civil war in africa's newest country claimed close to four hundred thousand lives according to the u.s. funded report in the question where is the initial support for south sudan and gone . also. a struggle between empathy and law unfolds in italy as a pro refugee is placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants live report coming up on that just minutes away. and the people's republic of janda a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making that insensitive quip about libya plus to. recap and pulls is there a plan b. to questions about judge cavanagh what does that have to do is frankly i don't mind

answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the trick 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 new trade deal that's been set of american natives. by their very good evening my name is kevin knowing you're watching r t international thanks for taking the time to watch is this our first than the death toll from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand people that was revealed in a damning new report the says the number of people killed is almost eight times higher than previously thought the shocking figures are a long way away them from the hope that originally surrounded the country's declaration of independence back in twenty eleven the u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation then but the question is where did all that hell go. 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 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 actually 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 administration now in the white

house the u.s. role in south sudan is being reestablished 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 so forgotten about displacement of people women and children underspent of children across the nation and is very much an impoverished states. and 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. american southern italian turnovers pro migrant stance has been arrested for allegedly helping immigrants illegally obtain the right to remain in the country is get latest on this one of your correspondents across it. what's the latest on this than dominican look on those in trouble yes been arrested. yes dominick. well he had been praised around the world as the mayor of the small. southern italian village of chair he had been praised around the globe for his pro refugee stance in

fact twenty sixteen he was named amongst the world's fifty best leaders and twenty seventeen he was given the dresden peace prize. it went on to say that helping refugees was his calling. i have a strong mission to understand the difficulties people face who arrive here and i have to say that those people who have arrived are probably a product of the unfair world. however the different ones or the j.f.k. in italy have been looking into him they are the federal government law enforcement are when it comes to financial crimes in fact he's been placed under house arrest following their investigation they allege that he helped carry out sham marriages between refugees and residents of his village also that he didn't adhere to protocol when it came to handing out garbage collection contracts now it's really

has taken quite a significant switch as a nation when it comes to its policy towards refugees and migrants since mr china was awarded the gongs that he was given in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen under the new coalition between five star in the league they've certainly adopted a populist stance certainly of much more m t my current stance and it's in that political stances are taken that we've seen this mare formally on it for his work in helping refugees and held up as a bastion of integration for refugees we've seen him now being charged with or perhaps acting inappropriately when it comes to getting people the right to be able to stay in italy or ip keep following this case keep us updated your thank you. thanks to leave probably conservative party politicians under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob riis smore called the african state the people's republic of jam jar or something as he put it at the conservative party's on your

conference book which. of course. this is quite a bizarre comment to be heard from a well known politician referencing another nation and this was indeed a hard line breaks a tear and tory m.p. jacob riis mark speaking on the sidelines of the air. i mean well look conservative party conference 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 libby used to be called under more market duffy yet he chose those words instead and reaction was very swift to follow deary me. your first attempt at global diplomacy has failed and a bit of casual racism did you and boris johnson have the same job 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 but 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 brought to a journalist. believes this kind of language affront could be heard all through british politics and society these days. us. because. the military is. poles it is a. woman's. government you are and then leave me be and that lead yeah. yeah. i know this is the problem of society. they should be ashamed of themselves we should actually be on that note we're. on the way out over what

is happening in the world and believe all the talk so we don't want to see oh human lives. donald trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises a new trade deal between america canada and mexico but the announcement of the landmark agreement been overshadowed by those sexual misconduct allegations against the u.s. president's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and it's also added fuel to trump standoff with the media as well this ongoing 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 this week and mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you're limiting the scope of the f.b.i. investigation 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 tree has to do with the other headline in the news which is the count but i know but how about talking about trade and then we'll

get to that you have a question in trade will you one or two more questions later and several question if you don't do that that's not this presentation i just somebody is before you excuse me don't do that you have a question on trade you entered several quite you have a question on trade she's shocked that a picture. in a state of shock i'm not thinking of that's ok i know you think you never do it was trump's 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 as an 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 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. the u.s. ambassador to nato russia was preemptive in gauge mode of a some of its missiles fishel claims washington could strike to take them out because they're in breach of a cold war era treaty. countermeasures would be to take out the missiles that are in development by russia in violation of the treaty they are or notice it is time now for russia to come to the table and stop the violations. across this whole in the queue was behind us the make of this very bold and aggressive statement today what is essentially a warning from washington the u.s. envoy to nato kay bailey hutchinson has said if russia does not put

a stop to its covert development of a banned cruise missile system the u.s. will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational now the u.s. believes that russia is developing a ground launch system that would enable it to launch a nuclear strike on europe at short notice now russia has yet to respond to these latest comments but it is not the first time such accusations have been made against moscow and they have consistently denied any such violations the development of such a system would be a breach of the cold war treaty this is the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that was signed by president reagan and gorbachev in one nine hundred eighty seven it was a huge stepping stone in bringing an end to the cold war now while ambassador hutchinson said that in light of any such situation arising at the u.s. would prefer a diplomatic solution she also added that there will come a point in the future in which america will determine that it but it has to move forward with the development phase that is not allowed by the treaty right now and

it's worth mentioning that almost a year ago reports surfaced in the telegraph newspaper which claimed that the us was already developing its own ground based cruise missile in breach of the historic treaty another day another so that. for the past five no on the bottom coming up. in the camp of the cattle only one year on as it was yesterday from the independence referendum that sparked a political crisis in spain we got new video in for you and reaction to after this quick break. zombie banks plague has spilled over to zombie corporations one of the zombie banks zombie bank is a bank best technically insolvent it's kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling

balance from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lawyers the ages b c b m p citibank they're technically insolvent alive even though mozambique is today rolling up bailout they call quantitative easing or some other name they come up with every few months. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk.

again so in terms of violence and chaos alone among the over thirty police officers been injured as pro independence activists were marking the one year on since the big referendum on official as it was in catalonia to break away from spain that was quashed by madrid. well now the spanish prime minister's accused catalonia as leader of quote encouraging rather cools nearly two hundred. thousands gathered in barcelona tear gas and rubber bullets were used to try to disperse those crowds that rallied in front of the parliament building companies burned spanish flags and chanted pro

separate is slogans earlier in the day activists also blocked major roads railway lines across the region. an unprecedented court case in the u.k. could see story changes to the rights of transgender parents in the country and if successful it would mean a biological mother may no longer be required to be on british birth certificates that's why in this back a bit at the center of a legal battle right now is a single parent who became pregnant but since childbirth has been legally registered as a male and has undergone surgery for it now he wants to be identified as the father or the parent and says that not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy and family life english law although the twisty states he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that's preventing him to on an admin level at least from receiving welfare and state benefits among other things or while this is pretty much we think a unique case in england or the first we've heard of since twenty sixteen the u.s.

state of california has given parents no less the choice to pick between mother father or simply parent according to personal preference we got the views of political commentator david vance and also l g b t q campaign a 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's always going to be and no 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 who 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 transmit some. in a similar situation have given birth and they have accepted that they should be named as of them are 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 hot heads up about us and we should just make the accommodation but i hated. you 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 . police in northern france have made a dawn raid on

a muslim club suspected of extremist activity the country still on high alert of course with islamist inspired groups responsible for killing over two hundred people in recent years with more on that raid from paris our correspondent charlotte do bensky 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 looting three have been placed in custody for the possession of illegal firearms well so far the prefecture in france has given this statement about that operation. activities of sense result of france on the

particularly close watch given its leaders clear support for several terrorist organizations and movements is posing ideas contrary to french republican values well what do we know about this center we understand that the assets of the sent to have been frozen for six months as a result of that operation when to stand that it was established back in two thousand and five and that it's aimed 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 site's 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 terror raids including in november

last year when knowing individuals were arrested in the september of two thousand and seventeen two individuals who were arrested near the as you if near paris and also back in july two thousand and seventeen there were five arrests after raids in northern france and in belgium. so do belsky wrapping up this bulletin thanks ever so much watching our international it's twenty four minutes past five in the evening here in moscow and always more of our to dot com does get check out our up as well all our stories as they break straight to your mobile device. but additional subversives not of what was and also took a look at some of these it's just a. list. so you have to match it. with

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greetings and salutations. with the united states war on terror now seventeen years strong there appear to be signs that this never ending self-perpetuating tragic and deadly experiment in continuous global warfare may finally be starting to crack and the other end of these cracks can be found in the numbers the numbers of new recruits to be precise recently the u.s. army revealed that it fell thousands of troops short of its recruiting goals this year the first time it has done so since the height of the iraq war thirteen years ago this news comes despite the army spending an extra two hundred million on it's already massive recruiting budget and the falls weren't contained to just active duty recruits. who fell about sixty five hundred short of the seventy five eighty thousand goal that that that the army was a. for in fact the army national guard has about eight thousand under its three hundred forty three thousand recruit total while the army reserves down nine thousand from its almost two hundred thousand new recruits goal when asked why the

army was failing to fill its ranks to slight offering up to forty thousand bonuses to year in list months and student loan repayments sergeant first class michael t. peppers the commander of a recruiting station in urbandale iowa told the new york times simply we're competing with other businesses offering the same things beth asked a senior. economist at the rand corporation who studies military recruiting backed up peppers claims adding that you have fewer people who can serve they have more opportunities in the job market that makes it very hard on the army. so according to those excuse it up excuses it appears that u.s. president donald trump's big talk of booming economies and big league armies might not be able to co-exist as the world's biggest employer struggles to fill its ranks as more and more citizens are now watching the hawks. it looks like. it's what you see. as the bottom.

of. the day like you that i got. with that we. would. welcome everyone watching the hawks i am tyrrel them for joining me today today to discuss the recruit fails of the u.s. military on the current state of the war on terrorism journalist and see the writer the gray zone project max blumenthal and the director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you both for coming on the baby interesting interesting story so let me start asking you both were either of you surprised to see the u.s. army kind of failing to fill its its roster so to speak. you know given that the u.s. army is increasing its recruitment goals to half a million by two thousand and twenty four.