civil war in africa's newest country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report prompting the question where has the initial support for south sudan gone also ahead. america's nato ambassador threatens a preemptive strike on russia to take out a missile accusing moscow of violating a major cold war era treaty. the struggle between empathy and law unfolds in italy as a pro refugee areas placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants . the people's republic of jam jar a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making that insensitive quip about libya. and those trees united ten here in the russian capital and call them bread r.t.

h.q. here's how it looks from moscow this hour the number of deaths from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand that was revealed in a damning new report that says the figure is almost eight times higher than previously thought is also a long way from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence back in twenty eleven the united states was quick to support africa's newest nation then 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 sudan 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 a new it meant. stray ssion 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 he would appear that petty politics between the chinese and the us in terms of the respective influences on those countries have 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 for allegedly helping immigrants illegally obtained the right to remain in the country is our europe correspondent peter all of us. domenico latino 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 center right government that was operated under your renzi and the new coalition government certainly has picked up a populist and more well anti migrant view this coalition between the five star movement and the league headed up by the prime minister just seppi can take 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. a prominent m.p. for britain's ruling conservative party is under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob reese mauger called the african states the people's republic of jam jar or something at the party's annual conference. per.

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 jemma here 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 mogue your first attempt at global diplomacy has failed and 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 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 strain. indeed

especially given the role that britain had cleaned and the destiny of libya as a nation well arab affairs writer abdel bari atwan believes that this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politicians t.v.'s she sells machines not really because actually. the military is destroying kind of under a false accusation. and then leave. and leave. and. this is the problem. with this issue they should be ashamed of themselves we should actually have a line. where oh what is happening in the world believe all these talks. about human rights. are lost in

university students have clashed with israeli forces in the west bank city of ramallah the soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters. demonstrators threw stones and set tires on fire at the rally was staged in protest against the demolition of a village in the west bank which is home to one hundred ninety palestinians protesters there also continuing to make a stand against the israeli nation state general strike on monday claimed the law makes israeli arabs are second class citizens. police in northern france have made a dorm raid on a muslim club of suspected in extreme. activity

a country still on high alert with islamist inspired groups responsible for killing more than two hundred people in recent years with more on the raid in paris his shot to do. these raids took place near the northern port city in france of dunkirk 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 would 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 feuding 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 sans result of france under close watch given its leaders clear support for several terrorist

organizations and movements disposing ideas country 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 we understand 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 islam ist 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 terrorists including in november last year when knowing individuals were arrested in the september of two thousand and seventeen two individuals were arrested me of usual near paris and also back in

july two thousand and seventeen there were five arrests after raids in northern france and in belgium. donald trump has fulfilled one of his campaign promises a new trade deal between the us canada and mexico but the announcement of the landmark agreement was overshadowed by sexual misconduct allegations against trump supreme court nominee brad cavanagh it also added fuel to the president stand off with the press pack. truly historic good 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 foods is there a plan b. i have two questions about if you can mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you know the f.b.i. investigation what does that have to do is right 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 or 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 briefly excuse me don't do that you have a question on trade you entered several but you have a question on trade she's shocked that a picture. in 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 trump's 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. new this hour russia's completed the delivery of its s three hundred ad defense systems to syria with the intent of protecting the. service personnel stationed there get more on this now from correspondent patrol because who says me either so what do we know about this syrian air defense upgrade call and it took the russian army just two weeks to ramp up syria's air defense with the three s. three hundred systems in the russian minister of defense has made the official announcement that deliveries are done and dusted and he also shared some technical details of that. we have consider reach strengthened electronic warfare

capability we dispatched additional equipment and as a result we control a short range zone within a fifty kilometer radius and a long range in the main direction from where incursions were conducted within a two hundred kilometer radius. so a total of fourteen nine elements of the system have been handed over to the syrians now the s three hundred is designed to protect the air space and its interceptor missiles have a range of up to one hundred fifty kilometers it's not a state of the art system but it is still an active used by the russian army in significant either what prompted this well almost immediately the russian military and president putin warmed and made it clear that moscow will definitely come up with a response to the downing of the aisle twenty russian military plane over the mediterranean

the army plane was shot down by syrian missile that was launched by the u.s. two hundred the older generation but the russian generals blamed the israeli air force for this incident and also the i.d.f. jets were of course conducting air raids in the syrian air space at the time they were the original target of syria's air defenses so this move was also seen as something that could limit the israeli air space and to vittie in that area and it has been reported that in the last eighteen months as many as two hundred attacks were carried out by the israeli air force against iranian targets in syria and i just want to about what was the reaction back then i can tell you that perhaps surprisingly enough the reaction from the pentagon was literally this doesn't change anything and when it comes to what the israeli government is saying for now they haven't. responded in any way but previously mr netanyahu the israeli prime

minister warned president putin that providing advanced weapons systems to are responsible actors in the region will magnify dangers there ok or a finale a protractor thanks for that update. next up oil prices are on the verge of a four year high as worries mount over global supplies because of washington sanctions on iran the u.s. dollar unexpectedly when the other way dropping about twenty percent against the iranian reality one day washington plans to renew sanctions against iran in early november following its withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal a move strongly opposed by other signatories in europe and we heard exclusively from the iraqi foreign minister on how the crisis between iraq's neighbor iran and the united states could be resolved america speaking of iraq's relations with washington and iran bear in mind that iran is our close neighbor that we have a long border with we also have common history and

a lot of similarities in social and cultural sphere is on the other hand we are grateful that the u.s. supported us in the past when it comes to tensions between the two iraq doesn't turn into a bullhorn against these countries we control our own will we do not participate in blockades either directly or in directly such blockades only strike the most run rule groups of people the ill elderly and children if there's a warming in relations between the u.s. and north korea why can't there be one between washington and iran or north korea in the u.s. where a great erodes the agreement reached on the about ministration overcame the divisions using common sense it can still be enacted we have always been ready to take part in fixing problems but we're not going to be in integrity part of that we weren't supports any state striving to spark a war in our region. an unprecedented court case in britain could see historic changes to the rights of transgender parents now if successful it would mean a biological mother may no longer need to beast. pilate on british birth

certificates at the center of the legal battle is a single parent who became pregnant but who legally became a man when the child was born he wants to be identified as the father or parent and says the not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy in family life english law right now states he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that is preventing him from receiving welfare state benefits among other things. now while this is a unique case in england since twenty sixteen the u.s. state of california has 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 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 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 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 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 and 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. 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 our heads up about us and we

should just make the accommodation but i. get your peter peter the law is not 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 or that you need for this our next although how we might be a month away maxim states you've got zombies on their mind in your latest kaiser report only on r.t. . cooked additional subversives not of what was an ounce of to linger some of these it's just a good usual condition no. simple yes surrender methods notional closely. linked with a showing of the skeleton is lost when the shit. can you think of shit. you have

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