oh dear thinks. we dared to ask. the week's top stories the middle east has plunged deep into crisis of iran says it accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet the disaster came after the revolutionary guard was on full combat alert following an exchange of hostility the preview also. tear gas and turmoil france continues to face violent antigovernment protests which were originally triggered by pension reform plans. and take giant apple reveals what many fear happens to our private photos the admitting good monitors them the company says to prevent child sex abuse we heard some experts on the pros

and cons. up was not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible what does that mean that's terrifying language has been used for exactly with violence 1 with the of pornography many many images that we bring to it is the best way of doing. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and around of the stories that shape the week but 1st it's been a week dominated by simmering tensions in the middle east iran has admitted to accidentally shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane leaving the tragedy on human error and faulty communications all $176.00 people on board were killed in the accident which took place early on wednesday morning the plane crash came after an exchange of hostilities with the u. . left washington had assassinated

a top iranian general with 2 wrong retaliating by targeting 2 as bases in neighboring iraq housing u.s. troops saskia taylor recaps how it all unfolded. this week has shown more than africa that tragically it's the average man is the victim of political wars amid tensions not seen in decades terror on and washington have been engaged in a war of the iranian regime is aggression in the region must stand now we've told the iranian regime enough. to really revenge and the ultimate response by regional nations is when america is expelled from this region iran must and its support for terrorism will and you know what the pentagon and the military counted as terrorists the united states will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime the united states rage an economic war against iran the united states has to come to its senses but the chances of this not erupting

now as twits have predicted when the harsh talk world will 3 start to try to bring was close to 0 and sure enough on monday we saw the iranian military hit to us bases in iraq with missile strikes to iran it was seeking vengeance for washington's assassination of its top commander cussen saddam monny in a drone strike in baghdad just a few days. combined these events ticked the book says of a diplomatic crisis it really couldn't get much worse then came the paying crash. just minutes after taking off from terror on app port ukranian international airlines flight 752 bound for t.f. came down killing all 176 onboard relatives of the victims from key.

to off from kabul to london and stockholm greeny that iran initially denied reports that it was behind the tragedy calling them illogical and scientifically impossible it invited investigators from various countries and organizations including boeing to visit the crash site then 3 days after the tragic incident suddenly came and admission of guilt the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired judy human error caused the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great tragedy and unforgivable mistake. the iranian military said the boeing 737 was passing close to a site belonging to iran's revolutionary guards and that its movement an altitude suggested it was an enemy target it said that its military was at its highest level of readiness having received information on the unusual movement of u.s.

warplanes so within 10 seconds a decision was taken to launch missiles at the target according to teheran a fatal example of human error. it's me don't do that i take full responsibility and i will obey whatever decision is taken i would prefer to die rather than witness such an incident the admission of guilt has been followed by an apology a promise to upgrade defense systems to prevent another such tragedy a transparent investigation and compensation for victims' relatives and the prosecution of the responsible person as it makes these pledges though to ron has also encouraged certain others to consider their roles in this disaster and how it is that we came to this moment the day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error a time of crisis caused by use adventurism lead to disaster i would prefer redress

apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all victims and to other affected nations as questions are asked as fingers are pointed as more sanctions are imposed it's not politicians but those who boarded that fateful flight and one state who ultimately paid the price. a vigil for the victims of the tragedy has been held in the iranian capital people were seen lighting candles and laying flowers next to pictures of the dead we've heard the opinions of several experts on the catastrophe. in times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable. yet able to pierce this fog unless the reason be conflicting mechanism so again one can talk about blame and responsibility or accountability the blame is iranian but the responsibility lies

on other shoulders too so iranian defense systems were on alert and they were expecting attacks by us planes as stated in the armed forces the statement there have been reports that some hostile objects flying objects have been appearing on radar screens in some of some parts around the country so soon as they saw a plane coming to a sensitive i.r.g.c. base they have you know rushed to jump to the tank luzhin and fired strategic at has become tactical blunders distracted g. off by that regularly being ordered closing down the space under extreme circumstances could have avoided this whole. magical whenever we have valid dives in that you'll be in we had bound to have mentioned raised guns cog

coolidge's ready to fight the it will be said that you always appear to be have to be the case and the big picture to how to diffuse this and that you know how to be escalated this i believe did on ian's have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this whole accident in which 176 people were lost was done by the americans at the video and yes that is true. meanwhile on friday washington impose further sanctions on iran targeting the economy and 8 top officials but as that as things escalated the u.s. secretary of state had a tough time defending washington's decision to assassinate iran's top general here's how my pump aoe tried to explain the alleged imminent threat that led to the killing. did you have a specific information about the threat and did have anything to do with optimism. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats

stream included attacks on the u.s. embassies what is your definition of it and. this was going to happen and american lives were at risk if the intelligence community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack there was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of my god threats are never going. so the money's assassination has sparked protests across the middle east and in the u.s. to where hundreds of people have been modeling demonstrators were shouting antiwar slogans washington to withdraw troops currently stationed in iraq as well as the american media pundits have been seemingly pushing for the u.s. to step up its charge against iran and the scale of more pain reports that are lucrative defense industry deals at stake. 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 preamp the 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 run into restocking tents and codes force command a custom so they money following the december 31st attack on the us embassy in iraq since 900 $79.00 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 go. 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 he wouldn't be credible after all this is what happened when he tried to teach classes at city college in new york. i mean if you don't know what it is going to be you. go but the trances 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 in 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 rank in. could force he has the blood of 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. unrelenting protests against pension reform in france have carried over into the new year while the government has now made a concession to scrap raising the full benefit retirement age on saturday rallies in paris and other cities still thousands turned out in force including the yellow vests movement's police was altered to water cannon in the city of non boiled over

almost 3000 people took part in rallies that you didn't say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across from. also on thursday large sections of the french population joined what's become the longest transport workers strike in recent history again in paris the demonstrations turned violent. well we've already seen tear gas deployed on several occasions by the police as they were trying to control the crowds here in paris and the crowds are huge i just

want to get you to go up and get a sense of looking down this street discipline of a 2 mission tent and pushy much all the way down to last a very public it is chock a block with people people who've come out to support this strike 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 trains operating fairly normally metros operating fairly normally in the mornings and in the evenings but during that the large part of the day little is operating apart from the automated lines that's $1.40 now in terms of the general support for this strike the polls in fogg's 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 reforms that the government wants to make it wants to

put 42 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 sometimes but work is set to india at a big choice and get the strike moving to try and get the impasse 8 to cross that people are furious say they saying. you know they don't want to sellouts their children's speeches they run children's features and dance why they determined to come out into the streets to keep protesting tensions are running here towards the end of the protest just want to get you to have a look back down there that's too would sun lazard in the center of paris you can see those clouds of tear gas inside still don't tear gas still raining down on the protesters as the place try and control the situation here you can hand over the people in the crowds and shouting everyone hates the police that said a chant we hate quiet often but you can really feel that tension right shooting up

a in paris at the end of the protests there has been largely peaceful a tear gas has been deployed throughout it and we have seen some individuals arrested individuals who apparently throwing objects to loads the police and that sounds like some grenades but it could also be tear gas coming down this but you might be able to see the lights coming up on the fly as it sounds like that was a sound going to aid going off that people saying that they won't get even live to enjoy their retirement and they determined to stay out on the streets and to make sure people know they're unhappy. still to come on the weekly under 5 pharmaceutical giant by a move to clean up its image with a climate change claim passed among the stories of this very short break to stay with us.

we ponder the future and look into 2021 fascinating stories all our way you know i've often said on this show that you can't have capitalism without capital capital

that positive interest rates encouraging people to say and this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion. welcome back if you panic the your photos are being viewed by others then apparently you write to. its guns pictures it says to clamp down on child sex abuse we are utilizing subject on a chase to help screen for child sexual abuse material. well tech giant was forced into making the admission after its updated privacy policy contained a line saying the corporation may collect information regarding customer activities and there is activities include monitoring everything from i cloud to i tunes and beyond the company ads it may also scan uses uploaded illegal content but we put

the issue up for debate with privacy activist on technology expert be bill new and political commentator chocolate more. course everyone is for stopping child abuse and that's not the issue here it's the i simply i'm not buying it at the company i don't believe that apple really cares about fighting crime they just entered the live streaming business where people may be concerned that paul is rifling through all of the photos and all of the data this isn't actually the case the type of technology that we're looking at here simply is used to take a fingerprint of a particular image once an image is known to include some child abuse imagery apple is not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible potentially illegal activity including child porn what does that mean that's terrifying language you wouldn't simply have the processing and the computing overhead to be able to.

scan full photos against each other in the kind of way that people imagine this is probably the best use of the current available technology in order to crack down the posting of a serious child abuse images i'd love to know how successful is all of this technology if you look up cases that photo d.n.a. has been used to catch people distributing kiddie porn there was one this year there was one in 2015 there's one in 2014 i mean there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these images out there these take many techniques were used with the question where they are quote it's a really violent video. once they did that video they managed to prevent people real loading that video over a 1000000 times it has been used effectively with violence with pornography and many many images of prevent it and is the best way of doing it i don't trust these companies i just think it's ever encroaching more and more into our privacy to

owning our data into finding out even more information about us i think it's scary and i don't think that apple should be in the business of law enforcement. on a school giant by a month facing a slew of lawsuits over its canceling beside ground roundup has changed tack now claiming that its products help fight climate change on these people if 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 facing the pointing of accusatorial finger is suggesting they are using climate concerned to try and salvage sullied reputations paid chemical and pharmaceutical colossus for example old buyable some so to be more exact the group of facing a string of lawsuits of allegations there we'd kill a coles and continues to coles council the company has tried to postpone hearings

and settle out of coal too 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 eighty's 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 but time has been used to be an m.p. for the german green policy now he's the bio mom son so senior vice president for public and government affairs having the former climate crusader to call for a spokesperson on board as part of by looking to market themselves as a climate conscious corporation and a key part in the use 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 one 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 plummet of their stock prices one at its young people about one attitude people in america now are expected to get cancer and yet they are monsanto justify allowing a carcinogen to be sprayed in our food the warnings of aig. quick fix being sold by business not being really viable options when it comes to tackling climate change are out there to see take plastic bags for example the scourge of the garbage dump a plastic bag can take well up to a 1000 years a biopsy can roll to biodegrade so and civil tentative labeled as bio degradable came out on the market they listen now however in reality they have little better than what they would say to replace a lot of shops selling packaging described by degradable composed in fact that i

can 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 are also 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 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 over a sudden jumps on something sustainable and claims that they're doing the right thing while it is a common trend because they realize that young people have different ideas than their parents and grandparents so. they are trying to reach these young people and make them favorable to their companies and their products we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media leaving our comments that we're back at the top of the hour with the latest say that. seems wrong but. just don't call. yet to shape

out this day. and in get ready because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. you know my one is a mighty i'm not one. of them said i'm the one behind their vows of a time about what it was it was a bit than that one listen there's a bomb was more about the. one with the one in the side the fulcrum of the. scene the following if in but i'm before but i caught on to him by the. now i'm body i'm now move on

from beneath. the water we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. with.

dr eric joining us from santa ram is considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. by the way this man with no clothes isn't don't try jennings he's a member of the indy. who's helping that don't oh put together. jennings people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some move. on flying aircraft a little. strange. this footage is unique because this is. normally off limits to the public.