the band the right answer. question. this hour is headline stories the united states. top military commander in an early morning air strike in iraq provoking threats of retaliation from tehran and its ally militias. also ahead police in the french capital shooting dead a knife wielding after he stops one person to death 2 others. on the turkish parliament decision to deploy troops to libya comes in for strong criticism of israel cyprus fear it will lead to a further escalation in the region. just

a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow the 1st speech donald trump has defended the killing of a reunion general cassim solemn money and several others including iraqis the u.s. president said the strike was necessary to stop a war in the middle east solemn 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the united states did yesterday should have been done long ago we took action last night just stop a war. we did not take action to start a war the world is a safer place without these monsters. the early morning a raid also reportedly killed 9 other people including influential iraqi lebanese shia militia leaders they're believed to have been leaving the airport in 2

vehicles when the strikes took place. the money lead the powerful force an elite branch of the reigning revolutionary guards corps charged with spearheading foreign operations the unit has been heavily involved in the conflicts in syria and iraq and was instrumental in the territory of the feet of isel ortiz came up on us more now on the drone strike and the kind of reaction it house triggered. we've got the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o making his rounds in american media and trying to make the case that somehow this effort by the united states in this recent killing is an effort to deescalate the situation with iran and the u.s. remains committed to deescalation that was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt this plot deter further aggression from qassam salami in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation now qassam solomonic is often described as the 2nd most powerful person in the islamic republic of iran

furthermore he was very very key in the defeat of the ice still terrorists throughout the region however as we hear from the u.s. department of defense this was a defensive measure that at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad by killing costume so in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world now it certainly has been a dramatic week for the united states in the middle east and the pentagon seems to believe that qassam solomonic was himself responsible for what has taken place in the last few days let's review.

draw some indications that they may be planning additional attacks if that happens the new act and by the way we get word of attacks is some type of indication will take preemptive action as well to protect american forces to protect american lives . now iran's national security council held its meeting and said that at the emergency meeting that was convened they made quote the necessary decisions and that there is going to be some retaliation at the right time in place for what they say was the u.s. his biggest strategic mistake in the west asia region now the iranian side is basically completely unified in saying there will be a retaliate to remove from the islamic republic for this killing the u.s.

an act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating general saloon money the most effective force fighting dying shy he says i'll kind of hope he's extremely dangerous and foolish escalation the u.s. busy responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism now how the islamic republic will respond is not yet clear now it is important to note that the us state department and u.s. media seem to be echoing very loudly that qassam solomonic is somehow responsible for the death of thousands of americans and that he is somehow a very bad guy they echo these allegations though there have been strong criticisms of of donald trump from the democratic side the risk of a much longer military engagement in the middle east is acute. and immediately this action may well have brought our nation closer to another endless war exactly the

kind of endless war the president promised he would not drag us into now as he is known for donald trump has not been shy on social media defending his decision to take out qassam solomonic however it's important to note that in his responses donald trump has actually said that solo money should have been killed many years ago now what is interesting many critics are now wondering if the timing of the killing of a solemn mani is in fact suspicious people wonder if trump did this for political reasons as an attempt to frame himself in a good light as kind of a war hero for the upcoming 2020 reelection campaign and we've been getting a lot of response to the incident former u.s. congressman ron paul joined me earlier to explain the u.s. strike reflects problems in american politics. both parties indorse you know interventionism when trouble at times he'll say the right thing i'm coming over i'm

serious i'm bringing troops home who yelled and screamed the most not about the constitution but it was palosi and her guy was saying oh no he shouldn't do that he should do that. at that time you know removing troops is what we want as a libertarian no nobody should be paying switching parties or at least at this time of year because it's all politicized you have to separate the 2 groups of people who think the united states has an eye has an empire to fan and that they are morally justified to do it versus those of us who believe that we should be noninterventionist and follow the constitution and follow international law and the extra 3 fellows into u.s. troops are actually being deployed to the region growing tension was not on the table from the start do you think what what this washington's strategy for the reason for the region as it's. well i think it's been very clear this is one thing that trump deserves credit for he's been consistent in his campaign and everything

is going on he always wants to escalate you know the antagonism toward iran other places it's up and down and back and forth and i sort of i'm always hopeful that he really doesn't want another war and i think pompei when he gets up there and says all these really challenging aggressive things then he says we don't want war oh well war why are we doing those things the people who are pushing it in an aggressive manner in our country they probably don't really want war but they want peace on their terms. a lot strike happened in iraq let's take a tour. why revere the assassination has triggered a lot of prayer. as well 3 days of mourning have been over really and you can see here turning out in cities across the country to alter their general. us. secretary of state's mike. discussed events with russia's foreign minister in the phone conversations target of rauf accuse those codes are part of violating

international law and urged washington to abandon the use of force to achieve political goals with more reaction from across the globe here's paula sleep the world has been responding with the number one concern being the issue that this will escalate tensions here in the middle east now we have heard from a band that while we're telling 8 iran's national security council calling this america's biggest security mistake its biggest strategic mistake which is again being echoed by it has said that the american actions will be stabilized in this serious is that the americans are feeling the tensions we've heard from going to. the iran bet to group based in lebanon. and who has urged the world's resistance to get together and exact revenge at the same time one mosque which also sees becton from gaza has expressed its condolences not the rock where the killing actually took place condemned what are called and aggression that it said would lead to

a devastating war the assassination of an iraqi military commander is an aggression on iraq as a state government and people it's a flagrant violation of iraq's sovereignty and dangerous escalation that triggers a destructive war in iraq the region and the world it violates the conditions authorizing the presence of u.s. troops on iraqi soil syria condemns this act of association. covert cowardly act versus nation don't forget that they were killed in the c.b.d. an airport coming on board for civilian aircraft. in friendly country. now this way the prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier cut short a trip to greece to return home an emergency meeting was held here in tel aviv between the military and intelligence chiefs to assess the situation all israeli institutions around the world have gone on high alert while on the northern and

southern borders here in israel the army too has become more vigilant this is what netanyahu in praising the attack had to say the president wrote deserves the credit for acting swiftly forcefully decisively. with the united states in its just struggle for spruce security. the american action was a reaction to a series of military provocations for which iran is responsible we also see with great concern to around 60 of it is in the region was done before dangerous escalation now the european response has been somewhat moderate although there has been concern expressed that this will lead to a deescalation it doesn't seem of this anyone is brave enough to come out and strongly and openly criticize the american president donald trump nato says it is monitoring the situation particularly keeping an eye on its training forces in iraq also monitoring the situation is the egyptian government and they have called for

a normalization to prevent a new escalation at the same time we're hearing from the united kingdom it says while it recognizes the phrase that sort of money pose it is urging for a deescalation earlier there was a phone conversation between the russian president vladimir putin and his french counterpart emmanuel mccrone and both leaders agreed that the american strike would lead to a deterioration and we're hearing from from. urgent iran not to take steps that would lead to that determination we've also heard from the un secretary general he has urged maximum restraint saying that the last thing the world can afford is another war in the gulf. policy or with how they reacted to the killing when a political analyst we also heard from believes they are striking the way it was authorized shows that america he ses state on the global stage is not a democracy. iraq was not warned congress was not consulted. this was this was

true in his new york people more than likely mr cushman mr mentioned you know who run mr trump essentially you know alongside compay oh now he sort of officially you know no longer formally as part of the administration mr bolton because if you examine what's going on online you see these people posting messages of joy now even if they don't like us and so they made me want to seem to not understand the ramifications of what they have done this movie has united the iranian people it is really united the iraqi people the syrians the yemeni. the palestinian movement it's united everyone against america sound of death to america is getting louder and louder and louder and there's nothing america can do about it this is by its own by its activity. i want to turn attention on the program not to europe where french police say one person has been killed 2 others wounded in a knife attack in

a suburb several kilometers south of paris officers shot dead the assailant who reportedly attacked process by random artie's fronts across want to charlotte dubinsky told us more. shocking the horror in paris is yet another knife attack it's taken place in the city in this one to the south of paris in an area called venusian we fully understand that one person has been killed as a result of that attack and 2 others have been injured. currently receiving treatment full those injuries no details on exactly how badly wounded they all now i witness is say that the man who carried out this attack was wearing a traditional arabic and screamed out the woods. as he tried to stop those individuals some details coming through about the individual who is dead as a result of that attack the french media saying that he was a local man in these fifty's he was actually a man of the area and they named him as being found

a way like people saying that he actually was trying to protect his wife that attack and now we know that following that attack as the man fled the seems chased down by the police shot up 3 times and has been neutralized i.e. he is dead now i know all the camera and surveillance footage from here we suggest that this was the time the police are investigating to see if he had any accomplices and to make sure that the area is clear nothing else will happen tonight now the minister for the secretary of state for the interior ministry nor knew this visited the scene not long after that neutralize ation over the attack and this is what he had to say. i would like to commend the swift reaction of the police who intervened quickly to neutralize the salient and put his murderous rampage it was a very brave mark as news of that attack spread supermarkets batten down the

hatches closing down they do was to ensure that they customers remain safe inside some of those customers waiting for several hours to be given the all clear by the police movement that many will see as being a good step to try and protect customers. from pages in the past have expanded and gone into other areas. ok an update now on another story we're closely. following several countries have condemned the turkish parliament to send troops to libya israel greece and cyprus have voiced their concern over a possible escalation of the conflict in the region they have called reckless. it took his decision to deploy troops in libya presents the dangerous through its regional stability the repercussions of such reckless moves will be dire for the stability and peace of the entire region or in a phone call with the turkish leader the us president also raised concerns that

foreign interference could further complicate the situation in libya though they too did agree to maintain their diplomatic corp multiple forces have been vying for power in libya since the ice sting of longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 a un backed government of national accord with control of the capital tripoli along with some coastal areas in the west of the country now its rival that's the self-styled libyan national army headed by general huffed are with holes this large swades in the middle and central area gas reserves scattered across here a 3rd region quite sizable as well on the border with chad hearing green dots local tribes and militias now the u.n. backed government formally requested military aid from turkey last month in the face of an onslaught by half tars forces meanwhile libya's neighbors have voiced major reservations over and chris troop deployment plans egypt has called on the

international community to respond urgently well we've been hearing analysis from turkey. has moved on it's possible repercussions. we see a very soft announcement by the arab league we could see that they're unified only by name we're seeing turkey become more and more now the major player in not only libya in north africa and the east and the middle east turkey is showing that it's not going to shy away and president is willing to use his military muscle to get the results he wants at the diplomatic table as well turkey very important chairs move. greeks. egyptians are. of course very disappointed by did decision but turkey's strategic move will. give some. advantages strategic advantages for turkey we will see the method the

manner of how turkey is going with this problem and challenge it in the coming days if turkey sent more troops then general haftar will also look at more support from the government sees already there are already back including and especially egypt and the united arab emirates they will send their own proxies or troops or more weapons so in that sense the situation could definitely escalate in a military sense. ethical veganism is a philosophical belief protected by law in the u.k. after a ploy many tribunals ruling the landmark case comes after a vegan man claimed he was psyched for his animal while for beliefs your. say is he was fired after accusing his former employer that's the league against cruel sports investing in testing with its pension fund something in the night before

challenging his dismissal he took legal action to try and prove that ethical beacon ism is a philosophical belief which the british court has now said yes it is that means similar to religion it's protected from discrimination under the u.k. as a quality of the man at the center of the case is it's a big step forward for all the good. it will help the promotion of egotism as a lifestyle because vegans you might be afraid about talking about their belief they might be feeling that they're not welcome they will feel empowered now well let's just break down what we're actually talking about here an ethical vegan is the find by not just excluding animal products from meals but also by choosing a particular lifestyle the avoid all things that lead to the mall suffering now a lawyer for mr cassatt mickey and his former employer says he was fired for gross misconduct and in principle the company was not against ethical veganism becoming fishel believe. in view of its animal welfare value the league did not contest the issue of whether ethical vigen as an itself should be

a protected belief with the league maintaining that it's a relevant to the core reason for the dismissal well i discussed how far it legal protection should extend with a representative from britain's beacon society and political commentator 1st underwater. i would like to say my pen should be a damaged and undermined by somebody who insists that you call impacts in war normal to compensate we should not be at the lowest common denominator if something is ridiculous we should be allowed to call it ridiculous if you want to criticize something we should be able to criticize it and some is trying to do is to say aren't and you have a choice to invest in ethical action and he's not saying everybody is just saying he's working for and i don't rise and our ancient i think the concern is the very real health dangers of if he can die or to kill you when you are a child. it will only just a nice status in clinic impacts children pregnant and breastfeeding women for their

people as well it doesn't want to do it because this is the future and that it's better for the animals for the planet for help so it's something that all of us can do to help combat climate change and to be kinder to the animals that we should spend it but this is the very socratic problem is that because obviously there is no financial motive and this is what's been going except on the support for the climate change are in my view effectively taken religions they have their it i'm jealous of people who want to demonize you for being evil can find go and get a job and they are example require me to wear leather shoes and i have a choice to wear not what if i go into work and say that is my folly but i shouldn't look search i'm praying every day but by the way i'm extremely chain sounds fairly state lobstering shamgar in every day i have a moral and philosophical belief that my lifestyle will be back such as i eat and that this blows down to is that i have a certain mindset respect your view your life sounds you have no respect for my

silly state lobster and champagne lifestyle and you all you watch the videos protect you didn't know anything and you wish to observe you don't wish to upset in iraq which i think is really the problem here is about trying to do your best to avoid animal exploitation you can compare to some ridiculous thing that this is an ethical. money to the hilt and for many people that dictates how they need lives i genuinely do not see why just because you refuse to eat the sense you being you should have the rights and sense you want i you are still killing a charity just as you're killing a rabbit and that's all it would cost to invite you cites that if you have no right to kill i don't think i know then why would you have the right to tell a plant something i don't know the difference so dogs will know it as i tell them all the elements. everybody knows that don't have a stench and there was nothing so it will be and you want to embarrass. your life we've got no right to take away their lives on a razor. a senior police chief in the u.k.

stays years of a stir it is a major factor in putting child exploitation back to levels not seen in more than 100 years devon and cornwall chief constable sean sawyer say's drug gangs are the driving force behind the rise in abuse. for these children they are almost back to victorian times and to being criminally exploited these kids are looking for family and security for understandable reasons of austerity stay youth services have been vacated this cafe youth provision between the school and family is the void of the exploit is a feeling. authorities say there's been almost 9000 followers and suspected child victims of the past 2 years 21000 sources are going 74 percent increase in comparison with the year before in real terms that equates to 7 $126.00 more victims the chief constable also highlighted how government cuts were partly responsible for the situation while cheryl phoenix from one to discrimination group

the black child agenda so it's almost impossible for children to escape the vicious circle of exploitation once they get in. these children a lot of people fail to see them as the victims of what's going on and then they become criminalized and once you become criminalized at such a young age it's almost impossible to get yourself back on track a lot of these young people that we find as part of these drug caton gangs as they're called have been permanently excluded have been rejected from society so i think we need to go back a few steps and even jill deal with our young people from a primary age level because as they get into secondary school which i can guarantee when they go back next week my phone will be ringing in constantly with children being kicked out of school for have a natural hair not having the right tie on or maybe their shoes so if we start stop doing this you know sledgehammer approach to what we are talking about as children then they wouldn't find themselves in these gangs in the 1st place but no one's actually listening or doing any think about the exclusion matter and the high rates

and the issues that we have with young people in the care system as well who if there was another study done you'd actually find that majority of these children have come through the care system are actually being exploited also in the sexual airiness in areas as well as just being on gangs and you know getting involved in county lines which a lot of them don't actually know what they're doing so it is a much bigger picture it's not as simple as what's been said. of as our news stories are shipping up for just remote artie's twitter pages some great content this weekend well worth a follow if you're not already live from moscow this is 247 r.t. international.

the. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision little sheltered lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right. here you know told a shot of what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he right means berthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation

and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or when. this idea as you point out the anecdotal cheney fire all the cia agents in the field because they were too sympathetic to the locals and he felt that was a liability in the major media spheres of washington d.c. they don't want. those reporters those stars do rub elbows in the great unwashed of

the flyover states because they may become sympathetic to the working class they may become sympathetic to the to the disenfranchised of america. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or a transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man the more equitable and sustainable. they claim their production is completely hominis. us. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is something else this must be done to anyone and i mean look. this is the move in unison we didn't dream and then we understood superman and.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the nato military alliance was a relic from the cold war back then it was relevant and even necessary today it is an alliance in search of a mission that search has almost completely entailed eastern expansion towards russia but a lingering question remains though.