a flurry of rockets hit an air base near baghdad wounding of 4 iraqi soldiers at the facility also houses american personnel also ahead. but. france is shaken by another round of protests against highly unpopular pension reforms. and the week's top stories tech giant apple reveals it scans users' photos to screen for child abuse images we hear reaction from competition. apple is not clear about that apple says illegal pop possible what does that mean that's terrifying language has been used effectively with violence with pornography and many many images of revenge it is the best way of doing it.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program business r.t.e. international and john thomas and with us at least 4 iraqi soldiers have been injured in a rocket strike on the balanda airbase to the north of baghdad the facility also houses american personnel and was previously targeted after the u.s. assassination of iran's top general earlier my colleague you know neal discussed the story with. 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 a katyusha rockets launched were launched at the base and can't make 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 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 are they still there as an aside to our 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 solo monny 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 launched 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. we heard from middle east analysts tomorrow coffee says the use of non-personal missiles in the latest strikes suggest that iran was not directly responsible there has been a number of attacks previous to this of the same nature you know katyusha rockets whatever and some of them have been used as a pretext to launch attacks by the united states against the. popular mobilization forces and there is no one who's claiming responsibility it doesn't fit with the

strategy of the mobilization forces doesn't fit with the strategy of iran so it's highly unlikely that we would know without anyone claiming this. these are again attacks using weapons none precision weapons the margins of error are huge even if there were american forces in this base and this is not an all american base or solely american base there are iraqi soldiers there so most likely one could argue that there were various targeting this space doesn't necessarily care about the iraqi army or iraqi personnel the iranian government is under intense pressure after admitting that its forces accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane sunday's missile attack came 3 days after wednesday's tragedy in which 176 people lost their lives here's our taylor with a recap of events. 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 end its support for terrorism oh 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 twitter predicted when the hashtag while it 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 agreement iran initially tonight reports that it was behind the tragedy calling them illogical and scientifically impossible to invite 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 terror on a fatal example of human error. it's mean all get out 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 regress apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all victims and to other affected nations. as questions os qt as things as appointed as more sanctions are

imposed it's not politicians but those who boarded that fateful flight in one state who ultimately paid the price. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has been having a tough time defending the assassination of iran's top general mike pompei i was challenged on his claim that major general solo money posed an imminent threat if you have specific information about you know the threat and didn't have anything to do with are going to see. 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 and then if. this was going to happen and american lives were at risk 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 gone with sort of money gone threats are never going. donald trump's

decision to take out iran's top general in a drone strike has been widely condemned in the u.s. several rallies were held over the past week across the country calling for an end to overseas military aggression and a pullout from iraq although some american media pundits have been pushing for the us to adopt even harsher tactics against iran and its r.t.s. and comments there are some 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 to defense of measure now these are supposed to be just random smart people who are going to help us understand the situation except they 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 so they money following the december 31st attack on the us embassy in iraq since 9 $179.00 iran has bullied threatened and killed and spread its reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran so these points 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 iran is 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. and. i mean if you don't know what it is going to be you're going to. 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 bugged 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 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 they're 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 and inciting

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 'd. protests against pension reform in france have carried over into the new year on saturday thousands of protesters took to the streets of paris. was. the. in the city of the. riot police used water cannons to

push back angry crowds almost 3000 people took part in rallies there. half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across. the president. recognized republic in the caucuses has said that he is stepping down after wave of opposition protests. he was elected as head of state in september but critics said the vote was rigged on thursday demonstrators stormed the presidential administration building breaking doors and windows the situation calmed down after the president announced his resignation parliament will later hold a vote on installing an interim leader. the death toll in australia has now risen to 28 people the most ferocious wildfires in decades affected the southeast of the country many thousands of people have been forced to abandon their

homes and about 1000000000 animals there has been brief respite from the record breaking heat wave but authorities say lives and homes are still under threat and more hot weather is expected. giant apple revealed this week invented scans users pictures to detect cases of child abuse. we are utilizing subject only to help screen for child sexual abuse material apple's announcement follows on from a privacy policy update it came with

a warning that the company may collect information on customer activities and monitor all files uploaded to i cloud and i tunes of the company added it can also scan users' data for illegal content we put the issue up for debate with political commentator chadwick moore and technology expert. 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 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 the kind of way that people imagine this is possibly 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 24000 i mean there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these images out there these take many techniques we use 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. 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 mixed sex and mental health wards information was revealed by the health service journal on tuesday a single sex wards see 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards guidelines still allow shared spaces there were 100-1000 complaints of sexual assault in mixed wards between april 2 $1017.00 and october 2019 that is a rate of one alleged attack a day. grant was assaulted while she was an n.h.s.

patient she told us about how vulnerable people are left at risk by hospital practices. there i was on a mental outward or my depression and anxiety there is very very rare i was in this particular hospital. and in the past couple of weeks i met a blast became a stranger is a staff member here at night he comes on time to talk to me that i didn't really think much of it. but over time and he just became more friendly close to me talking to me always in my going through now wasn't a chat room it was the 1st. stop should have no chips event the time he was spending in my room he's got 6 even just touching my hands and my own was it was wrong and i didn't. think it was

a part of. the ads. he slowly became closer to me. i didn't send enough. specialists are many to. knowing seems me but that. the department of health and social care responded by saying all claims of sexual abuse in the n.h.s. are investigated but we've got grant again says the health care system is failing to take proper care of its patients. i can't go towards less is going to be man standing outside marriage and our young well ma'am she never know not always with. an 8 able to manage themselves very well you're going in missouri a shit when. they should be taking that into account they shouldn't have you shouldn't have to feel constantly distracted while you on a ward which is not to say dinner help you even if you are 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. i had any other symptoms i'm going to and they might just. you know there are risks that there is a general disbelief. and i don't think there is a. mental health. there is there is no reason. that you know financially you know right. now for a complete change of pace the french bakers confederation has declared war on what it considers fake croissants a bit of a warning if you're hungry this story will make you more so show dubinsky have the story look in any french bakery and the one thing you are guaranteed to find unless of course they've sold out is a croissant it is the archetype will breakfast pastry eaten on its own or lavished

with a bit of conflict sure that's me but with it's typical for it is an mistake of all except is this a real quest well it is of course a real class because it's edible but it is rather where this quest all was all wasn't made that stirring up quite a fuss with the bakers confederation in france that are now declaring a war on fake quest sauce 30 years ago when you entered a bakery you never wondered if it was homemade bakeries often display a sign saying our tis not all now this should mean that the pastries the braids and the cakes that are sold they're all made on site by a trained now within the profession there are rumors that that might not actually be the case sakho blur indeed with indications that some 80 percent of pastry sold actually made in

a factory it has become the can through our profession where is the sense of pride when you don't do anything you so you become an iron monger. breakers complain that they just cold find this stuff to make the croissants while others have found using industrial produced pastries lowers the cost and. the profits but as with anything the proof of the pudding or the course in this case is always in the eating. quest so see what makes a good cross and a good cross on to soft and has a buttery taste and prison so i have been eaten cross on since i was young i know but to cross ones really well it starts with a crossed a good cross and is crossed in golden just like yours. and question of course on must have a crust and it should crumble a little bit it mustn't be industry leave my. song. and smells like my son tessa specifics now that. sounds and i'm close and it

looks like a good cause long as it's elegant on the outside shines a b. there and it doesn't look too fatty i would say that this one is better and smoother than the other. you want me to taste it no it's disgusting it's all white so there you have it these parisians us certain that they know a quality queso when they taste it now the french may have a proud tradition when it comes to this little layered yeast leaven dough but the truth of the matter is it may not even be french it is rather said to have originated in austria so put that on you and eat it. r.t. paris and now it's the middle of night for me and i cannot find a croissant and i hungry and i want one i'll be back with more than we have up there actually was.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong. just don't hold. any belief yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

ponder the future and look into 2021 fascinating stories will come our way there are often said on this show that you can't have capitalism without capital capital without positive interest rates encouraging people to say. this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion.

welcome to front running 2020 as we head to the elections are looking at the key issues democrats how they handling them look at a little bit on the economics today stacey it's all about 3 magic words green new deal yes and they were proposed by oh see alexandra cortez who i guess was basing her thing on f d r franklin delano roosevelt and his new deal so the green new deal is supposed to be a jobs program and a climate change still we have with us james howard kunstler and randy volar jim now tell us what you think of a green new deal is it a great jobs program is it

a bad jobs program is it a good reason to have a deal it's when you wish upon the star program because 1 you know we've entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of wishful thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately we're not going to run wild disney world the u.s. military suburbia the interstate highway system. and our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and i'm afraid it's going to come as a big disappointment to the american public the main reason for that is you really can't fabricate the equipment for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy.