Weeks top stories. Have been. To the north of baghdad the facility also american personnel and was previously targeted assassination of irans top general earlier. Discussed the story with. 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 thats been in the news before because it had a sizable american presence thats where american troops where in the part of the country its what about 50 miles. 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 solo money 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 our walk off he says the use of non precision missiles in the latest strikes suggests that iran was not 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 and when 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 the iranian government is under intense pressure after admitting that its forces accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane sundays missile attack came 3 days after wednesdays tragedy in which 176. 00 people lost their lives with more heres our get taylor with a recap of events. This week has said more than that tragically its the average man is the victim of political wars and tensions not seen in decades tyrone and washington have been engaged in a war of the arabian regimes aggression in the region must stand now weve told the really regime enough. To really revenge and the ultimate response by regional nations is when america is expelled from this region iran must support for terrorism. The pain. Going 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 twitter predicted when the hashtag world will 3 start attracting was close to 0 and sure enough on monday we saw the Iranian Military hit 2 us at bases in iraq with missile strikes to iran it was seeking vengeance for washingtons assassination of it Top Commander cussen sort of mani in 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 worse then came the plane crash. Just minutes after taking off from terror on app or Ukrainian InternationalAirlines Flight 7052. 00 bound for t. F. Came down killing 176. 00 onboard 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 and organizations including boeing to visit the crash site then 3 days after the tragic incident suddenly came and admission of guilt the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired duty human error caused the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176. 00 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 their roles in this disaster and how it is that we came to this moment the day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error a time of crisis caused by use adventurism lead to disaster i would prefer regrets apologies and condolences to our people to the families of 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 mike compare was challenged on his claim that Major General sum of money posed an imminent threat. Do you have specific information about the threat and did have anything to do with optimism. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threat stream included attacks on u. S. Embassies what is your definition of it and. This was going to happen and american lives were 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 there was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of my god threats are never going. Donald trump the 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 us to adopt even harsher tactics against iran and the saudis killam up and on meant there are some lucrative Defense Industry deals and stayed. 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 pompei oh this was a preamp to defense of 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 rain into restocking tents and codes force command a custom so they money following the december 31st attack on the u. S. Embassy in iraq since 9 179. 00 iran has bullied threatened and killed and spread its reign of terror the president has made the right decisions on iran to this point including scrapping the Iranian Nuclear deal then the hip junior 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. Provocation but so 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 0. 02 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 Petraeus 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. I mean if you dont know what it is going to break. You go but petraeus is back selling war on prime time its impossible to overstate the significance of the attack that takes us and soleimani this is bigger than bin ladin thats bigger than bud 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 abandoning our iraqi friends would signal the world that america cannot be trusted to keep its word soul a mom. He was the highest ranking official in the quds force he has the blood of Many American soldiers on his hands the us 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 and 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. Protests against pension reform in france have carried over into the new year on saturday thousands of protesters took to the streets of paris. Was. The. The city of non tent riot police used Water Cannons to push back angry crowds almost 3000 people took part in their unions say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated in total across france this week. Cracking down on abusive images but its tactics have raised some privacy concerns about much more after a break this is the week we are to international. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and you. Want to. Have to want to be close its like that before 3 of them or cant be good. Im interested in the water. This should. Ponder the future and look into 2021 fascinating stories of our way you know ive often said on this show that you cant have capitalism without Capital Capital without positive traits encouraging people to say and this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion. Of. Back to the weekly archie international now the president of a partially recognize. Republican the caucasus has said that he is stepping down after a wave of opposition protests raul. Excuse me was reelected as head of state in september but critics said the vote was rigged on thursday demonstrators stormed the president ial ministration building breaking doors and windows the situation calmed down after the president announced his resignation parliament will later hold a vote on installing an interim leader. The death toll in australia has now risen to 28 people as the most ferocious wildfires in decades of fact 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 a brief respite from the record breaking heat wave but Authorities Say lives and homes are still under threat and more hot weather is expected. Tech giant apple revealed this week of it 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 of that the company may collect information on customer activities and monitor all files uploaded to i cloud and i tunes the company added it can also scan users data for illegal content we put the issue up for debate with political commentator Chadwick Moore and Technology Expert bill new. Course everyone is for stopping child abuse and thats not the issue here its that 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 2014 i mean there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these images out there these take many techniques will use with the question technique where they offload its a really violent video once they had that video they managed to prevent people real plugging 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. And a bit of a warning before this next story if youre hungry it may exacerbate the situation the French Bakers Confederation has declared war on what it considers fake croissants story. 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 concrete sure that me and with its typical for it is unmistakable except is this a real quite. Well it is of course a real croissant because its edible but it is rath