sanctions antigovernment protests continue in iran over the acts of a passenger plane which killed everyone on board. human rights organizations cool e.u. infrastructure project. i mean the funds are driving what could be compared to modern day slavery. in the caribbean. 10 years since it was hit by a deadly earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 200000 people we hear from locals on how the country is still struggling to come to terms with the devastating tragedy.

thanks for joining us and. welcome to the program. and we go to the iranian capital 1st where police have to applaud against anti-government protesters ministration in toronto is facing intense pressure right now after admitting that its forces accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday killing 176 people on board mainly iranian nationals. widespread mass visuals have been held for the victims which have suddenly turned into a government run iran's armed forces admitted. it was mistakenly identified as a cruise missile defense systems tragedy took place shortly after iran had launch strikes against. u.s. forces in iraq that came in response to an american drone attack which left a senior. dead in baghdad on january the 3rd officials in washington. i have spent

the past 48 hours or so throwing their backing behind the protests trump was among those who want to run over its next move. to the leaders of iran do not kill your protesters thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching more importantly the usa is watching turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free stop the killing of your great iranian people the iranian people taking to the streets to protest against their oppressors rulers are incredibly brave america stands with them as they call out the cruel how many regime according to a poll run by media in the united states a majority of americans disapprove of the way trunk was so fired by the plummeting crisis in the middle east it would seem is that of looking to calm the situation washington has opted to continue to apply maximum pressure on tehran it was not off takes up the story. as washington seated on the verge of an all out war with iran

it looked like it had just stepped outside of its comfort zone the risk of plunging the middle east into yet a nother disastrous conflict was an obvious weight on the u.s. but now with the tensions easing america is back in familiar territory waging a political and economic campaign to force its rival into submission what is their strategy post the confidence of the man in killing and post the ballistic missile attack on the united states this is our strategy we are diplomatically and economically isolating their regime in iran in till they behave like a normal nation washington has charted these waters through and through and it's not afraid to get creative and putting iran under pressure after admitting to accidentally downing a ukrainian jetliner with more than a 170 people on board to iran has seen a fresh outbreak in antigovernment protests and demonstrators the haven't suffered

from any lack of support from the u.s. with donald trump even taking a crash course in persian to write this tweet to the brave long suffering people of iran i've stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and my administration will continue to stand with you we are following your protests closely and are inspired by your courage. translated no obstacles and no language barriers can stand in the way of democracy and to make sure that nothing is lost in translation here washington is backing up its words with action in method tried and trusted sanctions we are announcing additional sanctions against the iranian regime as a result of these our actions we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the iranian regime israel as its tradition was quick to cheer it always does whenever things take a turn for the worse for iran i commend president from for imposing new and very

harsh sanctions against this regime i must say that this was also doing close to the iranian decision to accelerate uranium enrichment i call on britain france and germany to join the american effort but few other nations share the excitement for iran a nation that spent decades under all flavors of sanctions being free of them is more of a challenge actually the united states on me wants to think that sense that it's a superpower that it can do whatever it wants so it heard iran through sanctions that hurt china warfare and trade wars it tries to hurt russia through sanctions but ultimately what it does is that it brings these our countries closer to each other and other countries become more more more negative view of the u.s. government and i think in the in the long run what it does is that it diminishes the stature of the united states and the capability of the united states to

maintain its had germany america's economic crusade against iran is rubbing europe the wrong way to the e.u. is in an ill tempered clash with washington over the iran nuclear deal which was derailed by the us we have been saying to us that we continue saying that we regret the u.s. decision to withdraw from the deal. and we continue to. leaving these deal is a key element of the lobel nuclear nonproliferation a future and critical for to the regional stability the extent is that germany's convinced that iran shouldn't choir have nuclear weapons for this reason we will continue to employ all diplomatic means to keep this agreement alive it is certainly not perfect but it is an agreement and it comprises commitments by all sides. together we have made clear our regret and concern at the decision by the united states to withdraw from the j c p o a and to reimpose sanctions on iran and the us is dishing out new assurances it is

ready to solve all this mess with words without preconditions even if we will meet with them where want to sit down discuss without precondition a new way forward a a series of steps by which iran becomes a more normal country but in the past few years with iran alone the us went back on its word had 0 interest in its allies concerns and assassinated a high profile official the unilaterally branded terrorist just a few months before so the u.s. can talk up diplomacy for sure they are one of the best at it you do have a hard time to find a nother country with a case of selective amnesia this severe for the promises it had made a. huge farms to boost areas in africa are now being compared to driving slavery as the claim being made by human rights organizations against the use infrastructure project in eritrea bid to improve the eastern african nation is now

being described as years of forced labor auntie's taylor reports. if you've been on a 2 covey if your team back harboring a hidden disease is your neighbor planning on eating your pepperoni don't worry it is got a regulation for everything but according to human rights organizations it failed miserably to regulate its own behavior and it all started with an apparently innocent bed to peace security and eritrea we're launching $20000000.00 euro program to rebuild the roads connecting both countries this will boost straight consolidate stability and have good benefits for the citizens of both countries through the gratian of sustainable growth and jobs millions of dollars went on a quit meant materials to build a highway that was billed as a road to peace and prosperity so far so good unless of course you are the one put to work on this great collaboration because the chances are your force conscript

the african nation has compulsory national service that used to last for 18 months but now sees people trapped in for over 20 years it's a practice it's been likened by human rights organizations the un and the european parliament to mass in slave meant conscripts compared national service to modern day slavery saying this for torture and other ill treatment. and like basic sanitation and hygiene form a conscript 72 hour weeks and harsh conditions with no food and pay equivalent to $17.00 a month is one of the main reasons eritrea is called the world's fastest emptying country as young men continue to mass exodus but despite knowing conscripts were being used generally the delicate situation and a country that was a lot in a guerrilla war for 3 decades the e.u. says that really had no idea that untoward things were going on. the e.u. does not pay for labor under this project the project only covers the procurement

of material and equipment to support the rehabilitation of roads in fact the e.u. doesn't even have an office in eritrea to monitor this ongoing project instead it relies on local authorities the agency is not monitoring the implementation of the project the project is carried out by the government and progress is monitored by the ministry of public works the e.u. isn't trusting its project to an arm of the government which is internationally slammed as one of the world's worst human rights abuses which the u.n. describes as authoritarian and repressive and which lived under a un sanctions for 9 years it's almost as if the e.u. has something at stake here other than creating great roads of course like stemming the tide of migrants for example because 2016. 1000 eritreans apply for asylum in the block so yes this e.u. project will lift the local economy and bring peace but crucially it will create

jobs and that will keep eritreans in the homeland to not crossing on both to european shorts so really what's a spot of slave labor in far off lands. in directly supporting this project by shearing material to help build the road problem is that what they need to make sure is that any support going to eritrea is not. some mentoring this incredibly repressive system the road will be built to a large extent by forced labor by national service conscript and there are trends a land by the way which happens to be one of the most strategic areas in the world its coast runs along the red sea which is a key link between europe and asia it's also an ideal access point to an african market with low labor costs and it's a natural resource gold. with gas gold oil zinc you name it eritrea's.

little wonder than the e.u. u.s. and china has sort of jostling for power in the region eritrea is obviously placed in a very strategic location along the red sea it is the access to the sea ethiopia and from the european point of view it is obviously one of the countries which many asylum seekers here in europe are coming from and they're coming and they're fleeing because of the human rights situation on the ground i mean many of those children and they're fleeing because they don't want to be conscripted into this very abusive repressive national service systems and according to un statistics about 10 percent of the population are refugees or sign them seekers outside of eritrea so it seems that when you've got something to gain it's easier to be. anonymous than your own employment law. it's been a decade since the caribbean nation of hise you was left devastated by an

earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people because it once is one of the most deadly and natural disasters are still being felt today. for. this if i just hope that it. does occur to me back here well there are people here inside doing so the help they need it. but. it should leave mostly the one people can see by the buildings and i saw several people hanging that is if they never managed to get to the around you know they're trying to

escape but they couldn't think. of. one not enough already was it was rude to them because i know to be worth $3000.00 but is that once one thing that isn't that simple. clear to the man i was crying and screaming if only you could see his photo he was such a good boy. for

the years just leave me the government has never told us what to do we've been left it was like children without parents. the university of british columbia is in kind of this phasing of free speech scandal and. the institutional power to cancel an event scheduled for the end of the month of what it called safety and security reasons it was intended to give a platform to a controversial us journalist to talk about and see for groups that are left as the extremism. has become a target for some anti for activists and his legal team and now looking into the cancellation of the contracts was signed between the university and the free speech club the director of the group or the scribe it as giving those threatening violence the movement of power. there's always been an option of hiring our own security working with police ensuring safety they wouldn't even allow us to have that option this time they said look security can't even handle the protesters they're getting more and more violent and that's not even an option now so we're

just going to outright cancel the school has told us look just don't bring anybody controversial and they will protest and you'll have no problems but actually what is happening is that they're emboldening these protesters who are violent and they're giving them the illusion of power and if they have power no doubt they'll use it and abuse it at this point we're probably going to take the school to court it's going to go to the supreme court and we believe that the law is on our side so when the judge when the supreme court rules that we are correct we will bring back the speaker to the school and will make it a vent that is 10 times bigger because we can because that is what free speech is about british columbia university's defended its decision explaining the journalist's event was a potential target the reason for the cancellation is the concern about safety and security of our campus community the appropriate response to violent extremists who threaten access to information in the academy is not to give in to their demands by cancelling the event. the ra comes with a d.

for protest this being involved in a number of violent incidents at the same university already. we heard from the director of the free speech club again who told us free speech is being stifled that institutions and on the streets in canada this isn't just happening with us it's happening all over the country it's a new trend we're publicly funded institutions think that they can just deny the right to free speech when they are taking money from the government they're part of the public sphere the suppression of free speech is not only happening on the institutional level in canada but it's also happening on the streets with these violent protesters society is so divided politically that now we have our own perceptions of what is and isn't free speech that's where the real problem comes

from our side has this perception of the many people as their perception and it's become so tribal politically we're so divided but we're breaking up into these little bubble and sort of these little echo chambers and that is where the issue is in other words we're basically speaking a different language. u.k. government is facing pressure to apply greater foreign travel restrictions to known sex offenders and was part of a report that i would investments that followed an independent inquiry into child sexual abuse and what has claimed legal gaps exist which leaves young in the world vulnerable to predators shut in and was dusty explains. lock them up and throw away the key it's an argument you'll often hear from people when it comes to child abuses and while the u.k. has come down on child abuse here in britain its legal system may be failing youngsters abroad that's because known british sex offenders and suspects prosecuted for such crimes are still able to travel with some of them re-offending

overseas in fact of the news 6000 sexual whomp or venture orders imposed in england and wales in the last few years only an 11 also has foreign travel restrictions added meaning of all the registered sex offenders on record only around 0.2 percent have had their rights to foreign travel stopped and according to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse that could be having a devastating impact not only are offenders able to fly abroad to countries where poverty and corruption have left children very vulnerable abusers are not being punished for crimes committed while they're there now section $72.00 of the sexual offenses act allows individuals to be prosecuted in the u.k. for offenses overseas but it's rarely ever used. to let you keep. a little which is listed below 0 desire. which must be a jury. system and it. looks really.

good but just how wide scale is this epidemic the global child sexual exploitation industry is estimated to be worth around 27700000000 pounds the inquiry was given evidence of abuse by british traffickers in countries ranging from kenya all the way to the philippines the report also found that abuses target disadvantaged families where relatives act as facilitators often financial poverty plays a key factor there's also areas to can also pose a particular risk last year oxfam style for accused of sexually exploiting children the haiti following devastating earthquakes in 2010 and when it comes to abuse over the internet. the statistics saw an estimated 80000 people in the united kingdom present some kind of sexual threat via the web to children both in britain and brought the issue that has been raised by the child abuse inquiry is an old one and has historically been going on for decades we have allowed people with child abuse

convictions to travel out of the country and often times unless they're arrested in the destination country for the same issue that they go completely and detected part of the problem is we don't have a grip on child abuse in the u.k. if we did then we would be able to manage our paedophiles much better than we currently are in our child abuse s. we need not just to be looking at people who are going to be arrested in another country or indeed have been arrested in the country but we need to properly see who is leaving the country and who is coming into the country and if they have child abuse convictions we must see that very seriously indeed high profile cases were highlighted in the report including shamed rock star gary glitter who abused young girls in asia even after being convicted in the u.k. of possessing indecent images of children a few years beforehand and of course the case of sara paedophile dubbed britain's worst richard hochul is equally as harrowing after he was convicted in 2016 of 71

counts of serious sexual assaults against children aged just 6 months to 12 years while he was working as a teacher in malaysia for that he was given 22 life sentences in online post-hoc all have bragged impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce the middle class western ones now the report concluded with recommendations for the government and topping the list was restricting foreign travel of sex offenders to ensure that youngsters and not just those in the u.k. are out of harms way. part of programmers come under fire in the u.s. for collecting d.n.a. samples of people detained at border crossings with the data to be if you're. more than delve deeper into the project. essentially at the u.s. border people can be detained whether they be undocumented immigrants green card holders or u.s. citizens and they are required to give a d.n.a. sample to u.s. officials it doesn't matter why they decided to detain you either you give them

a d.n.a. sample or you have committed a crime it's already started at the u.s. canada border and eagle pass in texas set to go national in 90 days customs and border protection will begin collecting d.n.a. from any person c.b.p. custody who is subject to fingerprinting this will include aliens as well as united states citizens and lawful permanent residents now back in november it was announced that immigrants at the border might be required to give their d.n.a. there was massive outrage ethical and privacy concerns but that's so last year right now just a few months later it's on the books the federal government is now forcing some migrants in custody to give d.n.a. samples already princie implement the program at u.s. borders with mexico and canada the data will go into a massive criminal database run by the f.b.i. there have been some livid reactions to the u.s. government's decision online this is a true what's a violation u.s. citizen some green card holders who've been next i feel so sorry for you normal

americans seems pretty illegal without a search warrant this is not america this is something entirely different the argument is that in this world where fakery and fraud are so widespread the u.s. government needs to keep track of one thing that we cannot fake our genetic code it's all about keeping us safe right well some people don't buy a violation of civil liberties it's terrifyingly orwellian vision of a future that many of us want to avoid as much as possible this is really terrifying because unlike a lot of those other programs which are voluntary this one is targeted at the most vulnerable people in our society people who are. refugees and migrants and they're being placed into a d.n.a. database although you can see this is being something that would be useful for law enforcement the price that we're going to pay in terms of increased authoritarianism is so much higher that i don't think it's worth it since the cold

war right up to today the american government has been warning people about totalitarianism big brother crushing the individual rights of the little guy and countries have faced sanctions and even invasions to supposedly protect them from totalitarian regimes but now the u.s. government is keeping a directory and tracking millions of people's d.n.a. nothing to see here folks just keep moving up and r.t. new york crossed looking away just a few of its time and for a u.k. view is an in-depth look at the commercial food industry. back in 30 minutes with the latest. you know world the big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake

to be deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's target for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. descriptions sound up to tasing even for the owners so how to choose this pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out food may not be as sophie miss people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders that allergies we are actually creating these problems

it's a huge of a demick of problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. because we ponder that feature and look into 2020 what 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 and this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire as we conduct a post mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed and what bodes for the future issues the mainstream corporate media refuse to discuss. cross-cutting some real news i'm joined by my guest going these and is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of that ok of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have dimitri bobbitt she's

a political analyst and editor in a smi internet media project and he and london macross alexander macarius is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alexander in london you know over the past 10 days or so we've heard the term escalation deescalation purports tional and one of the things i think that is mr very much is the how the behave the behavior on the side of the leadership in iran and in washington we term asymmetrical was used all of the time and i think indeed it was asymmetrical but for very very different reasons to iran was being strategic and political while trump was relying upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the united states be. remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different

conclusions about as media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well i think that is what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the iranians deployed the entire strategic range of their assets they weren't together their their foreign policy their diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they build bring in their intelligence operatives their military people order their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they don't let themselves be diverted from and their objective is not clearly defined easy is to try to get the united states out of the middle east out of iraq specifically out of areas where they can threaten iran the united states by contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesn't have any kind of clear.