and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. just 24 pm in moscow breaking news this friday the united states assassinate surrounds top military commander in an early morning air strike in iraq provoking threats of retaliation from to rand now and its allied militias bring it up to speed got live comment hopefully coming up to elsewhere other big news today. the turkish parliament decision to deploy troops to libya comes in for strong criticism as israel greece and those cyprus fear it's going to lead to a further escalation in the region. and continuing our rewind to 29 teams key chapters we remember the tragedy that struck cathedral in paris.

by the very good afternoon where we watching around the world generally the 3rd here in moscow my name is kevin o. and r t h q with the half world news update 1st on that breaking story let me tell you more about it from iraq this morning the united states says assassinated iran's top military commander carr seems silly money in a drone strike on baghdad international airport the early morning air raid also killed 9 other people including influential iraqi and lebanese shia militia leaders salomone led the powerful could force which is an elite branch of the iranian revolutionary guard corps charged with spearheading foreign operations units been heavily involved in the conflicts in iraq and syria and instrumental in the territorial defeat of ice still now in the us the general was listed though as a terrorist the pentagon says he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american service personnel and was actively planning further attacks around

leaderships reacted furiously to the assassination which was ordered by president trump direct parent lee and they have promised there will be retribution. the u.s. act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating general saloon money the most effective force fighting dying isis al-qaeda and how he's extremely dangerous and foolish escalation the u.s. busy responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism just as unprecedented in how how tense things are how both countries are this is this is the abbotts this is the abas to kill assassinate the man who is referred to as the 2nd most powerful man in iran a potential successor to the supreme leader he was killed after arriving at the airport in baghdad the u.s. airstrike he was he was targeted i mean this operation was preplanned they knew he

was coming they knew where to strike the they were targeting him at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to by killing customs so in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world and the fallout has been global leaders all over the world officials come out. against you know urging calm and deescalation and the reunions convening the national security council they have one message the entire ring and hierarchy that there will be consequences retaliation if there is as of yet no indication how exactly the iranians will respond to it respond to this but they haven't launched any missiles yet and you know the they are stupid they're intelligent people they probably understand

a war with the united states is the last thing they need but i doubt that the leave this you know without without an answer and so how is the u.s. justifying the may well the night. the states are saying that he was the ultimate bad guy this is this is from the state department this is in american press that we just killed the world's number one bad guy this is this is limiting he was at the forefront of the fight against isis in iraq when it seemed like isis the job this would go to take the whole country it was he who helped organize the p.m.s. the popular mobilization forces iraqi civilians banding together to resist ties and successfully while the army was in shambles as they got their things in order to help by the coalition but they defeated isis what the united states has been saying is that he is responsible for the deaths of $517.00 americans over the years that

he was complicit that he had a role to play in recent in the recent spate of attacks on u.s. bases. draw some indications that they may be planning additional attacks if that happens act and by the way we get word of attacks or some type of indication will take preemptive action as well to protect american forces to protect american lives 'd. so many skilling's triggered an outpouring of grief and anger in iran where the general was widely revered 3 days

of mourning have been announced and thousands of iranians have turned out in cities across the country to want to read the iraqi prime minister mean times also condemned the u.s. strike describing it as an act of aggression however so. mohammad marandi professor of politics and to run university believes that is an understatement. well this was an act of war the americans killed a high ranking iranian official that wasn't for general soleimani there probably wouldn't be a syria today and there would be black flags over the mask us thanks to the united states and its allies and if it wasn't for general stolen money probably there wouldn't be in iraq today and the capital over the capital we would have had the black sides of isis iraqis except for those bathurst who supported saddam hussein in isis supporters who are celebrating the overwhelming majority of iraqis supports general solar money and are grateful to him for helping save the country wherever

the united states goes and destroys its all for its all to defend democracy and freedom and the american people which is all nonsense this is the language of a racist euro centric heritage that we've we've been seeing for the last few centuries the same language that we that existed in the 19th the 20th century to justify hate germany plunder death and destruction is being used today by the in the in the different way they disregard sovereignty to disregard the government they disregard the people of iraq there their utter arrogant behavior is has made the whole region outraged and then they wonder why people hate america. well the u.s. is no urging american citizens to leave iraq immediately and not to approach the embassy in baghdad the secure green zone is where the american embassy and iraqi government are located that's now in lockdown still all day but the u.s. secretary of state has different thoughts about it he believes many iraqis of

welcomed the air raid. iraqis iraqis dancing in the street for freedom thankful that general salim ani is no more. we are america and iran should solve their problems outside of iraq we do not want them to solve it here we do not celebrate the killing or so the money or anyone else because this will not surface at the end of the day. in the wake of the strikes republican lawmakers the american express support for the decision many democrats a furious though that the president took such a hazardous big step without seeking congressional approval 1st. their ministration has conducted to night strike in iraq targeting high level iranian military officials and killing iranian quds force commander quote some silly money without another 3rd is ation for use of military force against iran further this action was taken without the consultation of the congress. actually do what they

did today and previous airstrikes before definition of general gotten so they money is a violation to 1st of all not only to the international law but also to do it against the american constitution and access a nation at this big and this is an important person and the region that will lead the whole world the whole region the war no he needs. the approval of the congress and he did not approve he did not have it so he did that violate the american constitution and i do think the american democratic party will use that against him in congress then there should be an investigation in the united states for. who did this is why you win and we are and the trump should be punished because he did. break the constitution and this is not the 1st time. so therefore he's in baghdad say they were not notified about the u.s.

airstrike 1st that the iraqi army is preparing for possible repercussions let's go live to share their personalities listen in on this a shabby thanks you time today and being with us is really serious this is wrapped up pretty quickly the next question i suppose is who's getting a blink 1st and what's going to happen next what do you think is going to happen next. well i can't speak for the government to iran. really america has crossed all boundaries in doing this it's broken its own laws. it's broken international law and it's committed a crime that you know well you know trump and pompei and so on they turn around and say it's somehow going to make america safe this does exactly the opposite it is done militarily opposed to keeping americans safe in the region and i mean america by its own admission has advised its own people to you know run away from iraq this is not keeping america safe little serving our interests america's saying that iraq

is kind of welcome this or a lot of people are dancing on the streets about it shows a different view in iraq amongst a lot of other people there as well but anyway the pentagon says this was a defensive action in what way was it defensive. it wasn't defensive i don't i mean it's like the it's like the idea of calling itself the israeli defense force it's not a defense what's its aggression force it's an occupation force the same way america is not defensive defensive is when you react to someone doing something to you which cost insulin money had arrived at the airport he was in a car like the motorcade with. 100 s. and they were going somewhere for a meeting what that meeting was someone i don't know but that's not you know you don't go in assessed in a foreign national and the local. military general without notifying anyone without any due cause without any real evidence this doctrine of preemption is srini dangerous and it really does open

a pandora's box i mean your initial question was what to what will happen next i honestly couldn't tell you but iran is a very wise country the leadership in iran a very wise there is already a new commander for the. holds for us as you know and while america will like you know show and scream and say we're very happy and we've done a good thing all of these people republicans and democrats they're the same they all say the same thing they will mean the same thing none of them actually care about the american people and it's the american people that will be sent in the troops to iraq in more and more numbers as they've already done i've had reports of throughout the region various patriot battery batteries going on high alert i've heard of large convoys of american. troop carriers being moved from europe and from other parts of the world to iraq and to the region we've this doesn't keep americans safe and in terms of a response i trust iran to make

a response that is proportionate and appropriate at a time and place of its choosing show that it has not made it less than a minute they did. seem to be any well there was no public support for this in congress by the looks of it love the commission wasn't sore and it sounds like a rock cause it was as well to get love idea. iraq was not warned congress was not consulted. this was this was trump and his new york people more than likely mr cushman mr netanyahu who run mr trump essentially you know alongside compay are now the sort of officially you know no longer formally as part of the administration mr bolton because if you examine what's going on online you see these people posting messages of joy now even if they don't like them so they moni what they seem to not understand the ramifications of what they have done vis move if america wants to free iran as it keeps talking about this move has united the iranian people it is

really united the iraqi people the syrians the yemeni lebanon on the palestinian movement it's united everyone against america and that's sound of death to america is getting louder and louder and louder and there's nothing america can do about it this is by its own hand by its own activity you know even if they don't like us presence on their money vis type of behavior of you know unilaterally making a decision not even just discussing with congress or when un or anything this is about the behavior of a democracy so we fast of american democracy is is laid bare for everyone to see america is not a democracy we've been calling it an empire run by a psychopathic emperor beat obama or trump and this is exactly what it is now the emperor has no clothes it is open and clear to see america is not a democracy it doesn't have any chance at it for the political and it's a state in decline to take it we said if we had more time i wanted to ask this

saying that this has been what america's saying the people have been welcoming this in iraq in a yes or no what's your answer to that one yes or no scott no if. there are not one or 2 people yes no but mainly no majority europe these are very against what has happened and support her presence salomone shabbir political analyst things being live on the line with us going to thoughts on what i'm today's big news of course thank you ok you've heard me ok well the other big story we're cross now elsewhere several countries have condemned the turkish parliament decision to send troops to libya israel greece and cyprus are voice their concern over a possible escalate escalation of the conflict in the region they call in turkey's plans reckless the turkish decision to deploy troops in libya presents a dangerous threat to regional stability the repercussions of such reckless moves will be dire for the stability and peace of the entire region and a phone call with the turkish leader the u.s. presence also raised concerns that foreign interference could further complicate

the situation in libya though the 2 did they agreed to maintain their diplomatic cooperation while forces have been vying for power in libya since the ousting of longtime leader moammar gadhafi and 2011 un backed government of national accord controls the capital tripoli it's complicated along with some coastal areas in the west of the country then there's the rival the self-styled libyan national army over into brooke headed by general khalifa haftar they hold large swathes in eastern and central libya the 3rd regions controlled by local tribes and militias to the u.s. backed government formally requested military aid from turkey last month in the face of an onslaught by huffed as forces libya's neighbors have also voiced major reservations over the troop deployment plans now than in the last 24 hours egypt's calling on the international community to respond urgently we've been hearing analysis from turkey and beyond about ankara's move and its possible repercussions now going forward. we see a very soft announcement by the arab league we could see that they're unified only

by name 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 showing that it's not going to shy away and present add one is willing to use his military muscle to get the results he wants at the diplomatic table as well turkey made a very important chess move the greeks the. egyptians. of course are very disappointed by just decision. turkey's strategic move will. bring some. advantages strategic advantages for turkey we will see the method the manner of how turkey is dealing with this problem and challenges in the coming days if turkey send more troops then general haftar will also get more support from the governments he's already there are

already back including and especially egypt and the united arab emirates they will send their own proxies or troops or more weapons so in that sense the situation could definitely escalate in a military sense. house for moscow time how to tell us what should we have retreated around the world this is a story you just don't want me in the defining question of 2019 the world left watching helplessly is not true concerning drawl. you know world a big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we

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again well now that $29000.00 is done and dusted let's take a stock of some of the defining events of the year. and today pro have placed told through not to dumb cathedral in paris and it destroying the 850 year old. reports on just how deeply that was felt in france and how this will remain for decades to come. fronts was shaking to its core in april fully a ravaged the jewel of paris not to dumb. across

the world they was show too with blanket coverage over the place and harry in paris thousands came out to the streets standing shoulder to shoulder watching this centuries old cathedral. my heart just drop like. are you kidding me it was completely shocking and i was just constantly like ok the help of what he would say the tears everything just complete just. just refreshing closely looking for any sort of update and i thought it was gone i thought there was no way you know they were going to put it out at. everyone at work we just kept refreshing the page and seeing what caused it what had happened we couldn't believe that notre dame was on fire we were at home in seattle and we had literally booked our plane tickets to france the night before and was going to be one of the highlights of course it was it was a little bit of

a blow really came in the early hours that it could be saved but. that cost was being counted with a price tag potentially reaching billions of euros money polled in from wealthy benefactors and people chipping in what they could but that provoked anger itself many frustrated that the money was so forthcoming for a building when people were struggling to make ends meet the outrage intensified when the authorities were accused of not being completely upfront about lead contamination in the area following the fire some 450 tons of lead in the roof and the steeple melted during the blaze schools were closed for decontamination but many accuse the state of putting the reconstruction of the cathedral ahead of people's health and environmental defense association decided to take matters into

its own hands it accused the authorities of having lacked in their response and in transparency it is a question of establishing who is responsible for this miscommunication which has left the population uninformed on the dangers to which it is exposed in our opinion people's lives have been in danger since the night of the disaster because the environmental code requires elected officials to provide precautionary information in real time on public airwaves unfortunately. we never heard this advice and people and journalists stayed around the cathedral on the forecourt and whole families stayed on the ground on the terraces with all the windows open watching this disturbing show without knowing that the plumes hitting them consisted of extremely toxic lead dust and went dangerous to health but officials claimed there was no risk and somewhat angry about the coverage of the contamination at the site

saying that all old buildings were built using leds and there was too much fear mongering don't. you really have to lie on the ground in the lake and if you want to be in fact in this story about lead has been around for a long time that's causing inundation a problem for the not you don't disturb me and i was isolated from the tourists travel agents across the world were forbidden in a certain way to come to paris. because of the risk of contamination which didn't exist 8 months old and this is what surrounds. a huge perimeter fence safeguarding the site's tourist numbers through his more of a trickle than the flood that they used to be and that has hit the businesses around the cathedral halt to at least we have lost tourists we have lost the pilgrims we have problems with the restoration work or not and with the level of security it is because the building is still not secure and we saw from all these houses the businesses here have seen their sales figures drop at least by 80

percent during certain periods currently that mean the month of december average 70 percent trade is hey want to return to the status quo but the work to secure this so i can restore it to its former glory is expected to take years in the meantime some businesses fear that they may end up on the cheap too just like much. in 2019. paris. you know you never know what a chip brings to you but that said this early stuff 2020 john was the 3rd at 162026 when his boss for the afternoon precisely. thanks for watching us international news as it might happen i don't see a lot of social media but again in 34 minutes.

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had a beautiful state new year's celebration with your favorite family friends and your pets i have missed you i will admit i've missed you all so what so let's ask ourselves now though what has been happening since we last saw each other well it appears that just a few days before we were drinking champagne and kissing strangers in times square the wheelers and dealers inside the white house and the pentagon decided it was a good time to drop some bombs on iraq and. once again last sunday the guardian reported that according to the pentagon the attacks were defensive strikes against the kut high the hezbollah militia group which u.s. officials said was backed by iran 2 days after u.s. civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an iraqi military base and as physics has taught us for every action there was a reaction and in reaction to the united states air strikes killing at least $25.00 of these militia fighters in risk.