healthy and safe life yes activists in the west spoken out loudly in great numbers but this is about crime or hate russia. this is not about defending russia's stance there is only one side to equality but it is about understanding russia's history social behavior soviet mindset and the whole village it has over swathes of society and just one of the most misunderstood places in the world all origins and equality remain the battle for the one before the rainbow flag stop flying. around various. earlier my colleague bill dodd charity panel discussion on why russia is seemingly singled out for criticism when it comes to gay rights we have been accused of not covering this topic here on a lot and just last week a freelance reporter by the name of james could have chick he brought our tea

certainly into the spotlight to me with great star one has to say and he says that he made a very good choice if you what you want to do twitter follower bump for him but to get to the point this by the way is our third panel on gay rights in russia but that's beyond the point kurtz it came on to r.t. to let us know what he thinks about our coverage or lack thereof of the gay rights in russia and this is what happened you know being here on the kremlin funded propaganda network i'm going to wear my gay pride suspenders and going to speak out what about bradley manning plus time because i don't i'm not really interested in talking about bradley manning a mission talking about the horrific environment of homophobia in russia right now and the russian gay people know that they have their friends and allies are i think those are just about. i only go on that station with the russians. and that he did but anyway we don't want to waste too much time

a critic we did invite him to speak tonight he denied saying that as he already said in interviews around the world after this event that r.t. is not a legitimate news channel that he just believes it would be supporting putin and his mouthpiece and that he won't participate in discussions on our network to give it credibility but i think that we should not spend too much time talking about kirk and talk about the real issues absolutely we've invited peter tatchell who is with us now in london with regard to the law what it says is that any information that makes homosexuality sound attractive or interesting or which says that homosexuality or heterosexuality is equally valid is illegal if a person under eighteen might witness it why shouldn't young people under eighteen know the facts of homosexuality and same sex love some of the moves. or if not they will drop to no gay people they should know the facts the truth not about sex but about love between people of the same gender in

a moment peter would be asking in the sort of the purpose of the storm what it means and what it's trying to achieve but you quite rightly point to homophobic violence in russia but of course it's not just a problem here in the country i just like to give you some statistics about the problems elsewhere around the world in the u.s. for example sexual orientation ranks as the third highest motivator for hate crime incidents off the race based on religion based attacks in new york alone crimes rose seventy percent this year according to local police let's look at the u.k. ninety eight hundred thirty can transpose be recorded each week across britain and compared to other types of hate crime the proportion of and to get taxes on the rise to which you agree you're attempting to get a writes here in russia what's your experience going to be called a champion of the russian government or anyone here in the russian government i mean they're just fighting for the right something. the boys have to discuss something and that's what they have been discussing for the last days but that i was hijacked that i was tortured that i have been. harassed by everyone and so on

yes it's absolutely true that my flight was a raided by the police on tuesday because of the case of. the russian duma and it was a really not a very pleasant. experience what happened during but it doesn't stop me is rife in this country one hundred percent true what i find it culturally interesting is that what is the why is the focus on russia when there are seventy six countries around the world that you know how far west laws to death penalty etc i get messages every single day from people saying how could you live in moscow the reality is that if two tourists or americans come to moscow they have compensated sense just like they will in any other country they will be safe whole picture is absolutely exaggerated it's not what they report is absolutely not true what they're saying is that basically everyone is being killed on the streets here. i mean i want to say i mean we i want what we want to say i'm here i mean i'm absolutely involved in all the

public utilities you know i probably want to i don't know not being rated by the police why am i not running a role why am i not now in new york why am i not now in london why i am here in moore school in your studio fighting for your rights and talking about it right that's what i want to say absolutely and it's proof you're here and it's proof it's very happy to talk about it a secret register containing the names of thousands of sex offenders is maintained by police in the u.k. to protect people especially children from abuse but it happens when rapists and paedophiles are taken off that list artie's polly boyko reports on how the failure to shield vulnerable youngsters can lead to tragedy. a victim of a truly horrific crime as a child paul was sexually abused by a family friend from the age of eight years old his torture continued until he was sixteen so. kern and. i lived in constant terror of my mind flashbacks.

sixteen paul managed to turn his life around and now counsels others who like him went through the trauma of sexual abuse many victims say that the knowledge that their former attackers will be under constant police monitoring even when released from prison is a reassurance that they won't be able to strike again but over the past year a number of convicted sex offenders have applied to come off the u.k. sex offenders register claiming they no longer pose a threat to society if the serious sex offender serves more than thirteen months for their crime they're supposed to stay on the register for the rest of their lives police will monitor their whereabouts the inform local schools hospitals and potential employers about their existence within the community bought according to human rights laws it's a breach of criminals rights to keep them on the register indefinitely without the chance of appeal the register is

a list that isn't made public detailing for the police all those convicted of a crime under the sexual offenses act in england and wales it includes a range of criminals from convicted rapists and paedophiles to under-age minors who have consensual sex following a change in human rights law last year forty three sex offenders were removed from the register after successful appeals i think it's a very perverse understanding of human rights to put sex offenders before their victims before potential victims i think the implications will mean a lot more offending but one children's charity says that the police need to remove those who no longer pose a threat. in order to focus on monitoring the prolific offenders i'm not pretending by the way that victims don't think this is the generally speaking that this would be troubling to them but in terms of my concern of protecting future victims from possible future risk we need the police to concentrate their resources on the guys

at the highest risk if they judge these forty three individuals do not represent a future risk i don't want the police wasting any more time with the former victims are concerned the list of those taken off the register includes eight rapists sent to twenty seven child sex attackers people that i i talked to counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their views are perpetrating this the net of that list you are reading minds do you are going back to being that doesn't all that hard work that poor person actually worked so hard to move forward has now just going to have to it's all undone because they've got to go through it again and they've also got to go through the torment they know that individual could potentially hurt some other child experts in the field of psychology say that questions remain over whether sex offenders can ever be rehabilitated is a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run by britain who are going to these these these inmates and they said we know what to say we know

how to get by we know how we can. what we need to say to prove we are being rehabilitated even if we're not the u.k. home office wasn't in favor of the ruling but the supremes court upheld the human rights of sex offenders looking for a second chance judges referred to article eight of the european convention on human rights to creating that even former sex criminals deserve the chance of private and family life she looked in two thousand and ten when the first two people who actually appealed and used the human rights act they were to child sex offenders. it just tells you a lot that these people want the register and my worry and my concern is the. they were arses to be truthful pulls says that his abusive robbed him of his childhood and for a long time the desire to keep on living as well you know i beg to anybody that says that they have a human right just think of your child just think of your grandchild and think how would you through if that child basically was murdered emotionally from such

a young age. r.t. london more news now from across the globe it takes quite a bit of luck to avoid something like this a dashboard camera captured the moment a car on a coastal road in taiwan was hit by a landslide and just narrowly missed being crushed by a giant boulder a massive rock stop just a few meters from a car with the driver suffering only minor injuries taiwan is bracing itself for more downpours caused by tropical storm kong. thousands of people marched through the mexican capital in protest at the president's energy reform plans in the area to want to allow private companies to explore mexico's vast oil and gas reserves but those opposing the move say the president is just seeking to sell off the nation's assets the mexican leader has relatively low approval ratings now and will speak to the nation on monday. around two hundred people demonstrated against same

sex marriage in the french capital despite a ban on the march protesters calling themselves the night watchman reached a major public square in central paris to hold an evening vigil police and circled the group until their demonstration was finished this was the last in a twenty day protest marathon throughout france in reaction to gay unions being made legal. and in china's southwest you know when soldiers have been evacuating people after an earthquake measuring nearly six on the richter scale hits on saturday five people were killed more than twenty injured over one hundred tents have been put up and several medical teams dispatched to help survivors there are frequent quakes in the country's mountainous areas just this april one in sichuan killed more than one hundred ninety people. yemen's prime minister has a stake in the fascination attempt after on to unidentified gunman opened fire on his convoy no one was hurt in the attack in the capital sanaa which happened as the

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