it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the u.s. and iran step back from the brink after tit for tat air strikes in the region as donald trump limits his response to pressure sanctions to look at similarities with the lead up to the 2003 iraq war. but that's not stopping t.v. pundits from beating the drums of war while hiding their ties to the defense industry the public. and hundreds of mental health patients in england reportedly suffered sexual abuse in the next wards of the country's health service chats.

you're watching our team international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. we start in the middle east where iran's u.n. envoy says the country is not planning any more attacks against the u.s. so long as washington refrains from further aggression he added that wednesday's airstrikes on 2 u.s. bases in iraq were sufficient revenge for the pentagon's killing of its top general president trump has limited his response to the strikes to pledging new sanctions as we continue to evaluate options in response to a rainy and aggression the united states will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. these powerful saying shoes will remain until around changes its behavior. the u.s. assassination of general somani on iraqi territory last week sparked massive protests across the middle east and beyond that's prompted iraq's parliament to call for the expulsion of all foreign troops from the country

a decision that now awaits government approval and a lingering consequences of the u.s. invasion of iraq may now be focusing on white house mines but it comes to iran a report. he calls a rally as good as the originals many characters don't sign on for a repeat of parents and they often end up losing money but apparently there's nothing washington likes more than dusting off an old script and adding a new line or 2 sometimes a badly needs to change the name both countries which have been consuming america's attention for a while now the threat comes from iraq saddam hussein needs and pretext terrorists the coalition forces did not come to colonize iraq we came to. overthrow a despotic regime everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare. major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here's behind every problem is

are a so the scene is set we have a visible villain in our story and in case you are in any doubt as to who our hero is while who else but the one his ambition is only as a pin to throw off the shackles of injustice and make democratic dreams come true i think things have gotten so body inside iraq from the some point of the iraqi people my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators there was dancing in the streets in parts of iraq we we have every expectation the people not only in iraq but in iran will view the american action last night as giving them freedom but all here knows better than to go round and touching people without some kind of justification it's not particularly diplomatic so he gets trusted advisors to dig up something anything wrong. only that will make it sound like humanity is being saved this is a blockbuster after role that has to be an apocalypse saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction iran will

not get a nuclear weapon and as we came into office around was on a pathway that in provided by the nuclear deal which clearly gave them the opportunity to have those nuclear weapons and all the while he hopes that no one actually are spending think concrete because then he's just a man with a grudge us grumbling to establish a link between iraq and al qaeda is so far frankly unconvincing we're still left with the problem of bringing public opinion to accept the imminence of a threat from iraq regime change does not stick out it sounds like a grudge between bush and saddam we need to know what the evidence is what led the administration to make the president to make this decision but i think this claim that it's his concern was to avoid war i think most people would say this is made war more likely so just to be on the safe side he adds a little something extra something he knows will appeal to the patriotism and emotions of the average voter if we're successful in iraq we will have struck a major blow right to the geographic base of the terrorists who have hunters and

resort for many years but most especially on 911. assisted in the klan this time travel to afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the same time or 11 terrorist attacks in the united states but does a hit every film has to have a moment when things aren't going to heroes way back in 2003 and john politicians and the public alike might have been beating the drums of war but as time passed questions were raised and people increasingly saw through had been best circumstantial evidence fast forward and now not everyone's willing to back the hero who tore up the nuclear deal functions as a default foreign policy tool and made the hash tag wild will 3 trend on twitter this is a u.s. decision it is not a decision taken by neither do global coalition nor do we have woken up to more dangerous world the us action did not make it any easier to reduce tensions we

partied to deescalate for the conflict is in none of our interest more worryingly for the hero has an election coming up the average voter is being a bit more cautious this time around but despite all this there is sure he's unbeatable and why wouldn't he be he's had ample experience to roll from guatemala to the congo from the dominican republic to south vietnam from brazil to chile and libya from iraq to iran you get the point this hero's got good it shifting of regimes around in his favor of course in some ways this is even a sequel within a sequel because back in 1953 the cia helped topple the democratically elected iranian leader to protect you guessed it us oil interests but despite all this despite the sending of troops the killing of civilians the assassination of foreign officials the hero maintains that he's not off to blood he's a man of peace we're doing everything we can to avoid war in iraq our goal is peace

we took action last night just stop. a war we did not take care of should just start a war 17 years 3 presidents and hundreds of thousands of casualties later so will the faces have changed in the rhetoric a little bit different as will be hopefully the final outcome but either way you've got to admit washington to do with some variety and it storylines off troll no one likes a dodgy sequel the us house of representatives is due to vote on thursday on whether to limit terms ability to use military force and we asked former u.s. congressman ron paul about the risks of an all out conflict. it's not totally unlike trump you know to make a lot of noise and then get people all excited and stir things up and then back off a bit because i think basically i'm hoping anyway that he doesn't enjoy killing

people and perp right provoking wars but we still have our problems because he still has too many neo cons to run them to try to aggravate things and make things work but i wish we could be reassured that peace has broken out because there's too many problems there and i just think that the solution is something i suggested before it started it is don't go in and since we've been in and i say come home in the iraqis ask us to leave and i think we should leave but as long as we have this monstrosity of an embassy in in. iraq it's just going to be provoking you know people to attack us so i it claims that he went in there and killed killed the later because he wanted to stop a war and of course i lean toward the fact acting like that is more likely to start a war which i would like to make sure that we don't get into

a real hot war despite the white house aborting further escalation for now us t.v. pundits are ramping up the pressure for war while masking their connections to the lucrative defense industry are to scale up and compile the chorus of hawks. there was compelling intelligence reasons of an imminent threat to respond i trust the intelligence assessment of what's on the neo is doing the kinds of actions he was preparing for i take it at face value what he is saying and secretary pompei oh this was a preemptive defensive measure now these are supposed to be just random smart people who are going to help us understand the situation except there aren't a lot of them have a particular financial interest in a specific outcome essentially they're tied to corporations that make profits from war the usa and iran go head to head they'll get a pretty nice payout and the viewers are kept in the dark about these ties the world is on edge since the u.s. to county raney into restocking tents and codes force command

a custom so they money following the december 31st attack on the us embassy in iraq since 979 iran has bullied threatened and killed and spread its reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran to this point including scrapping the iranian nuclear deal then the hip junior works for a lobbying firm american defense incorporated that represents military contractors and who are one of the sponsors of his lobbying efforts none other than the manufacturers of the drone that killed solomonic so are we really shocked he's not singing kumbaya on urging restraint check out this guy they crossed a red line with this president when he when he exercised enormous going to story. not taken a provocation but so don't kill americans and when they did he he acted and acted very strongly jack keane is represented as just a retired general giving his 2 cents but actually sent his retirement from the pentagon he's been working with military contracting companies like general

dynamics and now he runs a venture capital firm that specializes in defense and security not exactly mr objective general saw money he was a lawful military. and the president had ample domestic legal authority to take him out without an additional congressional authorization jed johnson was in the department of homeland security under barack obama but now he's in the private sector working for lockheed martin that's the company that makes the war planes that are stationed across the middle east and who can forget david petraeus that's the military commander turned cia director who had an affair and leaked classified information to his mistress now you would think you wouldn't be credible after all this is what happened when you tried to teach classes at city college in new york. even if you. did i mean if you don't know what is going to break. you go but petraeus is back selling war

on prime time it's impossible to overstate the significance of the attack that takes cost and solo money this is bigger than been logged it's bigger than bud donahue the overwhelming majority of the american people believe that the invasion of iraq in 2003 was a big mistake so it's worth pointing out that these same people were on t.v. in 2003 selling the invasion of iraq are now on t.v. pushing a new war against iraq the exact same people it is important to understand the consequences of pulling out of iraq before our work is done and victory is achieved abandoning our iraqi friends would signal the world that america cannot be trusted to keep its word so low money was the highest ranking official in the quds force he has the blood of many american soldiers on his hands the u.s. public has voted for presidential candidates who promised less involvement overseas over and over again but the mainstream media seems to be working pretty hard to

convince them otherwise and it's giving special attention to certain individuals who have certain shady financial ties and it's not disclosing those ties to the viewers many of the. pundits the analysts that we see in us media are people who are either on the boards of military corporations or their lobbyist for the military industry and they have an economic incentive unfortunately when it comes to war and this is not disclosed when we hear them talking about how good trump is doing in killing the general of another country in citing a new war we have to admit that there is a strong military industrial complex in the united states and that the news media itself benefits from war. ukraine is marking

a day of mourning after its passenger plane crashed just after takeoff from tehran airport on wednesday killing all 176 people on board. of anti-alcohol the right side of the airplane and one end of it were completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to which residential houses the plane crash landed in lolly park and destroyed the fence of a football then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated after one you know they didn't keep those watching the news of iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t.v. for 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere at 1st i thought the american substructure here with missiles and i went into the basement to take cover all through while i went out and saw

a plane had crashed over there plants were lying around everywhere. that is just out of $167.00 passengers 2 are ukrainian citizens on the passengers are citizens of canada iran germany sweden and afghanistan.

since our support for my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me from the us she told me that ukrainian at cruft crashed just where eagle fruits are said to to run and i sold a video of the plane crash still to come a report reveals disturbing levels of sexual abuse of mental health patients in the u.k. bringing that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business. so these terms inflation and deflation they tend to hint detraction between the

finance economy and the real economy and sometimes the finance economy gets out of hand and you have crashes and sometimes the real economy gets out of hand then you have stagflation because wages are too high but sense 2000 and getting even more pronounced since 2008 we have 2 separate economies there are 5 for katie there's the privately owned central banks who print money for private the top 110th of one percent the private citizens and then we have to serve class or the neo feudal class and these 2 don't interact and if.

you're watching our 2 international welcome back to the program hundreds of mental health patients are reportedly being sexually assaulted in mixed sex wards in england national health service single tax wards see 3 times hear reports of abuse at despite ministers pledging to scrap the mixed wards guidelines to allow shared spaces. there are 100-1000 complaints of sexual assault in mixed warrants that's for the period between april 2017 an october 2019 that's a rate of one attack a day one victim spoke out about the conditions in the mix wards the room i was in was surrounded by the entrance to the main corridor or so there were men standing almost all said i couldn't go anywhere without going to a mixed area i just had to lock myself in my room the whole time the department of health and social care has responded by saying it will not tolerate sexual abuse in

the n.h.s. but political activists on about the 3 swore that the decision to axe makes ward has still up and carried out i think it's that it's about 20 years certainly 15 years ago that. hospitals made an undertaking that they would get rid of mixed wards frankly the government ought to be ashamed that allowing british hospitals to it to not carry out an agreement that they made which was that there would be wards for women and wards for men and they shouldn't be they should not be mixed wards we fought very hard to ensure that women had safety and security so there's. no better reason that we could speak to each other about issues of the of of concern i mean lots of women would be in hospital because of you know reproductive issues. of old age and you couldn't necessarily do that in

a mixed ward knots of men prefer to be in wards in which matters of their you know the reproductive organs can be explored with other men in a way that is not appropriate in front of most women well i certainly think that in a 1st world country that we should have wards for women and wards for men. well the n.h.s. is being planned for its failure to separate the sexes britain's education watchdog has uncovered unlawful segregation at the heart of the national school system ofsted has revealed that an islamic faith economy in central england is giving preferential treatment to boys and even telling girls that university is not for them shoddy edwards dashti reports. segregation surely only a thing of the past well not for one islamic faith school in birmingham that found itself on the naughty step after segregation the girls and the boys of the classroom unlawfully by the way and telling its girls that university was not for them while the boys were given the 1st choice on black experience placements boys

enjoy school more than girls this is because they are treated favorably and have more privileges redstone to come to me at the private secondary school in birmingham which charges fees of up to $3000.00 pounds a year has been slapped by the mother of scorn inspectors offset with the rating of inadequate now the 13 page report found that boys are treated a preferential way and girls were discouraged from further education they were also banned from playing football and taking part in activities like tickets to classes boys and girls own lawfully segregated by sex for all school activities except for weekly assemblies over a year ago the school was already told to stop its practice of segregation but the schools have most of says he has no intention of defined the lore in any way and simply wants to separate schools for boys and girls now despite offset ruling segregation has a negative impact on girls' education and indeed self-confidence we work very diligently to offer the best to both boys and girls at our school and both are

given equal opportunities to be successful in whatever they choose if it turns out that our application for a separate girls' school is formally refused then we have absolutely no intention to defy the law in any way but it's not just this school that's in the bad books for bribing and let's not forget the debate over the soon to be compulsory sex education classes including talking about divest relationships and saying that it's ok to be gay well the rollout isn't going down too well with some parents of faith fundamentally disagreeing that teaching their kids such issues goes directly against their own religious beliefs. but i mean. how much do you. let them grow up and let them choose themselves why don't they like to be with the government schools and parents all that often say for how they see the future of

children's education and it's like britain still has a lot of homework today is the school. doing well according to all set standards then no no it's being so it could be anything up to 4 years before schools are assessed so retain an earned prime example which basically allows schools to carry on if there are such a concerns like the ones that we've come across now and it is only when asked if inspectors speak to students and so on as they've done in this case what they've spoken to the boys of this book to the girls of the girls about to say that they are not happy with what we did we treat these concerns have been raised simply because through us that expects this book to the students only if there's nobody else that's making complaints. how are you specifically down. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on

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back 20 started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in this country. how happy new year and a welcome to the alex salmond show where we bet if i know i'm fond farewell to 2019 by looking at some of our program highlights from the year it was a political year totally dominated by pricks it but we took the opportunity to offer their viewers a welcome break when it alex what was your top interview from 21000 that was sure business related as opposed to political business well i had the chance to

interview royalty my old boy who greatest ever hero robert the bruce in the form of artist mcfadden whose new film on the bruce taught build the edinburgh international film festival last summer. send. me. back good faith. you've changed. if change the king county and the land will live in. africa comes to a fight some of us might not see the sunset but that is the true nature of war.

and to this. i see now. in your eyes. you felt her fear and her teach. you that the road for so if wept tears and if she took blood and you touched the cold cruel skin of her death. we. have scotland clutched in the tree. and now. will set her free. is that not worth fighting i had. a huge break in the international block plus the brave and you played the robert the bruce was asked to come in for the english prince and it and i said because of

the writes about sports and not oh you want to play robert the bruce but you cock because it's been offered to a movie star so forget about that come in to meet mel and talk about this role so what did i do i went in i did not work for 9 months. and i and he said so you want to talk about this role of the english and i said no i'm not here to talk about that. talk about robbers you told me you could if you had what the 2nd year as opposed to scrabble that's correct and i was in there for an hour and a half and i was like look at me go and casting director like lies you talk about this and i said so ok well it was great to meet you i want to talk about the other guy i said no i'm good good luck with the movie and i left and kicked myself for days afterwards to work for 9 months woman doing but i got a phone call 10 days later and i was asked to come back to see him i was a case of a done now and something wrong and turned out that the actor who'd been offered the role was trying to get. a role in the other scottish from which would be made at

the time the rob roy won which was considered more the mere script so 'd everybody wanted to be in the other one this one was like the cheesy hollywood. got invited back and it turned out that this other actor had let the goal the day go by by which he should've accepted the offer so they withdrew it gave it to me. as a sort of element of destiny and that was created from the brits and the course of i've been for artistic 5 his determination to play robert the bruce and the coincidence of the liam neeson rob roy film he could have ended up playing unfortunately was king edward the 2nd who had a member came to a very sticky end so tell us what was your showbiz highlight well my favorite is the one actor he managed to pee in both albright and braveheart and is now writing the creative or wave in the hay show succession and this week he's just won the golden globe award for the best actor in a town to see the connection between bangkok.