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Either thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. And well start this hour in the middle east where irans u. N. Envoy says that the country is not planning any more attacks against the United States so long as washington refrain from further aggression added wednesdays airstrikes on 2 u. S. Bases in iraq 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 rainy and aggression the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. These powerful saying is will remain until around changes its behavior. The us assassination of general salim on iraqi territory last week sparked massive protests across the middle east and beyond to direct parliament to call for the expulsion of all foreign troops from the country decision now awaits government approval and the lingering consequences of the u. S. Invasion of iraq and now be focusing white house minds when it comes to iran taylor explains what he calls a rally as good as the originals many characters dont sign on for a p. A pair of them 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 it badly even needs to change the name both countries which have been confusing americas attention for a while now the threat comes from iraq the. 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 or 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 array and so the scene is that 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 has only ever been to throw off the shackles of injustice and make democratic dreams come true i think things have gotten so bad inside iraq from the some point of the iraqi people my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators 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 i here knows better than to go around attacking 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 favored this is a blockbuster off to roll that have to be an apocalypse Saddam Hussein and his regime 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 provided by the nuclear deal which clearly gave them the opportunity to have those Nuclear Weapons and all the while he hopes that no one actually are spending think concreate because then hes just a man with a grudge us scrambling to establish a link between iraq and al qaeda is so far frankly unconvincing 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 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 folk if were successful in iraq we will have struck a major blow right to the geographic base of the terrorists who have hunters 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 term or 11 terrorist attacks in the United States but as a hit every film has to have a moment where things arent going to heroes the 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 would be best circumstantial evidence fast forward and now not everyones willing to back the hero who tore up a nuclear deal functions as a default Foreign Policy tool and made the hash tag world war 3 trend on twitter this is a u. S. Decision it is not a decision taken by the Global Coalition nor. We have woken up to more dangerous world the us action did not make it any easier to reduce tensions parties to deescalate for the conflict is in none of our interest more worryingly for the hero has an election coming up the average voter is 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 off 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 leader to protect you guessed it u. S. Oil interests but despite all this despite the sending of troops the killing of civilians the assassination of foreign officials there and 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 for 17 years 3 president s and hundreds of thousands of casualties later so will the faces have changed in the rhetoric a little bit different as will be hopefully the final outcome but either way youve got to admit washington could do with some to write storylines off troll no one likes a dodgy sequel u. S. House of representatives is g. s you vote on thursday on whether to limit some civility to use military force against a room with former u. S. Congressman paul about the risks of an all out conflict its not totally unlike trump you know to make a lot of noise and then get people all excited and stir things up and then back off a bit because i think basically im hoping anyway that he doesnt enjoy killing people and the perp right provoking wars but we still have our problems because he still has too many neo cons to run them to try to aggravate things and make things work but i wish we could be reassured that peace has broken out because theres too many problems there and i just think that the solution is something i suggested before it started it is dont go in and since weve been in and i say come home in the iraqis ask us to leave and i think we should leave but as long as we have this monstrosity of an embassy in in. Iraq its just going to be provoking you know people to attack us so i it claims that he went in there and killed killed the later because he wanted to stop a war and of course i would lean toward the fact acting like that is more likely to start a war which i would like to make sure that we dont get into a real or. Despite the white house avoiding further escalation for now us t. V. Pundits ramping up the pressure for war while busking their connections to the lucrative Defense Industry teeth morgan has details. 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 they 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 entire restock attempts on codes force command a custom 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 irans of his points including scrapping the Iranian Nuclear deal then hip jr works for a lobbying Firm American Defense 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 so dont kill americans and when they did he he acted and acted very strongly 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 contract. In Companies Like General Dynamics and now iran is 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 you tried to teach classes at city college in new york. Even if you. Did i mean if you dont remember what it was going to be. A year ago but the trances back selling war on prime time its impossible to overstate the significance of the attack that takes soleimani this is bigger than been logged its bigger than bud donahue 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 Military Industrial Complex in the United States and that the news media itself benefits from war. Ok after shubrick well be getting reaction from an aviation expert on the passenger plane crash just hours after irans missile attacks. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. So these terms inflation deflation they tend to hand the connection between the finance economy and the real economy and sometimes the finance economy gets out of hand and you have crashes and sometimes the real economy gets out of hand then you have stagflation because wages are too high but sense 2000 and getting even more pronounced since 2008 we have 2 separate economies there are 5 for katie theres the privately owned Central Banks who print money for private the top 110th of one percent of private citizens and then we have to serve class or the feudal class and these 2 dont interact and in. 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 president blood in his own ski who has been seen laying flowers at a memorial set up inside kiev poured over the countrys Security Service to investigate the reasons for the crash with an official claiming that a rocket attack is among the versions being looked at terrorism has also been listed as a possible scenario despite the fact iran has ruled that. We are starting various versions of the southern airplane crash and mon the main version is a hit by in their Defense Missile system. So thats his official saying that a rocket attacks a major possibility can be despite the fact that the president urged not to speculate. He approached. Almost everyone to restrain from speak elation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions its not a topic for hype. Julian brazen Aviation Security expert carney joins me on the line now welcome julian and we kind of talked about it the ukrainian president saying lets not speculate but thats what everybody does unfortunately the nature of disasters like this until people know whats really going on and one things ukrainian best to get to said theyre looking at is the possibility of a missile strike 1st of all is there any way we can know if it was or wasnt how likely is it. The whole point is that we have to look at everything nothing nothing is off the table so it could well be a rocket Strike Missiles could have been shot down could have been a drone could have been. Bird strike we dont know that is why we have the flight recorders on board syrians have recovered and so soon as we get these probably decoded then well all know exactly what has happened to this aircraft and its very important that this is done not for political reasons but for safety reasons and that is why its terribly important that these boxes are decoded very quickly iran though has said that it will not give the black boxes from the plane to the United States or even to experts boeing if that is the case can you ever find out what what really happened i mean its all very well ukraine saying theyre going to investigate can anybody find out without the black box. Well for 1st starts the boxes do not go back to the aircraft manufacturer all the engine manufacturer they go to an independent the bar tree this will be by the host countries of the host country is iran so iran will arrange with this special is low bar is free to decode the boxes now there is paris i would suggest might be an ideal place to be institution paris they have decoded several of these in the past and what happens then is the results all decoding are then given to the interested parties 1st of all they have given back to iran then iran will then distribute the findings that is the way it has to be says no question of the black boxes being given back to boeing america the u. K. Canada the whole point is that iran is controlling the progress of these black boxes the iranian investigators say the plane was trying to return to the airport when it crashed as i understand there was no radio contact from the plane i mean is it easy to tell that it was trying to return if there was no contact. This came out i think it was late last night when they said they they originally they said there was Radio Communication then that was discounted and they said the plane was actually turning now they can actually track it on various tracking devices and so they should be oh absolutely see whether that was a situation if the plane was turning back we dont know why its turning back again we need these black boxes to tell us and its worth saying the black boxes are flight data recorders and voice recorders so what it does it gives you a full aus worth of material whatever was happening on that plane one hour ahead of the actual incident so youll get all the conversations between the pilot and air Traffic Control and his copilot and also youll get every electric relay every switch thats been activated on that aircraft will be recorded and thats what were after. Its estimated the plane came down 2 minutes into the to the flight what can you as an expert semei from the fact that there was no Radio Communication. Well its obvious some kind of catastrophic event looking at the videos weve seen not all of them being been cleared you understand but theres a lot of video around which actually does show 2 explosions shows one explosion then a big fireball and then the plane hitting the ground so it could well be you could well be that there is a situation where. We might say that something happened inside the plane and set off Something Else alternatively it could be Something Like say a missile rockets or shooting affecting the plane fracturing the fuel lines causing initial fire and then of course it spreads to the tanks in the wings we dont know thats the whole point just why its imperative we do get these boxes processed and very quickly how would you assess the Safety Record of this pacific model believe its 8737800 presumably this is more bad news for boeing it had major issues with one of their other models. Well the 737800 is a well respected aircraft ryanair have a fleet of boeing 737 and they about 2 and a half 1000 flights a day so. Theyre quite happy with them and they say theyll continue to use these aircraft is just unfortunate so thats why we need to really get to the bottom of this its for the greater Aviation Community and for the public to be aware of what has happened this is nothing to do with politics this is purely aviation safety thats why we dont want any further delay on these boxes being decoded and if it means that we have to have a proxy policy in there looking after the interests of various parties then so be it the point is we cant really delay the decoding of these boxes julian really appreciate your analysis as a bit more transparency to everything many thanks jim bray Aviation Security expert. Thank you. Now a preliminary a rainy and reports are just that the crew did not as we mentioned the radio for help but they were trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down tehran as it will not and over the black box to the u. S. Saw the plane make a boeing this is how the tragedy itself unfolded. More than 2 elk on the right side of the airplane and one end of it were completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to hold president ial hands its the plane crash landed in largely park and destroyed the fence of a football then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated after what you know they didnt keep those watching the news of iranians hitting us bases with missiles on t. V. After 10 minutes i heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake there was fire everywhere at 1st i thought the american success truck here with missiles and i went into the basement to take cover all through while i went out and saw a plane had crashed in but their body parts were lying around. The ship just to see out of 167 passengers are ukrainian citizens on the passengers who are citizens of canada iran germany sweden and afghanistan. Since the support for my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me from the u. S. She told me that the ukrainian aircraft crashed she asked where eagle fruits are said to to run and i saw the video of the plane crash. Hundreds of Mental Health patients are reportedly being sexually assaulted mixed sex wards of Englands National Health Service single sex wards see 3 times fewer reports of abuse here despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards guidelines still allow shared spaces. There were 1019 complaints of Sexual Assault in mixed wards between april 2017 and october 29th as a rate of one attack a day on victims spoke out about the conditions. The room i was in was denied by the entrance to the main corridor or so there were men standing almost all said my room i couldnt go anywhere 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 that it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n. H. S. Political activist linda by law says its disgraceful the decision to axe mixed wards has still not been carried out. I think its that 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. 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 lent. If youre saying we dont seem to National Show me from sin often no. One else seems wrong. But all along just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out to stay active. And engaged equals betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. But as physics physics is nothing but the harmony you can create on vibrating strings but its chemistry chemistry is the melody the melanies you can play on strings what is the universe the universe is a symphony of strings. Reality has mandates of its own that go beyond what our wishes and preferences are. And our utopian visions may be 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 last. Greetings to sell you tasia. 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 our annual season of holidays and good cheer waiting to ring in the new year it is important to take a moment or 2 take a moment or 2 and look back at what was the year that came before this day what took place around the world in our nation in 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 the 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 2001009 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 owned the nile and built on sin 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 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 watch