the civil war in south sudan has claimed close to four hundred thousand lives according to a us state department funded report from the question where are the countries which initially supported africa's newest nation now also. is there a plan b. to questions about what does that have to do is read i don't mind answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the trade has to do with the other headline in the sexual assault allegations against donald trump supreme court nominee overshadow the announcement of a wide ranging trade deal with american made. the people's republic of. a prominent british politicians under fire for an insensitive quip about libya.

right in the streets all alone or as the rest of the region marks a year since an unsanctioned independence referendum rendered in place the brutal clown from madrid. good afternoon just turned three pm this chews day here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is r.t. international first in this damning new report suggests that the death toll from the civil war in south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand people multiple times more than the previously been thought the shocking figures are a long way away than from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence in twenty eleven the u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation then but how long did that help continue caleb maupin tries to answer the question. south sudan is the youngest

country in the world and according to a new report from the u.s. state department it's off to a pretty bleak start almost four hundred thousand people killed half of them killed in the conflict the other half dying of hunger and disease now previously prior to this report the estimates had only been in the tens of thousands but now it looks like the numbers of deaths in south sudan are approaching the number that have died in the conflict in syria pretty bleak but it wasn't always like this now in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was no south sudan sudan was one country and it was embroiled in the longest running civil war in the continent. however there were some perks at that point sadam had lots of oil to sell and china was pouring in investments and that is when the sanctions rolled in sudan was declared to be a state sponsor of terror bill clinton bombed

a factory in one thousand nine hundred eight that he said was making chemical weapons our forces also attacked a factory in sudan associated with. the factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons but actually the factory was just making medicine no evidence of chemical weapons has ever been produced now the usa pushed for south sudan's independence in two thousand and eleven the usa hailed south sudan for breaking away and becoming a new country we may only have to go in the republic of south sudan and to think you have sovereign nations but the euphoria did not last long it breaks my heart to see what south sudan has become today country fell into a civil war between rival clans the president turned against the vice president and mass killings and hunger ensued and all this killing was a headache for the united nations so with the new it now. stray shin now in the

white house the u.s. role in south sudan is being reassessed the united states government will not continue in a partnership with leaders who are only interested in perpetuating an endless war characterized by ethnically motivated atrocities the government of south sudan has lost credibility and the united states is losing patience yes south sudan is yet another example of the u.s. state department telling us that they're going to go rescue some or all press people on the other side of the planet and then they're left spending money to analyze results showing that the conditions overall are getting a lot worse to an extent the world seem to have forgotten about south sudan not too long ago it was the world that was running together to form this new nation then at the expense of northern sudan which was run by bashir and it would appear that petty politics between the chinese and the us in terms of the respective influences

on those countries meant that for now at least the world seems to have forgotten about the sudan crisis some saw forgotten about displacement of people women and children under spent of children across the nation and it is very much an impoverished states and i know of course we know that a lot of things do not work effectively in south sudan. for all intensive purposes the the west and the international community seems to of when the blind eye. donald trump has fulfilled one of his campaign promises a new trade deal between america canada or mexico but the announcement of a landmark agreement was overshadowed by social misconduct allegations against the u.s. president's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and it also added fuel to trump standard for the media to. truly historic news this will be a new dawn this landmark agreement that incredible new this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country

brett kavanaugh is there a plan b. i. can't get mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you know the f.b.i. investigation when there was a threat i don't mind answering the question but you know i'd like to do the trade has to do with the other headline of the news which is that you know what i know but how about talking about trade and then we'll get to that you have a question draggle you want to question thank you several times ok just to that that's not right it's not just somebody is before we don't do that you have a question and you answered several but you have a question on the shock that it picked. up in the state. i don't think that's something. you never do it was trumps the big day as he unveiled a new deal with canada and mexico that's supposed to replace nafta and if you remember he once called nafta the worst deal ever but terms replacement deal is apparently a historic transaction the deal which took over a year to negotiate is called the united states mexico canada agreement and it will

apparently solve all of the problems with nafta has and it will open markets to farmers and manufacturers and reduce trade barriers but during his campaign trump had promised to either renegotiate nafta or break it so this new deal fulfills that promise but at the press conference journalist weren't concerned about the deal they were really interested in the capital case and to remind the viewers cavanagh's a supreme court nominee who was accused of sexual harassment some have even said that trump's moment was stolen from him so an important development in economic policy was once again overshadowed by the latest liberal scandal of the moment and it doesn't look like it will stop anytime soon. germany's reportedly approved new arms exports to saudi arabia with almost three hundred million dollars the move comes despite strong criticism of the saudis for their participation in the yemeni conflict which resulted in foundations of civilian casualties there was a tease in the reports next there's no shortage of countries willing to send

weapons to rehab. innocent lives being taken away in yemen by saudi bombs you may get the impression it's a big deal for them we are concerned about the pooling humanitarian situation in yemen i'm the risk of home to civilian populations this is the worst humanitarian crisis that is. a humanitarian disaster this cannot become a forgotten crisis speaking of deals guess who saudi arabia and its coalition friends get their war machines from. these are called le clerc tanks made to joint day by france and germany here they are in a yemeni desert. if

it hadn't been for an m.r.i. the mogul who once served as a middleman between paris and abu dhabi we might have never learned about the nuts and bolts of the tank purchase but the guy didn't get his commission fee for his job as a broker he went on to sue the french eventually we keenly spilled the beans on the trial and the contract numbers the contract with the government of the u.a.e. was concluded on sixth of april one thousand nine hundred ninety three for the delivery of three hundred eighty eight combat tanks leclaire forty six tank recovery armored vehicles two training tanks spare parts ammunition and various other deliveries at a price of three billion six hundred thirteen million four hundred sixty seven thousand two hundred twenty three dollars over three and a half billion bucks worth of tanks one of the coalition's many tools to reduce yemen to rubble of course the saudis see it as

a fight against terrorism. up next missiles. i'll show you another contract the money has already been paid although delivery is still pending saudi arabia is getting four hundred u.s. made laser guided missiles from spain they cost riyad nine point two million euros that's pennies compared to the tanks i told you about earlier but the newly elected spanish government was having second thoughts about the deal eventually though they all vanished knowing which in one thousand we found no reason to fill a commitment we've made a decision that we have to honor this contract so you can this brings us to one of

the biggest arm deals in the history of canada. auto was been wary of what's going on with human rights in saudi arabia however change of government in ottawa doesn't. lead to the cancellation of contracts previously signed but moving forward we are committed to the kind of openness transparency and rigor or the number of zeroes on the twelve billion dollar paycheck is just way too tempting so hundreds of canadian made armored vehicles will be heading to the middle east next stop you hear politicians get emotional over innocent victims in yemen picture a massive dollar sign and your head there are the issues of. arms manufacturers and of course lawyers of the united states something like sixty to

seventy percent of the arms in. sorry. but i have english the french german. you know huge and. historic. soul. that's never going to economic interest the current leadership of saudi arabia feels empowered enable. us. anytime on monday saudi arabia admitted it had made mistakes in its attacks in yemen which had left more than ten thousand civilians dead that statement drew criticism from the un then which stated that there's no evidence that anyone was sanctioned over those so-called errors the bodies also describe the situation in yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty million people in need of aid.

leaves an endless source of nutrition at times when the wrong program lacks food for us to leave a woman for the. night one of my children suffers from a natural deficiency and doctors ted that either has a kidney infection my dad because of this and because of the lack of ate and clean water. we receive between ten to twenty cases of meat to severe malnutrition on a daily basis especially among children from displaced families from iran many children suffer from severe acute malnutrition due to destitution and poverty in which displaced families live.

the problem of british politicians under fire for a joking reference to libya jacob reese morg called the african state the people's republic of germany or something as he put it the conservative party conference. this is quite a bizarre comment to be heard from a well known politician referencing another nation this was a hard line breaks a tear and tory m.p. jacob riis more speaking on the sidelines of the alley while a conservative party call. inference and what he was actually referencing was the great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya which is roughly translated as state of masses and that's what the north african nation of libya used to be called

under more market duffy yet he chose those words instead and reaction was very swift to follow deary me jacob recent mogue your first attempt at global diplomacy has failed in a bit of casual racism did you and boris johnson have the same job if you teach at eton college maybe now is the time to learn some respect for other countries little englander jacob three small shows his disdain for the rest of the world this tired return the government has had its time britain deserves better than this inward looking bunch of on wordly has been and never worse. this sort of remark is becoming too common from the bronx it is coming as it does in the wake of boris's recent. insulting other people is not the way i want my country represented and the public see it for what it is petty politics the reason those boris johnson burka gibes and boris johnson in general get mentioned in

a few of those reactions is because the former u.k. foreign secretary has himself come under fire on many occasions for quite controversial comments for the burkas he had just recently compared women wearing them to letterbox is causing quite a bit of controversy here in the u.k. but with these latest comments on libya they do seem quiet strange indeed especially given the role that britain had cleaned and the destiny of libya as a nation or a writer. spoke to us he believes this kind of language can be all headed through british politics and society. politicians shame the us machine because actually. the military is destroying the country is under false accusation. with. government you are. being.

called on this is the problem of british. they should be ashamed and so we should actually be on. our way over what is happening in the world believe me all the talks of. human rights coming up arrests of violence from spain's rest of catalonia a year from independence referendum was suppressed by madrid and the rest the news after this break. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something want to be rich

. that you'd like to be close it's like the flag with the three of them or can't be good but i'm interested always in the waters of color. there should. seem wrong when old roles just don't all. get to shape out just they become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the.

astray should turn to violence in boston lower on monday pro dependence activists for marking a year since a referendum to break away from spain was brutally quashed by madrid and police were back on the streets in force over thirty officers were injured in the latest on rest. was. far was. i was. nearly two hundred thousand people gathered in barcelona of a council on regional capital to gas rubber bullets were used to break up the crowds of the rallies in front of the parliament building. spanish flags and chanted process produce slogans earlier in the day activists block major roads and

rail lines across the region. police in northern france have made a dawn raid on a muslim club suspected of extremist activity with more on that from parish to dubai and ski. these raids took place near the northern port city in france of done kirkley took place on what's deemed to be a cultural association called center near dung kirk now we understand that the homes of twelve of the leaders of that so-called cultural center were targeted in these raids which started under the cover of darkness at six am local time here in france a huge operation with two hundred police officers involved and we understand that eleven individuals have been detained including three who've been placed in custody for the possession of illegal firearms well so far the prefecture in france has given this statement about that operation the activities of sense result of france

on the puck equally close watch given its leaders clear support for several jurors organizations and movements exposing ideas contrary to french republican values well what do we know about this center we understand that the assets of the center have been frozen for six months as a result of that operation when the stand that it was a stablished back in two thousand and five and that its aim was to spread islam there's also suggestions that it suspected of having links to pro is a missed militant groups and we understand that the sites prayer room has been closed down as a result of that operation on tuesday now france as we know has been in the high alert of a terror threat since two thousand and fifteen when there were a series of attacks in the country killing two hundred and forty six individuals and over the last few years there have been many terrorists including in november

last year when nine individuals were arrested in the september of two thousand and seventeen two individuals were arrested near visual near paris and also back in july two thousand and seventeen there were five arrests after raids in. to them france and in belgium at the moment there is little information coming out about the individuals that have been arrested but of course we will keep you up to date as soon as we learn more. test case in england may see historic changes to the rights of parents in the country the unprecedented situation could reverse previous requirements for a mother to be registered on every birth certificate now at the center of the legal battle is a single parent who was born a woman but now lives as a man after undergoing surgery he wants to be identified as the father or parent and says that not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy and family life twist here though is that english law states he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that is preventing him from

receiving state benefits to top it of all this is a unique case in england since twenty sixteen the u.s. state of california is giving parents the choice to pick between mother father or simply parent according to personal preference we've got the views of political commentator david vance and. campaigner peter tatchell the question this case raises is who should be on the birth certificate shouldn't necessarily be a mother or father or could it just be a parent i would think that it's not really important for legal reasons or any other practical reason why has to be a mother peter's just said this let's remove mother from the birth certificate and replace it with something more more nonspecific such as parent but mother's give birth the kids sorry spoiler alert that's how it's been that's how it's always going to be and no minds of debate are going to change that biological fight why

why not just be make a reasonable accommodation in the small number of cases to acknowledge the person of the parents of the child will know that this person is their parent legally as well as in reality this child would become the first. child in the history of this country on a bi believe anywhere else on the birth certificate the word mother is missing so just consider this for a moment can you imagine the cycle on psychological damage that this would impact that child the child will probably find it different and unusual but as we have seen with same sex parents children get a handle on things pretty quickly love is about a parent's commitment and care for a child. what's on the birth certificate really doesn't affect that love and commitment in those instance that you that you've mentioned same sex couples regardless of the configuration the child was always born to

a woman simple biological fact you know what i mean that's not being judgmental it's being it's being it's a fine dish in the fact that we must not be we must not run away from just because it might hurt some people's feelings there have been some trans men in a similar situation have given birth and they have accepted that they should be named as the mother so this case is unique and is different but i think the number of instances that will be involved in a similar circumstance is so so tiny we should not get our heads up about us and we should just make the accommodation but i. get your peter peter the law is not based on on on exceptions the law must apply to all you just can't operate at the way that you'd like to so the fact of the matter is that this child was born to a woman and there for the birth certificate should reasonably reflect that reality

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bank what israelis refer to as judeo in some area palestine has never been independent the land has changed hands and names several times throughout history it was once called the kingdom of israel for example as well as palestrina that fast forward to nine hundred seventeen the brits are in charge and in one nine hundred forty seven the un decides to divide the british mandate for palestine and create two new states and independence home for palestinians and a safe haven for millions of genes scattered all over the world after centuries of persecution arabs were furious with the majority at the time and felt that they were losing now to scientism a movement seeking to reestablish the biblical israel. palestinian streets east to give up but answer are held on to its independence through war even when other arabic countries join the fight.