it's 7 pm here in moscow right now 7 30 in the evening again. live pictures from. the holy city for shia muslims there millions have been filling the streets across the country for the funeral procession of the country slain general. furious response to washington killing the commander on their soil iraqi vote to boot out american troops are there for donald trump to threaten the right to sanctions never seen before. turkish forces heads of libya to bolster the embattled. government in tripoli a projected by libya's powerful rival administration is meeting behind closed doors to discuss the deployment is going to be more

a matter of the coming out. then a very good evening to live from the international world. and here with these latest. we're going to run 1st as mentioned millions of mourners have turned the funeral of money the country's most powerful general was assassinated in a u.s. air right outside baghdad airport in iraq on friday there's been a huge outpouring of grief across the middle east and beyond these live pictures in just now from calm to the south of. iran's supreme leader earlier wept as he said prayers over the slaying. mourners carried red flags associated with just bloodshed and revenge or one of the 1st repercussions for the united states has come from iraqi voted sunday to expel foreign forces from their country for conducting the key. on this soil as for donald trump well he's warned iraq to brace for heavy

sanctions if it does take those troops out. we have a very extraordinarily expensive ear piece that's there it costs billions of dollars to build 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 we 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 and of malign us presence in west asia has begun iraqi lawmakers resolution not only calls on u.s. troops to leave the country they also asked the government to pull back from military assistance for the u.s. led coalition plus a dirge 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 rainy leaders are vowing to eventually moneys death or senior correspondent next has been looking at how it might be a better move to play the long game. on the face of it trump and iran they always wanted the same thing iran knew 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 monny 8 30 am on the morning he was killed as he left baghdad international airport mr abdul mahdi said the general salute monny was carrying iran some response to a message iraq had 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 that iraqis don't want foreign troops murdering who they will when they will the parliament has decided to ask the us to leave once a 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 our action the white house is in panic trying to justify what it did the vice president telling fairy tales trying to tie sulaimani to 911 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. of a cynical follow let's go live now to baghdad. as a member of the baghdad security committee hi this well the events of the last couple of days where you start here and we've seen earlier on the pictures that millions of people out on the streets in iran we saw the pictures from tehran from calm on your side of the border over iraq are you surprised at the strength of which we call it anti-american sentiment that's really come to the fore here the

government your parliament wanted to kick out foreign troops has it surprised you the strength of it. thank you very much know i'm not surprised as a matter of tehran i can understand and legions and they're understanding of their national hero but what happens in iraq is completely different story and we're not really concerned with general survey money as such the americans assassinated a high ranking iraq in general. didn't wonder this who is the deputy commander for the public mobilization forces and the he is an employee of the iraqi government he takes orders from the prime minister of iraq the commander in chief and he's a member of the iraqi government and he was assassinated in iraq in baghdad

international airport while receiving an international guest so what's angering people in iraq is quite different to what is happening in iran and the reaction we got from the parliament has nothing to do with what's happened in relation to iran to still a money what is in fact in iraq all to do with my dear one this who is an iraqi national here is very interesting you pointed out someone close to you is really a range that if it's a very interesting upon a nurse or slow movement in mind this is a single hand sorry a bit of a shunt interject too much as it's very interesting your point that to a global view is because it's been the name solomonic celebrity that has made all the headlines of course in iraq you sing it from from a from a different perspective as you as you say so cutting to the chase now donald trump turned around. and said if you kick us out and it not on

a friendly basis where you go there fine you if you like really bring in massive sanctions it will cripple you are you worried about. yes we have to be worried mr trump we cannot trust his with good intentions of course if we go to the agreement the sofa agreement it was stated in article 5 that the whatever installation or equipment or building built by the americans on iraqi soil will become an iraqi property after the americans leave iraq so this matter was stipulated in the past but nevertheless the ministers from could probably cause major trouble in this almost. in the more effort i wanted as if i were one america goes on all its own accord maybe that wasn't so if it was pushed i don't know i don't know

nobody knows i mean nobody can understand what what he really saying there isn't any formal negotiations going on now between iraq and america we have quite a vague position but if the americans think about putting iraq under sanctions definitely iraq will look into other sources into either selling its oil for financing its projects and finding more suitable partners than partner who comes to iraq feel iraqi citizen use iraqi airspace iraqi ground to kill iraqi officials and that is definitely not the way that we are looking into our allies china's talk of allies china's ambassador to iraq promised military aid there's a meeting earlier on today wasn't there is iraq open to the would it welcomed chinese healthy or not at this stage. well we have

a huge agreement with china amounts to $500000000000.00 in 50 years time i mean it's a huge project to restart the infrastructure of iraq to build an industrial cities and many many projects so there is an alternative and probably this is one of the reasons why there americans are putting tremendous amount of pressure on iraq they are asking their archy's to cancel the chinese agreement it seems and replacing it with an american agreement maybe that will be the price for the americans to pull out of iraq without causing any severe problems for the iraqi economy not everyone in your country of course wants the american troops to pull out if and when they do go can you clarify your understanding is it just american troops or is it other friendly allied forces and even pro iranian forces within your country everybody

where's it going to stop or is it going to be a select few just the americans. know the parliament asked all forces to leave iraq of course there aren't any. forces in iraq there were 15 advisors. 3 of them got killed in the attack in the assassination so we have now 12 he really and advisors in iraq and they're already left iraq we have the french and those radians and maybe some other minor forces from other countries they will all be asked to leave of course not only for the americans very briefly so final thought it's a very bold move as we head into the new year new decade do you have high hopes for your country over the coming years if this does happen is it really going to benefit iraq if the americans pull out or is it something you might live to regret you think. this is very important for there are

a thought for the american support we don't want to be drawn into a war between iran and america on iraqi soil if the americans pull out the iranians cannot use iraq as a battlefield between them and the americans we need the americans to leave so iran will leave us alone iran will not leave iraq alone unless until there are american soldiers on the rocky soil the iranians are generally afraid and they feel that they are threatened by the presence of military american military hardware and equipment and personnel in iraq therefore it's in the interest of iraq for both sides to pull out of iraq and to reduce their domination of politics here in iraq on the line from baghdad looks rather splendid behind you this member of baghdad security committee talib thank you ever so much for your time of being live on r.t.

international. of the news now turkish soldiers are on the way to libya according to president there on the turkish parliament voted last thursday to back the u.n. recognize government in tripoli giving the green light then to the deployment of closed u.n. security meetings been under way in new york little bit earlier to discuss a situation libya's rival administration based in the east of the country voted against the deal with ankara bear in mind. 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 lamb ports under the militias control due to the danger they pose to the country's national security by bringing the colonists to our country most of libya is controlled by general khalifa haftar on the libyan national army and a seat on the map there while the us government is in charge just

a fraction of that war torn country now last month requested military aid from ankara to counter the general's forces the country's been in a state of war since protests in 2011 and the ousting so dramatically of the country's leader while mcduffie johnson's a founder of viewpoint africa and believes even with turkey support now it's going to be hard for the un 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 who controls a large swathes of the country or protect a 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'm think. has a faction or an opportunity of winning but it's going to be very difficult i can't see 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 the actual let's get too into. the race is on to evacuate stricken residents and a stray layer is the most ferocious wildfires in decades ravage swathes of parched country in the southeast at least $25.00 people known to have died and many thousands had to abandon their homes and be relocated and overall there's been a brief respite but only briefly the record breaking heat wave in a rain too but emergency services a brace they say for more hazardous conditions and a huge fire they're predicting to return in the next few days.

directing their fury a prime minister 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 it as a root cause of the unprecedented destruction that's become part of the fosses and so long the rival lapping between stites this is driven by climate chimes scientists claim very clear that the 10 or 20 years now that climate change is leading to more frequent and most of the bush 5 and trout and hate why we're already seeing catastrophic impacts you could 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 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 to acknowledge that the direct connection to any single farmer event it's not a credible suggestion to mike that link. thanks so much you know it's international don't run the world so it's appreciated i can tell you after the break we're going to be back over the year just gone $29000.00 including how the world was put on the verge of a new arms race to the united states pulled out of a landmark arms treaty. is

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is the universe the universe is a symphony of strings. again exactly 20 past the new year in scotland is much celebrated. in the capital of thousands of people will go there for the hogmanay but the residents who live there a bit sick of it they say the people there full time say they are increasingly being shut out of their own city to make way for said tourists well the numbers have grown rapidly in recent years but it's proving to be a double edged sword for edinburgh as much as they welcome to trade in the visitors the city council says the new year's celebration influx causes an increase in noise pollution and over crowds the streets police acknowledged to having to force residents who live in the center there so where those id responds and get permits for visitors to visit their own homes during the whole been a festivities i suppose you can see their point of view maybe in recent years a friend talk. moses have worked with the edinburgh city council to try and make

the most of the rising number of visitors the city's german thing christmas market even caused upset to it was revealed it had not planning permission for the last 2 years well it's what people in the edinburgh have been telling us about the festivities so it's become about the issue because firstly it's the globe is it because you start service go out to do it's just going to come or were difficult serves i think we have plenty and i think they need to sink the people i want to listen. 60 people need to live here and not have to be pushed out to stoke the. stores like this if you get into city that that means people love the look of this i mean that is going to be like any of them would soon be. taking stock at 2019 think it hogmanay there as we reflect some more of the events that marked the year just gone. i mean.

let's crank up the memory machine again carefully and see what comes up we saw a fair bit of political maneuvering a wheel of dealing over weaponry so poet games is the theme of this hour would think about the iran nuclear deal unraveling nations boosting their defense budgets to get tooled up on a new arms race waiting in the wings arms race it is then the u.s. withdrew from the i.m.f. treaty on limiting ballistic missiles in 2018 you may recall then russia took what i described as a symmetrical response in the edges gone 2019 he goes down of takes a closer look at how it all unraveled. 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 and december this in turn kicked russia's military into action too as it accused the us of premeditating their withdrawal plans when the us ponders how to be only east and street food 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 are retaliatory that is to say in your

defense we never seek confrontation we do not want it is especially 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 messy 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 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 still tries with the iron of 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 just some new deal even the u.s. seems to have little idea about with you that the you will start expires february the 5th 2021 we have until then to resolve the situation our proposals are still on the tables and heard i understand that now it's up to washington to decide i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very 'd big and beautiful room and do a new 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. this is the way of the world seems so will more stories of the year just go when you can it is here just for now keep up to date with what's happening right now in iran so many people on the streets there and the rest of the headlines and r.t. dot com and on social media meantime here in moscow is kevin though in the saying

sincere thanks for watching us international and big seasons greetings from russia . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is on spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big part of the 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 need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i'm absolutely welcome to going underground we will be back with

a brand new season starting on january the 8th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from the last season of the decade coming up in this show as britain tries to levy or be a union is the trading block turning into weimar germany we asked the university of london joshua on call and why the e.u. has been forced to print tens of billions of euros from the land your would be. are being killed as i speak to you tonight killed as a direct result of policy decisions that we as a body have made we ask the man who helped reveal war crimes in the pentagon papers senator mike gravel donald trump firing john bolton will really make any difference to lethal u.s. foreign policy plus a scottish court rules boris johnson misled the queen we ask what is boris johnson is that the public on the man who was his top adviser tells us. to britain's responsibilities in the fight against climate change all the more coming up in

today's going on the grab of a straight to why the european union has been forced to announce it will stop printing tens of billions of euros from the vendor joining me is research head of university college london the institute for innovation and public purpose thanks for coming on how bad are things of after 11 years after the bailouts of the financial crash the e.c.b. has to do this that's previously pretty 2.6 trillion between 20152018 yeah i mean we are now i think in sort of a japan type situation where you know it's been over a decade since the financial crisis we've had these massive monetary stimulus in the u.k. in the us europe the e.c.b. in japan we still haven't got anywhere near the levels. of growth that we had pre-crisis. to protect what could have the growth we should have had and what we do have remains very long yet we're situation i think. britain. trillion.