thing but the reality is that this migration crisis continues to cause a huge rift in europe and it looks like it's once again going to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to those elections just in eight months time the question is which side is going to win out. the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in syria the northern province of it live is surrounded by army forces but decisive battle looming the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned that the u.s. faming a prefers regime change rather than ridding the area of terrorists. that it wants now when the us is stirring the situation around it lib we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the west france and great britain destroy them last year. we have the impression that us threats against damascus are aimed at preventing terrorists from being expelled their. social

learning the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nusra that. we believe these egotistical unilateral political games to a counterproductive we believe all the conflict should be solved multilaterally with open contacts between the countries including regional countries such as tensions mount in its lips the russian center of the syrian reconciliation says it's received intelligence on the delivery of toxic substances to the province it claims the material has been brought in with the help of the white helmets rescue group for use in a false flag attack russia has previously warned militants are preparing to stage a chemical attack artie's more aghast yet has more on the potential escalation of the situation in libya. the stage is set for a final and it looks like a bloody battle the battle for aid lib tens of thousands of islamists rebels

from all over syria and the world against the syrian army and its allies no wonder then that the stakes here are like never before i q stations provocation and chemical scandal it's not an even fight the syrian army is stronger which means jihad ists need all the help they can get from abroad. following the alleged goot a chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will try to stage as similar incident in he'd like to draw the u.s.

france and britain in depth and to hit a sad again russia says an incident is imminent especially after the u.s. and allies jointly stated that they would act if it looks like as had launched another chemical attack that's almost an invitation to do so says moscow it would suggest that now when the u.s. is steering the situation around we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the u.s. france and great britain destroyed them last year you know what the u.s. answer is we never said that from states that chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra they're counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or die for the jihad ists rebels nowhere left to run nothing left to lose and their spot. says the west the gulf which have pumped billions upon billions of dollars into

a cause that's on its last legs damascus and moscow are trying to work out a deal to reduce perhaps avoid the bloodshed but the job just aren't up for it syria russia adamant this swamp of terror and zealotry has no future. group which or this is the last place for the terrorists so from all points of view this abscess should be removed of course what everybody is fearful of is escalation given the us russian military buildup in the region everyone has a gun pointed at each other and given that this is it the final act of the syrian war the urge to shoot might just be overwhelming with a decisive battle looming civilians are fleeing the area through a humanitarian corridor or set up by the syrian government and russia.

the i. and i as an image of the game in a tense were holding us as hostages it was cold in our counting minds who are intensely hans and some of this humanitarian courage will is our salvation army. am. i the game 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. a palestine solidarity activist from norway claims that israeli soldiers have shot her twice with rubber bullets in just one week she called one of the incidents on comer.

if you point to actually. you were asked by an elderly palestinian man if we could accompany him to get his car back that the israelis had taken as an economic shield so they had it in front of them there's nothing happening at the moment so we decided to go with them and leave or approaching the i.d.f. mian and then with our hands in the air and the postilion man he walked a little bit faster nuff so he reached down and we held back and i think you can see very clearly from the shouted that i got my hands near filming and there's no one around me when they shot me i am 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 tear gas 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. kristen foss claims that she was first hit in the stomach even though she had her hands raised and later in the same week hit in 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 activist has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims to land which they argue is occupied by israel the israeli army told r.t.

foss had been standing among the rioters at the time who had been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate force herself says palestinians are being subjected to continual violence means nearly one hundred people have been short ribs in live ammunition over the years. hundreds have been shot by these bullets that i was shot with 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 the rolled and hopefully some more someone will you know get some attention on. the rising number of children wishing to change gender is his in the headlines in the u.k. growing this story after the show by.

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welcome back the u.k. as a women's minister victoria atkins has been criticized by rights activists also expressing concern over the rising number of children now wishing to change their agenda i read in the paper recently there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying a 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 as a nonsense to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. transgender issues are increasingly being raised in the u.k. with initiatives being launched to recognise the community's rights one recent example is edinburgh 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 mis gendering however it says students should not use the term preferred pronouns and for sizing it's not a preference but and necessity we debated the issue with activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john galt. 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 indeed 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 generally to the serious side 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 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 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 was quite clearly absurd but you know what if the purpose of these badges is just to raise awareness 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 become too 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 happened at 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 have to fit into these new pronouns if they want to say today i'm a man tomorrow am a boy the next fridge freezer so that but i don't have to say enter i don't want to get into a situation well 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 our reality their existence since time in 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 the issue has been discussed more openly and that is why more people are coming forward an agenda 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. but if you have something you'd like to say on the matter which i love to hear if they do get in touch by following guys on social media and leaving all your comments that they were the latest the top of the hour my colleague daniel hawking. when the makers manufacture consent to step up to the public well. when the woman closest to protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent so.

we can all middle of the room sick. the real news is. that outlets are going to let out the other hand on our budget that not out of the lot of them out of the day of the night that actually. this was a good time to. try to move their i'm a mom. not up out loud get out my little body not why not. why it generated the whole people who believe this other obedient.

little of my kids i don't want them up aside johnny boy are they of the moment of total motherhood you a little accuser is it a little i'm a little white community will do a little of the things i don't want to put out a lot of the most cardioid i know them of the brotherhood. ratings and sell you take a shit. let's start to day hawk watchers in yemen the tragic war torn land that many in the u.s. news media of chosen to ignore or pretend doesn't exist despite the massive amounts of u.s. military assistance in arms that help devastate that country you see the united states has been supplying logistics intelligence and arms to the saudi arabian led coalition forces since their intervention against the who the rebels inside yemen

began back in two thousand and fifteen this support went virtually unchecked or unnoticed by mainstream western news media and political figures until. mid august when a coalition air strike targeted a bus carrying forty innocent yemeni children on the school field trip using a lockheed martin made u.s. supplied missile and when confronted about the airstrike the saudis initially declare of the school bus was a legitimate military target. in response to u.s. senator chris murphy a democrat out of connecticut tweeted out we just bombed a school bus we need to end this now and then a rare instance of a senator or a u.s. senator putting his bill where his tweets are murky actually sponsored an amendment to the latest defense appropriation bill that would have put key restrictions on u.s. financial and other support for the saudi led bombing campaign would have being the

key to words here because despite the massive amounts of casualties and devastation our bombs and logistics and caused including the forty dead children that didn't stop u.s. senators led by senator richard shelby of alabama respectively killing senator murphy's amendment. and as if to pour salt on these wounds of political cowardice and warmongering by senator shelby and his fellow fellow congressman less than twenty four hours after stopping murphy's bill dead another twenty six children were killed in an air strike in yemen last weekend i think it's time to start watching the hawks. what would you look at the. real that would be the last paper to pull out of it. because of. what they like you know that i got. the please. please.

please. please. welcome aboard the watch for the dark side to robots and then capitalists show the latest another airstrike hits another another school of mass. kills more children and were we seriously have to really like even think about the fact that we should stop. early if you're the son of those early if your list so that's like well. it's tragic but we should we shouldn't abandon our allies in saudi arabia even though they're killing children even though they're killing how does children with our hardware and our logistics and our help and our gasoline and our gas station the central thing but we're not involved we're not there we're not

laying we're not actually doing anything it's totally different so let's go lay it out for the good people out there this second airstrikes that wasn't really a report about about your western media while no i guess there weren't enough images for you know anchors to cry over. so this one was twenty two yemeni children and four women were killed in another airstrike as we said it was on thursday of last week and this was what's really sad about this whole situation is that these children and these women in this bus were trying to flee the fighting and they were trying to get out of one district into somewhere where they could actually get some kind of cover and be safe so people were taken risking their lives to get these children out of a war zone and they were literally had by a missile that would u.s. tax dollars paid for you know. this is the second time like you said this is the second time in two weeks that this saudi led coalition i feel like they're

mercenaries at this point as a result in dozens and dozens and dozens of civilian lives and i think it's very hypocritical that when you're watching the mainstream media right now especially like the big three that these are the same people who cried over every picture out of syria as if it was the end of the world they've never seen and here's children have been starving to death and you don't notice till it's a school bus and it makes a good headline somehow yeah that does. disturber it's a good point about living this thing is how murphy's amendment what is so scary to them about you know taking a break so we know what's going on you know some of these you know basically came out and said it's mind blowing that this sort of decision you know to continue to be willing willingly participants in this no matter that they rejected it and destroyed as a member the sense of the moment would have cut off the united states' support for the saudi arabia led coalition's war in yemen until the secretary of defense

certify that the coalition's air campaign is not by a leading international law and us policy related to the protection of civilians the president say the member would have made us follow the rules that made it was sort of like double check and say hey are they actually following not only international rules but our own sort of rules when it comes to the you know the killing of civilians right going to rules for it by the way we have special rules for the killing we do we do we got to go to you know remind people not to kill innocent civilians but if they do they should do it in a certain way so it's nice and tidy right but what's interesting too and what doesn't get talked about a lot of this to my right is also the you know the oil issue in yemen that kind of gets lost in all of this is that just how valuable the oil was to your oil reserves are right well i mean the whole point of of. this is not because there's they're so somebody but he's afraid of terrorists are there some political thing an ideology this is about money and this is about getting hold of that port

which is very valuable and getting hold of the oil that is that is in yemen so both oil price dot com and al-jazeera reporting that saudi arabia is planning already planning to build. to build an oil port in yemen and sources from from al jazeera are reporting that saudi arabia is planning to build another all the oil poirot port in the country south east where saudi and u.a.e. . troops are already there they're saying that you know when you look at her you have and this is like four billion gallons of oil which is great saudi arabia becomes you know this magical tourist land and they just turn yemen into an oil way it's always comes back to was money and resources don't let them tell you otherwise every war is over money and resources. from the ongoing tragedy in yemen to the ongoing tragedy in syria but the reports that the syrian military is preparing to move on the last remaining terrorist and rebel strongholds

in the northwestern syrian city of this week so more of accusations develop between the u.s. and russian military officials over the potential for yet another chemical weapons attack and who would ultimately be responsible for it are teeth and cohen has the story. don't be distracted by ridiculous misinformation that's the advice from army colonel sean ryan the spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition to defeat isis 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 region in southern syria the article colonel ryan is warning against quotes the russian ministry of foreign affairs which claimed that militants loyal to be islam and the own nusra front have infiltrated the roup on refugee camp and that the u.s. is well aware of it what's unclear or perhaps distracting is which claim colonel

ryan is taking issue with that there are jihadist elements inside camp or that the united states government is aware of their presence required refugee camp is located in the region of south eastern syria where the u.s. led coalition maintains a presence despite objections by the syrian government is one of the largest refugee camps in syria hosting tens of thousands of refugees of colonel ryan is claiming or to use a lying about the presence of jihadist militants he might want to check with the united nations in july a un security council warned about possible islamic state attacks from inside group on campus. the refugees in ripon camp of been hit by four terrorist attacks three of which have been claimed by its law mixtape. if colonel ryan doesn't believe the united nations perhaps he believes the u.s. his own ally here's what general sami cough one of the jordan border guard forces had to say we. know that some people or isis people were in the inside of the

camp as i said they could have been for them. to create some sort of sims inside the. still maintains that the presence of islam and state fighters inside rick braun camp is a russian conspiracy theory promoted by the united nations and jordan perhaps n.b.c.'s reporting might convince them otherwise to say so the horrid least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilots who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the isis fighters these people fled from our inside its reporting in washington dan cohen our t.v. . wow over and over i've seen this happen since i've been here at r.t. and it's one thing i just there is so much talk right now about reporters being you know that the journalists are the enemy of the people and there's so much of that

going on and causing such division and here is someone literally going out there and saying that reporters on r.t. that we're all just a bunch of liars that we don't invest people literally risked their lives to cover this story in syria people you know are to reporters and people are out there working for you know these are people ended up on this kill list in order to do their job and i would like to see just once these people act like adults and stop doing that to reporters because that is exactly how trump and everybody else gets to sit there and say all the liberal media and all we all do agree that just feeds into it just makes it easier it's a great point it's one of those things it's like syria is a mess it's a it's been a mess since this war started there are. there's very. early can you can you point to one side say oh there's accurate reporting over here there's inaccurate reporting over here i mean that's a we're yes it's a confusing and messed up. the fact that like they're going to be like oh well

they're spreading this propaganda but you've got like you know all these other budgeted outlets you know saying well you know yes probably ices of marijuana that's why we'll fly over this and live in that area when you look at a map and you see all of this red space and this is all clear in the only place where there are rebels or terrorists are in this one area and it's where the u.s. says and you're like what are you doing there right when you can tell very much to buy food at the end of the day that you could really see that look we've been giving we've been pour the u.s. been pouring so much arms and support into that country and everybody that we've been giving millet guns to has been flipping sides and going you know one minute they're good guys the next minute they're bad guys one minute they're out of terrorist watch list the next minute they're not then they're back on again you know it's impossible to know who is good and who is bad in that side of that conflict well it seems like whenever you know it works for the mainstream media these major outlets since they get to control the whole narrative there and it's when it works for them yeah we see over and over. it was according to newsweek the

just to point this out another rugby available source according to newsweek both the twenty seventeen attack and khan seiko and the two thousand and thirteen attack and are considered unsolved unsolved in the eyes of the defense department and defense intelligence agency. and this is after secretary of defense james madison admitted the u.s. know it has no evidence that syrian government used aaron in the attacks and we have robert best as many reporters have been as and i think it's increased rapidly dishonest to continue to pretend as if they have facts and they have all the your sources and they don't give them to people it causes people their lies is that people that it is are those are going to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the problems with a couple of facebook and twitter as your poll shows r t v dot com coming up we talk buyouts with free speech and sports with watkins and discover a new way to communicate with.