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a new decade has begun to wall of of us from everyone here with the slogan golden or happy new year to you all some good just follow it stirring music the the words really good still let's go to red square. is roy blunt in the celebration

i can hear the. fireworks correctly when the background quiet and the spirits of the right in the red square what's it like. the. rain to ring and i'm quite literally standing underneath the fire walk in the ferry center i've got to basel is right behind you can hear the crowds going wild and then to my boy i've got this tower i'm just a couple of moments ago we had the much anticipated 12 midnight chimes from the tower that's the most famous clock tower with then the kremlin's walls and it's really become the face of the symbol of new year here in russia so 2020 is officially upon us just now you saw on your screens of course the spectacular fireworks display that was just erupting right in front of my eyes over the river and all across the night's sky they launched this year

a record 35000 solvers from 11 locations were actually right next to one of the locations and that was all of course to ensure that we had loosed spectacular the base unbeatable performance of light and color and of sounds that no one down here was left disappointed and if the reaction of that crowd just below us is anything to go by it all lived up to the hype the people in out in force today that wait and spock is that singing that dancing the hugging strangers i can see there of course popping champagne not even the rain could dampen this crowd spirit and unfortunately yes we did have rain with how do we all must december and 130. yes and it was so dire in fact the local authorities had to bring in some artificial snow for some of the decorations in the sun to either way it's very clear that all these party go is going to be out and about well into the early hours of the

morning that can we won't be around soaking up the atmosphere and taking advantage of everything that is on offer and my goodness is there a lot from carousels to concepts from ice skating to food markets and dance office and all the while the beaver to stroll through a fairytale mosque that's been decked out with dazzling decorations and light displays nothing of course more docile and then the tree in front of the crowd at the far end of red square towers above us this year at 22 meters high it's weighed down by an astonishing 3 and a half 1000 decorations and to top it all off the house overlooking 3 kilometers of light snaking the way all the way up to the star at the top and it's precisely this magical 5 the moscow has at this time of year that brings in on average 5000000 people to the capital in the holiday week many of them do of course choose to flood to the epicenter that is red square and you really can't blame them because

a russian saying goes that if you see in the new year here on red square you're in for a year of good luck and who would want to pass up on that i would have met those some have probably opted for coziness and walked over a party along the kremlin walls and they'll be at home gathered with family and friends can champagne glasses feasting on traditional new dishes and of course exchanging gifts and tonight all across russia children will be looking out their windows and awaiting eagerly a visit from models who has russia's father christmas here in moscow one of the last to welcome 2020 with open arms russia has 11 time zones across how foster a tree in the far east things appropriately winding down but not here. the party's just getting started so from myself from the thousands of travelers here in the very heart of mother russia welcome to and welcome to a new decade let's hope these twenty's are as warring as the last now that we see

how must be celebrated let's take a quick look at some of the other experiences all around the world. ok we are into 2020 it's official you might remember that we've been looking back at key events of the previous year using a really high tech plasma screen is decided to take this moment to go into retirement so you know have to improvise a bit here but let's look back over the last year.

the highlight street protest group cities all over the world among them paris in fact the whole of france's scene was affected by these kind of yellow fever reports now in the protest movement that things up every weekend in paris last year. that's 2019 winds up in front since that time move reflection was a good g.a.a. what gifts did it bring well there were plenty from the government but many seemed to go down like a lead balloon and people took to the streets time and time again. yes

we all know the french all famous for striking protesting but in 2019 it felt like that there was something picking out loose its theme of a year with oh i'm going protests and into professional strikes throughout the year one protest movement. every saturday without fail the yellow vests took to the streets. a movement in 2018 but it left that small cone 2019 the yellow vests one to change in the social fabric in france they've charged to the streets in anger of what they see as being a hugely unequal country with a growing divide between the rich and the pool mccaughan had given them concessions

but they were rejected week after week the yellow vests and the police clashed thousands on both sides injured. then you may want the climate strikes led by phone says use they took to the streets to decry the country more so doing enough to join the friday safety just strikes president michael was incensed and demanded that they take that action elsewhere marching every friday to say that the planet is burning that's nice but that is not the problem people should go protest in poland help me move those i

cannot push forward. and of course ending the year has been the big one and nationwide strike against pension reform. the public transport strike has brought most of the country choice down still under was sparked over the plans to merge 42 different pension schemes into a universal points based system and if you know anything about the french you don't mess with that we're toying with it so as $2100.00 to a close there was only one question to ask those who take into the streets would not call me after all the unwanted gifts he presented to the french this year below folbre christmas is naughty or nice list he is

a naughty child that's for sure and i hope he will not have any presents from father christmas i think that it's father with 3 who is coming to see him i know i think someone should tell my craw on that father christmas doesn't exist at all as if he was a child i am not sure that he would have a lot of presents this year because he has not been very wise he did not listen to his people but his duty. no t.v. no t.v. it's not nice to see you i think that he will be deprived of gifts this year and also next year. in other key events of the year that was 29 t. was a year of donald trump making the headlines he's even been in peace with people doing too much. and there really is. him point along to you though i told you the plus was broke and directed just changing the pitch you see. we don't like the open explains how the house of representatives

vote in favor of trump's impeachment made out of the if the democrats wanted. president dr slamming house speaker nancy pelosi as of late she. was so are you sick and tired of it yet every single day there is a fresh delusion stories about donald trump and his impeachment not just in the usa but around the world increasingly it seems like the us public is suffering from what could be described as impeachment fatigue. so why are people getting bored and tired over something that could be a dramatic saga of the democrats attempt to bring down the american president well

it could be that donald trump has already been investigated and exonerated over russia collusion a rise to mr speaker. to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america talking about a president who fired the f.b.i. director who was investigating the president for his connections to russian involvement in the presidential election the public breathed a sigh of relief thought it was all over but then it got going again it didn't work with russia so now it's ukraine this week the president has admitted to asking the president ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry now once the ukraine stuff got going it got to be

a little bit long winded the witnesses repeated the same facts over and over and over again and democrats warned that it could be a long process there is no limit on the number of the senate. or not a president no limit to the number of times the house can vote to impeach or not a president if the senate doesn't vote to convict trump or tries to monkey with his trial he could of course be retried in the new senate should he win reelection and repeating yourself over and over again is a sure fire way of becoming popular no one is above the law and that includes the president of the united states in pietschmann is the way we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences if we don't reckon with president trump's persistent transgressions the very foundation. of this great republic is at risk i have been very reluctant to go down the path of

impeachment but if the president is essentially trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit then that may be the only remedy now polls show the us public would prefer congress actually address some of the problems facing the country not spend their time squabbling with the white house though to set times of democrats petty politics and basis we chant what i'm hearing out in the street with most people is they're kind of tired they're kind of worn out they're kind of bored your folks and they really want to move on unless there's something new and amazing we know the end game there how did you tune in to the last hearing of the impeachment extravaganza mainstream media seems to give the impression that the whole country is watching the impeachment hearings but in reality they aren't viewership of the 1st impeachment hearing was roughly 13800000 do the math that's about 5 percent of the u.s.

public now when richard nixon was facing impeachment hearings decades ago roughly 71 percent of american citizens tuned in big difference so we decided to talk to new yorkers and see how excited they are about the impeachment process and you feel like the american people are a little bored with the whole thing i do coming on. 3 different i don't look at it the more it's because the same old thing oh no i'm not i think it's an important story and you get a personal moment of our history of wasting valuable time nothing is getting done i don't need to go through every single process out so i try to watch some of it on the drudge but then again i've been watching bits and pieces and this sense of surrounding information about it it's enough for ready it's not going anywhere and nothing is going to come out of this where the president's going to be removed and you know people want the country to get on with the business at hand that needs to be addressed and i'm pretty sure. bogus as 2020 rolls around americans are unsure

of what the new year will bring however one thing does seem to be pretty clear there will be plenty of congressional hearings and senate debates on capitol hill whether the u.s. public is interested in them or not they will mop and r.t. new york ok good to start the new year with some good habits stay with us you can take a short break back in a moment. join me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape

out this day become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. wow 2020 should be. thanking. welcome back hundreds of iraqis have attempted to storm the u.s.

embassy in baghdad some of the protesters there starting a fire there reportedly demanding its closure and that american forces leave the country iraq's popular mobilization forces say around 2 dozen people have been injured at rallies in and around the compound the nation's prime minister reserves dissembled crowd to leave the embassy warning of a tough response if they don't rest comes after american bombing raids in iraq and syria kills 25 people at the weekend. i. i. my colleague discussed the situation a little earlier with our middle east correspondent paula slee and r.t. america's michele greenstein. paula let's go to you 1st the protests there they show a little sign of relenting what do we know but also be at that stage they show no

sign of dissipating we know and we've received reports that the american embassy staff including the ambassador have been evacuated from the compound but these reports come as we continue to hear that iraqi security forces are firing tear gas on the crowds to try and get them to disperse now many of the people there who are attending one of several funerals that was organized on tuesday for some of the victims of sunday's american airstrikes and as you mentioned the situation at the moment is far from being under control of the american ambassador was summoned for an explanation of the american strikes that targeted some 5 sites belonging to the cut his below armed group now this is a group that he emerged after the american invasion of iraq in recent times it has repeatedly been involved in attacks against american forces it is also one of the main shia groups that has been fighting islamic state in syria and in iraq now

according to the americans the sunday air strike was carried out in the television for bomb for bomb attack on its base in quetta cook during which one american contractor was killed as of yet there's been no confirmation for that attack but the pentagon insists that the hizbollah group was behind it now the iraqi prime minister has slammed these strikes closely on what happened yesterday was clear aggression it was not right and we tried to stop it with the u.s. insisted very unfortunately this thing happened to this was a very dangerous matter to discuss it to face to face with the responsible parties not only by firm. decision has been made but i am informing you of this now the protests began on sunday night after the american strikes when hundreds of people took to the streets of baghdad condemning the americans and. at the same time expressing support for the militia a boon to many can add israeli flags that were chanting slogans such as down with

america and no 2 america ok well let's cross to michele greene who is in washington d.c. for some of the reaction from the u.s. michele what have we been hearing there well for one thing we have u.s. president donald trump insisting that iran is orchestrating this attack on the on the embassy in baghdad we also have senator marco rubio who doubted the theory that the u.s. in any way brought this attack on the embassy upon themselves take a listen room killed an american contractor. we strongly responded in ways we'll know iran is orchestrating an attack on the u.s. embassy in iraq they will be held fully responsible in addition we expect iraq to use its forces to see. iran is directly responsible for orchestrating the storming of the u.s. embassy in iraq and must be held accountable for it and the safety of every american serving there now we also have the state department special representative

for iran brian hook emphasizing that sunday's air strike was just a defensive action take a listen one of the things that we want to emphasize is that this was a defensive action that was designed to protect american forces and american citizens in iraq we're also working on the mission of restoring to terence against iranian aggression now in terms of a response from the u.s. press we have the washington post bureau chief for iraq to syria and lebanon explained to her readers that the embassy had been stormed not by the iraqi people but by qatar even has been lost supporters and we also had c.n.n. anchor jake tapper very tweet and analysis by former national security advisor to the top administration john bolton in which he declared the demonstrations as a sign of iranian control over militia groups not a sign of a rocky anti americanism and this is all of course despite the crowd outside the us . see shouting down down usa. ok there's a glass of champagne with i don't want to bring in the new year don't worry no

alcohol though so i will be fit to bring you the news headlines said that it is time. that. they. let it. go. on this edition of crossfire we answer questions center was fire you the viewers we

received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. as a lot of the areas in the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the u.s. or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated 5 g. we've kind of recently walking up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 year quit it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. last. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability. a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. kakadu to post number articles and not. companies want us to feel good about buying

their products while the damage is being done in far away there's a 2nd all of this must be done even and i mean what is good loses the mood in this room we didn't even and i'm stymied seem to be based on bad understood look to what is going in. well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name

of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things done and it essentially creates what we call a self licking ice cream cone and it's like a motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promises performance under promise it's costs we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in this day or people like the largest defense contractor in the world. they would die before they see it. going to change the world.