i. the russian president vladimir putin holds talks with his syrian counterpart bashar al assad in damascus amid rising tension in the middle east. and classifies the us armed forces as a terror organization in response to the pentagon's killing of tehran's top commander that huge crowds of mourners have gathered for the funeral. and u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi announces a resolution to curb donald trump's ability to attack iran but a similar restriction was stripped from the defense bill passed by congress just last month. as we enter 2020 the hangover of political correctness is still haunting this notably over the new gangster film the gentleman who put the issue of

. racist language this was a movie of gangsters and hey guess what gangsters don't speak in politically correct ways. thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. and the rapid escalation of what's already a volatile situation the iranian parliament has designated the u.s. armed forces a terror organization came in response to the killing of the country's most powerful general in the usa raided baghdad airport in iraq on friday tensions across the middle east as iranians have demanded retribution.

for those who ordered this is well it's the perpetrators of this crime the killing of general kasim solomonic who are with the pentagon and their military i counted as terrorists in the body of the iranian general taken back to his hometown for burial grounds mourners are gathering for the funeral reportedly dozens of people have died and hundreds more injured after being crushed in the crowd in an outpouring of grief millions flooding the streets of tehran one of the 1st repercussions for washington came from iraqi m.p.'s who voted sunday to expel foreign forces from that country for conducting the killing on their soil. iranian foreign ministers accused washington of violating u.n. agreements after he was denied a u.s. visa you want democrats they're still angry with on trump for failing to seek congressional approval for his actions in the middle east tese caleb maupin has

details. 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 most 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 trumps claim that it was indeed an awful person deserves to be shot down similarly 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 interim space demanding proper procedure we welcome putin seems to be emanating from the pentagon a letter from a top u.s.

general to the iraqi defense ministry suggested american troops were pulling out of baghdad after nearly 17 years donald trump rejected any withdrawal and warned iraq of heavy sanctions if baghdad kicks the troops out that it started to circulate in the media pentagon chiefs dismissed 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 is a draft it was a mistake it was own signed it should not have been released poorly worded employee's withdrawal that is not what's happening we discussed the latest development with mohammed cal un representative at the iraqi based youth organization. the united states army and the power i wouldn't find him we don't find him useful in our country in my country we don't find that useful because 1st of all they haven't protected our borders when ice is invaded iraq they haven't

protected our konami they haven't protected our oil so if the us what it is clearly this this is an act of war and is an act of terrorism iran have the right to to to define the fanatic defined state as a terrorist states big can be can. act of terrorism because be committed in a sovereign country in iraq. near by civilian airports targeting well both of them were civilian that time because they travel through baghdad international airports weedy they have changed again or they have changed the rules of the game and this is a clear violation of a human right and a clear act of terrorism. for dinner putin has paid an unexpected visit to syria for talks with president bashar al assad go live now to r.t. correspondent has more on the story remount as i understand this this it came completely out of the blue and what more can you tell us. absolutely this visit was

a complete surprise and no one knew about of this is a lot of mir putin's 1st visit to syria since when t. 17 i believe and after arrival this is by the way this happening i mean tensions in the middle east following the killing of saul irena and military official in iraq so there's definitely a surprise there as well so vladimir putin after arrival he visited the russian command center in damascus where he met with president bashar assad and of course the military officials as well and they got both of them got a state of affairs report from the military officials what's happening around the country now in a meeting with bashar assad let him hear putin said that a long way and significant steps have been made to establishing peace in the republic all for syria and also

a. long way has been made to establish serious territorial integrity as well as statehood meanwhile of bashar assad thanked the russian military for their efforts in the fight against terrorism and of course establishing peace in most parts all for syria. many thanks arties running costs are affected. the latest movie by british director guy ritchie has been getting some less than stellar reviews critics have branded the picture racist and out of touch gentlemen so far only been released in 4 countries the rest of the world will get to see it in 2 months time is a quick look at what is getting people so angry. but it's really warming up. 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 esque lack of female characters problematic but still very entertaining. and i am being absolutely sincere much rather watch cats than the angry racist mass that is the gentleman. we put the issue up for debate political commentator david france social activist lee just been. this is a sort of bygone break movie a sort of muscular reassertion of the we can say what we like is 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 hey 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 to reassess 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 walk 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 britishers 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 there 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. the political correctness concerns the spirit of the previous years

artie's it is none of reports. 2019 was a year of many things it was a year of trump and gretta 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 their 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 perri 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 hope 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 and as little to do with the male singers intentions. the p.c. army is world deserving of a round of applause for its 2900 gains but in the spirit of inclusiveness 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. k. time soon to cast an eye back over 2019 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 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. millions

of worship is filling churches from the balkans to the middle east the eastern orthodox christians the celebrating christmas. right as promised let's take stock of $29.00 teams we've liked or more of the events that marked last year.

by that we've divided this review of the year into 2 categories got mind games and warring world so let's take a look at the screaming in my ear here awarding world don't forget near the forget war in world $29.00 t. was a year of hostility various forms of degrees from the trade war between washington and beijing through to a spate of hate driven terrorist attacks right around the world namely the spiral of violence last resource spike in the number of places of worship that are being targeted with her report his nuclear. while 2019 saw fewer terror attacks 3 years thought a more worrying trend with acts of terror inciting a tit for tat circle of hate 3 months into the year we saw one of the most peaceful countries in the world raise its terror threat level to high for the 1st time in its history. people around the world were left stunned when i 28 year old man unleashed carnage on 2 mosques in christchurch new

zealand. this is one of new zealand's darkest days the appalling attack set the tone for the remainder of the year the question was what could have motivated this surge in olds right leanings the obvious answer to many was donald trump the u.s. president who had taken what some perceived as an anti immigrant stance also a man who had the misfortune to be named in the christ church attack as manifesto making him the perfect target for retribution mr trump your awards not. your policies matter i think the public discourse from the president is

a factor in some of these actions our politicians played the blame game a much darker reality was unfolding 9 days after christ church the 1st copycat attack. this time on a synagogue in california police later found graffiti on the driveway leaving little downside for whether the attacker had been inspired by the new zealand massacre the po way synagogue shooting took the life of one person and injured 3 others in a chilling echo of the new zealand attack the perpetrator also released a manifesto in which he praised the christ church terror months later copycat attack number 2. on the 3rd of august 22 people were killed and 24 others injured in a mass shooting at a wal-mart in el paso texas again the attack of released a manifesto revealing how he was inspired by the christ church mosque shootings.

days later another one this time on a mosque in. no way one person was injured their taco also attempted to live stream the crime on facebook in a sinister twist here talking not only praise to the christ church as a saint but also depicted his fellow copycat attack as heroes amidst the space of copycat attacks and i asked inspired attack in sri lanka. martin luther king jr said i hate begets hate instead of diminishing evil it multiplies it and this maybe this sobering reflection of 29 the word terrorism

actually still has no universal definition that every country can agree on and so you can't stop a global scourge if you can't define that immunity so we have to start defining what each of these problems are what each of the intent is even in america some of the shootings that have happened the media has been totally silent about like el paso and in dayton ohio california it just went off the news after a couple days so we need to be defining what happened here and what's going on what are the ties here and so that way we can really sort of addressing that we need to start being more transparent about it on a global scale so we can start seeing our actual nation leaders working together rather than trying to tear each other apart that's what's going to start to make a change and power the people and really be able to take it back because what's going to international pressure you company join me from the top of it.

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