two a u.s. french and british cruise missile barash against syria. these time what with the military build up stakes and reask 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 what's the deal is that there is many is two million civilians in need living trapped between the hardest and the syrian army if talks

fall through with chemical weapons are used if this battle drags on civilian casualties will soar 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 of very fierce confrontation between john. on one side and its allies and syrian army and its allies on the other side we don't know we hope that it goes as it went in other areas like most recently in die in southern syria where faction leaders understand that this is a force that they cannot. compete with or fight effectively and they see if their 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 and to normality basically as soon as

possible and we understand that many of them. are hoping to achieve such a feat. with the decisive battle looming civilians are fleeing the area through humanitarian corridor was set up by the syrian government and russia. and i also know that much of it came in attempts were holding us as hostages but it was cold in our counting minds who are intensely wholesome some of this humanitarian courage to is our salvation army. and again i am from if the conditions were dire there the militants don't let anyone go we escaped with just the clothes on our backs. the palestine

solidarity activist from norway claims israeli soldiers have shot her twice with rubber bullets in just one week she caught one of the incidents on comer. dangerous. dangerous if you point us. you were asked by an elderly man if he could accompany him to get his car back that israel is taken as an economic shield so they had it in front of them there is nothing happening at the moment so we decided to go with him and leave approaching the idea meehan and with our hands in the air and the post and he walked a little bit faster than i am so he reached down and we held back and i think you can see very clearly from the show that i got my hands near. no one around me when

they shot me. absolutely sure they shot me on purpose another person from crawford quadroon he was hit and i had not so long ago and he lost sight in one eye and news also unable to close his jaw i've been to the protests five four or five on four or five previous occasions so i knew they would be firing rubber coated steel bullets and sequence which they had before but always stayed to the side or at the back of the demonstrations on there as an observer to to witness what is happening. but of course there is a risk when attending anything that's where the i.d.f. is question fast claimed she was first hit in the stomach even though she had her hands raised and later in the same week hit on the ankle while rubber coated steel bullets are seen as non-lethal the injuries they inflict can be severe particularly

when fired at close range the forty three year old and to vest has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims to land which they argue is occupied by israel. well the israeli army told r.t. a force that had been standing among the rioters at the time had been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate force herself says palestinians are being subjected to continual violence as it is nearly a hundred people have been shot with live ammunition over the years. hundreds have been shot by these bullets that i was shot would have been tear gas that had skunk water into their houses but they're not getting any attention we are here to witness what is happening and share it with a rolled and hopefully someone someone real you know you put some attention on them . ten steps you know for a round about increasing the retirement age in russia with our story and more after

this short break. thank you you thank. you know world big partisan looting lives and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. with nor make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the

ruling classes to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round certainly the one percent. thinking or middle of the room. doing. real news. welcome back the u.k.'s women's minister victoria atkins has been criticised by ride side service after expressing concern over the rising number of children now wishing to change the gender i read in the paper recently there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying as such and i think we need to get down to the reasons why this is happening it may simply be

a case of greater awareness it may be that they see it is an answer to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. more transgender issues are increasingly being raised in the u.k. with an initiative being launched to recognize the community's rights one recent example is a university where new students are being encouraged to wear badges with the words he she or they indicating how they want to be referred to the campaign is being run by the university's students' union as a part of an effort to avoid so-called missed gendering however it say is that students should not use the term preferred pronouns for sizing it's not a preference but in the thirty we debated the issue with activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john gaunt. and 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 too it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to other people so i don't i agree with that 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 generally to the suicide it's asked when they realize they've made a dreadful mistake which is why the woman 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 and it's wrong 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 why 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 think that's 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 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 to 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 are man tomorrow arm a boy the next fridge freezer so there but i don't have to fainter 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 a very small minority they are attacking my freedom of speech my freedom of expression trans people are reality they have existed since time immemorial who are

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 is being 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. now suddenly appear to has intervened in a row in russia increasing the retirement age saying the change should be the same for both men and women are things done of has the details. 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 retirement age for both men and women now the russian president has laid out his vision of. the draft bill proposes raising the retirement age for women eighty 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 propose 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 valued for the arguably the most unpopular reform of the past couple of decades and so many people here view it as a bit of a political gamble for vladimir putin. well they would i'd say we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following guys on social media and leave your comments that we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the

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i magine are times when you're watching going underground while we're away we're screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up on this show we speak to grammy award winning artist jimmy cliff about wars funded by colonialism from vietnam to afghanistan as well as bob marley in a welding factory and the hostile environment that began long before to raise them a good mexico be the next venezuela we speak to founder and chairman of the mexican chamber of commerce of great britain eve i owed it to lee about what president elect andres manuel lopez obrador means for the world plus his brics it's no

surprise given the e.u. policy on the jailing of democratically elected politicians on the day a new spanish pm peder sanchez meets his catalonian counterpart we get the take of a spanish m.e.p. on the european parliament committee on foreign affairs jordi so that all this more coming up at today's going underground but first on this day in one nine hundred sixty two singer bob dylan recorded the song that would make him a star blowin in the wind he introduced it by saying it was no protest song later though he said that the greatest protest song ever written was by someone we speak to today we caught up with the grammy award winning artist and film star known for you can get it if you really want toddler they come many rivers to cross i can see clearly now and countless others jimmy cliff speaks to us at a hotel in west london jimmy are touring across europe across the world the big talk here across the world obviously trumps america but here is to the injustice of

the war there is migration and that the moment the european union is cutting down on migrants what is behind this all refugees something i know you've heard something not actually about this kind of migration oh yeah but refugees was triggered by the migration situation. that was going on in you know some of the places a call you know naked across seeing coming and italy come from libya come over and so that touch me and. you know as i'm touched by it i expressed it refugee situation has been going on for quite a while so why i mention. jesus christ went to egypt for refuge is because the fundamental christianity. and all

the more to stick religions for that matter your government is well yeah i'm honored to seclusion you know that came out of abraham is if they all in their holy books they write about. egypt as a bad place and yet they are to go there if i heard that. one ghetto in london is a bad place in my son or daughter is in a bad way i'm not going to send my son daughter there but if it's a good place and my son or daughter needs refuge i send them there so it contradicts what they're saying about egypt being a bad place absolutely not wasn't well the scandal where the prime minister caused a scandal living here even though is the windrush scandal about the deportation of

men women and children of africa are being descent who came in the in the forty's fifty's to build the health service and so on it came as a shock to the elites in the society that something like that could happen and they have they lost many of the children in the system there with you heard about the windrush scandal yet there while the majority of the people are. void of the knowledge of what went on in those days before and they came no one teaches children about it is not something that is inconclusive in the school system and all of that so if one wants to know about social justice for real one has to do some research and so you know that is not. right just right what was it like when you first visited britain from two regular

they wanted to send them back where you would be are we talking about when you first came to london nineteen sixty five sixty five yeah they wanted to send back because. you know the red tape situation passport and you don't have that and you do that and so. fortunately or unfortunately the record company that invited me there were there and you know they can pull strings so. talk all of that one guy's my friend and they're gone you know that's only system or and so they could call up somebody and say hey this person is all right he's coming here but when i came out i wanted to go back and replay it. too far be too cold in this was what do you care so i look around. my walls son did you make of this

what i come for you i want to go back however i stayed in. among hundred things i again a wealth of knowledge used to see that there's a story that you helped discover boboli and you're in a welding shop in your acre let's clarify that story is a true straight let's make it straight i don't discover them in a welding shop they were both working in a welding shop together and guess what they could came to me and i auditioned him and. he got to some recorded so you'd hear for went back to bob where they used to work and some together and. bob bob said this and together and. told bob and bob came down and i auditioned them and he got his first songs

recorded just the same you know so i didn't discovered i just was the man. no one's heard of bobo you know it isn't right but anyway today there was like welcome x. milk a jug of a big labor their fame was in the twenty first century did you get to meet. strangers thing is. when i went to new york. the they must come and cause won't speak i was on my way to the border. and heard it don't work oh he's gone so. that's it they were you interested in the in that in the bad store rights over the good well as a as it seemed there in history books well you knew the king he's ok and before the veil of speech and welcome to. interest one i don't know you know the

media. artist obvious when promote who they want to promote but when you look at that goes to. freedom fighters they pass for kind of different you know malcolm was blunt. just get to the point and maybe seek a violence in him you know fight fire with fire maybe he's sick of that was in him after we left the black muslim movement because he wasn't like that when he was in the black muslim movement martin being a fundamentalist religious man he went about it in a different way so. how come i could identify with a lot because even though the experience in the united states in the city is so

different doggedly from jamaica here mark i'm a street that i grew up on the street in the new rough life of the street. martin was not like that street man but he was eloquent and he did speak truth as well and this is his cause for justice too but he went about it different when it comes to the our politics it's a more of these music and in your was people some critics saying more his music is more explicitly revolutionary your song was used by a former british prime minister. appointed our present prime minister in the oval office what did you make of david cameron using. you can go if you really want and this is our prime minister who created the conditions for brics it actually leaving european union. to cameron.

touched over sensitive spot in me. when he came to america. and we were talking about. reparation and he said oh that's a long time ago i don't. know what. the jews did not say that so long time ago they never made the world forget what happened to them who why shouldn't we be paid for repairs and. you said you free slaves. freedom with what what what you got to live on but not a penny so where is the repairs so when mr cameron said that it really touched me deeply in fairness to the authorities in fact there's a moment ok so again you're going through the government says they lose quite

a few of the papers. that don't slaves the assets taken from the caribbean and so on you think that is a live issue this reparations issue of reparations time saluting. it's justice you know it's right it should be here looked at should be done you know justice is justice is like the law of my heart the last poets came on our show and they're still protesting injustice talking about these kinds of issues where where was your education in all this but had to deal with injustice not just the jamaica colonial jamaica but around the world with where did you. read all this marcus having from my ira the beginnings that i can remember my father he even though a religious man was

a very just man he would never allow any kind of wrongdoing to sleep by on the resign on his watch i mean we can let him be you to you were wrong doing on such a big scale with some of you saying no but you see when a small seed is planted in one. if that was already inside the few grow it grows you have a day you don't have it so i already have this. descents ability inside of me about just just i already agree that was in me it's a part of me it's a part of my being part of my d.n.a. . thank you thank you and i say let's up. the t.v. after the break should the united states fear the new president of mexico we ask the founder of the mexican chamber of commerce in great britain what he thinks

president elect alberto means for the future of america and the european parliament's foreign affairs committee is jordi solely on how long you nations will jail that democratically elected politicians all of them all coming up invited to him going underground. you're. not going to let him have done all that and. not know that the. head of the movement of the money that they wouldn't let actually. this was a good time to. try to move. my.