dear to ask. look this is going to. 2 take hours the petrol bombs and beatings hong kong's pro-democracy protests take an increasingly violent. take as president say as u.s.

troops have started withdrawing from positions in northeast syria ahead of the head of the military offensive by ankara low cards that oppose the allies in washington not to turn. arrests amazes environmental protests kick off in sixty's this is world wide as extinction rebellion activists call for a shutdown of major infrastructure to force government action over climate change but is it all just possible that. what this generation seems to be saying is you've messed things up for long enough you're not really listening the only way we can actually get your attention is actually by civil disobedience extinction rebellion is without question britain's fastest growing pagan religion. very welcome to you you're watching r t international with. the aaron the top story this hour in hong kong 2 protesters

have been charged with violating the newly introduced ban on face masks is the 1st time the law is being applied having of originally been aimed at diffusing tension by keeping people off the streets the activists were accompanied to caught by a peaceful crowd in stark contrast to the recent violence in the city. thanks. for the initial protests over a now abandoned extradition bill has since lowballed into a wider rights movement which is proving difficult to control a warning some may find the next scenes distressing a taxi driver was badly beaten off the plowed into march is nothing to him down is going clear if the incident was deliberate but it didn't stop the crowd from

turning on the driver and actress was also assaulted in hong kong on sunday she was hit with on brothers and a tennis racket while trying to take pictures of protesters vandalizing the branch of the bank china she was later seen bloodied and inject as ask you taylor now reports with images like this coming from hong kong is going to surprise people drawing comparisons to a horror movie. kong has gone from being the economic power of the orient to the face of the fight for democracy but the faces of those trying to rust control from beijing's crossed a mosque and the democratic means they're using wouldn't be out of place and hollywood horror film the passage i am.

the film's premise is that once a year for 12 hours only crimes are allowed maad fact are certain rate you name it you've got a free pass and that because of this small window to release all your rage the country becomes crime free for the other $364.00 days it's a small sacrifice for the wider peace and stability and in scenes eerily similar to the film's opening hong kong apparently had a pudge of its own. to broadcast the still air vents being used for. the merchants the service is suspended for will. remember urged. times like oh it's. ok it was a hoax but it was a hoax that actually wasn't that far from the reality of the chaotic mania gripping

the streets of hong kong. hong kong had a very dark night because of the extreme acts of the rioters the city's now senator lies to everyone is worried how real this raid. shops looted buildings burned the metro disrupted for the 1st time in over 20 years shopping centers food shops and banks closed down fearing wolf islands from the vandals a city which was renowned for its efficiency and convenience is now ma it in confusion and disorder the instability has spooked the markets and seen hong kong's retail sales suffer the biggest drop on record and while the city's 1000000 as a packing must suitcases for those who can't just rustle up a 1000000 euros to get a fast track residency abroad the options are limited the old man can go anywhere only we came from mainland china and we didn't know the stations were close so now we converse about. so that is

a big problem for public transport is for everyone the real decision to open or close the station cannot be politically thinks everyone's dating life if you save its traditions which you have for your situation not many people use the phrase and because of them of those. are 3 we really are friends all the life is close and hire the entire thing anyway so i think that's kind of ridiculous now there are those who will say the film shows scenes of senseless violence while the protestors are engaged in a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience and what of course no image shows the full picture for this undercover police officer who was beaten and with petrol bombs by and incensed mob the line is probably a bit more blood with the lenses of the international media zoomed in on the region there's no shortage of scenes just like this and don't worry if it's a slow day but i'm more than willing to lend a helping hand to spice up the show i don't.

think. the israelis. was the passage in the film lost 12 hours in hong kong with 17 weeks and counting and as those on both sides of the barricades refuse to back down a resolution seems far off so there is no end game that's the infinity war that hong kong people are willing to engage in as businesses are crushed as fires by and of people are forced to pick sides claims that it's all in the name of peace and democracy are increasingly wearing thin these protests is no longer out of pro-democracy protests it is turning to rival that the protests that moves

the engage in violence are young people it is because for the past. decades. the home call government nor. straw polls the measures to ensure. that young people after they graduate from school or university they would have a hardcore easy choice the poor start. where organized to do more healthful hierarchies to come into the store forty's to put a star of one in the wrong doing whatever they like leaving the police nor toys plus sure you escape the tools to test them these studies are a whole new situation. and this is a take up biggest external forces to come in and it is

a scenario that i can anticipate the retreat really happened. in the short run. it's like as president says american troops stationed in northeastern syria have now begun polling out of the region had a military operation that one career has been threatening to imminently conduct video apparently showing us. military vehicles moving away from their positions along the turkish syrian border haven't the kurdish forces in the region in turn have mobilized and have become preparing antitank trenches the us earlier said its troops in northeastern syria would not support or be in the immediate area if turkey launched an offensive that effectively abandoning their kurdish allies on top of that washington has seemingly tried to post responsibility to european states. the united states government has pressed france germany and other european nations from which many captured isis fighters came to take them back but they did

not want them and refused the united states will not hold them for what could be many years and great cost to the united states taxpayer turkey will now be responsible for all isis fighters in the area captured over the past 2 years in the wake of the defeat of the territorial caliphate by the united states senior correspondent mark gasnier looks at why american troops they are in syria in the 1st place and what they're actually doing there now america's role in syria it's difficult to explain they came to fight isis isis has been all but destroyed in syria but america's staying the fight isis. you see what i mean by difficult to explain and people are getting impatient sick of things staying in limbo turkey's done waiting that's going to invade sub well look we have made our preparations completed our plans and given the necessary instructions we will conduct this operation on the ground and in the air tanks and troops are flooding toward the

turkey syria border we're talking here about a theater wide offensive a frontline of almost 500 kilometers turkey's serious it wants america's pet army the s.d.f. which it views as terrorists god yes the f. kurds predominantly aren't going down without a fight the s.c.f. is committed to the security mechanism framework and has been taking necessary steps to preserve stability in the region however we will not hesitate to send any and provoked attack by turkey into an all out war on the entire border to defend ourselves and our people edouard's been pushing the idea of a syria safe zone for ages he's got millions of syrian arab refugees he wants to resettle there and there appear to be progress joint u.s. and turkish patrols through this plan to save the road until turkey realized what

was going on. limbo america dragging its feet and stretching the tie in mouth. line patrols patrol is we're seeing the only piece of fiction. come to think of it america's role in syria it's like a doorstop wedged with a door halfway open so you can close it and you can't open it and the door stop does nothing but annoy anyone trying to get in or out to get something done and it has no good reason to be there i mean seriously in a recent congressional report they argued that the u.s. should stay in syria because get this all those defeated isis fighters could potentially theoretically stage multiple prison breaks and become a threat the isis detainee population is a few prison breaks away from refilling its ranks for the next phase of battle talk

about running out of excuses i mean as i saying that you should change your card because you could burst the tire in the future came up with that is that in turn regardless the problem with turkey invading other than the fact that it's an invasion is that there are an awful lot of us troops packed together with the guys turkey calls terrorists and they're still there despite all of trumps humbug about leaving we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home it will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now we are 1 for the fact that. we're going to be removing our troops so here are trumps options get out of the way of the turkish invasion by withdrawing troops or stay and risk being bombed by nato if he leaves the liberal mob are going to go nuts and shout all the louder if

he stays well he might have to explain why american troops are being shot at by nato allies it's a tough choice are we ever knew the life of a doorstop could be so complicated. the reaction has been coming from europe too and chris plans for a military operation in syria a spokesperson for the german government one then set one of the such an invasion would lead to further escalation in syria pointing out the possible humanitarian consequences while the european union said the operation would hamper the prospects for a peaceful solution to the years long conflict let's go live now to our guest writer and commentator abdel bari atwan welcome to the program sir now i do i have been talking about this possible military operation in north eastern syria for quite some time now so it is today more bluster what actually happened now. i believe it is imminent but isn't that underground talk to all because of the ground in the

united states that this operation is supposed to be a joint operation by that american by the 3rd but it seems that american decided to stay out of this invasion and it seems also as you would will wash his hand completely from supporting his arc allies and not syria that's the problem here what's the action of syrian democratic forces i believe they will be some sort of resistance from their side we don't know what will be that the action of the c.m. government which is the central government there always said that we should actually impose our. authority on the north of syria this is a syrian land we have to take it back so i believe this. could complicate the all situation and north syria we don't know what's that what will happen and most

part coming through with this if this actually impeded don't place we don't know but i can imagine it could be a very difficult in beijing people that thought that their acts it will be it is this where the syrian army joint the kurds. and there's a sense of that this is true this could complicate things and i know that a program would like actually to create a stage door and told us to take more than 3000000 c.d.'s and lift those people his allies mainly women mainly belonging to i'll guide them about a political organization with that he is going to succeed or not i have my own doubts. and on the. america saying it one to intervene but the question is will that they stick to that or are there any red lines they were unclear cross in syria . well i believe that american actually would be going to lose actually to live

down your allies. on. the cd and democratic which is maybe good to me so these troops are actually not out they will find themselves alone and front of. me. american will help them with that the american actually was outdated rules that have about 2000 troops and c.d.'s is it the end of the american military because we don't know is it that american to think and all that crap dedicated because actually i'm going to buy particular. if it's a $400.00 which is. their production design is it going to do which we don't know that i'll be much in but i believe it is phoning and i. and this perhaps actually could be

a lot about the mission to the troops and back of syria the syrian government never allowed that. it's actually to state and north korea that. these actually poses so what will happen we don't know but i believe it is that gospel from. the side from the side it is that gumbo from out of the guy because he is actually he has 333000000 inside that came out here is actually trying to dance fear more than another 1000000 to north of syria he doesn't want them and so he would like to create a. safe zone in order to allow them. to solve the problem of lips so that. the syrian army could be back right turn commentator one thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. from obama headlines news on the way

plus a new wave of unrest in ecuador as indigenous groups take the lead against cuts to fuel subsidies on price hikes they. seem wrong. to shape out just to get the ticket and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to express interest. in something want to be rich. to write. this is what. real people. interested why. there should be a. welcome back a climate protest in london by environmental action group extinction rebellion has seen 21 a rested including an 81 year old woman head of the monday morning rush hour before the 2 we campaign kicked off police in the british campus also rounded up tend to bits of the group threaten to shut down westminster and cripple the city's

transport networks as part of a worldwide movement starting in 60 cities this monday protesters have also disrupted traffic in central amsterdam and berlin despite a warning of a clampdown by 0 forcing dutch police say they made 50 arrests near a popular tourist attraction one and live around a 1000 people block to translate roundabout terminal dorothy said they will stop making the rest of the time being but young tibetans have also been apprehended in australia and new zealand. on sunday activists in germany practiced peaceful resistance and morkel rests at that account in front of parliament and berlin campaign as in new delhi staged a mock funeral for the earth and did paris hundreds gathered ahead of monday's main event extinction rebellion has been in the headlines throughout the year with. it's a fact it's the rest.

of the. types of actions that we want to engage with or disruptive to business as usual but all but disruptive in a way that is not repellent to observers or outsiders people who may not even consider themselves to be environmentalists or politically active or aware that cetera but people who are just paying attention in the world and understand that we are in a crisis and so they will be attracted or drawn into the spirit of the rebellion there's many ways to get involved. and we don't really place getting arrested above

not getting arrested well among extinction rebellions key to moms all that governments declare a climate emergency hold the loss of biodiversity and drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2025 from seeing it as a peaceful nonviolent campaign to potentially holding all the ingredients of an extremist movement has some of the reaction we've been herrick. extinction rebellion is without question britain's fastest growing pagan religion and the reason i refer to as a pagan religion is just as all the classic hallmarks of a group of religious fundamentalists a belief that their view is the only view that's acceptable and a desire to shut down everything that does not talk to their worldview they fundamental belief that they are in charge and everybody else also go to their beck and call how do you resolve pollution the result polluted by technological advancement the technological advancement the extinction rebellion oppose what this generation seems to be saying is you've messed things up for long enough you're not

really listening the only way we can actually get your attention is actually by civil disobedience in the footsteps of mahatma gandhi and martin luther king jr and malcolm x. and rosa parks and people who decided that peaceful nonviolent public protest. displays of public outrage but tamed and controlled because don't forget the extinction rebellion and anybody who's involved in political activism or any kind of change agenda they going to use your actions and activities against you look extinction rebellion of demand effects we have returned to the stone age removal of economic progress a commitment to not grow the economy so essentially the british government for example has committed to being 0 carbon by 2050 which i think is nominally said suppose you can't or shouldn't trust all words that come to our service we had our city contrast that because our number has been in. every single year if i can be

directly into the camera my 11 year old son who was at home with the band hello guys and we had a debate before it came on tonight about does he want to. leave school. take a break for an afternoon or a day to go and protest he was worried about the consequences at age 11 he understands that the climate is suffering and that rapid change is needed we do. lead to charcoal pollution but i will tell you so big you regret you reverse the economic advantages that lifted a 1000000000 people on poverty or you do not make the earth a better place extinct rebellion laryngeal. indigenous groups and workers' unions have blocked major roads in ecuador in mass anti-government protests leading to clashes with police in some areas one protester was killed in a hit and run incident according to the all parties and 20 shopkeepers were arrested for illegally bice's 50 police officers have also reportedly been taken hostage people there are angry at price hikes in the country since fuel subsidies

ended there to meet long loan terms imposed by the international monetary fund on saturday night protesters continued to vent their anger. thanks. in response to the turmoil president rayno has announced the 60 day state of emergency he also said the new reforms will stay in place has some of the protesters told us. they have not been able to putin writes if we want them to abide by those rights we turn to reject the measures and then ran on his lackey government in step with the north american empire. has a back past does not hold of the people and so we don't want that we already saw what happened with spiegel suffering from hunger you know. the city of stars seems to have added another to its constellation a homeless woman in los angeles has won hearts there after

a policeman filmed us thinking in a subway station operatic performance went viral and might be about to turn her life around. i don't. believe that cleveland. but there are those who believe that's only while all the while it just turns people's fears with the music it. was. was. 4000000 people calling home 4000000 stories 4000000 voices sometimes you just have to stop listening to war to hear something beautiful. just got evicted because i could not have a news source or source of income labelled my belly was broken i wasn't getting

more i wanted to. be. 2 2 2 6 6 6 6 6 a i knew. this might seem as. though over the telling people there will be who i was the whole time you're going to be very wrong when you return bills to me of the bus there's a train anywhere. i think i am going is a start and i think that. he will just go right to the top of the charts. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.

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