but of course there is a risk when attending anything that's where the i.d.f. is kristen foster claims she was first hit in the stomach while standing with her hands raised and later in the same week while leaning against a wall shot in the ankle while robust coated steel bullets are seen as non-lethal the injuries they inflict can be severe particularly when feyerick close range the forty three year old norwegian activist has been supporting palestinian protesters in what they describe as occupation of their land by israel israeli army told r.t. that foss had been standing amongst the rioters at the time who had been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate fatah selves as the palestinians are being subjected to continually to violence scenes nearly one hundred people have been short ribs i mean issue over the years. hundreds have been shot by these bullets that i was shot with. skunk water into their houses but they're not getting

any attention. to what is happening and share it with a rolled and hopefully some more someone real you know you get some attention on them. u.k.'s women for minister victoria atkins has been criticized by eligibility activists after expressing concern over the rising number of children now wishing to change their gender i read in the paper recently there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying a search and i think we need to get down to the reasons why this is happening it may simply be a case of greater awareness in may be that they see it as an answer to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. well transgender issues are increasingly being raised in the u.k. with initiatives being launched to recognise the community's rights one recent example is at scotland's edinburgh university where new students excuse me new

students are being encouraged to wear badges with the words he she all they indicating how they want to be referred to the campaign is being run by the university's students' union as part of an effort to avoid so-called missed gendering however its students should not use the term preferred pronouns emphasising it's not a preference but a necessity we debated the issue with l g b t activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host jungleland. trans people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about gender reassignment career without very very serious long protracted thought and it is often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home 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 but 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 i agree with that but part of same token they should respect our rights to have a different view and when you talk about this this is always brought there than about trans and serious sides it isn't because they're struggling with the fact they think they're in the wrong body that leads and generally to the suicide it's aster when they realize they've made a dreadful mistake which is why the woman's minister or 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 blocking drugs are being handed out like smarties they don't know their own mind i agree with you peter it must be agonizing to needs time ministry 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 happening peter truong 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 but we shouldn't be kind of i don't really want to use this word but encouraging it which is what our edinburgh university is doing well no one is encouraging them and nor should anyone encourage them this is a call that's coming from the young people themselves whatever university is doing . if they have said people can change once one day to the next that's quite clearly absurd but you know 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 see it as a terrible thing i think it's just a common human decency to be current i know that perfectly reasonable have made this decision what's not reasonable and how down the minute you are universities

are trying to tell lecturers it's happened at the university of toronto of course famously with jordan peterson where they told him he had should not use things like hello ladies and gentlemen hello boys and girls they had to fit into these new pronouns if they want to say today i'm a man tomorrow am a boy the next my fridge freezer so they have but i don't have to say enter i don't want to get into a situation where i have to change pronouns i have to change the english language for a minority of very small minority they are attacking my freedom of speech my freedom of expression trans people are reality they have existed since time in world war throughout history i think the fact that there are more people coming forward is because there is greater social understanding and acceptance the stigma and guilt is fading away that issue has been discussed more openly and that is why more people are coming forward and of violence trans but it's still a tiny tiny minority

a minority that is no threat to anyone and i think we should live and let live and except that people who are different for whatever reason including because their gender identity that they have a place in the human family. the russian president vladimir putin has intervened in a round whether hiking they were time and age in the country a story and more after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guess of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.

with more make manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room. hello welcome back the russian president vladimir putin has intervened in a round with a high king there were time and age in the country saying it should be increased by

the same number of years for both men and women. of hospital. well this reform has become a very divisive and controversial topic sparking a lot of concern i mean after all it's a very very sensitive subject literally for every single russian citizen so what happened for those of you who weren't following a couple of months ago the russian government put forward a proposal that suggested a hike in the retirement age for both men and women now the russian president has laid out his vision because the draft bill proposes raising the retirement age for women by eight years to sixty three and for men by five years this is not right we care for women in russia the retirement age for women shouldn't be raised more than for men that's why i proposed raising it only by five years now the russian president also suggested that the rights of those who are approaching the retirement age should be protected by law for example companies who fire people approaching their retirement age or who refuse to hire those who they see as too

auld for the job world those companies should face administrative or even criminal charges according to vladimir putin in general though the russian president defended the reform and he's doing so because he's saying that well if things aren't change then for the next ten years or so things will be perfectly fine but then the pension system of russia would just collapse according to the latymer putin the reason for that is the horrible the massive demographic gap that russia suffered back in the ninety's and so this is why these ten years are important in that time in a decade time basically it is fear that there won't be enough tax money from working people to pay out pensions to everyone who will have retired by then and let alone index of those pensions to compensate for inflation and now these are the main outtakes from vladimir putin's half an hour long speech and another interesting thing about it is that world the russian president has effectively

validated for the arguably the most unpopular reform of the past couple of. and so many people here view it as a bit of a political gamble for vladimir putin. at least five people have been killed and thirty three wounded in libya and made fresh clashes between rival groups local militias and al conny tribal fighters faced off in the streets of tripoli with tanks and pickup trucks with mounted machine guns several residential areas were hit by artillery fire and selling the clashes in groups to the un backed government but on course it has more on the situation in the country. if you've been following the headlines about libya you've probably heard a lot about post-war problems migrants human traffickers the french presidents attempts to restore order there except the war never really ended.

in just two days of violent clashes in libya's capital tripoli the health ministry confirmed five and thirty three injuries but that's just another bloody footnote in a country plagued by the instability of a post nato bombing regime well this time not quite two warring factions the so-called seventh brigade and another group of hostile local militias they began throwing serious firepower at each other on sunday in areas densely populated by civilians and the kicker they both support the current u.n. backed interim libyan government which for its part simply tried to distance itself from the whole mess we were in these gangs and groups that have terrorized civilians and residents there is no space for such lawlessness and chaos despite a shaky cease fire brokered on monday the situation is still on doubted lee tense but it's hard to imagine how anyone in any country divided between so many

political lines could hope for peace first of all three. three rival governments all claim control over the country there's the un backed presidential council the rival government of national salvation and the so-called tobruk government let's not forget the various tribes and militias in libya which are always looking for a power grab and the icing on the cake is isolate still remains a significant force in the country just last week they attacked a military checkpoint killing at least four people with such lawlessness and lack of any power capable of reigning in the violence pockets of fighting have been bubbling up over across libya this for example is the town of sabah it's essentially been reduced to rubble and although the cease fire there has been in effect for over two months already people haven't forgotten the violence i swear to introduce of the war it was a time of terror shells and. one show my house and my family's now displaced

in the end this is the outcome before you it is the view that speaks not me the houses are old destroyed no water no electricity some electricity and water has been restored. and life will settle slowly it wasn't too long ago back during the libyan revolution when we heard western leaders using those same old promises of spreading freedom and democracy. you would get rid of it and you would choose freedom. thank god. supporting the people of libya build a future that is free and democratic and prosperous. seven years on from the west's empty promises and tripoli continues to awake amidst

explosions for more than just one reason sometimes it's fighting and sometimes it's even fishermen using dynamite my wife and i enjoy the peace and quiet friday mornings by the sea but the explosions as early as seven am remind us of all that is wrong in this country. but it shouldn't be much of a surprise especially in a country absolutely saturated by weapons my whole house and my old windows shake with every blast and i have to reassure my grandchildren that it's only people fishing not nato bombs all over again and if you have something you'd like to say would love to hear it so i do get in touch by following those on social media and leaving all your comments that were back at the top of the al the latest headlines for you that.

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other from which party when i don't know the mother blow that it. this is bone boss broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part shelton and thank you for joining us coming up today we look at the market reaction to the trade news from yesterday both stocks and commodities and we consider if u.s. markets are topping off and a rebalancing might be in order where would it investors move their money now you must warm up think markets joins us from london to discuss and ride hailing companies are in the news as d.d. and make major moves that could impact their future parties alex what pilotage ways

and from toronto plus u.s. regulators are getting rather rough. in a good way on bad actors in the cryptocurrency face gary to wall the special counsel of chattanooga's rosen and will be with us for the latest on that and more and with sports betting now legal as a result of the may decision by the u.s. supreme court we'll get an update on how the business is flourishing and how one gaming company is making it easier than ever for folks to place their bets r t sports correspondent keep the stock antes up the deals the details lots to get to let's go market reactions to the attempted rewrite of the north american free trade are in the headlines today as nest deck sets a new record nasdaq the text of the tech heavy stock index broke eight thousand that level yesterday powered by familiar names such as netflix and google that have had a very good twenty eight team on the stock front and the dow jones industrial average

hit twenty six thousand yesterday that's a first time since february more broadly markets seem to react favorably to yesterday's announcement on a potential bilateral u.s. mexico trade agreement that u.s. president donald trump suggested would replace nafta treasury secretary steve i'm a new ssion hailed the bilateral agreement earlier today. this is very important for this deal is to sit down for those six of our intellectual property it's about market access it's about financial services it's about currency there there are there are many many ways that this deal helps american workers and american consumers and it's very important to remember one thing they'll be more trade going on as a result of this deal. and while on a conference call with mr trump yesterday the mexican president suggested can a stay in the nafta renegotiating writing process mr trump largely ignored questions from reporters offering only sort of a we will see response to that then canadian foreign minister chrystia freeland is

in washington today for talks on including canada in the nafta rewrite while mr trump is position the u.s. to leave canada out relevant congressional committee chairs insist that mr trump is not legally authorized under this so-called trade promotion authority or t.p.a. to negotiate an agreement that excludes canada will talk more about this tomorrow. and for the second time in as many weeks the german foreign minister heikal moscow has called for the european union to move away from the so-called swift system of international financial payments swift is an acronym for the society for worldwide financial telecommunications the system has been used over the years to guard against money laundering and particularly to guard against terrorist group financial transactions more than eleven thousand financial institutions and roughly two hundred ations used within a message is said every single second of every day the concern of a joint german foreign minister is that the united states might be able to dictate

which nations can use with that particularly keen now as the us is set to reimpose economic sanctions on iran which were lifted in two thousand and fifteen beginning on november fourth of this year other nations like china russia and those in the e.u. which continue to support the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran which seeks to quell iran's nuclear ambitions what to ensure that the u.s. can't simply ban financial transactions with iranian entities and those outside doing business with iranian companies some companies as we've reported like the french energy company tow tile and the car maker peugeot are among an among others have already ceased doing business with iran for fear of having u.s. retaliatory measures play. upon them and while the foreign ministers call for european unity has been echoed by german chancellor angela merkel she has been cautious about endorsing a move away from swift and said quote we know that a swift agreement is extremely important especially on questions of terrorism

financing that said new reports out today indicate the european commission is moving forward on proposals with an s. for an alternative payment system to swift. for more on this and global markets a little london where we are joined by naive us law and the chief market analyst at think markets name thanks for being back with us what do you make of the german foreign minister heiko mask reiterating he did so last week in an op ed now he did to the german ambassador isn't his call to move the e.u. away from these twist international payment system in an effort to be less tied to i guess the united states which some see is having inordinate influence upon swift i'm not really sure about how that we have so much influence given there's only two of the twenty five board members but be that as it may he's concerned about it what are your thoughts. thanks for having me but there is nothing new bosses make it it's no way to say obama administration is playing the games in the white house i

think everyone is very much concerned and that the u.s. has a position where it can dictate that currencies can be just literally driven to the ground through speculations and interest rates and everything else in the sense sanctions can drive that countries to the grave so i think the evolution of blocks in technology it was already on the horizon has. coined the new payment technology and recall in so many other so i do think that the countries like europe and especially germany in which it doesn't hold any any longer good relationship with the u.s. this is really want to move away from this system which is dominated by the u.s. but yes you said that's only two of them but it's the it's the position in which the old. system most and i think now we are enjoying an era no one wants to rely on a technology which is controlled by one company want to do it will one country it's all about decent of eisner yeah i totally get you you know the effort to move away

considering what the u.s. president old trumpet has done and what he says he certainly seems to want to be more isolationist but boy that's a big order for the european commission to come up with a new program i mean there are eleven thousand banks there doing like a message a second on this thing so perhaps you're right name that maybe going to crypto based system is in the in the future and i note the angela merkel agreed that the with with unity of the e.u. but still has some caution with regard to developing the new program let's move to markets which in the u.s. have been buoyed over the last twenty four hours related to some positive trade news about the u.s. and mexico potential trade deal but how are other global markets doing. one key word that i really like that she uses a potential. i think that's the key in that agreement right because the market is

getting it a bit ahead of sell thinking that yes it is a done deal which certainly it isn't and that that is something that the traders should be paying attention to but i think the spillover effect of this trade agreement should call the u.s. and mexico trade agreement because trump instruction doesn't want to call that nafta anymore has a positive impact on the global markets over in europe we have seen the markets moving higher and the move isn't particularly driven by one sector and its overall and it's a combination of all sectors which is driving the market higher base in all essence is a really good because this is after all the biggest longest rule that you have a seat you know some say name that particularly those that are heavy u.s. stocks and even commodities that time now to rebalance at least to consider rebalancing that maybe the u.s. markets are either topped out or about to top out one what are your thoughts about

that and if they haven't people should diversify or rebalance where should they be go and where would you suggest yeah that's it that's really an accident questions memo or to answer that question if if the markets are talked out in the us well i think there's still a little bit more room left to be yes we are coming towards the end of this bull run any but those investors who are king to have a higher risk in a high growth and a higher appetite for their profit i think they should be looking at countries where they geo political landscape is about to change because of the change in the politics and can change in the political arena so could you just malaysia town where there have been recent elections i mean these markets do represent a huge potential and then some of these countries like pakistan become the part of the much in my. it's it's a great deal for or even most is. guys think gold is one that.

drew to me stands out because it is very much depressed because of the domination of the pressure that would be seen from the dollar index and it has you're going to gold. but now get broken. but i think where the geopolitical and tendency is in essence should going to gold at the same time as well to some sort of a hedge and put for you makes a lot of sense to me and there may be at all some gold kryptos out there in the future we always get stimulating and thought provoking information from you that's the chief market analyst at think markets name islam banks name. and famous investor warren buffett's company berkshire hathaway is making their latest market shifting investment in india the financial times quotes a knowledgeable sources saying that the previously tech shy buffett's company is betting on india's largest mobile payment payments platform pay t.m. by investing between two hundred eighty five and three hundred fifty million

dollars and pay to parent company one ninety seven communications and taking a stake of three to four percent in the parent corporation pay t.m. says it has three hundred million users in india with four billion dollars in value of monthly transactions on the platform of berkshire hathaway now joins big names including ali baba and softbank as investors in paid parent many market watchers quoted in the reports of caution that while this is a first for berkshire mr buffett is not personally involved in the deal and may not this may not set a new precedent or policy for mr buffett with regard to technology. there are some mega moves in the right hailing space as d.d. the chinese company has suspended its sole. called it should be carpooling service that after a brutal assault no murder of a female passenger this follows another murder of a writer in may the company released a statement which read quote as a platform d.d.

failed to live up to trust and of the public and has inherent responsibility and hoover is taking the long way home to profits have it focuses not on cars or rescue vs but makes moves toward more urban friendly transport lots to get up to speed to on the right hailing space let's get with alex my hyla but she's always savvy and sophisticated on these things alex that this suspension of the car pooling service the hitch is a big blow to d.d. isn't it. well of course look at do you know many of us haven't even heard of d.d. out there i'm sure and d.c. is the world's largest car company when it comes to car hailing i should say or write a hailing company out there both by valuation and the number of riders that use this so when news like this gets out of this level of negativity it's a horrible thing for the company so they have to take a major step back and take a good look in the mirror at what they're doing and how they're going to move

forward now after this latest a sultana let's let's be frank it was a rape in a murder and this this is what happened to a driver there was actually a complaint about this driver the day before that came in to d.d. and the person at the customer service person did not react accordingly to d.d.'s methods of reacting to something like that within two hours so there didi basically took the hit here and that this is something that people have been talking about online as well as the fact that they've been talking about it. from the chinese government we've heard many complaints as well so any way that you turn this not a good thing for d.d. now look they've been taking this very seriously here's a statement from them this is from the the founder and the president herself two different peoples i should say we thought we were using technology to build a better world of mobility six years ago when we started this business the tragedy reminded us we have.