for headline stories this hour british newspaper claims it's a russian spy operating in. washington intel agencies. protests on the it's really border. protest in the capital. city in which.

i run the clock across the world this is your international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program our top story a russian mole inside the u.s. embassy in moscow it is stuff britain's guardian newspaper has been reveling in its scoop but also how it seems. explains. everybody loves a spy drama mystery suspense and a russian firm for ties. the name of the agent is stabling. my name is evident then you are a russian spy. this

guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time together intelligence without supervision bustles said the guardian's head of investigations that claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the shared jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to

the be russia's key security agency before being let go last year over security concerns they had lined the narrative the details looked spectacular in the scoop which was even projected to link to a spy ploy in washington d.c. itself her activities of stealing and sharing information could shed more light on how the russians were able to hack the twenty sixteen presidential election office of the d.n.c. except the secret service was. unimpressed by the reporting and not out of shame or embarrassment but because of the facts according to the media release within the agency the woman in question held the position of a foreign service national these employees have their duties outlined very strictly as by default the secret service views every one of them surprises as potential spies the woman's responsibilities were limited to things like translation cultural guidance administrative support and i don't mean to offend anybody here but this.

sounds more like the job description of a tourist guide rather than a spy a material employee and i wish i could say the guardian did not know all these things when publishing the article but they did prior to the guardian publishing their article the u.s. secret service provided they are editor with their official statement clearly refuting in found information despite all this the article was published as is after all everybody loves a spy drama but some plots a better be saved hollywood script journalist john white believes the western media is an overreliance on all names sources is eroding the audience is trust. well this is a very sure the reporting in this is the epitome of fake news because without naming sources then we can make anything up they want and expect people to believe them and this is a narrative there's been spun over the last few years when it comes to russia they

are forced to rely on unnamed sources because that is noted placing proper investigative journalism and this is just part of a downward spiral and it will only feed the growing distrust in the group growing this juncture between what people who are supposed to be reading the guardian and no longer are believers going on no world or what the guardian is tell them is going on it's a really big problem for the mainstream and the west. the health ministry ses one palestinian has been killed and over one hundred others injured in the latest great march of return protests near the border with israel the ministry out of that ninety of those injured were wounded by israeli life i mean all the israeli defense forces estimate the number of what they call violent rioters eight thousand friday saw the nineteenth great march return rally since they began in march it comes as hamas and israel reportedly consider

a deal brokered by egypt to protest along the border i talked to political scientist professor saeed namir here accuses israel of using disproportionate force again. as a matter of fact the israeli are using the live ammunition all over the place not only wherever it's comes to the palestinians the confrontation usually they use the machine most of the times sometimes they use the rubber bullets but mainly they are using the life i was initially it was real save of st bernard fires and also people are constantly running up the fences and those kind of protests are organized by hamas that is what israel. well organized by a lot of factions all of. the resenting the palestinian will. do the borders and the right of return to their homes which was which was leaking

from them. in the other hand. have nothing what do you mean by guides israeli have if sixteen and thirty five and they are dying as they have. everything else do have guides this is absolutely unmatch. thousands of yemenis have turned out in the capital in protest that ongoing saadi led coalition air strikes was prompted by a deadly raid which killed dozens in the main port city of whole data saudi arabia denies carrying out air strikes in the area at the time instead blaming the attack on the rebels please we want the video you're about to see contains graphic in the yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed on a run seventy injured however a local t.v. station has reported that fifty two are now dead at least one hundred. strikes have an area near the city's main hospital yemen's health ministry is clear and who it

thinks is to blame. the health ministry strongly condemns the crime of targeting the hospital in the fishermen's market in deede united states because full responsibility because the united nations and its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the freeze of the gratian from the american is really the coalition and its allies and their crimes for more than two thousand two hundred twenty days ago. the saudi led coalition has been at war with the rebels since march twenty fifth when it sided with the government on join the civil conflict since the intervention the u.n. say this situation in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis but aid organizations are struggling. from the red cross told us earlier. they are going to use to research and this is going to. be described as consistent i think as a. policeman. in

terms of tends to. sue. all of the users and the international community if that is gross and this is for a city that's been many. well known. they were interested. in the old school. next to him who are you that's true do you really should you get into your situation. with saudi arabia the us have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump obama administration's washington provides riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but not the united states u.n.

ambassador seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario having played out for years. we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in who data that may have caused dozens of casualties we've hit a new day now in yemen. and we've had a new sense of urgency and you know. that if this is what started to happen so billions are at risk infrastructure is at risk for nikki haley it just occurred today which is unfortunate because united states is actually supply. a lot of the logistics of intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning

what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen i mean it's just you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on for too long and too many people have been have been killed and you wonder and you have to ask yourself the question what's the point. in the unprecedented ruling a british judge has recognized on islamic faith just being legal under u.k. lol the case was brought by a muslim woman who wanted to divorce her estranged husband the couple were married a traditional muslim wedding ceremony also known as twenty years ago but it was regarded as a religious ceremony and therefore not a civil marriage under you kill the husband has blocked the voice proceedings invoking sharia law under which a union can only be dissolved by a consul of muslim leaders but such councils have no legal jurisdiction in the u.k.

. discussed that earlier with a muslim rights campaigner and also a british politics commentator. how significant do you think this ruling is in terms of how britain regards religious weddings and the marriage there after it is essentially the first time that the british courts or legal system has essentially recognized a parallel legal system nearly shari'a law it does set a precedent without perhaps establishing what the bindery serang that should be so i view this as troubling misguided and potentially very disturbing for the future the judge was talking about recognizing it as a void marriage under english common law which is not exactly the same as shari'ah although this might might be similar yes in fact to claim made that point that this is not about recognizing a shari'a law it's about recognizing and implementing what is seen as a marriage or avoid marriage in the english common law not shari'a law in actual

fact it's good everything to do with it couldn't be more clear and you being ingenuous by suggesting it's somehow completely divorced from islam it's everything to do with shari'a law as it's on there stood in this united kingdom and we cannot have i'm sure you'd agree with me there is no place for parallel legal systems within the u.k. with the years over the centuries english law has improved to the level where it's very very similar to the general aims and objectives of sharia anyway so. a marriage under english common law is very similar to marriage under serial or anywhere in syria has certain guidelines certain rights and one to responsibilities for a husband and wife or people who are you know showing the world that there has been work and likewise english common law does as well someone to suggest that should real or in its full manifestation has any compare ability to british law is a little cross i believe this judge has set

a precedent which does carry consequences those consequences seem that tell of it is like. to particular prominence which it doesn't deserve above any other fee if and those married on her islam of the whole was her the opportunity to get the rights was this judge has no veil there and by simply having a civil a civil certainly a look if you want to get my daughter shari'a law that's one thing but birdbrain but it isn't does not provide you with legal status under british law and this judge has given them a backstop i think that's all well to be fair the woman in this case she was arguing that she did ask for the civil ceremony and that her husband refused to go forward with it that her father had also asked for it and it just was not an option for just the same if she asked for a divorce and he would not give it to her so someone if we could go to you again what do you think this means for other women who are an unhappy marriage just possibly that they might also try and take this route the rights that women and

indeed men have in this scenario are the exact same rights that they would have under the english common law so when you look at things for example the division of assets and so forth if there is an asset which is truly shared like the marital home or a car or something that work together then regardless of if then my we don't not. even under the english common law let alone shari'a obviously they have an enticement to they both have an entire term to that thing presidents can lead to all kinds of situations and in this case what we're seeing is a parallel law being legitimized in the u.k. i repeat should be in courts how likely is in the united kingdom. a suicide bombing has hit a mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers officials there are now being quoted as saying that at least thirty people have lost their lives more than eighty others are wounded a quarter of them critically details not from local journalists. the casualties and

fatalities could be much higher the attack took place during the friday prayer when the sun mosque was busy hosting a big number of worshippers in the provincial capital of card is the capsule of paktia province in southeastern afghanistan the shias in afghanistan are extremely vulnerable especially when it comes to places of worship islamic state of attack them now that part of the country on the border with pakistan was a stun region in the corum agency is where militant pakistani groups are also operating like. in different capacities as well as the pakistan based militant network there karni network so one has to really see who was behind this attack but what is an extremely dangerous trend now in afghanistan is that the afghan

government and its international allies continue to fail to protect lives in afghanistan and when you have such a big number of casualties in fatalities you are actually thinking about a destroyed society almost you're talking about families losing their breadwinners people are losing their lives their aspirations their dreams and this friend six really dangerous trend actually continues in most major cities across afghanistan and so the question is what if any. security strategy is in place to prevent these sort of attacks in the future. national geographic is admitting that eight quota went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know for certain why the bird was dying national geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear there is no way to know for certain why this bear

was on the verge of death. polly boycott let's not how is simply changing the caption opened a whole new angle on the story. you might remember these heart wrenching pictures of a starving polar bear looking for food national geographic ran them back in twenty seventeen with a big caption claiming that this is what climate change looks like the images went viral the photographers estimate over two billion people saw them on youtube alone the video got one point five million views and it also became one of the most of you to videos on national geographic's websites but it turns out that the photographers original caption didn't make an explicit link to climate change they posted the videos saying that this is what starvation looks like but when national geographic picked up the material to publish it skewed the narrative and it was.

you're. this is one bear it's not a once off is it i mean i miss the expectation as climate change continues that this kind of image is going to be amplified again and again but that viral success troubled the photographers it was not the message they intended for viewers the mission was a success but there was a problem we had lost control of the narrative we were perhaps naïve the picture went viral and people took it literally. well now national geographic has been forced to admit that it went too far in linking the dying bat to climate change and that there's no way of telling exactly why the stricken bear was on the verge of death so i've come to london zoo to speak to the animal lovers head to find out if they feel like their sympathies have been manipulated by the media.

i think it's story one because so you think that really the cause is climate change exactly that's where the global. yes it is so for you the magazine simply took what everybody would have thought about these images and said it yes i wouldn't necessarily. thing do you feel like it's one of those situations where the media sometimes kind of manipulate you know the girl it definitely. is i mean we know that that happens we know that there is manipulation this picture is very very powerful impacts when you see it but then once you have the impress on them it's very difficult to change your mind or to get focus again on this new problem that i feel like because a lot of other pictures as well but i says no to this not there's not any way for them to get them to go anyway so it probably has something to do climate change so yeah climate change is clearly a serious issue that weighs heavily on the minds of many people but the question is

whether it should negate serious reporting. well the photographers huff and explained why he waited on till now before speaking out but some biologists were already skeptical about the claims of the animal was suffering because of climate change saying that illness was a more likely reason for the birds condition. germany's got a new strategy to cope with the influx of migrants the first of a series of facilities called uncurse centers of open their doors to refugees arriving from across the austrian border the move was agreed in a controversial last minute deal between germany's ruling coalition all the migrant issue has driven a wedge between chancellor merkel and the interior minister at one point or so see hoff or even threaten to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger of a split

a deal for migrant transit center soup in bavaria was eventually established to help process asylum seekers foster. name uncursed center is derived from the german words for a rival decision an repository ation and the society explains how the news refugee camps will work. centers like this one in form part of germany's new strategy for dealing with refugees in the various seven if these are up and running described as one stop facilities they bring together all the government agencies needed to complete the asylum process bordering austria the variable the brunt of the migrant waif which saw over one million migrants and to germany as part of medicals open door policy in two thousand and fifteen was.

the local authorities are worried that rather than easing the tensions as promised by the federal government these processing centers could bring more trouble it's not much of a problem in the city before the community in the vicinity it is a big burden on we are afraid that should there and there be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing speech center can hold between one thousand and one thousand five hundred migrants but the one hit can reach a maximum capacity of three thousand four hundred local businesses say that they're feeling the strain already since the reception center opened we have had at least one theft each week it is very noticeable and has increased a lot the fact is ninety percent of thefts are done by people from these centers the city is home to over seventy thousand residents who was aware of the challenges posed by the influx of people put people in the migration center much no sense at all because that makes them feel like a ghetto and get our station was never going to history. the mood of local people

has become a little bit more aggressive newcomers have to learn how to fit into society to avoid this refugee support groups are among those not happy with these processing facilities they see them as an impediment to integration and in some cases harmful to those house they're being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's get a straw fit for those affected seven and consent. it was set up as a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and terry mills to see hope for following calls for its negotiations but whether they will succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear finishes at a party. brazil is considering a new law that will prevent isolated indigenous tribes from killing children who are disabled or for whatever reason not able to live within the group some lawmakers however say the traditions of such remote ancient communities should be protected and essential if the rules of modern society don't apply a warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting. i. think they'll.

say i say that's a fail safe. if i had remained there i would certainly be dead. certain cultural practices here i'm compatible with human rights they need to be thwarted there's no middle ground. for most repressive and lethal actions ever perpetrated against indigenous peoples

of the americas were unfailingly justified through appeals of noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. that are long no. longer brazil's current laws the tribe can't be legally judged if they weren't aware they were doing wrong the bill now being considered is called. it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child who suffers from a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who save them propose the bill it calls for educating tribes on monitoring pregnant women it also saves the failure to report a child killing should be criminalised the bill has already passed one stage but is still being considered by the senate some representatives there worry that the bill would violate the tribes rights. the stuff around the g.

when we talk about the law which states that indigenous peoples customs must not dominate we take away their rights when they are already in a vulnerable position we should respect their traditions more cases of violence and abuse take place more often when their culture is disrupted we should concentrate on the social aspects of their health rather than criminalize their customs and traditions and digitize people are often ignored when it comes to social policies and are also treated carelessly by the brazilian government it's always been a taboo in brazil to talk about it so we have not many studies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then the embers has noticed that oh depair and it's suffered a lot because of these obligations that sometimes they have to their babies we have some cases that the parents committed suicide in our dinner not to kill their children it's not that we are imposing these changes no de do not want

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