civil war in africa's newest country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report from the question where is the initial support of the south. also ahead. is there a plan b. but. what does that have to do is i don't mind answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the other headline sexual assault allegations against donald trump supreme court nominee. with a wide ranging new trade deal with america's natives. the people's republic of john jr a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making that insensitive quip about libya.

rights breakout in barcelona as the rest of catalonia region of spain marks a year since that un sanctioned pendants referendum had faced a brutal from madrid. afternoon my name is kevin owen you're watching out international live from moscow. thanks to an intern this first that the death toll from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred families and people that was revealed in a damning new report out that says the number of people killed is almost eight times higher than previously thought the shocking figures are a long way away than from the hope that surrounded the countries that are a declaration of independence. back in twenty eleven the u.s.

was quick to support africa's newest nation back then but the question is how long did that continue caleb maupin reports 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 bin laden the work 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 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 again. the vice president and

mass killings and hunger ensued and all this killing was a headache for the united nations so with the new administration 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 us 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 so forgotten about displacement of people women and children underspent of children across the nation and 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 the blind eye. don't trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises a new trade deal between america and canada or mexico but the announcement of a landmark agreement was overshadowed by sexual misconduct allegations against the u.s. president's supreme court nominee brit kavanah and it also added fuel to trump standoff with the media. truly historic news this will be

a new dawn this landmark agreement an 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 fools is there a plan b. i have two questions about judge cavanagh if we can mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you are limiting the scope of the f.b.i. investigation what does that have to do is try to 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 news which is the kind of i know but how about talking about trade and then we'll get to that you have a question in drag will you want to get more questions later and several questions get just to that's not just british i just somebody is before you excuse me don't do that you have a question on trade you answered several but you have a question on trade she's shocked that a picture. like the state of. i'm not thinking about something and i think 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 or placement 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 tabun as a supreme court nominee who was accused of sexual harassment some have even said the 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. in the u.k. a prominent conservative party politicians under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob re small called the african state the people's

republic of judge or something as he put it the conservative party's conference. so. the word. this is quite a bizarre comment to be heard from a well known politician referencing another nation this was indeed hard line breaks a tear and tory m.p. jacob green small speaking on the sidelines of the annual a conservative party conference and what he was actually referencing was the great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya which is roughly translated as a state of masses and that's what the north african nation of libby used to be called under more market duffy yet he chose those words instead and reaction was very swift to follow deary me jacob. 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 england jacob riis malk shows his disdain for the rest of the world this tawdry tory government has had its time bush it deserves better than this inward looking bunch of unworldly has been and never was this sort of remark is becoming too common from the bracks 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 jibes and boris johnson in general get mentioned in a few of those reactions is because a former u.k. foreign secretary has himself come under fire on many occasions for quite controversial comments with 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 played and the destiny of libya as a nation. a writer and journalist out of paria believes this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society british politician yes she did it sells machine but no sense because actually. the military is destroying kind that is. false accusation. and. the and that. and. this is the problem. with this you this should be a shame we should actually have on. our way out

what is happening in the world believe me. germany has reportedly approved a new arms exports to saudi arabia worth almost three hundred million dollars and have confirmed it would go against a german coalition agreement then to stop weapons being sold to countries involved in the yemen conflict however agreements that are already in place before angela merkel form the current government in berlin can continue it seems knows aren't easily pertain to reports next there's no shortage of countries willing to send weapons to rio. 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 and the risk of home to civilian populations this is the worst humanitarian crisis that is in china 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 like clerk tanks made to joint they 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 in which one thousand we found no reason not to fill up commitments we've made a decision that we have to honor this contract and this brings us to one of the biggest armed 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 interests of. arms manufacturers and of course learn the united states something like sixty to seventy percent of the arms in. but the english the french the germans the norwegians historically sold weapons and now they're going to economic interests the current leadership of saudi arabia feels empowered enable their backing from the u.s. u.k. and france on monday the saudi led coalition admitted it had made mistakes in its

attacks in yemen which have left more than ten thousand civilians dead that statement drew criticism from the u.n. which highlighted that there is no evidence of sanctions over these so-called errors the bodies also describe the situation in yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis was more than twenty million people in dire need of aid. was refused true leaves are amenable a source of nutrition at times when the world food program it lacks food for us truly is our main food. you know if i don't let me. there is no eight one of my children suffers from mineral deficiencies and the doctor says the other has a kidney infection he might die because of this food and because of the lack of aid

and clean water. we receive between ten to twenty cases of mid to severe malnutrition on a daily basis especially among children from displaced families from absent hiran many children suffer from severe acute malnutrition juta destitution and poverty in which displaced families live. and i'm going to you're. coming up here it's been a tumultuous forty eight hours again for the capital account low here one year on from the independence referendum a spot of political crisis in spain we've got a new pictures coming in and reaction for you after a quick break. the

zombie bank played that spilled over to zombie corporations what is a zombie bank is on the bank it's a bank best to complain solvent it's kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling bailouts from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lawyers the ages p.c. b.n.p. the citibank they're technically insolvent the live even though i'm a zombie to the actual rolling of bailout they call quantitative easing or some other name they come up with every two months.

again as hussein for the break then frustration turned to violence in a year since the big referendum in council only unofficial although it was to break away from spain that was quashed by madrid and of the. was. was the. you. know it was. a spanish prime minister's accused catalonia leader of encouraging

radicals really two hundred thousand people gathered in barcelona to smuggle used to disperse crowds rallied in front of the building campaigners burned spanish flags and chanted process produce slogans earlier in the day activists also blocked major roads and rover lines across the region the. least known from somalia dawn raid on a muslim club suspected extremist activity the country still on high alert with islamist inspired groups responsible for killing over two hundred people in recent years with more on the rate than from paris to charlotte do bensky these raids took place near the northern port city in fronts of they 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 a lesson 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 particularly close watch given its leaders clear support for several terrorist organizations and movements disposing ideas country. rita 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 established 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 in the midst of 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 the usual near paris and also back in july two thousand and seventeen there were five arrests after raids in northern 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. and unprecedented court case in the u.k. may see historic changes to the rights of transgender perros in the country if successful it would mean a biological mother would no longer be required on british birth certificates no at

the center of this legal battle want to go back a bit is a single parent who became pregnant but since childbirth has been legally registered mail and undergone surgery no 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 english law those states that he must appear is the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that spray venting him to on top of this from receiving welfare and state benefits among other. things so while this is a pretty unique case in england we think so far since twenty sixteen the u.s. state of california has none the less given parents the choice to pick between mother father or simply parent according to personal preference we got the views of political commentator david vance on this and also l g b t q 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 just said this let's remove mother from the birth certificate and replace it with something more more nonspecific such as parent but mothers give birth the kids sorry spoiler alert that's how it's been that's how it was always going to be and no one minds of debate are going to change that biological fact why why not just be make a reasonable accommodation in the small number of cases to acknowledge this 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 and i believe anywhere else on their birth certificate the word mother is missing so just consider this for a moment can you imagine the cycle arm psychological damage that this would impact

that child you know 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 you know 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 transit. in a similar situation you have given birth and they have accepted that they should be

named as the mother so this case is unique and it's different but i think the number of instances that will be involved in a similar circumstance is so so tiny we should not get hot heads up about us and we should just make the accommodation but i. get your peter peter the law is not based 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 and so the child went on that's the way some of top stories are putting out so far that they think you have so much watching here in moscow it's kevin o. in saying this is our duty to national.

manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only really and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon you welcome aboard i'm bart chilton we are boom bust to get out from boston massachusetts from the boston city hall right behind me at the forbes under thirty summit we're full of action full of excitement and a lot of great stuff coming to you right now.

and to start us off what is the forbes under thirty summit here in boston well it's an amazing thing lots of energy and are going to cover all sorts of issues we see the smart conferences taking place here i'm actually speaking tomorrow at one of the crypto events oxford style debate but the great thing is coming up artificial intelligence and learning robots we love of some robots and drawings and then. finance in general crypto currencies e-commerce green technology for and for the space plus entertainment music sports even style lots of cupcakes coming up but first of all we're going to head back down to washington to boom bust own daniel brito for a few headlines daniel. thanks part mexico canada in the united states agreed on a draft revision of the north american free trade agreement on sunday just short of a deadline imposed by the trump and ministration the trump white house reportedly

hopes for a vote on the treaty updated an updated treaty in this congress but many legislators doubt that a vote before twenty nineteen will be feasible the new text has plans to please all sides including measures to bring more car production to the u.s. and mexico and canadian concessions on dairy issues for the u.s. side to tout canada's negotiators for their part succeeded in preserving the text of nafta is chapter in chapter nineteen which governs extra do just chill disputes settlements finally the deal is renamed the us mexico canada agreements and also involves u.s. pledges to not hit canadian auto imports with new tariffs it's unclear though how much canada can rely on those pledge ans pledges given that the u.s. also says the question of whether new metals terus from the u.s. will apply to canada and that will be settled on a separate diplomatic track.