Watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 9 am welcome to the program. We start in the middle east where irans u. N. Envoy says the country is not planning any more attacks against the u. S. So long as washington refrains from further aggression he added that wednesdays airstrikes on 2 u. S. Bases any rock were sufficient revenge for the pentagons killing of its top general President Trump has limited his response to those strikes to pledging new sanctions as we continue to evaluate options in response to a radiant aggression the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. These powerful saying shoes will remain until around changes its behavior. Iraqs parliament had earlier called for the expulsion of all foreign troops from the country the decision now awaits government approval and the lingering consequences of the u. S. Invasion of iraq may now be focusing the white house mind when it comes to iran a report. Sequels are rarely as good as the originals many characters dont sign on for repeat of parents and they often end up losing money but apparently theres nothing washington likes more than dusting off an old script and adding a new line or 2 sometimes a badly needs to change the name both countries that have been consuming americas attention for a while now the threat comes from iraq Saddam Hussein needs and pretext terrorists the Coalition Forces did not come to colonize iraq we came to. Overthrow a despotic regime everywhere we go in the middle east its a rare ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record heres behind every problem is are a so the scene is set we have a visible villain in our story and in case you are in any doubt as to who our hero is while who else but the one his ambition is only as a pin to throw off the shackles of injustice and make democratic dreams come true i think things have gotten so body inside iraq from the some point of the iraqi people my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators last night there was dancing in the streets in parts of iraq we we have every expectation the people not only in iraq but in iran will view the American Action last night as giving them freedom but all here knows better than to go around to touching people without some kind of justification its not particularly diplomatic so he gets trusted advisors to dig up something anything really that will make it sound like humanity is being saved this is a blockbuster off the role that has to be an apocalypse Saddam Hussein and his. Are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction iran will not get a Nuclear Weapon and as we came into Office Around was on a pathway that it provided by the nuclear deal which clearly gave them the opportunity to have those Nuclear Weapons and all the while he hopes the one actually all spending thing concrete but then hes just a man with a grudge us grumbling to establish a link between iraq and al qaeda is so far frankly unconvincing were still left with the problem of bringing Public Opinion to accept the imminence of a threat from iraq regime change does not stick out it sounds like a grudge between bush and saddam we need to know what the evidence is what led the administration to make the president to make this decision but i think this claim that its his concern was to avoid war i think most people would say that this is made war more likely so just to be on the safe side he adds a Little Something extra something he knows will appeal to the patriotism and emotions of the average voter if were successful in iraq we will have struck a major blow right at the geographic base of the terrorists who have hundreds and resort for many years but most especially on 911. Assisted in the klan this time travel to afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the same time or 11 terrorist attacks in the United States but does a hit every film has to have a moment when things arent going the heros way back in 2003 and john politicians and the public alike might have been beating the drums of war but as time passed questions were raised and people increasingly saw through had been best circumstantial evidence fast forward and now not everyones willing to back the hero who tore up the nuclear deal the sanctions as a default Foreign Policy toll and made the hash tag wild will 3 trend on twitter this is a u. S. Decision it is not a decision taken by neither do Global Coalition nor do we have woken up to more dangerous world the us action did not make it any easier to reduce tensions we partied to deescalate for the conflict is in none of our interest more worryingly for the herald has an election coming up the average voters being a bit more cautious this time around but despite all this there is sure hes unbeatable and why wouldnt he be hes had ample experience to roll from guatemala to the congo from the Dominican Republic to South Vietnam from brazil to chile and libya from iraq to iran you get the point this heros got good it shifting of regimes around in his favor of course in some ways this is even a sequel within a sequel because back in 1953 the cia helped topple the democratically elected iranian leader to protect you guessed it us Oil Interests but despite all this despite the sending of troops the killing of civilians the assassination of foreign officials there are maintains that hes not off to blood hes a man of peace were doing everything we can to avoid war in iraq our goal is peace we took action last just stop. A war we did not take action just start a war 173 president s and hundreds of thousands of casualties late so the faces of changed in the rhetoric a little bit different as will be hopefully the final outcome but either way youve got to admit washington to do with some variety and its storylines off troll no one likes a dodgy sequel the us house of representatives is due to vote on thursday on whether or not to limit trumps ability to use military force against iran meanwhile we asked former u. S. Congressman ron paul about the implications of washingtons policies in the middle east when we were going getting involved in iraq you know the American People got to the point they they thought that the iraqis part of it was the part of 911. 00 and they had Nuclear Weapons and they were going to attack us here at home and that that is just you know way overboard this whole thing that that is the arounds fall and that they are the aggressor they cant afford d to be really aggressors and they very capable of making a defense and thats what theyre trying to do now because somebody came in assassinate one of their leaders i believe that sanctions or war activity an actual act of war is when if if people came to United States boycott of this and blockaded us and said you cant import a war you cant do this the American People would be outraged over this i think its the real war. Big problem is the fact that were sending troops all around the world and we have a 170. 00 countries that were involved in and we have an empire and the empire is coming to an end i think some of the things that were witnessing in the middle east right now is a sign of weakness for our presence in the middle east despite the white house of warning further escalation for now us t. V. Pundits are ramping up the pressure for war on masking their connections to the lucrative Defense Industry are to compile the chorus of hawks. There was compelling intelligence reasons of an imminent threat to respond i trust the intelligence assessment of whats on the neo is doing the kinds of actions he was preparing for i take it at face value what he is saying and secretary pompei oh this was a preemptive defensive measure now these are supposed to be just random smart people who are going to help us understand the situation except there arent a lot of them have a particular financial interest in a specific outcome essentially theyre tied to corporations that make profits from war the usa and iran go head to head theyll get a pretty nice payout and the viewers are kept in the dark about these ties the world is on edge since the u. S. To county raney into restocking tents and codes force command a qassam so they money following the december 31st attack on the us embassy in iraq since 979 iran has bullied threatened and killed and spread its reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran says his point including scrapping the Iranian Nuclear deal then the hip junior works for a lobbying Firm AmericanDefense Incorporated that represents military contractors and who are one of the sponsors of his lobbying efforts none other than the manufacturers of the drone that killed solomonic so are we really shocked hes not singing kumbaya on urging restraint check out this guy they crossed a red line with this president when he when he exercised enormous can story. Not taken a provocation but dont kill americans and when they did he he acted and acted very strongly and now jack keane is represented as just a retired general giving his 2 cents but actually sent his retirement from the pentagon hes been working with military Contracting Companies like General Dynamics and now he runs a Venture Capital firm that specializes in defense and security not exactly mr objective general saw money he was a lawful military. Objectives and the president had ample domestic Legal Authority to take him out without an additional congressional authorization jed johnson was in the department of Homeland Security under barack obama but now hes in the private sector working for Lockheed Martin thats the company that makes the war planes that are stationed across the middle east and who can forget David Petraeus thats the military commander turned cia director who had an affair and leaked classified information to his mistress now you would think you wouldnt be credible after all this is what happened when he tried to teach classes at city college in new york. And. I mean if you dont know what it is going to break. You go but petraeus is back selling war on primetime its impossible to overstate the significance of the attack that takes cost and soul money this is bigger than been logged its bigger than the overwhelming majority of the American People believe that the invasion of iraq in 2003 was a big mistake so its worth pointing out that these same people were on t. V. In 2003 selling the invasion of iraq are now on t. V. Pushing a new war against iraq the exact same people it is important to understand the consequences of pulling out of iraq before our work is done in victory is achieved abandoning our iraqi friends would signal the world that america cannot be trusted to keep its war so low money was the highest ranking official in the force he has the blood of Many American soldiers on his hands the us public has voted for president ial candidates who promised less involvement overseas over and over again but the Mainstream Media seems to be working pretty hard to convince them otherwise and its giving special attention to certain individuals who have certain shady financial ties and its not disclosing those ties to the viewers many. Of the pundits the analysts that we see in us media are people who are either on the boards of military corporations or their lobbyist for the military industry and they have an economic incentive unfortunately when it comes to war and this is not disclosed when we hear them talking about how good trump is doing in killing the general of another country and inciting a new war we have to admit that there is a Strong MilitaryIndustrial Complex in the United States and that the news media itself benefits from war. Ukraine is marking a day of mourning after its passenger plane crashed just after takeoff from tehran airport on wednesday killing all 176 people on board. No more than toil the right side of the airplane and one end of it will completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to hit residential houses the plane crash landed in la in a park and destroyed the fence of a football pitch then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated after when you know they didnt keep those watching the news of iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t. V. Of the 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere and at 1st i thought the american substructure here with missiles and i went into the basement to take cover all through while i went out and saw a plane had crashed over them body parts were lying around everywhere. Just to see out of 167. 00 passengers to our ukrainian citizens on the passengers are citizens of canada the round germany sweden and afghanistan. Since their support for my oldest son is just stupid my daughter called me from the us she told me that the ukrainian at craft crashed just where eagle fruits are said to to run and i sold a video of the plane crash. Still to come in the program a new report reveals appalling levels of sexual abuse of Mental Health patients in the u. K. Were bringing that story and more after this short break. Seemed wrong. But. Just dont. Let me. Get to shape out to stay active. And engaged with. The trail. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Reality has mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are. And our utopian visions maybe were going to get a new deal but it may not be the Green New Deal that people are expecting will get the Green New Deal that we have we deserve rather think we are going to get a Green New Deal because the green youre dealing compass is things beyond just straight infrastructure healthcares in that new deal there are other elements if you go back 20 started in 2006 that we are going to get and that are popular in this country such. Welcome back hundreds of women and men are reportedly being sexually assaulted in mixed wards in Englands NationalHealth Service despite ministers pledging to scrap n. H. S. Mixed wards guidelines still allow shared spaces and makes court order. Report reveals there were 286. 00 reports of Sexual Assault in single sex wards between april 2017 and october 2019 thats 3 times lower than for mixed sex wards mixed sex wards received 1019. 00 reports of Sexual Assault in the same period thats a rate of one attack a day one victim spoke out about the conditions the room i was in was surrounded by the entrance to the main car door so there were men standing almost all said i couldnt go in you without going to a mixed area i just had to lock myself in my room the whole time the department of health and social care has responded by saying it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n. H. S. Political activist on the bell says its disgraceful that the decision to axe makes wards has still not been carried out. I think its a its about 20 years certainly 15 years ago that. Hospitals made an undertaking that they would get rid of mixed wards frankly the government ought to be ashamed that allowing british hospitals to it to not carry out an agreement that they made which was that there would be wards for women and wards for men and they shouldnt be there should not be mixed wards we fought very hard to ensure that women had safety and security so. For no better reason that we could speak to each other about issues of the of of concern i mean lots of women would be in hospital because of you know reproductive issues. Of old age and you couldnt necessarily do that in a mixed ward not so men prefer to be in wards in which matters of their you know the reproductive organs can be explored with other men in a way that is not appropriate in front of most women well i certainly think that in a 1st world country that we should have wards for women and wards for men. And while the n. H. S. Is being panned for its failure to separate the sexes britains education watchdog has uncovered unlawful segregation at the heart of the National School system often has revealed that an Islamic Faith Academy in Central England is giving preferential treatment to boys and even telling girls that university is not for them shoddy Edwards Daschle reports segregation surely only a thing of the past well not for one Islamic Faith School in birmingham that found itself on the naughty step after segregation the girls and the boys of the classroom unlawfully by the way and telling its girls that university was not for them while the boys were given the 1st choice on black experience placements boys enjoy school more than girls this is because they are treated favorably and have more privileges redstone account to meet the private secondary school in which charges fees of up to 3000. 00 pounds a year has been slapped by the mother of School Inspectors offset with the rating of inadequate now the 13 page report found the boys are treated a preferential way and girls were discouraged from further education they were also banned from playing football and taking part in activities like tickets you classes boys and girls own more fully segregated by sex for all School Activities except for weekly assemblies over a year ago the school was already told to stop its practice of segregation but the schools have most of says he has no intention of defined the lower in any way and simply wants to separate schools for boys and girls now despite offset ruling segregation has a negative impact on Girls Education and indeed selfconfidence we work very diligently to offer the best to both boys and girls at our school and both are given equal opportunities to be successful in whatever they choose if it turns out that our application for a separate girls school is formally refused then we have absolutely no intention to defy the law in any way but its not just this school thats in the bad books for buying him lets not forget the debate over the soon to. Be compulsory Sex Education classes including talking about divests relationships and saying that its ok to b. K. While the rollout isnt going down too well with some parents of faith fundamentally disagreeing that teaching their kids such issues goes directly against their own religious beliefs may. Well be good for you. But. Let them grow up and let them to themselves they dont want to like to be with the government schools and parents all that odds over how they see the future of childrens education and looks like britain still has a lot of homework today is a school. Doing well college will set standards then no no is it big so it could be anything up to 4 years before schools are assessed and report so retain an earned prime example which basically allows schools to carry on if there are such a concerns like the ones that weve come across now and it is only when. We speak to students and so on as theyve done in this case what theyve spoken to the boys of the girls and the girls about to say that they are not happy with who we treat treat these concerns have been raised simply because the cost that its back to school actually students only if theres nobody else thats making complaints. How are you supposed to bring down. Better global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always had to our website r. T. Dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. But if you want to cross the ballot im not. You would be sure that there was more in those jeans nudist beach and you see me you. Guys and about there some of them when you guys you. Can use i mean guys without infringing balls. A lot of you will see sawing during fuzzy fights about who can teach us the most ardent most schools. Doesnt need to lose to me as if. The. Last. Year and she beautiful cabinet 5 days doing this is. A almost immediately for people who simply knew. She would include in it will. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Im going to fulfill repeated purposes oh politics to the people i promise you know weeks or buts to. Be. Pretty. Much. You want to 1st. Know. Cat. Greetings and sal you taishan the end is here hawk watchers of the year i mean its the end of the year and as we sit down with family and friends for annual season of holidays and good cheer waiting to ring in the new year it is important to take a moment or 2 you know take a moment or 2 well look back at what was the year that came before this day what took place around the world in our nation and our lives during those 300 some odd days that brought us to this very moment. Well today on the show we will do just that we will take some time to examine just a sampling from some of the biggest stories we covered all year long i mean weve got protesters aplenty from france hong kong to haiti all with the fires of change in their hearts some more celebrated some were shamed and some were tragically ignored by the world on a world scale and speaking of protesters you couldnt find a bigger cause than those carrying the banner of the Extinction Rebellion those brave souls who shut down streets glued themselves to capitol hill hallways and starved just to shake people in the recognizing the grim meat hook reality that is our Climate Change future and who could talk about the big news of 2019 and not talk about the apprehension the controversial demise of billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker Geoffrey Epstein the political elites man with the little black book the man who own denial and built on sand with a trail of friends and accomplices that includes 2 president s and a prince 2019 also brought us real time looks at how the United States flexes its Foreign Policy in latin america through manipulated headlines jack ryan t. V. Shows d and brilliantly covert regime change operations that are no longer curve or covert and not really brilliant its all that and a whole lot more as we take a few moments to reflect on the year that was watching the hawks in 2019. Its. Like you know that i got. Welcome everybody to watching the. Robot tour and today we will look back on the year that was we will start that look back with the Extinction Rebellion in our interview with giovanni to marcus a young man was such dedication to save our future that he led not one but 2 hunger strikes this year with the 2nd including hundreds upon hundreds of people in 27. 00 countries spending 6 continents all to protest our elected officials and government leaders lack of true Political Action or even actual leadership on combating Climate Change that my friends is a newsworthy event and that is why it was such a pleasure discovering just how passionate about this cause mr de marcus truly is. Whats the organizations goals and what is ultimately the purpose whats the endgame. Nonviolent direct Action Campaign which uses stuff like you mentioned roadblocks hunger strikes getting arrested going to prison because this is the only way the real changes ever come about what we want is a declaration of climate and you know emergency what we want is 0 carbon by 2025 what we want is citizens assemblies to oversee Just Transition what we want is a Just Transition which put prioritize human rights of a profit climate refugees and all the other disaffected communities that have been hurt most by this climate and ecological crisis. Through really the hard part that a lot of people dont understand is that the Climate Crisis isnt going to these things dont have that top one percent 1st they hit everyone else everyone on the bottom theyre sort of kept away from that as year