i. think. it emerges that quietly introduced new rules of the west made possible the scandal creating revelations about the president donald trump's calls to ukraine it was something i was no longer requires to have 1st hand knowledge of events. america's anti-defamation league recognizes the ok times just as a hate symbol after its widespread adoption by white supremacists problems that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not racist have to eat food they have to drink water they have to prepare so what point do we label as racist. cinemas in canada council screenings of

a documentary about a famous psychologist with views that challenge political correctness we speak to the filmmakers you have all of the people that are talking about and it's this kind of like no culture war leaving the all right or you know motivating him or that he has really dangerous ideas. very well welcome to you this monday morning you're watching r.t. international is mean if you erin great to have you with us. the u.s. president donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on his phone calls with his ukrainian counterparts the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power trunk claims the whistleblowers 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 calls scandal broke the requirements that was the lowest have 1st hand knowledge was apparently axed. looks at the sudden change of standards and its 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 no longer need to have documents all evidence all you need is to

have heard someone talk about wrongdoing that's all a matter if it was false or made up just far less than 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 strike. i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot in 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.

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 lansky 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 talking 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 whistleblowers now

essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c.n.n. for example fun to listen to but as practice shows it's 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. is this is 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 and they can not. do you don't tell me that you're just going to attack sources these whistleblower a poor it was but now for the democrats finally a chance to bring down trump now that it's showing cracks liberals are sprinting the plus the movie this whistleblower they claim can should and will be trust that 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 seen them post strange it 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 are 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 interest at heart and i'm not not really sure that that's the case the think it all but crucified snowden and 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 an accuracy s. 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. it isn't gentleman what is the noble name of whistleblower dies and it's just me and i use the word surely it's just as contrived it's just as fabricated as the. charges it's true we know and we have proof there's nothing behind those no evidence no 1st show there if it's 2nd hand evidence and now we have you created really very early on shown for what it is a political ploy to get president trump. the

ok hand gesture has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the swastika 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 they regularly create new symbols means and slogans to express their 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 a 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 supremacists liked what they saw and started using get that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist during a court appearance the a.d.l. say's cases like that warrant its inclusion on the list of hate symbols i think though that context is always important last year

a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors our guests debated the issues raised. i think it's 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 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 low 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 part of it is like. well it's

a far it's far right movement supporting you know again far right ideologies that are very well known in this country to be you know fluorescent but my point is you know is vast again 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 massive go and that became the symbol of nazism and 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 loans and it wasn't a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet there it became so on those because the mainstream media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of trolling campaign was to trick the mainstream media into doing

it and of course now we hear that the a.b.l. is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or 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 inside 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's cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sino with a longing for though if. it's not it's really not what somebody told me how do you know it hasn't. is not some kind of hate symbol like i see it the blood game 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 and 1970 s. when they came out but for some reason that's not been seen as a symbol you can add here 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 i've usually we did think about this thing that exists 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 man is going to hold because of a troll a campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is the n.s.a. thing if people want to use it for whatever you want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions do. you like. versus the ok so i think i was not

a hate symbol until it was. an indian youth. whole can ensure that although it's not. a controversial canadian psychologist with anti political correctness this is in the spotlight again after screenings of a documentary about him were pulled from several cinemas. here is in jordan peter says one peter is going to work with you to change your peers and your opinions are going to be usually canadian psychology professor is somebody people love or love to hate despite what you think about him there is no denying the proficiency he's my diet will be one of the greatest intellectual phenomenons on the planet right now. 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 what some

see as political correctness with some of his anti mainstream views on masculinity from an ism and white supremacist and yet his book titled 12 rules of law is has become an international bestseller all peterson has lots of fancy also were tracks plenty of criticism earlier this year cambridge university recalled an invitation that sent him to speak that other concerns his views violated their quote inclusive and environments and in new zealand his book was pulled from the shelves after a shooting at a mosque in christchurch artie's marias the notion has been speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary your movie as far as i understand is about jordan and the journey to where he's now and through his ideas what is about it that it's a wrong to see it or 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 joining 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 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 is 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've kept they tell each other the same stories and it gets it 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 you know anyway what was that story that these journalists that you mentioned kept saying like presenting jordan peterson as

someone dangerous to something well you know their ideas that he. leading the all right or you know motivating in cells or that he has really dangerous ideas that he's the custodian of the patriarchy is the new york times article that stated so it closes peoples' minds to a nuanced film about him which is what our film is and it's a film that as as was mentioned is for friends but also for people who aren't and there's really something in it for everyone to really paint a complex picture of what we witnessed throughout the 3 and a half years we've approached one of the theaters the culliton cinema in toronto about that decision to council the screening of the film we have yet to receive a response. congress in hong kong is showing no signs of winding down with more violent clashes over the weekend and questions of been raised over the past ties of

support to the u.s. with last story and more after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to you shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be

1st that's what the fuck reasonable people get. interested in the why. they should. go come back find them protests on the streets of hong kong have become a somewhat familiar sight as pro-democracy demonstrations continue for a 17th straight week that on sunday it was no exception

2. meanwhile protesters have also gathered outside the chinese embassy in washington d.c. to show support for hong kong but some of the participants in the rally previously had links to a u.s. government funded organization with a very specific agenda although they state that current actions have no links at all our correspondent rachel blevins has details. this protest has been branded with the slogan stop china nazi and images that were shared online per moaning 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 brings the self * is 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 the u.s. government and aims at promoting 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 for 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 review hong kong's autonomy annually united states already has been doing a lot to support i think hong kong ice the international community supports the hong kong put says because they have been you know protesting peacefully against

the regime against the chinese government that the congress should start. initiate a bill to support hong kong like just like you are you know this they support taiwan you see mamma reporting in washington rachel's love and are seeing. activists on the washington rally claim they back anon. violent struggle but some of the recent demonstrations in hong kong point the opposite with protesters frequently throwing rocks and molotov cocktails and causing significant damage to buildings police and responded with tear gas water cannon and rubber bullets hong kong is a special administrative region of the people's republic of china demonstrations originally began over a proposed extradition bill and the broader to wider too wide a protest against mainland communist party rule from beijing.

the russian army's main military base in syria says it's down to 58 drones and 27 missiles this year the attacks were launched by the hard disks in the region the base has just received a major upgrade after 4 years of serving as a launch pad for anti terrorist operations ramon kozyrev reports. russia nickname 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 laredo from the sun they also protect them from the drones that from time to time to attack the russian air base here. i mean base in syria uses a 3 tier defense system if an attack to explain a song

a low altitude then a weapon called the pants or s one is a use that said dual action rapid firing and cannon the system along with missiles from midrange strikes the russians use a surface to air missile complex called for em to both of these have been used in 2019 as the russian base was at saks 27 times in the worst case scenario in case of a serious threat the base is ready to use the s 400 missiles 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 can they mean base in syria. the port of tartus into syria has been used by russian ships since the soviet symes since and 1088 of course a lot has happened since then and now it's been completely

a renovated and now is hosting russian minutes or ships that are helping in the war effort against terrorists and 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 start to this once again so here they are going on a mission. thanks to chasing off the international this monday morning we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines and see if. you know world of big movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. time after time so we're going underground as saudi arabia takes the podium to conclude the u.n. general assembly just ahead of the one year anniversary of the killing of the washington post jamal khashoggi a crime over which the u.n. one saudi arabia investigated coming up on the show as the united states senate debates a trade war with hong kong that could drag the global economy down amidst the president trumps existing sanctions against china we speak to a member of on kong's executive council preparing for tomorrow's 70th anniversary

celebrations of the people's republic and on the day saudi arabia concludes the u.n. general assembly we go to the country with the largest number of u.s. troops in europe germany to hear its left party delinquent slam any possible angle of merkel plan to join donald trump's and boris johnson's soldiers against iran plus brecht's at the berlin wall and microwave meals with suede supporting artists funny how all the support coming out today is going on the ground a festival remarks the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china an event covered in nato nations not so much for the lifting of 850000000 out of poverty as the triumph of a brutal state that today abuses human rights in on kong the chief villain appears to be hong kong chief executive kerry lamb joining me now from the new people's party headquarters and on kong is one of our cabinet ministers regina thanks so much for coming on the show before we get to what's going on in all kong how is it

how is the special administrative region going to be celebrating 70 years of china that will be flecked waiting ceremonies and celebrations as usual and the hong kong commonwealth and sending a lot that location to beijing to. attend the parade and various celebrations in the capital but move no fireworks because some people think that having no fireworks in on kong is a capitulation to the enemies of ongoings really it's a great pity but i think there are strong security considerations considering that in the past 100 days there have been a lot of. outbreaks of violence attacks on in those than bystanders if you if you find somebody who would disagree with you you bash that person so in view of the potential for group fights and the breakdown of law and order i thing the authorities were rights too can sodhi to fireworks this year

well as you know media here in britain is covering the protests we have pictures in the studio of the american flags and british flags being flown by the protesters media here says they are peaceful protesters and in fact british media sense thora g.'s are investigating c.g.m. the chinese international channel for bias the western media coverage on the hong kong events have certainly been highly biased in our view you know there have been a lot of description of the events in hong kong as police brutality whereas actually although the protests have taken place for over 100 days there have not really been serious injuries and no fatalities compare with the way western police handled the los angeles riots in the 1970s occupy wall street in.