join me every first week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see your. headlines this hour sophisticated a defense in control systems as well as radar jamming russia's response after its military plane was downed over syria last week moscow says the blame lies with israel which denies responsibility. president 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 also to come anticipation grows over donald trump's

speech at the u.n. general assembly on civi stay with some hoping the president will use it to rebuild shattered international relations and the rate of such results in south african i ranks among the world's highest with new cases opening old wounds we hear from some of the victims of a severe. back to depression actually trying to commit suicide this happened so many years ago. but i can get into you nothing would have been. allowed the welcome it's just gone five o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching international our top story russia's defense minister has announced a range of moves to secure syrian airspace and protect russian aircraft operating their new measures introduced in a briefing on monday to come a week after a russian military plane was downed over syria an incident moscow has blamed on his

right. they're going to that's the quick 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 defense systems within two weeks and that indeed of itself is huge and 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 far 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 supplies of the s. three hundred to syria that's despite the weaponry being ready for delivery and syrian military personnel having undergone training but today 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 the entire country's ed defense network fire faster more accurately and above all out 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 cool

hotheads and help avoid another incident like this syrian president assad has been made aware these steps him and bludgeon me putin had a phone conversation and the russian leader said he's ready to intensify efforts to improve the situation and to restore syria's sovereignty putin's spokesperson also stressed that 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 launch 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 concluded the

russian military behind this twenty aircraft setting it up as a target the syrian air defense missiles purposefully so as the russians said certain steps are now having to be taken the situation in syria has changed again and not because of moscow's actions more against they have reported now literally a cheerless martin j. . this rail hasn't done itself any favors because it was inevitable what some point there's no who would cross a line in this special relationship that he has with russia and just go the tiny bit too far strengthening the arrangement which until now was an incredibly sweet deal for the israelis i mean i still forget to break the deal that putin gave israel for so law which was incredible i mean it allowed israel to not only take strikes we do it with impunity across the country but beyond that in july last year i was in moscow promised him that he would actually also pull back iranian

positions away from the southern border with israel although as part of our special deal now you know what's israel job is a gargantuan error i think on all bets are off now. world leaders and top diplomats are descending on new york for the seventy third u.n. general assembly at the main session starting on tuesday the general debate is the most notable session is known is seen as a is less of a debate or more of a chance to make a cool night speech than it does thing to say that donald trump is playing the headliner role as you go to donald looks at what we can expect. in the global political circus trump is taking 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 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'm 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 here nicolas maduro the dictatorship in cuba destabilizing 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 totally 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 a lawyer and 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 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 catastrophic. and i think you. may be have worked in a few cases you know maybe in north korea. north korea to. soften up its stance on. its nuclear testing and its high sierra i.c.b.m. development. because it's so outrageous but if you do that too many times and you threaten you know 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. the desire increasingly using other methods to get their message across politicians are resorting to social media probably now to make that point although not everybody is best placed. sometimes i get the impression that in the us many people are learning about white house decisions first through twitter just changing the way we work together.

many think 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 we need to strategically adjust to in germany and in the rest of your. stars in the mainstream media who made disastrous calls on the rack and its weapons of mass destruction erratic again this time it's around it's in their crosshairs but that anybody thurmon up the facts is that expects. 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 we will dictator wants to fight to do what you do is he sent 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 sponsor that 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 iraq's 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 out of this action we choose to do or the red line weekend that used chemical weapons which bashar assad and russia aided by russia and iran have begun to use we can we take the impunity. and then there's sean hannity the prime time fox personality these are his words back in two thousand and three this madman has killed a million and a hip 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 world affairs and specifically events around countries you can see that the decision was intentional because of the way that you 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 a lot of this green with former intelligence and military officials neoconservatives and say here is 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. i've been reporting we're going to take a quick break and i will be back with more news sometime it. seems wrong but i. just don't all. get to shape out just to. educate and engage. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the laws. to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. that you'd like to be closer this is what it looks like three in the morning can't be good get. interested in the logs of my colleagues. there should. follow again sexual violence is a growing problem in south africa according to new estimates with the number of rapes in the country 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 right the girl was reportedly attacked back in may but killed herself last month

just days before she was meant to meet with them. besta gates is what his story has provoked a wave of anger not just at the rising number of rape cases but also increasing violence on campuses across the country where 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 started. he was an international tennis player. and i was with him for about eighteen months . before he would be. called one day except the tennis courts

about two weeks after the incident try to tell my mom about. this must be of a speaking rubbish after. creation actually. starting to think they. didn't destroy. i mean us maybe and still to this day. friends and i took a trip to cape town to 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 where he say it nothing happened it was finally. finally did nothing. bad and give you permission to text me. maybe i shouldn't have been so. open friendly and nice i should have gone to the authorities and spoken about this happened so many years ago. but it's getting. to listing. in a sort of a class of the. people from middle class in my class that i actually really

suffering these rapes and sexual abuse maybe on to a c. we also have a problem we've got a c.p.s. sometimes losing fouls losing evidence we've got that happening in the hospitals as well and we have a lot of people that in our foundation say that. their own opinions would also emphasize to its own concern over the opioid crisis but it doesn't say might become conies planning to abandon its production of opiates any time soon in fact per g. pharma has now created a new drug to help treat opioid addiction that mild opiate there is thought to control craving for stronger drugs as well as fight pain and it's now being presented as a better alternative while the director of the camelot addiction treatment center luke master believes that the company should still be held responsible for the

opioid epidemic. this is all about profit this is all about making money now that we've caused an epidemic that will have a huge national impact in the united states it will have a worldwide impact they should be responsible for the cause of the epidemic to our hundred thousand or more deaths in the united states since that would lead into this epidemic i think they should be prohibited from up producing any more opioids there needs to be widely known dangers of the drug to the general public should come from the united states government knew all should come from the pharmaceutical industry who has a responsibility to watch out international thanks the company is saving. its next .

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trillions of dollars of the missing over the course of time that disappears from military expenses and other sectors of the government accountability and you go well where does this go we speak to film director and salvador natural born killers and j.f.k. actor sean stone about his new film a century of war is a more coming up today but first why was president mccall's admission that france killed and tortured in algeria considered breaking news this month to korver told the world about the battle of algiers in his oscar nominated film this labor government support for killing in nigeria and how old wilson breaking news is the legacy of shell in the. in the navy nineties breaking news also looked to the widow of environmental activist dr barron incurable common rate of cancer we were courtesy of amnesty international so the prison one called me or dan said you have to pick up this thought of i took it and i was.

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