breaking news this hour an international missile defenses upgraded control systems . are all part of the measures russia is rolling out in syria in response to the downing of a military plane there last week moscow blames israel for the tragedy which refutes the claims. will preside over the security council i'm sure that's going to be the

most watched security council meeting ever a lot of good things can happen the anticipation around donald trump's speech at the u.n. general assembly on tuesday grows some hoping the president will use it as a chance to rebuild shot that international relations. sexual assault right in south africa now ranks among the world's highest with new cases opening old wounds on the program we hear from some of the victims. about to depression actually try to commit suicide this happened so many years ago. that's when i can get into you nothing would have been. libya's civil war flares up again resulting in more than one hundred deaths so if he discusses the ongoing conflict with one of the country's for my deputy prime minister. is going to shoot down just in support of internally and also from the outside. it's for the intervention have to start to stay. supporting these with issues.

turning into a busy monday for your worldwide headlines thanks for joining us this international . we do start this hour with a briefing given today by russia's defense minister who announced the introduction of new measures in response to the downing of a russian military plane in syria a week ago an incident moscow has blamed on israel. we're beginning to they're going to that's the we sure that the implementation of these measures will cool some hot heads and will keep them from ill judged moves that could threaten our servicemen and otherwise we'll be forced to react according to the situation at the time. so to the russians garrison will get a new s. three hundred defense system which can identify and destroy multiple targets and cover huge areas of airspace assyrian come on posts will also be equipped with

automatic control systems to easily identify any russian planes in the area and they're also will be additional radar jamming measures targeting anyone who is attacking syria well let's get some details on this and cross live now to beirut based award winning journalist martin j. joining us here on the program good to see you today martin are you surprised by this announcement from sort of after the incident of the of the plane going down a week ago many were predicting the syrian airspace would ultimately be closed your reaction. so no i'm not remotely surprised torrijos incurious it was inevitable what some point was you know who would cross a line in this special relationship to the house with russia and just go tiny bit too far strengthening the arrangement which until now was an incredibly sweet deal for the israelis i mean i still forget you know russia is of does have a special relationship has done for quite some time that's largely jutes institution but to break the deal that putin gave israel for so long which what was

incredible i mean it allowed israel to not only take strikes we do it with impunity across the country at all on the subjects that it believes what has weapons factories iranian military solutions and also assad regime targets you know but beyond that they rushed such did a great deal for israel not just with holding back on supplying syrians with sophisticated and yet crossed weapons like s. three hundred but also let's not forget three weeks three or four weeks ago. yes you know it was in most. him that he would actually also pull back iranian positions away from the southern border with israel although as part of a special deal now you know what israel john is a gargantuan i don't choose the the curtains will rise and the spotlight fall on trump taking center stage at one of this year's main spectacles the u.n. general assembly he's got

a couple major possibilities really to help illuminate for the american people what america's place in the world is president will preside over the security council and i am sure that's going to be the most watched security council meeting ever well trumps the actual debut at the u.n. g.a. last year provided a taste of what the u.s. president is capable of it is a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations rogue regimes represented in this body the array's government. caters nicolas maduro. the stabilizing regime criminal regime of bashar al assad regime rocket man rocket rocket and is on a suicide mission for him self united states is ready willing and eager to totally destroy north korea totally ready willing and able to. destroy north

korea did your portions of the world are in conflict and so in fact are going to hell his escapades divided many left few were indifferent and in the buildup to this he is trump looks ready to outdo himself once again he will head the un security council meeting on iran next week that's while he's a lawyer shared this so i stated to the iranian government you must be truly afraid of being overthrown i don't know when we're going to overthrow. for them it could be in a few days months a couple of years but it's going to happen they're going to be overthrown juggling two jobs it seems the president's the low end of freelance foreign policy advisor though at least he seems inspired by his boss's remarks threat posed by iran whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos all nations of conscience must work together to isolate giuliani's stun triggered some emergency

damage control protocols in washington how seriously should it take the iranians when they hear the president's close advisor rudy giuliani saying there's going to be regime change i look the united states is not looking to do a regime change in iran at all that as the u.s. continued to bully tehran over the nuclear issue but trump insists he's playing the good guy and means well i look forward to being at the united nations next week we're going to make a speech we're going to have many meetings a lot of good things can happen the u.n. though could take that with a pinch of salt for the international body good things meant the u.s. ditching unesco attempting to discredit the international criminal court and learning they're not so close when it comes to freedoms the united nations is not a friend of democracy it's not a friend to freedom it's not a friend even to the united states of america where as you know it has its home and

it surely is not a threat to israel. and it's not just the u.n. that wants to get on the same page as trump it's also russia china north korea about the rest of the world really and on tuesday the u.s. president will have he's best chance to explain that he's not just a gung ho diplomat. he's going to do good things before it is. i think you. a have worked in a few cases you know maybe in north korea is north korea to. soften up its stance on. its nuclear testing and its i.c.m. i.c.b.m. development. because it's so outrageous but if you do that too many times and you threaten you know to to break all the china in the shop and then you don't do it

and then after a while it starts to be seen as a bluff and he's probably getting to that point where most people see it as a bluff and respond to it accordingly instead of panic aine. and while the un sessions i may have provided a path to solving various conflicts in the past things are now radically different from perhaps just ten years ago some politicians have moved to social media and while not everyone is entirely happy about that. sometimes i get the impression that in the us many people are learning about white house decisions through twitter which is changing the way we work together.

many think that they can trump and that everything will be like it was before i think it's a mistake there are structural changes in transatlantic relations what we need to strategically adjust to in germany and in the rest of europe. a month long battle raging in the groups in the libyan capital has now resulted in one hundred fifteen deaths that's according to local health officials at the most recent fighting began in late august with two major groups facing off against each other both of them are aligned to the government in tripoli which is recognized by most western powers libya though also has

a separate rival administration based in the east of the country and over the past few weeks houses have been shelled in vehicles towards throughout a large area in the south west of tripoli all power supplies have also been shut down and one former deputy prime minister of libya told pti at the conflicts being driven from both inside and outside the country mostafa was the guest on our program you can watch it unfold later today but for now a short preview. i mean there is really war going on in the east there is a lot of clashes around tripoli as have been for the last two or three weeks so this environment is not really suitable for any election that can be done where it would be a fair and free election for the libyan people country need to be stabilized first to be able to allow for any elections in the future. it is

a very challenging situation because of the militias who they took over every part of the country i mean i mean they are of the east of the west the south they're everywhere and these militias they're getting support from internally and also from the outside clearly they for the foreign intervention have to stop to stop supporting these militias they should be insisting on on understand of the country because it is in the best interests of everybody. when there is a state of instability when there is a conditions like what we have today the nicholas and be able to will be able to build flows by the circular by this day and i'll think that there will be there even in the whole world in the coming years because nobody will be able to accept what they are teaching of what they will be willing to what they will find people here and there will be willing because of the spirit of for me other reasons to

commit such crimes and maybe even commit suicide than kill other people and some people who have nothing to do with with them. clearly that the vision was a success in the sense that brought down the regime but we as libyan people so far we we failed to move it from that to a real estate is there a democracy today there is no real democracy in the ideal sense so and so i think it is it is a struggle that we are going through as libyans i know it's a very painful yes to all of us and it is very painful to our people but clearly we still there is a hope that we will overcome all those challenges. especially if our international community.

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what politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to. let you go right to be cross with the wife of a four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city they. are going to join us today for this monday program let's watch top story now russia has a defense minister announcing the introduction of new measures in response to the donning of a russian military plane in syria. a week ago an incident that moscow has blamed on israel let's discuss this further now artie's model because they have joining us here in the studio on this monday good to see you today so russia ultimately upping the ante to protect its military in syria take us through what is it going to do

well the russian ministry of defense is today said that concluded its investigation into what happened and it says that the ill twenty aircraft the radio electronic surveillance aircraft was patrolling the skies over syria monitoring the situation in italy when full israeli f. sixteen jets turned up and one minute before the strike before the airstrike that they conducted they warn the russians that they were there and that they were going to conduct this strike which they should have done earlier there's a special communication channel. and they should have called the russians they should have warned them and the russians would have had time to get this a craft out of there as things stand they couldn't do it one minute is not enough to get out but these really pilots then apparently took cover behind the russian jet so in essence they set it up as a target and it was eventually shot down by syrian missile which was fired in

self-defense syria was being bombed at the time so russia has drawn conclusions and it is now taking major steps to make to make the area safe for its pilots the first step that it is taking and perhaps the biggest one is it is supplying syria with s. three hundred air defense systems and those are. magnitude more powerful with far greater reach than anything else syria has and this is going to make these israeli for a reason to syria which is happening at times weekly much more difficult than by the way those systems russia did not supplied to syria since two thousand and thirteen because. israel requested moscow to delay any such transfer. which. i want to underline that in twenty thirteen russia responded to israel's request to put on hold its supplies of the s three hundred to syria despite the

weaponry being ready for delivery and syrian military personnel having undergone training let's say the situation has changed and that is not our fault. you know the thing of course is that russia is shocked the israeli pilots would do this because russia has given israel a lot of support a lot of cooperation between the u.n. security council regards the israel's requests operation in the golan heights even launching a mission in the golan heights to identify and exude the remains of israeli soldiers killed decades and decades ago at the request of israel but the second step it is now taking is it is going to equip every single syrian air defense command node with automated fire control systems basically this will allow syria to amalgamate to unify all of that said defenses which is going to make it a lot a lot more efficient but primarily this is going to give them friend or foe

identification so russian aircraft will be identified as friendly's and who probably the won't be another such incident and the final point no less important though is that they're going to jam with radio electronic equipment they're going to jam satellite navigation systems military communications systems of any object that could be a missile it could be a cruise missile it could be an aircraft a jet that is attacking syria from the from the mediterranean the russian forces are mainly based in the mediterranean so again any israeli strike or any other nations strike from the direction of the mediterranean into syria is going to run into into problems and they're doing this. to as they said to cool people's heads and to avoid any more situations like this in which a russian hill twenty aircraft was shot down by a syrian missile and does vladimir putin said it may have been

a slew of chain of accidents incidents but. the pilots the russian military of the fences that day did this took cover behind the russian aircraft on purpose. thank you. sexual violence in south africa is running out of control that's according to some of the latest numbers the rape level in the country is now one of the highest in the world one of the latest cases a twenty three year old student from rhodes university committed suicide in august after being raped the girl was reportedly attacked in may and killed herself just days before she was meant to meet with investigators now this story provoked a wave of criticism not just of the rising level of rape cases but also increasing violence on campuses across the country and while the authorities say they are trying to deal with a problem many cases don't even make it into the spotlight. the

men in this country seem to think that because there's a patriarchy that means that they have the power for women and i think that's how that rape culture stopped. and he was the traditional to this. and i was with him for about eighteen months. before he may be. in his car one day next to the tennis courts about two weeks off of the incident trying to tell my mother and she dismissed me as a speaking rubbish. to creation actually.

starting to accept they. didn't destroy. i mean absolutely still to this day. couple of friends and i took a trip to cape town dance floor. i remember two shots with some of my friends and. that's what i remember until i woke up the next morning and there was. liquid that was not. there was one morning. and people have the right to say to me that i asked for it like who asked for something that is so painful and i think he also sees it like that when he said it nothing happened it was fine we had finally did nothing. bad and give you

permission to. maybe i shouldn't have been so. open friendly and nice i should've gone to the what authorities and spoken about this happened so many years ago. let's get it. to listing. they are in a sort of a class of they aren't the people from little class and i look at us that i actually really suffering these rapes and sexual abuse maybe onto a scene we also have a problem with but they say p.s. sometimes pleasing fall is leasing evidence we've got that happening in the hospitals as well and we have a lot of people leave london and our foundation to say the incident the. evidence was lost.

think we have a problem with men understanding. because the ottomans can assume that you belong to them for some odd reason no one should go through it. and that is our program for this hour here on r.t. international on this monday well thanks for joining us so far today my colleague on your farm manning the helm in about half an hour's time i hope you can join us then. what is a state of journalism well let's have a look at the new york times the paper catalogs what is called russia gave its

conclusion is astounding this and much much more on this edition of crossfire. you know world of big partisan movies lot for years and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz

a german company grunt and develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby. anything paul. she said is just. mimics a little mind victims have received no compensation and never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. it's twenty four hours before trump is expected to call out iran at the u.n. i'm actually returns here we're going on the ground coming up on the show as the bill gates foundation claims forty percent of the world's poorest will live in

nigeria and the p.r.c. by twenty fifty we speak to someone who could be nigeria's next president the former u.n. official professor kingsley will galu about paula.