iran designates the u.s. armed forces a terrorist organization and response to the pentagon's killing of tehran's top commander says a huge crowds of mourners gathered for the funeral of masses loan money. in all u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi announces a resolution to curb donald trump's ability to attack iran or a similar restriction that was stripped from a defense bill passed by congress just last month. also this hour as we enter 2020 the hangover of political correctness still haunts us now to new gangster film the gentleman who put the issue up for debate can tell you some of the most foul and disgusting racist language this was

a movie about gangsters guess what police gangsters don't speak in politically correct balanced way if. you're watching are to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 1 pm welcome to the program. and a rapid escalation of the conflict iran has officially designated the u.s. armed forces as a terrorist organization that's according to local media parliament's vote comes in response to the killing of the country's most powerful general and a us air raid at iraq's baghdad airport on friday iran views the killing of kassam samani as an act of state sponsored terrorism the body of the iranian general has arrived in his hometown hermano where he is being buried you can see live pictures now on your screen of that city huge crowds of mourners are gathering for the funeral there reportedly 35. people have died and 40 more $48.00 more injured after

being crushed in the crowd there's been an outpouring of grief with millions flooding the streets of tehran on monday as well tensions across the middle east have soared as a radiance a man retaliation for the killing one of the 1st proper questions for washington has come from iraqi m.p.'s who voted on sunday to expel foreign forces from the country conducting the killing on their soil. meanwhile there has been chaos at the pentagon and letter from a top u.s. general to the iraqi defense ministry suggested that american troops were pulling out of baghdad after nearly 17 years there earlier donald trump rejected the withdrawal and warn iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if baghdad kicks out the troops and as the letter started circulating in the media pentagon chiefs to missed it as a poorly written draft. there's been no decision whatsoever to leave iraq there's no decision to leave nor did we shoot any plans to leave or prepare to leave that

letter was a draft it was a mistake it was unsigned it should not have been released poorly wooded employees withdrawal that she's not what's happening meanwhile democrats are angry with trump's middle east decision making mainly because he didn't get congressional approval but as kilmartin explains they had a chance to get it but voted against. travis decision to kill iran's top general isn't exactly bringing peace and stability to the middle east as the world is on edge waiting to see how bad the fallout will be democrats have spoken up however the objection of the democrats isn't that trump killed got some solid money but that he did it without their permission the operation against solo money in iraq was conducted without specific authorization and any advance notification or consultation with congress there is usually a congressional consulting process it's both constitutionally required we see a gradual march to military action directly or indirectly with iran that has not

been authorized by congress but they did actually have a chance to stop trump the recent $738000000000.00 defense spending bill could have included amendments that tied trump's hands and mandated he not carry out any attacks against iran no federal funds may be used for any use of military force in or against iran unless congress has a declared war or be in 1000 specific statutory authorization for such use of military force if the president wants to attack iran he needs to come to congress for authorization i proly support this amendment prohibits the use of any funds for war with iran without congressional authorization a number of progressive voices did speak out but they got out voted the bill was passed. any member who voted for the national defense authorization act a blank check can't now expressed dismay the truth may have motion of the war in

the middle east my amendment which has stripped would have cut off funding for any offensive attack against iran including gate's officials like sunday mommy now democrats in congress are looking to pass a resolution that would not stop but only limit trumps actions when it comes to iran and no surprise there because in the aftermath of solomon is killing democrats seem to act go trams claim that he was indeed an awful person who deserved to be shot down so the money was a murderer responsible for the deaths of thousands including hundreds of americans general still the money was a violent man who died a violent death toll money was a bad guy there's no question about that a notorious terrorist. no one should shed a tear over his death he deserved to be brought to justice he deserved to be brought to justice was a crime this seems to be the outlook of the democratic party it's ok to kill the top general of

a foreign country and put the country on the brink of war you just have to ask permission 1st they don't sound as much like cool headed dogs but rather like noxious bureaucrats waving the rule book and from space demanding proper procedure they could congress could. put much stronger clamps on the president but over the years we've seen them fail to do that i think they realize they can't stop it. so what they'll try to do is limit. you know what kind of money could be spent without congressional approval and that kind of thing it will be sort of a face saving thing for the democrats to say we tried to do something this juvenile attitude in america that we have that you know all our enemies are bad guys or the baddest of the bad and we're the good. nobody will just say look this was the general of a company of a country. commanding general and we and he was killed this is not what you do i

mean this is an act of war. the latest movie by acclaimed british director guy ritchie has been getting some less than stellar reviews with critics branding the picture racist and out of touch the gentleman has already been released in 4 countries including britain but the rest of the world getting to see it in 2 months time here's a look at what's getting publications so riled up among u.k. viewers. it's really boring oh yeah. every imaginable demographic gets their moment to be targeted and denigrated the only thing the gentleman finds worth celebrating is the bravado white masculinity. a less forgivable blast from the past however it is a deuce confort ing strain of racially based humor running through out reaches

original script making flat punch lines of multiple asian characters. it's just a shame that guy ritchie falls back on his bad habits casual racism i don't know lynn ask lack of female characters problematic but still very entertaining. and i'm being absolutely sincere much rather watch cats than the angry racist mass that is the gentleman. who put the issue up for debate with political commentator david veils and social activist leave just for. this is a sort of bygone break movie a sort of muscular reassertion of the we can say what we like it's our country and we don't give a damn what anybody thinks it can tell us about our most foul and disgusting racist language this was a movie gangsters and guess what really gangsters don't speak in politically

correct balanced ways that's not what gangsters do when we see movies like this is the following day when those racial epithets are repeated on the should treat give cause for concern that. movie makers like guy should have a broader social conscience and responsibility. producing the arjen they do if you want to see a margin doris's them then that's fine you go and see it if we go to see a gangster movie you know we're not expecting to. find high philosophy we're not expecting to experienced work culture that's just reality i think is outdated is outmoded and he's not reflecting the kind of future which is of a more inclusive sense of britishness nationalism you know here we are in 2020 and what we're experiencing over this movie is just an early flutter of walk culture of

the perpetually offended black panthers one of the most successful movies in the world and it's successful economically for a reason i think i'm not in favor of any artistic ban law and the law i do think they should be greater diversity in the production and creative rooms quite amusing that you just referenced black panther and you went on then to talk about diversity if i recall the black panther movie successfully there wasn't a huge amount of diversity in not so if you want equality and i do then i think we have to have the fundamental right to have all opinions of all sorts heard saying and understood such political correctness concerns acco the spirit of the previous year as art is a curse on the reports. 2019 was a year of many things it was a year of trump and grettir a year of protests and the year of the insulted getting offended all at once all

around the world about all sorts of things militant political correctness brought together the man the human kind of fashion designers wanted people to dress to impress instead some parts of the collections went full on dress to distress this balaklava like jumper by good she didn't thrill anyone not because of the price tag but because some had a black face problem with it singer kathy perry show a self in the foot with the same gun when she suggested people should shove their feed well into something resembling a black face. 2019 was a year when mediocre male wrestlers realized they can be outstanding female wrestlers never says a word against that is a transfer and i see conferences got cancelled because at

a certain age more women than men decide they want to be something else in life than a nerd and saying from personal experience of course. this christmas was unlike any before because only last year did we realize that we in fact have no idea how the famous gingerbread identifies so meet the gingerbread person neither do we know what santa looks like not like any of us have ever seen them so make sure to say santa no more of this father christmas nonsense the christmas classic baby it's cold outside played in fewer homes because some have finally clocked on that the temperature outside or as little to do with the male thing is. intensions. the p.c. army is well deserving of a round of applause for its 2019 gains but in the spirit of inclusive at sea and

with all those triggered by loud sounds in mind here is a silent wave which is just as good and climactic what a way to ring in 2020. millions of worshipers are feeling churches from the balkans to the middle east as eastern orthodox christians around the world celebrate christmas. and. we're casting an eye back over 21000 after this short break.

and when else seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to ship out just to come after. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. it is physics physics is nothing but the harmony you can create on vibrating strings but it's chemistry chemistry is the melody and melodies you can play on strings what is the universe the universe is

a symphony of strings. joining me every day on the elec so i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll show you that. welcome back we're taking stock of $2900.00 reflecting on more of the events that marked the year just gone. and we've divided the review of the year into 2 categories mind games and warring world let's start with the 1st category then mind games $21000.00 was a year of struggle for truth with some apparently looking to hide or censor it social media giants such as facebook came in for particular criticism accused of

blocking stories it does not like meanwhile whistleblowers accuse the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons of twisting findings to fit their merit narrative now take a look at chemical censorship take the alleged 2802 my attack in syria it was blamed on the syrian army but many question the o.p.c. report on delves deeper. a new year is a chance to start over the start clean a chance to reach new heights all well climb back the old ones you fall enough try and rebuild your reputation as is the case with the o.p.c. w. it started off with a horrific footage and alleged chemical attack. took

a year for the u.p.c. w. to publish its 1st draft open and shut case it seemed found traces of chlorine fam strong indications that the containers were dropped from the air gun and done. today's o.p.c. w. final report on the 7th of april 2018 attack in doom confirms chemical weapons used demonstrating the vital importance of the o.p.c. w.'s work this confirmed chlorine attack was only the latest example of the assad regime's chemical warfare attacks on its own population we would later learn that a significant part of that year seemingly went to the picking of font that would make as sad look most guilty it 1st hand came with the leaks report which calculated that the evidence didn't match the catalyst as were very likely placed

at the scene observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those 2 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft the whistleblower behind this leak was kicked out of the u.p.c. w. building he wasn't even an employee they claimed we would later learn that he was and they lied but that would happen later 1st another o.p.c. w. whistleblower would strike with very very serious allegations most of the doman team failed to see reports on the incident the interim report and the final report were scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent professor richard foulke was there at a conference in brussels where the 2nd whistleblower spoke well essentially he presented. evidence testimonials to the a theory that the report final report could not be justified in the

form that it was submitted and that it had been tempered with in such a way to create a set of conclusions that curse. the us. it's. true. it would be the outcome of an investigation but the evidence didn't support. here's how they manipulate of the evidence despite their best efforts they never found any nerve agent what they did find a traces of chlorine which sounds dangerous right to the uninitiated but again you can find traces of chlorine in your drinking water your cleaning sprays and your local swimming pool everywhere the difference between a mass chemical attack and someone cleaning their sink is concentration how much chlorine was the texted i would guess what the u.p.c. w.

decided to emit if the finding of these chemicals at the alleged site is to be used as an indicator that chlorine gas was present in the atmosphere they should least be shown to be present at level significantly higher than what is present in environments already but when the analysis of these key levels came back from the laboratories the results we can through sammy barrick at unison who is the doom of fact finding missions leader against normal expectations they were not passed on to the inspector who was drafting the o.p.c. w.'s interim report on duma really strange considering that the rebel video which was used as justification to launch cruise missiles at syria clearly showed people suffering symptoms of nerve agent poisoning didn't even find chlorine and sufficient concentration to indicate a chemical attack it boiled down to 2 explanations either acid used or a magical gas that is undetectible by modern instruments or the videos was staged.

after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital before all the whistleblowers came out you just couldn't say it any doubt about acids guilt would get you mauled were the kewl smeared threatened and fired the free media as i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me and it is a kind of nit picking on on certain things i was doing and my articles but it was purely on just to be able to attack me in an e-mail so after i kept pushing pushing my wrist a century was told a couple lines about why they wouldn't run no p c w story of the moment there are very few western well mainstream western journalists are reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media our job as journalists are to hold governments to account and if governments are

going to war on false premises then you know we have good evidence to suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not turning our job as journalists then surely we go to see the early draft report and juxtaposed with the final one the difference was striking they cherry picked everything that seemed even and big asli incriminating those struck by how much the redacted version of the report misrepresented the facts many of the facts and observations outlined in the full version or in extra complete interconnected and by selectively admitting certain ones and unintended bias has been introduced into the report undermining its credibility in case there was any doubt about which facts to pick they had other identified american agents come in and lecture the chemist's on my ass had was guilty they were to take their word for it the inspectors left fairweather the office feeling that the invitation to the americans to. dress them was unacceptable

pressure and violation of the o.p.c. w.'s declared principles of independence and impartiality 2 days later the interim report was released a senior colleague told us the 1st rule management says that for the a.p.c. w.'s credibility we have to have a smoking gun you'd think that management would apologize for this offer some sort of explanation heck it would have been a resignation or 2 while some of these diverse views continue to circulate in some public discussion forums i would like to reiterate that i stand by the independent professional conclusion basically to hell with the u.p.c. w.'s reputation to hell with generations of chemists and scientists who kept the world free of chemical weapons these is the 21st century's o.p.c. w. which can synthesize chemical guilt literally out of thin air the 2nd highlight category we're looking at this hour is warring world 2019 was also

a year of tit for tat hostility and hate from terror attacks around the globe to fight for syrian oil and of course a trade war between washington and beijing now the world's largest economies are locked in a bitter trade battle destabilizing the globe and look at how it all started. 29000 so a full blown trade war with washington finding on 2 fronts but the art of war whether the conflict is military or economic in nature consists of certain universal status . trade confrontation with china was a u.s. a major concern an idea that trump was fixed on since day one of his presidency china china where the enemy chosen the only thing missing was a selected target. so at the beginning of the year the trumpet ministrations started to portray the chinese tech giant huawei as an enemy u.s. secretary of state mike brown pale latch that while way is owned by the chinese

government and therefore has deep connections to their intelligence services and presents and national security threats the official urged countries to think twice before signing up was one of the world's biggest tech firms but what's in it for washington well 1st you can get rid of a competitor who had a huge cheer and the market and 2nd and most important of the 5 g. to acknowledge that china was developing and wildly promoting the u.s. wanted to create its own 5 g. so letting china dominate the market would have been a mistake. and made 2019 donald trump banned huawei and the u.s. while way officials denounced the move the fact is the u.s. government has provided no evidence to shool. i would.

throw it at the same time trying try to impose additional tariffs on china beijing struck back with tariffs on numerous goods. some major u.s. allies such as germany refused to support the ban. there are too soon. i don't believe one discussing this very sensitive security questions publicly and to exclude an accompanist simply because it's from a certain country some european countries even sided with china united against the us while the economist asked amazed at the cost of us china war $2.00 roughly head $700000000000.00 for the global economy the support for trump's actions faded fast even if growth big surge in 2020 the current drifts. could lead to changes that last for a generation. the year trump and bangs seem to reach the phase one

deal and they cheat something resembling a cease fire still very few hailed it as a good sign many simply called it a failure on the part of the trumpet ministration that preliminary agreements meant no new tariffs but the future of the economic relationship still remains uncertain so the main question now is will the war continue in 2020 all of the indicators suggest it most certainly will that's a global news break down for this hour thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. here's a thought experiment and a bit of a prediction for 2020 going back to saudi aramco aramco 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 if you've got a 2 trillion dollar 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 why wouldn't saudi aramco buy berkshire hathaway just as a hostile trade 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. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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this is broadcast day around the world and covering all aspects of business and how it affects our daily lives i'm christiane in washington and here's a look at what we have in store today as tensions continue to rise in the u.s. and iran oil prices have continued this surge as uncertainty and fear persist we take a look at what has caused the boost and what assets have benefited from the precious with peter schiff of euro pacific capital and todd but before i went and plus. there's of. course this is no doubt there are months to go. wildfires continue to rage in australia as east coast continues to be ravage r.t. correspondent john how does on his it break down how the nation's business has been affected by the blazes and later. boeing as well as continue as our problems pile up.