danger in the skies of syria a passenger plane narrowly avoided being hit by air defenses reportedly 5 response to an israeli missile attack meanwhile damascus defends its military campaign against terrorist groups at an emergency session of the un security council after western powers accuse it and more scope of indorsing destruction. the sheer scale of destruction both endorsed and facilitated by russia shows that neither they nor the assad regime can be trusted to deliver a cease fire it is astonishing that deserves some western countries to cross terrorist groups is the moderate opposition and britain's determination to stop

terror of getting automatic early release from prison sets it on a collision course with over human rights we put the issue prevent these are people particularly when it if they're going to start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already so part of their sentence then it's unfair potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people schuman rights to being there in the 1st place. hello good evening just going. with r.t. international our passenger plane carrying 172 people has been forced to make an emergency landing in syria that after it narrowly missed being hit by the country's air defenses which had reportedly been fired in response to an israeli air strike russia's defense ministry denounced israel claiming it had used civilian aircraft as a shield. only due to the time the actions of damascus airport dispatches and efficient

operation of the automated traffic control system did the airbus a 320 manage to successfully land the closest alternative if eld russia's base i was on the streets when the attack happened here in damascus at about 1 12 am local time here on thursday on the sex of this month at about $115.00 local time a loud explosion was heard and that was the syrian air defenses. trying to repel what looked like an israeli attack and then later on the syrian army command issued a statement clarifying what happened saying that israeli fighter jets carried out attacks from over southern lebanon on the occupied golan heights against various syrian army military targets in damascus around damascus damascus countryside and also pointed to and which is in that are countryside and the result according to

the syrian army was the injury of 8 syrian soldiers and the russian ministry of defense statement which also gave some information unimportant details that there were 4 actually israeli fighter jets who fired at least 8 missiles on various targets in syria at that time and that israel is using civilian and passenger aircraft in order to avoid being hit by the syrian air defense system combat operations by the israeli joint stove involving the use of civilian aircraft to shield and prevent retaliation by syrian air defenses is becoming a distinguishing feature of the israeli air force this is a very important point especially that russian made it clear that this is not the 1st time that this happens it happened in 2018 when also russia criticized israel for endangering and putting in danger to passenger aircraft in 2018 of course 2008. israeli strikes not coordinated with russia caused the downing of irrational

aircraft with 15 russians on board who were killed were said that time also. said that israel is behind this incident but the 4th one is wrong because at the end of the day israeli fighter jets put actually the russian aircraft in the path of the syrian air defense. systems well israel has previously denied he using aircraft as she was against syrian defense systems although it's yet to comment on this particular incident it does acknowledge though that it is carrying out strikes in syria to stop iranian military intrenchments well this footage has captured the aftermath of the missile attacks that hit a suburb in the countryside west of damascus on thursday you can see residents here clearing rubble from the streets cars and buildings have been completely destroyed we spoke to people living in the area. we woke in the morning to find this look at

this destruction may go take revenge from them look at this people's livelihood is destroyed as you can see yesterday the area was targeted by israel this area has a lot of car hire companies and as you can see many cars were damaged thank god the damage was only material defense and political commentator i mean all in says that the situation could have gone badly wrong. this particular incident could have been dangerous had the pilots of. civilian airliner panicked and instead of. going to come in asking permission and getting it and lending good come in as an emergency. they would have crashed at damascus international or somewhere new yes this could happen and we did happen . almost exactly 47 years ago in february of for

973 when israeli planes shot at the libyan airliner and the pilots panicked and crashed in the sinai and there were dozens of fatalities. in the region where the syrian government is making progress in its offensive against militant forces in italy province however the un security council has seen hates debate over the operation with series envoy slamming western countries for supporting terrorist groups the us has hit back claiming that syria and russia are endorsing destruction the situation in northwest syria demands an immediate comprehensible and verifiable ceasefire with whom do you want to hold the ceasefire with the entities that you agree to designate as terrorist groups in this council it is astonishing the desire of some western countries to cross terrorist groups in

it live as the moderate opposition this is the russian bombs that have destroyed searing hospitals and driven syrian children from their homes we're hearing all of this criticism against russia but none of it is based on anything the sheer scale of destruction both endorsed and facilitated by russia shows that neither they nor iran nor the assad regime can be trusted to deliver a ceasefire it will be syrian territory and any illegitimate military presence that is the responsibility. the state where those nationals come from these 2 numbers that they did add to that the security council seems to be transforming into a night for him. reports quite strong disagreements were articulated between the countries represented at the 15 member body that leads the united nations now when the representative of the united states spoke she had harsh words for both russia and syria accusing them of inappropriate and basically unacceptable actions in their efforts to retake the province of live from terrorist forces the

trumpet ministration condemns in the strongest possible terms the assad regime iran hezbollah and russia is barbaric and unjust by military offensive the russian representative spoke about how it seemed like the meeting was convened for the purpose of preventing the syrian arab republic from retaking the province of live from the terrorists it seems like the meeting was almost scheduled at a range to try and impede the syrian government's efforts this is what the russian ambassador to ben ziad to say these meets in syria for. the convene precisely when terrorist groups in the country iran the threat and the syrian government is regaining control of its own territory i would like to remind you that these groups are recognized as terrorists by the security council syria has a right and it duty to combine terrorists on its sovereign turner tree now the representative

of the syrian arab republic spoke about the need for his country's territorial integrity to be respected as it is being widely violated with foreign forces in the country who were not invited by the internationally recognized syrian government which is a u.n. member state furthermore you seem to believe that essentially the u.n. security council has been transformed almost into something else you will heard the intervention of the u.s. permanent representative were. she said the key is in nato ali so this is no security council but rather a council that she's being used as a nato forum it is an acceptable threat sainz on this house that the united states of america takes to keep going as far as a nation is of the charter and international rule my dedication reiterates that attempts by countries to impose names whose agenda on the security council would among the credibility of this council and refutes all the pretext used by some to demonize the syrian states russia recently renewed its offensive against the terrorist forces in it live it is supporting efforts to take back the city from

terrorists and jihad his forces now one particular group the yacht terrier al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over $1400.00 attacks with tanks machine guns that have been heavy weaponry that have taken place recently in addition they have been countering civilian protest and ad lib against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shield syrian representative when speaking emphasize that their territorial integrity was being very very widely violated and emphasized that they were determined to defeat the terrorist forces and that it seemed like the united states and nato were essentially trying to undermine their efforts and prevent them from defeating these terrorist forces and retaking their province of it live. moppin

there were journalists might rattie things that western powers are not interested in ending the conflict in syria. while this goes way beyond the concept of terrorists that are is another man's freedom fighter. and the black and white robe who the west has been supporting all the way through this crisis in syria has been al-qaeda affiliates all the time of all the way starting with turkey the same with the u.k. in the same with israel so it just seems that they have no more cards to play we can only imagine what would happen her russian delegation to the un or iranian or syrian so it's only go along the lines of her belief that her targeting oysters. the west the u.s. and france want to prolong this conflict this is exactly what they tried to do one of attempting to. sounds insane doesn't it but that's exactly what's going on they're appealing to the united nations in order to protect our kyra phillips you

could not really made this stuff up but that's exactly what's going on. now some of the u.k.'s 1st policy changes since leaving the e.u. are causing something of a stir in its former club the government says it wants to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders that's after sunday's attack in london where 2 people were stabbed by a man released from prison just 10 days earlier currently convicted terrorists are up for automatic release after serving half their sentence but britain's proposed legislation could breach the european convention on human rights so london is considering withdrawing its membership however the european commission warns that could force it to wend judicial cooperation he resisted partnership should provide for automatic terminations of law enforcement cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters if the united kingdom were to denounce the european convention of human rights stephen morris from the democratic party and also human rights

lawyer and current debated the issue here an arctic. it's a good idea to have a parole board that deals with each case individually in principle there's nothing wrong with that but if what the reports are suggesting are correct that mainly they want to change the potential released release date from a half of a sentence to 2 thirds and i think that's where the problem comes in well one of the things is a sentence in rules are completely part of them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years than the years the us should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the poor ole. suitable for release that this is a very very serious and complicated situation that calls for nuanced. periods of debate argument consideration not something that the government rushes through in a matter of weeks is a kneejerk reaction well it has to be at the moment because the government over the

last few years of an absolutely nothing to address this problem and we do know that there is a number of potential of people in prison the moment. issues that are about to be released because these are people particularly when it if they're going to start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already part of their sentence then it's unfair and potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people human rights to being there in the 1st place if they're still deemed as a safety risk then they should be let out anyway because. who is likely to attack all the people is a violation of those pedestrians and those individuals human rights as well in terms of what's been suggested about you know we just keep them up until we sure that there won't be a risk any more than we have sentences in the 1st place to me they should have been stripped away 5 years if they say 5 to 5 years and release and if not it has to be

drawn quickly and it has to be told to make sure that london and all the parts of the u.k. safe. still to come here not a this washington has hinted they will invest in competitors nokia and also ericsson. just off the bike.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness oh so you're. welcome back now america's war on iraq came at a huge cost in terms of lives but now a new report has also shown just how much it cost when it came to money

a group of scholars discount the pending can spend literally trillions of dollars funding its military ambitions something that will have a lasting legacy the u.s. taxpayer is one quarter as more. war has long been part of the american way of life it's in the news connected to many family's lives a popular theme in the media and donald trump has made it clear in his state of the union address more money is being thrown at it safeguard american liberty we have invested a record breaking $2.00 trillion dollars in the united states military i we are purchased the finest planes missiles rockets ships and every other form of military equipment and it's all made great here in the usa. we're also getting our allies finally to help pay their fair share with that big of a budget though it's not only america's allies footing the bill the costs of war

project that's to mates that for the iraq war alone every american taxpayer has paid $8000.00 you could go on a vacation for that or spend it on home improvements or you know put it away it's 8 times more than most. americans have in their bank accounts my colleague caleb mop and asked new yorkers themselves what they would do with that kind of money what would i do if i had $8000.00 extra dollars to spend the pace of medical bills. to donate to the bernie sanders campaign a little bit would pay off my car and put money in savings for my retirement pay my credit card off and with hundreds of millions of americans out there those contributions add up to a lot of money even if the us ministration decided to leave or was evicted from iraq immediately the bill of war to the us to date would be an estimated 1922000000000 in current $1.02 trillion dollars that's larger than

most countries g.d.p. and there's plenty of other ways to spend that kind of money like paying off the entire country student debt you'd still have billions more left over and that could be used to improve underfunded school systems or make sure everyone has health care all that money is just what was spent on the iraq war it's obscene it's criminal. really there was no not at all. there you know really reason for us to be there when you ask people how they would like to spend their tax dollars it usually is education care. how blick services you know money to go towards the public good but unfortunately we have limited say in how our tax dollars are spent and so some people actually take it to the next step and they refused to pay federal taxes we could have universal health care and universal higher education

but instead we're spending money on the military and the pentagon's got way more expenses than just that let's not forget about its longest war in history afghanistan which has so far cost another $1.00 trillion dollars but the potential cherry on top of this budgetary ice cream sundae. it's bigger than the entire u.s. economy $35.00 trillion dollars discrepancy in the pentagon's $29000.00 budget no wonder it's never passed an audit the pentagon spending accounts for more spending accounts for. all the tax money collected every year by americans from american taxpayers you know arguably all our taxes go for a war everything else is covered by debt you know they borrow the money for the rest of the u.s. budget i think that a lot of this is. driven by the arms industry in the united states and the fact that the bribe are you know legally bribe our members of congress in the house

and the senate with donations so it's a self generating. engine. destruction. us attorney general has suggested that america should buy stakes and thing my nokia and ericsson create strong competition against china when you. have a leader in 5 developments and the u.s. and its allies need to find ways to counter it. and there are only 2 companies that can compete with the way right now. and ericsson the main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither walk away scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large embedded market like china. now there's been some proposals that these concerns could be met by the united states aligning itself with nokia and or

ericsson through american ownership of a controlling stake either directly or through a consortium of private american and allied companies. washington has locked horns with while way amid the ongoing trade war with china the u.s. claims the firm has direct ties to the chinese government and conducts espionage it also accuses the company of stealing intellectual property while ways now banned from the u.s. market and washington is also pressuring its allies to block it from their 5 g. networks while way denies any wrongdoing politics professor joseph gregory mahoney isn't confident though that such moves would lead to fair competition raises a number of serious questions with regard to competition 1st does it kill the market in the west and if you choose nokia or ericsson or one of the other what's the effect on the other competitor what's the effect on samsung another of sort of

strange thing that we that we have to think about is the american role as a regulator not only for the american or the american government's role as a regulator not only in the american government but they have ramifications for global regulation these are european companies are the pride of their nation the fact of the matter is. is the attorney general basically suggesting that there might be you know what we might call it in the market terminology a hostile takeover. threat. it could completely. royle the markets it could it could destroy their business. so we're using brief now activists have gathered it at a french port after a society cargo ship docked there they say that the boats collecting weapons for the use in the ongoing more in yemen and held signs according to stop quote illegal . saudi arabia began its military intervention in yemen in 2015 and has received widespread international condemnation for sanctions during his campaign. have been

filming at a shops in hong kong is worried like oh snap up windowing supplies of face masks made ever increasing concerns over the spread of the corona virus. is increasing hostility towards the authorities in the chinese territory they've been accused of not doing enough to protect the population and student protesters have clashed with police at the national university of colombia they feel a need for wide ranging forms over social inequalities and corruption scandals students in face milestones projectiles at police who responded with tear gas i'm right tactics. and that brings you up to date that's how things are looking this hour more from us in 35. i walked through the streets of moscow now drew blood on 100 people i was found 8

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so this is a boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss and then for a number of boring washington coming up china trees to cut tariffs on thousands of u.s. products is this an effort to keep phase one agreements or to help soften economic blows from the coronavirus club while away is suing horizon over patent british why the world's 2nd largest cell phone maker says the u.s. company is stealing from we have a live report and this is what you love is back in the headlines as the u.s. once again is talking about overthrowing nicolas maduro but there is an untold story about what's happening inside venezuela as the nation's economy is quickly improving we'll break it down in a report you won't see anywhere else a lot to get to on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin with news that china will cut in half additional tariffs levied against over $700.00 u.s. goods last year now on one hand this announcement reciprocates the u.s.

commitment under phase one of the deal but here's the thing analysts also see it as a move by beijing to boost confidence in the midst of the corona virus outbreak interestingly the chinese finance ministry stated that the number of goods being a. they told us how many 717 but did not state the value of those units again that's strange we do know that the products benefiting from the new rule are part of that 75000000000 in goods that china announced last year would have 5 to 10 percent tariffs imposed on them the reductions will cut tariffs on soybeans from 30 percent to 27.5 percent also tariffs on crude oil will fall from 5 percent to 2.5 percent. well meanwhile in light of the corona virus outbreak beijing could invoke a disaster related clause inside the trade agreement that clause would allow china to avoid replications even if it cannot meet the target purchases of u.s. goods and services for 2020. and oil futures had an up and down day on thursday as

. plus technical panel has called for a provisional cut in oil output of 600000 barrels per day in an effort to stabilize prices delegates from oprah plus held emergency meetings this week to discuss possible actions to deal with falling oil but demand in china due to the coronavirus now according to a report from the wall street journal russia has rejected the plea for cuts which has caused oil prices to fall once again now sources close to the situation say russia may be looking for more time to consider the proposed cuts on the news brant crude shot up early thursday morning by nearly 2 percent when it appeared that cuts would be in place however saying more than one percent below the opening price later in the day now the witness similar movements on thursday spiking above $50.00 per barrel before dropping more than half a percent below the price that open and for more on all of this and what it was other news of the day we're joined by michael pentode president and founder at petco portfolio strategies and todd horowitz chief strategist at bubba trading now

bubba let's start with the state of oil opec plus has been doing everything in their power to sustain prices or with what's going on with the quota virus and the loss of demand however it appears they're still at a standstill right now where do we see it going to have an answer real quick oil is gone lower for now and i'll put it a presentiment of the oil is going to lower right now it's in a bear market and it looks to go back into the mid forty's see knew exactly what he's going to say ok michael the dow the s. and p. and the nasdaq probably get situated there they are set for record highs china says that is going to cut tariffs on again these 700 products we don't know exactly what the. you of that is that somewhere within that 75000000000 in us goods with all the news regarding the coronavirus the seem like the markets here were set to fall we know that the p.p.o. c. has been kind of propping things up in the meantime is this a move to help stabilize the china markets. of course it is just like when china

decided to print the people's bank of china decide to print to.