talked about is the necessity of ending the american military presence in the middle east these endless wars must see. u.s. secretary of state comes under pressure to provide evidence as to why it was necessary to assassinate iran's top general. also to come the u.s. and canada claim that a ukrainian airliner was shot down in toronto but that's before international experts had a chance to analyze the data and europe's main security for the b.o.'s sea. to prevent foreign media from operating in the country that after tallent forced employees at r.t. system let's make the result.

hello there good evening i'm watching r.t. international the u.s. secretary of state has defended the trump ministrations decision to take katherine in general. it was confronted by a journalist there were apparently unconvinced by the evidence presented so far to justify the assassination. was following the press conference. things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of iran's top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions that got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just don't seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives let's take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and didn't have anything to do with our embassies. we had specific

information information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on the u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to be an american lives were at risk in tokes this community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack it was an act of plotting is that right now gone with sort of money gone threats are never going and now it wasn't just the journalists who don't exactly buy pompei as claims but american lawmakers also have their doubts we just saw in the u.s. house of representatives the lower house of the u.s. legislative branch a resolution was passed attempting to restore it to the activities of the trumpet ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the islamic republic of iran however these doubts about whether it was the right thing

in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators and journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results that have been conducted and it shows that basically 2 thirds of the u.s. public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trump's decision to kill the top iranian general furthermore $69.00. then to the u.s. public believes that iran is more likely to attack the usa as a result of trump's decisions 52 percent describe trump killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to prompt killing of qassam solomonic among american people themselves or general points to the secular state have to say then about tensions in the middle east at the moment well at the press conference mike peo and steve minutia laid out basically what these new sanctions will include the new sanctions are targeting high level officials in iran basically preventing any business transactions with them but when explaining these new sanctions

a mike bomb peo used some rather interesting language to lay out what he argued was the ultimate end game of the united states when it comes to iran president said we don't want war we want iran to behave what the mobilization the reason the secretary treasurer this morning is to continue this campaign our strategic effort to get to run to behave in a way that doesn't continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world if you hear those words he refers to saying that he wants iran to be a quote normal country so essentially it seems the united states is asking threats and carrying out more sanctions with the goal of forcing the islamic republic to conduct itself in a manner that the united states considers to be normal not exactly clear what that means but still that happens there will be further activities and sanctions and threats and what not now many are hoping that the current situation is in a state of deescalation but at the same time people worry about what could happen

next you know the sanctions still remain iran still has the capabilities we saw the recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the global community at the moment. well meanwhile the iraqi caretaker prime minister has demanded that the u.s. begin preparations for a troop pullout in a phone call abdel martie did ask the u.s. secretary of state might pompei to send a delegation to iraq to work out and withdraw mechanism the u.s. state department has responded though hailing american troops as quote a force for good in the middle east the statement goes on to say that any delegation sent to iraq would discuss america's right to have a presence in the middle east as opposed to a troop withdrawal right from north or go badly at plan things there are no real reasons for the us to stay in iraq. you know we are fighting those people rises in there are we don't want them to come back but this is completely

fabricated excuses to be honest because this is that. it is it is that actually is there is that it really is all if you will simple. and very complete you know i don't believe there is a chance of this time. unless you have a wonderful comeback and one liners then this is the only the only way for those. americans to pull out. here today iraqi parliament is the dilution. problem. ukraine's president vladimir alinsky has tweeted his gratitude for american support there were wednesday's crash of ukrainian passenger jet in iran and after he spoke to the u.s. secretary of state by phone. had a phone call with secretary pompei are grateful for the condolences of the american people and valuable support of the u.s. in investigating the causes of the plane crash information obtained from the us

will assist in the investigation. earlier washington passed what it said was important data relating to the incident ukraine's leader the u.s. canada and the u.k. all do say they have evidence suggesting a rocket from iran itself brought down the ukrainian international airline jet killing all $176.00 people on board around though denies any missile was involved and has invited international experts to monitor its investigation does imaging the hum of the audience will allow the americans the french the canadian some of the swedish to come here and see how we investigate this crash draw special is bothersome cam and in america that investigate crashes we trust those borders what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missile has had the spray these are some of the latest pictures from the crash scene while passengers belongings can still be seen there the area is reportedly no longer cordoned off and investigators

on the longer present earlier around did say wreckage from the aircraft had been collected and taken to a safe location ukraine's foreign minister said that experts from his country had been given access to the flight recorders and fragments of the crashed jet the plane's black boxes recovered from the site have also been shown by iranian state media duran says that they claim the jet was downed by a missile or illogical and impossible although nato does beg to differ. there are no reason to not believe the reports we have seen from different a little odd couples who have expressed concern about of. information indicating that. plane may have been downed by iranian air defense systems. now how speculation has been mounting even before any probe has been carried out. nothing instills confidence in international leaders more

than my love of precise language. we have intelligence from multiple sources including around lies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in a surface to air missile and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say it was be can it go i personally don't think that's. even a question there is now a body of information that the fly was shot down by an iranian surface to air missile which may well have been unintentional we are working closely with canada and our international partners and they now need to be a full transparent investigation on specific intelligence unnamed allies multiple mysterious sources hardly the right one expects a at that level of diplomacy and b. when discussing the tragedy that's left 176 dead but it's on surprising that iran

has batted off this latest slew of unfounded allegations about the crash of ukrainian airlines flight $75.00 to a nudge for calm and not check to prevail scientifically it is impossible that a missile hit the ukrainian plane and such room is illogical and it's not an unreasonable request the investigation into the events of wednesday morning which saw the boeing 737 bound for t. have crashed just minutes after takeoff has only just begun final report into aviation disasters take months if not years to be published they require coordination between numerous government organizations which is why iran has invited multiple investigators including from boeing to visit the crash site in the meantime all there is a series with nothing but unnamed sources to back it all up which is why amid all the confusion and contradictions the ukrainian president who lost 11 of his citizens that more. as they returned home also called for an end to all the chatter

and noise he ever asking everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions and it's not a topic for height but the spiraling tensions between tehran and washington especially in the past week have triggered an unprecedented level of scrutiny on the region and people don't seem willing to heed calls for calm especially when they feel the tide might be turning in a favored direction iraq could strike possible missile system is among the main working theories since there was information on the internet about elements of the russian missile being found near the site of the crash it didn't take long for the mainstream media to jump on that bandwagon c.n.n. has never been one to turn down an unverified source especially when russia is involved pointed the finger at a bomb or missile new evidence indicates iran shot down ukrainian flight 75 to

with 2 surface to air missiles made by russia an undeniable evidence they offered a photo from twitter posted on the count that was later suspended maybe it breached the company's fake news guidelines but nonetheless even all the way across the pond the hysteria continued for the 1st one is the possibility that that plane was hit by a russian missile just after takeoff independent also published an article citing something called the o.p.'s group an independent organization which has little to recommend itself other than it provides information and aviation professionals and fox's that's according to its twitter page nevertheless if confident enough to recommend people just assume the plane was shot down until evidence to the contrary emerge is guilty until proven innocent it's a new name of the game in today's political land. has been claimed in the video

does show a missile streaking into the night sky over to iran and exploding as it hit an object c.n.n. has suggested it was taken approximately at the time ukrainian plane was on its doomed flight we asked the independent journalist and commentator martin summers what he thinks about the role the media plays as investigators. as you know there's a whole question of struggle goes all the time for what might be called legitimacy to speak and of course what we've got in the modern world is in the english language is a massive variety of sources of all call ins with varying competing narratives it's a bit confusing but in many ways it's liberating as long as people recognize that we shouldn't believe everything you hear and that you've actually got to make your own to your own work and sort through what you what you're being presented with a new and to trust some places it was more reliable than others many in many cases they've been shown in the past have been lying and to be and to been knowingly manipulated boy western intelligence sources know they can do that if they like but

of course if they get caught doing it then they lose their credibility that's the game you can lie if you like but if you get caught then you're a liar or you are therefore they've got to think very carefully were they going to bring with stories like that. now the french government's pension reform plans have been whipping up fury for more than a month now a draft bill of the project that will be presented to the council of ministers in 2 weeks has been revealed the main bone of contention is an increase in the pension age although according to the text it's not something that would apply until 2022 unless an alternative outcome is suggested she had been as more. will you still need to me will you still feed me when i'm 64 or so goes the chorus to that song sung by the beatles now back in the 1960 s. when it was recorded average lifespans were far shorter than they are today in

france it was around 70 years old the idea of being 64 suggested you were probably close to you wrote expiration. in france they consider that the us too healthy at the age of 63 so for us if unacceptable to diet work in bad health. it is very possible to diet work at this. people are tired of that age they can't continue working as parents enters into it 6 week of strikes over proposed changes to the pension system the one element that's really seems to be roiling people is the up being over the age that you can retire at with a full pension to yes you guessed it $64.00 polls show that 2 thirds of respondents find this to be on palatable while some unions if even demanded that all references to retirement at $64.00 be removed from the law. this new age is unfair because it

will be no lies those who started working young economists agree that it's unnecessary and people are against it despite the opposition this seems to be a sticking point for the government. and i think he does know that everywhere in europe in countries like ours across europe people work a little longer because life expectancy is going up. well he's right life expectancy has increased significantly in the last 50 years in fact in france the median lifespan is now 83 years old meaning the average person were toys at 64 would be dipping into the pension system to some 19 years and even if the government refuses to budge all not retirement age compared to. overt countries in the e.u. some might say that the french have it pretty good it in countries like sweden denmark portugal germany and to many more the age of the time and is already higher than the current age of retirement to fronts at 62 and it would still be higher

than the new threshold at 64 in addition the life expectancy in these countries is a lower than eve fronts meaning that people who work longer to a tile on average in those countries and a more like you to access their pension for shorter period of toyin so why of the french making such as song and dots about this shit is not about comparing countries it's about so sure aggression grow it's about pensions and we don't know what would be next why not studio opposite wider germ of the lower the retirement age to $60.00 to $60.00 or less we should do the opposite and not race to the bottom that's the issue for the european union as of whole only seem to take our own doing we believe that france is current 3 time and system is a economically viable so as long as we support retirement funds we do not need to slash were chris writes let me in problem for of these not the retirement age the

main problem is 0 our contracts for this the signify as the complete breakdown of the social system if it's moved it seems for the french regardless of what they european neighbors a might be cheering when they turn $64.00 they want to already be enjoying that retirements and this is non-negotiable jollity been ski altie paris now the new sniper head of the organization for security in cooperation in europe has cord on a stony a to refrain from limiting their work a foreign media softer tolland pressured employees it artes sister let sputnik to resign what it does the of has maun story this letter is just the latest in a chain reaction that we've seen from multiple organizations both government and non-government the european federation of journalists the international federation

of journalists increasingly coming out condemning what is seen as stony as crusade vendetta against news and now the head of the u.c.i. and self coming out and saying that he's he's concerned about what dystonia is doing commitments to freedom of the media and the free flow of information are in stright in the helsinki final act my colleague is closely following the situation of splitting dystonia he has also encouraged the stone and authorities to refrain from put in any unnecessary limitations on the work of foreign journalists or media . it was last year the stonier began an aggressive campaign against putin news they began threatening journalists most of whom are citizens working for sporting news with jailed with criminal liability with prosecution merely for working for the organization the justification that they're using here is that the head of the parent company that owns news under european sanctions he's personally and the

european sanctions so not do you organization that he heads and he was placed there back in 2014 a student here is now saying you know after all these years that because he's sanctioned by the european union individual sanctions that everything he heads is also under sanctions that essentially new european organizational citizen can work with them and there's still one year is the only country in the european union that has seen the law as working like this others of course journalists spitting news itself many media organizations that see this as an attempt to silence to muzzle sputnik vladimir putin himself coming out in support of the organization saying that what the sunni is doing is justifiable and that it's just an attempt to silence critical media. 18 u.n. peacekeepers and 2 civilians were injured in a rocket attack on

a military base in mali on thursday just a day earlier un envoy from west africa raise concerns over an increase in the number of terrorist attacks. the west africa region has experienced devastating terrorist. attacks against civilians and military targets. alarming but he also presented data showing a 5 fold increase over 3 years in terror attacks in bikini fast marley and also in nigeria according to the data $4000.00 deaths reported last year and that's compared to just under $800.00 back in 2016 the military base that was attacked also serves as a camp for troops of the france led and operation the mission is supposed to curb terrorist activity over the region and is on has been ongoing since 2014 approximately 4 and a half 1000 french soldiers are stationed at

a number of bases un's mission also has. a political analysts legen. says that is still nowhere near enough to deal with terrorism in the region. it is a symptom of the difficulties that the mali government and the u.n. are having in taking care of the country's insurgents rebel. forces are dealing with areas that are larger than half of europe and the african forces are stretched u.s. forces are stretched and many of these islamic groups have taken to guerrilla warfare . and it is extremely difficult to police and patrol such a large area the size of the world the global political structure have always played lip service to the issues within africa insurgencies the view natural resources more of a big issue rather than actually containing the spread of radical islam. in

africa until the world takes the islamic insurgency in africa seriously it will only grow and grow and grow. the pharmaceutical giant byron santo faces a slew of lawsuits at the moment over a cancelling turbos side but it hasn't stopped the firm and you charm offensive claiming that its products are actually good for the environment peter oliver explains climate change and how best to reverse the human impact on the environment is already one of the main topics of 2020 but while some are looking for ways to solve the problems others are facing the pointing of accusatorial fingers suggesting they are using climate concerned to try and salvage sullied reputations take chemical and pharmaceutical colossus by for example by a monsanto to be more exact the group are facing

a string of lawsuits over there weed killer coles and continues to cause cancer the company has tried to perspire own hearings and settle out of court with some accuses now they're taking a different tack in claiming their product is good for reducing c o 2 levels the production of dreyfus 80 is quite c o 2 intensive but it's you save 3 times more c o 2 if you use a tractor with a plow you generate greenhouse gas emissions the tires burning used to be an m.p. for the german green party now he's the bio mom son so senior vice president for public and government affairs having the former climate crusader turned corporate spokesperson on board as part of by are looking to market themselves as a climate conscious corporation and a key part in the news 2050 environmental goals industry should be at the forefront of europe's ecological modernization bio will do its part to ensure that the e.u. commission's goals are implemented well and santo knows that the environmental

crisis is high on the list of priorities around the world and so hiring the green party m.p. really icy as a strategy for simply trying to. stop the climate of their stock prices why not it's you people about one out of 2 people in america now are expected to get cancer and yet they aren't monsanto justify allowing a carcinogen to be sprayed in our food the warnings of a quick fix being sold by business not being really viable options when it comes to tackling climate change are out there to see fake plastic bags for example the scourge of the garbage dump a plastic bag can fake well up to a 1000 years a biopsy been told to biodegrade so and civil target of labeled as bio degradable came out on the market they were a snap itself however in reality they have little better than what they would say

to replace a lot of shops selling packaging described by degradable on combustible in fact that i things might only be composed in an industrial composed and even then some items might not be food digested this is where people have to be careful because while there are all those out there looking for real solutions to the real problems there also are the areas that see a popular hash tag or a trending topic on social media while they have business attached to it and while that may be very well and good for the buying fallen says the vice president of public relations has the potential to distract from the great day she's monsanto as a long period of trying to influence the results of science and interfere with the regular scientific communities were it's been going on for over 20 years and monsanto has never had any respect for the environment in any of its work it's not

our own honorable to all of a sudden pick out one thing and claim that. they're going to be for sustainable environment it's what we call green washing. when a company all the sudden jumps on something sustainable and claims that they are doing the right thing while it is a common trend because they realize that young people have different ideas than they are parents and grandparents so they are trying to reach these young people and make them favorable to their companies and their products. finally some authors have for an act of love the association of romance rights is of america the boycotting its annual award ceremony amid a spat over whether a book published 20 years ago is racist.

there think blue black hair and bronze faces turned slightly yellow by the long term climate unmistakably chinese as were their slanted alman guys. i've said this before and i'll say it again don't cry books about how much a culture not grown sucks just don't you're not going to get it dried and you're going to sound like a racist. i wrote about there almost right there is self america fault and why it's important that i stand with corgi on the future of romance and literature at large. because stop thinking about how or unless writers of america still can't even public lead made what they did to guard their mailing much less apologized to her

but they made sure to praise a useless white man for his service. even though this isn't my would engender i've been really impressed watching the romans community unite against a blatant racism are doubly a leveraged against over and leader. and hold them to account for systemic marginalization of people of color and l g b t plus individuals. in the context of almost reflect the breadth and diversity of $29000.00 romance novels and novellas and thus will not be able to fulfill its purpose of recognizing excellence in the general. racial tensions are such a large issue for us here in america and there's been so much emphasis placed on

the fact that everything is offensive in this p.c. culture that we're starting to take things way too seriously you know you're tearing about a book that was written in 1999 and the book that is a fiction book things in fiction don't need to be historically accurate and not only that they don't necessarily have to be really a description that fits reality you look at a fiction book we've got wizards we've got things that are not of reality so why are we taking a fiction writing so seriously they were applying it to racial division and making it something that is more of a nonfiction topic because you know see that's the news from back again at the top of the.