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Here to drink water. So well point you eating food as received. Thanks for joining us and good evening to you this is r. T. International. Demanding to meet with the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power the us president claims the whistleblower as accounts of what was said was quote totally inaccurate in all reports of the merge pointing out that the u. S. Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form at around the same time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version that required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but the new form made another tick box option available meaning delayed information would be considered as well. Well the timing of the change is noteworthy the latest version of the document says it was revised in august thats the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent coincidence has led to some questions being raised its not clear to me when the people who are behind all this realized all my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the Inspector General process because its all hearsay is certain here information its funny to me at least here on the u. S. That the news outlets just immediately identified this person as a whistleblower but if you are a whistleblower blowing the whistle on waste fraud abuse and illegality in the Intelligence Services youre not a whistleblower youre a leaker and so i think thats really where the transformation is in. His of the smog as the air of taking a look at the sudden change of standards and the possible ramifications. Most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line out of principle it look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so because we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower in any individual who provides the right information to the right people thats now changed you no longer need to be a witness to be a whistleblower no longer need to have documents or evidence all you need is to have heard someone talk about wrongdoing thats all the matter if it was false or made up just far less than hey presto you are a whistleblower like the individual who spawned the trump ukraine scandal or the background of this of course is the whistleblower the filing report and state in the 1st sentence i dont know that sure stand you know this 1st told to me but i learned this from say and then multiple shots so i didnt have any and evidence and that means in our legal system here shit it never stands up in court he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials told them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mrs umansky with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service used by the Democratic National committee and examined by the u. S. Cyber Security Firm crowd strike. I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has. That whatever you can do its very important that you do it if thats possible the president also praised ukraines prosecutor general. And suggested that mr lansky might want to keep him in his position. I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and thats really unfair a lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble even all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed by partisan politics in the accuracy bias over the Intelligence Community Inspector Generals preliminary review identified some indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the complete in favor of a rival political candidate such evidence does not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible what do they do. You know american chargen we say did it change the goalposts they changed the rules how could these people possibly see that we get away with this whistleblowers now essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c. N. N. For example fun to listen to but as practice shows as taken with a dose of salt source tells n. B. C. News Law Enforcement and democratic sources telling c. N. N. That in a fired sources Anonymous Sources according to anonymous Washington Post source youre basing all these allegations of one or maybe 2 sources which syrian isis is not receiving reports its Washington Post New York Times wall street journal c. N. N. A. B. C. Elihu resources all because theyre hiding behind us and a commonality were seeing you know you dont want me to youre just going to attack sources these whistleblower a poor it was but now for the democrats finally a chance to bring down trump. But now that its showing cracks liberals are sprinting the plus the mover this whistleblower they claim can should and will be trusted you know why because hes one of them if we think of the whistleblower as a reporter the whistleblower talked to a lot of people who had firsthand knowledge or post stranger to this reporters a free free to be as politically biased as they want twist news to their political agenda and then call it truth all of us who have been involved in National Security and have reported on waste fraud abuse and illegality have been whistleblowers but because this whistleblower in particular fits the Mainstream Medias narrative of donald trump committing crimes he was automatically called it whistle blower he was automatically assumed to have the National Interest at heart and im not not really sure that thats the case the think it will but crucified snowden and manning for exposing global surveillance on all of us and war crimes that wed never have known about but here you have a biased complaint riddled with an accuracy s. Submitted by an individual who saw nothing but passed on what he was told the clear political spin to it. And these applauded cheered and. These injured woman what is the newborn the mob with all blow up guys i think this is effectively making the whistle procedure in america into effectively a sneak snitches charter where we have a situation where someone can just report some gossip and it will be taken at face value as bonafide whistle blowing i think this is highly dangerous in how whistleblowers are going to be perceived so rather than people coming forward and saying i have an eyewitness account i personally experience this wrongdoing this crime it needs to be investigated up to and including congressional hearings on both sudden were going to have rumor and gossip gossip fed into the political process and its going to poison that political process. Dozens of World Leaders have arrived in paris for the funeral of exact chirac the former french president who died last week served as the countrys head of state for 12 years correspond charlotte dubiously reports from paris. Well a national day of mourning has been declared in france here to remember all the the former president Jacques Chirac who died last week at the age of 86 the Funeral Service took place behind me at a church of sorts who peace well World Leaders including president putin of russia came to pay their final respects to a man whose political career spanned some 40 years going from being elected as an m. P. In the National Assembly all the way to being mare of paris to being Prime Minister a 2nd time twice to of course being frances president a presidency he held for 2 terms darting back in 1995 he was considered to be a political comedian somebody who stuck to his guns and perhaps is best known internationally for the fact back in 2003 he refused to let part of france participate in the iraq invasion that was led by the us in the you. Ok famously of course going to the u. N. Security council and all queuing why that invasion shouldnt take place lets have a look back now at some of the highlights of his political career. The military operations have just started in iraq friends regresses action taken without the approval of the united nations. Houses burning down and we blind to it. Mutilated and overexploited can no longer regenerate and we refuse to admit it or do you want me to get back to my my you never go back to god. Let them go these dark hours for the solo history and theyre an insult to our past and now traditions. The funeral took place with a full military onus on some of those who pay their tributes last week when we heard the news egyptian rocket died came here today including president putin of russia he described him as being a man who was wise and far sighted a man who was a great friend to russia we know that the 2 had a fantastic personal relationship in fact chirac when he was at the nato summit in latvia back in 2006 on the sidelines of that summit invited president putin to come and spend his 70 full birthday with him and even he would it president putin one of frances highest honors for foreigners this is the growing classically. So a sense of 2 men who really respect each other in fact president putin once said that she was probably one of the best World Leaders that he knew of one of the ones that he most respected we also heard tributes from other World Leaders over the last few days including anger merkel he said that he was a great partner when it came to germany and also herself and we heard from president marc cohn who said he was a great frenchman a man who embodied what it really was to be french we were also speaking to some of the crowds of people. I came to see this funeral to pay their final respects and they told us that Jacques Chirac was a great leader and that it was important to come and say one final goodbye. They felt he was a true frenchman there you go what i loved about human after doing it all the girls it was structured back for me from friends. And gave me a place he was one of the best president s thats what i think he did many things for france including many things that people dont know about in the social sphere and things like that so our systems are both that was his character that was his character but all the same not everyone liked him though many in my family were fond of him its nice to know that. He was we heard during the service a man or a head of his time a man who was fiercely proud to be french thousands of people have paid homage and respect as Jacques Chirac now makes his final journey to his resting place in more than us here in paris. The university of edinburgh has found itself in the firing line after rolling out the red carpet for a socalled anti racism conference that has banned white people from asking questions in a q. And i will therefore not begin the microphone to by people during the q. Nace not because we dont think people have anything to offer to the discussion but because we want to amplify the voices of people of color if yo white person with a question please share it with a member of the committee always speakers after the panel discussion. Well the event was organized by a group called the resisting whiteness collective the organizers say that their aim is to raise awareness about the importance of anti racist actions in the u. K. Host of the event however created 2 separate rooms called safe spaces for those who could feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable but with one of them barring white people from entering and bring university expressed concern over certain aspects prior to the event including the safe rooms the University Officials claiming that the organizers had started to review that particular point but no changes if any made have been published on the official event page all of that provoked a strong reaction on the internet. This sort of stupidity by Edinburgh University actually fuels racism if the years who came up with this idea lived in the real world theyd know inclusive ety not up a tide is whats needed and where University Hosts racists invent banning polish people from talking the aim of the event is to embrace them presumably by actively being racist they have come full circle in an effort to become normal racists theyve become racist talk about overcompensating briggss Alliance London Assembly Member david gergen believes that this event hasnt done anyone any favors. Its blatant racism theres no such thing as reverse racism racism is excluding people because of the color of their skin and this does that whereas before weve had the kind of racism that excludes people and discriminates against people because theyre black this blatantly discriminates against people because theyre white and this doesnt do any good for anybody whether theyre white or black or brown and this kind of thing just simply should not be happening im for giving a platform for for any group you know whatever anyone wants to say but thats the whole problem with this event is that theyre not allowing a platform for people who are white on the basis of their color of their skin if someone decided to put on an event called resisting blackness can you imagine the outrage which we would have had from the same kind of people who are putting on this events are there everyone would be up in arms from people on the extremes of the political spectrum and all of the liberal if you like elites in the media would be be writing about it condemning it and we wouldnt hear the end of it for days if not weeks so that just goes to show the kind of hypocrisy. Ok hand gesture has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the swastika when it is Antidefamation League based on this issue and on the signs adoption by white supremacists. Even as extremists continue to use symbols that maybe years or decades old they regularly create new symbols means and slogan sticks to press their hateful sentiments we believe Law Enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st a warning sign to the presence of haters in the community or school. The ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an online prank expose but apparently white supremacist liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christchurch terrorist during a Court Appearance in d. L. Says cases like that warrant inclusion on the list of hate symbols adding that context is always important. Last year a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out shes Mexican American and a descendant of Holocaust Survivors we put the issue of the debate. I think its pretty ridiculous to label a thing like oh bull or the ok symbol as a symbol of White Supremacy i feel like race is do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist Drinking Water as received in breathing air is received its just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were a very long time with or a soused hateful subversive groups the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not and you know the main part of it is like. Well its a far its far right movement supporting you know again far right ideologies that are very well known in this country to be you know florists and but my point is you know is vast to get for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b. C. And you know. People in germany its ok to put it on a on a red flag and now it was there a symbol it was an invert the swastika and that became the symbol of nazism and ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. Device i phone you can find it ok so right now when you search for the new moji there is the equivalent to ok ok it is being used ok for a very loans and it wasnt a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet that it became some nose because the Mainstream Media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of trolling campaign was to trick the Mainstream Media into doing it and of course now we hear that the a. D. L. Is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or or. Or you know we communicate what they are to specifically doing is trying to inform you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used. As actually inside violence and crime and you know fundamentalists political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy but were talking about a symbol that started it as something that was not necessarily what it is today the problem is that somewhere along the line that symbol that cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sino with a longing for though if. Its not its really not what somebody told me how do you know it hasnt. Is not some kind of a symbol like i see it the blood game uses day im sure to have been plenty of actual killings they happen every single day and theyve been going on for a very loans ounces and 1970 s. When they came out but for some reason thats not been seen as a symbol you can have it right now in your phone as an emoji for the ok symbol in smartphones and all of it have come around long after the street gangs have originated so obviously we didnt think about this thing that existed in a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now a lot was saying because the nature of man is going to hold because of the trolling campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is the n. S. A. Thing if people want to use it for whatever you want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions do. You like. Versus the ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. An indian you say the whole can ensure that only stock. In somalia a u. S. Military base. Has been attacked by the local Islamic Extremist Group alshabaab that claims loyalty to al qaeda and is listed as a terror group in the u. S. And u. K. European military convoys also being attacked although so far no ones claimed responsibility for that somalia has been wracked by civil war for decades to significant parts of the country but claiming self autonomy u. S. Armed forces have been fighting al shabaab since 2007. Afrikaans says it killed 10 militants following the recent attack on the us space journalist and African Affairs specialist johnson believes that airstrikes will only worsen the crisis one thing is clear is that our ship out is clearly not a force d thats going away they are all jihadists the belong to somalia itself it shows that we would have to start looking beyond bombs beyond guns beyond bullets and something and how if at all there is an opportunity for negotiating with this group because now weve shown over time that the military capabilities that they have the ability to go on the ground. Its going to continue. The United States and the African Union on likely to be able to dislodge them in the short or medium term. A young russian actor he was released on bail following a public outcry has received more good news in a moscow court ruled that 3 and a half year jail sentence for violence at a protest should be softened to a one year suspended sentence with more details is really bitter end. Hobbles steen of was put on trial for allegedly attacking a Law Enforcement official and the reason why this case got so much attention is it had so many people including celebrities talking about this because it was almost evident and power was saying that from the very beginning that he didnt even take part in the protests and just happened to be in that area which is by the way absolutely public where the protesters though were trying to gather now went to day 23 year old came out of the hearing room once again he said that he is completely innocent and the fact that his 3 and a half year sentence was changed to a one year long suspended sentence is not enough for the man. We disagree with the Court Decision will appeal it in any case i didnt commit any crime didnt commit any wrongdoing thats. The video does appear to show that the man wasnt trying to attack anyone and as ive said really just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time now whats important here was that the court initially wasnt willing to consider this video material then they changed their mind and there you have the result. Controversial canadian psychologist is known for his strong views of Political Correctness has been making more headlines after screenings of a documentary about him pulled from several cinemas the. But you said your peers and your the people that are going to produce a canadian psychology professor is somebody people love that more learn to hate. And. Are you badly watched the professor has Political Correctness video i was just so disappointed. Jordan peterson is a clinical psychologist and a University Professor whos risen to fame in recent years 5 Public Interest and debate over his ideas be dissin challenges Political Correctness with his views on masculinity and feminism as well as gender ethnicity and identity politics could be a man born in a womans body and thats biological but if youre a woman born in a womans body that socially constructed like really thats to be an argument do you think a trans woman is a woman. No you overwhelming proportion of people who are in prisons are male now do you want to equalize that just out of curiosity what about bricklayers there are 99 percent male and and when men work longer hours they work more dangerous jobs theyre more likely to move or peterson has lots of firms he also attracts plenty of criticism earlier this year Cambridge University council that invitation for him to speak there are other concerns his views violated their quote inclusive environment in new zealand his book was pulled from the shelves after a shooting at a mosque in christchurch griffin has been speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary. Movie as far as i understand is about Jordan Peterson and the journey to where hes now and through his ideas what is about it that its a wrong to see it or scrapping earlier great plans to show it. Well they had agreed to a week long run of the film but there were some staff complaints and that put them in a difficult position so they decided to cancel those plans and of course you know there are some things that people really disagree with in terms of ledger in peterson has said sell people disagree with the idea of giving him a platform although making a film about him i dont think its the same thing when they were all sorts of reasons we were getting in the instance of the cancellation of the staff complaints as far as we know they hadnt seen the film the people that had agreed to show the film initially they had seen it it really is a shame that that happens our film is and isnt like a complete celebration of everything about jordan i mean there are parts of parts of it that are critical its not a fluff piece and there are the voices of the people that have disagreed with him in public that are in the film so we also hold space for those voices in the film so you have all of the people that are talking about him and its this kind of like a left and right culture war you know you have people on the right that kind of see him as in the side but also see him as kind of like a Political Tool the kind of problem there are there are generally when you have people on the left like and t. V. And activists of that nature and they they think hes the devil and they want to bring him down and they want to destroy its reputation what people usually do is that they listen to journalists that theyre used to and those journalists usually only read other journals that think just like them so it is weird little in this specific context is that its a liberal bubble where they kept they tell each other the same stories and it gets they gets compounded in compounded when it gets pretty different from reality as far as i understand Jordan Peterson himself was not too much into ferreting to your words very open and he respected the process he you know was never really you know trying to. To interfere with that you know anyway what was that story that these journalists that you mentioned kept saying like presenting Jordan Peterson as someone dangerous to some playing well you know their ideas that hes. Leading the all right or you know motivating instill or that he is really dangerous ideas that hes the custodian of the patriarchy is the New York Times article that stated so it closes peoples minds to a nuanced film about him which is what our film is and its a film that is as was mentioned is for friends but also for people who are really something in it for everyone to really paint a complex picture of what we witnessed throughout these 3 and a half years we have approached the cult and cinema in trying to abound this decision the council the screening of the film wait away that response. Hopefully youll be awaiting god like bullets and coming all white and often a. Low end welcome to cross talk where offerings are considered im Peter Lavelle from calls for trumps in