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surviving against the odds are two week old baby girls recovering in hospital after being discarded in the scorching sun in southern russia meanwhile the heat wave clings to the country but firefighters say they are slowly beating the blazes. temperatures rise as water levels drop middle east nations accuse each other of draining the river jordan forcing families to limit their vital supply. trying to win back her rights so you a civil servant goes to court after losing a job or changing gender. welcome it's midnight here in moscow this is r.t. with me kevin now in the top story this hour a baby girl in southern russia stunned doctors by surviving after being abandoned

in the blistering heat wave glaring sun the two week old was discovered on a roadside and police in the rostov region are looking for a parents with the latest on a story tonight a catarina. here it's. a favorite of all the stars. and she's something of a miracle after surviving the record heatwave abandoned by the roadside hospital staff have called the baby girl c atlanta sunny the two we call child was spotted by possible by having lead for hours on the ground in fifty degree heat. a year to squeak in thought it was a kitten that i look closer and was taken aback it was a crying child my husband and i was shocked how could somebody abundant a child like this. the couple spent hours trying to track down the girl's parents without success it's a miracle how a baby a little. more than two weeks old so many hours and at the open sun this is what

fifty degrees celsius does to grow us. doctors see the child was badly dehydrated and was lucky to escape the attention of insects and stray dogs are you sure but i mean the situation was critical a little more time and we could have lost. pleased with your progress the medical staff say she is demonstrating an appetite. the police are now involved searching for the parents who abandoned their daughter. to go we've been to all the maternity hospitals but so far no information about this unlucky and lucky child of the same time. and amber of families have already approached the local authorities asking to sit london so here future maybe both sunny and secure you can see in a great sugar aren't tea. good news there and a bit of good news as well from urgency officials who say that steady progress is

being made in the firefighting effort after weeks of ferocious wildfires across western and central russia the area covered is reduced by two thirds of the number of fires is down by half over the past six days a total of one hundred sixty thousand people or more than twenty five thousand appliances have been involved in tackling the flames fires of urban completely extinguished in fourteen regions in central russia but things remain tense in the other five affected areas including the moscow region but emergency ministries comfort extra resources massive wildfires have destroyed dozens of provincial towns and villages and killed more than fifty people but along with the drought the scorching summer cost rusher a third of its. three middle east countries are heading into more troubled waters this time over the rapidly draining supplies from the river jordan it is the major water source for israel jordan and syria but it's been a bone of contention between for decades and as artie's policy of found out it's

now everyday citizens who are facing shortages see home for quhy has always had to worry about water here's ago she bought a tank to keep as much of the precious stuff in she needed to wash her family's clothes twice a week and the rest of the time her children know to keep the showers short in the jordanian capital h two o. is pretty scarce. and i think big families usually buy water tanks so we can have enough water to last the whole week but the tanks are expensive and not everyone can afford them we get water in two days a week and those days i switch on the taps and fuel the tanks for a few hours so we can manage on the other days. it's a problem affecting the whole region competition for water between israel jordan and syria has become so fierce that it's turned the once mighty jordan river into a trickle well the river's been almost destroyed because of the conflict because of

the competition every country has tried to block off whatever it can before it reaches the international share of the river so they can keep it to themselves as typical of a conflict situation israel wants to declare the lower part of the jordan river off limits to pull grimm's who believe this is where jesus christ was baptized by john the baptist pollution and sewage have contaminated the waters to dangerous levels sixteen years ago israel and jordan signed a treaty that committed both sides to return fresh water to the river but that has never happened and these pipes pump water from israel to jordan each year some fifty to sixty million cubic meters pass through them this is enough water for one million jordanians to eat true drink and to wash each year an extra dainian minister says israel is ignoring other parts of the agreement when it comes to. sticking to. the share which was decided to do.

so was giving jordan a lot of water to irrigate. also to. the supplier to use for the most exotic and to sea water. for the most exotic like no this water has been almost diminished but the allegations have provoked fury i would belkin was one of the israeli team which negotiated with the jordanians about how water would be shared between the two countries the problem is that when he said to the street i didn't say. quantity. very clear. that we are taking exactly the. respect to the is the only location through doing to. the celebrity that we didn't

take even one cubic meter more as the effects of global warming are felt more year on year disputes in this part of the middle east over water will continue to he tapped policy r.t. in israel and jordan. but ahead tonight we look at why equality is reaching all sections of society in the united states transsexuals say they are one of the country's most rejected minority groups and are taking the fight to the top as we report. first the newly appointed head of the u.n. drugs and crime office is vying to address the afghanistan narcotics threat russian official yuri fit daughter of took on the role last month military analysts of going to khrushchev says it's high time the war on drugs was linked to the fight against corruption. the russian ambassador to the united kingdom you should know that this has just been appointed as the u.n. and drug czar so now in his new capacity he will be leading the way of the

international community he gains the narco terrorist threat that comes from afghanistan the russian voice has been mostly neglected by the i said nato an international community so now we have this appointment russia has a unique opportunity to rid invigorated and to jumpstart the international efforts to build up and raise the world where it is above the one and only threat bit really is important significant and neglected in afghanistan and that is how to come but mostly in the galactic and forgotten drug threat that directly keels ten times more civilian people in afghanistan and all across the world general petraeus has already arrived but applause with his reinvigorated effort against the widespread corruption in afghanistan he's entitled her option efforts

will be even more appreciated if he will also incorporate the war against corruption we have the war against drugs in afghanistan. that's a man who served on the front line there in the past as well he's a man that knows what he's talking about a military defense on a subject his blog incidentally is on our home page r.t. dot com regular updates that i want to take a look at in our court of already talking of our home page r t v dot com color of the stories on the air tonight a six million dollars scam the russian bank manager and six of his staff standing accused of siphoning funds from their employer in the labrat credit card for all back stories on our home page from one of our t. dot com. what is booked on ready to say i do again and this time in a russian palace we've got that story on page out dot com.

you're watching our team from moscow the transgender community in the united states knows that it's only the land of the free so long as you fit in the country of course as well used civil rights laws protecting against race religion sex discrimination but as an artist laura list of found out transsexuals struggling to get that same equality. blitzing glamorous. job fit for a queen i mean i was. happy beautiful clear mind. i . ever appeared to have a good time to. put all that glitters. isn't call police a good. someone with no formal. hearing for most transgender people are going to work in the united states.

for a phrase i mean i think dandy back glenn used to be. simply glenn that some people just have an affair factor an occurrence of the sort of thing though friends who have known her for decades say nothing's different now far as personality there's no create change she is one of a quarter of transgenders in the us who claim they've been fired because of their gender identity. she is one of ninety seven percent who report they've been discriminated against at work because of it her boss just summoned her to his office and said is it true that you have decided that you're going for sure that you're going to be transitioning and i want to tell them yes he said well that terrible happened appropriate in this workplace and this workplace of all places was the institution that is supposed to protect freedoms and liberties i couldn't

believe that especially a government organization would do that it was bandied about glenn's dream job to work beneath this goal delegate the georgia state capitol where she helped write the bills and resolutions became laws but none of these laws protected her from being discriminated against as a transgender in georgia as in thirty eight of fifty us states discriminating based on gender identity is not banned because vandy beth worked in the public sector with the help of a civil liberties group she is able to sue its own american for people to do the stuff and through this she's won the admiration of friends just marxists i mean. it's a courageous thing which is they were. fighting the state power. the support of a queen i think it shows that it's time to change their right to actually leave who they are i do think that they should be separated and now she's fighting the state

and not her gender any longer it's an inborn characteristic that something you're born with and it's something in france. but it doesn't pay the bills so i have full time employment it doesn't change the law if it's exposed to the law that you would you you want have something like this happen the first place. and some appearance is a sign. unemployment and discrimination are still a drag for most transgender transgender people who get fired from their jobs i. grit their teeth there are just. more and lyster are too. would use a brief pakistan's independence day celebrations to be toned down as the country struggles against the worst natural disaster in its history meantime the un has confirmed at least one case of cholera now in the northwest as

a result of the massive flooding paid work crews are scrambling to reach victims in far flung villages as hunger and disease spreads through the region but the stands prime minister says twenty million people are now homeless and over sixteen hundred guy. president obama has defended plans to build a mosque near the site of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york he says that the nation built on religious freedom us to allow it his comments came at a white house dinner honoring the islamic holy month of ramadan and critics though say it's insensitive to build a mosque near ground zero where nearly three thousand people die. staying states are you a shooting outside a restaurant in the city of buffalo new york has left four dead and several injured witnesses say there was a fight to the pre wedding party which then spilled out onto the street so far police say they don't know who carried out the shooting or exactly why problems in portugal tomorrow wildfires continue to spread across the country and stretching emergency services to the limit at least one of the half thousand people are

buckling nearly thirty major fires in the north where strong winds are fanning the flames places so far west fifteen people on suspicion of arson the country's president can. his vacation to visit the command center tackling the situation. that night fifteen moscow time now while china mourns the hundreds of victims of last week's massive floods critics blame rapid industrialization for the extensive damage to the country's global influence expanding sharply r.t. has been hearing from russia's diplomatic academy about china's place in the world community its next tonight.

the world has been dissolved in recent years by what's called the china's economic miracle just days ago beijing claimed it had overtaken japan to become the world's second largest economy after the u.s. but overwhelming growth bring some serious challenges environmental financial social and political discourse where they're going to handle them i'm joined now here by the vice chancellor for research and international relations at the russian foreign ministry is diplomatic academy get a question of thank you very much again for your time thank you for inviting me to the problem well some experts say chinese over hating all those that it's already overheated what do you think i think is economists all working over hidden all the

time because they have for a disproportionate. sectors of the economy which grow very fast for example in the street the same time the don't have enough resources how dangerous is that for the economy when you started reforms experts in russia or in other countries are used to say the economy will be a transit call it will be in trouble in a few years and it will go down but somehow every time they manage to improve the situation to go further i think they still have potential one of the chinese yuan strand says of becoming the world's i'll turn it to reserve currency. he asked or talked to train using this question the loft some of them smile when they say because of course it's a long way to go as far as the neighbors of china are concerned some of them already use some of them already use this currency in some cases like one bowler like laos cambodia cetera but to say that it can replace american dollars i don't think it's possible in the forseeable future and chinese even don't aim at doing

this they don't try to destroy dollars because they understand that if it happens the whole world the column will go to pieces how big is china's role in global politics today and what are the major political challenges the country is now facing china is a permanent member of the u.n. security council and china is one of the greatest economy in congress in the world china has a very active foreign policy and as a result china plays a very important role in the world and no i wouldn't say you have you can find even one problem in the world which can be sold with the without participation of china and i stress the chinese role in most cases very positive they try to bring peace and stability in the world they need it because they are preoccupied with their internal problems with their internal development and they need peaceful environment let's not talk about china's relations with another superpower america

how they develop and at the moment well you know china had a leader who used to say about soviet american relations soviet union and the united states the two superpowers collude and polite they try to work together with the same time they do have problems so i would describe it in the same way now relations between china and the united states they depend on each other they understand it very well they depend the committee there they depend politically both countries understand that every issue in the world has to be handled. on the basis of cooperation between them but the same time they they are competitors. america wants to be number one it tries to be number one it's been trying to be number one for many years and china is a challenge a challenge is growing asia and the pacific japan and south korea which of the united states but they already have more trade with china than with the united states recently i talked to one diplomat from thailand in moscow and i said to him

what was china's role in your proposal and he said you know our prime minister he used to start his day by reading new york times now he starts his day by hearing what is what is said in the miserable in the chinese newspaper china is becoming more important for many countries so it's become more important or more dangerous ordinary it will it becomes more important and more dangerous china doesn't want to be in the american camp china has different interests and on many issues and they do have issues on where they collide it's taiwan issue japan and smear to roll and there are some other issues and in addition to the chinese feel that americans are not only challenge their positions in the world but they're not interested interested in the growth of the chinese economy in the modernization of china and they suspect that americans interfere with internal affairs of china we have the issue of bit we have the issues of we have other problems inside china and chinese

feel that americans are behind it as they say it's not only hollywood actors who support people in tibet and since i don't support it but it's also american special services it's american government as you mentioned another sensitive issue with fresh air on china from natasha community is there any way we could see that. if you talk about international community you talk mostly about the west russia is not part of the west we don't put any pressure on china on this issue to build is a part of china has been with china for centuries and to britain they live ten times better than used to live. let's say the last century even thirty years ago and they have more freedom than they used to have at the same time we don't know they have separatists and those of earth is sometimes a very warlike and a cause trouble for the chinese government so chinese has no choice but to try to stop them this tradition on the korean peninsula is hotting up just a while ago the yassin south korea had joint military exercises in the pacific

something north korea was strongly opposed to was china's stance on north korea is the only official ally of china change you support in korea in the korean war imagine if you consider the last one million people and of course they treasure those relations they want to you know to stay alive at the same time they do understand that north korean economy doesn't work well they encourage north koreans to promote reforms to make the economy more market oriented they try to encourage north korea to be more open to the world and they're very much against north korea having nuclear weapons but they do say chinese that the reason most korea wants to have nuclear weapons is because america doesn't profit most most korea puts pressure on north korea and the bush for example was very warlike against north korea the chinese way or dealing with this issue is to see to the table and

try to solve issues in a peaceful way and train you say that america should recognize north korea as an. independent country they don't have the political ation so far and america should start political and economic relations with north korea and as a result most korea will stop change and this is the basic position of china in the basic position of the purpose of both china and russia now to bring those parties at the table and continue negotiations it's not continue talking about russia and china other two countries called for a sane or rather can. i would say that corporate and work are pretty much better than we corp ever before even when we were in the fifty's now your fifty's we didn't have such a corporation as we have now and i think over because our relations of based on a very solid basis first of all we would have the same outlook as

far as the international system is concerned we wanted to be a multiple they wanted to be a multiple of not controlled by the united states or the west but based on the united nations on international law and on collective decisions of all countries of the world and it's very important in this all to look at the world because it's the security of the country that's the way we feel would feel that our security can be guaranteed only if such a system is established and chinese have the same plane as number two on most international issues on most concrete international issues we have similar positions it's career it's your run its expansion of nato it's middle east. in addition to this we did have problems left from history it's the border question and military. gauge mintz near the border i mean. troops on the both sides all this issues were solved another factor is that we

don't have ideological differences which existed in the soviet times as i said we were allies but then because of their ideological differences and geopolitical differences and the board they should cetera et cetera we became less at another factor which helps to improve relations and to promote relations between russia and china is the economic factor we have economic dependence some people in russia say that china's growing to fester and it's becoming stronger than russia so the balance of power exchange and the chinese favor so china can become a threat. but i replied to those people that back in the beginning of the twentieth century there were people in russia quite a few by the way politicians draw in the lists writers who used to say that china is going to be spread number one through to russia in the twentieth century instead of this we did have two wars against christian brothers in the west and we didn't

fight chinese we didn't have a. world war with china that big war china's impressive economic growth has that to environmental concerns has a country dealing with it and is a table today with them. in china i would even say it's maybe sort of number one it's awful what's happened in china you know you have some. cities which were because of call my son but then the whole cities and. not enough water. not enough for many of the things which are available to the normal developed countries so it's extremely difficult issue and i don't know how the chinese are going to cope with it because if they put too much emphasis on a college or the economy mr gross will go down and chinese cannot afford the the gross is is not like it is now unemployment will go up dramatically and it's already very very large in china and other social problems will.

pile up so it's a big issue and i don't know if anybody has a positive answer to the same but what we're going to use everything is going to be much china today is among the world's most unequal societies there are many poor people living in china today how is the country to do with that while this is again the very big problem they are trying their leaders say that should put much emphasis on the social situation on this social different situation. but again as i said the. they do have to develop their problems so. it's also the least it's very difficult situation we can see china is now facing many challenges they will be able to deal with them and continue it's right i would i would say there is a big chance they can do it but nobody can be certain that will have.