Secretary of state has defended the trumpet ministrations decision to take out a rainy and general quest some solomonic mike pompei was confronted by a journalist apparently unconvinced by the evidence presented so far to justify the assassination. As more. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions that got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and didnt have anything to do with our embassy. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats from included attacks on u. S. Embassies what is your definition of it in that. This was going to happen in american lives were at risk Intelligence Community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the Intelligence Community got a fundamentally right there was an imminent attack that was active plotting is that right now gone with so the money gone threats are never going now it wasnt just the journalists who dont exactly buy pompei as claims but american lawmakers also have their doubts we just saw in the u. S. House of representatives the lower house of the u. S. Legislative branch a resolution was passed attempting to restore it to the activities of the trumpet ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the Islamic Republic of iran however these doubts about whether it was the right thing in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators and journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results that have been conducted and it shows that basically 2 thirds of the u. S. Public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trumps decision to kill the top iranian general furthermore 69 percent. Then to the u. S. Public believes that iran is more likely to attack the usa as a result of trumps decisions 52 percent describe top killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to trump killing and qassam solomonic among American People themselves i think there is a lot of. American public. Concern about the assassination and the fact that it cools you showing people think that it made americans less safe and so what was the point and i dont think people are buying the troops explanation that he gave that it was because of an imminent attack on the u. S. Embassy while at the press conference mike peo and steve minutia laid out basically what these new sanctions will include the new sanctions are targeting high level officials in iran basically preventing any business transactions with them but when explaining these new sanctions a mike bomb peo used some rather interesting language to lay out what he argued was the ultimate end game of the United States when it comes to iran the president said we dont want war we want iran to behave like a normal nation the reason that secretary treasurer this morning is to continue this campaign our strategic effort to get to run to behave in a way that doesnt continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world if you hear those words he refers to saying that he wants iran to be a quote normal country so essentially it seems the United States is ask a lady threats and carrying out more sanctions with the goal of forcing the Islamic Republic to conduct itself in a manner that the United States considers to be normal not exactly clear what that means but until that happens there will be further activities and sanctions and threats and what not now many are hoping that the Current Situation is in a state of deescalation but at the same time people worry about what could happen next you know the sanctions still remain iran still has the capabilities we saw the recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the Global Community at the moment. Now iraqs caretaker Prime Minister meanwhile his demand the u. S. Begin preparations for a troop pullout in a phone call mahdi asked the u. S. Secretary of state to send a delegation to iraq to work out with through a mechanism but the u. S. State department has responded by hailing americas military presence in the middle east as a force for good. Takes a look. Of us are familiar with the situation you invite someone over to stay a while say a friend they stay and stay stay you drop a hint you know its getting late tired but they just dont get it. America is a force for good in the middle east and a delegation sam to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to be recommit to our Strategic Partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal what complicates things is that your unwelcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you call make this up americans kill and arabian general in iraq iran then shoots back a bunch of Ballistic Missiles in revenge out of iraq i mean these poor rocky guys theyve done nothing and everyones bombing them so you can understand if theyre a little sick of it all and point to the door we want to restart the civil war again among the shia we dont want this to happen were not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to heed the usa should do that outside of this country. All of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield its astonishing the americans are saying no we dont care that you voted for us to leave we wont and just in case that wasnt enough of a slap in the face actually going to call more of their friends over to iraq nato played and then you have any 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. Today and need to delegation is at the state department to discuss increasing natures role in the iraq situation is absurd it makes a joke a mockery of International Law and simple decency and as does anything absurd has the internet buzzing. America is a force for good in the middle it is and will start a civil war to prove you need our protection given military forces the against the wishes of the people who live there its called occupation when we said we wanted to bring you democracy we didnt mean you could use it to make your own decisions iraq asks u. S. Troops to leave the country but president pompei o refuses instead his state Department Issues a statement the 1st sentence reads america is a force for good in the middle east remember if you say i am so cool then youre not cool theres a lesson here i suppose you cant be friends with the superpower theyll call your friend patch on the head but when push comes to shove you are just another poor bombed out nation thats going to do as youre told right or north abdelbari and plan things that there are no real reasons for the us to stay in iraq it takes there is you know well i think your eyes in there are we dont want them to come back but this is completely fabricated excuses to be honest because this is the d. P. Did they say when it is it is that action that is they iraqi it is that it really is it is a whole issue of symptoms and this them state is there and very completely no i dont believe there is a chance of this time. Unless United States wonders to come back and one to finance them and to arm them this is the only the only way for that same state to come back the best interest of the americans to pull out these troops here today Iraqi Parliament is the dilution. Problem. Ukraines president vladimir selenski has tweeted his gratitude for american support over wednesdays crash of a ukrainian passions a jet in iran that after he spoke to the u. S. Secretary of state by phone. Had a phone call with secretary pump am grateful for the condolences of the American People and valuable support of the u. S. In investigating the causes of the plane crash information obtained from the us will assist in the investigation earlier washington passed quote important data relating to the incident he trains leader u. S. Canada and the u. K. Will do say they have evidence suggesting that a rocket from iran itself brought down Ukrainian International airline jets killing all a 176 people on board iran denies that any missile was involved and has invited International Experts to monitor its investigation. Does imaging the hum of the audience will allow the americans the french the canadians and the swedish to come here and see how we investigate this crash draw special is bothersome canada in america that investigate crashes we trust those bodies what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missile has had the spray. Well these are some of the latest pictures from the crash scene while passengers belongings there can still be seen the area is reportedly no longer cordoned off and investigators to are no longer present earlier iran said that wreckage from the aircraft had been collected and taken to a safe location ukraines foreign minister said that experts from his country had been given access to the flight recorders and fragments also of the crash jet the planes black boxes recovered from the site have been shown by Iranian State media duran says they claim the jet was downed by missile illogical and impossible though the nato change does beg to differ. There are no reason to not believe the reports we have seen from different a little odd couples who have expressed concern about. Information indicating that. Plane may have been downed by iranian air defenses systems such. As speculation has been mounting even before any probe has been carried out. Nothing instills confidence in International Leaders more than my love of precise language. We have intelligence from multiple sources including around lies 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 fly was shot down by an iranian surface to air missile which may well have been an intentional were 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 the 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 Airlines flight 75. 00 to a nudge for calm and not check to prevail scientifically it isnt possible the missile hit the ukrainian plane and such room is illogical and its not an unreasonable request the investigation into the events of wednesday morning which saw the boeing 737 bound for kiev 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 series 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 mourn. As they returned home also called for an end to all the chatter annoys. Everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories hasty conclusions and unverified versions and its not a topic for height 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 iraq could strike possible Missile 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 to 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 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 foxes thats 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 emerges guilty until proven innocent its a new name of the game in todays political landscape. Well its being claimed mad that a new video does show a missile streaking into the night sky over tiran and exploding as it hit an object c. N. N. Has suggested it was taken approximately at the time ukrainian plane was on its doomed flight we asked independent journalist and commentator martin some as what he thinks about the role the media plays as investigators. As you know theres a whole question the struggle goes on all the time for what we call legitimacy to speak and of course what weve got in the modern world is in the english language a massive variety of sources of all call ins with varying competing narratives its a bit confusing but in many ways its liberating as long as people recognize that we shouldnt believe everything you hear and that is youve actually got to make your own do your own work and sort through what you what youre being presented with a new and to trust some places it was more reliable than others many in many cases theyve been shown in the past have been lying and to be and to have been knowingly manipulated boy western intelligence sources they can do that if they like but of course if they get caught doing it then they lose their credibility thats the game you can lie if you like but if you get caught then youre a liar or you are therefore theyve got to think very carefully were they going to bring with stories like that. In the wake of the passion jet crash in iran plane maker boeing has become embroiled in another scandal involving a different aircraft type in its range according to a trove of newly released internal messages employees at the firm had concerns about his ill fated boeing 737 max staff were apparently aware of issues relating to Pilot Training but hid the fact from safety inspectors. I still havent been forgiven by god for the covering up i did last year would you put your family on a mac. Simulated trained aircraft i wouldnt know the blue news design boat gloams who supervised by monkeys well over 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of a probe into how the boeing 737 max jet was certified safe before 2 major recent plane crashes the planes manufacturer released a statement expressing regret over the content of the communications between its employees boeing also gave assurances it had made significant changes to enhance its safety procedures the aircraft manufacturer had its entire 737 max fleet grounded in march last year after it was involved in 2 deadly plane crashes with Ethiopian Airlines in indonesia is line air 346 people were killed in those tragedies problems with automated Flight Control systems are thought to have contributed to the fatal crashes lets get more and all of this with the new is hes lazy ation safety advocate and pilot very welcome thanks for coming on the ceiling how much damage do you think these latest relevation zz revelations will do to boeings already battered reputations you think. Well i dont think a lot more data can be turned. So many were troubling problem that the name of the 707 program that some series of mass in particular. Is tarnished probably beyond recovery i have to say a little bit of full disclosure i have in the past worked with a number of leaders from the boeing Flight Test Team route various. International Community Groups in aircraft design operation ive always found them to be extremely professional knowledgeable proficient but more afraid to call a spade a spade when when its required. So i suspect that theres a lot of noise about this email traffic which is you know i guess nothing in the mail has is private but its messages between between individuals the normalisation it does as well a certain level just like with our i would not go further into that since i really cant turn a 3 from a point of not on a general point i mean its all about the Flight Simulator isnt it in a sense i think these memos were saying that. Boeing was trying to insist that pilots didnt need to be retrained in this Flight Simulator to save money when you hear that just as a member of the public it does make you concerned. And you can understand why its its most flight conversion training happens in simulators even if you can use the conversion to type one and derivative of a given type so thats not unusual i think one of the problems that growing painted themselves into a corner of the bed with the 7 through so much program was trying to make it cheaper for airlines to to operate in terms of a common pilot pool with the earlier models of 737 specifically. A stunningly successful n. G. C. Family of 7 series so i can see where theyre going with that there are some who would argue that brian make a misstep a number of years ago with continuing the 737 program but you can see the clamor from the airlines to who wanted no craft they could keep the same pilot group and that pressure from from their Customer Base as well its a difficult balancing act isnt it if youre an airline or a company that makes planes in the fact youve got to be concerned about profit but he also got to weigh it up with safety theyve got it badly wrong wouldnt you say hey. I think that its 2 can safely so they know theyre very theyre going to extremely wrong theyre going to do that much room of them in the house. It is a balancing act but you know as people in Flight Safety community certainly sink safety is expensive try and accident i think this is a reality from the station of that particular mantra the cost to blow it. Out of the problems with the 737 max program i dont think anyone people have tried to calculate it but i think i think its beyond grams with regards finally getting into the automated Flight Control system which it looks like contributed substantially to the ticket crashes is that going to be put right and can they restore public and Consumer Confidence to get on board these planes again you know i think the 1st thing is going to be quite right yes it can thats thats a given and it will be put right no question about that the larger question excuse me is as you rightly say how about Customer Confidence the 737 max them as a as i mentioned earlier has been tarnished probably beyond repair but you know what the average individual when they buy an Airline Ticket theyre motivated by a process there they havent got a clue what one aircraft theyre going to be flying on sometimes they dont even have an idea which had once been more accurate flight because of children between the lines so i dont think its a big driver or indeed when most people get to a game they look at the window they wouldnt answer the difference 3 or 7370320 your or any other model craft just on 1st glance ok get in even then i suppose you tonight i was given you is aviation safety advocate and pilot thank you. After more than a month there have been protests against the french governments plan to reform pensions a draft bill of the project has now been revealed a movie presented to the council of ministers in 2 weeks time the main bone of contention though is an increase in the pension age although according to the text its not something that would apply until 2022 Charlotte Dubinsky has more. Will you still need to me will you still feed me when im 64 or so goes the chorus to that song sung by the beatles now back in the 1960 s. When it was recorded average life spans were far shorter than they are today in france it was around 70 years old the idea of being 64 suggested you were probably close to you wrote expiration. In france they consider that the us too healthy at the age of 63 so for us if unacceptable to diet work for a time in bad health so your it is very possible to draw it work this. People are tired of that age they can continue working. As fronts enters into it 6 week of strikes over proposed changes to the Pension System the one element thats really seems to be roiling people is the up being over the age that you can retire at with a full pension to yes you guessed it 64. 00 polls show that 2 thirds of respondents find this to be un palatable while some union city even demanded that all references to retirement at 64. 00 be removed from the law. This new age is unfair because it will be no lies those who started working young economists agree that its unnecessary and people are against it despite the opposition this seems to be a Sticking Point for the government. And i think he does know that everywhere in europe in countries like ours across europe people work a little longer because my thanks makes sense he is going to go. Well hes right Life Expectancy has increased significantly in the last 50 years in fact in france the median lifespan is now 83 years old meaning the average person would toys at 64 would be dipping into the Pension System for some 19 years and even if the government refuses to budge old not retirement age compared to other countries in the e. U. Some might say that the french have it pretty good in countries like sweden denmark portugal germany and many more the age of retirement is already higher than the current age of retirement in france at 62. 00 and it would still be higher than the new threshold at 64. 00 in addition the Life Expectancy in these countries is lower than the fronts meaning that people who work longer to retire on average in those countries and are more likely to access their pension for a shorter period of time so why are the french making such a song and dots about this. Shit is not about comparing countries its. About social regression its about pensions and we dont know what will be next why not do the opposite why does germany lower the retirement age to 60. 00 to 60. 00 or less we should do the opposite and not race to the bottom thats the issue for the European Union as a whole only simply can do and we believe that france is current retirement system is economically viable so as long as we support Retirement Funds we do not need to slash workers rights. The main problem for us is not the retirement age the main problem is the row our contracts for this this signifies the complete breakdown of the social system. It seems for the french regardless of what they european might be doing when they turn 64. 00 they want to already been enjoying their retirement and this is no indication jollity been ski. Paris. 18 u. N. Peacekeepers in 2 civilians were injured in a rocket attack on a minute base in mali on thursday just a day earlier the un envoy for west africa raise concerns over an increase in the number of terrorist attacks. The west africa and somehow region has experienced a devastating surge in terrorist. Attacks against civilians and military targets him until around points to consider alarming. He also gave figures showing a 5 fold increase over 3 years in terror attacks in bikini faster in mali and nigeria 4000. 00 deaths reported last year when the military base that was attacked serves as a camp the troops of the france led anti terror operation which began in 2014 frances 4 and a half 1000 soldiers in the region while the un has 13000 troops in mali political analyst lagoon i can neuer says this is still not enough to cope with the threat. It is a symptom of the difficulties that the mali government and the un are having in taking care of the countrys insurgence rebels. Tell us forces are dealing with areas that are larger than half of europe and the African Forces are stretched u. S. Forces are stretched and many of these islamic groups have taken to guerrilla warfare and roadside bombs and it is extremely difficult to police and patrol such a large area the size of the world and the Global Political structure have always played lip service to the issues within africa insurgencies they view Natural Resources more of a big issue rather than actually containing the spread of radical islam and islamic insurgency in africa until the world takes the islamic insurgency in africa seriously it will only grow and grow and grow and that brings you up to date for this hour back again there with the headlines and more stories in things. 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