the. u.s. and iran take a step back after coming dangerously close to open conflict limiting his response to the iranian missile strikes the new sanctions the similarities with the lead up to the 2003 iraq war. t.v. pundits in the u.s. are going into overdrive as they beat the drums of war although it turns out many of those experts are keeping quiet about their ties to the defense industry. mental health patients in mixed possible wards in england have reportedly suffered sexual abuse. tensions are high in france where people are gathering for a major nationwide strike over pension reform plans now into its 36th day.

good afternoon thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. iran's u.n. envoy claims his country is not planning any more attacks against the united states so long as washington refrains from further aggression wednesday's missile strikes 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 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 is powerful saying shoes will remain until around changes its behavior. the u.s. assassination of general for the money on the iraqi territory last week triggered waves of protests across the middle east. this prompted the ranks parliament to

call for the expulsion of all foreign troops in the country over the decision still needs government approval and it seems the lingering consequences of the u.s. invasion of iraq may now be focusing white house minds when it comes to iran. experts. 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. major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death

destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record piers behind every problem is are a 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 dancing 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 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 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 will not get a nuclear weapon and as we came into office around was 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 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 folk if we're successful in iraq we would have struck

a major blow to russia the geographic base of the terrorists who have how does interest so for many years but most especially on $911.00. soleimani assisted in the clandestine traveled to afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the september 11th terrorist attacks in the united states but as a hit every film has to have a moment when things aren't going to heroes the way back in 2003 and john politicians on the public like might have been beating the drums of war but as time passed questions were raised and people increasingly thought through i'd be best circumstantial evidence fast forward to now not everyone's willing to back the hero who tore up and use its 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 the global cooling. nor do 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 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 off 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 a rainy and lead 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 are 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 less just stop a war. we did not take action just start a war for 17 years 3 presidents and hundreds of thousands of casualties later i'm sure 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 could do with some variety and it storylines after all no one likes a dodgy sequel the us house of representatives vote today on whether to limit trump's ability to use military force against a 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 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 war but despite the white house seemingly making an effort to avoid further escalation for now us t.v. pundits think of the pressure for war connections to the lucrative defense industry while details. 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 they aren't a lot of them have a particular financial interest in a specific out. 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 us 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 objectives 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 he tried to teach classes at city college in new york.

i mean if you don't know what it is going to be your. butt 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 bin ladin that's bigger than 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 abandon 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 they're 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 saving 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 a passenger plane crashed just after takeoff from tehran airport on wednesday killing all $176.00 on board president bloody ms alinsky laid flowers at a memorial sort of inside port and sort of the country's security services to investigate the reasons for the crash with an official claiming that a rocket attack is among the versions being looked at terrorism has also been listed as a possible scenario despite the fact iran's group that. we are starting various versions of the sudden airplane crash and on the main version is a hit by in their defense missile system. ukraine's president himself though has urged people not to speculate on the possible causes of the crash. almost everyone to restrain from speaking conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and very far as versions it's not a topic for high. a preliminary rain in report suggests that the crew did not radio

for help but was trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down and discuss the crash with aviation security expert julian bray he says that the plane's black boxes should be deep coded as soon as possible as speculation is mounting nothing is off the table so it could well be a rocket strike missiles so it could have been shot down could have been a drone could have been. bird strike we don't know and that is why we have the black box flight recorders on board which sirree new ones have recovered and so since we can get these properly decoded then we'll all know exactly what has happened to this aircraft and it's very important that this is not for political reasons but for safety reasons and that is why it's terribly important that these boxes are decoded very quickly and if it means that we have to have a proxy policy in there looking after the interests of the various parties then so

be it the point is we can't really delay the decoding of these boxes. and the best of it is look into possible causes of the crash family and friends of those killed are grieving and waiting for answers. him of and 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 hit residential houses the plane crash landed in la in a park and destroyed the fence of a football pitch then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated after what you know they didn't keep those watching the news of iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t.v. of the 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere but 1st i thought the americans have struck 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. thank you. 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 eldest son is just stupid my daughter called me from the us she told me that ukrainian aircraft crash she asked where eagle fruit. i said to to run the national the video of the plane crash. the longest nationwide strike in france for decades is now into this 36 day it's called overplan pension reforms today paris and other cities are witnessing another major mobilization supported by people of different classes and occupations by pictures from the french capital show crowds gathering to call on the government to withdraw its. course or course much of the cheese in amongst the protesters good afternoon show that was the situation on the ground. well pretty packed here in paris it looked at the start like it was going to be scantily secluded

place you can see all around me people are shoulder to shoulder waiting to start this march through a different part of paris now we have already been told that tear gas has been deployed a little bit further up the street to woods celeste but where i am at the moment it seems very calm but just an incredible amount of support yet again for what is now a strike this into a 6 day you mentioned that this is the longest running public transport strike now in decades in france and it still seems to be very well supported by the nationwide strike supreme court today all the full flow out of nationwide strike since this public transport strike started back all the way december 5th now i have to say in terms of public transport most lines here with paris and trains all working to some degree now but it's still not fully operational on lies overseas causing many

people problems but despite that it seems that the vast majority of french people were there for their own support this strike movement and it's not just the public transport workers who have been on strike and teachers have been on strike don't disappear and strike the police won't. strike at 1.5 fight is this is people from across different classes different boundaries different professions all coming together to say exactly the same thing to the government we're not top be with the changes you will to make the reforms to the pension system the basic solves that all of the government in front. of to pull together for the systems down into one universal system saying about the fairer more just but most people say that still the case they fear they may go have to wait for longer and they could end up with less money you know the government said if you're 17 years away from your retirement i.e. you're born before 1975 you know going to be affected by this to all those born

just off the $975.00 will perhaps see 70 percent of their pension into the old scheme and 30 percent of the scheme and it will only be the use individual situation in the next few years that will be fully part of the new system but the big big grievance for many people is the raising of the age or retirement to years to 64 maybe most people say that's just unsupported by the middle mean that they will be able to take a proper pen should a value go has led to mass demonstrations we've seen clashes between the protesters and the police and of course the government now is in negotiations with the unions to try and bring an end to the strike which hospital large parts paralyzed ash of drugs but for the moment and here in paris apart strike showing looks again the support for the strike is is definitely that of this definitely here on the streets

and in fact the way to show the love from paris. now reports reveals the 13 levels of sexual abuse of mental hope patients. are bringing this story after a short break. so these terms inflation and deflation they tend to hand the connection 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 but sense 2000 and getting even more pronounced since 2008 we have 2 separate economies there for katie there's the privately owned central banks who print money for private the top 110th of one

percent of private citizens and then we have the service class or the neo feudal class and these 2 don't interact and. 6 this is nothing but the harmony you can create on vibrating strings but it's chemistry chemistry is the melody the melodies you can play on strings what is the universe the universe is a symphony of strings. protests is enough cause here which georgia considers to be a breakaway republic or attempting to storm the presidential residence he demonstrates his plane recent presidential elections were rigged. on thursday a coup was due to review a lawsuit by the leader of the opposition more than 500 people surround surrounded

the presidential residence some even managed to break down the doors gods prevented them from entering further they still inside the building the barricaded the windows the local governments and attempted. hundreds of mental health patients are reportedly being sexually assaulted in mixed sex wards of england's national health service single sex wards saw 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards god shared spaces. there were $1019.00 complaints of sexual assault in mixed forth between april 27th in and october 29th and that's a rate of one attack a day on victims spoke out about the conditions. the room i was in was surrounded by the entrance to the main corridor or so there were men standing on the star 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 promise of

health and social care as responded saying that it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n.h.s. but political activist linda bello says it's disgraceful the decision to axe mixed wards has still not happened 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 there 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 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. with a place for you in half an hour. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or it transitions to sustainable transport sustainability explainable or man up to more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless.

because. it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is again all this must be done even as i mean look. this is the mood of news limited window nieminen i'm stunned seemed i mean the best understood look to going in the. same wrong. just don't all. get to shape out just the attic. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. but if she warned you posted by you than i do the dishes at the bazemore those

jeans nudist beach and you see me. and about that when you die. in the news i mean that so that in fact involved. a lot of you will see as if i had 2 kids each other both. as the adults to me as if. the. god that they were days doing so. who simply new. reality has mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are

. and our utopian visions may be 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 new deal in compas is things beyond just what infrastructure health care is in the new deal there are other elements if you go back 20 started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in this country. this is happening around the world and covering all aspects of. our daily lives i'm christiane washington and here's a look at why. we have in store today. iran

has retaliated against a u.s. air strike that killed its top general while markets the recently dead on the action oil prices have are treated paving the way for a rally if. we take a look at the big picture of the oil sector and several other market moves with richard wolffe the host of economic a. lot as to develop a sheet of light the latest updates are on show as a consumer electronics show in las vegas or a boom bust rent a board on the ground up on the floor shield and just how far have we are filled to the brim with some very important stories so let's dive right in. following iran's missile strike on the bases in iraq that house u.s. and u.k. troops markets initially dropped while oil spite but quickly retraced back to even as details emerged the pentagon later come for an iran launch more than a dozen missiles against u.s. military forces in iraq but so far there were no reports.