this edition of crossfire we answer questions for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of the. beijing activists staging a huge protest in hong kong on new year's day marred by clashes with riot police. also ahead on the program u.s. forces reportedly used tear dispersed protesters outside the american embassy in a day. tried to storm torch it it comes as washington sends more troops to iraq in response to choose these attack on the. ukrainian former riot police released from jail in the recent prisoner swap revealed details contradicting the official version of the 2014 my down shootings in kiev where more than 50 people lost their

lives speaks to one of the officers. who are the evidence shows that the police acted lawfully there was no open fire on citizens a terrorist act against the police did take place illegitimate seizure of power of the government offices were taken over. or international news center this is welcome to the program. after a night marred by clashes major beijing rally is underway in hong kong this new year's day there have already been signs of more unrest with riot police firing tear gas and petrol bombs hurling demonstrators.

was. was. and let's focus on a particular aspect of the unrest violence and brutality when perpetrated by the hong kong protesters has gone largely without comment from the west why is that our 2 selves cotillard delved deeper. hong kong has gone from being the economic power of the orient to the face of the fight for democracy and boy does that fight fire. an amendment to a preexisting north that would allow for the extradition of criminal suspects from hong kong to mainland china has brought the financial haven to its knees as

a protest accent into the 7th month violence on both sides has escalated but all the wild over politicians and john continue to hail the peaceful aspirations of those fighting to rest themselves from beijing all the while coming down hard on those aggressive dust spots in china you have a chinese government that's getting increasingly aggressive increasingly repressive it's disgusting what they're doing in hong kong they're taking away basic rights trying to seem trampling the most basic human rights of its own citizens beijing is increased its interventions in hong kong and engaged in actions to curtail the rights. and liberties. of its people but it seems so many incidents have managed to escape the scrutiny or. western media well it's all over the lot. i.

think. scenes like that combined with the discovery of 10000 petrol bombs packed with high explosives and shrapnel make it harder to see is peaceful what appears to be a slippery slope into the territory of terrorists methods you cannot fight for freedom of speech by silencing people who disagree with you. you cannot fight for democracy by terrorizing the public to force others to support you. you cannot condemn brutality by brutalizing people who hold different views to yours deval and acts are one step closer to the actual terrorism china is treading kathleen refusing to send in troops to shut down the protests and local elections were held in which pro democracy candidates one in the landslide hong kong authorities

conceded defeat the extradition built has been withdrawn but still the barricades on signing the flames according to china washington. china urges the us to correct its mistakes and stop interfering in our internal affairs we will take further steps if necessary to uphold hong kong stability and prosperity as well as china's sovereignty some have talked down beijing's words to paranoia but let's take a look joshua was why he billed as the face of the protest movement was snapped speaking 20 fishel at the u.s. consulate oh when i forgot to mention he's not big on compromise so there's no end game there is to infinity ward at home people are willing to engage there's also an organization funded by the u.s. . congress which has been distributing money to groups it claims are preserving democratic rights then of course as the in century legislation washington's passed

the human rights and democracy act in clearance i'm going to stay for those arrested up protests and will monitor hong kong to ensure that in the eyes of the u.s. of course an appropriate level of autonomy from mainland china is. these 2 bills the noblest intervention of hong kong some turn north necessary and without groans it will also home the relationship in interests between hong kong and the u.s. all of this on top of the protest as mass waving of the star-spangled banner have sparked concern that the u.s. might be lending more than just a supportive hand leading many to ask the question if the protest as a calling for self-determination is appealing to a foreign power to shape the future the best way to go about it especially when that foreign power might want to contain a rising star they're reaching. for and using methods that have created challenges for the united states and for the world. and we collectively all of us need to

confront these challenges from the p.r.c. head on and on each of the many facets the fallout of all this has a little impact on washington of course it's the average hong kong who find his pocket that little bit lighter on his home that little less popular the violence in hong kong has spooked foreign investors shoppers appetite has also soured in the wake of all the violence with the retail sales in sri fall and hong kong facing its 1st recession in a decade bombed apparently being caught in the middle of take ass and rubber bullets isn't topping any tourists the wish lists because hong kong saw its lowest number of visitors since 2003 the major. is really the truth and. because. nobody is coming to.

my 50 more. we. drop by 50 per se as far as as fear rises and as prosperity fades it seems this fight for freedom is costing hong kong more dearly than many could have imagined. it would turn attention on the program to the iraqi capital because that is where u.s. forces have reportedly fired tear gas protesters gathered outside the american embassy in baghdad there for a 2nd day protesters tried to set it in the compound on fire yesterday a crowd tried to storm the embassy and also torched parts of it demonstrators calling for the full withdrawal of american forces from the country the usa said will deploy 750 troops to iraq in response to the. threat posed

to its embassy president has accused iran of orchestra tuck and fire that it will pay a price to run for its part says it doesn't want war but won't hesitate to strike back if threat no 100 marines have already been redeployed from kuwait to reinforce the this in a show of strength u.s. army helicopters flew over the compound firing flirt as a warning to the protesters the embassy on rest comes out for american bombing raids in iraq and syria at the weekend 25 people were killed picking up the story for us this hour well. iraq is in flames the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been seized by crowds of people chanting death to america was. was was. the. god i.

was. god. now you might think that iraq has plenty of reason to be outraged with the united states you might recall that whole invading destroying and killing thousands of people in the country thing however truck doesn't see it that way this is his assessment of it that iran killed an american contract when many we strongly respond and always will now iran is orchestration an attack on the us embassy in iraq they will be held fully responsible in addition we expect iraq to use forces to protect embassy and so north of heart it's all about iran one of the things 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 city of restoring deterrence against in rimi an aggression. now the united states recently conducted airstrikes

against iranian backed militias in iraq in syria this comes after washington blamed iran for the recent rocket attack that killed an american contractor american officials say the airstrikes are completely justified but iraq disagrees with what happened yesterday was a clear aggression it was not right and we tried to stop it but the u.s. insisted and very unfortunately this thing happened to him i said that this was a very dangerous matter and asked to discuss it in face to face with the responsible parties not only by phone he said that the decision has been made and i am informing you of this iran also disagrees wonderful rudeness of the u.s. officials is to such an extent the off to the must the cove 25 people and we number of iraqis and violating iraqi territorial integrity and national sovereignty it is now in a flagrant brain graeme attributing the rockies protest islamic public overrun the

united states has long been working to crush iranian influence in the region this is been a long time talking point of the us foreign policy hawks iran is the major destabilizing in influence in the middle east and we aim to fix that one of the greatest security threats facing peace loving nations today. is the repressive regime in iran ready to think twice about that. but why is iranian influence on the rise in the middle east let's not forget that the united states along propped up the rons greatest enemy saddam hussein and even provided him with chemical weapons however the usa invaded iraq in 2003 and toppled the iraqi government since that time iraq has stepped up its support for different factions in the country to stabilize. iranian influence in iraq is massive especially among the shia majority of the population. now this isn't because of some sinister plot from the ayatollah's

critics note that washington's actions simply left a power vacuum. to speak to the group targeted by a b. us. here is one of its spokesperson. the americans are striking to kill or of course in iraq want to present their allegiances a fight against iranian influence but that is not after being attacked by the gang as i saw it was the iraqi people so we're not out there are often resistant not to be iranian. concluded a strategic framework agreement between us does not allow the americans to create military bases in iraq which is agreement is not being implemented today the americans are occupying iraq the military bases against the backdrop of protests in iraq the united states is trying to intervene in this process and establish its leadership which will lead to a complete anarky of the country the show and the american presence in iraq will be

supposedly justified traditionally the u.s. uses a made up pretext to attack and let it out in this case the attacks on american bases are just a cover for defeating the shiite militia. moving on now ukrainian former riot police charged with being part of the group of officers who shot civilians in the my down protests in kiev and 2014 have spoken to journalists for the 1st time officers were exchanged on sunday in the prisoner swap between kiev and the self-proclaimed done yet. republics more than 50 protesters lost their lives in shootings blamed by ukraine on the riot police however being released officers say they have evidence disproving not giving further weight to claims that the attacks were in fact by pro who. just look at the evidence shows that the police acted lawfully there was no order to open

fire on the citizens or a terrorist act against the police did take place and illegitimate seizure of power occurred the government offices were taken over we are determined to prove to the ukrainian people that the ukrainian police work to protect. them one is the one who was what we were beaten in the ukrainian security service office the offices even came to the trial detention facility pretending to be lawyers masked security officers beat us in a cell i needed heart surgery i read this in court but they forced me to play the guilty in order to receive treatment it would be even we were tortured for the 1st 2 weeks we were almost killed they did not try to get any information from us and they knew we didn't have any they just wanted to pin the blame for the crimes that were committed on us as much still ahead more from our review of the year that chance you missed any of 29 games big moments when you forgot.

lot of it here is economy where china has caught up more surpassed us you know the

mobile payments market 50 times the size of the us or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated. kind of recently woken up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the us. welcome back with $29.00 let's take a look at more of the events that the find here. and i want to show your particular topic that got a lot of people talking this year there was a lot of hype about a lot of things in 2019 including about the power of social media to influence

people. look at the rise of a new application called tech talk it's become hugely popular a low it's not liked by everyone. now you know a good many. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even exist it take tock tick tock for me simply the sound i associate with the clock well if you feel the same i'll have to tell you either you're getting old like me or it's just that your online habits need an urgent update take talk a platform to share short videos is now the most downloaded app the king of all

apps and twitter and co you've been dethroned just so you know ever heard the song. if it wasn't for his app store majesty the song wouldn't have become a hit you can hear on the radio anywhere in the world but here's something that may surprise old school folks like me even more the king belongs to an asian dynasty tick tock is that chinese app. so that's why the top democrat senator in his late sixty's is more up to speed than me 110000000 americans who have information with and the chinese government could be grabbing every one of them guess what the u.s. government is already up to reports say they've launched a national security probe into tick talk and the worries are the chinese government

could spy through take talk influence through take talk and censor what's on tape talk good god how come the rest of the world hasn't given up american born facebook speaking of the man who introduced the blue f to us all it's only natural he is keen to have a go at his competitors or services like what's up are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption privacy protections on tick tock the chinese are quickly around the world mentions of these same protests. censored now just let me show you what the people behind tick-tock have to say about all that our data centers are located entirely outside of china and none of our data is subject to chinese law we're not influenced by any foreign government including the chinese government to talk does not operate in china nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future oh someone here is either being really does honest or

outright paranoid or a bit of both it's time to stick in. u.s. china trade wars i'll tell you what this year has shown these has still it could easily spill over into modern tech slash online territory remember how america once went after i phone killer one of the wall way if you want to be still the right word washington even saw jail time for one of wall ways top executives and held google to the wall over android updates anyway for now clocks in teen minds and quite a few older ones even in america will be picking the chinese take talk way mr schumer do you have the guts to keep up with the times and join the royle after party. so. well let's fit in another extraordinary story from the past 12 months we've labeled

it miracles happen it's the russian passenger plane which crashed landed in a cornfield just outside moscow in august now the aircraft got in to trouble when a flock of birds shortly after takeoff it rocked this they everybody on board survived. we're. identifying. all over the. place or for the money sure she'll sell it because.

there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job through end of the plane really casts good tell us please how do you feel now did you her child 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. up to we to call the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one would usually simulate the situations when one or 2 and yourself despite what i want to approach the plane was going down realize that we didn't have much time

just one of 2 minutes to make a decision. 29000 was in europe extraordinary for i say both good on bond and our video agency ruptly was able to collect some incredible moments. it's likely that if.

it doesn't really feel like we're being impeached. just some of the big stories from the past year. next we walk into the shadow world program begins in moments. under the. gun.

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