Going in general to the manny. Was confronted by journalist apparently unconvinced by the evidence prevented presented so far to justify the assassination has more on the story. 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 embassies. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats from included attacks on the u. S. Embassies what is your definition of it in that. This was going to be an american lives where this Intelligence Community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the Intelligence Community got a fundamentally right there was an imminent. Act of plotting is that right now gone with sort of 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 restrict 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 u. S. 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 trump killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to trumps killing of 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 usually people think that it made americans less safe and so what was the point and i dont think people are buying 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 asking late in 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 in the recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the Global Community at the moment. And that will mean moderates caretaker Prime Minister has demanded that the u. S. Begin preparations for a troop pullout in a phone call. Asked the u. S. Secretary of state want to send a delegation to iraq to work and would truly mechanism but the u. S. State department has responded by hailing americas military presence in the middle east as a force for good can see it as more. Of us are familiar with the situation you invite someone over to stay a while say a friend they stay and stay and stay you drop a hint you know its getting late kind of tired but they just dont get it america is a force for good in the middle east and a delegation some 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 welcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put the kill your other guests you cant make this up americans kill an 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 or much at all of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield and 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 a middle east. 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 made to delegation is that the state department to discuss increasing netas 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 is and start to 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 in 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 a superpower theyll call your friend al pacha in 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 and go batty atlanta there are no real reasons for the us to stay in iraq it dexter 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 would it be that. It is it is that actually is they iraqi it is that it really is it is after all if you will simple and this is the and very completely no i dont believe there is a chance of this time. Unless you have to wonder to come back and want to finalize them this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. Im going to pull out. Here today Iraqi Parliament is the usual. Problems. Cranes president vladimir selinski has tweeted his gratitude for american support for wednesdays crash the ukrainian passion to jet in iran after he spoke to the u. S. Secretary of state by phone. Had a phone call with secretary pompei are 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 cranes leader of the us canada and the u. K. Will say that they do have evidence suggesting a rocket from iran itself brought down Ukrainian International airline jet killing all 176. 00 people on board around though denies any missile was involved and has invited International Experts to monitor its investigation does imaging the home of the audience will allow the americans the french the canadians some of the swedish to come here and see how we investigate this crash draw specialist bodies some cameras in america that investigate crashes we trust those bodies what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missile has had the spray. These are the latest pictures from the crash site while passengers belongings can still be seen here the area is reportedly no longer cordoned off and investigators are no longer present earlier iran said 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 from the crash jet or the planes black boxes were recovered from the crash site and theyve been shown to bahrain state media turan says the claim the jet was downed by a missile are illogical and impossible Saskia Taylor looks at how speculation though has been mounting even before any probe has been carried. Nothing instills confidence in International Leaders more than the love of precise language but we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an arena and a 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 you know no reason to not believe reports we have seen from different nato allied capitals that. Plane may have been downed. Iranian air Defense Systems there is now a body of information that the fly was shot down by an iranian surface to air missile this may well have been an intentional were working closely with canada and our International Partners and there now needs to be a full transparent investigation on specific intelligence unnamed allies multiple Mysterious Forces hardly the rhetoric one expects at that level of diplomacy and b. When discussing the tragedy thats left 176 dead its on surprising that iran has batted off the. 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 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 morning as they returned home also called for an end to all the chatter and noise here for. Everyone to refrain from speculation conspiracy theories or 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 Missile system is among the main working theories since there is 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. 00 too with 2. Surface to air missiles made by russia an 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 and aviation professionals and foxs 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 and mergers guilty until proven innocent its the new name of the game in todays Political Landscape the reality is that when there were a situation like this arises if it doesnt concern the western powers. And then the blame game starts and all these you know unknown sources intelligence figures appear on the horizon to blame a particular nation who is you know fighting at many fronts with the u. S. And the washington consensus so you run quite easily is sort of blamed that the plane was you know stuck struck by some missiles and there is no evidence and really its incredible its laughable and i dont know why mr trudeau really comes of the horizon that we have information how does this to true to have this information and the veto chief comments only so the whole narrative is being built in such a manner that that really. Should be blamed without really nasty aging it. In the wake of the passenger jet crash in iran plane make a 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 the 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 blues design boat gloams who supervised by monk hughes well over 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of the 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 to it had made significant changes to enhance its safety procedures where kraft manufacturer had its entire 737 max fleet grounded in march last year after it was involved in 2 deadly plane crashes with Ethiopian Airlines and also indonesias lion air 346 people were killed in those 2 tragedies problems with automated Flight Control systems are thought to have contributed to the fatal crashes where some of the memos suggest that boeing limits limited Pilot Training on simulators is a cost cutting measure aviation safety advocate getting new is believes that was a serious mistake. Most flight conversion training happens in simulators even if even new conversion to type it will only derivative of a given type so thats not unusual i think one of the problems that bring painted themselves into a corner a little bit with the 7 through so much broken 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 the astoundingly successful and g. Family of certain series as people in Flight Safety community certainly sinkers searches expensive trial and accident my think this is a the ultimate station of that particular mantra that the recall to blow it. Out of the problems with the 737 much program i dont think any work people have tried to calculate it but i think i think its beyond grahams. Thats more than a month i have been protests against the french governments plan to reform pensions a draft bill of the project has been revealed and it will be presented to the council of ministers until weeks time and main bone of contention though is an increase in the pension age although according to the text that is not something that would apply until 2020 take charge it to be as mine. 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 off. In france they consider that the us too healthy at the age of 63. 00 so for us if unacceptable to diet work or a time in bad health of all. It is very possible to work at this. People are tired of that age but they can continue working for them as parents 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 upping 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 on palatable while some unions if 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 allies 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 Life Expectancy is going up. Well hes right Life Expectancy has increased significantly in the last 50 years in fact in france 7 the median lifespan is now 83 years old meaning the average person were toys at 64 would be dipping into the Pension System to some 19 years and even if the government refuses to budge all 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 shorter periods of time so why are the french making such a song and dance about this. Is not about comparing countries its about social regression its about pensions and we dont know what will be next. To the office it generally lower the retirement age to 60 to 60 we should do the opposite and race to the bottom of the issue. Holding only seem to believe that this current retirement system is economically viable so as long as we support retirement funds. We do not need to slash workers rights. At the retirement age the main problem is 0 hour contracts for this this signifies a complete breakdown of the social system. It seems for the french regardless of what their 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 and 2 civilians were injured in a rocket attack on a military 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 region has experienced a devastating surge in terrorist. Attacks against. Military targets. Alarming he also presented data showing a 5 fold increase over 3 years in terror attacks and taking a fast same ollie north and i share 4000. 00 deaths were reported last year the military base that was attack serves as a camp for troops of the french led anti terror operation which began in 2040 prances 4 and a half 1000 soldiers in the region while the un has troops in mali but political analyst. Does feel that thats 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 insurgents rebels. And terrorist forces were 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 as more of a big issue rather than actually containing the spread of radical islam and its hard to see in africa until the world takes the islamic insurgency in africa seriously it will only grow and grow and grow the washing i think thanks to the company at the saving dont think weve got plenty of stories as always on our website and find that at r. T. Top. In the United States president ial candidates debate the future of the us and the world. 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Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Donald trump says that iran is standing down for military conflict is it and if not what happens next with the u. S. Marine crisis expert analysis on this edition. Of the politicking on larry king on wednesday downtime suggested that iran is standing down from further military action against the United States has a rand taken a socalled off ramp in the escalating crisis with america and what happens next in the current tensions between the United States and to run for analysis we turn to a couple of its words they are Barbara Slaven director of the Atlantic Council future of iran an issue divs and author a bit of friends bosom enemies around the United States and the twisted past of confrontation she is in washington. And in Miami Michael santo flood Foreign Policy expert and especially expert in the middle east ok barbara how do you see it with the president to rana standing down no not at all on fact there just been some more rockets fired into the green zone in baghdad no i think this phase perhaps is over there explicit retaliation for the assassination of their Senior National security official cause im still in money but this 10. Well continue as long as the United States and iran are not negotiating are not sitting down and talking about peace so its far from over do you mean. Its very hard for me to envision right now and less donald trump is prepared to offer iran some some incentive some economic incentives as you know the trumpet ministration has put into place a policy of what it calls maximum pressure which entails a an oil embargo an effort to prevent iran from exporting any oil there have been efforts that that have been made for