subscribe to rile people up he comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. been fighting for a long time with syria now we've warned it's time to come back. i'll try to takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria and blindsides his allies on that ministration announcing a surprise troop withdrawal from the country also ahead. french police unions claim the government has promised them a wage hike and bonuses to cover time deployed at demonstrations and officers gone to bed own protests. planned to break. the prime minister who is supposed to be on the take you negotiate. heated debates in the british parliament with less than a hundred days to the u.k.

divorces from the e.u. and then please are destructive by alleged comments were made leader of the opposition. no problem becomes a big headache for disney after is accused of colonialism trademark the swahili phrase up you know macarthur we hear some other mated feedback about. that everything is going to be come out of the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money off of the artists learn to do it on their story pressure of living there will only reach people just looking for a reason to be offended. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me thinking airing our top story this hour president trump has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria with the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops there the president took to twitter giving the u.s.

and himself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists there is seems that is words perplexed his administration allies and finds. we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly now we've won it's time to come back. because all remain on the ground there for the physical to feed a caliphate all the other pieces in place to ensure that their defeat is under. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to us officials tell n.b.c. news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria there is no explanation of what steps the u.s. is going to take or a detailed plan for the withdrawal the white house press secretaries that washington was transitioning to the next phase of its syria campaign u.s. intervention in the syrian civil war began in twenty fourteen with as strikes and boots on the ground without approval from damascus or a u.n.

mandate earlier my colleague kevin owen was joined in the studio by ecostar now for a broader look at the u.s. campaign in syria the united states. have been changing the rules of this game as it said game was and go in when it comes to why they are in syria in the first place because it certainly wasn't an official invitation from the un recognized leader bashar assad into the country saying they want to fight terrorists i saw so now they've defeated unlike the how to already introduced a new reasons a new pretext as why the should stay for example come 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 get money

for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that their government is ready to compromise a notion. create yet another horror in the years ahead 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 the thing is the means that the because they did kick eisel out with 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 did there just to give you the scale of how bad it is bodies are still being found in rock or complain and did in twenty seventeen. it was still at their idea we were forced to leave our homes because of eisele when we returned we found everything reduced 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.

the u.s. coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city. analysts point out that the u.s. backed kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned down vulnerable turkey has threatened an offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view as terrorists a fear of a clash spits with the u.s. postponed i was only a little. help us from supporters and opponents in the administration are not pleased with his decision for me us diplomat jim johnson said that we have to see if they will succeed in pushing trying to reverse this because make a comeback and in fact some of the opponents of president trumps decision to pull out of syria are citing exactly that they're comparing it to their accusations against barack obama that he was quote premature withdrawal from iraq led to the rise of isis in the first place look if claiming the defeat of isis is an excuse

for donald trump to get us out of syria i say hooray it's the right decision the real 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 a this decision and that's the real question we don't know the answer to. these unions and from say they have struck a wage deal with the country's interior minister as well to protest speil for says over unpaid overtime and dangerous working conditions a french government spokesperson confirms that a three hundred euro bonus was promised earlier is that it was also said to be paid . the pima did plus a three hundred euro bond as long as us to reward the one hundred eleven thousand security personnel who were put under tremendous pressure particularly in the last few weeks because it lets you know thousands of police officers have been deployed showing weeks of violence yellow vests protests in france and not everyone is

pleased by the french government payoff. feel like a bone was thrown to us to sow discord between us and the yellow vests and we continue to support the yellow vests despite the fact micron wants to divide us to make us weak we take his proposal of three hundred euro as an insult mccrone wants to buy and he says it is a special award to compensate for what our fellow officers have been through and extra working hours that haven't been taken into account some of my colleagues have been working without a break for twenty days already when the work day often lasts twenty hours and afterward they still need time to come back home and rest considering all this we wonder how they've managed to handle it so far. and a parody twitter account that makes sarcastic tweets about a president with mccrum has been suspended just a day off it was launched it was run in the name of a fictional seven year old girl who posts tweets and the hashtag mccrum must go her

posts mirror a similar accounts launched in twenty sixteen by a real girl from aleppo in syria we see writes about the horrors of war and calls on the international community for help i don't know her posts against the syrian president assad's regime of written fairly good english in an old interview with c.n.n. she appeared to be reading from a script. i once. that is around you react. and in school it. although the french version has now resurfaced on to a new name it has lost many of its followers and the original version remains banned a co-author of the account james carey told us what motivated him. the motivation behind it obviously i mean it's fairly clear it was to do with some of that bond was you know a piece of regime change propaganda during the syrian civil war and decisions for

war were being made on the twitter of a little girl that's a ridiculous concept to think about and to expand that out to you know any country is crazy and it was just pointing out how to raise you know how insane that idea is that a child and you know some on the street reporters in aleppo were basically dictating foreign policy for the united states israel turkey you know all these countries are basing their words on what was supposedly just a child who decided to tweet one day so we just decided to run with it this time as france was you know a blowing up the news and. just to point out the hypocrisy of when this happens in a western nation nobody had any problem with macross using what are chemical weapons on his own people and we just wanted to point out that when this happens in a nato country if there is no propaganda effort there's never to cover it up. in the midst of a hated brags that debate one moment in the u.k.

parliament between prime minister to resign may and opposition leader jeremy colvin has lip wheat is hard at work some people are asking why they call been matted and misthought in this thick comment under his breath will have a look feel self did the labor leaders say woman all people. it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements so no deal. would reduce zoster for our country and no responsibly government would ever allow it some kind of christmas on it is not going to stop came down the chimney on the terrace mystery this still doesn't sound like. it's the prime minister who is supposed to be on the take you negotiate. the climate is subtle to bring in acceptable deal but it's a lot of a gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deals he's got an easy also cut this deal.

cut the budget cut no. kind of missile domestic languages must be tolerated. during prime minister's question time to date on the threat to those who i believe were seeking to turn the debate about national policies facing our country into a time to moment as stupid people. this is big i did not use the word stupid woman about the problem is still cool anyone else and i'm completely opposed to the use of sexist old misogynist language and absolutely any full. look like stephen woman to me i

can see stupid but not. the phrase no problem is familiar in many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of a trademark law against the entertainment giant disney and you probably know the phrase from this movie. since the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred four generations grown up knowing tartar the phrase was trademarked by disney to protect its movie merchandising but the studio is being accused of colonialism a petition launched by or zimbabwe an activist to get does need to drop its copyright claim has been signed by more than sixty thousand people saying the

phrase belongs to african culture and is not an american invention or disney's trademark dates back to two thousand and three for who started to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny this one haiti origin of either the phrase or the names of almost all of the lion king characters although it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself the case has fired up some angry opinions. but we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this as 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 wants everything capital is need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that's used if you look at it and i don't understand really anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out anthony that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of phony outreach people are just looking

for a reason to be offended 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 i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sheridan the one thing that disney didn't do is maybe an 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 not everything is meant to be come out applied and culture is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money off of 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 where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i

think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like women tata disney also tried this with dia de los went oh so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is quarterly sacre to people specifically in mexico who make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is why cultural appropriation so to come high pay inflation came to me. to ravage venezuela with the elderly now looking to get cryptocurrency pension payments we've got that story and much mall right after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.

was a principle no emotions having politicians this is a. medical doctor i want him to do his will to like him so i try not to attach any particular personal feelings maybe something had tickled objections i would have but in politics history is a judge and history will judge who's presidency was in the future even though the victory to the nation. which was not.

welcome back venezuela which is reeling under a crippling hyper inflation has picked its hopes of recovery on its own cryptocurrency the petro media that are reporting that pensions are now set to be converted into the national crypto currency but if an ocean has the details. behind me as one of caracas is famous for the ballad kind of trademark of venezuela's capital no one can say how many people are leaving very sly was. some studies estimate that more than eighty percent of been israel is the two million population leaving dire poverty once relatively well off the country's own dependent economy simply collapsed when prices slumped fuel is fast becoming one of the pew things anyone can afford in venezuela according to today's rate for just

one u.s. dollar i can get attention eleven thousand tons of fuel sounds absurd right with hyperinflation here in the country a week later for the same amount i would be able to get it wouldn't more than that annual inflation has topped one million percent and in an attempt to curb it five zero as have been knocked off the currencies value it actually gasoline is cheap if people are starving who don't get proper health care and education while the security situation getting worse every day. all we've got to starvation and it's to far out of this government. experts say been as well as economy can hardly survive without international donations in reality u.s. sanctions make it impossible for an as well a to pay off debt let alone borrow money and donald trump has never made washington's aim as secret i'm not going to rule out

a military option we have many options for that is whether it's a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military as the military decides to do that cut off from the dollar the countries unable to import food and medicine putin and even heavier burden on the already exhausted population are even though this. actions do not affect or prove that the importation of of basic goods are such as food or medicine the third fact that there are financial sanctions under this bill has made it very difficult for the country to or for the government rather to engage in our financial transactions over almost any kind of man without going to swill also depends to a large extent of the true ninety something percent of that software and include its hard currency earnings that depends on oil production in our production is declining because it would be almost impossible for the government to import badly needed replacement parts for the oil industry and so while production has declined

by as much as fifty percent in the past two years in a digital money firm dash sees this catastrophe differently they are calling it a creep to revolution trying to encourage people to avoid hyper inflation and secure their money electronically dash is digital cash much like bitcoin but unlike bitcoin it's really the first form of digital cash that works just like physical cash the group says its cash could be successfully used to pay for airplane tickets head tells a lunch as we heard that food chains like papa john's subway may accept crieff the currency we're going to take it out now this sticker actually means that they do accept print the currency high when it is when i can pay with cash. only currently i cannot accept the payments and dash i need a smartphone scan the code that you'll receive on your phone to complete the transaction but the boss took the smartphone how many people pay with

a printer currencies and popular. when we have the equipment during the weekends sometimes we get four people in one day confused a bit with tried couple of other restaurants of the same chain and another one reported except in payments i'm a creep to but the best we got was the dash sticker we saw through a closed glass door do you pay with crypto currency. i know why there aren't why because i don't have any don't know i personally don't use it they will go on to pay pensions and cryptocurrency but i don't know whether that's up to the people do have access but they can't afford it all they make goes towards buying food. optimists say creeped occurrences can help those who fled the broad some estimate the number is already into the millions to transfer money to their families still here in venezuela but until fundamental changes come into effect the so-called reaped a revolution won't ease the months of hardship cryptocurrency. could work

and i think and of course people would be interested in using it if one were just more or less certain that the price of oil were going to go up when it's going down government people are going to be interested in investing and so on so that's been a bit of a problem for the government because recently the present world has been going down it's going to be very difficult under these circumstances for any kind of critical and he actually seems to are to really take hold in venezuela because it needs economic stability i think in order to work. in a big win for whistle blowers london police will be forced to reveal documents passed between u.s. and british authorities concerning wiki leaks editors and italian journalist and partner of wiki leaks how successfully appealed a freedom of information case with the metropolitan police to find emirates the requested information held by police concerning correspondence with the us justice

department she claimed that any data about wiki leaks journalists should be published the police hard to refuse stating them red sea had no right to request information about other individuals but this latest decision made by a british tribunals panel has now allowed access as long as there is written consent. well back in twenty fourteen wiki leaks learns that a court in virginia ordered tech giant google to hand over their personal data here is what a human rights lawyer working for wiki leaks said about that we want to know what role the british government and the british police are playing in that process now that we know that information subpoenaed from this british journalists and editors likely contributed to the criminal investigation in the u.s. and the diet mint of julian assange. response took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in twenty twelve after after losing his appeal against extradition to sweden where he faced prosecution for sexual assault however the case was closed in twenty

seventeen he remains there is still fearing extradition to the u.s. over a possible indictment against him on as being asked charges we heard from the wiki leaks editor in chief on the importance of this victory this is a very important landmark ruling for all journalists the fact that the metropolitan police in scotland yard's is gathering information on individuals or large scale is of course overbore all of we are sort of this is connected to overwork and to julian assange so yes but as was stated in the request to the metropolitan police we suspect that this information gathering is in relation to the ongoing investigation has been go on for years in the united states with the obvious intention of turning that into an indictment we believe strongly that the information. by the metropolitan police has been on the view have for the united states justice department. information possibly shared of course with

the justice department and the states which is. polling you know you. less than three hours time russian president vladimir putin will start his annual media q. and a with journalists from both at home and abroad a record number of media representatives are expected to attend this year during the past fourteen press conferences he spent more than forty three hours fielding questions from journalists there is speculation that the president might beat his cue in a wreck order four hours and forty minutes this time well either way we'll be covering the event live from midday moscow time. i russian soyuz spacecraft has just successfully touched down in kazakstan we can take a look at the returning korea hey a russian cosmonauts

a. gemini asteroid alex on augusta and u.s. astronauts serena or non chancellor well they've logged one hundred ninety six days on the international space station is soyuz capsule the track to follow but it will need your attention after a mysterious hole was discovered and we're back you know all this because we know it's made an eight hour long space walk to look at that make sure. you know. her health well thanks for joining us on aussie international this hour you can have your say on those stories by joining commenting on social media and we'll be back at the top of the hour see that. you're.

still. thank you very much. welcome to the next guys are plentiful survival guide. looking forward to the. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain don't want to see you watch kaiser report. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this film also a scary dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist are those owls that's

threatened will be successful very critical dharm time to sit down and. greetings and sal you taishan well there must be a serious glitch in the matrix hawk watchers because first michael isikoff starts questioning the veracity of the steel dossier and now and what could only be described as the biggest early christmas gift of the year it appears that contrary to previous reports the united states is pulling its troops out of syria what's next the minnesota vikings winning a super bowl taylor swift making an album that isn't about her break up yes early wednesday morning u.s. president donald trump to twitter and declare quote we have defeated isis in syria

my only reason for being there during the trauma presidency this tweet was later confirmed to be the new marching orders as white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders issued a statement to all the corners of the empire explaining from on high that quote we have started returning united states troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign she then added that the u.s. and its allies quo will continue to work together to deny radical islamist terrorists territory funding support and any means of infiltrating our borders this new change in syria policy immediately set ruffles for the feathers of the washington d.c. war hawks both in the media and on capitol hill including drum so national security advisor john bolton who when discussing syria and u.s. troops there during the u.n. general assembly assembly this fall aggressively declared the quote we're not going to leave as long as a rainy and troops are outside iranian borders and that includes iranian proxies and militias so what manifested this sudden switch in policy toward syria and will

we actually see u.s. troops finally.