i'm not happy my life. i see a man have to die. as the last remaining terror and rebel stronghold in syria is surrounded. the warring sides in the conflict accuse each other of plans to escalate the situation. we clearly understand your plans and we strongly urge you to abstain from fulfilling i i two days of violence on the streets of germany twenty people injured as tensions boil over during. demonstrations over the plight of migrants in the country. and a prison strike in the united states does its second week in what could potentially become the largest in american history activists are protesting in solidarity with inmates over poor conditions.

they're welcome to the international law from moscow. thanks for joining us on the program. syrian army troops have been moving towards the front line of the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in the country the northern province of idlib these are pictures from the ground obtained by a properly video news agency soldiers can be seen riding on top of lorries carrying tanks artillery and other military equipment as well officers say their troops are ready for the final battle against militants so far though they're waiting for final orders. of the syrian escalation has been the focus of the latest u.n. security council meeting this comes after the backers of warring parties in syria have recently been accusing each other of plans for escalating the situation and while western countries hinted they will prevent any further use of chemical

weapons in syria the russian ambassador warned against resorting to provocation absolutely we clearly understand your crooked plans and we strongly urge you to abstain from fulfilling their implementation will hurt syria's reconciliation but will martin help the militants you cover. has more on how the involvement of the international community in the war has made the potential escalation an extremely risky scenario. it is shaping up to be the end a lost showdown between jihad ists and the syrian army it is the last remaining stronghold of islam istead rebels tens of thousands of them the most powerful faction and it being h.t.s. or al-qaeda in syria and they're defiant cranking out and this propaganda.

bear in mind many of them not even syrians islamists on jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad with nowhere left to retreat what's worse is the foreign power buildup in the region out of the blue u.s. cruise missile delivery systems guided missile destroyers strategic bombers a re basing and dropping anchor near syria days after the u.s. and its allies warned that take action if chemical weapons are used by asaad and russia which is beefing up its own presence warns that it's the easily mists that are planning just that the us continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s.

military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda it's not true that does not mean however that were unprepared to respond should the president direct such an action the united states the night is building up its forces but says it's ready to attack syria if need be the good news is that russia and the united states are also apparently in talks to prevent any potential use. of chemical weapons but the danger remains the worst case scenario an international escalation militarily the rebels stand little chance against the syrian army what could save them is a foreign intervention caused by for example a staged chemical attack. syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use them at the really because there is no military necessity for said this many times before sensible people will not use militarily useless means to

draw the fire of three powerful countries upon themselves on the other hand after announcing it and waiting for a false flag attack from militants these very same countries can start the argument that is what happened last time say the russians staged incident in ghouta that led to a u.s. french and british cruise missile barash against syria this time what with the military buildup the stakes and risks of an escalation will be much higher but it hasn't begun yet there will be a big conference on friday but chances of a peaceful resolution look slim the russian reconciliation center has been trying to broker a deal but the g. hardest remain defiant our weapons are the source of our strength and thinking about surrendering to the enemy and handing over weapons will be considered treason

worst of all is that there is many as two million civilians in need lib trapped between the hardest and the syrian army if talks fall through with chemical weapons a use that this battle drags on civilian casualties will saw not to mention the danger of an international escalation and escalation is imminent how that develops we don't know whether it goes. very fierce in the form a very fierce confrontation between. on one side and its allies and syrian army and its allies on the other side we don't know we hope that it proves as it went in other areas like most recently in di's southern syria we are faction leaders understand that this is a force that they cannot. compete with or fight effectively and they see if they are people and their cities a lot of destruction and death so in that case you know people could go back to

under government control as soon as possible to normality basically as soon as possible and we understand that many of them. are hoping to achieve such a feat. some three thousand. clashed in the past two days in a german city of chemists leaving twenty people injured their arrest was prompted by the arrest of an iraqi a syrian that was following the stabbing of a local man on sunday peter all of our reports on the latest from germany. well the state of saxony in the city of camden to firmly focus across germany across wide a year opinion across the wider world this follows. a night of violence that we saw on monday evening thousands more that were expected. right wing demonstrators took to the streets of candidates and they were confronted by queen counter-demonstrators now that resulted in some violent scenes there

was. another scene where we have seen after the killing does not have a place in the state governed by the rule of law we so hideous with harassment and hate on the streets was a car. that is sickest and i was at the demonstration in chemist's on monday and the scene there was alarming what happened yesterday is that over a thousand demonstrators registered but it turned out that there were about eight thousand protesters in kemet. was. was was was. was. to decent height it was assumed from the beginning that there would be twice as

many demonstrators as were registered but it turned out that there were about four times as many rightwing demonstrators as english of the planet all those scenes were all sparked following the killing the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old man encampments in the early hours of sunday morning two men in their early twenty's one from iraq and one from syria were taken into custody we've heard from prosecutors that they've ruled out self defense in stopping in fact they're looking to pursue a charge of culpable homicide in. case now the sheens that we saw they really let people in the city of cambridge shocked. before their eyes between the people for immigration and. immigration. and that's a problem for our country or our thirty years i have never seen anyone once again it's refugees or have experienced anything like that. until the recent

t.v. here. situation my parents saved don't go into city stay at home came not from pantries so i was it came from i came from tunisia and that is a problem and that makes the crimes of twenty people including two police officers were injured. we also hear from the police that they're investigating ten people for having given straight nazi salute during clashes that is illegal here in germany. monday monday night violence really is bringing the whole situation in the splits in german society firmly in focus as the right wing and the left wing of german society clashed in saxony. inmates in the united states are staging what could become the largest prison strike in american history the peaceful protest

which is now into its second week is planned to last line teen days on the campus in seventeen states prisoners are demanding an end to what they call modern slavery and for the introduction of a number of reforms. it was there that night and today i'm going to. come you.

read. several american departments of corrections claim that have been no sign of any strikes in their institutions we've asked them for confirmation of these events despite reports we have not had any organized stoppages protests or lock downs related to the strike at our institutions there are no strikes occurring in georgia the g.t.c. is prepared should that change we have been and will continue to monitor the situation only hide correctional institution in swan quarter salt protests

inmates were allowed to hang banners from the inside fencing a human rights activist still in the growth claims some facilities have used violent measures to stop the strikes. goal of president liberian i was organizing rare were taken to administrative segregation and when cave one of the organizers was shackled michael engel and rather cross the prison as a message to the rest of the institution states like new mexico and many others what they did is they began down the facilities and then kept all inmates in isolation and there in their individual cell as a mechanism for stopping activity. ridiculous misinformation that's how the u.s. led coalition in syria has branded a report on our web site r.t. dot com the article about a syrian refugee camp was simply quoting the russian foreign ministry where a car looks at the accuracy of the claims in question. colonel shawn ryan spokesman

for operation here at resolve the u.s. led coalition against myself said that we were pushing quote ridiculous information after reading one of the articles of syria to be distracted by ridiculous misinformation from r.t. the coalition is focused on defeat isis mission and we continue to work with. to secure the l. thames region in southern syria the article in question was in an op ed that it quotes from the russian ministry of foreign affairs who asserted that i still had infiltrated work on refugee camp in syria and that the us government was fully aware of it which claimed as a coalition for port to be misinformation about the presence of feisal in the camp or that the u.s. was aware of it the group on refugee camp is located in the southwestern all done so region in syria in an area controlled by the international coalition it's one of the largest refugee camps in syria hosting tens of thousands of refugees and islamic state infiltration is well documented the last un security council report

braced fears over potential faisel plots from inside the camp densely populated ruben camp in southern syrian arab republic contains some eighty thousand internally displaced persons including families of eisold fighters a situation which member states fear might generate new eisel cells and group on campus been hit by at least four terrorist attacks over the past three years the islamic state has claimed three of them in fact the ice threat was once trying to deter gaining government to close as poorly as it can and concern over possible infiltration is one of the reasons that jordan has cited poor being its borders closed theory of refugees. there are some people or isis people were. trying to. create some. one in the seas. sought to fill the camp first story they were told would be too dangerous because of the presence of

islamic state fighters a safe zone or at least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilot who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the isis fighters these people fled from are inside it so the presence of ice on the camp hasn't been a secret washington stated goal in syria is the defeat of islamic state terrorists so it's hard to believe that their presence in an area controlled by the international coalition would go undetected if the u.s. military isn't aware of the issue your team is more than ready to provide open source information r.t. has reached out operation here at resolve to find out what part of the article was misinformation but we've yet to hear from them that's international would like to know what part of this article was ridiculous misinformation if there are no ice or fighters in the area what is the mission of the us military base in the region given the stated goal of all us operations is the defeat of we look forward to your

answer. our scottish university set to hand out badges to its students to spell out the pronoun they want to be known by the she or they tags are part of an effort to avoid the so-called miss gender and now the initiatives been proposed by adam ring of us these students however warn students should avoid using the term preferred pronouns arguing it's not a preference but a necessity the issue of young people wanting to change gender has been increasingly stirring controversy in the u.k. women's minister victoria has expressed concerns over the rising number of minors now wishing to go through a realignment. i read in the paper recently that there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying asked transgender anything there we need to get down to the reasons why this is happening it may simply be a case of greater warn us it may be that for some they see it as an answer to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. ok we're joined now live by peter

tatchell l g b t rights activist and jordan gaunt a radio talk show host thanks for joining us gentlemen good to have you on the program today john a fuck about to go to you first obviously having out these badges reflecting gender pronouns the intention may you well meaning to makes you feel more welcome is there a necessity really though for this sword does it add more complications to time but really quite stressful in people's lives. it's a complete and utter waste of time is an absolute load of nonsense it's p.c. gone mad however if somebody wants to be so spoken to and they want to say to me i prefer if you call me mr or mrs or movies or whatever then fair enough that's their freedom of expression they've got a right to do it but my freedom of expression is that i'm still allowed to say well you're a bloke if you're a bloke and i don't understand why the english language should be dictated to by this or a radical minority group you get on with wherever you want to go on with wear

whatever you want but don't try and force it down my throat because frankly i've got enough of the trans lobby. john says he's out of half of the the trans lobby there is a suddenly you agree with or is this necessary to make young people more comfortable in a moment. well i think we need to start by recognizing that trans people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about rich and reassignment without very very serious long protracted thought and indeed it's often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home rejection by their peers and other kids around them and indeed very high rates of transfer became a crime of physical violence attacks on the streets and very high rates of suicide and attempted suicide so this is not a decision that

a young person takes lightly and if they make the decision that they feel that they are one gender or another i think we should respect that i don't think it's a big deal to it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to other people so i don't see the problem with that but bought a same token they should respect our rights to have a different view and when you talk about this this is always brought that thing about trans in suicide isn't it true peter the majority of those suicides are people often who can't cope with the fact that they have trans that they've actually had these physical very demanding operations this look at the statistics in truth shall we peter it isn't because they're struggling with the fact they think they're in the wrong body that lage generally to the suicide it's after when they realise they've made a dreadful mistake which is why the woman the minister the education minister is right to say we need to look at why more and more young people are trying to go

through this we need to look at why puberty brought king drugs are being handed out like smarties to children they don't know their own mind i agree with you peter it must be agonizing to needs time it needs to be thought about and they need to be of an age where they know that they are in the wrong body not giving them out to six year old eight year olds and ten year olds and you know that's happened in peta and it's wrong. but john there are only three hundred young people who are having puberty blocking treat no you're only about three hundred here that's a tiny tiny number your tiny number. oh yeah and so but you know why age other than the age when they didn't give them out pizza ten years old nine years old you think that's good because are you but short of just jump in i mean the debate is about these budgets being handed out in universities people law the laws of the i. will raise some years old. they're eighteen years old are they legally surely they can

make the decisions about their bodies about what they wish to be called that's down to them oh yeah excuse me excuse me don't misrepresent me i said completely if they want to say today i'm a man tomorrow i am a bully the next i'm afraid for he said so so that but i don't have to fainter i don't want to get into a situation well i have to change pronouns i have to change the english language as peter says for a minority of very small minority they are attacking my freedom of speech my freedom of expression i don't believe that they are going to say to join title to that opinion just doesn't have a point doesn't he i mean what would be wrong for example with hiding out simply made by just the people you would be. the time to i presume george will be john i would be somebody else would be mariel susan. would that not were equally. effective at dealing with a situation. what if the purpose of these badges is just to raise awareness and in

particular to make transfusions and their friends and allies feel comfortable safe and accepted i don't think that's a terrible thing i think it just a common human decency to be current to all know that's perfectly reasonable have made this decision. ok you know there's a peter what's not reasonable add on a minute where universities are trying to tell lecturers it happened at university of toronto of course famously with jordan peterson where they totally had she not use things like hello ladies and gentlemen hello boys and girls how lads and lassies they had to fit into these new pronouns that's what i object to i don't see why we need to change english language so that i agree with peter about being kind my daughter was it all at school with a boy who identified as a woman some days and us a boy of the day she told me when i met him to be polite and you know not stay to make a and i did so of course that isn't a problem but they did is not right but these people can do this and what i talk

about my daughters is also not right that these men who suddenly identifies women can go into women's refugees can go into women change names i object to that just like many many federal. funds are going under seven to get a question to peter less because john raised an interesting point the need the question of young people children seeking to change gender and women's minister out of the law by without an increasing number of them are even though you say it's only three hundred a year should children be encouraged to make such drastic life changing decisions at such a young age i mean you have to be eighteen years old to even get a tattoo in the u.k. why should they be given these drugs and these medical procedures when the lot of legal asia. well no one is encouraging them and nor should anyone encourage them this is a call that's coming from the young people themselves who wrestled with the very very difficult decision about their own gender identity they've come to the

decision often after a great deal of internalized shame guilt pain and suffering that they are a different gender from which they were assigned at birth and i think we should be understanding and sympathetic to those people and i think we should acknowledge this is not a women it's not true that people will one day be a boy and next day be a goal that's not true at all those people if they do these are so certainly not they're not only are these are just not transgender peter not making this another in the daily express article which this item is now based on when they talk about the budget edinburgh university did you not read it did you not do your research it actually states clearly they can change their agenda their their their description by the day and the example i gave was sympathetic i wasn't taking the mickey out of this young man young woman however he wants to identify i was purely making the

point they are allowed to draw i think if expression if we have freedom of speech if but i have a right also to say i'm not changing my language for them and i don't think anybody knows their own mind before puberty peeta when it comes to sex and i think it's a beurre dangerous line to go down to suggest they do and i think it's shocking that three hundred children minimum are being given these puberty blocking drugs that means they must be on average nine or ten that's wrong peter it's totally wrong. well john for starters it's very clear that these puberty blocking drugs are not irreversible they are reversible you can only have irreversible gender reassignment surgery and other treatments once you are an adult so there is a proper protection there but you know what edinburgh university is doing. if they

have said people can change one for the next that is quite clearly absurd i agree with you but you know they can who are trying this way don't don't don't let me finish people who are trying and don't change from day to day they may some may feel they are trans and after a number of years they may decide they're not or vice versa but there's over a number of years not something day to day so i don't think we should trivialize i know you get you know you know i'm not trivializing a pretty you do know there's a massive move to people to be able to self identify and that some people who do change day by day or on trying to say is let's be reasonable if somebody feels they are you know being assigned the wrong gender they're in the wrong body i have enormous sympathy for them and of course we should care for them especially if they're very young of course we should but we shouldn't be kind of i don't really want to use this word but encouraging it which were edinburgh university is doing

and it's a massive difference between that and somebody who's homosexual or lesbian it's just a nonsense and i'm afraid a man who has his penis taken off is not a woman well i agree with jim ingrid if you haven't pled you're not a woman if i don't know how to play in and of order enjoy hearing i want to. move you've raised another interesting point about how society has moved on over the years do you not worry that in a few years time people of your age probably people even of my age as well that have these views maybe look back as people who are now homophobic all racists. his mower because. i say you know by that argument i say yeah i do i said the only minority although unfortunate for you young man it's a majority the only majority you recount be prejudiced against as just defined by your question which i found a bar until i found in so ten words that you are trying to say i am an old fart

that's what you're trying to say we have fancy words well no i disagree with you i think on the majority voice and i think you should apologize to everybody who's over fifty i don't know what age you are but how do you think you can be so age is what a disgusting thing to say you're not a normal why not be seen as homer thang i haven't finished you might be seen as homophobic say no i haven't got a homophobic bone in my body my friend all of those no problem with feminists or lesbians or homosexuals at all i've got a bit of a problem which runs but for you to characterize it as it's to do with my age you owe me an apology so obviously no offense was cause i'm a question if you heard me off towards or also said people of my age i'm around thirty five seeing as you also know what i meant he was thirty one when he was so id you q you said just it it was my age that's what you did and what you did i'm sure peter will agree with me that was a jest and you shouldn't do it you are wrong young man i knew you would say state i can't see you cause you known in

a remote studio but i presumed you were about thirty you know the same age as bill dogs and wouldn't dad have asked that question you owe me an apology. well i know you want me just to the apology given you are only given what what i wanted what i wanted what my point was is that people who as you said yourself you have a bit of a problem with trials that's a quote that you just said. one in the future people that do have some kind of social hershon is to be asked about trans people would they not be viewed by people of a younger generation as the people who pops ten fifteen twenty years ago would have been viewed as sort of phobic. yes let me tell you what's going on in our society with the growth of social media and of course the absolute desire by these new media oligarchy to silence any voices of the decent silent majority the right in politics not the far right the right this is going on but let me tell you young man just for a moment.