the sun moves in unison we didn't want to be human and einstein seemed to understand it looks so good. to us that he ran step back from the brink after ted for tat air strikes in the region trying to limit his response to the sanctions we 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 and the public. and hundreds of mental health patients in england reportedly suffer sexual abuse and makes wards of the country's health service and child.

you're watching r t international bringing 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 any rock were sufficient revenge for the pentagon's killing of its top general president trump has limited his response to those 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. u.s. assassination of general samani on iraqi territory it 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 now awaits government approval on the lingering consequences of the u.s. invasion of iraq may now be focusing on white house minds when it comes to iran a report. he calls a rally as good as the originals many characters don't sign on for 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 9 or 2 sometimes a bally eva 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 protects 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 ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record hears 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 last night 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 really that will make it. sounds like humanity is being saved this is a blockbuster off the 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 it 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 regime change does not stick out it sounds like a grudge between bush and saddam but 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 at 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 the hero's 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 a nuclear deal functions as a default foreign policy tall 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 voters being a bit more cautious this time around but despite all this the hair is short he's unbeatable and why wouldn't he be he's had ample experience off the role 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 there and 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.

just start a war 17 yeah 3 presidents and hundreds of thousands of casualties later sure the faces have changed and the rhetoric a little bit different as will be hopefully the final outcome but either way you've got to admit washington could do with some variety and it's storylines off troll no one likes a dodgy sequel the us house of representatives is due to vote on thursday on whether or not to limit terms ability to use military force against iran 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 says we've been 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 and 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 i'm asking the connections to the lucrative defense industry or to 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 u.s. embassy in iraq says 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. and. i mean if you don't remember what it was going to be. a year ago but petraeus is back selling war on prime time it's impossible to overstate the significance of the

attack that takes cost and soul 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 in victory is achieved abandoning our iraqi friends would signal the world that america cannot be trusted to keep its war so low money was the highest ranking official in the 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 and inciting 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 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 ask one you know they didn't keep those watching the news of the rainy and hitting us bases with missiles on t.v. after 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.

just to see out of $167.00 passengers to the ukrainian citizens on the passengers are citizens of canada germany sweden and afghanistan. since i'm someone brought here my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me

from the u.s. she told me that a ukrainian aircraft crashed she also wary go through i said to to run and i sold a video of the plane crash is. still to come in the program a report reveals disturbing levels of sexual abuse of mental health patients in the u.k. details after the break. the search.

backs geysers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificial mortgage group don't get carried away that's cause report . welcome back hundreds of mental health patients are reportedly being sexually assaulted in mixed sex wards and england's national health service single sex wards

see 3 times few reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap makes wards idling still allow shared spaces there were 100-1000 complaints of sexual assault in mixed wards between april 2017 and october 2019 that's a rate of one attack a day one victim spoke out about the conditions the room i was in was surrounded by the entrance to the main car door so there were men standing almost all side 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 house responded by saying it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n.h.s. but political activist linda bell says it's disgraceful but the decision to axe makes wards still not been 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 as for 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

while the n.h.s. is being penned for its failure to separate the sexes britain's education one shark has uncovered an laugh at segregation at the heart of the national school system our state has already auburn islamic faith academy and central england is giving preferential treatment to boys and even telling girls that university is not for that shot or static 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 account to meet the private secondary school in 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 the boys are treated the 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 lower 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 him 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 my. brother can't. let them grow up like them to themselves why don't they like to be with the government schools and parents all that odd say for how they see the future of children's education and excite britain still has a lot of homework today if a school. doing well a college will set standards then no no is it big so it could be anything up to 4

years before schools are assessed and reports are written aren't trying to exert published 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 our state inspectors go in and speak to students and so on as they've done in this case what they've spoken to the boys in this book to the girls of the girls about to say that they are not happy with the way to be treated these concerns have been raised simply because the cost that it's got to spoke to the students directly if there's nobody else that's making complaints of this nature how are you supposed to find out. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of the stories and many more. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics small business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. reality as mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are. and our utopian visions maybe we're going to get a new deal but it may not be the green new deal that people are expecting will get the green new deal that we have we deserve rather think we are going to get a green new deal because the green you're dealing compass is things beyond just right infrastructure healthcare's in that new deal there are other elements if you go back 20 start in 2006 that we are going to good and that are popular in this country. good food descriptions sound up the tasing even for the owners so how to choose

this pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than what's necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be as healthy as people believe and we have animals that have you know diabetes and arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. if.

you. alone welcome to worlds apart the war in syria may be winding down and the level of violence has subsided dramatically but a return to normal life still seems like a pipe dream after almost a decade of proxy war is syria now doing 2 years if not decades of proxy piece well to discuss that i'm now joined by peter mauer president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's always good to talk to you thank you very much for finding titus for having me now you are now in moscow to take part in the war that deals with what essentially are the laws of wars the geneva conventions

but this is not how this event is officially called instead it makes reference to international rules governing military operations is it just me quibbling over semantics or has they indeed been a shift on the battlefield from the loss to the rules with the letter i assume being last restrictive. well i think there have been many shifts in the battlefields over the last decades and recently we have seen that it is more important than may be just to teach the generalities or flaws in try and in the geneva conventions to look much more in detail to. the ground rules and the rules of engagements that militaries have in the battlefields to compare notes to look at good experiences as well which have proven to protect civilians better than others and i think this is what this workshop is very much about i think you have seen we

bring together more than $103.00 and $4.00 star generals from over 70 countries with which we entertain regular contacts but also which are engaged in their day to day life into military operations so it's an exchange of experience and they have a classical exchange a very practical exchange of experts and this is the 1st time that this workshop is being held in russia where russia's defense ministry acting as the dance partner and i assume there are lots of people and cultures who don't like russia's defense ministry as an entity let alone and contact in military zones such as syria have you experienced any pushback on holding this specific event in this country i.c.r.c. has no likes and dislikes of ministries and i'm sure your undying were below your internal intrigues and well we do have we appreciate the contacts with

militaries of defense with armed forces that's the core activity of i.c.r.c. and we have been very appreciative for after some explanations also of the last 2 years to have agreement from the ministry of defense to host this workshop i think it is important that armed forces who have practical experience and who are engaged . in today's military battlefield site at the same time host and it gives credibility to a workshop i had the privilege of interviewing him before when the syrian conflict was at its nadir and when the criticism of russia's military conduct in syria was very loud very prominent. as this war is now a drawing to a close hopefully drawing to a close in large part thanks to russia's own efforts how would you characterize russia's observance of the laws of war in syria on itself and relative to other partners other actors well you can easily imagine i.c.r.c.

is not here to judge we kick you late concerns obviously one of the big issues that we have seen recently in yemen in iraq in syria in all the context in the middle east is for instance urban warfare and so one of the big questions today also in the experiences of the past couple of years is always what are and what do the classical principles of international humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban contexts of warfare with densely populated areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are your obligations to precaution and the obvious that i see or see as the advocate for protection of civilians may not always have the same.