i. mean the. police used tear gas to disperse the crowds in paris as protesters gathered to join a major nationwide strike of the pension reforms now on its 36th day. the u.s. and around take a step back after coming dangerously close to open conflict limiting his response to the iranian missile strikes to new sanctions we look at similarities with the lead up to the 2003 iraq war. meanwhile t.v. pundits in the u.s. are going into overdrive as they think the drums of war turns out many of those

experts are keeping quiet about their ties to the defense industry. mental health patients a mixed hospital ward in england have reportedly suffered sexual abuse. hello and welcome this is r.t. international. the longest transport workers strike in france for decades has now entered its 36 day it's called over plan pension reform and today paris and other cities are witnessing get another major mobilization supported by people of different classes and occupations which is from the french capital show crowds gathering to call on the government to withdraw its plans. to show the doobies who's in the center of all the protests how would you describe the scene charlotte . well we've already seen tear gas deployed on several

occasions by the police as they were trying to control the crowd same paris and the crowds are huge i just want to get you to go up and get a sense of looking down this street is going to vote to mission 10 and put you much all the way down to app last of the police it is chock a block with people people who've come out to support the strike now in its 36 day this is the full day of nationwide protests and as you can see it doesn't seem as if the support is abating the tool many people thought this strike would only go on for maybe 2 weeks but hey we are not 36 they are going into the 6 week and it still looks like it's getting huge amount to support in terms of have the strike is going there is more public transport that is operational at the moment in paris are we seeing a trains operating fairly normally metro is operating fairly normally in the mornings

and in the evenings at the during the large parts of the day little is operating apart from the automated lines that's one and 14 now in terms of the general support for this strike the polls unfold show that most people are still supporting the strike people very unhappy from across the board about these changes to the pension system to the foods that the government wants to make those reforms quite simply a changing the pension systems down from 42 individuals is. hoping we've always had a moment where you gauge the people be able to a time. out occur we just lost you there for a moment about how to save the home and go back you carry a fine. face you do we just explaining will the issue we say the government wants to reform the pension system it won't. to put food to 2 different pension systems

down into one universal system to end many of the special regimes it says that yes actually it's still offering many special regimes to the police to some transport work is said to in either be destroying the strike moving to try and get the impasse a to cross that the other big issue is raising the retirement age up to 64 it's currently 62 here when france so they want to add another 2 years on to that but of course that won't affect anybody who's retiring in the next 70 years say the government they say with only affects those picture in 18 in the next 50 years but people are furious here they're saying you know they don't want to sell out their children's teachers the grandchildren speeches and that's why they determined to come out into the streets to keep protesting if feels like it's a little bit of a party at the moment i hear people sort of dancing in the street it looks like now we're being blocked here at the moment not clear what's happening up ahead but

often this will be the case we've seen in the protests that the police will form a barrier had a lot of people to move stop them and allow them to move again for the moment that party atmosphere is what it feels like but the reality is on the ground that we know tear gas has already been deployed to trying to spin this protest is we know that when the police are within the vicinity of the protesters they are brewing in june and sometimes even throwing things in their direction so there is a lot of tension here on the streets 30 days going strong and it doesn't look like this strike is over yes much appreciated thanks for the. live from paris. and other news around u.n. envoy claims his country is not planning any more attacks against the u.s. so long as washington refrain from further aggression added when phase missile strikes on 2 u.s. bases in iraq were sufficient revenge for the pentagon's killing of his top general

president trump has limited his response to 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 u.s. assassination of general solar money on iraqi territory last week triggered waves of protests across the middle east and beyond the problem to the ranks parliament's a call for the expulsion of all foreign troops from the country although that decision must still be approved by the government 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's reports. 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 apparently there's nothing washington likes

more than dusting off an old script and adding a new line or 2 sometimes a 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. if 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 i hear 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 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 concreate 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 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. soleimani assisted in the clandestine travel to afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the september 11th terrorist attacks in the united states does it every film has to have a moment when things aren't going to heroes the 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 in. recently saw through would be best circumstantial evidence fast forward and now not everyone is willing to back the hero who. uses sanctions 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. 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 there is sure 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. 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 storylines after all no one likes a dodgy sequel. the u.s. house of representatives is due to vote today on whether to limit somes ability to use military force against iran we asked former u.s. congressman cole about the risks of and conflict. it's not totally unlike trump you know to make a lot of noise in the air and 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 although an embassy and in. iraq is 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 despite the white house seemingly making an effort to avoid further escalation for the us t.v. pundits ramping up the pressure for war hiding their connections in the process to the lucrative defense industry on the scale i'm open 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 sunday 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 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 go 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 in 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 crash just have to take her from tehran airport on wednesday killing 176 people on board president bloodied his olinsky laid flowers at a memorial set up inside port he has over 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 on terrorism is also being

listed as a possible scenario despite the fact that brown has ruled out. we are starting various versions of the saddam airplane crash among the main versions is a hit by in their defense missile system ukraine's president himself though it was people not to speculate on the possible causes of the crash. i'm asking everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions it's not a topic for hyoid small a preliminary raney and reports suggest that the tree did not radio the help but was trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down we discussed the crash with julian bray and aviation security expert he says that the plane's black boxes should be decoded as soon as possible a 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 probably 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 various parties then so be it the point is we can't really delay the decoding of these boxes. once investigators look into possible causes of the crash family and friends of those deceased are grieving and waiting for answers. 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 presidential houses the plane crash landed in largely park and destroyed the fence before 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. after 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 all the plants were lying around.

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 are said to to run and i saw the video of the plane crash. into the line of a journalist broadcast near clark good afternoon neal idealism is a landscape ready pretty clear we warn people against speculating it's a serious matter it's a tragedy and nobody really knows what happened is it fair to say that most people and it's understandable in some ways are people doing in these situations want to try and guess in some way what happens if let's say most people are ignoring him and they are speculating. yes they are and it's understandable in the circumstances when i woke up was that you. know yes the ward. and heard about the iranian strikes against the u.s. base in iraq and then the same evening the same early morning we had this terrible plane is aster of a plane coming down so shortly after i left air on airport it was quite natural for

to think that's what i certainly thought this is too much of a coincidence it must could you know should be connected to to to to what was going on with the iranian strikes or perhaps it was a missile strike etc however having said that we must we must accept the fact coincidences do happen they still could have been simply an accident the terrible accident the engine overheating and the that the pilot in it and his copilot were unable to send that message through they tried their best saw that video that witness evidence trying to get back in line safely they couldn't so yes it does appear to be a remarkable coincidence that this disaster happened on that very same night that the iranians are retaliating and sending missiles over to the u.s. base in iraq firing missiles there and it comes down but it doesn't mean that it isn't just a coincidence and so we should be very wary is interesting you're also going to make the point that up to quite recently up to this morning in fact i think that you know the views of r.t.

will know about belling cat many people regard them as perhaps some people regard them as being biased against russia. because the comment on that telling cat was to be very very keen to say look let's stop this speculation we have no evidence that that it was a missile strike even though now we get into range from you crane and other media saying that it may have been a missile strike we simply don't know it's simply far too early to say that it was a missile strike well let's look at how the media is covering it apparently some suggesting that the idea rocket brought that the plane down is one of the leading theories that some look at b.b.c.'s coverage of the 1st one is the possibility and then that plane was hit by a russian missile just after takeoff. ok. now speculation is like as we said it's natural and try to be fair to the b.b.c. here but if they're bringing with the 1st principle theory is not only

a missile but russian missile speculations your own thing when you start pinning it on a an individual or a group or a country very very dangerous i'll say this that's pretty tabloid from the b.b.c. why would they be going with that. i would agree i mean that i'm afraid that's geopolitics coming before the forensics and to their credit i think i haven't done that certainly not yet and that's to their credit because you know interesting that he said russian missiles straight away as if it blind that russia could some responsible for this let's suppose in this scenario that's their sister pose that it had an iranian missile attack that had gone wrong great they may have thought it was american coming to america and kind of on who knows. yes the rounds got russian missiles but that doesn't make russia responsible for this iran basically has you know we were very very close many people thought to world war 348 hours ago iran 4 hours before i think 4 hours exactly before the the dude aircraft took off from

tehran airport had launched its retaliate 3 attack against the american base so there may have been logical reasons just to to to be to be concerned that the united states was going to launch rocket attacks on terror on which is what one of the witnesses in your video actually thought was happening when he heard this loud loud explosion having said that we have to be pretty spectacular incompetent had the iranians done this there's no evidence they have done this and you know to come out as the b.b.c. report which you showed straight away and put a russian missile as the 1st number one explanation for this when in fact there are a number of equally likely a possible explanation real friends are real you know it's very misleading is knowing what why would you even be talking about and what about the manufacturer of weaponry here what about the money from because i don't believe that journal say because i work there not that naive and then they're not but an experience it's

borderline incompetent to be talking about that knowing you are going to improve the the opinions of the people watching this by throwing 'd in a word like metal either. totally i mean you could have said look it may have been a missile attack the putting russia in there is quite clearly about trying to put a crude attempt to try to link russia with this with this terrible tragedy what happened if it was a missile we don't know you know the idea of putting that the country of manufacture whether it's america is ready be sorry russia miss our east is all academic countries have missiles from all different countries and expression the way there are a number of other alternative explanations rather than a missile attack they could as i said quite plausibly yes it could just be a coincidence this plane of the engine overheated it's interesting that western intelligence services who have been quoted in a number of publications say they 'd believe that this was in fact. an act to them that there was a technical big technical fault with the the the plane's engine it could also be

the case and this is important point to any incoming a made in a very very excellent r.t. op ed column on the r.t. website which i read yesterday he said that the plane had been serviced just 3 days before in tehran could it possibly have been a some some sabotage taken place or could there some been some major problems with that service because it did you know just 3 days after the service and the plane the plane which has a good safety record the this type of boeing very good safety record ukraine airlines excellent safety record the pilot were very experienced etc so could it be possible sabotage and possibly a bomb may have been placed on that plane so there's a number of scenarios and to come out straight away and say look it was a russian missile i think tells you that's propaganda that tells you what and what i'm afraid some people are already playing geopolitics on this one and seeking to point the finger of blame at geo political adversaries instead of staying totally forensic and saying look let's wait for the black box let's wait for more. evidence

i'm going to have we can make it in my head because can in front of us really appreciate. speaking to the new club journalist broadcaster thank you thank you very much thanks. he apologize for interrupting our guest on because we want to get the story in for you this hour hundreds of mental health patients reportedly being sexually assaulted in mixed sex wards in england's national health service single sex ward seeing 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap mix was god once the law allowed shared spaces there were 1900 complaints of sexual assaults in mixed wards between april 2017 and october 29th and that's one good day one particular victim spoke out about the conditions in the room i was in was ride by the entrance to the main corridor so there were now and standing almost outside measure room i couldn't go anywhere without go in through an mixed area to

lock myself in the room the whole time. department of health and social care has responded saying that it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n.h.s. . ok that's all for now i'll be back in exactly 30 minutes with more on top stories see them. on welcome to worlds apart the war in syria may be winding down and the level of violence has subsided dramatically but return to normal life still seem.