the rock is hit by a 2nd strike targeting a convoy carrying iran backed militia reportedly killing 6 coming less than 24 hours after the u.s. killed iran's top commander despite claiming it's committed to deescalation with iran. a senior police chief says the levels of child exploitation in britain are back to victorian levels claiming austerity and increasingly powerful drug gangs. and vulnerable children at risk in our media as well where of criminal schemes been revealed helping foreigners illegally.

live from moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international this morning welcome to the program. in baghdad a convoy belonging to an iran backed militia has come under attack that's just 24 hours after an american strike killed iran's top general because money leaders there strikes reportedly killed $6.00 and left 3 others injured the owner called the popular mobilization forces claim the vehicles were medical and were not carrying the group's leaders or popular mobilization forces and iraqi state sponsored umbrella organization comprised of around 40 muslim militias mostly sheer is known for playing a major role in the campaign to liberate the country from several commanders were killed during friday's attack that strike killed 10 in iran's most senior military commander. it was conducted on the president donald trump the u.s. leader as the friend of the assassination saying. it was necessary to prevent war

in the middle east that has sparked widespread fury across iraq. 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 this. this was an obvious terrorist move a move that entirely shouted cowardice in every respect we will not fall for the propaganda and blackmail by the americans in whatever manner and when ever we deem appropriate we will give the proper response to the killing of iran's generals ceremony sparked protests across several middle eastern countries and also further afield members of india's kashmiris shia community marched with images of sort of mahdi shouting anti american slogans neighboring pakistan as well protesters

wrapped coffins with the u.s. flag and set them on fire of course in iran itself 3 days of mourning on the way now and thousands of turned out in cities nationwide to all of the general. u.s. leadership has been saying on almost every platform they can find that they are working to deescalate tensions with the islamic republic of iran we took action last night to stop a war we did not. take action to start a war that was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt the spot deter further aggression from qassam salami in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation it's not an easy case to make killing the country's 2nd most powerful person most well known military leader and commander of the elite could force of the revolutionary guards doesn't look like deescalation however

washington insists its actions were a defensive measure at the direction of the president the us military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to by killing costume stolen money the strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the iranians are already promising revenge the supreme national security council of iran held an emergency meeting on friday and announced that they had made difficult decisions at the right time and place the vengeance will be extracted is not the aggression by the us i mean they should they should expect anything as it is all of this this aggression the international community is now gripped by fear that we could be on the brink of war there is no justification under international law and moral law our constitution is just aggravation and the fact that they are in the way as a guest and have an embassy there we've never had been given any authority to do

what we did i think it's morally wrong and if they're doing this to make us safer they said we had they had to do this to make americans say complete nonsense i feel less safe because there will be retaliation and expansion and who knows what is going to lead to. washington says it's an ally of the iraqi government and it's working in iraq's best interests however baghdad is completely unhappy with this move the assassination of an iraqi military commander is an aggression on iraq as a stay. 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 the iraqis don't consider this to be a particularly friendly gesture what does he want to restart the civil war again among the shia who don't want this to happen what has happened is

a blatant violation of iraqi sovereignty the fact that he's a high state official in a government that we're not at war with we've crossed the rubicon not only in tehran but in moscow beijing pyongyang caracas they all have to sit there and say to themselves all right the americans now feel entitled to kill anybody and our government because of what over disagreements over syria whatever else. the international response has been vocal china says it is concerned turkey is angry and syria accused the united states of spreading instability it's a pity to see. the great public of the united states used. to give somebody. the way gangs do it but not everyone agrees though israel says job well done president broke deserves all the credit for acting swiftly forcefully decisively israel sterns with the

united states in this just struggle force peace security and so firms america's nato allies are not thrilled at all we have woken up to more dangerous world the us action did not make it any easier to reduce tensions parties to deescalate for the conflict is in none of our interests. it didn't exactly go over well at home either american media has echoed all sorts of allegations about solid money but most americans had. never heard of before saying he is the new face of terrorism and evil but democrats say that trump is rushing the country to war without congressional approval the risk of a much longer military engagement in the middle east is acute and immediate. 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 donald trump is defending his move he says he saved lives and that he's protecting the country however in some of his responses he's actually said that solomonic should have been killed years ago so why now is perhaps donald trump trying to play the card of being a national savior in the lead up to an election i don't foresee the iranians making a rash choice because they understand the neo cons who are behind shawn's policy and trump him so funny iran they don't want anything more than to have iran do a very who are high profile strike back the us propaganda machine is in high gear demonizing solem on whom 99.9 percent of americans had never heard of 2 days ago. worse than hitler killing americans left and right none of this is true none of this is supported by facts but the propaganda machine is on high high high alert

and americans are being prepared for another war so i don't see the iranians taking the bait. a senior british police chief says levels of child criminal exploitation in the country of blacks to levels not seen in more than half in more than a century sean sawyer who leads britain's modern slavery policing efforts blames austerity as a major factor in the drug gangs the driving force. for these children they are almost back to victorian times into being criminally exploited these kids looking for family and security for understandable reasons of austerity stay youth services have been vacated this gap of youth provision between the school and family is the void of the exploited filling the home office figures say that in england alone there were more than 18 and a half 1000 suspected child victims in the past year that's an increase of more than 73 percent than the previous year. and she feels that will sawyer also pointed the finger at government cuts the youth services the home office though insists it

is doing all it can to stop child exploitation cheryl phoenix from the anti discrimination group the black child a journalist says it's almost impossible for youngsters to escape once they're dragged into a cycle of criminality. 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 jilt 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 the 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. boring revelations about vulnerable children in armenia as well the criminal schemes been amassed there in which mothers who've just given birth or forced to give up their newborns against their will so they can be sold abroad for adoption was a mixed he is more of a national. this is a story with many children involved but it is not one of these typical happy ending tales a team might expect to hear during holiday season an investigation is on to go in

now in armenia into an alleged black market adoption network believed to have been operating for years to citizens of the republic of armenia using their contacts in one of the republican obstetrical institutions organized the adoption of more than 3 dozen children more than 30 babies to italy and there were also cases of adoption by u.s. couples one of the victims has been trying to achieve justice for almost 2 decades already her name is susana she says 20 years ago doctors pressured her to give up her daughter stella threatening to report her case of a 16 year old mother to police and her father she signed papers refusing her rights to continue but because i held my baby in my arms i was but there i stayed in the hospital for another 2 days or so but i didn't see him ever again they told me that he was born prematurely and didn't survive and i was given some peoples to sign but

it was too weak to understand what i was signing in december the armenian authorities detained the country's chief ops attrition who susan accuses of threatening her and other officials as part of the probe but as make a better man was released several days later due to lack of evidence a spark public outrage and as we covered a man demanded money in exchange for not telling the thor it is a bold good idea he knew i didn't want there to be any criminality questions because of the fact i was still a minus but it couldn't be the moment he was asked me which is why he did what you did well let him answer for a medical study on a lawyer who has represented susanna since 2013 has he's explanation for 7 long years we were shouting about it at every corner this is a mafia that is stronger and more. have a full day on the one controlling drug traffic i can say there were relatives of the rulers involved in 2017 human rights watch released a 102 page report titled when will i get to go home documenting thousands of cases

of children in armenia needlessly often forcefully isolated separated from their families and placed to institutions more than 90 percent of them have at least one living parent and said they international ngo then tried to draw attention to disturb in inaction by authorities the government over meaning has made some bold commitments to reduce the number of children in institutions but needs to make sure this promise is backed by a serious sustained action 2 years later last september the authorities noticed that 4 times as many children went to foreigners rather than to locals and started investigation all adoptions have since been 6 who believe their kids were wrongfully given away years ago and then there must be a legal solution so that we can do validate the doctrine of the child it's not

solely the children and i will do everything i will not go down there must be a trial. france has revealed the nominee for its highest state of war delusion of honor some of the names that were causing more than a little consternation including the end of the french branch of an american asset management firm linked to the country's controversial pension reforms blackrock is one of the world's largest asset management firms it's been fraught since 2006 last summer apparently pushed for privatizing part of the french president system with the us stalled for its accused of trying to take advantage of the country's deeply divisive reforms which have seen weeks of crippling strikes short of the risky looks at whether the company could cash in if the reforms do go ahead. to be awarded france's a legion of own a medal is to receive the country's highest award so no doubt this year's recipients were pleased as punch to know that they'd been given the nords when the

list was announced one name provoked. appreciation it was that of the. head of the french branch of the american management company black rock. well critics accused of trying to cash in on the controversial pension changes that are currently being pushed through by the french government. directly benefit from the pension reform. the chose to honor the lead of blackrock france is nothing but an anecdote blackrock is simply the dark side of the pension reform john transource you believe president of blackrock france is promoted to officer of the legion of warner on january the 1st as a reward for pillaging of our pay as you go passions the presentation of the legion of honor to john francoise to relieve the provocation it reveals the close ties that exist between the graun and the world of finance he's selling the retirement system to american pension funds it's

a big deal strikes against pension reform and now into this week it's the longest running strike in the century across problems people have taken to the streets to let the government know the plans to merge 42 different pension plans into one you system at the same time as raising the age of retirement are not welcome. if you lose on pension reform lose and everything and the next issue is the form of social security and social protection and. we are not at all in favor of the status quo we are in favor of in this system but it is not tearing it down and we will go along it until it's with drawn and improved but has already come under fire officers accused of attacking french pensions now it's alleged to have provided recommendations to the government in regards to reform and way and it will benefit

from any privatization of france's redistributive pay as you go pension schemes something the government and but cork is at pains to do no i in no way have to desert and influence on the current pension system citron what dispatches the french market is a box of trees from player clock to stop talking nonsense it represents nothing compared to tests. and there is a big but in an internal document for. in many t. last month that books of treats is a lot bigger than the secretary of state to my time do you believe it outlines the high market value in france and how black orchid wanted a piece of the pie critics say bestowing the legion of honor on black ops manning fronts is a rude for the pillage of the country social retirement system and while blackrock perhaps isn't as well placed as others to take a huge slice of french pension savings it certainly is primed and ready to jump

into the market or a lot of people are afraid that the complete pension scheme is going to change that this is just a 1st big step to go to something more. totally funded scheme which is the courtroom was going to do in france this is obviously from a political point of view very bad time in the middle of this message strikes which is we're going this is a new strategy going on for practically over a month records now a lot of that has satisfied a lot of people who are very tired of the strikes from the people said that they will stop the strikes until the government draws back from its initial that it's giving the impression that there is a plan b. that there is something that the government is actually just laying down to the grounds of the 1st product but there's something worse coming out of. austria is aiming to become europe's environmental leading champion as the country's green party gets its 1st taste of government it's

a key pledge from chancellor sebastian kurtz who's now leading unprecedented coalition between his conservatives the greens our europe correspondent peter oliver takes a look on how the unlikely alliance might work out. so i asked him to be back as chancellor of austria and at 33 years of age the world's youngest head of government his conservative people's party agreed to a coalition deal with the greens on the year's day his previous government that was with the right wing freedom party collapsed amid scandal says now though he can be both tough on immigration and protect the planet it's east muki issues possible to cut taxes and make the tax system more environmentally friendly as possible to protect the climate borders there's a point in the program about tax relief for those who work but at the same time before there are measures to fight illegal immigration and political islam the

greens still have to rubber stamp the agreed deal at a special party congress this week but this turquoise green mix certainly has more turquoise conservative people's party when it comes to policy than. among the main sticking points for green members agreeing this deal our concerns surrounding immigration migration and austria's ban on the wearing of the islamic headscarf currently children up to the age of 10 barred from wearing this item of clothing under the new deal that would rise to 14 also in the mix is the establishment of more deportation centers for failed asylum applicants secured detention plans or a policy from the previous deal with the right wing freedom party greens actively campaigned against this in the past saying it unfairly targeted migrants tax reform

and changes to how party financing works in austria are also going to have to be accepted by the greens if they're to be allowed to be able to push through their climate package while part of a coalition government but apart from gradually reduce. c o 2 emissions that climate package is pretty thin when it comes to detail despite this their leader seems happy with the agreement was not easy but we have not been elected because we can only achieve easy things and we are here to take responsibility for it is certainly true that we have the 2 biggest winners in the election but we have been elected for different reasons we have a great deal of responsibility and out of respect for democracy that we tried to start pushing dialogue in terms of climate protection we have probably made agreements beyond what we expected and austria must become a full run in europe and internationally on the issue of climate protection despite some reservations the greens are expected to give this agreement their blessing in

exchange for that seat at the top table this is very canny politicking from so busty and he came to power in 2015 making a pact with the populists at the very height of the micro crisis. the tough thought a control pledges are still there in this deal however what it's now joined by is a commitment to the climate albeit with the purse strings of government very firmly in the hands of his conservatives something that may be watched quite keenly by austria's closest neighbor cortes is now trying to address the 2 main issues of the next decade immigration and climate change this can become an interesting test case for germany and indeed for europe german conservative underlines plan to. economy received a lot of support in the european parliament in one of her 1st outings as. president

and it's all good as germany ponders a post on merkel future a blend of green and conservative maybe the way in berlin as it is in brussels and now it's set to be vienna. if the rector of the austrian economic center says that the greens either have to adopt a center right or break up the coalition. well it's definitely a very promising experiment that will show its security on the one hand and it's a logical renewal can we combine both parties show all their strengths and they allow to put their own. issues their own topics within the coalition treatment so it's like f. caroline our running of both parties and not war of the equality the they probably operate parallel so there might be rounds for conflict in the future is

pretty strong and very strict on what he wants and what he has presented during the election campaign he sticks to the promises that he has made so either the greens adapt to. their rights policies our courts is the stronger party or there will be a constant conflict with their within the party and then eventually a breakup of their. pact of the treaty to. this time of year is known as the season to give for one toddler from florida proving to be life changing she was born of a prominent facial birthmark and now a russian benefactors come to her family's aid. she was. the. big easy and

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