it emerges that the u.s. intelligence community quietly dropped its rule that whistleblowers must possess 1st hand knowledge partly paving the way for the trump ukraine revelations which have triggered an impeachment inquiry. it's a national day of mourning in france as world leaders gather in the capital for the funeral of former french president jacques chirac who died aged 86 last week. and america's anti-defamation league recognizes the ok hand gesture as a hate symbol after its widespread adoption by white supremacist. problem is that

the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are nodding braces have to eat they have to drink water you have to breathe so we'll point you eating food as received. you're watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. us president donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on his phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week over possible collusion with a foreign power trump claims the whistleblowers account of what was said was totally accurate meanwhile reports have emerged pointing out that the u.s. intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form at around the time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required it was

simpler to have 1st hand and tell but the new form made another tick box option available meaning related information would be considered as well now the timing of the change is of course no. this version of the document says it was revised in august 2019 that's the same month and which the scandal turgon complaint with filed a parent quite a coincidence has led to questions being raised. it's not clear to me when the people who are behind all this realized all my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the inspector general process because that's all hearsay is certain here information it's funny to me at least here on the u.s. side that the news outlets just immediately identified this person as a whistleblower but if you are a whistleblower blowing the whistle on waste fraud abuse and illegality in the intelligence services you're not a whistleblower you're

a leaker and so i think that's really where the transformation has been. artie's mind garcia looks at the sudden change of standards and its possible ramifications . most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line out of principle they look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so as 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 a longer need to have documents or 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

less than hey presto you are a whistleblower like the individual who spawned the trump ukraine scandal or the background of this of course is the whistleblower the filing report and state in the 1st sentence i don't know this firsthand you know this list told to me by i learned this from saying there are multiple shots so we didn't have any and evidence let me in our legal system here shit it never stands up in court 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 mrs lenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service 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 though 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 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 and 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 did not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible what today do. you know american charge did we say did it change the goalposts they changed the rules how could these people really see that we get away with this whistleblowers 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. on it 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. isis is not receiving reports its washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. elihu resources all because they're hiding behind us and a commonality we're seeing how do you tell me that you're not going to attack

sources this whistleblower a poor it 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 the mover this whistleblower 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 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 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 it whistle blower 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 will 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 an accuracy s. submitted by an individual who saw nothing but passed on what he was told the clear political spin to it. and these applauded cheered and praised ladies and gentleman was the new bull name of whistleblower guys and is just as phony and i use the word phony it's just as contrived it's just as

fabricated as the whole. charges because it's true we know and we have proof there's nothing behind those no evidence no 1st hand the refits 2nd hand evidence and now we have you created really very early on. for what it is a political ploy to get president trump. dozens of world leaders are in paris for the funeral of jacques chirac the former french president died last week at the age of 86 a memorial events have been held throughout the country more details let's cross live to our correspondent charlotte who's in the capital charlotte what's the mood been like since the news broke. well it's a solemn day here in paris and of course of course france well wishes come true beat pay their final respects to france's former president jacques chirac this

is being declared a national day of mourning here in front a good new sense of the significance of who this man was and how we see just a seeming sense of his esteem by the french nation his funeral which is taking place behind me at the moment to the church of souls to peace is being done so with full military honors and he's bloody. kept that's owned by the 3rd day to lie in state for thousands of people on sunday to come and pay their final respects to jacques chirac as he said to the world leaders are here including president putin of russia to pay respects to a close personal friend. but we also saw old will be does coming through as well as the former u.s. president bill clinton passed back we also saw the former afghan president hamid karzai as well as a former french president nicolas sarkozy unfolds while known to came here to pay their respects as well as the current administration and the president might call

on to the prime minister edward phillipe who is actually outside the church to greet many of those in the days and the mourners as they were wrong the funeral here for this service at the coffin when it arrives is drape does you'd expect in the french flag and what was really interesting was the moment that it was a brutal after the hearse that was being taken against a soul soupy a moment where the crowds of which they can hear people coming to pay their respects clucked it was if they will greeting and saying go buy it at the same time as the former french president a man who spent 40 years in a parliamentary career in politics he joined the national assembly also to being elected in 196070 when told to serve as a minister in many governments he was twice prime minister of france he was mayor of paris and of course the all cumulated in him becoming president of france back

in 1995 is something he did 52 terms he was elected back to back as something we've not seen form of french president since a man who's remembered for many times in many things as part of his political career perhaps the one the release takes out internationally the fact that back in 2003 when the u.s. and the u.k. were talking about an invasion of iraq jacques chirac said no french france won't participate in this and in fact he went to the u.n. security council and all cued why that invasion shouldn't take place let's have a look back now at some of the highlights of the career of full t.e.'s in politics . sure will. the military operations are just started in iraq friends regrets his actions taken without approval of the united nations. houses burning down and we blind to it nature mutilated and overexploited can no longer

regenerate and we refuse to admit it what they want to rebuild it. was very late let them go. dark hours forever surly our history and they are an insult to our past and our traditions. that were charlotte devinsky reporting live from paris for us thank you. for the ok hand gesture has been recognized as a hate symbol or longside the swastika america's anti-defamation league based its decision on this time adoption by white supremacists as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old they regularly create new symbols memes

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 but apparently white supremacists liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest amongst them the christ church terrorist during a court appearance the a.d.l. says cases like that warrants its inclusion on the list of hate symbols adding 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 guest debated the issues raised. because pretty ridiculous to label a thing like global k. or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy i feel like races 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 a very long time 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 minute one of us 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 forest and 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 invert the swastika and that became the symbol of nazism 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 a 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 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 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 no it. 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 have been going on for a very loans ounces in 1970 s. when they came out because 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 you need to let me hold because of the truly 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 they 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 use a. whole can ensure that no it's not. a russian actor who's jailing at aim. protest sparked a public outcry has his sentence reduced and suspended the details after the break .

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each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back a young russian actor who was released on bail after a public outcry has received more good news and moscow court ruled that public 3 and a half year jail sentence should be softened to a one year suspended sentence joining me live now is to with more on this bring us up to speed. jacqueline hello well you mentioned the word spall blick outcry perhaps it is time for the washing public to saw eye with relief and deed pavol case grabbed perhaps the most attention by the russian public after the arrests

during the illegal rallies in moscow that were not authorized by the russian government ahead of the mosque. city duma elections hobbles dean of was put on trial for allegedly attacking a law enforcement official and the reason why this case got so much attention and it had so many people including celebrities talking about this because it was almost evident and papa was saying that from the very beginning that he didn't even take part in the protests and just happened to be in that area which is by the way absolutely public where the protesters though were trying to gather now when today the 23 year old came out of 'd the hearing room once again he said that he is completely innocent and the fact that his 3 and a half year sentence was changed to a one year long suspended sentence is not enough for the man. we disagree with the court decision will appeal it in any case i didn't commit any

crime i didn't commit any wrongdoing. now we are just about to show you a video and it was after seeing this video that so many people as i've said including celebrities fellow actors decided to stand behind pavol they launched flash mobs posted in reposed messages of support on social networks the video does appear to show that the man wasn't trying to attack anyone and as i've said really just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time now what's important here was that the court initially wasn't willing to consider this video material then they changed your mind and there you have the result. thank you for bringing us the latest. a controversial comedian psychologist with anti political correctness views is in the spotlight again after

screenings of a documentary about him were pulled from several 1000 a miss. but you said your peers i mean one of the people is that mr peterson the canadian psychology professor is somebody people love them or love to hate so you are and. still are you are badly watched the professor has political correctness video and i was just so disappointed. jordan peterson is a clinical psychologist and university professor he's risen to fame over recent years via public interest and debate over his ideas peterson challenges political correctness with mainstream views on masculinity and feminism as well as gender ethnicity and identity politics could be a man born in a woman's body and that's biological but if you're a woman born in a woman's body that socially constructed like really that's supposed to be an argument do you think a trans woman is a woman no you overwhelming proportion of people who are in prisons are male now do

you want to equalize about just out of curiosity what about bricklayers there are 99 percent male and and when men work longer hours they work more dangerous jobs they're more likely to move up peterson has lots of fans he also attracts plenty of criticism earlier this year at cambridge university recalled an invitation they sent him to speak there are concerns his views violated their quote inclusive environment and in new zealand his book was pulled from the shelves after a shooting at a mosque in christ church various national has been speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary. you movie as far as i understand is about jordan peterson and the journey to where he's now and through he's 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 ledger in 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 or 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 prop up their their agenda then you have people on the left like anti for an activist 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 what people usually do is that they listen to the 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 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. what was that story that these journalists that you mentioned

kept saying like presenting jordan peterson as someone dangerous to something well you know there are. a lot. leading the all right or you know motivating him selzer that he has really dangerous ideas that he's the custodian of the patriarchy as the new york times article has 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 is as was mentioned is for friends but also for people who aren't and it's really something in it for everyone to really paint a complex picture of what we witnessed throughout these 3 enough years. we approach one of the theaters the carlton cinema in toronto about their decision to cancel the screening we have yet to receive a response. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more.

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