and this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion. of. the week's top stories the middle east is plunged deep into crisis as a round says it accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet the disaster came after the revolutionary guards were put on full combat alert following an exchange of hostilities with the u.s. also. tear gas and turmoil france continues to face violent anti-government protests which were which nearly triggered by pension reform plans. and tech giant apple reveals what many fear happens to our private photos of missing it monitors that the company says to prevent child sex abuse we heard from experts on the pros and

cons. was not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible what does that mean that's terrifying language you are going to use a break with violence with our pornography i mean many many images that we bring to that is the 1st way of doing it. very well can you watching the weekly here on r.t. international when you get all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shape the week but 1st after several days of strident denial iran has admitted that it accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane claiming wednesday's disaster on human error and a breakdown in communications all 176 people on board were killed in the accident iran's revolutionary guards were on high tone but alert at the time. i'm following

exchange of hostilities with the u.s. they say they mistakenly identified the lineup as a hostile target. and now recap 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 as up to

twitter predicted when the hashtag world will 3 start to try being was close to 0 and sure enough on monday we saw the iranian military hit to us at bases in iraq with missile strikes to iran it was seeking vengeance for washington's assassination of its top commander cussen sort of mani 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 plane crash. just minutes after taking off from terror on app or ukrainian international airlines flight $7052.00 bound for t.f. came down killing all $176.00 onboard relatives of the victims from kiev to off from kabul to london. and stockholm grieved iran initially denied reports

that it was behind the tragedy calling the 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 that 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 on wednesday who ultimately paid the price. a vigil for the victims has been held in the of anian capital tehran where there has been both grief and anger over the tragedy people had candles for the designate flowers next to pictures of them we asked a number of analysts for their thoughts on the catastrophe and how it was able to happen. in times of war and the so-called forego for unfortunately the reasonable rate there yet able to pierce this fog unless the reason the 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 u.s. 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 s.p.'s under extreme circumstances could have avoided this horror and that you'll 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 good will be said that he always appeared to be have to be the case and the big picture to how did he use this in that he on how to be escalated this i believe did on his have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this horrible accident in which $176.00 people were lost was done by the american to have the video and say yes that is true. on friday washington imposed by the sanctions on iran in response to his targeting of american military personnel in iraq during the announcement though the secretary of state had a tough time defending the dotted state's assassination of general custom salon monny his most pompei a big challenge on the alleged iran threat that led to the killing if you have specific information about the threat and didn't have anything to do with our embassies. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those

threats trim included attacks on the u.s. embassies what is your definition of it and then if. 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 that was active plotting is that right now going with sort of my god threats are never going. so the money's assassination has sparked protests among his supporters both in the middle east and in the u.s. where hundreds of people have been rallying demonstrators was shouting out he was slogans urging washington to withdraw its troops stationed in iraq says the american media pundits have been steaming he pushing for the u.s. to step up its charge against iran and just caleb maupin reports there are lucrative defense industry deals as 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 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 morning following the december 31st attack on the u.s. embassy in iraq since 979 iran has bullied threatened and killed and spread its reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran to this point including scrapping the iranian nuclear deal then the hip junior works for

a lobbying firm american defense incorporated that represents military contractors and who are one of the sponsors of his lobbying efforts none other than the manufacturers of the drone that killed solomonic so are we really shocked he's not singing kumbaya on urging restraint check out this guy they crossed a red line with this president when he when he exercised enormous going to story. not taken a provocation. but so don't kill americans and when they did he he acted and acted very strongly jack keane is represented as just a retired general giving his 2 cents but actually sent his retirement from the pentagon he's been working with military contracting companies like general dynamics and now he runs a venture capital firm that specializes in defense and security not exactly mr objective general saw money he was a lawful military objectives and the president had ample domestic legal authority

to take him out without an additional congressional authorization jed johnson was in the department of homeland security under barack obama but now he's in the private sector working for lockheed martin that's the company that makes the war planes that are stationed across the middle east and who can forget david petraeus that's the military commander turned cia director who had an affair and leaked classified information to his mistress now you would think you wouldn't be credible after all this is what happened when he tried to teach classes at city college in new york. i mean if you don't know what it is going to 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 bin ladin that'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 us 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 term 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 when the government has not made a concession to scrap raising the full benefit retirement age today rallies in paris and other cities saw thousands out in force including the yellow vests

movements police resorted to water cannon in the city of nonsense and good boiled over in those 3000 people took part in the valleys there say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across france. 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 crowd seemed paris and the crowds are huge just want to get you to go up and get a sense of looking down the street to seclude to mission tents and pushy much all the way down to our last of the publique it is chock a block with people people who've come out to support the 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 i've been doing at the lodge plus 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 said to india either be destroying get the strike moving to try and get the impasse safe to cross that people are furious say they saying. you know they don't want to sell out their children's speeches that grandchildren's features and that's why they determined to come out into the streets to keep protesting tensions are rising here towards the end of the protests that 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 crowds of tear gas in price don't tear gas still raining down on the protesters as the police try and control the situation here you can hear the people in the crowds and shouting everyone hates the police that's

a chant we take quite often but you can really feel that tension right shooting up here in paris at the end of this protest that has been largely peaceful a tear gas has been deployed throughout it and we have seen some individuals arrested individuals who apparently throwing objects towards the police that sounds like some grenades but it could also be tear gas coming down on us but you might be able to see the lights coming up on the fly as it sounds like that was a sound grenades going off that people saying that they won't get to 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 ahead this hour our poll opens up about his monitoring of private data on the reasons behind the controversial practice we'll tell you more about that in a few minutes. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out. become educated and indeed trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

and. welcome back if you panic that your photos are being viewed by others than the power at least your right to a softer apple revealed it scans pictures it says to clamp down on child sex abuse . we are utilizing subject ologies to help screen for child sexual abuse material the tech giant was forced into making the admission after its updated privacy policy contains the line saying the corporation may collect information regarding customer activities while these activities include monitoring everything from i cloud to i tunes and beyond the company adds it may also scan users up loaded data for illegal content or we put the issue up for debate with privacy activist on

technology expert bill new and political commentator charged with more. of course everyone is for stopping child abuse and that's not the issue here it's that 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 concerns that apple is rifling through all of the photos and all of that 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 power and the computing overhead to be able to . scan full photos against each other in an in the kind of way that people imagine

this is possibly the best use of the current available technology you know 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 offload it's a really violent video once they'd heist that video they managed to prevent people real plugging that video over a 1000000 times it has been used effectively with violence 1 with pornography and many many images of me 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 into owning our data into finding out even more information about us i think it's

scary and i don't think that apples to be in the business of law enforcement. if it does show that each year hundreds of n.h.s. patients in england are reporting that they've been sexually assaulted while staying in mixed sex the mental health wards information was revealed by the health service journal on tuesday single sex wards see 3 times fewer reports of abuse yes despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards guidelines still allow shared spaces there were 1019 complaints of sexual assault a mixed wards between april 27th and october 29th as a rate of one attack per day with drugs was assaulted while she was an n.h.s. patient she told us about how vulnerable people are left at risk by hospital practices. mental outward or depression anxiety there is very very low i was in this particular hospital.

and in the person. i met. a stranger it was a start remember he worked nights he comes on time to talk to me i didn't really think much of it. but over time just became more. close to me ways in my gut you know wasn't shared it was the 1st but it was you. stacia blue chips i'm used. in just touching my hand and my arm. and i didn't. think it was a. nice nearly became closer to. what extend in our. specialist or in egypt.

seems to me. the department of health and social care has responded by saying it will never tolerate sexual abuse in the n.h.s. but rivka grants again says the health care system is failing to take proper care of its patients i can't go to wood where there's going to be man standing outside marriage and our young well ma'am. you know not not always went. in able to manage themselves very well you're going in missouri. and the county mission you shouldn't feel constantly distracted while you're on a ward which is not to see you even if you're there it's going to terry which i was you know i was never a i was not on deception or in a bank you have no rights they didn't give you rights and you're just not listening i believe and i had any other symptoms are going to crash and they might just say well she's making it are you know there are risks that there is

a general disbelief asians people are going to do and i don't i don't think there is a place in the mental health system for there is there is no reason other than people you know to find out you know might be better than. the death toll in australia has now risen to 28 people is the most ferocious wildfires and decades affects the southeast of the country many thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes and about 1000000000 animals are feared dead there's been briefly spike from the record breaking heat wave but authorities say lives and homes are still under threats and more hot weather is expected.

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