this breaking news the iraqi parliament votes to remove all foreign troops from the country this is developing now it comes as are hundreds of thousands. as the body of the assassinated iranian general same solid money is returned home with bring it up to speed on this big development this hour coming up. other news this weekend wiki leaks founder julian assange claims he slowly dying he says in the u.k. prison saying he's been plied with sedatives and subjected to 23 hours a day of solitary confinement he made the allegations to a friend partly in a christmas phone call. rang me because he spent christmas with me and my family in 2010 while on bail one time ago he sounded awful he said to me

but i'm slowly dying. new year new protests for hong kong after a massive turnout for 2021st turns violent again with riot police deployed to try to disperse the protesters. by their very good afternoon or evening i should say just 16 in the evening here in moscow one is kevin 0 in this the weekly roundup of the news that's making a made the making their plans of the last 7 days in this one big story breaking now we want to tell you about the iraqi parliament as literally just passed a resolution calling on the government to end the presence of all foreign troops in the country the vote follows the united states assassination of iran's most powerful general in that airstrike on baghdad international airport on friday.

developing story our correspondent eager to announce across it huge news this eagle bring us up to speed on what's up a little in the last few minutes well you're absolutely right to say that the rockies have just voted to you know and any all foreign military presence on its soil but i think the elephant in the room here and the key thing about this whole vote is that it's not about all troops but it is mainly about american troops american about the u.s. presence military presence in iraq it is viewed as a vote against that it is viewed as a statement and essentially it's iran's 1st big victory and 1st you know it could say a retaliation the 1st step in their promised retaliation for the killing of the top general and potentially a lot of people involved here what this 12 u.s. bases what 500-5000 or so all of those all of those faiths are now world they're not in limbo just now because the iraqi government still has to sign this resolution that has been passed by the parliament into effect but it is largely

viewed as a formality now this vote has been a tough one 1st and foremost there was barely the parliament there were barely enough and please present for the vote for the vote to go through the quorum they barely reached a quorum and that is always a 50 percent threshold so well that's about 50 percent that's about $170.00. m.p.'s present for the vote reason that half the parliament essentially have the power and was absent is because the united states has been applying massive pressure on many many iraqi political groups some of the nerds for instance they boycotted the vote isn't trying to sabotage it some sunni groups also decided to abstain and they simply did not they were a no show so this vote it was a difficult one so in practice this now has to be put to the government even though it's been voted through by. the parliament there is

a big you say it's most likely to get through is that the thought of me as that is that is why i leave you as a formality again that it is widely viewed that the iraqi government will sign this into effect and then the fate of all american well not just american but i mean here the key thing here is that american troops faith some 5000 of those will be in limbo and this could have long lasting consequences for the whole region not just iraq because 1st and foremost this world to bear as a split a secular political split within iraq there are people who have supported this road very adamantly that would chance in the parliament today for instance calling on the united states to get out before the vote and there are a lot of people as well who want the u.s. presence in iraq so some analysts they see this as a potential beginning of the civil war in iraq so this is how far this whole thing

is going all so again it's not clear how iraq will be facilitating how will they will be in forcing the departure of all foreign troops and american troops for instance because again the kurds did not vote so what the united states could simply do they could redeploy at least some of its troops to irbil and girls backyard and so what some are going to do there again escalates the tensions even further the details are still coming in. camo sites reporting and this was an emergency parliament session on sunday. the iraqi pm saying the american side did notify us a bit more detail coming out a little before did notify the iraqi military about the plan destroyed just minutes jigsaw it was yeah exactly and he went on to stress i say stress this government he says did not washington permission to carry out the operation now i don't know what you know about this but just chatted before you went. away you've seen it but maybe as a bit more information. why mr silly money was there in the. time of the strike that

wiped him and so many others out indeed apparently according to the iraqi prime minister the united states asked you rock you to mediate between the united states and iran to their conflict so the rockies the invited general saloon money to their soil to kind of to check if they're on the same page to see how this process of mediation is going and so he arrived to baghdad from syria and that's when the i was that a fun day that we have apparently apparently that's when the united states bombed them and killed them ok well we're going to get more when you get more clarification on but interesting to hear that events could we haven't heard before officially about why he was there in iraq at the time all right well more details to come we'll let you get your ear to the ground and get more ramifications of this because of course there's going to be more throughout the evening and he joins us

from in an hour from europe in the states or eagle thank you very much. for mean time the parliamentary session interim saw lawmakers as well fiercely condemn the attack and chant death to america. body has now been reports rated to around where he'll be buried on tuesday there's been a huge outpouring of grief witnessed earlier on today and throughout the last couple of days in the country tens of thousands of mourners paying tribute to the slain commander crowds also from the streets of the iraqi capital for on saturday for a funeral procession we brought those pictures iran has responded with fury to friday's deadly u.s. a raid to avenge son of moneys death donald trump has spoken about it very recently threatened to retaliate without hesitation if to run attacks on american bases now . they attacked us and we hit back if they attack again which i strongly advise

them not to do we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before. iran's responded to that warning saying the u.s. doesn't have the courage for a full blown military confrontation is said the latest exchange of threats comes after several rocket attacks took place in iraq on saturday evening close to both the american embassy in baghdad and an air base north of the capital iraqi security forces say no and was hurt so far no one's come forward to say they were behind here's a look at how 2020 opened with turbulence and terrifying 1st week. long

. well already was told to see major ramifications of what happened friday so the money's assassinations polarized opinion worldwide including within the u.s. nextel senior correspondent orgasm takes a closer look at the consequences. you can imagine how trump agreed to it then he was playing golf and up comes an agent smith holding a folder he says was the president you remember when we killed baghdad yes the eyes

the sky yes the media did love it how how would you like to do it again oh yeah. the iraqi television has just confirmed that cosine sula monny former general in iran's revolutionary guard or the commander of the clips force has been killed in a rocket attack apparently initiated by the united states. this is the u.s. at our allies on alert at the veteran matic attack iran's top military commander here and. salim 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years one gets the impression that the agent that came up to trump didn't exactly brief the president and potential consequences of killing the 2nd most powerful man in iran general seems silly monica monda of iran's quds

force we took action last night just stop a war. we did not. take action to start a war then you probably shouldn't have killed him general sunni money was considered an icon in iran and iraq a man who helped prevent isis takeover of iraq and syria who inspired and move allies tens of thousands of people multiple countries to fight the blight that is isis while kada you know enough the americans are not aware what a great mistake they've committed they will face the consequences of this criminal act not only today but also in coming years there is no doubt that us is now more hated among iranians and iraqis hundreds of thousands have joined funeral processions and protests condemning his murder rage is in the air iran

has promised revenge american civilians are being evacuated from the entire region u.s. embassies and bases in this slew of countries are knocked out troops have been put in combat readiness and now now middle east in the red lert they claim that they only want peace that was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt the spot deter further aggression from qassam salami in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation trump asked no one europe woke up to a world that was a heck of a lot more dangerous than when they went to sleep germany claimed tensions that only god up stating the obvious the british called for everyone to come down from doesn't last for permission frankly the europeans haven't been as helpful as i wish that they could be the brits the french the germans all need to understand that what we did what the americans did saved lives in europe as well at best he's right

chances are he's wrong and at worst what america did is going to kill a heck of a lot more. people than would have died otherwise which they may have thought of the us to anyone but they didn't trump told no one not even his own federal government not the house of representatives and not the senate this action may well have brought our nation closer to another endless war exactly the kind of endless war the president promised he would not drag us into or rather he did tell someone apparently what trump kept from his own nation from his own people he told the israelis our assessment is that the united states informed israel about this operation in iraq apparently a few days ago the murder of a mani was an act of war by any measure by any book on law and social media world

war 3 was the top trend people are genuinely afraid the us football team has counsel plans to train and counter head of the world cup out of security concerns and judging by means being spread appropriate or otherwise no one in particular is enthusiastic to go to war all black humor aside any escalation would be disastrous for all of us human lives 1st and economy 2nd a 5th of the world's oil passes by iran every day in the event of war that would stop. we don't yet know how much of a blunder sulaimani is murder was what we do know is that the world now is a more dangerous place millions will hate america for this and that hate will last for generations just remarkable isn't it how many people more and more keep having to die so trump and the pentagon can feel safe. our city correspond

america as if it's coming a quarter past the hour here in moscow in fact it's on the button let me tell you just joined us about the big developing story here out international iraq's parliament in a headline has passed a resolution asking the government to cancel a request for assistance from the u.s. i.e. the iraqi parliament has voted to have foreign troops removed from the country he did call for his caretaker prime minister this move coming after the u.s. assassination of a top iranian general and a commander of the iraqi militia it's got to go to be officially ratified though so whether or not it will happen let's try and find i get some thoughts from political analyst. joining us on the line hey andre no matter how you look at it this is big news i mean big ramifications were expected after what happened on friday but your initial thoughts on this has been passed by the parliament just about just going over the 50 percent threshold we hear but it's still going to be put to the government to sign it off we're hearing at this stage anyway that that is likely to

happen is that your take on it. it's an enormous the role of. government this is. the u.s. army departs just because the off you points parliament of the conference is walt that it showed so this is not going to be easy for iraq to get rid of the or to get rid of the u.s. . and nato military of course as was mentioned earlier that you can do all sorts of tricks like to. the troops to go to the stand to iraqi kurdistan as they did in the past. so the manger of the. middle east seems to be united and i lived in an out part of the world for 5 years so i know we're on very well i know iraq syria this. clear this

is there are rich was not supposed to come this is the whole there are more journalists will leave money did a lot for the region he helped there is. a syria. lebanon and iraq he's admired these a strong. part of the war which was defeated by too many years and do many decades in the worst well he fought against i still is well regionally there but of course in all that said no matter what tributes you could pay to him he seemed very differently by a lot of people elsewhere in the world by america by donald trump and by the military they're now just winding all this we're hearing that america gave very brief warning to the iraqi pm that this was going to happen. and we're hearing the

iraqi pm said no it is not but it still went ahead anyway the events of friday surely donald trump surely. eccentrics must have seen this coming and maybe must. think it ahead kind of calculated this result we're seeing now bearing in mind as well of course that donald trump has said along the way he wants to bring these boys and service women out of long term zones like this and it played right into donald trump's and this what he wanted. well no i mean. we really looking for escalation of the conflict we saw it already for a month. you know he says he's not heavily involved yeah i mean whatever he says but the escalation was. building there was a school ation already for months there was a conflict between the elyse of the united states is that big both in iraq lebanon on that it was a conflict that was actually direct military confrontation there's also avoided the

last moment. i think you remember they attacked their own. you know southern lebanon and the part of iraq this was going on and on that also escalation also of the u.s. involvement in the iraq itself because there is a there was a big movement to arles the present government. and the worst was directly so that it was a solution happening for a for a long time it was not from the pages of the newspapers but it was clearly possible to detect under the. involved in was either attacked or smeared or. otherwise you know confronted andre so but back to the headline now that we're covering this hour what's it going to mean for iraq for the whole region now i mean you see he started this by saying well ok it's one thing to

focus maybe nothing to get it through the government is another think practically to get $5000.00 troops out of 12 bases out of there and that's going to be how that's going to play it i don't know maybe you got a clearer picture your and but what's it going to mean for the security of that whole area now if those people do leave are forced to leave go of their own accord whatever at the end of the day iraq is left to its own devices is that good or bad for iraq or is definitely good because of the. problem is the worst of the problem is the united states. occupation of 'd iraq occupation of honey start occupation of. attack on syria all destabilizing the region look at libya i mean remember the 1st gets involved but ever the washington gets involved. shirked spirits elyse. including so the only one about the i.c.l. threat there's worry that suppose it's going to be painted that isolation to reemerge they'll be rubbing their hands in glee certainly instability there is is

that a threat. but i still is the worst i mean. injected to syria i still was injected to iraq to destabilize these companies and it's also actually iran in general so they money who. need allies like hezbollah in lebanon and syria at the end defeated together if russia of course and syria still they these were the forces that defeated rice will. definitely be less is not going to force it so very differently again in the west and in america as to what you're saying there but i so what is going to mean now then looking at that the political ramifications of this or maybe it's just too soon it's in tatters i mean it's most stupid to say well what are the political ties like at the moment between the united states and and iraq where does it stand they

ain't sure that. for all the see all sorts of color revolutions. 'd other types of change paul this is that washington is going to utilize to use against the government backed out there are all going to go so easily and they're all going to forgive they never forgive remember there are only a vindictive bunch of. people tend to go to the white house and so on they're all going to forgive what was what is just happening at this moment the question is how determined iraqis will be and how the drama. will be the middle east because it appears that suddenly there is a. alliance forming all over the middle east at least the countries that they have some relationship with if there are under wilczek kepler's of commentator thanks for coming on life's short notice and sin is huge but the

news today give us your perspective on it much appreciated. thank you for what you get home on to international much more to come we're going to roll with this for a few hours now we've got a lot to comment would go to line up guests to talk and give their thoughts on it are also going to look at the past year as well including a look at some of the political pawns who spent time in prison or more when the weekly news review of the week and what's happening right now boy indeed lot of big news after the break. here's a thought experiment and a bit of a prediction for 2020 going back to saudi aramco around town as it went public just recently at a market valuation an excess of $1.00 trillion dollars i think at one point was worth 2 trillion dollars i think that we're going to see them make a hostile buy of a company maybe facebook for example and it could be the 1st trillion dollar

hostile raid in history because they've got the balance sheet now if you've got a 2 trillion dollars balance sheet that means you've got you know the ability to borrow another trillion so you've got a 3 trillion dollar war chest if you go after an apple or even a berkshire hathaway 5 or $600000000000.00 so i went inside the room go by berkshire hathaway just as a hostile right and then they own a huge portion of the whole global market the american market why not they've got the balance sheet now they want to diversify away from oil and gas and i think we're going to see a move like that the next 6 to 9 months. hello again wiki leaks founder julian assange claims he's slowly dying in the british jail he's incarcerated in alleges he's trying and kept in solitary confinement for

23 hours a day he made a disturbing claims in a phone call to his friend goldsmith on christmas eve. all fall and it was very upsetting to hear him the idea of him being sedated has come from several people who visited him who clearly being told and the british government have been asked about it and they refuse to address that matter and what they say is they're not mistreating him but clearly he's being kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day he sounded awful and he said to me that i'm slowly dying you know please remember he's served that time all the bail charge and he served his time to that he's now on remand it's highly unusual to put a remand prisoner in belmarsh when they're not a threat of physical violence threat to society i think we need some answers from from the british government why are they treating him like this why can't we have some independent assessment 100 international got to those and asked to arrange

a visit at least to send some representatives to check on him but that hasn't been allowed nils meltzer the un rockets are on torture has been very clear about asylum just mistreatment and describes it in the most of all human terms and yet it is claims very recently in november that the british government of completely ignored his request to see julian probably his health properly assess. the back story just really briefly recapping our cameras there get my exclusive footage of the time you may recall assigned to the arrested in april in the sense that medics and un observers 'd of war that is physical or mental health are in decline we're hearing in february set that aside now coming on his extradition or not to the united states he's accused there of publishing classified military documents and could face a 175 year jail sentence footnote the british home office has refuted the

science his claims of torture caught in the month founded in false but it's still spurred some politicians activists and celebrities of course to further draw attention to his plight it's a. story will continue to follow in the coming year. on this one to china versus hong kong vs the troubles there china now says it sacked its top official who dealt with relations with hong kong state media say it wing men's been replaced as beijing's chiefly ase on the big months of violent antigovernment protests in hong kong which took on renewed energy over the new year. to each. particular aspect of the arrest of violence or brutality when perpetrated by the

actual hong kong protesters themselves as you already know is gone largely without comment from the west party saskia taylor tries to explain 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. with 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 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 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 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 but only because i was. glad. 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. that support you china is treading cassidy's 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 us.