iraqi lawmakers passed a resolution calling for the removal of foreign troops from the country including the u.s. led. coalition. follows america's assassination of iran's most powerful general in a terrorist strike on baghdad international airport on friday hundreds of thousands of lined the streets as the body of general money is returned. and the stories that shape the week wiki leaks founder julian. he's slowly dying in a u.k. prison saying he's being. objective to 23 hours

a day of solitary confinement he made the allegations to a friend in a christmas phone call. duty and rang me because he spent christmas with me and my family in 2010 but you know what time it sounded he said to me but i'm slowly dying. with the biggest stories of the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly on r.t. international i mean o'neill. our breaking news this hour we are getting reports that 3 people have been wounded after several rockets hit an area near the u.s. embassy in a heavily fortified green zone which houses government buildings and foreign missions additionally the iraqi military is saying that

a separate carried out by islamic state occurred in the country's north killing 2 servicemen. meanwhile the u.s. state department says they are disappointed with the iraqi parliament resolution calling for the expulsion of all u.s. foreign troops the vote followed the united states assassination of iran's most powerful general in an earlier aide at baghdad international airport on friday the new resolution urges the iraqi government to end the presence of foreign troops withdraw its request for support from the l.t. isel coalition on limit the use of arms to national security forces or. spoke to me on the main points earlier. iran has just had a major victory over the united states on the geopolitical field this is it this is the bottom line of this whole thing so right now the rest of the whole resolution looks as such a iraq will be filing a complaint with the united nations to they will be withdrawing

a request for help from to that which they had sent to the international coalition this is referring to the anti eisel coalition what's the ramifications here for iraq and indeed the middle east as a whole well again this is a victory for iran and another interesting development that we have seen today is that the iraqi prime minister has filled the briefings as to why general salim army was on was in baghdad in the 1st place apparently according according to the iraqi prime minister he was on a mission and he will he had an appointment with him have a listen. i was about to meet to money and eat the. on friday morning on the day of his death he was carrying a message to me from the iranian side in reply to a saudi message that we sent to the arena earlier agreements regarding the deescalation of tensions in iraq in the region what about the reaction from washington has there been one to the vote well so far no but we have heard donald

trump calling on the american boys and girls to come back home he's been very adamant on the fact that he wants that apparently he wants u.s. troops back home wasn't it we want to bring our troops back home and i got elected on that if you go back and look at our speeches i would say we want to bring our troops back home from these endless wars and i will say look i said i want to get out of these endless wars i campaigned on that i want to get out so this vote seems like a perfect opportunity for donald trump to bring back some 5000 of american boys and girls back to their homeland from some 12 bases where they stationed right now in iraq this is tongue in cheek of course but still this shows the potential fallout the united states could see from this whole vote but again we shouldn't forget that this vote was not just about the united states but mostly about iraqi the iraqi people because as the m.p.'s were debating this resolution that eventually passed

today some people they took to the streets to have their voices heard they were centuries saying that they are sick and tired of ending up between a rock and a hard place one of the conflict taking place between america and iran inside iraq is unacceptable we will not be the fuel for your wars your problems must be solved away from iraq. we are opposed to recent events we reject them and there is fear in iraqi society because of this conflict. the conflict between america and iran should be solved outside iraq so essentially the message from the rockies is clear as 2 countries 2 foreign cunt. juking it out between each other for instance like right now the united states and iran it's the iraqi people the iraqi people who should have nothing to do with the with the fight of 2 other nations they receive a lot of the punches and a lot of the blows land on their heads and they're sick and tired of this whole

thing. kassam solmonese body has been repatriated to iran where he'll be buried on shoes they these are live pictures right now live from tehran 135 at night in the early morning now you can see the throngs of cried really a huge i pouring of prefer in the country what you're looking at here really boxes covered with various flying just really trying to give a sense of the dark grief the thought if not hundreds of thousands throughout the country of mourners are paying tribute to the slaying commander of their is the top general in the country yet they rockey capital as well on saturday for a funeral procession was similar to scenes like this around this responded with fury to friday's deadly us valuing to solomon's death.

donald trump in a tweet threaten to target dozens of locations in iran including some quotes important to really in culture if those were actual cultural heritage sites he was speaking about it legal experts say it would amount to a war crime. there this serves as a warning that if you are on strike so many americans or american assets we have targeted 52 iranian sides some is a very high level and imports into iran and the iranian culture and those targets and iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard the use a wants no more threats. to iran's responded to that warning again labeling donald trump a terrorist. in a suit or senior correspondent i guess the it takes a closer look now at the killings 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 mr 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 rocky television has just confirmed that cosine sula monny former general in iran's revolutionary guard or the commander of the clues force has been killed in a rocket attack apparently decided by the united states. to settle for the u.s. at our allies on alert at the petrograd attack iran's top military commander here and a. solemn 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 money command 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 sulaimani was considered an icon in iran and iraq a man who helped prevent isis takeover of iraq in syria who inspired and mobilized tens of thousands of people multiple countries to fight the blight that is isis while qaida you know enough and 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 the u.s. is now more hated among iranians in iraqis hundreds of thousands have joined a 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 this plot deter further aggression from qassam salami in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation from 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 social media world war

3 was the top trend people are genuinely afraid the u.s. football team is council 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 mudda 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. rant against the of all amid the rapid escalation tehran says it won't abide by any of the enrichment set by bit 2015 nuclear deal but is still ready to reverse if washington lift sanctions the u.s. pulled out of the agreement when president trump took power we have spoken to several middle east experts on the crisis gripping the region. probably iran is now pushing europe towards the edge in terms of having either to rescue the deal the nuclear deal and part tweezer sort of america or probably ditch the deal altogether but it won't be any iranian call it would be probably a european court we've heard news earlier as well that iran would be ready to deescalate if the sanctions were lifted so there are messages that are being sent either way telling still despite all the hoo ha and despite all the threats and

countries threats and whatever we're still hearing voices coming out from tehran saying the guys were happy to deescalate and call it off should you do if the sanctions and that would put international community so to speak or least the europeans in a very uncertain situation that they have to act now and not give her any more i hope that iran will not take the hard decision that they will or the europeans because we all know that the reappearance at something different from the americans so it's a balanced it's supposed to be a balanced political process that iran should do or. not iranian to say things that it's supposed to be known everything in iran but at least outside the box and seeing is that iran also just like the united states both of them are on the edge both of them have capabilities and both of them can hurt each other but what are the consequences it seems now that hate the united states and

the whole of the middle east is kelly people really you me you well the american. man the 2nd strongest man in the at our so i think middle east actually is facing. a limit now. well isn't just the u.s. and iran at the brink turkish troops are said to intervene in libya's long running civil war story they're on vacation as well after the break. a lot of it here is the economy where china has caught up more surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the u.s. over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated. kind of recently woken up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. .

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approaching 70 minutes past the hour welcome back to the weekly wiki leaks founder julian assange claims he's slowly dying in the british jail he's incarcerated alleges he's trying to pull ice then kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day he made the disturbing claims in a phone call to his friend. eve spoke to us. the sound an awful and it was very upsetting to hear him the idea of him being sedated has come from several people who visited him who clearly been told and the british government have been asked about it and they refuse to address that matter 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 in these remember he served that time. the bail charge and he served his time too and he's now on remand it's highly unusual to put a remand prisoner in belmarsh when they're not

a threat of a physical or violent 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 so at least a sender some representative 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 in terms and yet its claims very recently in november that the british government of completely ignored his request to see julian probably his health properly assess. well just to give you some julian assange was arrested in april and since then medics and un observers of war and that his physical and mental health are in decline a hearing in february all the side on his extradition to the united states is

a curious than the us of publishing classified military documents could face a 175 year jail sentence. or there has been no response from london the british home office refutes. of torture calling them on finding faults. turkish soldiers are on their way to libya according to an allied spend by president or 2 on the turkish parliament voted back on thursday to back the un recognized government in tripoli if in your green light a trip to plummet libya's a rival administration based in the east of the country fighting against the deal with ankara. it was decided to cut ties between the turkish regime and the states of libya and also in today's session a unanimous vote was passed on the general command authorizing be armed forces to disable all airports ports and learn ports under the militias control due to the

danger they pose to the country's national security by bringing the colonists to our country. libya has been in a state of war since protests in 2011 on the ice thing then all of the country's leader moammar gadhafi in recent months the u.n. government has been losing grown 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 tars forces currently controlled most of libya's territory including crucial oil and gas resources johnson a funder of viewpoint africa believes that even with turkey supports it will be difficult for the un government to deal with general forces. i'm afraid that libya has been a bit of a mess since gadhafi went many people are saying that is very much like syria

number 2 is to have to who controls a large swathe of the country who are protected period of time. the swing of the pendulum but on the other hand when you have a government which has been supported by the united nations a government that supported by the united states. has a fractured no. will be what is going to be very difficult concept physically how which is why he's been propped up and supported by the turks who are who have already expressed to send their military might to support him. ok i know the story that bring you from africa as well and al qaeda affiliate has struck in kenya a u.s. service member to civilian contractors as well they've been killed in the african nation after terrorists loyal to the group attacked a military base shared by the u.s. and local troops al-shabaab extremists also the steroid several of us take

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and part of that is now a clash with china joining us to discuss this issue is dan collins and marshall our back now according to the i.m.f. using purchasing power parity china is already 25 percent larger economy than the united states and cons of course you live there for 20 years what did you see here you're in brooklyn as you can hear around us we're across the river from manhattan and you're seeing a construction boom here by u.s. standards but put this into context of our competitor nation as trump calls it what's going on there compared to here china has a distribution economically of course and sort of we're right the economy in brooklyn where we're going to be different than little rock arkansas trying to do they passed us on a p.p.p. basis on the g.d.p. back in 2016 so it's been a few years already well we i like to look at it too if you just step back and look at it from an economic standpoint they make their shoes and they make our shoes they make their t.v.'s and they make our t.v.'s they make their car parts and they

make our car parts so i think their economy the way we estimate it is that is their economy is absolutely you know massive you. go any city in china they basically have new airports new roads new buildings new schools so there's been a massive economic boom that probably is going to be difficult to keep up and you know what i personally believe china's g.d.p. the last few years is much much lower than the official so looking at some of these technologies like 5 j what way they are leaps and bounds ahead so at to get it can take on the sputnik moment you know we have the cold war 3 saul going on with the soviet union that same to get the nasa program going which gave us a lot of new technologies and there was a huge boost to our economy. should we look at this in the similar way and say look they are clearly had of us while way 5 g. they are ahead of us. they are also way ahead of us and ai artificial intelligence should that is that how we should approach this you think it's absolutely there's

a lot of areas in the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments markets 50 times the size of the u.s. we're over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated. 5 g. we've kind of recently woken up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment hallways the 800 pound gorilla 5 g. they've been putting hundreds of billions of dollars behind this company they have 800000 engineers $50000.00 engineers are foreigners they've hired the best talent in that space to produce a 5 g. equipment we're so far behind the game's over you can't catch up on 5 g. at this point with hallway and as geo political superpower that we are in the united states and where a competitor to china we're seeing with 5 g. because the u.s. doesn't even how one single manufacturer of this tel and consequent we see germany we see brazil likely to do deals with huawei despite the u.s. saying no what do you think of this well they certainly are putting pressure on on

the europeans. to do 5 g. and indeed also the same question is confronting india right. modi is also being pressurized not to adopt while weighs 5 g. standard so the question is if you want to use the sputnik analogy the russians were ahead of us when they launched a man into space before we did and the us mobilized its considerable national resources and ultimately caught up and did so the the russians i would say that it's not impossible that the same thing could happen but of course it would mean invoking things like national industrial policy which is something we haven't liked since the 1970 s. how much of this of course is to do with the fact that when you ship all your manufacturing overseas when you ship it to china it was always the theory was that they're just going to do the the low value added jobs the t.v.'s menial labor and they'll never do innovation and come up with

a great ideas we're going to innovate here but of course innovation happens on the factory floor and how and why did we send our factories over there what role to bill clinton do with basically fighting to have china be part of the world trade organization in 2000 he argued in front of congress in march of 2000 he said by joining the w cio china is not simply agreeing to import more of our products it is agreeing to import one of democracy's most cherished values economic freedom of course this is the sort of lie we push on ourselves when we invade a country that we're going to go liberate the women and here it was like we're going to liberate their economy it was the the china fantasy the idea that somehow if they start to embrace capitalist forms of economic development their ultimate they going to evolve into a liberal democracy and that's turned out to be a complete delusion and fantasy in fact you can argue that even the idea that trade liberalization would ultimately work in our favor.