predicts previous claims by a number of western officials including france's foreign minister. when they're designed guess you. do. absolutely. the french defense minister saying that there is no reliable evidence to suggest that korean was used by the syrian government contradicting what we heard just a few days ago from the french foreign minister who had stated that that chlorine attack it being carried out by the syrian government. in the syrian government has been accused of carrying out or in attacks in areas in the country in january it was accused of doing so by a number of groups including the syrian observatory for human rights which some people have questioned the organization which is run by a businessman in the u.k.

and also by the white helmet so voluntary group which some people have accused of aiding with the terror executions that have been carried out in syria by taking away the bodies at the end of the execution will the u.s. government is also spoken out about these alleged attacks in syria with the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson when he was in france last month same regardless of who carried out these attacks the blame was on russia whoever conducted that. russia ultimately burrs responsibility for the victims and. countless others targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria well the secretary of defense in the u.s. james mattis actually went even further than that suggesting that it's not just chlorine attacks but also that sarin has been used another chemical agent in these attacks although he did also admit that they were in your dreams that you could

back up those claims now the u.n. is of course invested. ating the allegations all these attacks in syria on some of the areas in the country but it remains to be seen whether the probes will ever be able to identify any concrete evidence as to whether those attacks indeed took place in who indeed was behind them and of course whether they will be able to agree and find a result ject if enough for everybody to agree on the international probe into syrian chemical weapons stalled late last year in fact until november it was handled by a body called the joint investigative mechanism that probe was shut down when russia vetoed a u.n. resolution to extend its mandate to criticize the body for using second hand sources and failing to send a weapon experts to the various sites of chemical incidents in syria back then russia drafted a u.n. resolution calling for a new investigative body to be created document says experts must visit the sites

of alleged attacks to collect samples and conduct eyewitness interviews but the plan collapsed after the u.s. said it would block the resolution defense analyst ivan eland things the whole issue has become highly politicized. the problem is with these things is that one never knows for sure there are multiple sides on the battlefield it takes a long time to get the investigations done and then a stray should always likes to. put on a tough. one is we don't care who did this but the syrian government is responsible for it that's kind of a strange statement i think if they accuse russia and syria of something that either didn't happen or somebody else did maybe their evidence isn't that great that's probably the reason they don't have anything to back it up and

they do it they don't want. any independent investigation. tensions are high in italy with less than a month to go until this general elections hundreds of supporters of a far right party clashed with police in the central italian city of much i doubt that just a week before my daughter suffered a racially motivated shooting which left six people injured. i'm. like. really i. mean the shooter was targeting african micros police found a copy of hitler's mind count in his apartment as well as a flag with the far right symbol of the shooter said he wanted to explain the death of an italian woman allegedly killed by a nigerian asylum seeker. well the incident has fuelled concerns about the rise of neo fascist sentiment in italy and national as well as foreign media have been

weighing in the shooter's lawyer told journalists that his client was greeted as a hero in prison. police say racial and religious violence has soared in recent years in fact we can show you some of the shocking numbers from the italian police force a hate crimes have jumped ten fold in just four years and the issue is raising concern at the highest level with italy's justice minister revealing he was threatened when he visited the much of the shooting victims in hospital. even the control they. received threats against me and my family. is to go away when the time comes to take action so i. mean while the video has appeared in the media showing much better shooter shaking hands with the leader of the right wing legard known moreover the shooter stood as a candidate for the party at local elections last year we invited a north councillor to debate the issue. if this guy did what he

did he became a creamy now so we are very strict about it and our. we pons our pencil in the next election the people will use it to vote in this is the only way we act any violent act carried out by an immigrant it seems like the response is is also considerable surely this is not good for the country as a whole how do you feel about what's been reported the rise of nationalism and fascism in italy we are just telling you the people we need low we need contra county we cannot lose our identity because italy if these mood of immigration will rise and we will lose. a dainty ally of your party the former soviet bellus going he's called migrants

a time bomb now is fairly aggressive rhetoric is only going to further divide people you said your weapon is your your pension should we be trying to bring people together we found always the right way to act together and when we have been in the government the last time in two thousand eighty two two thousand and eleven we practically stopped the arrival of illegal immigrants in two thousand and eleven we had only. four thousand in one year in last year we had the more than one hundred forty thousand arrival of illegal immigrants in italy so you can see the difference and this is a bomb because at the most of those people are illegal they will never go get the. paper. refugee because just the five ten percent of them is a real refugee. a psychotherapist and gender specialist in the u.k.

is challenging a university which is blocking research he wants to conduct into people who regret undergoing gender change james caspian claims the move by bath aspire university is an attack on free speech has been extremely stressful to find myself improved in these proceedings which i think should be of great concern to anyone who values free speech in knowledge i deeply believe that the research i proposed is important to the well being of the transgendered community the research proposed by mr caspian was initially approved by academics and twenty fifteen but then later dropped in december twenty sixth in high court judges ruled in the university's favor without waiting for an internal review of the study according to mr caspian the university dropped the research because it fear there will be a backlash on social media r.t. discussed the issue with a wall who reversed his decision to become a woman. i've been back now to my first gender for twenty five years i've been

married for twenty years and you know when i discovered. that this holds that this whole transgender thing is built solely on feelings there's absolutely no objective proof that anyone is a transgender except by then self identifying as a transgender is no better call proof that anyone is a transgender and there's no proof that anyone benefits from the surgery over the long term some people like myself feel like we had a good time while it lasted but when the truth rears its ugly head and you want your life back you want to live in reality and not in. you know surgically made transgender life i found out in my many years of working with transgender people that there is a groundswell of people be transitioning i'm working with them all the time now more and more letters from around the world from people who after five seven twelve

maybe fifteen even twenty years they want to transition back calling their surgery and their gender change just pure folly and foolishness and totally unnecessary so they want to help the transition just as i've done we off the boss a spa universities to comment on the decision regarding mr caspian's for such mr caspian's research proposal was not true feast on the grounds of topic but on the message launch a coup approach the university was not convinced the press would guarantee the anonymity of his participants and the confidentiality of data the risotto lost the first round of his legal battle leaving him to cover the university's court costs he set up a crowd funding page to cover the expenses on mount a fresh legal challenge against the university so far raised about fourteen thousand pounds and was again believes that it's a politically motivated decision. i think it's political absolutely i think it's totally political are afraid of the l g b t which is so powerful it would probably

overwhelm the university if they start studying this like james cast and wanted to do at the university what they would find out is there's a vast number of people who are deep transitioning because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out and this is their way of preventing research from being done. brian may the renowned guitarist from rock band queen who also happens to have a ph d. in astrophysics discusses a space exploration on the politics surrounding it with aussies option for town so you can watch the full interview in the latest episode of going underground throughout the day. donald trump. is going to send people to mars as far as we know that's his plan he's going to try yeah what was your reaction to him saying according to leak draft budget that the administration will end financial support

for the international space station well that's politicians for years and you know they're saying one thing over here and another thing over here yeah i think everybody in our circles doubted that funding was going to be put in you know the money is going to go with a mouthpiece trump is trumping over politics his policies and people say things for expediency and they say things to to get a reaction so i don't think there's a great belief is there there that this is going to happen in the near future if there's an intent then great you know if it helps the current research of nasa that's great you know it's nice to have someone who's actually saying you know there is some support for this but yeah it comes down to money doesn't it. quite a pastor in moscow or a woman in california who's been a prominent face of the anti harassment me to movement has found herself at the center of a sexual misconduct storm she's been accused by at least two men of inappropriate behavior. jacqueline berger has details. democratic assemblywoman christina garcia

has a reputation as a fierce advocate for women and has gained national recognition for condemning sexual misconduct all over the place this. story thank you we should not have to be on your shoulders to make this case but there are places like the power that they can protect their time magazine's silence breakers issue centering on speaking out against harassment even featured garcia's face in the artwork and inclusion that garcia was humbled by posting on twitter that she was proud of the work being done and the issues clearly personal in october garcia revealed to the new york times that she has also been sexually assaulted by men in her workplace multiple people have grabbed my butt grabbed my breasts we're talking about c.b. and o.b.'s. earlier this week garcia even helped pass a bill granting whistleblower protections to legislative stuff who are victims of sexual misconduct announcing after the bill's approval that you were not standing alone and yet news has now broken up two men accusing garcia of sexual harassment

one of the alleged victims is a former legislative staffer highly ironic considering the bill she helped pass is meant to protect legislative staff probes already been launched into the incident alleged to have happened back in two thousand and fifteen after an assembly softball game danielle farrow claims that while she was intoxicated garcia rubbed his back and squeezed his buttocks before attempting to do more than reportedly quickly extracted himself from the situation and it looks like this may even be a pattern for garcia as a second accuser story is eerily similar an unnamed lobbyist alleges that a drunk accosted him last may making graphic sexual proposals while trying to grab his crotch she was whispering roo close and i could smell the booze and see she was pretty. she looked at me for a second then sit acidic. he says he adamantly rejected the offer at this point garcia's camp has only responded to the first accusation the details of these kinds

have never. been brought to my attention and till today i can also say i have zero recollection of engaging in appropriate behavior and such behavior is inconsistent with my valise but if we've learned anything from the me too movement it's not accusations carry more weight than denials and once one person comes forward the floodgates tend to open. the jewish diaspora in iran has grown to become one of the most significant and well established in the world and it continues to thrive despite living through some turbulent times on its iran's regime decades after an exodus during the islamic revolution iran's jewish population is now the second largest in the middle east are over sixty synagogues in the country many of them in the capital and since two thousand and eight iran's parliament has also had a jewish m.p. to represent the interests of the community that. well i. draw may you know the jews of iran can

freely worship and perform the traditional rights they face no kind of pressure synagogues here are safer than in the us or in europe the reigning government supports us. one. of the i know i come to this restaurant because jews come here my children can read the torah and hebrew but they cannot speak it there is no one you can talk to in hebrew so there is no need to ban.

it us it's all we have to wear. a lot to drink alcohol but only in specific places but we've got used to all that we have made along. the bitcoin frenzy has been capturing the attention of renowned investors and celebrities but the lure of crypto currency is also being felt in some unlikely places deep in the heart of russia several scientists were detained after reportedly using the computers of a top secret nuclear plant a mining purposes. krypto is the new black and even

a recent roller coaster ride in because of its price hasn't got off want to be traders in russia throwing themselves head first into the magic world of crypto currency mining everyone's at it from students the secret nuclear scientists yeah that's right russia secret service to tend to technicians in the town of set off for using the plant supercomputer to mine online and there are no exception after reporting energy outages in the control center of one of russia's busiest airports the matters were discovered an idea engineer that set up an entire mining farm and even connected it to the airport grid those pesky technicians and even workers at russia's biggest bank of succumb to mania according to the head of burbank mining without even leaving their workstations leaders to say he doesn't approve we are not engaged in mining but we often catch employees mining on our equipment while it could all be worse of course one miner's burning desire for because literally

proved too much and short circuit meant eight flats destroyed and forty damaged although the culprit did manage to save his bitcoins. i ran to the balcony and saw a man about forty five years old fleeing the building he was in winter clothes and carrying two desktop computer towers he dropped and picked them up several times and kept running well thankfully nobody died but still don't try this at home and also don't buy from random people on the street one punter in albany in schools sold a few coins by gypsies outside a supermarket i mean who would fall for that by the time the penny or bit coin drop that this was just the piece of worthless plastic it was too late to get a refund and for those who have crashed and burned in crypto currency trading and now have the bit quo in blues well there's always someone to talk to like a helpline recently launched in russia specially for those who've lost their

investments after the latest crypto crash course unless you really know what you're doing it might be best to avoid the world of crypto altogether and save all those bitcoin hotline bills. the french capital is suffering from a rat infestation the city's rodent problem is so bad that pest control of already is a resorting to some rather radical thinking. well

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