well the part we choose to look for common ground. breaking news. in northeast syria. just hours after u.s. forces withdrew from the. petrol. pro-democracy protests to increasing the violent turn. to extinction rebellion launches a 2 week protest campaign with activists aiming to shut cities or run the

world they call and governments to halt the destruction of the environment but how much support actually is there for. 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 by civil disobedience rebellion is without question britain's fastest growing religion. just after 6 am in beijing 9 am in sydney and 1 in the morning here in moscow this tuesday october welcome to r.t. international we begin with breaking news from northeast syria turkey has launched bombing raids in the area according to syrian state media it follows a long 'd running threat from. a large scale of fence of against kurdish forces and

it comes right after washington withdrew it troops for all the region well r.t.c. . your correspondent rob garcia of joins me now an issue for more on this right as we were saying the reports are from local media it very hard to verify what exactly is going on but what we know from the last few hours what can we cobble together there's a lot of fog of war hanging over new of northeastern syria now but multiple reports of said that the turkey has launched airstrikes as well as artillery barges against s.d.f. positions predominantly the s.d.f. is syrian kurds and turkey views the movement those terrorists and it is said before does warn that they will launch this operation and now it appears that they have actually turned word into deed they've struck at a border crossing with iraq in the very north eastern part of syria allegedly

destroying 2 bridges hitting a convoy as well as other s.d.f. units and positions in northeastern syria the turkish plan as they had said for a while now is to establish a safe receive soon to receive resettle millions of syrian arab refugees the turkey is hosting back into syria the s.t.'s fears that what turkey is trying to do is to change the demographic the population ethnic balance in the region in turkey's favor. the attack itself should be followed by a loud operation on the ground operation because we've seen turkey pulling tanks troops various armored vehicles for weeks now towards the syrian border and this is a huge front this is almost 500 kilometers the turkish border with the s.d.f. northern syria now the interest in the peculiar thing that has happened is that

turkey has reached out to iran rather than syria saying that they respect serious. that this operation is a must do thing and the turkey will try to do things as quickly and is safely as possible with. little violence possible peculiar because why wouldn't you reach out to sample another country that iran is a strange choice they've also been rumors that the s.d.f. has tried to reopen dialogue talks with the massacres with president assad the logic presumably being that if the syrian army moved into northern north eastern syria then the turks would have no choice but to withdraw they wouldn't want to war and multiple fronts. they're also getting the sort speculation of the circle and there's been no verification the other the other rumor is that assad has said no i

said and said that we will only move in if you give up all weapons and reintegration itself into into greater syria the timeline of this seems to be happening at a rapid pace turkey reiterated that it was going to invade at the start of the weekend the u.s. on sunday night donald trump says we're leaving and no this happens. well obviously we had all the warnings i mean nobody can say that they didn't see this coming and the one warned that this would happen various turkish officials turkish military representatives have said that this this was coming and the surprising thing is how quickly the united states pulled out this is this is the s.d.f. are talking about they had been bloody speaking america's meed shield in the operation against isis this whole operation against isis in syria that the united states ran separate from the russian and syrian what it was it was you know on the

ground the troops on the ground with vast these vast majority were kurds the s.d.f. protecting american bases that had been set up in in syria going on u.s. led operations u.s. mandated operations in the u.s. had been arming had been funding had been training and coordinating the s.d.f. this is in effect it is their pet army. the turks had said no that they were they were not down for this that the this wouldn't fly basically they view the s.d.f. as there is they view the entire movement as illegitimate and at this point there's a lot of there's a lot of criticism towards the united states because it appears that they backstab they betrayed such a close ally of. the united states who supposed to be in syria for 30 days that was many years ago we stayed in got deeper and deeper into bathroom with no end in sight we will fight where is to our benefit and only fight to win. now obviously

trouble is facing a lot of flak for this for this decision to pull out we don't know whether the united states pulling out of syria doubtful or just the northeastern part of syria where the operation is taking place nevertheless a lot of flak coming from the liberals from the conservatives from very wide spectrum political spectrum and it appears reading doing by trump's tweets which of them are exactly a reliable indicator but nevertheless it appears the pressure really is getting to him we must always have the backs of our allies if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against isis in syria leaving them to die is a big mistake this decision to abandon our kurdish allies and turn syria over to russia iran and turkey will put every radical islamist on steroids shot in the arm

to the bad guys devastating for the good guys now nikki haley the former u.s. representative to the to the united nations really tweeting the hash tag turkey is not our friend because donald trump has done something which is very very strange the same day that he all but bluntly speaking again back stabbed his s.d.f. allies who the united states had been with for years even turned on the other. player in all of this turkey a nato ally a dear nato ally saying he could destroy them as i have stated strongly before and just to reiterate if turkey does anything that i in my great unwashed wisdom consider to be off limits i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey i've done before. that is by any measure an absolute

remarkable thing to say starting with the grays and unmatched wisdom bit but that's a separate discussion separate conversation for now it appears that this has been an absolutely disastrous the united states foreign policy abandoning backstabbing one ally of the blue to the american reputation in the middle east is going to be astounding there are going to be consequences for this. and secondly turning on a nato ally threatening to destroy them economically. as i said. tremendously bad day for the united states and. i don't see how this is going to be any better tomorrow or thanks for breaking down what we know at this stage our senior correspondent because the you. or peace activist dan kadlec told me earlier that the u.s. exit from syria leaves civilians on kurdish fighters rests. we have to remember that in the 99 days turkey with the substantial u.s.

military support by the way really carried out genocide against its. kurdish population only about 3000000 kurds so we know about turkey's tip of the towards the kurdish people and one has to be very concerned replay of that in northern syria i'm sure turkey is trying everything you can not to help it happen because obviously if it incurred the military which the united states that would be devastating for the. mistakes happen and that is the risk of what's happening here so the u.s. is a horribly unreliable part for the kurds it has no friends only interests and the u.s. which is size all the time opposes al qaida then supports al qaida right we see this over and over. ok let's move to hong kong where 2

protesters have been charged with violating the newly introduced on face masks it is the 1st time the law has been applied to having a ritual being aimed at diffusing tension by keeping people off the streets the activists were accompanied to court by a peaceful crowd in stark contrast to the recent violence and to see. if they really are extraordinary pictures don't they the initial protests over a no abandoned extradition bill has since snowballed into a wider rights movement which is proving difficult to control just a warning the following scenes may be seen as the starving to some. because it's a tux you drive or we're seeing here. over the weekend after he plowed into

marchers knocking 2 people down it is unclear if the incident was deliberate but it did not stop the crowd from turning the driver who we see there not trysts who was also assaulted on sunday in hong kong she was attacked while trying to take pictures of protesters all the lies in a branch of the bank of china it was later seen bloodied and injured. reports with images like this coming from but it is not a surprise people are drawing comparisons to harvest. hong 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 pudge.

the film's premise is that once a year for 12 hours only crimes are allowed mogs a fact also rate you name it you've got a free pos and that because of this small window to release your rage the country becomes crime free for the other $364.00 days it's a small sacrifice for the wide peace and stability and in scenes eerily similar to the film's opening hong kong apparently had a pudge of its own. urgency brugge never mentioned it before and you will for. the merchant see service is suspended for well. remember

urged us to define just like oh ok 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 cemetery lies to everyone is worried her even afraid. 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 2 cases for those who can't just rustle up a 1000000 euros to get

a fast track residency abroad the options are limited you can go anywhere we came from mainland china and we didn't know the stations were closed so now we can there is a big problem for public transport is for everyone the decision to open or close the station cannot be politically it affects everyone's daily life but if you save it situations it's very good for your situation not so many people use the phrase and because of those. very 3 we really are friends all the life sports and higher and higher 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 but 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. me . thank you. the patch in the film lost 12 hours in hong kong with 17 weeks and counting and as those on both sides of the power kate's refused 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 battle and if people are forced to pick sides claims that it's all in the name of peace and democracy are increasingly wearing. these protests it's no

longer our pro-democracy protests turning to reinhold the protests most the engage in violence are young people it is because for the past. decades. the hong kong government nor to have a strong policy measures to ensure. the young people after they graduated from school all the university they would have high quality jobs the protests are north well organized they do not have a hierarchy to communicable to or forty's to poor to start one thing wrong doing whatever they like leaving the police no choice bust to use iscariot of force to repress them it's likely that the whole situation brule necessitate up

biggest external force to come in and it is a scenario that i can anticipate a rich real happened in the short run ecuador is in the grip of musts on the rest over a fuel price hike about story plenty more after this. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. thing . we. ask.

you know world big. and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. hello again more than 200 people were arrested in central london on monday a 2 week long climate protest by extinction rebellion octopus got on the way now

the group has said it intends to paros. roads and transport networks hundreds of people have been chaining themselves to vehicles on protesting outside government departments it is part of a worldwide campaign that's expected to take place in 60 major cities here some of the protesters disrupt the traffic businesses as well in central. madrid in spite of thora he's warning of dutch police say they made 50 arrests near a popular tourist attraction while in berlin and a people blocked a busy traffic intersection. german authorities say they will stop making arrests for the time being 30 activists were also up ahead of this trillion. and extinction rebellion has been in the headlines throughout the year with hundreds of activists arrested.

a lot of people over. the types of actions that we want to engage with are disruptive to business as usual 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 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 are many ways to get involved. and we don't really place getting arrested above not getting arrested among extinction rebellions key demands or the governments that

there are a climate emergency all for the loss of biodiversity and drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2020 from seeing it as a peaceful non violent campaign to potentially holding all the ingredients of an extremist movement here some of the reaction we've been getting. extinction rebellion is without question britain's fastest growing pagan religion and the reason i refer to as a pagan religion is just as old the classic old box of a group of religious fundamentalists a belief that view is the only view that's acceptable i desire to shut down everything that does not talk so that well view i think 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 advancements the technological advancements 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 effect 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 sensible you can't or shouldn't trust all words that come to our service we had our city contrast we're not because our numbers in the names become clear every single year if i can speak 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 need to tackle pollution but i will tell you something you regret you reverse the economic advantages that have lifted a 1000000000 people up poverty and you do not make the earth a better place extinction rebellion are lying to you. protests are continuing to grip ecuador as indigenous groups and workers unions vent their anger over the government's decision to scrap fuel subsidies a correspondent with artists. one of the demonstrations on monday and film this. was. he told us it was peaceful until police turned up to disperse the crowds who fired tear gas demonstrators one of

those tear gas screens went off near our correspondent he's currently filing a report we'll bring it to you when we get it the group had to move away from the site since the rallies began last thursday some of which have been violent one man has died and close to 500 people arrested because the protesters have been blocking roads and highways also some 50 police officers have been taken hostage we believe in different parts of the country president marino has responded with a 2 month state of emergency refusing to scrap the new reforms here's what some of the demonstrators told us. his claim that the most the people have rights and we want them to abide by those rights which is going to jack for measures and then ran on his lackey government to step with the north american empire you know i am that has a back fast does not help the people so we don't do one thing only he saw what happened to speak of suffering from hunger. well obvious your news update for now on our to

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