Meet the Iraqi journalist famous for throwing his shoes at US President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad in 2008 while shouting, "This is a kiss goodbye from the Iraqi people, you dog!" The incident made the 39-year-old journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi a hero for millions of people who opposed the US occupation of Iraq. The reporter was jailed and tortured for "assaulting a foreign leader." Large protests erupted across Iraq and in other Arab countries, demanding his release. His sentence was reduced to one year, and he was eventually released after nine months in prison, although he had to go into exile. The shoe-throwing against Bush reflected the anger of Iraqis over the 2003 US-led invasion, which killed 1,200,000 million Iraqis, according to the highest estimates. In this interview, al-Zaidi explains his experience with the occupation. #IraqWar #BushShoeThrow #AntiImperialism ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJcRjyAtug

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a major offensive against the army’s last stronghold in Darfur, one of the largest regions in Sudan with a pre-war population of almost 10 million. According to Doctors Without Borders, more than 130 people died in a single hospital during the RSF siege in el-Fasher, and more than 1,000 people were injured. The Sudanese army announced that it had survived the offensive and confirmed the withdrawal of the RSF from West Darfur. Artillery fire between the army and the RSF has escalated, resulting in further civilian casualties. The UN warns that there is a growing risk of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Human Rights Watch reports widespread war crimes by the RSF against the ethnic Massalit and other non-Arab populations in and around El Geneina. According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, more than 14,790 people have been killed since the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war in 2023. #SudanWar #SudanGenocide #SudanNews Become a Patreon - Support our Work: https://www.patreon.com/redstreamnet Follow us: https://t.me/theredstream https://instagram.com/redstreamnet/ https://twitter.com/redstreamnet https://tiktok.com/@redstreamnet https://facebook.com/redstreamnet/ https://thered.stream/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aqzkiy32Y

Turkish police arrested several people at a press conference organized by the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Istanbul, according to local media. Dozens protested the government's response to the devastating earthquakes, saying "they didn't lift a finger." Footage shows Istanbul deputy Musa Piroglu of the HDP in front of police barricades accusing them of blocking protests. "The state [...] is massing the police on the ground to prevent a press statement." Piroglu wrote on Twitter. Anger towards President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is growing in Turkey, as more people accuse his government of blocking aid and rescue efforts on the ground and exploting the state of emergency to repress government critics. #TurkeyEarthquake #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #Istanbul #shorts #news #shortsfeed ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EPQLf1WDg4

Hundreds of thousands of French workers are coming out for the 10th national day of strike and protest this year, as the resistance to President Emmanuel Macron's hated and anti-democratic pension bill shows no sign of abating. Strikes today are hitting oil refineries, bin collections, rail transport, air travel and schools. Larger numbers of young people are expected to join the protests compared to last week as anger mounts over excessive police violence witnessed at previous days of national strike. At the same time, around 200 high schools have been blockaded by students, according to high school unions. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says 13,000 members of the security forces will be deployed across France including 5,500 in Paris. In between the national strike days, rolling-strikes by workers have ground large parts of the country to a halt. On Monday, the Louvre Museum in Paris was forced to close as workers walked out. Meanwhile, almost 16 per cent of fuel stations are suffering from fuel shortages as strikes continue at refineries, including at the country's largest, the TotalEnergies' Gonfreville-l'Orcher plant. Half of Paris is drowning under 8,000 tons of rubbish due to ongoing refuse workers' strikes and today, France's civil aviation authority has told airports across in several major cities to cancel 20 per cent of flights today and tomorrow. Macron forced the bill which will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 through the parliament without a vote using a constitutional amendment known as 49.3. He and his prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, took part in crisis talks on Monday with ministers and other senior politicians. The PM indicated that although the government was willing to open dialogue with unions on labor issues it wasn't going to scrap the pension reforms. However, Laurent Berger from the CFDT union said he would accept the offer of talks if the reforms were scrapped. #Paris #RetraiteReforme #Macron Follow us: https://tiktok.com/@redstreamnet https://instagram.com/redstreamnet/ https://twitter.com/redstreamnet https://facebook.com/redstreamnet/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZPjs6dK3I