turkey's parliament approved a bill to deploy troops to libya in order to. the un recognized government in tripoli. also and on the program rights experts say the united states jailing of. refusing to testify against wiki leaks founder julian assange is tantamount to torture. the pentagon claims there are signs of plotting against american troops on threatens the islamic republic with a preemptive strike. 247

news live from moscow this is your r.t. international. your welcome to the program. thinks that foreign interference could complicate the situation in libya he raised his concerns during a call with president erdogan of turkey both leaders agreed to maintain diplomatic cooperation in the conflict now this all comes as the turkish parliament voted on thursday to block the un recognized government in libya giving a green light to a troop deployment there the b. has been in a state of war since protests in 2011 and the ousting of the country's leader moammar gadhafi in recent months the u.s. government has been losing ground to the rival administration of general. who leads the libyan national army the government of national accord formally requested military aid from last month but general have tours forces currently control most of libya's territory including crucial. i mean gas resources now the are

a league believes that the deployment of turkish troops will further escalate the conflict in libya neighboring egypt also strongly condemned the decision would hold turkey fully responsible for any negative repercussions paula sli or as more. he knows that this emergency station took place this afternoon in and we did see opposition from the main opposition party and then major concern is really that it will escalate tensions in libya and that is a concern that's being expressed here across the region that number one we could see the libyan situation becoming more and more inflated and at the same time tensions trickling over elsewhere into the region now the initial mandate we understand is that ships will be sent for a period of one year of course saying that this deployment is vital for turkey for her interests in libya and also her interests in the eastern mediterranean last month and agreement was signed between us and libya and according to the turkish

president in that agreement he was requested by the tripoli prime minister. to send such troops the government has been embroiled in but her fighting with the military command of telephone have tar and his libya national army now they've been unable to reach the city center of tripoli but there has been particularly in recent weeks a lot of fighting around the capital. or political analyst the tear to world use of erm season career is going to use its military deployment for political gains. turkey doesn't want defeat or at least turkey's not going there to combat at least not initially i expect a very immediate deployment of $200.00 marines there to serve as a stopgap at least raise the cost of hopped hours of pensive tripoli knowing that there is a turkish presence knowing that if any of them are harmed there would be a much greater retaliation from uncorrupt making the pop star and his felony think

twice before bombing the bombing tripoli resident are the one has tried to reach out to his nato allies especially is e.u. allies multiple times this is basically a last resort right now when diplomacy doesn't work unfortunately there comes a time where. you have to plextor hard power and there's an important saying what happens on the military field feeds the diplomatic table we're seeing turkey become more and more now the major player in not only libya in the north africa and the east and the middle east turkey is showing that it's not going to shy away and president add one is willing to use his military muscle to get the results he wants at the diplomatic table as well. a senior u.n. official has launched this attack on the united states over its ongoing detention of whistleblower chelsea manning saying her treatment amounts to torture special repertory niels melcher made the claim in a letter to the u.s.

government which was written in november but has only just come to light. the practice of coercive diprivan of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation at the order of judicial authorities such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense when an open ended progressively severe measure of coercion fulfilling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. chelsea moaning was a u.s. military intelligence analyst but was arrested in 2010 for supplying classified information to wiki leaks she was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison president obama commuted her sentence just before he left office but she was arrested again last year for declining to testify against wiki leaks publisher

joining us old lawyer and activist kevin zeese explained to us the law is being used to coerce and. in a grand jury which is a secret process before someone is indicted or you go for it prosecutions occurring to determine whether someone should be prosecuted this is a power of the court to coerce someone into testifying now this law can allow a person in the united states to be held for the length of the grand jury in order to coerce them to testify before the grand jury and no longer serves the purpose it was intended to serve it's now become a weapon of prosecutors it was initially designed to protect people who are being investigated the reason they're kept secret because they're trying to protect people being investigated before they're indicted so you don't know that they're being investigated but no longer serves our purpose and now serves the purpose of being a tool for prosecutors that's abused and i think chelsea manning is

a victim of that abuse the report by niels meltzer does give an additional air of legitimacy to the case of manning to really back up all of the things that manning supporters that this song should really have been saying now for over 6 months and that this is unjust this is unfair the trying to create something new this is the whole point of coerced trying to coerce manning to come up with something that the d.o.j. can use to make a real case against the sunday shows you how flimsy this is this is the degree degradation of the. system in the united states and also in the u.k. as well in the case of the songes more like more resembles a banana republic style facade of the state judicial apparatus this is all part of a campaign to re frame you can to reframe julian saunders and with the leaks as it is from a journalist and a publication to being a cyber criminal you know hostile foreign intelligence agencies the entire case all

the indictments against dishonor are based on framing principle and they are trying to get chelsea manning to give them something a key to actually make that marriage didn't work and she's not she's not volunteering anything and this is frustrating the u.s. system tremendously. will contain a songes inferring much better he's also behind bars in a british prison after being dragged died of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he spent the previous 7 years r.t. saskia taylor has his story. few buildings in the walls have. as much scrutiny as this one here at the doorway and. in those 4 walls 7 years possibly the most famous whistle blow all time she did a song with hold until age 2019 the 48 year old was sensationally dropped out by but so far it seems.

that work for the wiki leaks found that this was a huge the trial by the latin american country that had sheltered him since 2012 aquittal said the relations had soured with the sonde and his bad behavior trick of them opening the door to the police and revoking his asylum but it's worth noting that just a bit acquittals bank account gotten only mighty boost with a $4200000000.00 loan from the i.m.f. what the u.s. has huge voting rights. a stunt is currently sitting in belmarsh prison in the country's capital serving out a 50 week sentence for jumping bail in 2012 but many are saying that what he's actually been handed is a death sentence because over 60 doctors wrote an open letter to the u.k. government saying that he might well die in prison britain for its part denies any

wrongdoing the allegations mr son she was subjected to torture on foreign debt and hold false the u.k. is committed to upholding the rule of law and ensuring that no one is ever bought it but london's defense rings hollow in light of the reports by many organizations including you were simply standing idly by the blatant and sustained arbitrariness shown by both the judiciary and the government in this case suggest an alarming departure from the u.k.'s commitment to human rights and the rule of law unless the u.k. urgently changes course and alleviates the inhuman situation mr songes continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing him his life but as sanchez battle for his wellbeing is not only fight on his hands ever since wiki leaks exposed gross misconduct by the us government washington has been pushing for his extradition on espionage charges giving him

a helping hand the british government despite international outcry the u.k. home secretary signed a us extradition request putting us on that one step closer towards being charged for publishing classified information and conspiring to hack the top of my computer the 18 charges that washington has put forward could carry a maximum sentence of 175 years behind bars the reaction all over the world people are crying foul they say that this is not a case about punishing a crime but of silencing a voice. julian are singled out for special treatment for one reason only here's the truth teller he's such an innocent important man is because he is a freedom fighter however much you dislike because. his case is the most important for media freedom this is just. miss rule of law and operation.

which. washington's bid to get asylum stateside was also helped by not the european country sweden the scandinavian nation was investigating a rape allegation against the whistleblower and would have been within its rights to request his extradition to face trial since that case predated the u.s. request london would have been obliged to send a songe to stockholm fast but sweden has now closed that investigation conveniently removing the final obstacle for the americans funny how it all wiped out a sanchez extradition hearing is set for factory 2020 but in light of these recent talents of the band's peers are grabbing the does little charts of play this goes to show i mean what and of course what news most of the united nations special report or tortures. corrupts and how in stress that the entire system in the u.k.

including the judiciary and the media has become when it comes to julian. you know before you call course earlier this year this sort of was a confirmation that what neil smelters said seems to be true that julian was. just a lot of attention was fair trial into while one always hopes that made justice to will prevail u.s. authorities a rabs bad a client wired for a start so it might well turn out that when a country is dirty secrets are risk of being exposed just as it is a word. that's up 3 top potations sas detail ati. came moving the program on china has reportedly suspended a joint shanghai london stock exchange project over britain's position on protests in hong kong which some in beijing view as meddling the link up in question was launched in june last year and was meant to enable british and chinese firms

unprecedented access to each other's markets china's foreign ministry spokesperson was vague when asked about the matter but expressed hopes for further cooperation between the countries. we hope the u.k. would provide a just open and nondiscriminatory business environment for chinese enterprises and create conditions conducive to principal corporation between china and the u.k. in various fields so the backdrop for the next 12 months of protests during government demonstrations in hong kong of course a former british colony have been called in london to intervene while china has continually stressed to be international community including the u.k. it's a purely domestic issue more than a 1000000 people reportedly turned out for a demonstration in hong kong for the new year around 400 arrests were.

financial commentator charlie boyle told us that if the project has been suspended it was all about sending signals. it's certainly going to be an interesting year i don't think it's particularly you know significant economically though right now but it certainly sends a signal i think the chinese have also started to realize especially in the last couple of years that we are entering a global recession whatever that whatever form that takes whether it's the next month or the next couple of years and china isn't quite a good position especially with with. looking for reelection later this year

and he's backtracking on the whole a lot of that stuff and it just makes sense for them to send a message to the u.k. that they're on the radar as well especially at this important time for england u.k. . it appears washington is getting the new year off to a confrontational start and after sending fresh warnings to iran the u.s. defense secretary claims there's evidence to run this planning attacks against american troops the u.s. military is gearing up for a preemptive strike or to scale up and has more on what mark esper had to say on the matter. in his statement on behalf of the u.s. military and department of defense he basically cited a recent attacks on u.s. personnel and said that another strike against iran or against iranian aligned forces could be in the works this is what he said through some indications so that they may be planning additional attacks if that happens doesn't act and by the way

if we get word of attacks of some type of indication we'll take preemptive action as well to protect american forces to protect american lives now on tuesday a crowd of protesters stormed the u.s. embassy in baghdad in response to the usa said it would deploy $750.00 more u.s. troops to the middle east furthermore 100 u.s. marines were moved from kuwait to protect the embassy in a show of force we had the united states helicopters flying over the compound firing flares as kind of a warning of protesters the embassy on rest came in the aftermath of a u.s. strike against forces in iraq in syria they say have ties to iran 25 people were killed dozens were injured in the aftermath of this strike we had protests at the u.s. embassy in baghdad thank. god. because.

god was well under the good god however we have donald trump on twitter making statements regarding the possibility of a strike against iran and making clear that these statements are intended as a threat this is donald trump on twitter. iran will be held fully responsible for the lives lost or damaging if any of our facilities they will pay a very big price this is not a warning it is a threat happy new year as tensions escalate in the middle east the united states continues to blame iran for incidents and say that it will respond to this pattern of tension between the united states and iran tension that has been asking lading seems to be continuing now that we enter the new year. 2019 may be in the bike but some of last year's big stories will echo far into the new decade let's take a look out some of them. i. well

socially politically and beyond 29000 cos the for a bit of all people to our lives world wide but for some the march of modernity i'm going to click here and culture vultures well it left more than a few people fearing for their much loved her a change of one tradition seem to be read in front there's anger over a proposal to adopt a dry january it's a month of abstaining from alcohol for the excesses of the holidays french wine as you know is as much a part of the dinner table as the food itself is not so they help preserving is proving very hard to swallow hard to been ski house some other ideas and hard to freshen up from the new year hung over without having to put too much of a cork in your culture. when you raise a gloss of wine or beer in frogs it's customary to say so and say which means

health but if you waking up with a sore head off the celebrations on new year's eve you may be wondering if all those songs done you any good after all and instead of trying a hair of the dog you might think that it's time to join the millions of others across the world in having a little bit of a breather from alcohol that's right it's time for dry january a month of alcoholic abstinence it's been so popular in the angle from world that there were even plans to introduce it here in france but the french who are famous for their love of a little plonk even know what troy january is trying new we. know it's not possible it doesn't exist in france dried january i have not heard of it i have heard of many other traditions like move imber is that it's something

like that but with wine i don't think it's possible no no no not at all no with free no no i don't understand it this really exists so pretty much a resoundingly nor perhaps all the more reason to kick start the idea given that alcohol kills tens of thousands of people in france every year that's exactly what france's health agency salty public also wanted to do but after explaining to brazilians what dry january is what they think about it. in a month without drinking whole it's difficult for the french. i could try it but i'd rather not it would not be too pleasant without wine. the french are going to die. well that would be the reaction i mean why. it's like not eating because they're not used to it he drinks more than me i don't

know how to respond it seems for once president might call really has his finger on the pulse of what the french are thinking for he's said to have fiercely opposed to promoting a moratorium on alcohol in january or perhaps it's any time of the year and given the choice will parisians be raising a normal colics all day for dry january well if they slaughter anything to go by probably nords. i would prefer some tea maybe mixed with a beautiful alcohol just a bit i'm like those women who drink discreetly in the kitchen. i prefer wine frankly ole miss was in a small meal and even when you had it i prefer why you know. what wine is it if it's a very good wine then wine. well that settles it to draw it january

is definitely not a french thing and all not no from us here in paris bone is salty. the very same to you latte next a change of focus to the silver on small screen highlights of the year just gone by will go back to culture vultures here for a different take because it wasn't all protest demos trade wars we managed to escape into some decade defining t.v. series movies well it meant saying goodbye to some long running blockbuster favorites while others left audiences deeply divided done the hawkins gut feeling. it's been a long hearing global news entry scandal uncertainty and cliffhangers we've seen it all at least we could all wind down with a good movie everyone's favorite pastime bringing people together in the cinema or on the sofa well ok 29000 hasn't quite been like that.

spring arrived bringing a monumental conclusion in the epic game of thrones saga it won millions of fans around the world i mean do you even know anyone who hasn't seen at least one episode it even became a feature in international twitter diplomacy. it took 8 years to get literally everyone to jump on the west the rose by and wagon but just one series to get people fuming about the finale game of thrones season 8 has to be the most disappointing season finale of the decade merry christmas to everyone except the people who like the game of thrones series finale. thinking about how cursed we are to live in the timeline where both the game of thrones finale and star wars finale sucked people even launched a petition to reshoot the final season nearly 2000000 signatures and still rising

and if you thought breaks it was divisive don't get me started on that file episode and interesting. how you thought. i was just really. after such division of viewers would desperate for some unity and in came should noble people flock to see the latest hit stand aside game of thrones as the draw more about the world's worst nuclear accident shot right up the t.v. rankings. is on fire. and every atom of uranium is like a bullet. for the mini series struck such a chord with viewers in both east and west it also struck some bones of contention why were there no ethnic minority actors how accurate was the science why so many cliched stereotypes so noble couldn't please everyone either and with every new episode came a new take on just how accurate the drama was or wasn't their characters are

distorted and misrepresented as if they were villains they were nothing like that the plan work is a shown as though they are scared of everything this does not reflect reality in reality they were quite decisive very decisive not one of the operators fled after the explosion is a composed calm intelligent man who never denied his responsibility also became the knight screw darker and so that our screens walk in phoenix's joker delved into the murky depths of society and the human mind. when you bring me out. introduce me as joker. i and as the height grew so did the panic yeah people actually got worried that film could provoke members of the so-called community self pitying missiles or

mystic lonely online trolls into violence alarm bells even rang in the us military soldiers of a board about the risk of attacks during screenings it was all right on the night there was no mass violence critics loved phoenix but were divided over the film itself and whatever you thought of it some people certainly took inspiration from the character mixing fun to see with the reality and certainly sparking debate. nag nag nag. and act. the listen of joy because the radical change is needed this is not enough and this is what all those democratic leftists i'm not aware of this dissatisfaction the grows today is

a serious one this is the channel deal with it with gradual reforms more tolerance to health care now it's a lot of themes of dystopia you know people don't really know where society is headed some people are loving the direction some are very scared and that's why movies like joker really speak to people another thing we're seeing is is that people are so sick of politics that they also just kind of want to zone out and they want something that's just just pure entertainment but the number one movie this year was a bender is the end game and i think that also speaks to it as well is that there's not really a political message in that it's just kind of eye candy and something to zone out to it's mindless entertainment and that's important i think to. people who are just sick of hearing about politics all the time because it affects everything right. well that's enough control to see if it's a night christmas is off for all the season of goodwill to all it seems as though people just love to have a good old squabble over things even the magical world of cinema just call please

everyone unless of course you happen to be baby go to. the baby. movie reviewer for the day with the reporter ok we are crossing to some more great programs and moments here are 2 international i will be here in just over half an hour's time with all your start to the year news updates see as. the world is driven by dream shaped by.

the bears thinks. we dare to ask. hey welcome to the cons report the 1st episode out of 2020. stacy herbert and i are going to have some really special guest right.