it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse. we've been fighting for a long time in syria now we've won it's time to come back donald trump takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria and blindsides his allies on the ministration announcing a surprise troop withdrawal from the country also ahead. french police unions claim the government has promised them away cheick and bonuses to have a time deployed at demonstrations from the offices that started their own protests . and found the threats to. 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. m.p.'s are distracted by alleged comments from the leader of the opposition.

no problem becomes a big headache for disney after its accused of colonialism the trademark in the swahili phrase but you know most harter we have some animated feedback so that. not everything is meant to be commodified when the culture does not belong to the corporation that's trying to appropriate and make money are misleading it's often the certain pressure of living their reform you know reach people just looking for a reason to be offended. a very well welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nicky and great to have you with us in our top story 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 it seems that is words perplexed his administration allies and advisers 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. we're going to remain on the ground there for the physical to feed a cold food until we have the pieces in place to ensure that our defeat is under. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to 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 a 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 syrian civil war began in two thousand and forty with our strike sounds boots on the ground without approval from damascus or a u.n.

mandate well early on my colleague kevin owen was joined in the studio by equals donal for a broader look back at the u.s. campaign in syria. the united states. have been changing the rules of this 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 entered the country saying they want to fight terrorists eisel so now they've defeated eisel 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 the 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 the united states did do a lot to defeat eisel in syria i mean that can 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 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 ruins i mean we've heard

a very very big outcry coming from human rights groups for instance who have been accusing the. it 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 did in twenty seventeen. or similar thirty year we will forces leave our homes because weisel when we return we found everything which used to rubble look at all the devastation rock is a ghost city. where 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 and vulnerable turkey has threatened an offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view as terrorists a fear of a clash with the us post and with the onslaught. those trump supporters and opponents in your administration are not pleased with this decision for me u.s. diplomat jim said that we'll have to see if they'll succeed in pushing trump to reverse it. it could 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've struck a wage deal with the country's interior minister that's off the protests by offices over unpaid overtime and dangerous working conditions a french government spokesperson confirms that a three hundred euro bonus that was promised earlier is also set to be paid the payment of plus three hundred euro bond its laws us to reward the one hundred eleven thousand security personnel who were put under tremendous pressure particularly in the last few weeks. but 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 it was written we 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 mccrone 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 you considering all this . we wonder how they managed to handle it so for. a parody twitter account that made thought caustic tweets about president mccrum has been suspended it's just one day after it was launched it was run in the name of a fictional seven year old girl who posts tweets from the hashtag mccrum must go

her posts mirror a similar accounts launched in twenty sixteen by a real girl from aleppo in syria my name is benoit 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 but. it's sad macross friends call for my death i will live forever and talk for the children of friends it said bashar al assad friends call for my debts i will leave forever and talk for the children of syria although the french version has now we surfaced under a new name it has lost many of its followers and the original version remains and 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. crazy 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 deciding between 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 our 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 hated brags that debates one moment in the u.k. parliament between prime minister to resign may and opposition leader jeremy colvin has lip cletus ha that way some people are asking whether cobain must admit such a mistake comment under his breath well take a look feel self to the labor leaders say one then 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 responsible government would ever allow a kind of christmas i know it's not going to stop came down the chimney on the terrace mystery he still hasn't found the right man it's the prime minister who is supposed to be on the take you negotiate. the climate is so that still to bring an

acceptable deal but it's a right of a gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's got an easy also cut this deal. cut the 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 the national policies facing our country into account in mind 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 in absolutely any form. just look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not. the phrase that no problem is familiar in many languages but this one hany translation is at the center of a trademark growl against the attainment jain disney you probably know the phrase from this movie. since the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred four generations grown up knowing her coon or mozart or the phrase was trademarks by disney to protect its

movie merchandising but the studios being accused of colonialism a petition launched by as in zimbabwe an 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 kumar tarter to be used on clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny this where he origin of five of the 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. why 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 capitalist wants everything capitalist need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that so used to be like that

and i'm not necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out in sydney 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 only outreach people are just looking for reasons 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 does need to do is davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did these made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa causes in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars 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 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 say 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 requirements hot a 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 culturally sacred to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. listened to an hour to go until russian president vladimir putin is due to start his annual media q. and a with generalists from i think home and abroad our correspondent any of the tank carries at the venue at the latest. just how bill would describe this is the kind of thing that happens ahead of every lot of our pool press conference every year as soon as the people at the door say yes this is going to look

a bit like black friday but to get a seat closer to the president this is where every meets where it counts because perhaps the russian leader will only be able to answer a few dozen questions and the number of people who want to do that is more than seventeen hundred this year. this year the ways to attract the attention of the russian president and his press secretary will be limited in size speed for journalists use to use a massive billboards that sometimes were the size of a school billboards this time they have them but as you can see for instance this young lady is using a lens a hockey helmet. so far vladimir both from that has given for being such a press conferences and their combined alang has almost reached forty four hours which will soon equal to two full days we'll see whether it's going to happen this

time very very soon and it will be that as it starts following the event throughout the day with experts reaction and analysis don't miss a. the principal emotions bush having put it to she is the same as my medical doctor i want him to do his will be to like him so i try not to attach any party can the personal feelings maybe something people objections i

would have but in politics history is a judge and history will judge who's presidency was but if you've been in the victory today to the nation and to the globe which was not. much bigger economic power much more one term. i think. you have to live with that. and there's lots of advantages that the europeans jethro as well as america. welcome back millions of vulnerable americans of being corrupted by russian leagues meme's described as described as the cruise misfiled of fake news and that's according to a security analyst on self-proclaimed russia experts on the us t.v.

network m s n b c the channel says it's presenting authentic information however many believe that it's only feel like russia hysteria. further down a winding trail the closer to the truth. ever will be here to make sense of it. the russian military conducted this strategic study started carrying out the deuce information play and russia has done that to the united states fake news induced information they now own the mindset of one third of this nation welcome them so 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. one explain coincidences and eventuality cyr 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 has been the russian intelligence asset since ninety seven 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. that is way low which is reeling under a crippling hyperinflation 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 cryptocurrency now we have a notion of a poor. behind me as one of caracas is famous for valor it's got a trademark of it as well as capital no one can say how many people are leaving those slabs. some studies estimate that more than eighty percent of been israel has thirty million population leaving dire poverty once relatively well off the country's oil 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 would more than that

annual inflation has topped one million percent and in attempts to curb it five zeroes have been knocked off the currencies value it actually ghastliness 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 complete 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 fair 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 say we're 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 johns 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 was dashed. 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

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. 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. 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 hard change cryptocurrency. could work 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 but 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 critical and he actually seems to want to really take hold in venezuela because it needs economic stability i think in order to work. and russian soyuz space capsule has successfully touched down in kazakstan can now see the returning crew here russian cosmonauts a copy of a german austan autolog sound augusta and u.s. astronaut cereno or long chancellor they logged one hundred ninety six days on the international space station and this is that the soyuz capsule attracted a lot of attention worldwide media attention as it goes off to a mysterious hole was discovered in it i can oldest russian cosmonauts made an eight hour long space walk to work pare it down changing her help. thanks for

joining us on r.t. international best hour will be back at the top of the hour with the latest will see that. good. thank you very much lou.

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