Youre watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. You asked im canadian investigators are due to arrive at the site of wednesdays plane crash in tehran on irans invitation a 176. 00 passengers on the ukrainian passenger jet lost their lives in the crash iran says a thorough investigation is underway and has rejected what it calls a logical and impossible claims by western leaders that it may have accidentally shot down the jet. Looks at the growing speculation even before the probe has been carried out. Nothing instills confidence in International Leaders more than the lives of precise language. We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an array near the surface to air missile and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was be can it go i personally dont think thats. Even a question there is now a body of information that the flight was shot down by an iranian surface to air missile which may well have been unintentional we are working closely with canada and our International Partners and they now need to be a full transparent investigation on specific intelligence unnamed allies multiple mysterious sources hardly the rhetoric one expects a at that level of diplomacy and b. When discussing a tragedy thats left 176 dead but its on surprising that iran has batted off this latest slew of unfounded allegations about the crash of ukrainian allans flight 75. 00 to a nudge for calm and not check to prevail scientifically it is impossible that a missile hit the ukrainian plane and such room is illogical its not an unreasonable request the investigation into the events of wednesday morning which saw the boeing 737 bound for crash just minutes after takeoff has only just begun final report into aviation disasters take months if not years to be published they require coordination between numerous government organizations which is why iran has invited multiple investigators including from boeing to visit the crash site in the meantime all there is a theories with nothing but unnamed sources to back it all up which is why amid all the confusion and contradictions the ukrainian president who lost 11 of his citizens that morning as they returned home also called for an end to all the chatter and noise here i am asking everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions. Its not a topic for hype but the spiraling tensions between tehran and washington especially in the past week have triggered an unprecedented level of scrutiny on the region and people dont seem willing to heed calls for calm especially when they feel the tide might be turning in a favored direction a rocket strike. System is among the main working theories since there was information on the internet about elements of the Russian Missile being found near the site of the crash it didnt take long for the Mainstream Media to jump on that bandwagon c. N. N. Has never been one to turn down an unverified source especially when russia is involved pointed the finger at a bomb or missile new evidence indicates iran shot down ukrainian flight 75 too with 2 surface to air missiles made by russia and the undeniable evidence they offered a photo from twitter posted on the count that was later suspended maybe it breached the companys fake news guidelines but nonetheless even all the way across the pond the hysteria continued for the 1st one is the possibility that that plane was hit by a Russian Missile just after takeoff the independent also published an article citing something called the o. P. s group an independent organization which has little to recommend itself other than it provides information for aviation professionals and foxs thoughts according to its twitter page nevertheless it felt confident enough to recommend people just assume the plane was shot down until evidence to the contrary emerge is guilty until proven innocent its a new name of the game in todays political landscape. As off to mention the western media are showing a video apparently demonstrating a missile striking a plane in tehran however jamie flinch a former official at the u. S. Safety transportation board calls his allegations irresponsible its irresponsible to be pushing out videos or alleged videos of a accident or incident that has occurred before that has been verified or has been confirmed by investigators its very important that the investigators be on the ground gathering the information and that is the integrity of the evidence is maintained so once the materials are gathered the samples of seeds samples of of metal and other you know the black boxes themselves it will last a bit as is being allies and start to be analyzed information can start coming out quickly regarding the alleged cause of the accident in a more confirmed and substantial way. U. S. House of representatives has passed a resolution aimed at limiting President Trumps ability to use military force against iran or the belt may not pass the Republican Controlled Senate the white house has condemned the bell as an obstacle to preventing terrorism and reports. Trump is imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic of iran saying that they will stay in place until americas bidding is done theyre losing a tremendous amount to getting hurt very badly by the sanctions can in very quickly but as to whether or not they want thats up to them not up to me its totally up to them its classic trump to start an ultimatum and wait for surrender but its a little bit risky given that its a ron which has boasted that its latest attacks on u. S. Bases are just a hint of its retaliatory capabilities however its a different kind of retaliation thats facing trump at the moment the trumpet ministration is now on the defensive about their decision to kill iran stop general qassam solid money without congressional approval their excuse they say qassam solomon he was planning to carry out new attacks against america and swift action was absolutely necessary. Was actively planning new attacks and here is looking very seriously at our embassies and not just the embassy in baghdad but we stopped him and we stopped him quickly and we stopped him. There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by qassam so the money we dont know precisely when and we dont know precisely where but it was real however members of congress both democrats and republicans who saw the classified intelligence briefing say that the information in the report to back up those claims is wanting his the unclassified version of what trump said congress after the hits on some the money from all weve seen including the redacted. Ponts here and the briefing the facts do not show an imminent threat they are just avoid the nation seem so little money for claiming that he was planning imminent attacks and yet they produce no evidence that would just avoid this claim not even in a classified setting i wanted to hear the intelligence 1st what i hear was less than satisfying i can tell you as a United States senator coming out of a classified briefing they did not show us that they were dealing with an imminent threat i saw no evidence of that whatsoever that was insulting that was demeaning to the process ordained by the constitution and i find it completely unacceptable the white house says it is not obligated to share all the information with members of congress and that doing so might me risky mike pence says that at this Point Congress shouldnt expect anything further and they should trust the president 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 i can assure that those of us that have seen all the evidence that saw the evidence in real time know that President Trump made the right decision now this isnt the 1st time that the house and senate have been left in the dark claims about russia hacking the d. N. C. Or china spying on the whole world and followed roughly the same playbook there doesnt seem to be any real evidence that iran was planning to attack america the trend in washington d. C. Seems to be that the executive branch is out on its own collecting information and engaging in military Actions Congress is just supposed to take their word for it and trust them and while that may be the steady trend for decades it seems like in the year a 2020 elected representatives from both parties are now saying theyre not ok with it i think there is a lot of. American public. Concern about the. The assassination and the fact that it the polls are showing people think that it made americans less safe and so what was the point and i dont think people are buying trumps explanation that he gave that it was because of an imminent attack on the u. S. Embassy so who knows i mean i think i think its not. You cant close the door on the possibility that the senate will also narrowly support the war powers resolution. The death of general solomon the and the potential for a new start in the region those are just some of the issues discussed by artist Afshin Rattansi and the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations office at geneva you can watch the interview in full in the latest episode of going underground on saturday but for now heres a short taster. By that assassination the United States has already. Surpassed the written lines distinguished from better varies them from civilized rules of engagement ok but will there be any more revenge now from iran for the trump assassination of got some sort of money this is the beginning of a very. I guess exciting episode. It was a wakeup call for the people in the region and beyond. This was. An action an act of selfdefense by an armed forces against us but are they told you i think this is the beginning of a i hope not too long process that the people of our region would be get rid of. The american presence in the region because their prisons in our region has brought nothing except of. Misery war and hatred. Large sections of the french population are joining what has become the longest transport workers strike in decades called up or unpopular pension reforms. Well weve already seen tear gas deployed on several occasions by the police as they were trying to control the crowd same 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 a 2 mission tent and pushy much all the way down to our last of the publique it is chock a block with people people whove come out to support the strike 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 we see in a trains operating fairly normally metro is operating fairly normally in the mornings and in the evenings but during the large parts of the day little is operating apart from the automated lines thats 1. 40 now in terms of the general support for this strike the polls in foggs show that most people are still supporting the strike people very unhappy from across the board about these changes to the Pension System to their forms that the government wants to make it wants to put food to 2 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 to sometimes but work is said to india either be destroying get the strike moving to try and get the impasse safe to cross that the other big issue. Hes raising the retirement age up to 64. 00 its currently 62. 00 day with 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 will only affect their use the turn 18 in the next 50 years but people are furious here they 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 that just want to get you to have a look back down there thats too would sun lazard in the center of paris you can see those clouds of tear gas inside still to tear gas still raining down on the protesters as the police try it and control the situation here you can head over the people in the crowds and 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 checks to the police that sounds like some grenades but it could also be tear gas coming down this but you might be able to see the lights coming up on the fly as it sounds like that was a sound can aid going off that people saying that they wont get even live to enjoy their retirements and they determined to stay out in the streets and to make sure people know theyre unhappy. Cultural cost per slobbery jack says the rally strike at the very ideals of the chronic government more on this story visit our website our q. Dot com. Apple has confirmed that it monitors users private information thats on that Data Storage Service i cloud. Tech giant defended the practice arguing that it was needed to prevent child sex abuse and restricted content we are utilizing subject only to help screen for child sexual abuse material epub is dedicated to protect until driven throughout the system wherever product and we continue to support innovation in this space the i Cloud Service allows users to of course store files such as photos and videos apple says it uses image matching and electronic signatures to find Child Exploitation apple changed its Privacy Policy last year to say that it may scan images for child abuse we put the issue up for debate with privacy activist and Technology Expert bill new and political commentator chadwick more. Course everyone is for stopping child abuse and thats not the issue here its the i simply im not buying it at the company i dont believe that apple really cares about fighting crime they just entered the Live Streaming business where people may be concerns that apple is rifling through all of the photos and all of that data this isnt actually the case the type of technology that were looking at here simply is used to take a fingerprint of a particular image once an image is known to include some child abuse imagery apple is not clear about that apple says illegal pot possible potentially illegal activity including child porn what does that mean thats terrifying language you wouldnt simply have the Processing Power and the computing overhead to be able to. Scan full photos against each other in the kind of way that people imagine this is possibly the best use of the current Available Technology you know to crack down the posting of a serious child abuse images id love to know how successful is all of this technology if you look up cases that photo d. N. A. Has been used to catch people distributing kiddie porn there was one this year there was one in 2015 theres one in 24000 i mean there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these images out there these take many techniques were used with the question where they offload its a really violent video once theyd that video they managed to prevent people real plugging that video over a 1000000 times it has been used effectively with violence 1 with pornography and many many images of me prevent it and is the best way of doing it i dont trust these companies i just think its ever encroaching more and more into our privacy into owning our data into finding out even more information about us i think its scary and i dont think that apples to be in the business of law enforcement. The post president has pulled out of an event in israel to commemorate victims of the holocaust and the liberation of the arch with the concentration camp after organizers rejected his request to give a speech at the event. Its awesome presentations of brazil it turns out that the president s of Russia Germany and of friends whose government collaborated with nazi germany at the time will speak to 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 warsaw is angry at accusations by president putin that the country was partially responsible for the outbreak of the war when also some of the Russian Ambassador over putins harsh words about a polish envoy to nazi germany small each city and a scumbag and 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 and. The holocaust during world war 2 resulted in the deaths of around 17000000. 00 people of which 6000000. 00 were jewish that accounted for more than half of europes and tired Jewish Population marshall im an editor of history at central and a newsweek columnist says the organizers of the event in israel have every right to decide who should be given a platform. It 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 it was 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 speaking i mean everybody comes im sure wants to speak the about 50 heads of states are coming and i guess they mean the organizers decided which ones were more important than which ones had a greater role to play and which ones have been most helpful 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. Pharmaceutical giant bear month facing a slew of lawsuits or at the cancer link term side roundup has changed tack now claiming that its products to help fight Climate Change are to is put all over has the details. Climate change and how best to reverse the human impact on the environment is already one of the main topics of 2020 but while some are looking for ways to solve the problems facing the pointing of accusatorial finger is suggesting they are using climate concerned to try and salvage sullied reputations take chemical and pharmaceutical colossus for example old buyable some thought to be more exact the group of facing a string of lawsuits of allegations there wed kill a coles and continues to coles council the company has tried to spawn hearings and settle out of coal too with some accuses now theyre taking a different tack in claiming their product is good for reducing c o 2 levels the production of dreyfus eightys quite c o 2 intensive but its you save 3 times more c o 2 if you use a tractor with a plow you generate Greenhouse Gas emissions matthias banning a used to be an m. P. For the german green policy now hes the bio mom son so Senior Vice President for public and Government Affairs having the former climate crusader turned corporate spokesperson on board as part of by looking to market themselves as a climate Conscious Corporation d and a key part in the use 2050 environmental goals industry should be at the forefront of europes ecological modernization bio will do its part to ensure that the e. U. Commissions goals are implemented the warnings of a quick fix being sold by business not being really Viable Options when it comes to tackling Climate Change are out there to see fake plastic bags for example the scourge of the garbage dump a plastic bag can take up to a 1000 years about sleeping more to biodegrade so and some alternatives labeled as bio degradable came out on the market they list snapped up. However in reality they have little faith that what they was there to replace a lot of shops a selling packaging described by degradable composed in fact that i think might only be composed in an industrial composed and even then some items might not be food digested this is where people have to be careful because while there are all those out there looking for Real Solutions to the real problems there are also days that see a popular hash tag or a trending topic on social media that basis attached to it but while that may be very well and good for the find balance is the Vice President s of Public Relations has the potential to distract from the great a shes monsanto has a long period of trying to influence the results of science and interfere with the regular scientific communities were its been going on for over 20 years and monsanto has never had any respect for the environment in any of its work its not honorable to all of a sudden pick out one thing and claim that theyre going to be for sustainable environment its what we call green washing when a company over suddenly jumps on something sustainable and claims that theyre doing the right thing while it is a common trend because they realize that young people have different ideas than their parents or grandparents so they are trying to reach these young people and make them favorable d to their companies and their products. 3 and 4 u. K. Domestic Abuse Victims who are trying to escape their partners last year were then faced with online abuse by them thats according to the countrys largest provider of shelters for Abuse Victims he would ask other people to check my accountant screech out who i was with and where i was he would create fake profiles on facebook and add me he would. Contact he was a main seduce i felt like every day i was looking over my shoulder. He had been able to access her location in the real time calendar with the details of all of her appointments with solicitors doctors the job center etc he could see the Search History of her maps and also had access to her internet Search History knowing her location in the refuge was a huge safe to risk her how the residence is tough she had to pack her bags and moved to another refuge in the middle of the night according to the report around 4000 women who sought help in 2019 so that they were then abused by their abusers online thats about 75 percent of all victims of the online abuse comes in different forms of course the most common methods are tracking victims locations through social media making revenge porn as well as repeated phone calls the report adds that the abusers use technology for the purposes of controlling humiliating or monitoring their victims we spoke to social media lawyer year cohen he believes the website should take more action to protect victims from online abuse. Online abuse of women has become almost an epidemic in recent years the difficulties that we are having a to do with advanced technology where women can be secretly filmed they can be trucked every movement they make. Is sometimes being traced by abusive spouse or former spouse and it means that they have nowhere to go theres no refuge for them in relation to reports of trolling in the law and abused own tweet there are an instant running out of sorts social media platforms social Media Companies must make it. Easy for women who are in distress to receive help this should be an alarm button that is being responded to technically this could be resolved very quickly all we need is well by governments 1st by the u. K. Government to compare website operators to remove abusive content that has been posted about women thats our club and its wrapped up for now but ill be back at the top of the hour thanks for tuning in. Join me everything on the all excitement and ill be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business im sure ill see you then. You. Are part of. The welcome to worlds apart of the war in syria may be winding down and the level of violence has subsided dramatically but return to normal lives still seems like a pipe dream almost an take it a proxy war is syria now doing 2 years if not decades of proxy peace