a flurry of rockets hits a run or a base wounding forest service personnel facility also how this is american troops also ahead on the program. france's shaken by another round of violent protests against the government's deeply unpopular plans to reform the pension system. balancing. the protests and reveals its photos uploaded to its

screen for child sex abuse images we hear reaction from. apple is not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible what does that me that's terrifying language has been used effectively with violence 1 with. many many images of me. doing it. with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments well welcome to the weekly in our international i mean and. authorities in iraq say our rocket attack on herb base was injured forest service personnel now the facility which is located to the north of the capital also says u.s. troops on was previously targeted following washington's assassination of the

iranian general houssam solo money on a quarter join me with the details. yeah well we still have a lot of different reports in terms of figures of how many missiles or mortars hit the base some are saying that 7 mortar bombs hit the bases runway another says 4 rockets hit the base but we have heard from iraqi security officials and they say that 8 katyusha rockets launched were launched at the base and made contact across the board though we do know that at least 4 iraqi military personnel have been injured and are hospitalized now we also know with the other a base that's been in the news before because it had a sizable american presence that's where american troops where in the part of the country it's what about 50 miles. north of baghdad are they still there as an aside to that are american troops likely have been the target yeah well actually there are still some american military advisers left at that base but the majority

of them have been pulled out since the recent tensions the recent spike in tensions between the u.s. and iran recently let's not forget that just last week a u.s. airstrike killed the high ranking coots commander qassam soleimani and iran retaliation for that and it came as 2 airstrikes against u.s. military bases in iraq and nobody was killed or injured but it definitely has led to a rise in tensions between those 2 countries in the region and to run actually also valid even harsher retaliation later on and we don't know who is responsible for this strike but that could be a factor in it perhaps they were whoever wants these missiles were trying to target americans but perhaps not because again there were only around 15 u.s. military advisers at the base at this time and none of them were hurt or injured now we have seen another report that suggests that the iranian backed p.m.s. militia was responsible for this but again there's no confirmation yet. syud

mohammad marandi is a professor of tehran university we asked him who may have been responsible for the a turk and what the motive was well we don't know what this attack was about what the jet that was but this was it with the but the general resistance the united states as indigenous the iraqi parliament under duress from the americans they still voted to expel the americans the americans threatened the parliamentarians they told them will take away your assets will put you on the sanctions list so it is really up to the americans to decide that their own state in iraq iran has no soldiers in iraq iran has no military bases in fact most of iran's relationship with iraq is tourism and trade and the americans are sanctioning anyone and everyone who carries out trade with iranian business men and women so that obviously makes iraqis even more angry because they are making that konami to

creation for the for the iraqi people more difficult just as iranians but most iraqis ignore the americans they continue to trade and they only hate the americans more for imposing their will on their people on the iraqi people at all levels whether it's through government whether it's through their military strikes or whether it's imposing sanctions. we have come of course after iran admitted on saturday about it had accidentally shot danny ukrainian possible your plane blaming the disaster and human error and a breakdown in communications iran's revolutionary guards were in high calm boss alert at the time following an exchange of hostilities with the us yourself a tailor with a recount. 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 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 who 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 as twits have predicted when the hash talk wild 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 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 wass then came the paying crash. just minutes after taking off from terror on app or ukrainian international airlines flight $75.00 to bound for t.f. came down killing $176.00 on board relatives of the victims from kiev to off from kabul to london and stockholm green that iran initially tonight reports that it was behind the tragedy calling the illogical and scientifically impossible it invited investigators from various countries. 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 may not be 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 sad 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 to regress apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all victims and to other affected nations. as questions ah sgt as think as appointed as more sanctions are imposed it's not politicians but those who boarded that fateful flight and wednesday who ultimately paid the price. taylor will this sunday be arabian government's official deeley newspaper dedicated its from comfort to those on board the don flight their names are printed all the way along and design the

plane's tail a vigil has also been held in the country's capital where there has been both grief and anger over the tragedy people laid flowers next to photos of victims and lit candles for those who are hundreds of students then gathered to protest in front of tehran's amir kabir university calling for justice accountability and the resignation of the fish. the u.k. ambassador to iran was briefly detained 2 for questioning after attending the vigil rob mccurry tweeted to say that he left shortly after the anti government chants began around says he was released once he had proved his identity and diplomatic status we asked a number of analysts for their thoughts on the deadly events and how it was able to happen. in times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are 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 and jumped to the tank luzhin and fired pretty ticked at us become tactical blunders the strategy off by that regularly being ordered closing down the a.s.p.'s under extreme circumstances could have avoided

this whole war the 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 wish me 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 ian's have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this horrible accident in which 176 people were lost was done by the americans at the video and say yes that is true. a russian journalist then are to come tribute or see she heard her facebook account suspended after posting an article about the slain aronian general kassam salami here so yulia using the scribe what happened. i received a notification which said that my post violated facebook's community standards that

was it initially i didn't actually understand that my account had even been suspended and it was only when i tried to do something on facebook that a message popped up notifying me of an account suspension for 60 days it's worth noting that i can't typically get suspended for a shorter period of time usually a month my post was meant as a presentation of my article that had been published on marty's website in it so i try to give the readers an idea of what the role of general samani played in iran and what consequences his death could bring about i made a point of stating that i didn't support the iranian regime i myself was arrested in to iran in early october last year as a zionist spy so i have no reason whatsoever to like this regime but this general was a big figure he was very influential in iran maybe even the most influential person there so this description with his photograph attached triggered this heavy handed reaction. as case is just one of many event was reported in the days following

solomonic killing users of instagram which is owned by facebook also complained of a conscious pensions on the deletion all posts praising the iranian commander the iranian government spokesperson has lost the suspensions calling them quote almost democratic the international federation of journalists also describe the move us all acceptable it says iranians need on fettered access to information or facebook for its part it's following u.s. laws regarding sanctions including those relating to iran's revolutionary guard corps which is viewed as a terrorist organization by washington. claims however america's pressure on social media platforms be a mockery of its professed commitment to freedom of speach. is this because charles i think what we see in might now is a case of double standards a very hypocritical policy because the u.s. prides itself on being

a beacon of democracy for the whole world they are always trying to teach other countries how to be democratic and overthrow regimes purportedly to install democracy but in this case we see a blatant case of censorship political censorship when there's a purge going on targeting a person who's out of the current u.s. president's grace i think facebook had been handed down an order it very much looks like there is a ban on any mentioning of solomonic on social media there is writing about him in a neutral light simply posting his photo get that posts removed straightaway and account suspended that's what censorship is isn't it. to another headline stories protests against pension reform in france have carried over into the new year while the government has no major concession in scrapping the raising of the full benefit retirement age saturday rallies in paris other cities as well so thousands i don't force including the universe movement in

a couple of things that turn violent with police resorting to tear gas. was was i was i. i was i. was. the. police resorted to using water cannon in the city of nolte's over almost 3000 people to party rallies there union say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across france this. so at this hour our poll opens up about its monitoring of private data on the reasons behind the

controversial practice more but in moment. what. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be precise this is what before 3 of the more people. interested in the water. question. we ponder the future and look into 2021 fascinating stories will come 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. hello again if you feel on the easy ballot your online photos could be viewed by others and partly you're right about softer uppal revealed pictures it's safe to come down in child sex abuse. we are utilizing subject only to help screen for child sexual abuse materiel. was forced into making the admission after its updated prove a c policy contained a line saying the corporation make lect information regarding customer activities

those activities include monitoring everything from my. beyond the company to me also scan on users top loaded data for illegal content when we put the issue for debate with political commentator chadwick prove the c. octave a stroke technology experts believe you. course everyone is for sopping child abuse an and that's not the issue here it's that i simply i'm not buying it if a company i don't believe it apple really cares about fighting crime but they just entered the live streaming business where people may be concerns that our pull is rifling through all of the folks i was in all of that dates a this isn't actually the case the type of technology that we're looking at here simply is use to take a a finger prints of a particular image once an image is none to include some child abuse images rate apple was not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible potentially illegal

activity including child born what does that mean that's terrifying language you wouldn't simply how of the processing power and the brush computing over had to be able to my scan full 5 terms against each of the in and in the kind of way the people at my gym this is possibly the best use of the current available technology they know to to crack down the posting all of a serious child abuse images i but i'd love to know how successful is all of this technology if you look up cases at photo d.n.a. has been used to ketch people distributed 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 taken any techniques what use with the question which technique but whether they offload it's i'm really valan video one stayed high sht that video of their monies to prevent people rio plugging that video of are a 1000000 times it has been

a used effectively with vonage as with pornography i'm many many images of me prevent it on his the best way of doing it oh i don't trust these companies i just think it's ever encroaching more and more into our privacy you do owning our data in defining out even more information about us i think it's scary and i i don't think that apple's to be in the business of law enforcement new figures show that each year hundreds of n.h.s. patients in england are reporting that they have been sexually assaulted while staying in mc 6 mental health boards the information was revealed by the health service journal choose the single sex wards we know see 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards and still allow spaces there were over 100-1000 complaints of sexual assault and mix which between april 27th of october 29000 votes rate of about one attack a day rivka grants was assaulted while she was an n.h.s.

patient she told us about how vulnerable people are left to risk by hospital practices. there i was on a mental outward for my depression and anxiety there is a very very lair i was in this was a camera. and in the past. i met. became a stranger is a staff member here at night he comes on time to talk to me i didn't really think much of it. but over time just became more friendly no stewie talking to me always in my going to you know was in a chat room it was the 1st educator. stuff should have blue chips in that i'm used and. even just touching my hand on my arm. and i didn't. think it was an.

east nearly became close to. what extend in our. section is that many get to. know and seems to me go to. the department of health and social care responded by saying all things of sexual abuse in the n.h.s. are investigated but in this front again ses the health care system is failing to take proper care of its patients. i can't go to woodland is going to be man standing outside manager at our own well ma'am. no no no ways when you're in a. very well you're going in missouri patient when. they should be taking that into account they shouldn't have you shouldn't feel constantly distracted while you on a ward which is not to say dinner. 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 it just not listen i believe that if i and i had any other symptoms i'm going to crash and they might just say well she's making it all again you know there was that there is a general disbelief patients people obviously are not and i don't think there is a mix in the mental health system for nick sports there is there is no reason for it other than people you know find out you know right. now after so many years of false dawns kind peace in syria finally break out this decade was a part of scott's is out and it's next. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

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. cologne welcome to worlds apart from the formation of a constitutional committee for syria has been billed as a sign of hope for the long suffering syrian people the people's hopes for peace were dashed too many times over the last 8 years as they. reason to believe that this time around things will be different well to discuss that i'm now joined by as

a. former deputy special envoy of the un secretary-general for syria mr rounds it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for inviting me now you step down from this boast a few months ago but i'm sure emotionally and professionally you still care about what's going on in syria given the scale of suffering given the scale of divisions how significant or insignificant is this latest development aren't we all sort of overselling the whole that is there well 1st let me say that i remain of course very much attached and as you said emotionally involved with syria this is the 1st this is the reason why i took the draw 1st with the u.n. to try to help bring about a settlement to meet the aspirations and syrian people you know coming from the region. i think you and your audience were understand now the constitutional committee and i look at it as a milestone in the very long process in bringing about

a peaceful settlement peaceful a political settlement in syria. it is something that we've been working for as you know for some time i've said it before no suit again i think we could have had it earlier it will help syrians you know to go to the opposition but also independents to put their minds together and work out. a new constitutional framework you know i think. i'm sure you know that there have been a number of internationally mediated efforts to resolve this conflict since 2011 and some of them failed because of the recalcitrance of the syrian actors many a well at least some of them failed because of the positions of foreign powers what has changed on the ground to give you this faint hope that you just articulated though it's may lead to something beyond talks well 1st of all i mean you refer to

the situation in. the world of the war is certainly warranted and i think people are tired in syria and beyond and i think this is. a mechanism that allows the syrians to get together and do something about now. positions have changed and i told you i mean we could have an agreement or your call and why it's happening now because positions have changed has the positions how the positions changed within syria or is it the stance of foreign partners or foreign splutters affair and sides that have well. as you know the syrian. conflict has 3 levels there's the international there's the regional and of course there is a good message local. positions have changed both of the regional. in

the sense that at some point or countries did not see. much me towards a constitutional committee i think that it changed i think they have come around and that has influenced the syrian parties. a messenger i know that when it comes to syria you like quoting his own men they french political economist who used to say that to solve an intractable problem you need to change the context now apparently the context has been changed as you said but. there was also a big believer in coordinating diplomatic and military policy is among european nations particularly britain france and the united states and he's even credited for shortening the 2nd world war through his coordination efforts do you think the syrian war would have been shortened a more specifically do you think the coordination among western powers on the

syrian front did it ultimately how to prolong.