u.s. secretary of state. strategy of deterrence saying the killing of the iranian general . overall approach it will apply to russia. from administrative duties the government failing to provide proper funding for the . problem. and media. government documents reveal the intelligence services tried to co-opt british news outlets into spreading

propaganda during the cold war. from our studios in moscow. thomas certainly glad to have you with us let's get right down to our top story. the u.s. secretary of state has painted the assassination of iran's top general as part of a bigger campaign of deterrence he says it will also be applied to russia and china comments. mike pompei oh the u.s. secretary of state seems to be highlighting the term deterrence as the new buzz word defining u.s. foreign policy reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to lose now the killing of

a top foreign general by the united states in a different country is considered now to be an act of deterrence intended to deter behavior on the part of the country or entity that was attacked there's no terrorist except osama bin laden who has more american blood on his hands than did customs of the money but i want to lay this out in context of what we've been trying to do there's a bigger strategy and strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's not everlasting that risk remains we are determined not to lose that deterrence. in all cases we have to do this we have to do this to defend freedom and liberty around the world that's the whole point of president trump's work to make our military the struggle as it's ever been and now the iraqi prime minister he says that was on a diplomatic mission so was the united states trying to deter him from engaging in peace talks regardless however according to what we've heard solomon is not the

only figure who has been targeted in this deterrence campaign by the united states in addition to that we understand that a top figure in yemen a financer of the could force has also been singled out and specified and considered as a target in this way but there are other potential targets on the list this new u.s. foreign policy strategy seems to not only lie to iran but according to my palm pales remarks it also applies to both russia and china we not just in iran but in other places too where american deterrence was weak we watch russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and it's brazen attempt of course american allies undermine to deter us so this strategy for deterrence includes economic isolation of countries diplomatic isolation economic pressure as well as targeted killing of the foreign citizens so is this the new

geopolitics deterrence is the phrase now being used to justify it all. russia has condemned to germany france and the u.k. for triggering a dispute mechanism over iran's alleged failure to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal a joint commission now has 15 days to consider the complaint after which it could be referred to the u.n. security council. we have therefore been left with no choice given iran's actions but to register today are concerns that iran is not meeting its commitments under the j c p o a and to refer this matter to the joint commission under this resolution mechanism we see no reasons for such a decision we don't exclude that ill conceived actions of the euro trio will lead to a new escalation around the. and will make it impossible to revive the implementation of the nuclear deal in its initial terms which the euro trio is apparently having

for iran has also blasted the e.u. trios intention to open a probe into tehran's noncompliance and promised a firm response but not everyone appears so concerned because the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson has a plan b. if you get rid of it let's replace it and let's replace it with the trump deal ok that's what we need to see and i think that would be a great way forward. the j c p o a which is commonly known as the iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by major powers and the islamic republic under the accord to iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of sanctions but washington pulled out of the agreement in 2018 imposing economic penalties against its adversary in the wake of america's killing of general money iran scale back on its compliance with the deal international affairs commentator marco gothic is quite concerned about a trump deal replacing the day c.p.o.

a. problem for any deal it's called trump deal is that it would be probably an acceptable to the other side the idea that the u.s. has the trump backing team has is to simply reduce an unimportant vassal state and that's not what iran is likely to accept so deal no deal what europe needs to do is to show for the 1st time some benefits to iran from the deal so far it's all been talk talk and the walk walk has been the american exports oriel extraterritorial sanctions which have sabotaged that same deal i made any benefits to one of the sides absolutely invisible similarly with the other european powers release some of the funds they've got allocated for humanitarian purposes and other purposes they could also show willy in some financial sense but at the moment there's been nothing none of that for the radians it's all been one way traffic negative traffic initiated by washington and kept to by europe.

in a sharp rebuke and to the french government more than a 1000 doctors and hospital workers have stepped back from their administrative duties they say working conditions in the health sector have been gradually worsening due to a lack of funding and chronic staff shortages taking the pulse of the situation artie's from the dominican. the moving clued some 600 heads of hospital to parliament and 470 heads of health services and it comes amidst the country's longest running strike in decades they say that is the doctors that they can no longer watch over service that is in adequate and threatens patient safety. hospitals have been on strike for several months hospitals and emergency services unions have been sounding the alarm but politically nothing has been done that's the problem from the point of view of medical ethics doctors must treat patients we don't have the necessary resources we've been killing our health care system for

the past 20 or 30 years we have completely changed our control system at the moment all decisions are taken not by medics but by administrative staff and manages that has to change i came here from santa go right did humanitarian work so i can tell you that in terms of health care france is becoming like a developing country other issues include a lack of hospital beds for patients and a growing unease it reduced stuffing numbers of hospitals across france now this move will hit some areas of the country more than others in the 2nd largest city must say almost 50 heads of departments are quitting their demanding the government comes up with a plan to fix the system for the schools or what we want is for patients to be properly treated at the optimal cost and is efficiently is possible we're being asked to reduce staff numbers to make savings so it's a never ending cycle to break the cycle who must give hospitals what they need to

continue treating people properly we can make budget cuts but for there we need a centralized national plan health is a national problem and we need to invest money into the system the health minister has though defended the government's position she's previously promised an additional $70000000.00 euros in aid including. a monthly risk premium for start the budget that we have announced 1500000000 or 3 years will allow hospitals to renovate themselves to engage new projects to recruit staff where they're needed and open baz where there is need but this hasn't done enough to quell the anger felt by some medical staff so what will this mean for services well they were they will remain doctors offering medical services what they will no longer be is the backbone of the profession these doctors are resigning from essentially management and did ministry 2 roles roles that often receive no extra pay for it means feature

hospital projects could be hampered and complaints could go unheard their concerns are adding to the discontent in france for 6 weeks of public transport strike has hit services across the country particularly here in paris though many metro lines are now operating partial services while lawyers and teachers of also been striking pension reform plans. 3 days of mobilization have been called by unions this week in

a bid to force the government into retreat i'd already some objectives have been achieved the french prime minister has provisionally taken an increase in retirement age off the table but for many unions this concession is simply not enough challenge even ski auty paris. well in the meantime thousands of union members and protesters have been rallying in french cities against pension reforms . people staged a fake funeral for the current system carrying a coffin to the city's opera house. has been revealed the reuters news agency received the equivalent of millions of pounds in the sixty's and seventy's from british intelligence services to spread anti soviet propaganda it has also come to life that britain's national broadcaster was complicit in the subterfuge. lifts the lid on the story further

the deal was simple funding for void in the middle east and latin america in exchange for well political influence this groups were sure that the british based news agency could and would provide exactly what had required then you need declassified documents have just been revealed painting the picture right here at the u.k.'s national archives. government's interest should be well served by the new arrangement this influence would flow at the top level from reuters willingness to consult and to listen to views expressed on the results of its work but how do you fund such a mission if you don't want to do it in the open nor in the public well via the independent public broadcaster the b.b.c. of course and it was easy the b.b.c. paid subscriptions and then later on the british pay the compensation however it didn't come cheap in fact it cost $350000.00 pounds which in today's money is you see britain wanted to be big but not that big because if it was to be

too profitable well then the propaganda stories would get lost amongst the other. in going for profitable service will not be tempted to put in popular items and leave out the political material which is what we want we all know about the icing on the cake argument but if only the icing is sold and the cake left purposes are not served the most the minds behind this were a shadow a section of the far enough information and research department created in 1948. goal was to create and spread anti soviet material during the cold war but having the news agencies integrity and reputation well. there's no way with such activity today and says at the time it was simply the norm and it really wasn't as bad as it seems. many news organizations receive some form of state subsidy after world war 2 but the arrangement in 1969 was not in keeping with our trust principles and we

would not do this today so you see the truth always comes out and now the national archives under the instruction of the foreign office is gradually releasing historical records that expose dirty deeds of the past but it seems like former deals have left a shadow of what's supposed to be those at the forefront of objectivity independence and freedom from bias shot at with. we spoke to the co-director of the organization for propaganda studies dr pierce robinson who says the same situation exists today between the mainstream media and the security services. well i'm sure one would be absolutely naive to think that there were very soon processes that work to go even to the science and now we know for sure that the huge amount of program in the last 20 years. we wouldn't be shooting sure it's a war on terror. and what we see it won't conflicts just syria and iran receive an immense amount of propaganda going on and of course in terms of this actually sort

of very easy to direct manipulation you just have to scour integrity in the u.k. where you've seen this motion the independent charity receiving large sums of government money in creating clusters of journalists in the academics in orders that are basically sure on the russian agenda and that's a very crude and very all the example or it's become. quite blunt about it in the last 20 years who seem to be initiated by western governments another $300.00 can buy propaganda even tony blair mentions and so. a huge explosion at a petro chemical plant in the catalonia region of spain has claimed the life of one person and injured at least 8 other so 2 are in critical condition another one is also missing this is video from the security camera on the outside of a bowling alley which captured the moment of the explosion the blast in the port

city of tire go on a is described as having created a mushroom cloud locals have been told to stay indoors while the authorities assess the situation because of the incident is not yet known at this stage. swiss tennis star roger federer has found himself in the climate change of bad books of teenage activist grettir turn berg after she criticized his association with the bank credit suisse in financial institution has been investing considerably in the search for new fossil fuel deposits with more on how you go shaming has become a crucial part of modern reality here's artie's potential with commentary. do you know gratitude berg by her role as the world's number one a green activist or the number one shaming master well she's really been up to trying to perfect her reputation and both and it's paying off her influences

skyrocketing womyn of the year in sweden person of the year in the time magazine i mean how many teens do you know that told off presidents and prime ministers like that we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and what you can talk about isn't money it came to tales of economic growth how did you. an example from just a couple of days ago a single re tweet by greg revived a scandal from 20 and made the man they called the greatest tennis player of all times find excuses for being partners with a bank here are the shaming lines she read tweet it since 2016 credit suisse has provided 57000000000 to companies looking for new fossil fuel deposits something that is utterly incompatible with climate action roger federer do you endorse this and so roger federer sponsorship deal with the swiss lender was back in the news

and the sports all round mr nice guy had to reassure the public he cares for the environment over that mighty grow i'll show you more of how her shaming powers stretch far beyond the famous un walls but it's just that for now not everyone's so sure that anyone who deals with banks which give loans to non green industries should be publicly shamed public shaming and taking the right people to have stare and opinion the last thing that's going to stop this is being human described but it doesn't get it so you want to see it the way he thinks he's allowed to it's a free will say mean and activism don't. well together yes but it can be a discussion that's hard to say well maybe we should celebrities should be a bit more careful in peking this ponces ecological issues should people to people's attention but not by publicly shaming an individual however it seems neither gratitude nor her fellow activists have any intention of scaling some of

that shaming down yeah why do it if it works so well so what can you be shamed for nowadays stay away from anything that has to do with fossil fuels even if you're choosing a bank shame on you if you fly you never heard that was a sin well run has been peddling the flight shame movement on line for a while now why can't you stop flying on planes it's easy. how about you stay home and take some climate action instead. climate compensation he's the planting of trees enough to excuse your flights while some folks of already tried to paralyze a london airport the world's aviation authorities even trying to stand up for its industry the aviation industry has recognized the climate challenge for many many years some movement we've had very tough talking to improve also human.

emissions and ultimately to cut our emissions in half i don't think anyone should feel ashamed of flying and certainly not so lucky news industry resupport millions of jobs worldwide we produce the lives of countless millions of people green activists are currently after german engineering giant siemens for going ahead to fulfill a contract with a coal mine in australia what for now coal or fossil fuels altogether aren't legal right it all makes you wonder what's next what you're going to do when grettir comes for you will it get to the point when miners and their families are booed at for what they do for a living just a short while ago we had at least here in germany eco shaming against people with s.u.v.s. and off and on we have it for like people that are taking trips in aircraft seems to be

a moving target it seems to go from plastic bags to beef to. the trees to coal mining gets the people are so frustrated they feel they have to do something even if it's almost irrelevant like in the case of zealand's right now who's accused of making railway signalling equipment which is being used by the mining company i mean that's a pretty. big stretch to go from zeman signalling equipment to say that has something to do with the climate problem and the forest fires a growing army of activists would say the whole of mankind has. no other choice but to use some of gratitude shaming skills if it wants a future though there are still probably many of those who wouldn't mind a little more green tolerance from master to newburgh and co. israel says it is not going to withdraw the criticism leveled at ukraine over the so-called glorification of so far right nationalists this comes after the israeli

foreign minister said it was the moral duty of the world to condemn anti-semitism a middle east bureau chief there has been. what we're hearing from israel is a message to ukraine that it will not out of the debate that's taking place in kiev over the glorification of individuals during the 2nd world war now the israelis are concerned that some of those individuals who are being glorified by the ukrainian government are people who were responsible for the mass murder of jews during the holocaust people who murdered jews and pogge arms at the same time people who collaborated with the nazis and also anti semitic ideologists of the radical ukrainian national movement now the ukrainian government has responded by saying that this is an internal matter that deals with ukrainian politics and that any kind of criticisms that are coming from israel are essentially counterproductive but the israeli foreign ministry has said as you correctly pointed out that anything that belittles the memory of the holocaust in which 6000000 jews died is

something that israel and its allies around the world have both a responsibility and a moral obligation to speak out about preserving the memory of the holocaust and the battle against anti-semitism including the group for creation of and she said and murders of jews are not an internal matter of any country now the israeli and polish ambassadors made public letters that they blow to the ukrainian government criticizing those individuals that it was glorifying in response the ukrainian ambassador to israel said that the revival and preservation of the ukrainian national memory was one of the priorities of this government and that it was really up to. experts and historians to have the final say in this whole debate central to the whole conversation is the figure. now many in ukraine still glorify him a god him as a national hero but he was in actual fact the leader of the radical ukrainian national movement and he was accused and found guilty of the mess mood of jews next

week the ukrainian president vladimir. happens to be jewish himself will be here in israel he will be participating in a holocaust commemoration ceremony and no doubt this issue will again be addressed . exiled cut along later karla's put him on says that he wants to return to spain if led to belgium after a spanish court issued a european arrest warrant for organizing a band independence referendum in catalonia in 2017 before any return however he needs assurances of immunity from arrest through his new status as an m.e.p. for spain speaking outside the e.u. parliament in strasbourg he remained defiant in his view of madrid's stance. snottily there is a member state of european union called spain which doesn't respect the rule of law europe. east european. so we are here you know to remember and to claim. to european unity should be involved in

a solution based on dialogue doing politics and respecting the will the people and the will of the people of catalonia to the side in a free referendum our own future and. the spanish supreme court has issued an account of the case against the former come along later he says that the events in question have nothing to do with work as a parliamentarian but are focused on his actions in years that far predate him becoming an m.e.p. paulo off on a founder of a brussels based think tank believes madrid is breaking e.u. law by pursuing the case. speed c. in these regards the decision of the european court of justice because what they have done is to the should new ruling of the supreme court in spain basically saying the opposite about the. possibility of recognizing the munity to elected members of european parliament which is very disruptive actually it's

a very serious breach at legal level in the european system if yes the community as an elected member of the european parliament which she has because she is accepted as such you should be able to move throughout the year to be in countries without any impediment. and now for something completely different and quite frankly very cute finally we have a festive season that is now over for another year and it's time to take down all the decorations and get rid of the tree and one resident of the moscow 0 has found a rather creative approach to that and your january clean up take a look. at .

come on now that's really cute iran kind of sean domicile be back with headlights up top there stay with us. you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi else asked i am aware of their. leverage debt all you like.

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landlord knowing that i got a $1000.00 and you just go raise my rent so then you get your inflation going on in their. ratings and sell you. recently while traveling internationally over the holidays me. a legal u.s. citizen born and raised was subjected to having my face scanned by the department of homeland security not only when i return to the united states from my travels abroad but at the very beginning of my trip as well now legally u.s. citizens like me you can opt out of these scams but in no way was that made aware to us at the departing gate nor were we told that upon re-entry instead we got the brusque dystopian style treatment we've seen in many

a science fiction film that left many of us fell of me and my fellow travelers feeling violated for simply wanting to travel beyond u.s. borders. but having your face scanned by a faceless government agency feels in base to imagine what immigrants and refugees must feel like when after their long hard trek to the shining city on the hill that is the united states the u.s. government reaches into their mouths and takes the very strands that make up the core of their being regardless of their consent i'm talking of course about the new pilot program launched this january by the u.s. government that will not only collect d.n.a. samples from the thousands upon thousands of people that are detained regularly by the u.s. immigration officials but then they will send those samples to our drug friends at the federal bureau of investigation to be held indefinitely in their criminal database in a memo released by the department of homeland security.