offend stereotyping creativity culture

interpretational cultural appropriation as you say but if you can't generalize too much trying to please absolutely everyone all of the time which is patently impossible it's all kind of agree on but you can have some very bland movies audio story lines i agree with you i mean one of my favorite movies i'm sure this is where julio and i will actually agree is mel brooks is movie blazing saddles that would never be allowed to come out in the states and i do think that there was a line absolutely i mean i am not about like i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended and i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sharing you know this is also so about some form of reparations because you are taking someone signature ok as you can take a look at what it meant to sara lee anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out anthony that you're driving a jeep cherokee and then just leave it. i ride my bike brother and i am friendly at

the gap but i ride my bike everywhere. but back to disney they haven't actually commented on this case i mean how big is a petition if it's worldwide sixty thousand people have signed up to it so that may be yeah i suppose as far as disney's concerned it is a drop in the bucket a lot of people are really obviously profoundly concerned about this should disney be doing something public at this stage at what stage do you think they should be going well yeah we are listening at least well i mean if let's say you get over you know a couple of million signatures on that petition then yeah maybe that's something that they should look into but obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of phony outrage people are just looking for reasons to be offended you know i mean listen if you look back in my culture i have you know native american blood in my system as well i'm not freaking out over the cleveland indians the atlanta braves or the washington redskins it just boils down to the individual person you know people as i stated are just looking for a reason to be.