u.s. secretary of state comes under pressure to provide evidence as to why it was necessary to assassinate iran's top general. meanwhile the u.s. military in iraq has a force for good in the middle east after baghdad placed the country and us in canada claim a ukrainian airliner was shown in iran by a missile but that's before international experts had a chance to analyze the data. but i welcome it's midnight here in moscow you're watching international now the u.s. secretary of state has defended the trumpet ministrations decision to take general questions to the mommy. was confronted by journalists that were apparently

unconvinced by the evidence presented so far to justify a conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutiae 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 got particularly taps mike palm peo 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 threat and didn't have anything to do with our coming to see if. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to be an american lives. yes the intelligence community is not

flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got a fundamentally right there was an imminent. body is that right now gone with sort of money gone threats are never going 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 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 percent of 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 tromso killing of qassam solomonic among american people themselves i think there is a lot of. american public. concern about the assassination and the fact that it new polls are showing people think that it made americans less safe and so what was the point and i don't think people are buying the terms explanation that he gave that it was because of an imminent attack on the u.s. embassy while 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 biz. 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 be able to mobilization the reason that 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 ask a lady 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 until 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. the prime minister has demanded that the u.s. begin preparations for a troop pullout and in a phone call the os the u.s. secretary of state to send a delegation to iraq to work out with through a mechanism but the u.s. state department has responded to this by hailing america's military presence in the middle east as a force for good what it can see it has moved the type. of us familiar with the situation you invite someone over to say a friend they stay and stay and stay you drop a hint you know it's getting late comment todd but they just don't get it. america is a force for good in the middle east and

a delegation sam to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to be recommit to our strategic partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal what complicates things is that your unwelcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you call make this up americans kill an arabian general in iraq iran then shoots back a bunch of ballistic missiles in revenge out of iraq i mean these poor rocky guys they've done nothing and everyone's bombing them so you can understand if they're a little sick of it all and point to the door we want to restart the civil war again among the shia we don't want this to happen we're not a battlefield between the usa and around so whoever wants to hit the usa should do that outside of this country. that all of these troops must leave because they have

turned iraq into a battlefield and it's astonishing the americans are saying no we don't care that you voted for us to leave we won't and just in case that wasn't enough of a slap in the face actually going to call more of their friends over to iraq and nato played and then you have any middle east you know they told me i said what a beautiful name nato personnel in the region to know you're supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an international problem. today and need to delegation is at the state department to discuss increasing nature's role in the iraq situation is absurd it makes a joke a mockery of international law and simple decency and as does anything absurd has the internet buzzing. america is a force for good in the middle is and will start to civil war to prove you need our protection given military forces the against the wishes of the people who live

there it's called occupation when we said we wanted to bring a democracy in we didn't mean you could use it to make your own decisions iraq asks u.s. troops to leave the country but president pompei o refuses instead his state department issues a statement the 1st sentence reads america is a force for good in the middle east remember if you say i am so cool then you're not cool there's a lesson here i suppose you can't be friends with a superpower they'll call your friend al patch on the head but when push comes to shove you are just another poor bombed out nation that's going to do as you're told right or north out of body outlanders thing there are no real reasons for the us to stay in iraq. it takes there's you know well i think your eyes is 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 they are accurate is that it really is it is all it's you know simple. and very completely you know i don't believe that it's actions of theirs i mean. unless you have to wonder to come back and want to finance them this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. i'm going to pull out. here today actually i'm going to lose the lucian. problems. thank president vladimir putin ski has tweeted his gratitude for american support over wednesday's crash of passion jet in iran after he spoke to the u.s. secretary of state by face. 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 quote important data relating to the incident ukraine's leader the u.s. canada and the u.k. all do say now that they have evidence suggesting a rocket from iran itself brought down ukrainian international airline a jet killing all a 176 people on board iran though denies any missile was involved and has invited international experts to monitor its investigation. does immediate family photos will allow the americans the french the canadians of the swedish to come here and see how we investigate this crash right specials board has some cameras in america that investigate crashes we trust those aboard it's what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missile has had the spray these are the latest pictures from the crash site passengers belongings so we seen here the area reportedly is no

longer cordoned off and investigators are no longer present either earlier iran said wreckage from the aircraft have now 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 but the plane's black boxes recovered from the site have been shown by the iranian state media turan says the claim the jet was downed by a missile are illogical and impossible although later begs to differ. we are no reason to. believe reports we have seen from different a little odd couples have expressed concern about of. information indicating that. the plane may have been downed by iranian air defense systems. are now looks at how the 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 an array near the surface to air missile and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say 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 this may well have been an intentional we're 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 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 it's not an unreasonable request the investigation into the events of wednesday morning which saw the boeing 737 bound crash 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 annoys. everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions and it's not a topic for hype 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 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 it felt confident enough to recommend people just assume the plane was shot down until evidence to the contrary emerges guilty until proven innocent it's

a new name of the game in today's political land. well it's been claimed that a new video here does show a missile streaking into the night sky over to iran and exploding as it hits an object various media outlets are saying it was taken at the time ukraine was on its flight let's get some reaction to all of this with the political will be but as the joins us he's the director of the international dialogue foundation good evening to you should be a thanks for coming on as we just heard from sask is report there a lot of speculation in the media many people blaming iran already for this what extent do you think all this all this speculation actually interferes with the investigation. but look in so far as investigation is concerned you know we have the report quite rightly pointed out mysterious multiple sources the realities that when there were a situation like this a rise is if it doesn't concerned the western power is and then the

blame game starts and all these you know are unknown source is intelligence figures appear on the horizon to blame a particularly nation who is you know fighting at many fronts with the us a and the washington consensus so you rand quite easily is sort of blamed that the plane was you know stuck struck by some missing and there is no evidence as to be can remember what couple of years ago when the nuff with chalk incident happened in u.k. russia was blamed with lout investigation so continuously this happens every really it's incredible it's an laugh of bull it set times really is disingenious for us ca a nation or the only nation in history which down a passenger

a plane into 1st gulf war that is the war that was taking place between iraq and iran between 108088 that passenger plane was downed by us and it wasn't by mistake it was done intentionally it was done very clearly visibly and you know no one blames us send till this day us it has not apologized so this or dash shias of miss to palm pill or and i don't know why was to trudeau really comes of the horizon saying that we have information how does mr true do have this information and the chief comment sunny so the whole narrative is being built in such a manner no really. without really investigating it should be i suppose they would argue look our intelligence services have provided with this information although we're not obliged to tell the public about it that's what they say but just on your

point how helpful is it for someone like someone like nato and its secretary general to come out and say there's no reason not to believe that iran was to blame this is you know just barely the investigation got underway it could take months before it's finished and yet straightaway someone in authority like him has said you know there's no reason not to believe it was around. well look as far as intelligence reports are concerned and we all recall very well what happened with the w m d and you know iraq was going to attack us in 45 minutes and mr powell at the united nations showing a small sort of bottle that this is the chemicals which are which are saddam would use so all of these intensely report but i think the key thing to remember for all the audience and i want to appeal to your viewers that mr palm piro this the secretary of state of us see quite proudly says that we lie cheat and beastie

and not only we do that but we actually have the manual and we teach others how to do it so when the secretary of state of usa says that they're lies they cheat and steal then i think the global community must really understand that each time anything that comes out of washington out of out of london out of paris is untruthful and really does not give information in a correct manner to the public to come to a rational and logical conclusion although in their defense i suppose if their information is correct it should be made pretty clear. whether this missile if it was an right he missed all the hit the plane as the investigation progresses but what i was going to say she beer is it's unfair to say everybody's reacted like this because there have been some pretty sort of course of course his remarks to you know to be from the president but also from the u.s. foreign policy chief to let's just listen to what joseph burrell said. you know

that. question really this has been advance into possibility or. not an accident but i don't know and it would be quite responsible for my side to influence news about such a sensitive scene we saw how we could create information. it is not the response that you would expect from. at this stage what are your thoughts well i agree look we've got to be cautious and as your report quite rightly pointed out that when and incidentally like this happens it takes not only weeks months perhaps even years to come to the conclusion as to what the reality was but this is all part of the ratcheting after trying to show that iran is them aligned state iran is doing things which are not really in the interest of the public and then your other report quite rightly which is related to this particular incident is that you know

u.s. is good for the world but really i would like you said that you know what mr. trump was saying that they took everything but i think what would be a really good title is that i ari and me islamic republic middle east without the usa there then all the problems that we have will disappear and then we could get to some truth full conversation and having a narrative which has some bases and a logical basis to end the communication. ok if you were going to leave it there but thanks for your opinions on this or that should be. a political analyst thank you. for the wake of the passions of jet crash in iran plane maker boeing has become an broiled in another scandal involving a different aircraft type in its range according to a trove of newly released internal messages employees at the firm had concerns about his ill fated boeing 737 max staff were apparently aware of issues relating

to pilot training but hid the fact from safety inspectors i still haven't been forgiven by god for the covering up i did last year would you put your family on a mac. simulated trained aircraft i wouldn't know the blues design boat gloams who are supervised by monk use over a 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of a probe into how the boeing 737 max jet was certified safe before 2 major recent plane crashes the plane's manufacturer released a statement expressing regret over the content of the communications between its employees boeing also gave assurances to it had made significant changes to enhance its safety procedures well the aircraft manufacturer had its entire 737 max fleet grounded in march last year after it was involved in 2 deadly plane crashes with

ethiopian airlines and also in an easy is lying in air 346 people were killed in those disasters problems with automated flight control systems are thought to have contributed to the fatal crashes and some of the memo suggested that boeing limited pilot training on simulators is a cost cutting measure aviation safety advocate getting use believes that that was a serious mistake. most flight conversion training happens in simulators even if even national conversion to a type will only derivative of a given type so that's not unusual i think one of the problems that browning painted themselves into a corner a little bit with the 7 through so much broken was trying to make it cheaper for airlines to to operate in terms of a common pilot pool with the earlier models of 737 specifically the astoundingly

successful in g. family of 7 series as people in flight safety committee certainly sinkers searches expensive trial and accident my think this is a the ultimate station of that particular mantra the cost to blow it. out of the problems with the 737 months program i don't think any work people have tried to calculate it but i think i think it's beyond graham's. that's more than a month i have been a protest against the french government's plan to reform pensions a draft bill of the project has now been revealed and will be presented to the council of ministers until week's time the main bone of contention though is an increase in the pension age although according to the text it's not something that would apply until 2020 take a shot at the reports. 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 life spans 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 an 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. people are tired of that age they can't continue working. as phones enters into a 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 polls show that 2 thirds of respondents

find this to be on palatable while some unions have even demanded that all references to retirement at 64 be removed from the law. this new age is unfair because it will be no allies 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. i think he does know that everywhere in europe in countries like ours across europe people work a little longer because my thanks makes sense he is going to go. 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. other countries in the e.u. some might say that the french have it pretty good in countries like sweden denmark

portugal germany and many more the age of retirement is already higher than the current age of retirement to france at 62 and it would still be higher than the new threshold at 64 in addition the life expectancy in these countries is lower than the fronts meaning that people who work longer to retire on average in those countries and are more likely to access their pension for shorter periods of time so why are the french making such a song and dance about this. is not about comparing countries it's about so sure aggression it's about. and we don't know what will be next. to the office it generally lower the retirement age to $6060.00 or less we should do the opposite and not race to the bottom that's the issue for the european union

as a whole only sympatico on doing we believe that france is current retirement system is economically viable so as long as we support retirement funds we do not need to slash workers' rights. from the retirement age the main problem is the row our contracts for this this signifies a complete breakdown of the social system can move it seems for the french regardless of what they european neighbors might be doing when they turn 64 they want to already be enjoying their retirement and this is non-negotiable jollity been ski altie paris and that is the news from back again at the top of the.

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