secret room changes of the u.s. apparently made possible the scandal creating revelations about president donald trump's call to ukraine with whistleblowers reportedly no longer required to have 1st times knowledge of that. cinemas in canada council screenings of a documentary about a famous psychologist if you use that challenge political correctness we speak to the filmmakers you have all of the people who are talking about i mean it's this kind of like you know it's like a cultural war leaving the all right or you know reading in there that yes believe dangerous ideas that. america is and a different nation lead recognizes the ok hands just as i hate symbol for its

widespread adoption by white supremacists the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are an odd racist have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe so well point to be labeled as racist. a very warm welcome to you this monday morning you're watching starting international with me here and. u.s. president donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on his phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart as the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power from claims the whistle blows account of what was said was totally inaccurate meanwhile reports have emerged suggesting the u.s. intelligence community secretly. changed the official whistleblower complaint for

some time before the ukraine called scandal broke the requirements that will blowers have 1st hand knowledge was apparently axed. looks at this sudden change of standards and this possible ramifications. most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and women who put their careers their very lives on the line out of principle look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower any individual who provides the right information to the right people that's now changed you no longer need to be a witness to be a whistleblower along the need to have documents saw evidence all you need is to

have heard someone talk about wrongdoing that's all the matter if it was false or made up just far litton hey presto you're a whistle blower like the individual who spawned the trump ukraine scandal he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials told them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mr selenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the democratic national committee and examined by the u.s. cyber security firm crowd strike. i would like you to do us a favor because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible the

president also praised ukraine's prosecutor general. and suggested that mr selenski might want to keep him in his position. i heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair a lot of people are talk. think about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble even all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed by partisan politics in the accuracy bias over the intelligence community inspector general's preliminary review identified some indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the complete in favor of a rival political candidate such evidence does not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible whistle blew is now essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c.n.n.

for example fun to listen to but as practice shows as taken with a dose of salt source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. that in a fired sources anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source you're basing all these allegations off of one or maybe 2 sources which c.n.n. it's not receiving any reports it's washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. elihu resources all because they're hiding behind this in anonymity because. you know you don't need to you're just going to attack sources these whistleblower report was but now for the democrats finally a chance to bring down trump. but now that it's showing cracks liberals are sprinting the plus for the mover this whistle blower they claim can should and will be trusted you know why because he's one of them. if we

think of the whistleblower as a reporter the whistleblower talked to a lot of people who had firsthand knowledge or shinton post stranger to this reporters a free free to be as politically biased as they want twist news to their political agenda and then call it truth all of us who have been involved in national security and have reported on waste fraud abuse and illegality have been whistleblowers but because this whistleblower in particular fits the mainstream media's narrative of donald trump committing crimes he was automatically called the whistleblower he was automatically assumed to have the national interests at heart and i'm not not really sure that that's the case the think it all but crucified snowden manning for exposing global surveillance on all of us and war crimes that we'd never have known about but here you have

a biased complaint riddled with a natural sees submitted by an individual who saw nothing but passed on what he was told the clear political spin to it and he's applauded cheered and praised. they these and gentleman what is the noble name of whistleblower guys and is just as phony and i use the word phony it's just as contrived is just as fabricated as the whole. charges it gets from we know and we have proven there's nothing behind those no evidence no 1st hand the refits 2nd hand that it's simple and now we have ukraine gate really very early on shown for what it is a political ploy to get president trump. a

controversial canadian psychologists we have to political correctness view this is a gang in the spotlight and i thought the screening was all the documentary about it and were pulled from several cinemas that. here's in jordan peter says one good reason to work here when you send your peers and your people start to produce a canadian psychology professor is somebody people love or learn to hate despite what you think about him there is no denying the fish is undeniably one of the greatest intellectual phenomenons on the planet right now children peterson is a clinical psychologist and university professor has risen to fame over recent years via public interest and debate over his ideas peterson challenges well some see as political correctness with some of these anti mainstream views on masculinity feminism and white supremacist and yet his book titled 12 rules of life has become an international bestseller while peterson has lots of fun see also attracts plenty of criticism earlier this year cambridge university recalled an

invitation that sent him to speak their concerns his views violated their quote inclusive and vironment under new zealand his book was pulled from the shelves after a shooting at a mosque in christ church he's maria from austin is been speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary your movie as far as i understand is about jordan peterson and the journey to where he's now and through his ideas what is about it that it's a wrong to see it scrapping earlier great plans to show it. well they had agreed to a week long run of the film but there were some staff complaints and that put them in a difficult position so they decided to cancel those plans and of course you know there are some things that people really disagree with in terms of what jordan peterson has said so people disagree with the idea of giving him a platform although making a film about him i don't think is the same thing and they were all sorts of reasons

we were getting in the instance of the cancellation of the staff complaints as far as we know they hadn't seen the film the people that had agreed to show the film initially they had seen it it really is a shame that that happens our film is and isn't like a complete celebration of everything about jordan i mean there are parts of parts of it that are critical it's not a fluff piece and there are the voices of the people that have disagreed with him in public that are in the film so we also hold space for those voices in the film so you have all of the people that are talking about him and it's this kind of like a left and right culture war you know you have people on the right that kind of see him as on the side but also see him as kind of like a political tool to kind of top of their or their agenda then you have people on the left like anti for and activists of that nature and they they think he's the devil and they want to bring him down and they want to destroy its reputation where

people usually do is that they listen to journalists that they're used to and those journalists usually only read other journals that think just like them so it is weird little in this specific context is that it's a liberal bubble where they kept they tell each other the same stories and it gets they gets compounded in compounded when it gets pretty different from reality as far as i understand jordan peterson himself was not too much into ferreting to your words very open and he respected the process he you know was never really you know trying to. interfere with that in your own way what was that story that these journalists that you mentioned kept saying like presenting during peterson as someone dangerous to something well you know their ideas that he's. leading the all right or you know motivating in cells or that he has really

dangerous ideas that he's the custodian of the peach here he is the new york times article that stated so it closes people's minds to a nuanced film about him which is what our film is and it's a film that as his message mentioned is for fans but also for people who aren't fans is really something in it for everyone to relieve pain to a complex picture of what we've witnessed throughout these 3 and a half years. well we've approached one of the fair says the coltons a number in toronto about the decision to cancel a screening of the film and we have yet to receive a response. so if they all think of terror group islamic state from syria the country has slowly been getting back on its feet not only is it green building infrastructure it's also making sure it's ready the jihad is trying to return as rim on concert for poles russian air base has been in operation for more than 4 years and today it's a state of the art facility with the brand new infrastructure and this is just one

of the latest additions these hangars they protect the airplanes and not just from the weather from more rain or from the sun they also protect them from the drones that from time to time to attack the russian air base here. base in syria uses a 3 tier defense system if an attack to explain a song low altitude than a weapon called pants or s one is a use it's a dual action rapid firing and can in the system along with missiles from midrange strikes the russians use a surface to air missile complex cold war 2 both of these have been used in 2019 as the russian base was attacked 27 times in the worst case scenario in case of a serious threat the base is ready to use the s 400 missile system which was recently sold to search for its own defense needs however the russian army believes that the terrorists are not capable of presenting such force against they could

name a base in syria. the port of tarsus into syria has been used by russian ships since the soviet symes since 988 of course a lot has happened since then and now it's been completely a renovated and now it's hosting russian military ships that are helping in the war effort. against terrorists here in syria for right now there are several russian ships here including submarines as well and right now we're witnessing one of those ships going on the mission to the mediterranean to support the troops here in syria and they will perform a several missions and then get back to this board in tartus once again so here they are going on a mission. and left in hong kong is showing no signs of winding down with more violent clashes over the weekend and questions are being raised over the past times

of the photos in the u.s. we have that story and more up to this very story right.

join me every thursday on the island so i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll show you that. a combat violent protests on the streets of hong kong have become a somewhat familiar sight as pro-democracy demonstrations continue for 17 straight weeks that and sunday was no exception.

meanwhile processes of it have also gathered outside the chinese embassy in washington d.c. to show support for hong kong but some of the organizers behind the action previously had links to a u.s. government funded organization with a very specific agenda a correspondent rachel belton's has details this protest has been branded with the slogan stop trying nazi and images that were shared online per moning it showed the stars on the chinese flag being rearranged to create a swastika now one of the groups behind protests is a citizen power initiatives for china group a d.c. based non-government organization that brands itself * as a pro-democracy grassroots movement that strives to influence policies in beijing the group has had ties in the past to the national endowment for democracy

foundation here in the united states that is sponsored by. us government and aims at her motive in democracy abroad now that foundation has been around since the 1980 s. and its own president said that the goal is to influence democratic movements without direct funding from the cia however the citizen power initiatives for china group has denied that rally is sponsored with money that came from the us government now this demonstration comes ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china and the activists who are gathered here say that they want to show support for the people in hong kong or striving to gain independence from the chinese government united states can do some things we can pass the hong kong human rights and democracy act which would cause the u.s. government to view hong kong's autonomy annually. and make a determination basically if hong kong has sufficient levels of autonomy to maintain the special status that they took the united states already has been doing

a lot to support i think hong kong ice and international community supports the hong kong says because they have been you know protesting peacefully against the regime again this the chinese government so they have to continue peacefully because we can only achieve the goal with peaceful means that the congress to restore. initiate a bill to support like just like you are you know there's the support taiwan the i.c.c. mamma the hong kong human rights and democracy act is moving forward here in the united states now this bill would call on the united states government to place sanctions on any chinese officials that they deem is undermining human rights in hong kong well it is lation has the support of both pro-democracy activists and politicians like republican senator marco rubio and there are concerns that if passed it could have an unprecedented impact on the already strained relationship

between the. it's in china protests in hong kong have entered their 17th week now and while their demands to strike down the extradition bill that initially sparked the demonstrations to begin with were successful some activists are claiming that peaceful protests are not making enough of a difference in the area and that activists should read doing more of a class of pulling reporting in washington rituals love and art seeing. the washington rally claim they backed a nonviolent struggle but some of the recent demonstrations in hong kong have been quite the opposite the protesters frequently throwing rocks and molotov cocktails and causing significant damage to buildings police have responded to tear gas water cannon bullets hong kong is a special administrative region of the people's republic of china demonstrations originally began over a proposed extradition bill and brought it to world wide a protest against mainland communist party rules on beijing.

ok hand gesture has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the sore sticker america's anti-defamation league based its decision on the signs adoption by white supremacists even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old the regularly create new symbols memes and slogans hateful sentiments we believe law enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st warning sign to the presence of haters in the community or school the ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an online prank exposé but apparently white supremacist like what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist during a court appearance the idea of says cases like that weren't included weren't its inclusion on the list of hate symbols though that context is always important last

year a former white house. also was accused of making the want to palestine but had defended his point that sees mexican american are the descendants of holocaust survivors guests debating the issues raised i think is pretty ridiculous to label a thing like a bull or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy i feel like race is do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist drinking water as received in breathing air is received it's just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were very lonesome with or a soused hateful subversive groups the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not and you know the main

point of it is like. for well it's a far it's far right movement supporting you know again a far right ideologies that are very well known in this country to be you know forest and but my point is you know is vastly out for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b.c. and you know. people in germany took it put it on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this mass ago and that became the symbol of nazism ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. device i phone you can find it ok so right now when you search for the new moji there is the equivalent to ok ok it is being used ok for very long it wasn't a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet there it became so knows because the mainstream media picked it up and i think the

whole purpose of trolling campaign was to treat. the mainstream media into doing it and of course now we hear that what the a.d.l. is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or or you know we communicate what they are to specifically doing is trying to inform you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used. as actually insight to violence and crime and you know fundamentalists political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy but we're talking about a symbol that started it as something that was not necessarily what it is today the problem is that somewhere along the line that symbol that cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sign no with a longing for know it. and it's now it's really not what somebody told me how will you know hasn't this is not some kind of

a symbol like i see the blood gain uses day i'm sure to have been plenty of actual killings they happen every single day and they've been going on for a very loans ounces in 1970 s. when they came out but for some reason that's not been seen as a symbol you can have it right now in your phone as an emoji for the ok symbol in smartphones and all of it have come around long after the street gangs have originated so obviously we didn't think about this thing that existed in a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now a lot was saying because the nature of media is going to hold because of the trolling campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is a n.s.a. thing if people want to use it for whatever they want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions. if you like.

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