ministry of defense finds itself in hot water what activists call decades of discrimination we'll get reaction in that story off the shelf break. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig 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 on the back and shouting past each other it's time 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. and stacy our continuing our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in rio de janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition. same hammer i can use to snare someone's head is the same hammer i can use to build them a home but that's a human choosing what to do with that's me expressing my values for the tool and that's what we need to do with artificial intelligence as well. welcome back rights activists in britain according on the ministry of defense to compensate over 150 people who claim to have been expelled fro

was accused of massive overspends on outside advisers it was revealed that the fall of the line defense ministry was spending 155000000 year over year on outside advice that's more than all of the other branches of government combine and a federal audit office investigation found the defense ministry couldn't sufficiently just a 5 why that external advice was even needed for the lions phone was thought to hold the answers to whether she was involved or even knew about any impropriety but it's emerge now that all of the data on her ministerial phone had been deleted the data from the form of boosler from the line was already deleted in august the phone had a factory reset and the data was lost with no possibility of feed being restored but the data was deleted from the phone after it became part of the body of evidence in the investigation opposition parties and those in the ruling coalition in germany demanding answers i expect defense minister current power to take action now on those responsible this is destruction of evidence and must also have personal consequences this is an annoying delay

human rights rolled up that policy was unlawful that was in the year 2000 since then though the ministry of defense has paid out $4000000.00 pounds in compensation and says it settled $51.00 cases. of discrimination more than 100 other claims have either been rejected or simply withdraw but bt activists insist though that many more military personnel are likely to have been affected by leading british rights campaigner peter tatchell says that thousands of gay people were forced out of the military between the late 1000 forces forties and the turn of the century in the 1980 s. he says as many as 300 people in here were kicked out because of their sexuality in many cases this had a severe impact on service members' lives the ministry of defense does accept that that policy was unjust. we are we are fewer than 200 cases in which individuals may have been dismissed on the grounds of their sexuality although we accept that there may be cases that aren't known about we accept our policy in respect of serving homosexuals in the military was wrong discriminatory and unjust to the individuals involved pete

declassified documents from british sources from the prime minister's office from the ministry of defense secretary of state's office make it quite shockingly clear that from the perspective of the british government it was acceptable to recruit someone into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group. there's no doubt that the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of locally right regimens the what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic palls of the chain of command bridge shomi were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly crossed me to see adam would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. many people from the loyalist communit

again good evening from moscow russia's president gave an address at the ministry of defense on tuesday outline of the key challenges faced by the country's military as it heads into 2020 in particular the duma putin stressed the importance of strengthening the armed forces given the precarious state of the global arms control system right now but in a caution of the reports. well addressing the defense ministry the president said that russia is getting on to a new level of international military cooperation he added that $2900.00 so a lot of a factor of changes and particularly the sheer morton weapons and russia's nuclear triad has increased to 82 percent in 2019 and all that despite some traumatic challenges and the world including the volatile situation in the middle east and also the u.s. decision to pull out of the i asked treaty which is the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty now that treaty banned a land based ballistic missiles with ranges of up to 5500 kilometers and now the russian president believes that it is necessary to monny tour possible deployments of the america

are to international welcome back to the program russia's president gave an address at the ministry of defense on tuesday outlining the key challenges faced by the country's military as it heads into 2020 in particular vladimir putin stressed the importance of strengthening the armed forces along the weakening of several global arms control agreements to go live now to medina question about for the details but do you know what was said by the russian president today. well jackie exactly just as you mentioned the russian president has indeed drastic of the country's defense ministry and he spoke about military activities in various areas and the president said that russia is getting a new level of international military cooperation he added that 2019 saw a lot of effective changes in the and history and particularly the share of modern weapons and russia's nuclear triad has increased to 82 percent and 2019 now and whole that despite some dramatic challenges and the world of course no doubt quite a volatile situation in the middle east and also the u.s. decision to pull out of the nafta treaty w

rowhani our contacts between the parliament's security council's foreign ministries and ministries of defense are very close to them and have very good cooperation between the ministries and agencies would each deal with issues of the national guard to ration our trade of your was rising nationals where the trade or volume on the rise is as i say. even though we see the fact of the negative slope of sanctions the fact the anti iranian will come pay. you carried out by united states washington is intimidating other. and. refusing to cooperate with iran. and our position is one and the same of this kind of actions they run counter to international law and free trade principles and that is a very bad example of unfair competition against that background we see that the trade is rising it has grown by 25 percent in the 1st 9 months of this year and according to the past emerge. we expect to see the any old. trade volume rising above the level of $2000000000.00. i would join the good work on the projects which coordinated. between the what we could members of the bilateral commission so glum you c

led a reporter in the russian commented on the situation when meeting the leadership of the ministry of defense and the problem is that nature believes that. it is this sort of soft legitimacy of the ultimate legitimacy and it is with trying to convince everyone that this is something without alternative only natick and play this role and only nature has the right to decide who is to be blamed for all the things which is happening in the world all the things which the west does not like . the expansion. of unbridled expansion continues military infrastructure he's closing in on russia's borders closer and closer to the east the tensions are rising higher and higher and we see lots of accusations that russia has some hostile. motives and the summit which finished a lot done some of the adoption of a decision to reach record high military budgets some native members and today's budgets are more than 10 times bigger than the military budget of the russian federation. these are the facts they in plain sight and they indicate what you know that the situation is quite simple and easily understandable

with us paul schulz he's the former director of proliferation an arms control at the british ministry of defense and he's joining us from london thanks very much for being with us on inside story welcome to all of you gentlemen pavel over in moscow so put in had announced this missile back in 2018 but how significant is this deployment today. well it's run us with a lot of hype as a great great achievement that. there's a lot of kind of p.r. going out to the russian public that this but this russian number one in the world and you clear armaments though of course it's not a new missile per se it's a very old misao actually the missiles were that on which these guards are deployed are about 30 years old they were built in the soviet times known in the west as s.s. 19 and in russia as were store. but this is an old misao with the 8 if warhead reentry vehicle and and the yes this is innovative that's it's an important achievement though right now it's more i would say a technical achievement that doesn't really out there the balance between america and russia nuclear weapons we're going to talk abo

hypersonic missiles until new arms control agreements are in place at an annual meeting of russia's ministry of defense putin said 82 percent of the country's nuclear arsenal has been modernized you also said russia is the only country in the world to have hypersonic missiles go into service which fly 10 times faster than the speed of sound and can carry a nuclear or conventional warhead some news from the ivory coast a presidential candidate for the general election has flown to spain off the authorities issued a warrant for his arrest the former prime minister and rebel leader sorrow is charged with what prosecutors called an attempt against the state's authority so has the loyalty of many senior army figures who previously served as rebel commanders he was returning to the country for the 1st time in 6 months ahead of that election campaign. well now from ecuador to chile the final months of $2900.00 so various latin american countries engulfed in daily street protests while many of them were fighting for their own causes there was one issue that most of them had in common inequality a latin america

ministry of defense her husband although both not one s.c. strategy a company which are co-director was the former boss of m i 6 john scarlett basically people that concern to in the wiki leaks cables are julian as and over some of the release of. what did you make of these connections well i mean here just as in sweden every single step in the judicial proceedings beat the bill violation proceedings or the extradition that prisons have been tainted by violations of his due process rights one of them is that you have or sieved surely no actual violations well i think no absolutely there have been violations of his due process rights and severe violations he has not had access to his legal documents for months how can you ask a defendant in an extradition trial to respond to the u.s. and that meant that he has not been able to read with any excuse the authorities give here saying if you're innocent at a computer in jail you could bring the western world's intelligence agencies down that is that just doesn't work lead well i don't think you need

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that that have to. start acting civilian areas could mount to work crimes chile's president has signed a decree for a referendum on a new constitution and one of the main demands of protesters who've been demonstrating against the government for months but people took to the streets again on friday in the capital santee other police tried to break up crowds with tear gas and water cannon the referendum will take place in april next year the current constitution dates back to 900 under the dictatorship of general augusto pinochet. lament that will happen once again with a pencil and paper we citizens and be able to express our opinion and they find the paf so country will take all bars found a speck is the founder and editor in chief of china today he says president pinera as a legacy will be decided by the way he deals with the fallout of these protests a one sided he can right now be to president and under his presidency a new constitution will be written i mean it's a chance for

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense whichis that said that have to. strike starting civilian areas could mount to world crimes but want to bring you up to speed with developments in algeria thousands of people have gathered in the capital now for a 2nd week of protests against the country's newly elected president demonstrators described president. appointment as in the just met objecting his offer of dialogue calling for the overthrow of the entire political system and for members of a surprise and specific as in a circle to stand trial anti-government demonstrations 1st broke out in february. well lebanon has been without a government for 2 months now political deadlock that isn't rare it does happen but now it comes at a very critical time the economy is in near collapse and the lebanese are relying on selves to survive the worst crisis now for decades saying holder sent us this report from beirut. at least 7 people a day are depending on the generosity of one woman to eat it to the bottle expects that number to rise as le

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike starting civilian areas could mount to world crimes chile's president has signed a decree for referendum on new constitution next year there have been months of protests against president sebastian pinera and the vote was one of the main demands of demonstrators the current constitution dates back to 1981 the country was under visit tate a ship of general augusto. i mean it will wrap this once again with a pencil and paper we citizens in be able to express an opinion and they find the paf how country will take it. or boris venda spec is the founder and editor in chief of chile today he spoke to me earlier vs skype and i asked him if the signing of the stickley will finally satisfy the protests no they won't won't 'd be satisfied because there's been a lot of things that happened over the last couple of weeks that are still not soft for example the human rights violations parents unit so many people who died who got severely injured. people getting sho

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike starting civilian areas could mount to world crimes in iraqi military base housing american forces has been attacked by rockets and u.s. civilian contractor was killed in the attack ek one base size 15 kilometers northwest of the oil rich city of kirk and member of the iraqi police force was also injured along with several other u.s. service members smyrna fault and has more from baghdad on the strategic importance of the base. we're getting reports that there were 2 casualties as part of this latest attack one of whom is a member of the iraqi police and one of whom is the u.s. contractor in this particular base in kirkuk houses both u.s. forces as well as iraqi forces that it is used to conduct operations in the area against this is an area that is surrounded by many mountains and it has been used by aczel to stage an insurgency so this base is particularly important for those operations and this particular attack is just one in a series of several s

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike started civilian areas could mount to world crimes. star has temporarily grounded all back in there and for 100 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead the jet time down near al body airport shortly after takeoff smashing through a wall before hitting a house the cause of the crash is still unclear alexi are broadcast. emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airliner torn in half the main body of the becket barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from airport bound for the capital now soltani survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted before smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house raisky has worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children see what you know we found 2 sets of skid marks from the back of the plane on the runway maining it touched it twice and mostly those passengers at the front of the aircra

agency for international development and vietnam's ministry of defense. >> not only will we work to reduceensure the safety of surrounding communities, we'll again demonstrate to the world the incredible example of the united states vietnam relationship where former foes choose to partner, overcome the past and pave the way toward a future of friendship and mutual prosperity >> you're up to date that's the news update this hour >> thank you for that. the latest group voicing big concerns about tik tok and other apps for kids, pediatricians we have more on the doctor of issues with social media what did you learn >> the american academy of pediatrics are joining groups calling on the fcc to subpoena on how they advertise to children, track them and collect and store their data this kind of sweeping review could not only target players like disney and google but tik tok and twitch the fcc must design rebust protections to keep kids safe. doctors and consumer groups raise concern about playable ads that are built around games. they said they would understand the impact the new kind of ads are

crowdstrike issued an apology and the ministry of defense was forced to take back its allegations. there is a legitimate reason to want to know who hacked the dnc. was it the russians, was it ukraine? was it in the u.s.? it could have been an internal job within the campaign itself. we don't know because our government was never allowed to examine the servers. so why quow laugh it off as nothing but a diversion as chuck todd and his staff seem to do. >> do you believeing the crane melded in the elections in 2016. >> i do. too senator, this sort of strikes me as odd. trish: a real jment journalist is interested in getting the truth. whatever that truth may be. the i.g. report was limited in its scope but quite revealing. we need to know what russia was doing, what ukraine may have been doing. he ought to know what china was doing. stay tuned, because bill barr and john durham have a whole lot of work today and they said today they dispute the report's conclusion. joining me, former u.s. attorney attorney, guy lewis. i looked at this and said my goodness. my goodness. what kind of fb

so when the constitutional amendment was passed, they did rather than have the ministry of defense invilian is in charge. it's the secretary of secured and civilian protection. however, if you look at the makeup of the national guard,, most top commanders are indeed members of the military. and also it's something to note about the national guard. it was created to address the public security crisis, but president trump place a lot of pressure on the mexican government, on amlo, to address the migration crisis from the northern triangle, and he threatened to place significant tariffs on mexican goods. and it is exchange amlo, and exchange, in order to not place the tariffs on the mexican goods, amlo promised to send 6000 national guard members to patrol mexico's southern border, the border with guatemala to stop central american migrants. so again the plan was to send the national guard to the most violent parts of the country, and instead we see 6000 troops diverted to the southern border. finally what i'll say is on the police reform is the campaign talked a lot about strengthening

are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense, airstrike'dsd the targetinilian areas could amount to war crimes. anchor: a u.s. civilian contractor has been killed in an attack on an iraqi village terry base. several -- village military base. several rockets have been fired. multiple service members are injured. but they have returned to duty. staying in iraq, there have been antigovernment protests since october, calling desperately for political reform. the country's highest she a religious leader has been critical of not heeding to the protesters demands. but he will no longer get involved in politics. we report from a sheer stronghold in southern iraq -- shia stronghold in a southern iraq. reporter: the one man iraq is look to for guidance is silenced. 's sermon ayatollah usually includes comments on political matters, closely watched. this week, the cleric announced he will no longer speak on political issues and he passed a cryptic message to iraq's politicians explaining why. you'llou read history, find the problem is not with the people, but with th

site missiles until new arms control agreements are reached at an annual meeting of russia's ministry of defense positions at 82 percent of the country's nuclear arsenal has been modernized it also said russia is the only country in the world to have hypersonic myself going into service which try 10 times faster than the speed of sound and can carry a nuclear or conventional warhead. bigger. we are ready to work on new arms control agreements but until this process is launched we will strengthen our own nuclear forces i mean equipping ourselves who strategic hypersonic missile forces with modern complexes and strategic missiles as well as u.k.'s submarines are our navy and we will continue to work on the creation of other missile systems capable of defending russia and its allies. now a british homelessness charity has opened its annual christmas centers to give people a place to stay over the festive period last year the centers gave more than 4 and a half 1000 people shelter across britain and this year the charity crisis is highlighting the hidden homelessness of so called sofa surfing for br

in eleazar you so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that that have to. strike started to get civilian areas could moment to work crimes. chile's president sebastian pinera has signed off on holding a referendum on a new constitution in april next year there have been weeks of protests against the government of the vote was one of their main demands it from an up to date those are current headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after joycelyn a rock and a hard place. when i asked my mother when was the last time she took the train in and where did she go and she tells me yes of course i took the train because of this trade in jerusalem connects us with the rest of palestine when you look at old photos and you imagine how their lifestyle was at that time and when you visit the train station today it's like this knee bark it's it's full of restaurants full of people who are completely indifferent to the history of the of this space who are completely ignorant words to receive they don't belong you know my son often tells

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike started to get civilian areas could moment to work crimes well now to developments in iraq a military base where american forces were stationed has been attacked by. rockets the k. one base lies 15 kilometers north west of the oil rich city of kirkuk one member of the iraqi police force and a u.s. contractor has been injured so manifold and has more on this now from baghdad where she explains the strategic importance of this base we're getting reports that there were 2 casualties as part of this latest attack one of whom is a member of the iraqi police and one of whom is the u.s. contractor in this particular base in kirkuk houses both u.s. forces as well as iraqi forces that it is used to conduct operations in the area against this is an area that is surrounded by many mountains and it has been used by aczel to stage an insurgency so this base is particularly important for those operations and this particular attack is just one in a series of several

so after forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to get a strike started to get civilian areas could mount to work crimes step. so what does this do for the talk that we've heard over the past week of hopes of a ceasefire or potential mediation russia and turkey being able to create space for that type of mediation to take place. well many people here say that this is not practical on the ground it's it's the opposite happening on the ground as you know stan that russian messner ease over a 1000 russian mercenaries and have been. didley fighting along with have to forces it to take control of the capital tripoli also have to us forces have been receiving russian advances what happens and as you know that the russian medicine really is they belong to the vaga not company which. the going to cut all or is very close to the russian president vladimir putin so if colton is saying that he is hoping for a peaceful. solution to the libyan crisis this is not this is contradictory to what's happening on the ground and again th

locations in eleazar you so after forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike started civilian areas could mount to world crimes. a u.s. civilian contract has been killed in an attack on iraq a military base several rockets were reportedly fired into the base near co cook which has us both iraq and u.s. military u.s. officials say multiple service members were injured but they have returned to duty while staying in iraq where there have been antigovernment protests since october calling desperately for political reform grand ayatollah ali al sistani the country's highest shia religious leader has been critical of politicians for not heeding to the protesters demands but this week he decided he'll no longer get involved in politics so our faults and reports are not jeff she is stronghold in southern iraq. as iraq slips deeper into political crisis the one man iraq has looked to for guidance is silent grand ayatollah ali al sistani is friday's sermon delivered through his representative usually includes comments on politica

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike started civilian areas could mount 2 world crimes. cosmic star has grounded or back and forth a 100 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead the jet came down near our body airport shortly after takeoff smashing through a wall before hitting a house the cause of the crash is still unclear alexi are broad as. emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airliner torn in half the main body of the becket barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from airport bound for the capital now soltani survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted before smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house raisky was worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children see what you know we found 2 sets of skid marks on the back of the plane on the runway maining touched it twice and mostly those passengers at the front of the aircraft were the ones

so after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that that have to. strike started to get civilian areas could mount to work crimes chile's president has signed a decree for a referendum on a new constitution is one of the main demands of protestors who demonstrated against the government for weeks the protests continued in the capital santiago police tried to break up crowds of tear gas water cannons the referendum will take place in april next year the current constitution dates back to $1800.00 under the dictatorship of general augusto pinochet. lamentable rapids once again with a pencil and paper we citizens in be able to express an opinion and define the paf how country will take. a bar a savan the spec is the founder and editor in chief of cheney today he talked to me on skype earlier and i asked him if the signing of the stick will satisfy those protests s. no they won't won't 'd be satisfied because there's been a lot of things that happened over the last couple of weeks that are still not soft for example the human right