6 pm here in moscow right now 6 30 in the evening in toronto where millions are continuing to fill the streets for the funeral procession of the country slain general salim money. while in a furious response to washington killing the mongol besought iraqi m.p.'s vote to boot out american troops only for donald trump to threaten the rack with sanctions never seen before. the other side of the world strangely is ferocious wildfires and now they're known to have killed 25 many thousands of 100 meters safety is now a link to the prime minister over his handling of the crisis and for dismissing climate change.

by their lifestyle to international's world news center very good evening from a man i'm kevin now and welcome to this latest half hour update the focus on what's happening in iran in tehran millions of mourners have turned out today for the funeral of kasim selim money the country's most powerful general was assassinated in a u.s. air raid outside baghdad airport in iraq on friday there's been a huge outpouring of grief across the middle east and beyond the ran supreme leader earlier wept says he said prayers over the slain commanders coffin so mourners carried red flags associated with unjust bloodshed and revenge one of the 1st repercussions for the united states has come from iraqi m.p.'s who voted yesterday to expel foreign forces from their country for conducting the killing on their soil but donald trump then warned iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it does kick true. we have

a very extraordinarily expensive ear piece that's there it costs billions of dollars to built long before my time we're not living unless they pay us back for it if they do ask us to leave if we don't do it in a very friendly basis will charge them sanctions like they've never seen before ever have you ever seen such a sea of humanity in your life donald trump do you still want to listen to the clowns advising you on our region and do you still imagine you can break the will of this great nation and its people end of malign us presence in west asia has begun well the iraqi lawmakers resolution not only calls on u.s. troops to leave the country it also asks the government to pull back from military assistance for the u.s. led and the i still coalition plus it urged for a formal complaint to be raised at the u.n. against washington for violating iraqi sovereignty which has now already been filed earlier today although a rainy leaders are vowing to avenge sell their money's death or see the

corresponding word has been looking at how it may be a better move for them to play the long game. on the face of it trump and iran they always wanted the same thing iran no secret always wanted the us to get the hell away from it out of iraq out of the middle east and trump well he won the election promising to end america's wars 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 what a man wouldn't say to get elected in reality he escalated conflict after conflict whether was a scratch trumps policies would tear it open into a wound on the trump of america went from a full with iran having a nuclear deal to assassinating iran's 2nd most powerful official i don't think trump expected this not merely in mourning a man that the u.s.

claimed was a terrorist and i highly doubt he expected to have all his embassies go in lockdown with crowds demanding death at the gates. i was due to meet a general saloon money at 8 30 am on the morning he was killed as he left baghdad international airport mr abdul mahdi said to general soon mani was carrying iran some response to a message iraq has conveyed on behalf of saudi arabia aimed at easing tensions between the 2 countries in the region so the money was apparently on a peace mission carrying proposals on how to reduce tensions in the region this is from the mouth of the u.s. backed iraqi prime minister versus him we have the state department it's sure and

says that he was actually evil and take our word for it he was. organizing imminent attacks on u.s. bases take our word for it is there any surprise that iraqis voted to remove american soldiers from their country the iraqis don't want foreign troops murdering who they will when they will the parliament has decided to ask the us to leave once the prime minister signs off iraq will withdraw its request for assistance which they followed with the us led coalition when isis was ascendant if the us refuses to pull out if it keeps its troops it will no longer be a friend it will be an occupier essentially in death sulaimani achieved exactly what he wanted for iraqis to expel america and if parliament doesn't do it we will take greater archon the white house is in panic trying to justify what it did the

vice president telling fairy tales trying to tie soleimani to $911.00 of all things trump threatening to bomb iranian cultural targets which would be a textbook example of a war crime that again i doubt he cares much in iran millions burn the american flag in america they're burning the book on international law and order the entire dynamics in iraq has changed from an atmosphere where iran was the culprit in iran was voted out sort of by the street to get out of iraq everybody was for an accusation zx attack in the rain embassies and consulates and so on and so forth to an entirely different position where and especially of those who are affiliated with iran having sort of an upper hand legally to pursue their own targets let's remember did you marry infant invading iraq illegally in 2003

they have spent trillions of dollars lost thousands of american lives. no of course in the process they have killed hundreds of thousands of iraqis all to have influence in a very geostrategic part of the world now when the iraqi parliament asks them to leave and of course they will eventually lead i don't think they will have a choice it's going to happen sooner or later this is going to be a very significant defeat for the americans i would say you would be the beginning of the strategic decline of u.s. power and influence in the region. and in another development to brief you on iran says it will not abide by the enrichment limits set by the waning 2050 nuclear deal but says it is ready to reverse that if washington if 6 sanctions the u.s. pulled out of the agreement when president trump took over the leaders of germany france and the u.k. of issued a joint statement calling on iran to avoid measures contravening the nuclear deal middle east expert ahmed rushdie doesn't think that iran is pursuing nuclear

weapons and only wants to strengthen its defenses he says. it looks like that iran has the capability to maintain in the most important thing the spirit the spirit of resistance against the americans aggression or any american attack i hope that iran will not take a hard decision that they will lose the europeans because we all know that the reprints something different from the americans so it's a violence it's supposed to be a balanced political process that iran should do. i'm not iranian to say things that it's supposed to be known everything in iran but at least i'm 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 this is a story to keep an eye on to turkish soldiers are on the way to libya now according to president there were the turkish parliament voted last thursday to back the un

recognized government in tripoli giving the green light to the deployment of closed u.n. security council meetings you get underway in new york any minute now about all this to discuss a situation libya's rival administration bear in mind based in the east of the country into broke voted 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 in the general command authorized in the 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 and most of libya's control by general khalifa haftar and the libyan national army while the un backed government in charge of just a fraction of the war torn country last month that requested military aid from ankara to try to counter the general's forces the country's been in

a state of war since protests back in 2011 and you recall the ousting of the country's leader moammar gadhafi johnson's a founder of viewpoint africa he believes that even with turkey support now it's going to be really hard for the u.s. backed government to oust its rival. i'm afraid libya has been a bit of a mess since gadhafi went many people are saying that is very much like syria number 2 mr have to look and shows a large swathes of the country for protected period of time has 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's supported by the united states i think. has a faction or an opportunity of winning but it's 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 there are

too many actors playing and supporting a competing factions which for we know we're not sure exactly who's going to succeed in the why they're back so let's get to into the other side of the world the terrible fires in australia the race is on to evacuate stricken residents as the most ferocious wildfires in decades ravaged swathes of the southeast at least 25 people are known to have died many thousands of had to abandon their homes to be relocated there has been just for a minute a brief respite from the record breaking heat wave but the warning is there is worse to come bad stuff emergency services a brace for hazardous conditions to return in the next few days.

those fires so bad a problem you can see the red sky from all closed over new zealand well angry stylings are directing their fear promises scott morrison over his handling of the crisis and for suggesting there's no direct link between the fires and climate change despite many saying that as the root cause of the unprecedented destruction . it's become harder fire seasons and longer they're overlapping between states this is driven by climate change scientists appear in very clear that pain to take a 10 or 20 years now that climate change is leading to more frequent and more severe bushfires and trout's and hate ways and we're already seeing catastrophic impacts you can imagine how much worse it will be if we allow the planet to continue to warm if we allow the continent of australia to continue to dry out this is just a taste of what's to come if we don't act there's no argument about the links

between in my view in the government's view and in any government in this country about the links between broader issues of global climate change and and weather events around the world but i'm sure people equally with. that direct connection to any single fire event it's not a credible suggestion to make that link. ok next problem a smaller scale but problems nonetheless the new year in scotland is much celebrated with the event drawing thousands of visitors per day but the residents who live there full time say they're sick of it increasingly being shut out of their own city to make way for said tourists their numbers have grown rapidly in recent years but it's proving to be a double edged sword for edinburgh the city council says the new year's celebration influx causes a lot of problems noise pollution and overcrowding on the street while police acknowledge to forcing residents who live in the center to wear those ideal response and get permits for visitors to their own homes during the when they 1st

of a tease well in recent years event organizers have tried to work with a pretty council and try and make the most of the rising number of visitors safely another twist the city's german themed christmas markets cause an upset you might not think so when it was revealed that it hadn't had planning permission for the last 2 years oh dear well it's what people have been telling us about it all. so it's become about that issue because firstly it's the globe is it because it's. sort of bars service you know the difficult to do it's just going to become work are difficult service i think we have plenty and i think they need to sink that the people also want to listen that it's sick people need to live here and not have to be pushed out to the extent that. the stories like this if you get them to see that that means people on the look of this i mean that is going to be like any of them or the city thinking of hogmanay and things like that you think about the year just

gone and that's what we're going to do when we come back after the break will cast an eye back over 2098 we're looking at people power that filled the streets of nations worldwide and also have fears grew of a new global arms race maybe after washington walked away from the landmark arms treaty. reality has mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are . and our utopian visions maybe we're going to get a new deal but it may not be the green new deal that people are expecting will get the green new deal that we have we deserve rather think we are going to get a green new deal because the green you're dealing compas is things beyond just straight infrastructure healthcare's in that new deal there are other elements if you go back 20 started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in

this country. seem wrong. but. just don't call. me. yet to stamp out to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again 16 posts 6 in leaving monday evening in a moscow hope this finds you well not we're taking stock at 29000 some more next as we reflect more of the events the mobs that you just go. to.

put some money in the meter and crank up the machine so we're going to talk about this time showing political maneuvering on wheel of ealing over weaponry was high on the agenda as the iran nuclear deal ravelled nations boosted their defense budgets to get tooled up on a new arms race waited in the wings so let's talk about that next no i've got the wrong one there the u.s. withdrew from the island 4 of treaty on limiting ballistic missiles in $28.00 russia then took what he described as a symmetrical response in 2090 ego is down off takes a closer look at how it all developed. an arms race cold war a nuclear crisis it seemed all these things both sparked and faded out of historical relevance in the past millennium but 2019 saw all of them make a comeback the united states is officially withdrawing from the intermediate

range nuclear forces treaty or i.n.f. treaty the us unilaterally demolished a pillar of international stability crushing its i.n.f. treaty with russia. fears of the past century resurrected immediately the u.s. is pulling out of a decades long nuclear treaty with russia sparking fears of a new arms race we thought was confined to the cold war now there's concern a pullout could lead to a new arms race it's clear that the threat of a new arms race is real we go into

a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 1960 s. only more expensive and more dangerous it seemed the 2 countries were again trying to outpace each other on the military speed track with a nuclear winter right past the finishing line washington no longer bound by the i.m.f. shackled started the mess out tests right away 2 weeks after the pullout and then again in december this in turn kicked russia's military into action too as it accused the us of premeditating their withdrawal next when the us ponders how to be only east and straightforward with us. not of use trumped up accusations and allegations to unilaterally withdraw from it like they did in 2002 they violate everything and find excuses to put the blame on someone russia does not pose a threat to anyone any actions we take or retaliatory that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want it is specially with

a global power like the us both sides have been accusing each other of violating the i never deal but more school has also insisted that it has been unprecedentedly transparent in attempts to demonstrate compliance paraded the very message washington claims violated the i.m.f. russia invited international experts to come and be judge and jury what the rocket could and couldn't do the americans didn't come despite an almost personal invitation. for many years we've proposed to some talks but our initiatives have not found the support of our partners in fact they always find pretexts for dismantling the global security system. russia says it's still tries with the i.m.f. deal flatlined it suggests that arms control can be achieved through expanding another deal start and response washington talks at length about its gargantuan

plans to include china and other nuclear powers in a new deal. it's some new deal even the u.s. seems to have little idea about where through the 2 you really start expires february the 5th 2021 we have until then to resolve the situation our proposals still on the tables would be heard i understand that now it's up to washington to decide i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and you want to treaty that would be much better all the while as nuclear parity hangs in the balance purely on the good faith of a few individuals he goes down off there with that report in our next mental note to self care press the right button on this next what we're going to talk about this next 2019 saw governments and many countries left no doubt at all about just how widespread public dissatisfaction against them reached right streets of rage it was some trepidation yet it's working from the yellow vests in paris to the

political turmoil in latin america crowds turned regularly large numbers too but the big story came from spain that simmering independence row over the wealthy catalonia region that led to violent demonstrations in it we covered it protesters set roadblocks in clashed with police for weeks after 9 separatist leaders were sentenced to jail for sedition that's a term you don't hear that often they'd pushed ahead with independence referendum in 2014 despite a ban from madrid crucially within a coach never reported from the middle of it all in the capital and capital barcelona during the height of the unrest in the autumn. the streets of barcelona are again on fire we're standing right now between the bury cases that were built by professors as you can see the violence is only growing on the streets of the cattle lonnie and capital.

protesters have built as these bury kate's using garbage share and appliances that were standing by the cafeterias as well as some of the furniture that they could a science so they built those barricades now they set them on fire and right now they're shouting slogans and happening. and as you can see tensions our only increasing here at this is happening right in the center of barcelona and these trees so far so on there are again on fire and if we remember what happened just on friday a police forces responded with a rubber bullets and tear gas thank. you over.

the ok. thank you ok for salon is protesting sense monday and this saturday to show that people are not tired this violence to show that they're ready to take it to the streets. go really hairy there for a while then that will limit it a culture of reporting us in for no more stories of the i just got of the reports of iran i want to buy just about and keep up to date was having to run millions on the streets there today don't call them social media being tamira mosco is kevin always i think service much want to go to international as usual a big season. greetings from russia. join me every 1st day on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to get into the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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