i i was i. i i. i. am. i. to the war an african country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to the u.s. funded report the question is the initial support for. the three empathy law unfolds in italy as a program fugitive mayor was placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. and. threatens a preemptive strike on russia to take out

a missile stop using the school of violating a major cold war here appreciate your feedback. on the people's republic of. prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. under fire for making that insensitive about libya. good evening this is art international with kevin zero in frankfurt shooting and had to stay with me for next thirty minutes for a news update the news feed this 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 that says the number killed is almost eight times higher than previously thought the shocking figures are a long way away than for the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence back in twenty eleven the u.s. back then was quick to support africa's newest nation but how long did that help

continue. 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 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 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 minutes. stray sion 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 saw forgotten about this case 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 and fulfill all intensive purposes in the the west and the international community seems to of the blind i. mixed up tonight america a southern italian town known for its pro migrant stance has been arrested for allegedly helping immigrants illegally obtain the right to remain in the country or europe correspondent peter all over picks up the story. domenico luciano is the mayor of the small town of the at che and so the italy now he came to prominence after he well opened up his town to refugees and migrants taken as many as five

hundred into the town of just eighteen hundred for this he was awarded the dressed in peace prize and twenty seventeen he was also in twenty sixteen named as one of the fifty greatest leaders in the world in fact he said that helping refugees in migrants 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 well he's now found himself the target of the. day they are the italian government's federal law enforcement authority when it comes to financial crimes and they've charged him with a number of well of offenses he's charged with having sorted out sham marriages for refugees and migrants with citizens of his village in order to allow people to stay he's also accused of not to tearing to the procedure is the correct procedures when

it comes to handing out routes and contracts for garbage disposal now italy stance when it comes to refugees and migrants has changed in recent times they've moved away from the policies of the said to right government that was operated under your renzi and the new coalition government certainly has picked up a populist and more anti migrant view this coalition between the five star movement and the league headed up by the prime minister giuseppe conti they've really changed tack in put forward a far more well stronger view and stronger politics when it comes to refugees and migrants from italy than we've seen in the past. problem british conservative party politicians under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob called the african state the people's republic a germ jar or something as he put it at his party's annual conference.

growth work so. 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 in tory m.p. jacob green's mall 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 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 reese more 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 or 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 were 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. believe this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politicians yes change the world and sells machine but no sense because actually. the military is destroying kind of. false accusation. with. government. and the big. league. and this is the problem. with issues they should be ashamed of and so we should actually be on. our way out over what is happening in the world believe me or you know human rights.

u.s. ambassador to nato has threatened russia with preemptive in gauge went over some of its missiles the official claims washington could strike to take them out as they are in breach of a cold war era treaty the threat is the first of its kind in terms of military action in over two decades. the counter measures would be to take out the missiles that are in development by russia in violation of the treaty which is essentially a warning from moscow the u.s. envoy to nato kay bailey hutchinson has said if russia does not put a stop to its covert development of a band cruise missile system then the u.s. will seek to destroy it before it's operational the u.s. believes that russia is working on a ground launch system that would have the ability to launch a nuclear strike on europe on short notice now the development of such a system would be in breach of a cold war treaty this is the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty it was signed by president reagan and gorbachev in one thousand nine hundred seventy now

while ambassador hutchinson said that the u.s. favors a diplomatic solution should any situation arise she also added that america is not against moving forward with developments not allowed by the treaty right now we can hear more of what she had to say getting them to withdraw would be our choice of course but i think the question was what would you do if this continues to a point where we know that they're capable of delivering and at that point we would then be looking into keep ability to take out a missile that could hit any of our countries in europe and hit america in alaska now the russian ministry has yet to respond to these latest comments but it's not the first times that accusations have been made and moscow has consistently denied any such violations meanwhile nato secretary-general u.n. stoltenberg has also weighed in he's spoken of concerns for what he calls russia's lack of respect for its international commitments but such finger pointing we should point out is nothing new when it comes to violations of this treaty reports

in the telegraph almost a year ago claim that the u.s. is already developing its own ground based cruise missiles are in breach of the historic accord. donald trump fulfilled his campaign promises a new trade deal between america canada or mexico. but the big announcement of a landmark agreement was overshadowed by the ongoing sexual misconduct allegations against the u.s. president's supreme court nominee covena it's also added to the ongoing field of trauma standoff with the media to truly historic good 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'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 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 for the judge if 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 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 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 cavanagh's 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. moscow to come made spinach she was forty eight i was in the company spain's catalonia region one year on from the independence referendum this vote that nationwide political crisis we got new video new reaction after the break. seemed wrong. to

shape out this day. and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be pro-choice this is like the before free of the whole can't be good. i'm interested always in the why the how. things should stay. on.

the straight and turn to violence and chaos lower on monday over thirty police officers have been injured as pro independence activists mark to a year now since the unofficial referendum in catalonia to break away from spain which was really caused by madrid. or are. i. think. of the. i. mean. the spanish prime minister is accused catalonia as leader of encouraging radicals maybe two hundred thousand gathered in barcelona tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the crowds that have rallied in front of parliament that has been spun as flags and chants of pro separatists slogans earlier in the

day activists also blocked major roads and rover lines across the region these pictures before yesterday's warehouse. interesting story this one next an unprecedented court case in britain could see historic changes to the rights of transgender parents and if successful it would mean a by law. mother may no longer be required on british birth certificates but rewinding the clock back here a bit to tell you more the story at the center of the legal battle is a single parent who became pregnant but since childbirth has then been legally registered as a male and undergone surgery for it now he wants to be identified as the father or just parent and says that not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy and family life the problem here for him is that english law states he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that's also on the basic level preventing him from receiving welfare and state benefits among other

things so while this we think is a pretty unique case as far as we know of in england not elsewhere 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 you got the views of political commentator david vance and the l g b t q campaign peter tatchell the question this case raises is who should be on the birth certificate should it necessarily be 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 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 who on their bursar to. get 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 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 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 think. peter peter the law is not best on on the 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 this should gender doesn't stray too far from the headlines of late a student in britain and a professor in sweden have both been slammed for breaching the new political correctness diktats in case you missed is polly boy here takes you through a few of the things we need to know about. there was a time when men were men and women were women and good old fashioned oppression was reserved for the lucky few but in case you missed it they raised what they used to be. in britain diaries of us to see a student philosopher has been sacked from a psychology job not the university magazine for retreating to reach we have a retreat in the us a goal that state women shouldn't have appealed. and over in sweden a professor is being investigated for telling students that there are and i told michael and biological differences between men and women they both made the fatal error of having a full and then expressing it honest opinion publicly naive

i know i had to get into this raging debate about who i want to be better if i just want society to be super inclusive the role. of people like the british buddhists this week this past that unfortunately your ground does need some help well go get your granddad's police down there because i see why my you know you it . modern society is actually really simple just memorised the following you must be tolerant of everything used ciro tolerance against anyone that doesn't agree with freedom of speech is still your absolute right just trying not to use it to freely only express yourself in the safety of your own home around the people that love you unconditionally you'd

probably never considered how bald next door has that well you'd better find out so you can express hope for and remember all might still look like bob but that doesn't mean he's not barbara. if your memory is a mess so jenny sam rather and have faith that was not bad feelings at all but. fact. is not just the past tense of the way and if you were not impressed then. don't worry though because someone is oppressing you you just don't know it yet so well this changing them more than ever it's important to food everyone in the best the only by working faith you have that can we prevent differently from being the last and then. don't worry that we're getting back. on their end of the lesson this bullet into it's committed to twenty five minutes

past seven the seeding for me kevin zero in. the next six hours to bring you all the headlines from all. this manufactured consent to stick to the public will. when the ruling class isn't protect them so. when the final larry you're a. normal middle of the room sit. in the real news room. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful. to sit down and talk. this is gaza's current status it's one of the most overpopulated places on earth and on the brink of collapse. forces in two thousand and five but still keep some news on that with air ground and sea blockades it's also under economic sanctions

is often described as an open air prison. locals elected hamas as their leaders here they don't believe that israel should exist so naturally saw its regularly bomb each other israel tends to send a warning leaflets before stroy. mostly state puts many countries classify hamas as a terrorist organization and the queues them of putting people at risk. schools and mosques and courage in them to join protests. camargue. you. know even.

if. you. do. on saturdays there's often a funeral here the whole village comes out to pay their respects another kid has died at the protest. that apple is so martyr oh yeah one of the enough done in the lower. level minimum amish i'm a montana yes and this. is all just for war and that's not the bottom of the. net an awful can never been done before so i knew clodhopper man must you know new clubs. doing it again the first. lady must of been made a big fluffy and that gets i'll be a. little tough on the lamb. i'm the female of the muslims to me and i best quality of. the lot of bay of

fundy and. the folly of almost all from the face of these idiots the love of coffee i think of a good many years that the bomb man for also. larry is that the let me name so's israel has launched its biggest offensive against gaza in years the united nations is urging israel to hold successive force and the students for national accused of violating international law but this isn't the first time we tried to talk to the i.d.f. and they refused our requests for comics mr stance hasn't changed over the years but here's what their spokesperson told me and twenty fourteen. i would quote is the alternative to just let them us terrorists continue their parents of aggression every two years they're carrying out to parallage an attack

against israeli civilians and they cannot expect that this will go on they have a mist. of about ten thousand rockets they're all poised and pointed to israel and all civilians are unable to their children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to summer camp they had to stay in the safe room that's unacceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been challenged to protect the state of israel our mission is to safeguard the civilians let's not forget that there are palestinian civilians also being killed in the process. absolutely and i would actually point that finger and say hamas what are you doing to prevent the escalation they are doing everything in their power to escalate the situation to cause more casualties civilians whether they're israelis or palestinians us on the other hand we are use.