i think that there are ways that can be done. but never in a way that betrays a dark and desperate situation.

and should be. to care for. us. both. the u.s. government's afghanistan watchdog the. report detailing allegations of child sex. the report was concerned delegations of sexual abuse of children by members of the afghan security forces because it's classified much of the information on which the sego report is based the report is classified sego has requested that.

the report and watchdogs report more generally concerns u.s. funding in afghanistan and whether forces receiving the money comply with human rights laws deals with how the u.s. military and state department are implementing the so-called leahy law this prohibits the government from providing aid to another nation's security forces if there is credible information that human rights have been violated now the watchdog also cites the state department saying that the afghan government has failed to meet human rights standards and that afghan officials are complicit in the sex abuse of children by afghan security forces the u.s. government is accused accused of a turning a blind eye to one afghan custom in particular known as a. this involves the sexual abuse of. adolescent boys and has been illegal in afghanistan since the start of this year. re.

yeah. they say. that a. little bit about this is. also known as a that was. something that's there. not the first time such allegations of afghan soldiers were raping young boys have surfaced back in two thousand and fourteen human rights groups claimed abusers were often paying bribes to hide their crimes and in two thousand and fifteen reports surfaced that american military personnel were being told to look the other way in order to maintain good relations with afghan units allegations of child sexual abuse by afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic afghan criminal law there would be no express requirements

that u.s. military personnel in afghanistan reported one possible explanation is the leahy law process through its u.s. government that's foreign security forces as well as defense training programs to ensure recipients have not committed human rights abuses in other words break human rights laws and there's no more money and that could prove tricky in afghanistan where over the last fifteen years washington's pumped in over seven hundred billion dollars and they're not planning to stop anytime soon twenty seven teams going to be another tough year for the value of afghan security forces and the international troops moved good and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder i do believe it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can. make the advise and assist mission more more effective a presence yet to define his afghan policy many hope human rights will trump war. r.t. washington d.c. we have discussed the issue with a number of experts they told us that by keeping the report classified information

is in effect being protected. what we're saying is various abuses various things sometimes just even the lack of success that the united states has inside of afghanistan is something they did american people don't see i think the american people just turned away crime is perpetuated if you don't harbor it if you don't address those issues it simply expands the potential for more crimes to be conducted against people and frankly when you see this happen when you see people being abused theatres around the world and the americans are involved at least in the theater it provides the perception that the americans are responsible for it obviously because it would be embarrass the afghan government. only. you know this is who i have great respect for the u.s. government office that this. story was covered nobody

wanted to admit that the afghan government doesn't want the u.s. doesn't want people in all wars. these. crimes. and you study has warned that online searches for methods of suicide have spiked following the release of the netflix series thirteen reasons why the controversial show tells the story of a girl who commits suicide so often it generate a concern among parents and psychologists in several countries in new zealand a special rating was applied to prevent people under eighteen from watching the internet series a lone and austria two school girls tried to kill themselves but their teachers monitor stopped them at the last minute reports suggested the suicide attempts were inspired by thirteen reasons why.

because i'm about to tell you the story of my life. specifically and why my life ended. and if you're listening to this tape. you're one of the reasons why in the united states two families blamed the series for driving their children to suicide we spoke to the father of a girl who just before her sixteenth birthday he says his daughter suffered from depression and the netflix program pushed her over the edge. the show acted. like there's a word in psychology it's called a trigger that means that you react to something by her meds and it triggers a response with you it left my daughter. feeling worse than she had before this is not the way it's supposed to be my daughter should be alive today i should be able to hold her in my arms should be able to care for her i should be able to hear her. but now i can't she's just gone she's gone from me forever.

gauging reaction to the recent study on the impact of this netflix series. nineteen days after the program was released google searches for suicide related topics increased by more than twenty percent that means roughly nine hundred thousand to one point five million more than usual from phrases like suicide hotline or teen suicide or more worrying phrases like how to kill yourself all of them are on the rise i've seen multiple psychiatric admission knows that it details the presenting problem of why the teen is is there being one a couple of times them saying that they want to kill themselves in the way that the girl from thirteen reasons why did suicide prevention experts are warning that the show is kind of romanticizing suicide and unhealthy relationships all of which could lead to copycat behavior among teenagers or teenagers who in general are

still developing the ability to regulate their emotions and their desires for those teens and especially those who have already perhaps contemplated suicide a series like thirteen reasons why can be problematic let's ask people how concerned they are are you a parent i am a part now would you allow your son or daughter to watch this this new program with a company of apartments where you know if you put something to somebody's head and they already had that thought it might be encouraging but you can't control what people are going to do they might hear it on the street they might hear it in school you know that you never know i mean just because they hear from you doesn't mean it's your fault if you were a parent would you allow your child your children to watch that show i would absolutely because i want them to experience well life is all about the ups the downs the ugly the good all records i should still show that i reckon that people should be able to and will those halves of the space to be honest ok are you a parent. now if you were

a parent do you think you would allow your son or daughter to watch that show or have a different view if i was a parent the producers of these shows need to be socially and ethically responsible for what they're putting out and. at bare minimum that means that for if it's netflix for example before and after each episode in the series they need to put in places for where they can get help such as the suicide prevention lifeline they need to be doing that at a bare minimum so that if a child vulnerable child gets triggered during the episode that they know where they can go to turn for help now netflix says they welcome more research as they prepare the next season but parents are asking themselves is there really enough of a reason that we wouldn't want our children to be exposed to such shows. r.t. new york. mentioned netflix responded to us about the study's findings and also told us that the show was intended to promote discussion of a difficult subject over the father we spoke to told us there are other ways to

highlight this sensitive issue i think that there are ways to show that i think that there are ways that that it can be done in a positive note but never in a way that was that like this never in a way that protrudes it in such a dark and desperate situation the fact is that netflix does not care what the medical profession has to say they don't care what educators have to say they don't even care what parents have to say on netflix cares about is making money from this show is not acceptable and this needs to stop we still have a voice as consumers or just as citizens we have a voice and we do have power to make change. for us and secretary of state says that both he and president trump do not support the new sanctions against russia. so that action by the by the congress to put these

sanctions in place in the way they did not do the president nor i are very happy about that we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts but that's the decision they made that made it a very overwhelming was a good president except that the u.s. congress voted last week by an overwhelming margin for fresh sanctions against russia but they also affect u.s. allies in europe the restrictions target mining metal and energy industries moscow has already reacting to the move by reducing america's diplomatic mission in russia by seven hundred fifty five workers and seizing two properties the secretary of state noted that relations with russia are under considerable strain but he remains hopeful all indications are he will sign that that bill and then we'll just work with it on that's kind of my view is will work with that we got it now we can't let it take us off track of trying to restore the relationship well i think it signals

a dysfunctional president the president not only is that war with congress his own party has turned against him in congress the neo cons of turn him again against him in congress he's fighting is no he's older than a stray shouldn't that the people that he's appointed to senior positions fundamentally disagree with him on foreign policy so what so completely lopsided that his options are to look at stream lee week by vetoing it and having an override or to simply accept his fate and be boxed in by his own party in congress talk about a humiliating situation that the president has and the new sanctions bill comes amid shake ups in the white house president trump appears to be still forming his team and working to pick people who will perhaps the most loyal to him. we could use some more loyal to.

who is it that tells him the hard truth almost everyone. serving the president has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. doing a spectacular job i have no doubt think we are in pretty good shape. president he has got to select the right. to carry out his vision of a strategy. human

rights activists are calling. a multi-billion dollar deal with saudi arabia amid allegations that canadian vehicles are being used by riyadh in a crackdown on shia fighters in a saudi town here's how the canadian prime minister reacted to the calls. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review of saudi arabia's crackdown is taking place in a small mostly populated town in the east of the sunni majority country. allegedly showing out the canadian vehicles being used by saudi security forces a local from the town affected told us how civilians are being caught up in the violence. or.

the. war which. almost. we should warn. you more it used to. be really helping. saudi arabia rank among the top destinations for canadian arms exports and twenty sixteen the military purchases totaled one hundred forty two million canadian dollars one human rights activist told us his concern. it's more about the prefer rather than the human rights what do you expect from the saudi government are they going to buy the vehicle and put them in a museum for example of course they are going to use them whether inside or outside and unfortunately they are using than now. the international we're doing your

wednesday news here on this program thanks for joining us we are back in just about . what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you want to be close to see what the full story of the more people. interested in the water. should.

be with us today thanks for joining us can sons of a police brutality in the u.s. flaring up again it's off to a video of officers in tennessee repeatedly tasering a teenaged inmate overstraining a warning you may find the following images to stop. ok. the incident was caught by a surveillance camera as can be seen the inmate is tasered certain time to swipe

despite being completely restrained on gag moreover he was reportedly on suicide watch a teenager was jailed after being arrested on drugs and weapons charges last year his family is now suing the county jail claiming that excessive force was used photos taken off it would also appear to show the extent of some of the teen's taser burns he says that he was left with at least forty mosques across the border . after initially insisting that officers had to stun the teenager at the local sheriff has now agreed to conduct an investigation three deputies have been suspended but one brutality activist told us that most cases of abuse in u.s. prisons tend to go unreported. and people end up in the jail who've been brutalized and then that brutality continues in the jails and into the prisons it's kind of like a whole system from beginning to end that is dominated by brutality and the only issue is that in the prisons of the jails we it's not as visible we can't see it as

well and so we don't typically get access to these types of videos jailers have enormous power the head jailer which is the sheriff in this case has to be a vailable watching his staff at all times he has to be monitoring their conduct because you know people with absolute power abuse it absolutely and so it's really he the that the sheriff is saying that he wasn't even knowledgeable about what his own staff was doing i think it's reprehensible he should resign. the french president's party has released what it calls a some a notebook for the holidays it contains one of micron's favorite a rallying kohls make up on it great again as well as the outlines of the main elements of my doctoral program including a test on how ecologically aware you are and if you know french you can test if you can speak the same language as the president who was known for his rather obscure use of words. surely do when he went to the streets of paris to see if the french

citizens are in tune with their leader. last summer is if. the politicians keep the key technologies of the republic and manual. governing party but just the deputies tough things to to use a public case to sum up the party that's published its summit including lots of games and activities to keep them busy over the summer holidays creating a game to speak but. i don't know i don't know what it is now i don't know we ask people on the streets of paris to they speak to gain a space to build ice muscle many stick. to my mind this is something related to madame bovary. maybe this is related to madame bovary say that up until the pit. i think this is a song or remarks. i

think that's the french literature correct so this is a desert something to eat. i don't know if the bird is because he does not speak the same language he's adopted but he does not speak to sing language this is very difficult for my generation basically you didn't speak my call. i don't. know i thought struck oh i don't speak my problems and the booklet suddenly received a fair amount of mockery online after it appeared.

the latest the world aquatics championships wrapping up just a few days ago in budapest a success for russia. among them a fifth career gold we spoke to. go. it always that i realize there should have a different attitude this is just the process of training and participating in

competitions i just enjoyed my coach used to tell me how much i enjoyed the competition the reason you do all that and the reason you swim and train he said because you really like it and i've started to enjoy competitions and competing of course it's always better to win and then you have even more emotions if you really should be able to simply enjoy things enjoy your life your fame of his road to success has not been easy suspended for doping in twenty third team then testing positive for mel dhoni and in twenty sixteen over the provisional suspension lasted only four months the international swimming federation banned her from the rio olympics but your team of appealed the ban and won the case but only after the games had begun however she had to put up with a fair way of criticism you wave your number one finger and you've been called a drug cheating i'm not a fan i think lily is right i think something needs to be done cheaters the cheaters you seem over has this positive and she's gotten away with it

again there's just not fair. i despite all the stumbling blocks of us so she is content and will remain positive. i had my first olympic games when i was sixteen i finished in fourth and i suffered a real nervous breakdown i remember well how the u.s. team tried to comfort me he was shocked asking my coach what had happened he said i was that disappointed because they came in fourth and they were puzzled telling me that i was only sixteen and i had come in for that the olympics why she crying they asked why it was because our sports officials were quick to criticize me for my results saying it was awful but now i finished third at the world championships and bearing in mind all that has happened to me and over hard training and everything i can say that's really great i wish everyone could feel like that and take the bronze that would be good i think i don't like to take revenge at all while my father always tells me that i don't have enough of the so-called fighting spirit and i should be more competitive and i've actually never thought about it i just know that the two hundred meter breast stroke is my thing i should be working on my

one hundred meter performance though when i have both of them that will be great thanks for sharing it when it was there with us here when aussie international more news in about half an hour's time there between now and then tempos may flare as crosstalk is next. you can see the border from here by the. steel goes down this side there's always. like this so this is this is. and this is something. i have every right to be here i have a right to call collect my food be a part of my family on both sides of the border. play started an organization

called arizona border recall we. or the stand a little into teeth. that is doing. what these to be done in the five years it's getting worse the violence is escalating because this will be absolutely. precious really good are a question because you know there's lawyers they believe that their rage is their areas and they don't believe. that there is taking responsibility for their security which we would for if you were also treachery. a batch or sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i

never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle is an american inspired attack on north korea in evitable one certainly gets that impression listening to washington's war hawks and theirs to knock occurs in the corporate liberal media is north korea a growing military threat of course it is but it is also under threat is there still time for diplomacy.