and to beijing activists staged a huge protest in hong kong on new year's day after a night clashes with police. iraqi 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 you bring in former riot police released from jail in a recent prisoner swap reveal details that contradict the official version of the 2014 my down shootings in kiev 50 people lost their lives r.t. speaks to one of the officers. with the evidence shows that the police acted

lawfully there was no way to open fire citizens a terrorist act against the police did take place and illegitimate seizure of power occurred the government offices were taken over. naming a welcome this is r.t. international. after a night that was marred by clashes major anti beijing rally is underway in hong kong and there have already been signs of more unrest riot police have fired tear gas petrol bomb hurling demonstrators. i. i i i particular aspect of the unrest violence and

brutality when perpetrated by the hong kong protesters has gone largely without comment from the west. 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 north that would allow the extradition of criminal suspects from hong kong to mainland china has brought the financial haven to its knees as the 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 discussing 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 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 was. at. 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 deval and 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 won 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 talked 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 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 of preserving democratic rights then of course as the incendiary 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 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 band apparently being caught in the middle of tear gas and rubber bullets isn't topping any tourist wish lists because hong kong saw its lowest number of visitors since 2003 the major. is really the truth in the region. because. for him to go away nobody is coming to call. for the. told word to. 50 or more. we. drop by 50 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. iraqi forces of regained control over the u.s. embassy in baghdad after 2 days of violent clashes reports say protesters tried to set a building in the compound on fire tuesday a crowd tried to storm the embassy and also torched parts of it 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 in response to the threat posed to its embassy president donald trump has accused iran of orchestrating the assault and valid it will pay a big price tehran says it doesn't want war but won't hesitate to strike back if president 100 marines have already been redeployed from kuwait to reinforce the embassy in a show of strength u.s. army helicopters flew over the compound firing flares as a warning to protesters embassy arrest comes after american bombing raids in iraq

and syria at the weekend in which 25 people were killed in a more pain has the story. iraq is in flames the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been seized by crowds of people chanting death to america. was was was. really good for you god i. was. god was. that 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 trunk 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 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 and i said that this was a very dangerous matter and asked to discuss it face to face with the responsible

parties and not only by phone he said. 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 off to the massacre of 25 people who and we number of iraqis and violating iraqi territorial integrity and national sovereignty it is now in a flagrant brain graeme attributing the rockies purposes to 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 really think twice about that. 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 however 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. r.t. new york. city has spoken to the group targeted by the us hezbollah is what its spokesperson had to say. the americans striking at this particular force in iraq want to present their actions as a fight against iranian influence that is not sought after being attacked by the gangs of eisel it was the iraqi people who were not there are often resistance not

the iranians. 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 in 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 a group of officers who shot civilians in the protests in kiev and 2014 have spoken to journalists for the 1st time the offices were exchanged on sunday in the

prisoner swap between kiev and the self-proclaimed donetsk and lugansk republics more than 50 protesters lost their lives in shootings blamed by ukraine on the riot police the released officers say that they have evidence disproving that giving further weight to claims the attacks were actually carried out by probe. 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. their offices even came to a 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 you know 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. to lead them or from our review of the year that was if there's a chance he missed any of last year's big moments we've got them covered. because a report the 1st episode of. going to really special guest dr michael hudson you know back in the seventy's 970 s. there is a movie called death wish with charles bronson remember that remember that we could do a remake. of the star you play the charles bronson as called. vigilante

banker economists that goes around new york. we think. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present . to the press this is what before. you get. interested. welcome back now with 2019 now done and dusted let's take a look back at the events that defined the.

ok so no particular expense wheeled out john plus more with some of the highlights of the year for you include you didn't. believe the hype what do we mean by that well in particular we're talking about. attracted a lot of hype and 29000 particular the power of social media to influence people which brings me to talk which you may or may not have heard of extremely popular well to correspond to the for trying to take a closer look at the rise of these new application as i said it's very popular but not everybody likes it he'll explain. this is. the sound now look at may not. yet. i'll be honest with you up

until last week i had no idea this thing even existed 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 are 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 can easily spill over into modern tech slash online territory remember how america once went after i phone killer want to be while way. want to be still the right word washington even saw jail time for one of while these 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 taking the chinese take talk way mr schumer do you have the guts to keep up with the times and join the royle after party. if so pull together several incredible stories i think from the past 12 months that we have labelled miracles been a bit of something to cheer the heart at this time of year now one in particular i think the financing field of dreams is what we called it and the picture well it speaks a 1000 words this is the story of a russian passenger plane it crash landed in a cornfield just outside of moscow in august absolute nightmare scenario you would think you really wouldn't want it to be one of the passengers when they got into trouble it hit a flock of birds shortly after taking off and incredibly everybody on board

survived. i've already had a. look at the taser still sell it was. such a time. there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job he landed the plane really kept just good 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 so everything is rather good the landing was good the pilots did a great job landed the plane on its belly everything is fine. it. is up to we to call the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one we usually simulate the situations when one or 2 engines out despite all i want to the plane was going down realized that we didn't have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision. 2019 was a year of extraordinary variety both good and bad in our video agency ruptly was able to collect some incredible modes.

i think. it. does it really feel like we're being impeached and yet he is appreciate you staying with you throughout the evening here on out international having a great new year's day that's all from

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a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. across talking fan mail i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's an r.t. website writer we also have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor. a politics 1st magazine or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us we're not going to be able to answer them all but i'll get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus birthday ok we have a question from adrian home in question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead where as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. personally i find it very difficult to believe it's about donald trump will be removed from office i think that

republicans also have a lot so for his impeachment it's more likely if anything donald trump could resign well nonetheless i think that's a little trying to go into the twenty's when see as presidents i think he will science the nov 2020 presidential election and i believe it's a little late in the american but it's so early in downswing each him will fail you know you get to ok i think that's a given here and what's going to be in paris as he interesting question more up your alley here is mccrone the french president realigning with your regime interesting question wow i don't think so i think we shouldn't be reading too much into he is statement about the brain death of nato so don't take the french president seriously don't take. race seriously because it was obvious that decided to play a liberal game you know everyone is allowed to insult trump so he decided to insult

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