Announces it will withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan and iraq before, President Donald Trump leaves office. In january u. S. , Senate Passes an act that could be seen as that could see huge fines or even jail for those involved in sports doping. But the World Antidoping Agency warns it excludes american sport while allowing International Prosecutors to go ahead and avoidable hostilities. Russian president Vladimir Putin says the bloodshed between armenia and azerbaijan could have been halted weeks ago before the conflict in the government or a box had reached the breaking point. I managed to convince president aliyev that it was possible to stop the hostilities. But he simply khatri condition was the return of refugees, including to sue, show, then unexpectedly for me, the position of romanian pawn. This was formulated in such a way that it was on the acceptable for them any time of the day, anywhere in the World Broadcasting live from moscow, its r t international. Im down on quarter with you here in the studio. Welcome to the program. We begin with the french capital, where crowds have gathered in paris to push back against a draft law designed to protect the identities of Police Officers. R t. Charlotte dubinsky has been in the center of the action. Well, its turning into an unwieldy night here in paris as the assembly, the National Assembly debates that Global Security law that draw law, that includes an element that could criminalize the publishing of images of offices that could lead to them being identified. There are protests here on the street, which is being moved at the moment by the police, a huge security presence out here in paris to see things. And in the last half an hour away, it has really kicked off here. It looks very calm at the moment, believe me, the last half an hour we have seen police battening and whacking protesters trying to move them from the streets behind us. You can see that there is a row of Police Vehicles here that cannon as well. Thats being used tonight as has ample tear gas. One person told me that they were being forced down into the metro, which is just behind me, where you might be able to see that there are huge a number of Police Officers around it. They said they were being force inside there, the tear gas being left off inside there and that they were being forced down to be spic seated. Well of course we go down into the metro. But the rest of the scenes as theyve been described by some of the protesters to no, ive seen women having their hay young and being used to be grabbed by the head to be thrown to the floor by Police Officers. If you know that medics being hit by police pattons, and in fact, as we were just at the metro station booming some of the violence against the protesters, we ourselves, who fools simply chucked out by the police, my cameraman, who robbed by offices while he was filming while we were trying to do an interview and ejected from not crack a car. Ok, that is exactly why journalists unions n. G. O. S in the un have to cried part of this law as being something that could destabilize who have terrible democratic consequences in thats because images over the police are protests, have been used time and time again. Shown the violence thats been used and that has been used to pursue cool, says against Police Offices to bring cases to the Police Unions to the authorities here in to make sure the people of where of that this law would essentially stop that. Thats what you say, they say that it is censorship. However, the government says this rumor is needed to protect Police Officers from the pilots. Because while im talking about the police hating protesters trying to move them around, we have also seen violence towards the police. The same thing, weve seen bottles thrown into woods and fires being lit. We have seen destruction here on the streets of paris bus shelters being smashed in. So there is violence on both sides and the government says this is needed to protect the police. Police unions say it doesnt go far enough and if it is a choice between freedom of the press and liberty, when it comes to showing these images to the security of their offices, they will side with the security of their offices every time. Now anybody who would be found guilty about if this were passed would find themselves one year behind jail, with a fine of footie 5000 year is that is the severe punishment. But let you tell me this. A severe punishment is being on the front lines in an evening like this when the tensions are so high. And there is that attack from the police. Possibly because theyre also afraid over the protestors. But the reality is it is been a brutal like with violence from both sides. But food way we have stated that violence has been mainly coming from the police to wards protesters who for the most part we havent witnessed, didnt doing anything well deserve some of the violence. Ive said this evening political analyst nicola markovitch believes. d Police Officers today should expect to be captured on camera because that is something going on with reorganization of the French Police and Law Enforcement agencies. Tip of the iceberg that were talking about today, and its getting everybody really nervous is the fact that you would not be able to morrow to assume a policeman. And i think its important to state that people are not showing policemen today, or Law Enforcement agents who are law abiding, who are respecting the law, who are just doing their job in trying to make sure that demonstrations are going as normal. But people are feeling today because weve seen in france and these past years, extreme violence and lot of demonstrators, their only defense is to the policeman showing that this is my security, my insurance, that you wont beat me up. If you do, im going to make sure that your face is on is an internet. I think it is extremely important. d that as people are in the streets that people be able to film. This is extremely important. Thats part of the job Police Officer 2020. Thats the way it is. If you dont want to be filmed or become a Police Officer, i think this is something which is, which is important. The u. S. Has announced the withdrawal of 500 troops from iraq and thousands from afghanistan that is set to take place before the incumbent. President donald Trump Leaves Office arties new york correspondent, caleb breaks it all down for us. The pentagon has announced that there will be a withdrawal of some u. S. Troops from iraq and afghanistan. Both countries will have only roughly 2500. 00 troops. The withdrawal will take place between now and mid january. This is what weve heard. I celebrate this day as we continue the president s consistent progress in completing the mission we began nearly 2 decades ago. Folks will recall that recently donald trump removed a number of top pentagon officials, including u. S. Secretary of defense, mark asper. Now donald trump is essentially fulfilling one of his campaign promises, at least partially. Donald trump did promise that he would end the forever wars in the u. S. Military involvement overseas. And it appears that this withdrawal of some u. S. Troops from iraq and afghanistan is quite popular with the u. S. Public polls show the u. S. Public favors drawing down the u. S. Military presence. However, the chief of nato was certainly not thrilled with Donald Trumps decision to take a listen. We went into afghanistan together, and when the time is right, we should leave together in a coordinated and orderly way. Now the question remains, what will happen if Joe Biden Takes Office right now . The u. S. Election is still contested. However, most Media Outlets do consider joe biden, to be the president elect. Now. Joe biden did speak somewhat of ending forever wars and drawing back u. S. Military interventions overseas. However, he did emphasize that he does not feel the usa should withdraw troops from afghanistan. Joe biden was very outspoken in advocating a continued u. S. Military presence in afghanistan. Here is one of the statements he made about why he feels the United States should continue to hold a presence there. This is joe biden. History is going to judge us very harshly. I believe if we allow the hope of a liberated afghanistan to evaporate, because we are fearful of the phrase nation building, or we do know, stay the course. Not only was joe biden, a supporter of u. S. Military intervention in afghanistan, he was also a supporter of the u. S. Invasion of iraq and even drafted the legislation that made the u. S. Invasion of iraq happen. Now he has named susan rice as his potential secretary of state. She is known to advocate u. S. Military interventions. She served in the obama administration, and he has also selected michelle floor in a, as his secretary of defense, michelle flournoy, a was an outspoken advocate of expanding u. S. Military presence in libya and in syria. So it appears that the Biden Administration will be more in favor of u. S. Military interventionism. Now the u. S. Troops in iraq and afghanistan are expected to be withdrawn by mid january when a potential bided ministration would take office. So the question remains, would joe biden then send more troops in response to taking office . Would he undo this move by donald trump . That is not exactly clear. However, donald trump does seem like he intends to draw down the u. S. Military presence in both countries before he leaves office. Trump is doing this for political reasons and trying to fulfill a campaign promise. Hes not told them all. You also got to keep in mind, he may substitute u. S. Troops for private military contractors. The whole notion is for him to have all the troops next may. But then by then you may be into a Biden Administration, and the troop levels could go back up again. Really depends upon commitments by the taliban and what have you and youve got to consider that a biden ministration given. The lead in neoconservatives may be jumping on board. His Administration May pursue efforts to keep troops there. And even Establishment Republicans are calling for troops to remain in afghanistan and probably even in iraq a new bill going through the u. S. Has been described as a power grab by american helping authorities by the World Antidoping Agency. This legislation could allow the United States to create liability outside of its jurisdiction. Earlier. My colleague Andrew Farmer spoke with arties Sports Correspondent alex a year of ski about concerns over the rod shank of anti doping act. Well, the biggest concern is that this new act which is called the russian named after a russian whistleblower, basically applies to international culprits, but not the domestic ones in the u. S. Now theyre watching entails up to a 1000000 dollar fine or even 10 years in prison for not the athletes themselves, but the entourage of an athlete or even a government which is accused or suspected of adopting scheme. But the original draft of that bill included us professional sports and us college sports, but by the time it reached the senate, miraculously this part of the bill disappeared somewhere. So now basically it excludes all the majority of us professional sport. Now this is one of the things that the World Antidoping Agency expressed their concerns about. Among other things, including, you know, how come the u. S. Is trying to make itself into the world. Antidoping police. Lets have a listen in order along with a number of governments and sports arenas, issues as legitimate concerns about the roads and of act. In particular, it may lead to overlapping laws in different jurisdictions that will compromise having a single set of rules for all athletes around the world. Water, which is also to understand where this legislation excludes vast areas of us sport. In particular, the professional leagues and all college sports. If its not good enough for american sports, why is it fine for the rest of the world . Now the main mastermind of this new bill is traver steiger, the head of the u. S. Antidoping agency, and its not the 1st time that tiger was, has been involved in some sort of rift between the usada and the World Antidoping Agency. There have been cases where the u. S. Hinted through tiger that they would even pull funding from water if it refused to play along. So basically, the only thing remaining for this bill to become law is trump signature, and no one doubts. This will happen. So brace ourselves for more drama in this again, just to remind us to alexey why it is called the act. Now obviously this relates to go to church and of who exploded the world of sports in 2016, when he made explosive allegations against russia, against the russian government that it was allegedly involved in some sort of doping scheme hiding in the United States. There are rumors that he even changed his appearance that he had a Plastic Surgery or Something Like that. But the funny thing is there is a job going about now that the 1st person prosecute persecuted under this new act should be watching himself. Since he claims that he was part of the state conspiracy and you know, going back, this is basically a criminal offense. Now if this bill becomes law, but obviously this is named after him. I mean, the irony there is the sports rely on whistleblowers. Dont know, but my exactly will discourage them from coming forward in case they get committee prosecuted. And i was rushed, then reacted to this bill. There has been a reaction from russia through the kremlin spokesperson emitted to scald who called, this kind of move unacceptable. I believe we can listen to that. Critics q. , which we are extremely critical of any attempt by the United States to extend its jurisdiction to other countries. Such cross border practice isnt acceptable. We disagree with that, and of course this can cause nothing but concern. Its not only just on paper looks like a unilateral decision to govern the antidoping processes in the world, which is why those certainly unhappy but you mention it right. The fact that whistleblowers will now be afraid of being persecuted. This basically hampers the whole process of whistle blowing. If this bill becomes law, word from sports psychology and sociology expert, Alice Cashmore who thinks the legislation wont be effective in fighting doping. The irony of this, the absolute paradox of the center of it is that its designed to try to control doping in the world and it will do nothing of the sort. In fact, it will probably have the opposite of thing because anybody who does decide to want to, to grass up in other words, to spill the beans, to inform, in other words on doping that they suspect is going on, well, immediately be held complicit in the action because they have a say, how did you know about this . Did you ever do anything to contribute towards the doping offense . And if you did, maybe will now be as well. So it will actually intimidate potential. Whistleblowers certainly not encourage them because theres no witness protection program. And so really, it appears to be the United States positioning itself as the worlds antidoping policeman and a group with water. But i think that they will have something very strong to say about this because really straining on their toes. Lets face it. Now, the news russias president has offered a behind the scenes look into the ongoing negotiations to end the nagornokarabakh conflict. Vladimir putin explained that there was a chance the peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan could have been reached weeks ago, but that one of the 2 warring nations was rather reluctant to give up. Earlier. My colleague Saskia Taylor discussed this with ortiz, maria putin spoke to journalists about the golden thread about for more than 40 minutes. And he said the bloody war that lasted 6 weeks and took so many lives and so much devastation and destruction could have been ended earlier. Not on october 19th and 20th, i had a series of phone conversations with president aliyev and Prime Minister passion. At that time, the armed forces of azerbaijan had regained control over an insignificant southern part of care about it. In general, i managed to convince president aliyev that it was possible to stop the hostilities, but hes obligatory condition. Was the return of refugees including to shusha. Then unexpectedly, for me, the position of armenian partners was formulated in such a way that it was unacceptable for them that the Prime Minister told me back then. No, we cannot agree to this. We will fight. Therefore, accusations against him, of some kind of betrayal have no basis that this is brokered by moscow brought overseas to the patient as if by chance that sparked we were violent protests in the media. You know, when people see it in the parliament and we say many of them calling the countrys Prime Minister a traitor speaking about that one report and said that it is groundless. Because mr. Pasha and based his decision to sign this peace deal according to the situation, a critical situation on the ground and also Vladimir Putin stress that in this situation, there are many in societies who think about gettin