think. it's right for a long time in syria now we've warned it's time to come back donald trump takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria and blindsides allies on the administration announcing a surprise troop withdrawal from the country also ahead. french police unions claim the government promised them a wage hike ounds bonuses of a time deployed at demonstrations to offices that protests. some clown difference if it's a prime minister who is supposed to be on the take you negotiate. heated debates in the british parliament with less than a hundred days till the u.k.

divorces from the e.u. and the m.p.'s are destructive fine alleged comments from the leader of the opposition. no problem becomes a big headache for disney after its accused of colonialism or trade marking the swahili phrase in a much harder we have some animated feedback so that. not everything is meant to be . in the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money off the farmers learn to talk in a certain pressure and live in a world for me all reach people are just looking for a reason to be offended. a very warm welcome to you you're watching aussie international with me great to have you with us 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 his words perplexed his administration allies and the fires that we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back. for brazil remain on the grounds of there for the physical to be the cold food until we have the pieces in place to ensure that our defeat isn't or. we're not going the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. two u.s. officials tell me see 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 detailed plan for the withdrawal the white house press secretary said that washington was transitioning to the next phase of its syria campaign u.s. intervention in the spirit syrian civil war begun in twenty fourteen with

airstrikes and boots on the ground without approval from damascus or a u.n. mandate. earlier my colleague kevin ollie was joined in the studio by a costar now for a broader look back at the u.s. campaign in syria the united states. have been changing the rules of this game as 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 into the country saying they want to fight terrorists eisel so now they've defeated unlike the had 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 get money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that their government is ready to compromise a notion are created 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 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 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 the blue treated the city with bombings once

a flourishing prosperous city now it still lies in rule. inza mean we've heard a very very big outcry you coming from human rights groups for instance who have been accusing the united states of indiscriminate bombing and even using a term as. 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 in twenty seventeen. it was still a thirty year we were forced to leave our homes because weisel 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. the u.s. coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city. i. point out that the u.s. backed kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned and vulnerable turkey has threatened an offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view with terrorists a fear of a clash with the u.s. postponed and chorus onslaught. the best chance supporters and opponents in the administration are not pleased with this decision for me u.s. diplomat jim that we have to see if they will succeed in pushing trump to reverse it. because make a comeback and in fact some of the opponents of president trump's decision to pull out of syria are citing exactly that they're comparing it to their accusations against barack obama that his 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 negate this decision and that's the real question we don't know the answer to. these unions in france say they have struck a wage deal with the country's interior minister that's off the protests by offices and paid overtime and dangerous working conditions a french government spokesperson confirms that a three hundred euro bonus that was promised earlier is also said to be paid. the pima did three hundred euro bonnets laws us to reward the one hundred eleven thousand security personnel who were put under tremendous pressure particularly in the last few weeks to get thousands of police officers have been deployed during

weeks of violence yellow vests protests in france and not everyone is pleased by the french government's payoff when i was working we feel like a bone was thrown to us to sow discord between us and the yellow vests and we continued 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 us 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 are you considering all this we wonder how they've managed to handle it so far. and the parody twitter account that made sarcastic tweets about president a crowd has been suspended just a day after it was launched it was run in the name of

a fictional seven year old girl who posts tweets on the hashtag mccrone must go her posts mirror a similar accounts launched in twenty sixteen by a real girl from aleppo in syria my name has been or i'm seven years old i'm talking to the world now live from paris this is my last moment to either live or die my name is bana i'm seven years old i'm talking to the world now life from is still up oh this is my last moment either leave or die then it's sad macross friends call for my death i will live forever and talk for the children of france. it said bashar al assad's friends call for my dad as i will be forever and talk for the children of syria although the french version has now really surfaced under a new name it has lost many of us follow as the original version remains banned a co-author all of the accounts james kerry 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. 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 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 hope ocracy 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 an effort to cover it up. in the midst of a heated brags that debates one moment in the u.k. parliament between prime minister to resign may and opposition leader jeremy colvin has slippery to say that what some people are asking whether quote we must have missed optimistic comments under his breath well take a look feel south to the labor leaders say woman all people. it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal deal would reduce zoster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow its kind of christmas i know it's not going to stop going down the chimney on the terrace misreading the sun lounger. it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking

a negotiating. the climate is such style to bring in acceptable to you but it's a wrong time of the gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deals he's got an easy also for this to. cut the i talk about you. know. this kind of missile domestic language must not be tolerated. during prime minister's question time to date i said to those who i believe were seeking to turn the debate about a national crisis facing our country into a time to mind as stupid people. this is because i did not use the word stupid woman about the problem is still or anyone else and i am

completely opposed to the use of sexist old misogynist language in absolutely any form. just look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not. the phrase no problem is familiar in many language but swahili translation is at the center of a trademark round against the entertainment giant disney where you probably know this phrase from this movie. so is the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred four generations grown up knowing tartar the phrase was trademarks by disney to protect its movie

merchandising but the studio is being accused of colonialism a petition launched by a zimbabwe activist to get disney 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 disney's trademark dates back to two thousand and three for her kumar tartare to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny this where he origin of five of the front left phrase all the names of almost all 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 once 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 at that 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 sharing the one thing that disney didn't do in a median 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 of fide 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 pug franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like a climatologist disney 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 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. i messed. in two hours' time now the russian president vladimir putin will start his annual media q. and a with journalists from both at home and abroad a read course number of media representatives are expected to attend this year during his past fourteen press conferences he spent more than forty three hours fielding questions from journalists there is speculation that the president might

be be to secure in a wreck order four hours and forty minutes this time well either way we'll be here covering the event live from midday moscow time so do join us. to open the site. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. caught up with the principal emotions recovering politicians is this

a was my medical doctor i want him to do his will. to like him so i try not to attach any particular personal feelings maybe something tickled objections i would have but in politics history is a judge and history will judge who's presidency was in the future when they were the victory to the nation and. it was not. welcome back when millions of vulnerable americans are being corrupted by russian linked means described as the cruise missiles the fake news well that's according

to a security analyst on suffer came to russia experts on us t.v. network m s n b c the channel says it is presenting authentic information however many believe that it's only feeling russia hysteria. further down a winding trail the closer to the truth. every . year to make sense of it. the russian military conducted history teaching study started carrying out a decision from a shouldn't play and russia has done that to the united states i think news induced information they now own the mindset of one third of this nation welcome and this is why we ask you all the time to come on this broadcast scary stuff but it needs

to be said needs to be heard. it can go with impunity and the only thing stopping them is news media broadcasts like this. unexplained coincidences and eventuality syr i mean it's still not totally clear how rex tillerson ended up being secretary of state he must have come very highly recommended. by someone donald trump as the russian intelligence asset said thank you he said the piece acknowledges that is probably not true but it might be a little nuts right that fair to say what's going on with that why is this happening why is that why is that why is that. but his way which is reeling under a crippling hyper inflation has pegged its hopes of recovery on its own

cryptocurrency the petro media that are reporting that pensions on the outlet to be converted into the national crypto currency the reason i should have reports from caracas. behind me as one of us is famous for the ballad kind of trademark of venezuela's capital no one can say how many people living days lives. some studies estimate that more than eighty percent of been isabella's 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 few 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 zeroes have been knocked off the currency's value it's actually gasoline is cheaper 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 venezuela 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 on 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 mentally that we're going to see are also depends to a large extent i'll try ninety something percent of that software and i include in that it's hard currency earnings it depends on oil production in oil 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 the digital money firm dash though 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 a plain t. kid's 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 to 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 reportedly accepting payments and a creep to but the best we got was the dash sticker we saw through a closed glass door do you pay with cryptocurrency. no i don't know 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 been worked out. 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 a group the revolution won't ease the months of hardship cryptocurrency. could work i think and of course people would be interested in using it if one were

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 in it so far so that's been a bit of a problem for the government because recently the price of oil has been going down it's going to be very difficult under these circumstances for any kind of crypto currency actually i think to to really take hold in venezuela because it needs economic stability i think in order to work. the russian soyuz spacecraft has just successfully touched down and kazakstan we can see the returning crew here russian cosmonauts sergei prokofiev here of german astronaut alexander girls and with us the astronauts serene up on launch on for they've long to one hundred ninety six days on the international space station as soyuz capsule attracted worldwide media attention often in most areas hole that was discovered in it back in august our russian cosmonauts made an eight hour long spacewalk to repair a damaged smile on her face. thanks for joining us an r.t.

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welcome to the. commons where the but the game is being played out twas the night before christmas and all through the house with a creature was studying not even a mouse but in this. it hasn't been quiet over the last few weeks it's been playoffs motions come to motions clues count of clues votes of confidence. defeated votes of confidence not really tabled the toll free will certain went broke the most unstable the men were drawing total chaos for weeks today we'll be asking some of the key players across the parties is the bridge. going to still made a loss can learn why things all look up from their point of view in two thousand and nineteen before stalwarts of those we were in the studio with the point surely mills on their messages. thank you alex another great response to our show last week from copenhagen mexico as with all due respect to denmark and might and power

and reach she is new u.k. market says interesting to see bricks it from a tin if you certainly do think any country would wish to follow our example of georgia says as a scotsman with very recent ancestors i'm proud to see the pharaohs being examined as a working example of how we human scotland could go it alone kenny says do you think all of europe needs to have a look at the immigration policy there seems to be a lot of disquiet all over europe regarding immigration leading to the rise of the far right and finally we hear from creek he says people saying they're fed up with bricks after two years some of us have been campaigning for independence for ten times as long as tact never give up i quite agree creek now last week alice compared prime minister trees a miss approach to the commons vote to the charge of the light brigade in the crimean war cannons to the right a very callous to the left of our and cannons in.