Our broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recounting the weeks top stories with our weekly program. But at least 4 iraqi soldiers have been injured in iraq a strike on the air base to the north of baghdad the facility also houses american personnel and was previously targeted after the u. S. Assassination of irans top general earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the story with don quarter. We still have a lot of different reports in terms of figures of how many missiles or mortars hit the base some are saying that 7 mortar bombs hit the bases runway another says 4 rockets hit the base but we have heard from Iraqi Security officials and they say that 8 katyusha rockets launched were launched at the base and made contact across the board though we do know that at least 4 Iraqi Military personnel have been injured and are hospitalized now we also know with the base its been in the news before because it had a sizeable american presence thats where american troops where in the part of the country its what about 50 miles 80 kilometers north of are they still there as an aside to that are american troops likely have been the target yeah well actually there are still some American Military advisers left at that base but the majority of them have been pulled out since the recent tensions the recent spike in tensions between the u. S. And iran recently lets not forget that just last week a u. S. Airstrike killed the high ranking coots commander Qassam Soleimani and iran retaliation for that and it came as 2 airstrikes against u. S. Military bases in iraq and nobody was killed or injured but it definitely has led to a rise in tensions between those 2 countries in the region and to run actually also valid even harsher retaliation later on and we dont know who is responsible for this strike but that could be a factor in it perhaps they were whoever launched these missiles were trying to target americans but perhaps not because again there were only around 15 u. S. Military advisers at the base at this time and none of them were hurt or injured now we have seen another report that suggests that the iranian backed p. M. S. Militia was responsible for this but again theres no confirmation yet. We heard from middle east analyst omar walk off he says the use of non position missiles in the latest strikes suggests that iran was not directly responsible there has been a number of attacks previous to this of the same nature you know katyusha rockets whatever and some of them have been used as a pretext to launch attacks by the United States against the. Popular Mobilization Forces and there is no one whos claiming responsibility it doesnt fit with the strategy of the Mobilization Forces doesnt fit with the strategy of iran so its highly unlikely that we would know without anyone claiming this. These are again attacks using weapons none precision weapons the margins of error are huge even if there were American Forces in this base and this is not an all american base or solely american base there are iraqi soldiers there so most likely one could argue that whoever is targeting this space doesnt necessarily care about the iraqi army or iraqi personnel while the iranian government is under intense pressure after admitting that its forces accidently shot down a ukrainian passenger plane so days missile attack came 3 days after wednesdays tragedy in which 176 people lost their lives heres arties ask you taylor with a recap of events. This week has shown more than the tragically its the average man is the victim of political wards amid tensions not seen in decades tyrone and washington have been engaged in a war of the Iranian Regime is aggression in the region must stand now weve told the Iranian Regime enough. To really revenge and the ultimate response by regional nations is when america is expelled from this region iran must and its support for terrorism when you know what the pentagon and the military counted as terrorists the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian Regime the United States rage an economic war against iran the United States has to come to its senses but the chances of this not erupting as twits have predicted when the hashtag while it will 3 start attracting was close to 0 and sure enough on monday we saw the rain in military hit to us bases in iraq with missile strikes to iran it was seeking vengeance for washingtons assassination of its Top Commander cussen simon e and a drone strike in baghdad just a few days. Combined these events ticked the book says of the diplomatic crisis it really couldnt get much wass then came the paying crash. Just minutes after taking off from terror on app or Ukrainian InternationalAirlines Flight 75. 00 to bound for t. F. Came down killing 176. 00 on board relatives of the victims from kiev to off from kabul to london and stockholm green that iran initially tonight reports that it was behind the tragedy calling them illogical and scientifically impossible it invited investigators from various countries. Organizations including boeing to visit the crash site than 3 days after the tragic incident suddenly came and admission of guilt the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired judy human error caused the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great tragedy and unforgivable mistake the Iranian Military said the boeing 737 was passing close to a site belonging to irans revolutionary guards and that its movement an altitude suggested it was an enemy target it said that its military was at its highest level of readiness having received information on the Unusual Movement of u. S. Warplanes so within 10 seconds a decision was taken to launch missiles at the target according to teheran a fatal example of human error. Its me dont get out i take full responsibility and i will obey whatever decision is taken i would prefer to die rather than witness such an incident the admission of guilt has been followed by an apology a promise to upgrade Defense Systems to prevent another such tragedy a transparent investigation and compensation for victims relatives and the prosecution of the responsible person as it makes these pledges though to ron has also encouraged certain others to consider that roles in this disaster and how it is that we came to this moment day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error term of crisis caused by use adventurism lead to disaster i would prefer regress apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all victims and to other affected nations. As questions are asked as fingers are pointed as more sanctions are imposed its not politicians but those who boarded that fateful flight on wednesday who ultimately paid the price. Meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has been having a tough time defending the assassination of irans top general my pump aoe was challenged on his claim that Major General saw the money pose an imminent threat. If you have specific information about the threat and didnt have anything to do with our embassy. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threat stream included attacks on the u. S. Embassies what is your definition of the internet. This was going to happen and american lives are at risk if the Intelligence Community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the Intelligence Community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack that was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of monaco threats are never going donald trump that decision to take out irans top general in a drone strike has been widely condemned in the u. S. Several rallies were held over the past week across the country calling for an end to overseas military aggression and a pullout from iraq although some American Media pundits have been pushing for the u. S. To adopt even harsher tactics against iran is are to scale them up and comment there are some lucrative Defense Industry deals at stake. There was compelling intelligence reasons of an imminent threat to respond i trust the intelligence assessment of whats on the neo is doing the kinds of actions he was preparing for i take it at face value what he is saying and secretary powell impale that this was a preemptive defensive measure now these are supposed to be just random smart people who are going to help us understand the situation except they arent a lot of them have a particular financial interest in a specific outcome essentially theyre tied to corporations that make profits from war the usa and iran go head to head theyll get a pretty nice payout and the viewers are kept in the dark about these ties the world is on edge since the u. S. To county raney entire restock attempts on codes force command a custom sunday morning following the december 31st attack on the us embassy in iraq since 979 iran has bullied threaten. Thank you and spritz reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran says his point including scrapping the Iranian Nuclear deal then hip jr works for a lobbying Firm AmericanDefense Incorporated that represents military contractors and who are one of the sponsors of his lobbying efforts none other than the manufacturers of the drone that killed solomonic so are we really shocked hes not singing kumbaya on urging restraint check out this guy they crossed a red line with this president when he when he exercised enormous going to story. Not taken a provocation but said dont kill americans and when they did he he acted and acted very strongly jack keane is represented as just a retired general giving his 2 cents but actually sent his retirement from the pentagon hes been working with military Contracting Companies like General Dynamics and now he runs a Venture Capital firm that specializes in defense and security not exactly mr objective general saw money he was a lawful military objectives and the president had ample domestic Legal Authority to take him out without an additional congressional authorization jed johnson was in the department of Homeland Security under barack obama but now hes in the private sector working for Lockheed Martin thats the company that makes the war planes that are stationed across the middle east and who can forget david to tray if thats the military commander turned cia director who had an affair and leaked classified information to his mistress now you would think he wouldnt be credible after all this is what happened when he tried to teach classes at city college in new york. And. I mean if you dont remember what it was going to be. A year ago but the trance is back selling war on prime time its impossible to overstate the significance of the. Back the take so. This is bigger than bin ladin thats bigger than bug donahue the overwhelming majority of the American People believe that the invasion of iraq in 2003 was a big mistake so its worth pointing out that these same people were on t. V. In 2003 selling the invasion of iraq are now on t. V. Pushing a new war against iraq the exact same people it is important to understand the consequences of pulling out of iraq before our work is done in victory is achieved abandon our iraqi friends would signal the world that america cannot be trusted to keep its word. Was the highest ranking official in the quds force he has the blood of Many American soldiers on his hands the u. S. Public has voted for president ial candidates who promised less involvement overseas over and over again but the Mainstream Media seems to be working pretty hard to convince them otherwise and its giving special attention to certain individuals who have certain shady financial ties and its not disclosing those ties to the viewers many of the pundits the analysts that we see in us media are people who are either on the boards of military corporations or theyre lobbyist for the military industry and they have an economic incentive unfortunately when it comes to war and this is not disclosed when we hear them talking about how good trump is doing in killing the general of another country and inciting a new war we have to admit that there is a Strong MilitaryIndustrial Complex in the United States and that the news media itself benefits from war d. Protests against pension reform in france have carried over into the new year 70 thousands of protesters. To the streets of paris was. I. Was. Before i was i. Was was. I in the city of not to riot police using Water Cannons to push back angry crowds almost 3000 people took part in rallies there say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across france this week was. One the president of a partially recognized republic in the caucuses has said that he is stepping down after a wave of opposition protests. He was reelected as head of state in september but critics said the vote was rigged on thursday demonstrators stormed the president ial Administration Building breaking doors and windows the situation calms down after the president announced his resignation parliament will later hold a vote on installing an interim leader. For the death toll in australia has now risen to 28 people as the most ferocious wildfires in decades affect the southeast of the country many thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes and about 1000000000 animals are feared dead there has been brief respite from the record breaking heat wave but Authorities Say lives and homes are still under threat and more hot weather is expected. Jayanta apple revealed this week that it scans users pictures to detect cases of child abuse. We are utilizing subject only to help screen for child sexual abuse material apples announcement follows on from a Privacy Policy update it came with a warning that the company may collect information on customer activities and monitor all files uploaded to i cloud and i tunes a company added it can also scan users data for illegal content to put the issue up for debate with political commentator Chadwick Moore and Technology Expert bill meehan. 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 concerned 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 2014 i mean there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these images out there these take many takes will use with the question where they offload its a really violent video once theyd. That video they managed to prevent people really are loading that video over a 1000000 times it has been used effectively with violence 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. New figures show that each year hundreds of n. H. S. Patients in england are reporting that they have been sexually assaulted while staying in mixed Sex Mental Health wards information was revealed by the Health Service journal on tuesday single sex wards see 3 times fewer reports of abuse yet despite ministers pledging to scrap mixed wards guidelines still allow shared spaces now there were 1000 in 1000 complaints of sexual assaults and mixed wards between april 2017 and october 2001000 that is a rate of one alleged attack a day rico grant was assaulted while she was and h. S. Patient she told us about her how Vulnerable People are left at risk by hospital practices. There i was on a mental outward my depression anxiety there is very very low i was in this particular hospital. And in the past couple of weeks i met a blast of. Change it was a staff member here at night he comes on time to talk to me that i didnt really think much of it. But over time and he just became more friendly close to me joking to me always in my gut your know what in a chat room it was the best but you. Should have no chips event im used and you might. Even just touching my hand and my own was it was wrong and i didnt. Think it was appropriate. That adds. He slowly became closer to. What extend to not being. Sexual so many get out. Knowing seems to me well that. The department of health and social care responded by saying all claims of sexual abuse in the n. H. S. Are investigated but rivka granda again says the Health Care System is failing to take proper care of its patients. I cant go to woodland is going to be man certainly not i mean but you are young well maam. Not always with. Him in 8 able to manage themselves very well youre going in missouri. It should be taking that into account mission he shouldnt feel constantly distracted while you on a ward which is not to say dinner help you even if you are there its going to terry which i was you know i was never a i was not on the section or in a bank you have no rights they didnt give you rights and youre just not listening i believe that if i and i had any other symptoms im going to crash and they might just say well shes making it up again you know there is that there is a general disbelief patients people at least into and out of and i dont think there is a place in the Mental Health system for nick sports there is there is no reason for it other than people you know if i not seen it might be better than. Not to lighten things up and switch gears completely and for news on the fluffy and buttery front the French Bakers Confederation has declared war on what it considers fake croissants arties from head to penske investigates and dives to. Look in any french bakery and the one thing you are guaranteed to find unless of course theyve sold out is a croissant it is the archetype will breakfast pastry eaten on its own or lavished with a bit of conflict sure thats me but with its typical for it is unmistakable except is this a real quote. Well it is of course a real crossover because its edible but it is rather where this quest all was all wasnt made that stirring up quite a fuss with the bakers confederation in france that are now declaring a war on fake croissants 30 years ago when you entered a bakery you never wondered if it was homemade bakeries often display a sign saying our tis no now this should mean that the pastries the braids and the cakes that are sold theyre all made on site by a trained now within the profession there are rumors that that might not actually be the case sacco blur indeed with indications that some 80 percent of pastry sold actually made in a factory it has become the can through our profession where is the sense of pride when you dont do anything new so you become an iron monger with a big breakers complain that they just cant find a staff to make the croissants while others have found using industrial produced pastries lowers the cost and maximizes the profits but as with anything the proof of the pudding or the course or in this case is always in the eating. Quest so see what makes a good cross and a good cross and is soft and has a buttery taste and prison so i have the need to cross on since i was young i know but across suns really well it starts with rust. Just like yours. And question because on most have a crust i should crumble a little it mustnt be industry but im just. A book or so sick on a song isnt always awesome and smells like los suns as a business and ill just hear that at least a holocaust song sounds among the croissant it looks like a good cause long as its elegant on the outside it shines a b. There and it doesnt look too fatty i would say that this one is better and smoother than the other believes you would you want me to taste it no its disgusting its all white so a very you have it these parisians us certain that they know a quality queso when they taste it now the french may have a proud tradition when it comes to this little layered yeast lebanon dough but the truth of the matter is it may not even be french it is role that said to have originated in austria so put that on you and eat it. R. T. Paris that story is not fair when youre trying to stay away from carbs this is Art International the weekly ill be back with my top here stay with us. Skies are one for my guide to financial survival this is its a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. Thats right these shows are simply not accountable and were just getting more and more to the. Totally destabilize the Global Economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because we. Are. Close to welcome to worlds apart the formation of a Constitutional Committee for syria has been billed as a sign of hope for the long suffering Syrian People the people whose hopes for peace were dashed too many times over the last 8 years is there any reason to believe that this time around things will be different to discuss that im now joined by rounds as our dean ramsi former deputy special envoy of the u. N. Secretary general for syria mr ramsey its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for inviting me now. You stepped down from this post a few months ago but im sure emotionally and professionally you still care about whats going on in syria given the scale of suffering given the scale of divisions how significant or insignificant is this latest development arent we all sort of overselling the whole that is there well 1st let me say that i remain of course very much attached and as you said emotionally involved with syria this is the 1st this is the reason why i took the job 1st with the u. N. To try to help bring about a settlement that would meet the aspirations of the Syrian People you know coming from the region being injured should i think you and your audience will understand that now the Constitutional Committee i look at it as a milestone in the very long process in bringing about a peaceful settlement peaceful and political settlement in syria. It is something that weve been working for as you know for some time ive said it before and ill say it again i think we could have had it earlier it will help syrians as you know go to the opposition but also independents to put their minds together and work out. A new constitutional framework you know i think. Im sure you know that there have been a number of internationally mediated efforts to resolve this conflict since 2011 and some of them failed because of the recalcitrance of the syrian actors many a well at least some of them because of the