the. u.s. and iran stepped back from the brink after to strikes in the region as donald trump limited his response fresh sanctions similarities with the lead up to the 2003 iraqi. t.v. pundit so from beating the drums of war while hiding that time i think the defense industry from the public. 100 mental health patients in england reportedly suffered sexual abuse in mixed wards of the country's health service the n.h.s. . other thanks for joining us this is r.t. internet. start this hour in the middle east where iran's u.n.

envoy says that the country is not planning any more attacks against the united states along with washington refrain from further aggression he added 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 those strikes pledging new sanctions. as we continue to evaluate options in response to a rain in 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 assassination of general salim ami on iraqi territory last week sparked massive protests across the middle east and beyond to dirac's parliament to call for the expulsion of all foreign troops from the country the station now awaits government's approval and the lingering consequences of the

u.s. invasion of iraq may now be focusing white house minds when it comes to iran with taylor explains. he calls a rally as good as the originals many characters don't sign on for repeat apparent them they often end up losing money but not even as nothing washington likes more than dusting off an old script and adding a new line or 2 sometimes it badly even needs to change the name both countries that have been confusing america's attention for a while now the threat comes from iraq. 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 ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here behind every problem is a rare and so the scene is that 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 has only ever been to throw off the shackles of injustice and make democratic dreams come true i think things have gotten so bad inside iraq from the some point of the iraqi people my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators there was. answering in the streets in parts of iraq we we have every expectation that people not only in iraq but in iran will view the american action last night as giving them freedom but i here knows better than to go around attacking people well some kind of justification it's not particularly diplomatic so he gets trusted advisors to dig up something anything really that will make it sound like humanity is being saved this is a blockbuster off to roll that have 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 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 scrambling 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 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 that 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 folks if we're successful in iraq we will have struck a major blow right to the geographic base of the terrorists who have hundreds 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 as a hit every film has to have a moment when things aren't going the hero's way back in 2003 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 would be best circumstantial evidence fast forward and now not everyone's willing to back the hero who. uses sanctions as a default foreign policy tool and made the hash tag wild all 3 trend on twitter this is a u.s. decision it is not a decision taken by. global coalition nor. we have woken up to more dangerous world the us action did not make it any easier to reduce tensions with parties 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 he's unbeatable and why wouldn't he be he's had ample experience after 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 leader to protect you guessed it u.s. 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 just stop. a war we did not

take action just start a war 173 presidents and hundreds of thousands of casualties later so will 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 storylines after all no one likes a dodgy sequel the us house of representatives is due to vote on thursday on whether to limit trump's 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 the 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 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 would 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 or so despite the white house avoiding for the risk elation for no u.s. t.v. pundits pick up the pressure for war while musk ing their connections to the lucrative

defense industry on the scale of more pain explains. 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 the 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 can 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 he wouldn't be credible after all this is what happened when he tried to teach classes at city college in new york. i mean if you don't know what it is going to break. you don't know 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 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 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. you crave the smoking day of morning after one of its passenger planes crashed just after takeoff from tehran poured on wednesday killing 176 people on board.

no more than toil the right side of the airplane and one end of it will completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to hit residential houses the plane crash landed in lolly park and destroyed the fence of a football pitch then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated ask one you know they didn't keep those watching the news of iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t.v. up to 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere at 1st i thought the american success truck 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 them body parts were lying around everywhere.

just to see the house of 167 passengers to our ukrainian citizens on the passengers are citizens of canada iran germany sweden and afghanistan. since their support for my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me from the us she told me that the ukrainian aircraft crash she asked where eagle fruit i said

to to run and i sold a video of the plane crash. report reveals disturbing levels of sexual abuse of mental health patients in the u.k. we'll bring you that story after this break. seemed wrong but i. just don't. get to see. just. how to. engage. the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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 compas is things beyond just right infrastructure health care is in that new deal there are other elements if you go back to when i started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in this country. welcome back hundreds of mental health patients are reported to being sexually assaulted and mixed sex wards in england's national health service single sex would see 3 times fewer reports of abuse despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards scotland will allow shared spaces

$1019.00 complaints of sexual assault in mixed wards between april 2017 and october $2900.00 is a rate of one attack a day on victims spoke out about the conditions. the room i was in was right by the entrance to the main car door so there were men standing almost outside my room 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 that it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n.h.s. but political activist linda beloff says it's this graceful the decision to axe mix towards the still not being 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. for no better reason that we could speak to each other about issues of. 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 not so 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. and

while the n.h.s. is being panned for its failure to separate the sexes britain's education watchdog has uncovered unlawful segregation at the heart of the national school system that has revealed that an islamic faith academy in central england is giving preferential treatment to boys and even telling girls that university is not for them and edwards daschle has more. 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 ca 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 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 jujitsu classes boys and girls own more fully 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 i mean. i can do that. 2 let them grow up and let them choose themselves why don't they like to be with the government schools and parents all that on say for how they see the future of children's education and it's like britain still has a lot of homework today it's a school. doing well according to all set standards then no notice it being so it could be anything up to 4 years before schools are assessed and reports are written aren't prime example based 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 ofsted 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 the girls about to say that they are not happy with their we did treat sheet 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 supposed to think now. ok but you know i think the national really appreciate you company stick around i'll be back with updates on our top stories in just over half of. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

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