this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's man or woman. moscow rings in the new year and a new decade fireworks bright lights and cheering crowds in the streets of russia's capital welcome 2020. and as our view of the key events that shaped 29000 continues we shed some light on the impeachment saga. also the united states announces that it will send $750.00 more troops to the middle east in response to intact on the u.s. embassy in baghdad the events follow american air strikes in iraq and syria that killed 25 people at the weekend.

from moscow where it's just past 5 in the morning you're watching r.t. international happy new year to you from all of us here. a new decade has indeed begun here in moscow we end to 2020 if you hours ago the celebrations all still in full swing here let's take a look at how it was done in other parts of the world. well

to see how moscow brought in the new decade has our correspondent ask it taylor right in the heart of the russian capital. 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 within the kremlin's walls and it's really become the face symbol of new year here in russia so 2025 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 must be an 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 the most spectacular the race unbeatable performance of night 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 height of the people and are out in force today that way from 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 we've had do woman december and 133 years and it was so dire in fact the local authorities had to bring in some artificial snow to some of the decorations in the sun to the way it's very clear that all these party goers are going to be out and about as well into the early hours of the morning that can we would be round 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 off on the wall the bees to stroll through a fairytale moscow that's been decked out with dazzling decorations and light displays. nothing of course more tasking than the tree in front of the crowd and at the far end of red square it towers above us this year at 22 meters high it's way 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 start at the top and it's precisely this magical 5 that 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 flock 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 are in for a year of good luck and who would want to pass up on that i will admit though 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 thinking champagne glasses feasting on traditional new year's dishes and of course exchanging gifts and tonight all across russia children will be looking out their windows and awaiting eagerly a visit from jet models who is russia's father christmas here in moscow one of the last to welcome 2020 with open arms russia has 11 time zones across her vast territory in the far east things appropriately winding down but not here hit the parties are just getting started so from myself from the thousands of revelers here in the very beating heart of mother russia welcome to a new year welcome to a new decade let's hope these twenty's are as warring as the last. well now that we're very firmly in 2020 we can take

a moment to look back at some of the key news events that shaped 2019. so let's see what has dominated the headlines in 2019 streets of rage disruptor in chief miracles happen let's uncover some of these so let's look at the top one 1st streets of rage what do we have yellow vests hong kong latin america protests because of course street protests group cities all over the world chief among them the house was paris in fact the whole of france seemed it was affected by a kind of yellow fever so let's see what this one has for us as they have in the on themselves the brands he reports now on the protest movement that shook things up every weekend last year. as 29000 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. taking out the old wounds its theme of a year with home 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 cool not cool and had given them concessions but they were rejected we cut off too weak the other vests and the police. they. there were the climate strikes led by phone says use they took to the streets to decry the country mostly doing enough to join the friday surf it just strikes

president michael was incensed and demanded that they take that action elsewhere. and marching every friday to save 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 to a standstill i don't know what sparked it was the plan was to merge 42 different pension schemes into a universal points based system and if you know anything about the french used to

mess with the toilet soap as 2102 was too close there was only one question to ask those who take into the streets would not call me now after all the unwanted gifts he presented to the french this year be all full the christmas is naughty oh nice list he is a naughty child the bastard and i hope he will not have any presents from father christmas so i think that it's father with others who is coming to see him on i think someone should tell my craw on that father christmas doesn't exist at all as if you were the 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. no t.v. no t.v. is not nice to see and i think that he will be deprived of gifts this year and also next year. well let's move on to some other key news events from 29000 shall we let's try to disrupt in chief and see we have yes you might guess who this is 29000

was a year of double trouble making the headlines once again and of course he's even been impeached which doesn't seem to be both bring him to much auntie's kaleb open explains how the house of representatives votes in favor of trump's impeachment may not have had the effect the democratic party wanted. president dr slamming house speaker nancy pelosi says of the lady she wrote about injuries are the sorts of stories you so are you sick and tired of it yet every single day there's a fresh delusion of stories about donald trump and his impeachment not just in the usa but around the world increasingly it seems like the u.s. public is suffering from what could be described as impeachment t.v. . 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 it 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 but 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 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 trumps persistent transgressions the very foundation.

of this great republic is at risk 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 those who said 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 referring to i don't look at it the more because this is a real thing i know i'm not i think it's an important story and the interpersonal 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 address and i'm pretty sure it's 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 kaleb up and r.t. new york. now let's treat us all to something a little bit more real good shall we let's try miracles happen and see it we have. here's one from last year that was an inspiration because it's about professionalism bravery and also a bit of luck a bird strike caused a euro airlines flight to crash land in a cornfield outside moscow terrifying of course but everyone on board survived.

and i've already had a. look at the still sell it. there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job to end of the plane that really captures to tell us please how do you feel now did you hurt to well. you know it's better than if i was there lying on the field so everything is rather good the landing was good the filings did a great job landed the plane on its belly everything is fine. to reach to call the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the voice

one usually. simulate the situations when one or 2 engines out despite all i want to approach the plane was going down realize that we didn't have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision. while 2019 was a year of extraordinary variety both good and bad and all video agency ruptly was right across it all. it was.

does it really feel like we're being impeached. tending to some headline news now u.s. president trump says that iran will pay a very big price for violence directed at the american embassy in iraq hundreds of iraqis have attempt to storm the diplomatic mission in baghdad with some of the protesters starting a fire there washington has decided to redeploy 100 marines from kuwait to reinforce the embassy and in a show of force u.s. omi apache helicopters flew over the compound firing flares as a warning to the protesters the pentagon has also announced that in response to increased regional threat levels it will send $750.00 more soldiers to the middle east the embassy unrest comes after american bombing raids in iraq in syria that

killed 25 at the weekend. it was. the. earlier my colleague you know neal discussed the situation with our middle east correspondent michelle greenstein from altie america . let's go to you 1st the protests there they show little signs of relenting what do we know about today's over full circle at this 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 here who are attending one of several senior roles that was organized on the true state 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 earlier the american ambassador was summoned for an explanation of the american strikes that targeted some 5 sites belonging to the cut hizbullah armed groups not this is a group that 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 tele ation full 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 i solute what happened yesterday was clear

aggression. it was not right and we tried to stop it with us insisted and very unfortunately this thing happened when i said this was a very dangerous matter and asked to discuss it face to face with the responsible parties not only by phone but he said the decision has been made and 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 they burnt american and israeli flags and 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. michelle 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 wounding many 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 hoke 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 set off 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 syria and lebanon explained to her readers that the embassy had been stormed not by the iraqi people but by qatar even hezbollah supporters and we also had c.n.n. anchor jake tapper retreat 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 embassy shouting down down usa. but we also expect a song to be who's a member of the backed out security committee he says the u.s. is creating a war on iraq you saw that will affect the country's relations. what's iran got to do with this this iraqi soldiers iraqi personnel were killed the iraqi people. to be. with. for the loss of their brothers.

their soldiers so i don't know why the americans assisting to move the battlefield from iran into iraq. creating a proxy war in iraq. which has no. need for it if there is a problem between the united states of america between the iran might as well take between themselves why involving iraq why attack iraq soldiers in retaliation to iranian policy this is something. for it it will definitely lead to deterioration of diplomatic relationship between iraq and the rights of states and would definitely affect the presence of american soldiers american fighting forces here in iraq. well that is your news update and i'll be back with the rest of the team at the top of the hour with a roundup of the headlines after new year. the

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the readings of the salyut taishan. the end is here hawk watchers of the year i mean it's the end of the year and as we sit down with family and friends for annual season of holidays and good cheer waiting to ring in the new year it is important to take a moment or 2 you know take a moment or 2 we'll look back at what was the year that came before this day what took place around the world in our nation and our lives during those 300 some odd days that brought us to this very moment. well today on the show we will do just that we will take some time to examine just a sampling from some of the biggest stories we covered all year long i mean we've got protesters aplenty from france hong kong to haiti all with the fires of change in their hearts some more celebrated some were shamed.