it's come to light the u.s. intelligence community quietly dropped its rule that whistleblowers must possess 1st hand knowledge currently paving the way for the trump ukraine revelations which have triggered an impeachment inquiry. a national day of mourning in france as world leaders gather for the funeral of former president jacques chirac who died last week at age 86. and america's anti-defamation league recognizes the ok hand gesture as a symbol after its widespread adoption by white supremacists problem is obvious that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you

are not racist r.t. if you have to drink water you have to breathe so it will point you to eating the food is racist. you're watching archie international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power the us president claims that whistleblowers account of what was said was totally an accurate meanwhile reports have emerged pointing out that the u.s. intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form out around the time of the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but the new form made another tick spot. box option available meaning related information it would also be considered

now the timing of this change is noteworthy of course the latest version it was revised in august that's the same month and which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent quints offense has led to questions being raised it's not clear to me when the people who are behind all this realized oh my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the inspector general process because it'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

modesty of looks at the sudden change of standards and it's possible ramifications . most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line at a principle they don't look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so because we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower is 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 or evidence all you need is to have heard someone talk about wrongdoing that's all as a matter if it was false or made up just far less than hey presto you are a whistleblower like the individual who spoke on the trump ukraine scandal of 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 say and then multiple shots so we didn't have any and evidence let me in our legal system your ship 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 bipartisan 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 chargen we say did it change the goalposts they changed the rules how could these people possibly 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. is this is not real c.n.n. reports it's washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. . hooman resources all because they're hiding behind us an enemy become nothing more seen as do you not me that you're just going to attack sources this whistle blower 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 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 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 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 really sure that that's the case the think it will 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. they these and gentleman what is the nubile 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 because trump we know and we have

proven there's nothing behind those no evidence no 1st hand or if it's 2nd hand evidence and now we have ukraine gate really very early on shown 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 and memorial events have been held throughout the country our correspondent charles de mint he reports from paris. well a national day of mourning has been declared in france here to remember the former president jacques chirac who died last week at the age of 86 the funeral service took place behind me at the church of seoul supressed well willed leaders including president putin of russia came to pay their final respects to a man whose political career spanned some 40 years going from being elected as an

m.p. in the national assembly all the way to being mare of paris to being prime minister 2nd time twice 2 of course being france's president a presidency he held for 2 terms starting back in 1995 he was considered to be a political comedian somebody who stuck to his guns and perhaps is best known internationally for the fight back in 2003 he refused to let france participate in the iraq invasion that was led by the us in the u.k. famously of course going to the u.n. security council all queuing why that invasion shouldn't take place let's have a look back now at some of the highlights of his political career. the military operations have just started in iraq friends regresses action taken without the 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

release or don't want to rebuild it barack obama you know. let them grow these dark hours forever sally our histories and they're an insult to our past and now traditions. the funeral took place with full military honors on some of those who pay their tributes last week when we heard the news egyptian rocket died came here today including president putin of russia he described him as being a man who was wise and far sighted a man who. as a great friend to russia we know that the 2 had a fantastic personal relationship in fact chirac when he was at the nato summit in latvia back in 2006 on the sidelines of that summit invited president putin to come and spend his 74th birthday with him and even he awarded president putin one of france's highest honors for foreigners this is the growing course of relation to owner so a sense of 2 men who really respected each other in fact president putin once said

that was probably one of the best world leaders that he knew of one of the ones that he most respected we also heard tributes from other world leaders over the last few days accusing angle of merkel who said that she was a great partner when it came to germany and also herself and we heard from president marc cohn who said he was a great frenchman a man who embodied what it really was to be french we were also speaking to some of the crowds of people can pay him to see this funeral to pay their final respects and they told us that jacques chirac was a great leader and that it was important to come and say one final goodbye. playful he was a true frenchman there you go what i loved about human after doing it all the girls it was for me for friends. and give me your place he was one of the best presidents that's what i think he did many things for france including many things that people

don't know about in the social sphere and things like that so our system. that was his character that was his character might all the same not everyone liked him. many in my family were fond of him it's nice to know that. he was we heard during the service a man a head of his time a man who was fiercely proud to be french thousands of people have paid all major respect as jacques chirac now makes his final journey to his resting place in multiplan us here in paris. the ok have just or has been recognized as a hate some more alongside the swastika america's anti-defamation league based its decision on the find adoption by white supremacist. 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 handful 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 hate in the community or school. the ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an online prank and apparently white supremacist like what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist court appearance the a.d.l. says cases like that warrant 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 that her defenders pointed out she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors we put this issue up for debate because pretty ridiculous to label things like global 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 certain his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his new 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 point of it is like to go for a 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 to go for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years we see. and you know. people in germany it's ok to put it on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this massacre and that became the symbol of nazism and nieces and ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now

on your phone via a 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 sun knows 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 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 fundamentalist 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 sino with a longing for though if. it's not it's really not what somebody told me how do you know hasn't this is not some kind of 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 and 1970 s. when they came out but for some reason that's now been seen as a symbol you can that be right now in your phone as an emoji for the ok symbol in smartphone. they have come around long after the street gangs have originated so obviously we do you think about these doing that exist in a certain context in new form of a he said in general which is labeled as

a symbol but now most say because the nature of media is going to hold because it's actually campaign now we want to see as a symbol is ridiculous it is not. it is interesting it being if people want to use it for whatever you want to use it for ok but to compare it in nazi is absurd ok millions. and verses do ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. an indian you say did you really. enjoy that ability stocky. young russian actor who was released on bail after a public outcry has received more good news in moscow court ruled that publishing of a 3 and a half year jail sentence for alleged violence at a protest should be softened to a one year suspended sentence if more hears in the trunk. perhaps it is time for the washing public to saw eye with relief and deed pavol case crop 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 moscow city duma elections have a listing 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 pov it 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 went to day the 23 year old came out of the hearing room and 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 map. decisions you got when you said last night we disagree with the court decision will appeal in any case i didn't commit any crime i didn't commit any wrongdoing that's all 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 repose to messages of support on social network 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 their mind and there you have the result. a controversial canadian psychologist who's known for his strong views against political correctness has

been making headlines once again after screenings of a documentary about him were pulled from several cinemas. and you said your peers and you one of the people is that mr peterson the canadian psychology professor is somebody people love the war love to hate so you're. still are you a batman villain i watched the professor as political correctness video and i was just so disappointed. jordan peterson is a clinical psychologist and university professor he's risen to fame in recent years via public interest and debate over his ideas peterson challenges political correctness with his 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 not 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

if 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 all peterson has his fans he also talks plenty of criticism earlier this year cambridge university canceled an invitation for 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 artie's murray from the ocean or has been speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary 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 and peterson has said sell the people that disagree with the idea of giving him a platform although making a film about him i don't think it's the same thing when 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 bonuses in the film so you have all of the people that are talking about i mean 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 in the side but also see him as kind of like

a political tool the kind of problem there are for their agenda then you have people on the left like and t.v. 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 what 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. 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's. leading the all right or you know motivating him cells or that he has a really dangerous ideas that he's the custodian of the petri arche 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 is as wasn't mentioned is for friends but also for people who are really something in it for everyone to really paint a complex picture of what we witnessed throughout these 3 and a half years we approached the carlton cinema in toronto about its decision to cancel the screening or bring you any response we were safe that's our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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totally a muslim in the lock of the. that the it is them when they do the good. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle from calls for trump's impeachment to the saga known as briggs and political elites appear to be terrified of democracy and the people's will also should we lament the passing of the new liberal order.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he is a r t website writer we also have dimitri he is a political analyst and editor at in a semi internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine original uncrossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate as usual go to our guest in london marcus i'm glad you're joining us today look i mentioned in my introduction the impeachment proceedings that are starting against trump and talking about brags that but there's one theme that kind of ties them together and it is my sense they do these political elites across the atlantic and in the u.k. they really want the status quo to be maintained they don't want to lose power and they are terrified terrified of the people's will they want to undo a referendum in the u.k. and they want to oust a legitimately elected president of the united states by extremely dubious means as

we speak marcus your thoughts. well 1st of all we must be clear that the american and british establishment comprised of conservatives and liberals and they are as the coasts if as each other and they are as dangerous to international peace and stability as each other and it is abundantly clear that the liberal elements in america and the little elements in britain is refusing to accept the wheel of the people in america that we have a democratically elected president mr trump one that seafarers and 16 presidential election fairly and squarely yet the liberal elements in the american establishment is doing everything within its powers to try and bring him down if we cross over that's a britain the.