didn't said he's ready to accept an invitation to visit pyongyang from the north korean leader if certain conditions are met this potentially sets up the first meeting between korea's leaders in more than a decade the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who is attending the winter olympics in south korea she's the first member of north korea's ruling family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. she met with president moon for three hour talks and the opening ceremony of the winter games also hinted at thawing ties between the two states with both teams marching together.

and while media attention focused on the v.i.p.'s that action at the opening ceremony it was revealed that not everyone was too happy about the unified korean team u.s. spies president mike pence made headlines by not standing up as the korean team marched jury in this ceremony reports say he was one of the few who remained seated and did not applaud penn slater explains that explain that he came to south korea to cheer u.s. athletes but still the recent friendly relations between the two countries are widely seen as a breakthrough after the country's held their first talks in two years hong kong city university's joseph chunk of political science professor believes the presidential invitation is a major step forward. this is a small prick freule. moon of seoul korea understands that his people would like to see the beat escalation of tension in the korean peninsula the

conditions normally will be cessation of nuclear power as an. miss out on the part of north korea and north korea in turn will. determine nation of law scale military exercises on the part of south korea. and the united states while the two koreas were able to march under a single unified flag and then pick athletes from russia from the ok our team as it's known to the opening ceremony under a neutral flag however although the russian flag was banned by the i.o.c. it still found its way into the stadium trying to explains no russian flags at the opening ceremony nations parade chang the i.o.c. said some very strict rules and promised no excuses for anyone who'd violate them

so who would have thought the russian tricolor would still make it to the ceremony all thanks to a blogger by korean t.v. just as france were walking into the arena a russian flag i can dump well while the zero our team were carrying the white big flag maybe russian flags flashed around the arena at the stands but it turned out that not only russians brought them there we spoke to one american fan who grabbed one too and i thought it would be nice to you know show a bit of support for them because they've basically worked for years for this moment to represent their countries and now they can't and so i was kind of trying to sort of you know help them feel at home i was trying to sort of send a message that they should be in. because the olympics is for all countries i don't exactly know the particulars of the doping thing i don't know what the right decision is really i'm just trying to show a sense of unity i'm trying to kind of put the politics aside i'm trying to support

these athletes because we know for a fact that these athletes are clean there's no doubt about it but then they're being punished for what others may or may not have done and so there's a collective guilt and i don't like collective guilt i think when you have all so many versions of best athletes banned just before the games instead of you know just for the game so they can't appeal they don't actually have any they don't communicate directly what they did wrong but then all their best athletes are sort of band and so i think that is too much to be a coincidence and science day brings the faster limping medal to the team of a limb picked athletes of russia short track skier semi on the early start off as earned a bronze which he later dedicated to all those russian athletes who were banned from participating in this lympics. now with less than a month to go till general elections in italy tensions are boiling over hundreds of anti fascist protesters are gathering in the central city of march and are saying

hey we're showing you live pictures from the scene right then right now we could go marchers are to suffer a racially motivated shooting which left six people injured and just this thursday hundreds of supporters of a far right party clashed with police there. this shooter was targeting african migrants police found a copy of hitler's mind kampf in his apartment as well as a flag with a far right symbol the shooter said he wanted to avenge the death of an italian woman allegedly killed by a nigerian asylum seeker. the incident has fuelled concerns about the role. eyes of neofascist forces in in italy national as well as foreign media have weighed in the shooter's lawyer told journalists that his client was greeted as a hero in prison or police

a racial and religious violence has sought in recent years these are the shocking numbers from the italian police force we're going to show you now hate crimes have jumped ten fold in just four years the issue is raising concern at the highest level with italy's justice minister revealing that he was threatened when he visited the march and are to shooting victims in hospital. i received threats against me and my family but i was just going away when the time comes to take action so i. mean while a video has appeared in the media showing their match here are to shoot or shaking hands with the leader of the right wing league and north moreover the shooter stood as a candidate for the party in local elections last year my colleague neil harvey debated the issue with a legal north councillor. if this guy did what he did he became a criminal so we. very well. we

pons. in the next election the people will use it to vote and 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 the people we need the law we need. to be we cannot lose our identity because if these mood of immigration we rise and we. we lose. a dainty ally of your party the former soviet belasco and he's called migrants a time bomb not a fairly aggressive rhetoric it's only going to further divide people you said your

weapon is your pension shouldn't be trying to bring people together we found always the right way to work 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 arrival in one year in last year we had the more than one hundred forty thousand arrival of illegal immigrants in it and so you can see the difference and this is a bomb because the most of those people are illegal they will never go get the. paper. refugee because just the five maximum ten percent of them is a real refugee and u.k. university is preventing research studies into transgenders who have undergone a reverse change in sex story and more after this short break.

the bond market will not crash and this time it will continue yields will go even lower and negative yields on various bonds will increase from the multi trillion dollars but the negative yielding sovereign debt now the even more multi multi multi trillion dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells lie with the panic cash withdrawal in places like china and with the sell off and all these various markets and with the oil prices climbing higher and gold looking better than we've got here an old fashioned reversal. that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think

maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive. welcome back a psychotherapist and gender specialist in the u.k. is challenging a university which is blocking research into people who were gret undergoing gender change james caspian claims the move by bath spa university as an attack on free speech is pretty extremely stressful to find myself embroiled in these proceedings which i think should be of great concern to anyone who values free speech and knowledge i do believe that the research i proposed is important to the well being of the transgendered community there were so much proposed by mr caspian it was initially approved by academics back in twenty fifteen but was later dropped in

december of twenty sixteen high court judges ruled in the university's favor according to mr caspian the university dropped the research because it fit there would be a backlash on social media r.t. discussed the issue with walt heya who reversed his decision to become a woman. been back now to my birth gender for twenty five years have been married for twenty years you know when i discovered. this whole that this whole transgender thing is built solely on feelings there's absolutely no objective proof that anyone has a transgender except by no self identifying as a transgender there's no medical proof that anyone is a transgender and there's no proof that anyone benefits from the surgery over the long term or some people like myself feel like we had a good to him blow 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 so. you know surgically made transgender life i've found out in my many years of working with transgendered people that there is a groundswell of people be transitioning i'm working with them all the time no more and more. letters from around the world from people who after five or seven twelve maybe fifteen even twenty years they wanted to transition back calling the surgery in their gender change just pure folly and foolishness and totally unnecessary so they would help the transition just as. well as possible university to comment on his decision regarding mr caspian's research mr caspian's research proposal was not refused on the grounds of topic but on the methodological approach the investee was not convinced the approach would guarantee the anonymity of his participants and the confidentiality of data. there was such a loss to the first round of his legal battle leaving him to cover the university's

court costs he set up a crowdfunding page to cover the expenses and mount a fresh legal challenge against the university it so far raised almost fourteen thousand pounds while taher again believes the university has been politically motivated in its decision you know i think it's political absolutely i think it's totally political or afraid of be old you b.g. which is so powerful it would probably overwhelm the university if they start studying this like james cares wanted to do at the university what they would find out is there's a number of people who are d. transitioning because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out this is their way of preventing research from being done. 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 controversy she's been accused by at least two men of inappropriate behavior artie's jacqueline has the details democratic assemblywoman christina garcia has a reputation as a fierce advocate for women and has a national recognition for condemning sexual misconduct but we've got the rash ok if you start thank you we should not have to be on your shoulders to make this change but it was their choice to make the power to bring about the future i 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 that she was clearly personal in october revealed to the new york times that she has also been sexually assaulted by men and her workplace multiple people have cropped my bottom grabbed my breasts we're talking about senior lobbyists and lawmakers earlier this week garcia even help. 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 daniel 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 came back and was whispering rue close and i could smell the booze and see she was pretty full she looked at me for a second then sit i've set a goal. 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 be brought to my attention until today i can honestly 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 that accusations carry more weight than denials and once one person comes forward the floodgates tend to open with the latest headlines the top of the hour. and my mum will and it has become blue in talk. and we have children grow up

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i'm not sure if that's your way going underground in a week when the persian gulf. tried to prevent london protest against social cleansing beside the tallest building in the european union coming up in the show is donald trump fighting terrorists or is he fighting the syrian government as the u.k. u.s. coalition this week supports al qaeda by pointing out that these guys hundred fighting wahhabi terror we go to attack iran to speak to professor robert brown the head of the iran turkey russia trilateral in istanbul that seeks to defeat british backed atrocities in the middle east and we are britons form a moment damascus whether the u.s. and the u.k. . using chemical attack allegations to justify breaches of the united nations

charter and rock guitar legend brian may on how class privilege is a threat to humanity for years to the day queen greatest hits became the first album ever to sell fifty million copies in the u.k. but quarter numbers must show to the prime minister when she's giving rosie lots more shouting by u.k. politicians of this week's b. and q.'s british britain's prime minister belatedly defacto backing in syria told us of more coming up in today's going underground but first to our top story the u.s. military has been defending wednesday's massacre of those fighting al-qaeda linked groups in syria saying it was protecting so-called syrian defense forces the s.d.f. is led by the new marxist way p.g. but whether you believe the u.s. government or not is a fact that the u.k. backed coalition has this week aided groups allied to those who would bomb the streets of britain so why should donald trump a vocal critic of support given to isis and al-qaeda linked groups by barack obama

make such a u. turn could it be to do with news of a forthcoming tried after meeting in istanbul between of love to be a putin of russia reza tayyip erdogan of turkey and house and rouhani of iran let's go straight to attack iran now and talk to professor marandi from the university of tehran moment thanks so much for coming on again so why is the united states doing it is it on the side of isis day as well this whole thing that we've been seeing over the past few years in syria has more to do with iran and israel than anything else the reason why the americans from almost the very beginning alongside the saudis and others and unfortunately the sharpish government the reason why they supported the extremists the groups that ultimately became an al qaeda and syria among other extremist groups was because they wanted to weaken or destroy the syrian state in order to make things easier for the israeli regime and what has happened there's no. now that the syrian government with the support of iran russia

has by law and the iraqi government in iraq forces as well as volunteers from places like afghanistan now that they've turned the tide against extremists the americans want to seek revenge through other means so they they basically occupy the part of syria and they're preventing the syrian government from regaining territory so they break from the very beginning of this whole crisis in syria the americans have been breaking international law and they're responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in syria. to put it bluntly the americans always say that president assad is a war criminal but if there is one war criminal in all this that is the president the former president of the united states not that trump is any better and you listed there are a quite a coalition from iran through as will or to rush to belatedly arguably to you said briefly the iraqi government and how are they going to react to this

latest development of we're hearing scores of two hundred more than a hundred of those people fighting isis linked groups being killed by u.s. warplanes well we don't know exactly what happened but when you look at the audiotape where kerry admitted in front of his syrian opposition friends that the united states allowed isis to advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad when you look at how the united states allowed isis to do its trade with turkey we all know that and we email of hillary clinton admitting that saudi arabia and others were supporting isis we know that turkey in saudi arabia the role that they played an on fortunately in helping these groups but these countries and the people of the region obviously will react without great i think that the american. i should take into consideration that they have

a large number of military forces in iraq and many iraqis will be outraged at this sort of behavior and also i think it's really another major problem is that the turkish government now is deeply concerned about the p.k. k. but they have to keep in mind that they created this mess by destabilizing syria the kind of conversations that will be. will of this trilateral actually happens with what is just no donald trump perhaps because of a change of policy creating a new area safe area for islam is to occupy in syria yes without a doubt we we know that the americans helped strike a deal so that isis and especially our foreign fighters were able to leave iraq and they move them today rose to so that they could fight the syrian government and we've seen cooperation between the united states and isis in the past also even in

iraq at times the united states would allow isis advance as they. did in ramadi and when hundreds of vehicles attacked the city of ramadi the united states did nothing about it even though it was a clear day so when isis attacks allies of the united states the united states reacts when it attacks opponents of the united states the united states allows that to happen in even facilitate that trumps policy by the way the only thing that changed was that when the tide had turned with the help of the iranians and the russians and has for law and others when the tide had turned in the favor of the syrian legitimate government and they were regaining their territory the americans wanted a piece of the cake and they wanted a place at the negotiating table and that's why they started helping. allied forces to take over. the syrian. oratory from

isis just finally and briefly britain's minister resume's minister alistair burt in cancun treat everything you've been saying says that iran should avoid actions of threaten regional stability what do you think he means by that while the british are deeply involved in the rise of isis just as they've been helping the saudis create massacres in yemen and they helped the saudis create starvation in that country that the british intelligence. agency has been facilitating extremists in in britain to move toward to move to syria in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve many people went to extremists inside england known extremists and they were allowed to go to syria and to libya the british is no exactly how things started and how these terrorists and extremists rose in syria and in other parts of this region and if it wasn't for iran and allies of iran such as russia

and the syrian people themselves we would have the black flags of isis and al qaida over damascus and bath are and probably even beirut today so the british government should be very thankful to the iranians for sparing this region from the sort of misery that we would have seen if if they actually missed that one reza momentarily thank you well that's the view from jack run but what about britain's role in the carnage i'm joined now by britain's former ambassador to syria peter ford he's in manchester in northern england peter thanks for coming back on the show what side is britain on when we hear of atrocities committed by the coalition in syria. so i'm next in it although the british government would have to agree the author why britain is a prominent member of the coalition the so-called grand global

coalition for the elimination of isis. because offices are. participating at the highest level in the command and control operation of the fourth they may not be so i many sorties over syria because there are very few left the flak from the air. which itself raises the question why are we still in this coalition a tool when they believe in a nation but isis but we are certainly involved with the financing and operation level when both groups and they are involved not only in very actions against syrian government forces that we've seen this week but also both the raising the kurdish. militia again. that we're involved in two

actions of the coalition which way the on the mandate it was given by parliament in twenty fifteen yes you raise a question there as to why britain is still involved as of october we had three and a half thousand bombs dropped by the r.a.f. on syria and iraq what about what professor marandi was just saying that previously the united states is trying to create old place or isis diasporan al-qaeda linked to islam it's could that be what britain might end up doing with the united states right now yes. we had fought tooth and media and quail hunt but treated on the border between iraq. syria and it's possible that the british forces have been lifted out with that because that is a very precarious football that the americans have and it's

a very real complicated via stabilize action of syria by libyan government forces were also involved from jordan everything's office good in jordan who are helping organize the activities of the coalition forces in southern syria. our footprint the that and yet the government will not give any account of themselves. well in fairness i mean as your defense certainly said is not seen any evidence of r.f. warplanes or drones causing any civilian casualties that is not really the question and the question is whether these forces are involved in the be able live action of syria. which the answer could only be yes of course because they are heavily invested in by the coalition going along as usual on america's coattails finally if one believes critics of british policy that the britain could

arguably be contravening the u.n. charter on british media we hear every day of chemical attacks by the syrian government which surely gives britain the right to keep bombing from the air the nation of syria well no it doesn't. begin to it's not one of the. latest accusations as being very high and i thought that that information that the jihadi and now on the gentleman. in his bedroom in i think. the syrian observatory for human rights. who are very pro rebel. not be the playing of this is not that they've been bore hole a record like the the guardian.