The victims shared her story bills. They needed help. From the start. Seemed to be. For their good evening youre watching R T International where shes gone 9 oclock in moscow now donald trump has approved a fresh package of sanctions against iran following the latest escalation in the region american leaders says they will only be lifted when iran complies with u. S. Demands. Theyre losing a tremendous amount they getting heard very badly by the sanctions goal came in very quickly but as to whether or not they want thats up to them not up to me its totally up to them. Ok lets get more on this now without these kind of mocking you joins us from the states again good evening t. Kellett mr trump didnt just announce the sanctions that did what else did he go on to say. Well trump has slapped new sanctions on iran and iran has responded warning that the recent missile attacks are not the only kind of revenge theyre capable of in response to the killing of qassam solomonic so interesting ask elation of events the United States making demands on a country saying if they these demands are not fulfilled there will be more sanctions whats interesting is donald trump in his remarks he referenced the possibility of expanding nato to the middle east this is what he said nato made and then you have damn easy middle east you know they told me i said what a beautiful name nato personnel in the region to know youre supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an International Problem and how is this whole situation and khatib actually affecting the Political Landscape in the u. S. At the moment while at the moment we see the administration on the defensive about their decision to kill qassam solomonic insisting that it was necessary because solomonic was in the process of escalating and plotting attacks against the United States that weve had mike pompei all coming out and insisting it was absolutely necessary for donald trump to carry out that strike this is what he said. The intelligence assessment made clear that no action allowing so the money to continue his plotting and his planning his Terror Campaign created more risk than taking the action that we took last week. Now there are members of congress who have seen the classified information that is available to members of the u. S. Congress and they just dont buy it they say based on what theyve seen the evidence just isnt being presented to make the case for what pompei o and the administration insists this is what they said heres the unclassified version of what trump said congress after the hits on some the money from weve seen including the redacted ponts here and the briefing the facts do not show an imminent threat it is not acceptable for officials within the executive branch of government i dont care whether theyre with the cia with the department of defense or or otherwise to come in and tell us that we cant debate and discuss the appropriateness of military intervention against iran its unamerican its unconstitutional its room. And now many members of the u. S. Congress have argued that by taking out and killing Qassam Sallah money without congressional approval that this was inappropriate and it was essentially not not correct for the administration engage in this activity that congressional approval is required before taking these actions furthermore theyve said that the evidence for the Trump Administration made this decision should be provided to members of congress they can see the information on which this decision was based however the administration insists it is not necessary to provide this information to the congress and furthermore that it could be a dangerous thing to do it could lead to the information being compromised this is what mike pence the Vice President said in response to these criticisms. When it comes to intelligence we have to protect sources and methods and so theres only a certain amount that we can share with every member of congress but those of us who have seen all the evidence know that there was a compelling case of an imminent threat against american personnel and. Now this fits a longstanding pattern of members of congress not being given and provided with the evidence to back up claims coming from the administration we heard claims from the Obama Administration accusing russia of hacking the Democratic National committee that information was not provided to members of congress other allegations against russia in ukraine have been similar furthermore at one point there were claims that iran was planning an attack against the United States that information was also not provided so it seems increasingly we see the executive branch of the u. S. Government approaching congress the legislative branch and saying just take our word for it this seems to be a long standing trend lots of lots of debate and criticism about it from members of congress but the Administration Stands by its policy. In the United States but the latest well might sound brahms the fellow. From responsible state craft explained what is behind the u. S. Administrations wooding over the killing of generals to the money. The president to go ahead and authorize this but talk again soon the money the threat needs to be imminent so thats why you keep hearing this word because its very fundamental in terms of the breakdown of power between congress and the 2nd. Of course the president can pump a you know theyve been saying. What is more you know where they meet with congress and they present the evidence in general the Congress People are have not been satisfied they have not been persuaded Nothing Specific has been shown to them at all. And so it looks like this was just a ploy in ireland that had been in the works for a long all the hierarchy see had been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Other sites and so they took him out and out there are real questions about the legality of donna tartt but even more importantly from my perspective is the wisdom behind. That was speculation about what really brought down a passenger jet in toronto on wednesday killing everybody on board donald trump is also weighed in with his own ideas and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say it was be can it go i personally dont think thats. Even a question personally. Ok lets get more information after dont call shes following the story for us so we had the what the u. S. President thinks what else the people saying that well the latest update is that the iranian authorities have accused the u. S. Media of spreading quote illogical rumors now thats in reference to baseless speculation thats been made by anonymous pentagon officials that iran accidentally shot down the plane using a russian made rocket now this kind of talk flies directly in the face of what the ukrainian president said earlier today no more speculation. Im asking everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified diversions its not a topic for you. But one of the ukrainian authorities been doing exactly the opposite actually theyve been speculating a lot about the causes the possible causes of this crash saying that it could have been a terrorist attack a drone strike or even a russian made missile like the pentagon officials were telling the u. S. Media and one of the media been saying then have they been covering this story well from the beginning they jumped on the speculation that it was no accident c. N. N. Basically trimmed down the 2 possibilities to a bomb or a missile that basically took down the plane and there was also a photo circulating throughout twitter that has formed the basis of somewhat of a Conspiracy Theory that russia is somehow to blame for this even though theres no evidence to support that the account that posted it was suspended probably for spreading fake news because again we dont know where this photo was taken by whom when but you know that hasnt stopped the b. B. C. From giving air time to this. Well the 1st one is the possibility that that plane was hit by a Russian Mission just off to take off and the independent even published an article citing one Organization Called the o. P. s group which said that people should assume that this plane was shot down in a similar way that m 817 was ordered that is claimed to until other until evidence. Is presented to prove otherwise basically russia is guilty until proven innocent now sky news and telegraph have reposed did this ukrainian speculation and newsweek even interviewed u. S. Officials who said that iran is believed to have shot down a plane with a russian made missile again nobody has presented any evidence as to how russia is connected to this or how this wasnt even an accident in the 1st place you know so the into the investigation is still going on and the families and the friends of the victims are still waiting for those concrete answers. More than toil 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 hit residential houses the plane crash landed in lolly park and destroyed the fence of a football pitch 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 americans have struck 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 their body parts were lying around everywhere. Since their support for my eldest son is the stuart my daughter called me from the us she told me that the ukrainian akram crash she asked where eagle flew i said to ron and i sold a video of the plane crash. Jemison broadcast network clark told us earlier what drives all the speculation. Unfortunately for some geopolitics coming before the evidence some people are on social media coming out now at their geopolitical bias that your political agendas are basically driving their line on this rather than wait going for the evidence 1st there are 4 or 5 explanations as to why this tragedy took place and one of them is quite simply that it was an accident and yet thats all been discounted in peoples by this fact try to put one on one possibility of more than the others yes it is possible that it could have the its perfectly possible it could have been a bomb placed on the plane it terror on again it was that we need obviously that brings other questions to place the ball it was a missile strike how did that happen etc but people shouldnt be getting ahead of themselves here and unfortunately thats what theyre doing and i think geopolitics is driving it. Now the longest transport workers strike in france in decades has now entered its 36th day it was called over planned Pension Reforms and today paris and other cities are witnessing another major mobilization supported by people of different classes and also occupations in the french capital crowds gathered to call on the government to draw its plans according to local unions 370000 protesters descended on the capital and though the interior ministry claimed it was actually a fraction of that size shot and reports now from the center of the protests. Paul weve already seen tear gas deployed on several occasions by the police as they were trying to control the crowd seem paris and the crowds are huge i just want to get you to go up and get a sense of looking down this street discipline of i do mission and pretty much all the way down to the last of the publique it is shock of block with people people whove come out to support this strike now. In its 36 day this is the full day of nationwide protests and as you can see it doesnt seem as if the support is abating a tool many people thought this strike would only go on for maybe 2 weeks but hey we are not 36 they are going into the 6 week and it still looks like its getting huge amount to support in terms of have the strike is going there is more public transport that is operational at the moment in paris are we seeing trains operating fairly normally metros operating fairly normally in the mornings and in the evenings during the large part of the day little is operating apart from the automated lines thats 140 now in terms of the general support for this strike the polls in france show that most people are still supporting the strike people very unhappy from across the board about these changes to the Pension System to the reforms that the government wants to make it wants to put 42. 00 different Pension Systems down into one universal system to end many of the special regimes it says that yes actually its still offering many special regimes to the police too sometimes but work is such a in a at a big destroying get a strike moving to try and get in past say to cross that the other big issue is raising the retirement age up to 64. 00 its currently 62. 00 a week in front so they want to add another 2 years on to that but of course that wont affect anybody whos retiring in the next 17 years say the government they say it will only affect those who turn 18 in the next few years but people are furious here theyre saying you know they dont want to sell out their children speeches that run childrens features and thats why they determined to come out into the streets to keep protesting tensions are rising here towards the end of the protests they just want to get you to have a look back down. Thats too would sun lazard in the center of paris you can see those clouds of tear gas the price still to tear gas still raining down on the protesters as the police try and control the situation here you can hear the people in the crowd sound shouting everyone hates the police thats a chant we take quite often but you can really feel that tension right shooting up a in paris at the end of the protest that has been largely peaceful a tear gas has been deployed throughout it and we have seen some individuals arrested individuals who apparently throwing objects towards the police that sounds like some grenades but it could also be tear gas coming down on us but you might be able to see the lights coming up on the fly as it sounds like that was a sound going a going off that people saying that they wont get even live to enjoy their retirement and theyre determined to stay out on the streets and to make sure people know theyre unhappy this is a protest now 36 days this is the 4th day of nationwide protests across france and as you can see it doesnt look like its about to be broke. Oh if the president has pulled out of an event in israel to commemorate victims of the holocaust the liberation of the x. Feature concentration camp that after all denies his rejected his request to give a speech at the event. It just shows are branchial it turns out that the president s of Russia Germany and of france whose government collaborated with nazi germany at the time will speak for the organizers do not agree to a speech by the president of poland absolutely do not agree to this it comes amid tense relations between russia and poland over a dispute around the 2nd world war orser is angry at accusations by president putin the country was partially responsible for the outbreak of the war poland also some of the Russian Ambassador over putins harsh words about a polish and boy to nazi germany small each city and its good a scumbag an anti semitic pig you cannot put it any other way he expressed full solidarity with hitler in his anti semitic views moreover in mockery of the jewish people he promised to erect a monument to hitler in warsaw the holocaust during world war 2 resulted in the deaths of around 17000000. 00 people in total of which 6 mean were jiggs that accounted for more than half of europes entire Jewish Population so lets talk about this a bit. Editor of history sent from norse a nice big columnist and a very welcome our thanks for coming on do you think the polish president has made the right decision here by boycotting this event. No he hasnt i mean his particular time when polish is or relations have not been all that good over the issues of the holocaust has been a continuing issue about laws where you cant say that a poll was any which way responsible for the holocaust there are other issues that have been related to the holocaust that has created tension between israel and the government of poland and theres also been claims and questions about polish antisemitism that has resulted because the new government thats been in control in poland and so its a really bad time for him to stick on principles right now because hes not allowed to speak and not the most popular person in israel at the moment to say the least ok but you can understand why he would be angry that because other people there are like to speak but for some reason hes in tonights. I mean i guess some some levels but you know the people who are allowed to speak with the allies basically. So you know its not like the poem was important in the sense that problem was clearly the 1st country that was invaded during world war 2 it was the place where you know the largest number of jews were killed in poland so thats the fact that you know the polish Jewish Population was totally annihilated while in other places only partially annihilated so theres no question poland was central to the holocaust but thats a solely means that the current polish president should be the person to be to be speaking i mean everybody who comes im sure wants to speak there about 50 heads of states or coming and i guess limited the organizers decided which ones were more important and which ones had a greater role to play and which ones have been most helpful and in remembering the holocaust again and in some levels the idea of you know im not coming if i dont get to speak its almost childish its a great shame is it because everyone understands the importance of this event and its there to commemorate the victims and yet it is even. Shadowed by by Something Like this. No absolutely i mean i there when the day actually comes off forget about it and the World Leaders that will be there will be the ones that look at all of what im like to the fact that someone is not there that will not really for flecked that much i mean if a significant person you know one of the one of the leaders of the major countries hadnt shown up that might be something that people talk about but the fact that he wont be there will talk about it now and it will be another issue in their ongoing controversies that surround israeli Public Relations jewish prous relations the jewish people have a long history with poland some of it good then a lot of it not so good so this will just be another little chapter in the long history ok mark look nice to talk she will leave it there that was mark shulman editor of History Center nor say were a news week columnist thank you. And other news tonight hundreds of Mental Health patients are reportedly being sexually assaulted in mix exports in Englands NationalHealth Service single sex wards see 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap makes wards guidelines still allow shared spaces that were there were 1019. 00 complaints of in total of Sexual Assault in mixed wards between april 27th seen on october 29th thats a rate of one attack a day but if a grand one of the victims gave us her story. There i was on a mental outward roll my depression anxiety. Very very low i was in this particular hospital. And in the past. Lying met a blast. It was a stout man but he worked nights he comes on time to talk to me that i didnt really think much of it. But over time he just became more sunny close to me joking to me always in my gut your know it wasnt sad it was the bus. Stop should have been event im used and you might. Even just touching my head and my own was it was well and i didnt. Think it was appropriate. That i was her weeks went by and he slowly became closer to. My extended. Session is that many to tell. You no you dont seem to me well great. The department of health and social care has responded by saying it will not tolerate sexual abuse in the n. H. S. But political activist and developer says it is disgraceful that the decision to accept mixed boards 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 men watching r. T. That brings you up to date more from us at the top of the. Chose seemed wrong. But old rules just dont hold. The world to get to shape out just a constant adjective and in games from an equals betrayal. When so many 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 New Deal in compass is things beyond just what Infrastructure Health care is in that new deal there are other elements if you go back 20 started in 2006 that we are going to good and that are popular in this country. Good food descriptions sound up a tasing even for the owners so how to choose just patch good industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us then whats necessarily good for the pet turns out may not be as healthy as people believe and we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because theyre already making it a 1000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. Happy new year and a welcome to the alex savin show where we bid if i know im fond farewell to 2019 by looking at some of our Program Highlights from the year it was a Political Year totally dominated by pricks it but we took the opportunity to offer their viewers a Welcome Break with the kids alex what was your top interview from 21000 that was sure business related as opposed to political business while i had the chance to interview royalty my alltime boyhood greatest ever hero robert the bruce in the form of far distant fudging whose new form on the bruce taught build the Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival last summer. And. Gets 8. Youve changed. If change the king. And the land will live in. As it comes to a site some of us might not see the sunset but that is the true nature of war. To do this. Now. In your case. Its. Just felt as. Each. Song you square. That i just touched. The crude. Sculpture. And. Is that. A huge break in the International Blockbuster of brave. 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