anything. you know she said is just. an exhibit of mine victims who have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that. not only want the money i want the revenge. the headlines an arty sophisticated air defense and control systems as well as radar jamming that's russia's response after its military plane was downed over syria last week moscow says the blame lies with israel which denies responsibility . president presided 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 also to come anticipation grows over donald trump's

speech at the u.n. general assembly on tuesday but some hoping the president will use it to rebuild shattered international relations and at the rate of sexual assaults in south africa and iraq some of the world's highest with new cases opening old wounds we hear from some of the victims. to depression actually try to commit suicide this happened so many years ago. but i can get into you nothing would have been done. four pm here in moscow you're watching international now our top story this hour russia's defense minister has announced a range of moves to secure syrian airspace and protect russia's aircraft operating there the new measures introduced is a briefing on monday a week after a russian military plane was downed over syria an incident moscow has blamed on his

right. we're beginning to get it out so then that we sure that the implementation of these measures will cool some hot heads and will keep them from judge moves that could threaten our servicemen otherwise we'll be forced to react according to the situation at the time. this is going to change things perhaps radically but oscar was clear it's pilot safety is the overwhelming concern and overshadows everything else firstly russia will now supply syria with s. three hundred air defense systems within two weeks and that indeed of itself is huge the systems are an order of magnitude more powerful with far greater reach than anything syria had before this is going to make any israeli bombing foray into syria much more problematic let's not forget russia held off and doing this for

years at israel's request but you're coming in i want to underline that in twenty thirteen russia responded to israel's request to put on hold its allies of the ancillary hundreds of syria that's despite the weaponry being ready for delivery and syrian military personnel having undergone training but the situation has changed and that is not our fault. secondly syrian air defense command centers will now be equipped with automated fire control systems which means they'll be able to unify their entire country's air defense network fire faster more accurately and above all else these systems come with a friend or foe identification subsystem hopefully preventing any more friendly fire incidents thirty any object be it a missile or a jet attacking syria from the mediterranean will be jammed its satellite navigation systems radar military communications which moscow hopes will call her.

hotheads and help avoid another incident like this syrian president assad has been made aware these steps him in blood near putin had a phone conversation in the russian leader said he's ready to intensify efforts to improve the situation and to restore syria's sovereignty putin's spokesperson also shrestha these steps are not targeted at any specific country but rather wholly and entirely about ensuring the safety and security of russian pilots just to recap russian il twenty aircraft was patrolling on syria's coast when four israeli f. sixteen jets showed up they warned the russians of what they were doing just one minute before they launched their strike in syria one minute not enough time to get clear of the area and as icing on the cake they then took cover conclude that the

russian military behind this twenty aircraft setting it up as a target the syrian air defense missiles purposefully so as the russian said certain steps are now having to be taken the situation in syria has changed again and not because of moscow's actions. but i guess the have reports now let's discuss this further now on cross live to peter forty seven the british ambassador to syria and you very welcome pater thursley what's your reaction then to this deployment suppose it shouldn't come as any surprise. to the world. and the. terror and. possible future incidents like this what. israel. three hundred. thirty going

constrain. is in the air for a possible attack on syria going to constrain them very very considerably. russia has been holding off on the delivery since twenty thirty forty eight why to give israel some incentive not to go too far in attacking syria but in the last two years israel has launched more than one hundred air attack on syria recently they have become more reckless. even breaking the taboo. attacking targets in the vicinity of russian the cities and they said they're true to the tragedy of the downing of the player. off to the north we are now that we have

no instead to carry on being now it's israel. we get nothing out of it so we will supply syria with these weapons which are now long overdue and how do you think israel then will react to this latest development given the fact it's always been against the point of s. three hundred in syria is there anything it can do. probably not israel will last. minute have already blustering to the fact that this train do not thing that we will with the israeli they will continue to attack you really don't know and targets in syria they will be under pressure to show that they can and they will do that. if loose a curation they become very tense because the israelis now have to show that

they have terrorists power not a great new s three hundred spoke. russian spokesman said the head should now be encouraged i don't think the military people in israel or not the political their political superiors but the military people will be urging caution and i think that absorb this new and what israel would reality and say it's an awkward reality presumably that's the case thing for america or for france for example that sloan's michel missile strikes in syria i mean they must be reassessing how they perhaps act in syria also. absolutely the only thing great for the significance of this development is that in relation to possible for the west attacks on through

a. couple of weeks ago the western powers that are prone to put in them and their growth were. actively preparing for very drastic strikes against the strike on through go on that some or all of them not even necessarily all the. american spokesmen with evolute barrel bombs or youth we're going to spot a problem. but all the american french and the british have been given cause school saw not only that. the o.p.'s three hundred s. but also the soils. will not be in a hurry rush or do a demonstration of its capacity to go on with the missiles ok peter look we're going to have to leave it there but it was nice to talk to you that's peter ford

former u.k. ambassador to syria and bahrain or say thank you. ok let's look at other news now because world leaders and top diplomats are descending on new york for the seventy third u.n. general assembly with the main session starting on tuesday the general debate as the most notable sessions known is seen as less of a debate they are more of a chance to make a keynote speech and it does seem that donald trump is playing the headliner role or say art is you go if you die then let's it what we can expect the. in the global political circus trump has taken it upon himself to be the greatest showman or jest depending on what side of the fence you're on and on tuesday 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 has 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 trickle 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 arabian government. caters nicolas maduro dictatorship and destabilising regime criminal regime of bashar al assad regime rocket man rocket rocket. is on a suicide mission for himself united states is ready willing and able to totally destroy north korea totally ready willing and able to. destroy north korea your portions of the world are in conflict and some 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 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 is 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 fees best chance to explain that he's not just a gung ho diplomat. he's going to do good things before it is catastrophic. i think is. the have worked in a few cases you know maybe in north korea. it got 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. 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 panicking. well despite the importance of the u.n. leaders are increasingly using other methods to get their message across politicians are resorting as you probably know to at social media to make their point more often although not everybody is best placed. sometimes they get the impression that in the u.s. many people are learning about white house decisions first through twitter just changing the way we work together. and.

many think that they can wait sounds trump and it off to him everything will be like it was before i think that's his mistake there are structural changes in transatlantic relations that's what we need to strategically adjust to in germany and in the rest of europe. when. you're watching our international have more news for you and take.

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welcome back sexual violence is a growing problem in south africa according to new estimates for the number of rapes in the country now one of the highest in the world and one of the latest cases a twenty three year old student at rhodes university committed suicide after being raped the girl was reportedly attacked back in may but killed herself last month just days before she was meant to meet with investigators well her story did prove it has provoked a wave of anger not just at the rising number of rape cases but also increasing violence on campuses across the country while authorities do say they are trying to deal with the problem many instances still not being properly addressed. and the men in this country seem to think that because this is a patriarchy that means that they have the power of a woman and i think that's how that rape culture starts.

he was an international tennis player. and i was with him for about eighteen months . before he be. called one day except the tennis courts about two weeks off to the incident try to tell my mom about. dismissed me as a speaking rubbish. creation actually. starting to accept. destroyed. i mean still to this day.

friends and i took a trip to cape town to the dance floor. i remember two shots with some of my friends and. that's what i remember. i walk 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 say it nothing happens. it was fine we had fun we did nothing. bad and give you permission to trash me. maybe i shouldn't have been so. open friendly and nice i

should've gone to the authorities and spoken about this happened so many years ago . let's get in. to listing. the class of the and the people from the class and i look at us that i actually believe the suffering these rapes and the sexual abuse may be onto a scene we also have a problem with but it is a p.s. in time seizing fouls leasing evidence we've got that happening in the hospitals as well and a lot of people leave london and our foundation heard him say the movement's vows.

i think we have a problem with men understanding no. because the automatically assume that if you don't there for some odd reason no one should go through something that. international just twenty past four here moscow now what happens if you are a mainstream media star and you make disastrous calls from one of the most appalling tragedies of the twenty first century and explains what a great deal. back in two thousand and three when the usa invaded iraq mainstream media dropped the ball there were no weapons of mass destruction and the us troops weren't greeted as glorious liberators either now fifteen years later the same journalist that had us believing back then are at the same thing now take bill kristol editor of the weekly standard back in two thousand and three he had us

convinced that saddam hussein was on the verge of using his w m d's against the world no one questions for the more the basic facts about saddam hussein's weapons programs now he was very wrong but that did not stop his career not by a long shot in fact he's still the editor of the weekly standard which ironically has been named a fact checker by facebook he comes on television all the time promoting u.s. military interventions just like the old days what do you do when a google dictator worth a fight to do what you do is he's in his he's in his departure and i think we could do much more to do that if we don't just do a pinprick attack and i think the spinster became concerned in the concern of all of us hawks but a serious attack now another voice in the media chorus backing the u.s. military intervention against saddam hussein was judith miller judith miller writing for the new york times had us convinced that saddam hussein was trying to make an atomic bomb it is the rocks pursuit of nuclear weapons however that is at the top of the administration's list of worries and forms

a key part of its case for a minute to come pain to overthrow mr hussein in two thousand and fifteen she admitted that she was wrong about her w m d stories now judith miller is on fox news she's become a full member of the council on foreign relations and she is treated as credible on mainstream media when she talks about chemical weapons in syria but point of this action which is to bring you were the red line weekend that used chemical weapons which bashar assad and russia aided by russia and iran have begun to use within we think the impunity. and then there's xan hannity the prime time fox personality these are his words back in two thousand and three this madman has killed a million and a half people and gas children he has six he does it again just like many of his colleagues sean hannity was wrong about weapons of mass destruction in iraq but it hasn't stopped his career now he's calling for regime change again this time in

iran for me ask you and you have helped organize what's happening today you are in touch with them every day. how do you win a revolution without weapons and then there was phil donahue he was the lone voice on n.b.c. opposing the war he lost his show he was fired now we have a memo explaining why he would be a difficult public face for n.b.c. in a time of war he seems to delight some presenting guests who are anti war and see bush and skeptical of the administration's motives so we're learning from our mistakes right wrong we've still got mainstream media in the united states pushing unproven versions of events without firming up the facts that's ok it has no impact on the careers of journalists who push a popular version of events if you just look at the way and as n.b.c. c.n.n. and fox cover the world affairs and specifically events around countries you can

see that the decision was intentional because of the way they frame the coverage no opposing voices are permitted when it comes to. the u.s. foreign policy and it's the agenda of the national security what makes this so dangerous is that american news consumers believe that they're consuming news from a free media from private media channels that this isn't state media but when private corporate media channels so let this green with former intelligence and military officials neoconservatives and say here's who are connected to every regime change operation in the last decade and a half is essentially national security state t.v. and vance in a much more insidious way and state t.v. could. and that brings up to date for the saddam forget there we got plenty of stories for you to you at our website you can find that and also to.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of the big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. when we all

make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room i mean real news. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten point zero or crime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent. market saw thirty percent from your home with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars.

china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers overwhelm . the only numbers you need to remember is one business show you know ford to miss the one and only. what is the state of journalism well let's have a look at the new york times the paper catalogs what is called russia get its conclusion is astounding this and much much more on this edition of crossfire. sophie shevardnadze it's been seventy years since western powers toppled maybe

a strongman moammar gadhafi live in the country and in tatters and unity in libya ever be reached again we'll ask. the former deputy prime minister of libya. seventy years after the overthrow of moammar gadhafi libya still has no unified. militias of mud and petty squabbles civilians flee and droves and several rival governments a powerless to stop the wave of chaos how can the pros as it putting the country back together again even begin what must happen for dozens of rival actors to come together and will libya even survive as one nation. or the former deputy prime minister of libya welcome to the show great to have you with us lots going on in the country.