we do. understand that superman. earth. and to beijing activists stage a huge protest in hong kong on new year's day after a nights marred by clashes with ron police. rocky forces regained control of the u.s. embassy in baghdad after 2 days of violent clashes with protesters who tried to storm and torch it. and ukrainian former riot police released from jail in a recent prisoner swap revealed details contradicting the official version of the 2014 mind and shooting scene kiev where more than 50 people lost their lives r.t. he speaks to one of the officers. because. the evidence shows that the police acted

lawfully there was no longer to open fire on citizens a terrorist act against the police did take place illegitimate seizure of power occurred the government offices were taken over. good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. after a night by clashes a major beijing rally is underway in hong kong and already been signs of more unrest with riot police there firing tear gas petrol bomb hurling demonstrators. it . was. a particular aspect of the best of violence and brutality one perpetrated by the

hong kong protesters has gone largely without comment from the west he says taylor asks why. hong kong has gone from being the economic pole of the orient to the face of the fight for democracy and boy does that fight fire. an amendment to a preexisting law that would allow 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 stream 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 of western media oh my god oh i am. i think. that. 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 can all 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 the violent acts are one step closer to the acts of 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 a 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 choked down beijing's words to paranoia but let's take a look joshua wong why did he build as the face of the protest movement was snapped speaking to an official at the u.s. consulate oh when i forgot to mention he's not big on compromise so there's no end game there's the internet to war 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 up resulting democratic rights that then of course says that in century legislation washington's past the human rights and democracy out it includes 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 further than necessary and

without groans they will also home the relationship and interests between hong kong and the u.s. all of this on top of the protest as musts 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 of the fallout of all this has a little impact on washington of course it's the average hong kong or who find his pocket that little bit lighter on his home but little less popular the violence in hong kong has spooked foreign investors shoppers appetite has also soured in the

wake of all the via. lance with the retail sales in freefall and hong kong facing its 1st recession in a decade bombed apparently being caught in the middle of take acid and rubber bullets isn't topping any tourists the wish list because hong kong saw its lowest number of visitors since 2003 the major. is really the tourist in the retail sector because. foreign tourists away nobody's coming to hong kong. for the gold. in october tourism rifle found by some gorilla 50 percent more for. his job by 50 per se as far as as fair rises and as prosperity fades it seems this fight for freedom is costing hong kong

more dearly than many could have imagined. iraqi forces have regained control over the u.s. embassy in baghdad after 2 days of violent clashes reports say protesters there trying to set a building in the compound on fire. trying to storm the embassy and also torch parts and the state is a calling for the full withdrawal of american forces from the country. the u.s. says that it will deploy $750.00 troops to iraq and in response to the threat posed to its embassy president has accused iran of orchestrating the attack and vowed that it will pay a big price tehran says it doesn't want war but won't hesitate to strike back if threatened 100 marines have already been redeployed from kuwait to reinforce the embassy and in a show strength u.s. army helicopters flew over the camp compound firing flares as a warning to protesters the embassy unrest comes after american bombing raids in iraq and syria at the weekend killed 25 people and more pin details. iraq is in

flames the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been seized by crowds of people chanting death to america. i. i. was i. i. i was. 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 in many we strongly respond and always will now iran is orchestration in the attack on the us embassy in iraq

they will be held fully. constable 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 of restoring deterrence against in rimi an aggression that 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 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 that after the massacre of 25 people and weeding a large 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 of iran 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 are a good thing. but why is iranian influence on the rise in the middle east let's not forget that the united states long propped up the ron's greatest enemy saddam

hussein. and even provided him with chemical weapons are whenever the usa invaded iraq in 2003 and toppled the iraqi government since that time iran has stepped up its support for different factions in the country hoping to stabilize its own borders 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 critics note that washington's actions simply left a power vacuum also he spoke to the group talked to by the us could type as a law is what that spokesperson had to say. and there without them with the herd the americans striking this particular force in iraq want to present their actions as a fight against iranian influence but that is not after being attacked by the gangs of eisel it was the iraqi people who were the rebuff and resistance not the iranians as the concluded strategic framework agreement between the usa and iraq

does not allow the americans to create military bases in iraq but this agreement is not being implemented today the americans are occupying iraq in 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 complete anarchy in the country and the american presence in iraq will be supposedly justified traditionally the us uses made a pretext to attack in this case the attacks on american bases are just a cover for defeating the shiite militia. ukrainian former riot police charged with being part of the group of officers who shot civilians in the my down protesting kiran 2014 spoken to turn this for the 1st time officers were exchanged on sunday in the prisoner swap between kiev and the self-proclaimed and lugansk republics on 50 protesters lost their lives and

shootings blamed by ukraine on the bryant police however the released officers say that they are bourbon proving that giving further weight to claims the attacks were carried out by pro. because. the evidence shows that the police acted lawfully there was no order to open fire on the citizens a terrorist act against the police did take place an 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. but we were beaten in the ukrainian security service office the offices. came to pretrial detention facility pretending to be lawyers mask security officers beat us in a cell i needed heart surgery i read this in a court but they forced me to plead guilty in order to receive treatment it would be we were tortured for the 1st 2 weeks we were almost killed they did not try to get any information from us as they knew we didn't have any they just wanted to pin

the blame for the crimes that were committed on us and. still had more from our review of the think good that was if there's a chance you missed any of flash's big moments we got them all.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. were $29000.00 done and dusted let's take a look back at more of the events that defined the year. i. take a look at the highlights we picked for you in this particular hour and don't believe

the hype about things that got a lot of hype in 2019 in particular though the power of social media to influence people which brings me to the subject of talk and our parties are trying to stake a look at the rise of it it's become hugely popular although not liked by everyone . oh no no. no no no get me. 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 to talk the chinese up 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. the us china trade wars i'll tell you what this year has shown these has still ities could easily spill over into modern tech slash online territory remember how america once went after i phone killer want to be wall way. 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.

ok we've gathered together some amazing stories from the past 12 months that we have labeled miracles happen with several of them but among them field of dreams that's the story of the russian passenger plane which crashed landed in a coal field this was just outside moscow in oregon and we can show you a picture from the scene terrifying stuff the aircraft got into trouble when it hit a flock of birds shortly after taking off he really would have wanted to be on the plane but amazingly everybody on board survived. just so.

if i may have a. ship sure she'll sell it was. such a time. there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job she landed the plane completely capsized tell us please how do you feel now did you hurt to let. you know it's better than if i was there lying on the field saw everything is rather good the landing was good the pilots did a great job landed the plane on its belly everything is fine. if. it is up to reach to call the engines

became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one would usually simulate the situations when one or 2 engine itself despite all i want for it's the plane was going down realized that we didn't have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision. for 2009 teams a year of extraordinary variety both good and bad and i'll bet you i can see ruptly i was able to collect some quite incredible moments. the sun. if it was going to be.

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