africa's newest country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report prompting the question where's the initial support. also add. america's nato ambassador. to washington would take out. accusing moscow violating a major cold war era treaty. the struggle between empathy and. placed under house arrest helping illegal immigrants. the people's republic of. prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making that insensitive quip about libya.

now wednesday oct fourteenth this hour. the number of deaths from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand i was revealed in a damning new report that says the figure is almost eight times higher than previously thought it's 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 new his nation then how long did that help continue. 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 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. 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 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 under spent 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. the u.s. ambassador to nato has made a statement on twitter denying that she meant to suggest carrying out a preemptive strike against russia the tweet comes hard on the heels of a press conference in brussels where she mentioned quote taking out the missiles that are in development by russia and she went on to say those missiles are in breach of a cold war era treaty. the calendar measures would be to take out the missiles that are in development by russia in violation of the treaty so that would be the countermeasure of intially. commenting on the ambassador's initial statement the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said that people with responsibility should be more careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric more details now from correspondent mccarran. what 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 stop 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's 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 you 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 are capable of delivering and there we would be looking at the capability to take a missile that could hit any of our countries in europe and america in alaska it's not the first times that accusations have been made and moscow has consistently denied any such violations meanwhile nato secretary-general un 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. has already developing its own ground based cruise missile in breach of the historic accord. omarion a southern italian town known for his pro migrant stance has been arrested for allegedly helping immigrants illegally obtain the right to remain in the country is

our europe correspondent peter oliver. domenico luciano is the mayor of the small town of the at chain so than 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 material renzi and the new coalition government certainly has picked up a populist and more well i'm t. 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 riis small group called the african state the people's republic of jam jar or something at his party's annual conference. per. the worker. 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 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

jacob reese mogue your first attempt at global diplomacy has failed in a bit of casual racism did you and boris johnson have the same job or a future it's in 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 arab affairs writer abdel bari atwan believes this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politicians yeah she didn't sell us she did not know something because actually. the military is kind of under false accusation. and then we see that. this is the problem of society. with issues they should be ashamed of themselves

we should actually have an. open what is happening in the world believe me all the talks of. human rights. russia has completed the delivery of its s. three hundred ad defense systems to syria with the intent of protecting russian service personnel stationed there i got more details earlier from correspondent. so it took russia just two weeks to ramp up syria's air defenses with the s. three hundred system the russian minister of defense has made the official announcement he says that the deliveries are done and dusted and he also shared some technical details of that home for the ones we have consider re strengthened electronic warfare capability we dispatched additional equipment there as a result we control a short range known within a fifty kilometer radius and

a long range zero in the main direction from where incursions were conducted within a two hundred kilometer radius. a total of forty nine elements of hardware have been handed over to the syrians and most importantly for launchers three hundred is designed to protect the air space it's not the state of the art system but it is still in active use by the russian army so what prompted this delivery well almost immediately after the downing of the russian military twenty plane in the mediterranean the russian army and also the president made it clear that moscow will come up with a response that everyone in the region would feel the twenty plane was shot down by a syrian missile that was launched by the s two hundred that's the system of an older generation but the russian generals blamed the israeli air force for the tragedy the i.d.f.

jets were conducting air raids in the area at that time and they were the original target of syria's air defenses so the deliveries could be aimed at limiting israel's air space activities over syria and it has been reported that in the last eighteen months israel has conducted some two hundred air raids targeting iranian targets in syria today what's the reaction been surprisingly enough when it comes to what the pentagon said their reaction was literally it doesn't change anything so they couldn't be bothered when it comes to the reaction from israel for now there's been none but previously when washington now and they were going to deliver the f. three hundred to syria the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned president putin that providing advanced weapons systems to air responsible actors will magnify dangers in the region. of some of the other initial reaction the u.s.

state department says that russia's defense deployment to syria could escalate the situation in the region. oil prices are on the verge of a four year high as worries mount over global supplies due to washington sanctions on iran the us dollar unexpectedly went the other way dropping about twenty percent against iran's real and one day washington plans to renew sanctions against tehran in early november following it with a draw from the iran nuclear deal a move strongly opposed by the other signatories in europe we heard exclusively from the iraqi foreign minister on how the crisis between iraq's neighbor iran and the united states might be resolved and recall iran 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 vulnerable 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 an integra part of that we weren't support any state striving to spark a war in our region. palestinian 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 the rally was staged in protest against the demolition of a village in the west bank which is home to one hundred eighty palestinians protests is also continuing to make a stand against the israeli nation state for a general strike on monday claimed the law makes arab israelis second class citizens. the scandal surrounding donald trump's supremes court nominee is not calling down with the president receiving an avalanche of questions about his nominee is facing sexual assault allegations from several women with some people suggesting that he may not have told the truth when he denied the claims at a senate committee hearing says he agrees that nobody should give false testimony to congress. on your. i don't think you should lie to congress and there have been

a lot of people over the last year that have lied to congress and to me that would not be acceptable. to judge gavin is doing pretty well it seems to be over the last twenty four hours a lot is going to depend on what comes back from the f.b.i. in terms of their their. number seven investigation but i think that judge gavin is doing very well right. kevin i was nominated by trump to sing to on the u.s. supreme court in july after an initial round of senate hearings three women came forward in september and accused him of sexual misconduct while in high school and college he strenuously denies the other way trump though has agreed to demands by senate democrats for an f.b.i. investigation. rachel the dispute over the credibility of the witnesses is dividing the country and now it seems that holding the wrong view can cost you your job a dean at catholic university in washington has been suspended over a tweet that was deemed to have degraded one of the women who accused capitol and

a professor at georgetown university said covenant deserved to die rich caused an outcry among some students but the university there said that it was the professor's personal view and doesn't represent the school's opinion by let's go live now to john griffin who's the republican media contribute to come back to r.t. so we have two cases of somebody spitting venom online on different sides and it being treated in very very different ways i mean i know that the internet is a pretty unseemly place at the best of times but people in certain jobs perhaps shouldn't be sharing their views like that online on what is a very important very sensitive case. well so is the you know online views now expressing them are definitely dangerous but so is apparently the advise and consent process of the us senate someone has has been accused without merit the evidence is actually borne out that he was not aware where. his

accuser said he was you know the witnesses that were supposed to have affirmed this woman actually contradicted her and you know and this this is due process turned on its head in this country we have innocent until proven guilty and that has been totally thrown out the window by this but equally within the past year the kavanaugh of claims assault on top of the others that have been over the past twelve months there are people feeling brave enough to come forward to say that they've been assaulted there are people who have been wrongly a cane and at the same time you've got this unseemly viewed rau going on online that's helping neither the people who it is trying to come forward with genuine claims and those people are being caught wrongly. well it is lewd you use the correct words lewd it's crass it has no place in american civil discourse in democratic civil society the fact that someone has been able to baselessly

destroy a man's family and character simply because they don't want a republican nominee on the supreme court that is the level of hyper partisanship and you're right it extends to social media it extends to the internet i don't even support kathy griffin losing her job at c.n.n. for the severed head i don't support a society that wants to eliminate people's right to express opinions and eliminate due process saying that we should kill each other over political disagreements accusing someone of horrific day it acts just to prevent the political process from happening i'm sorry that's just sad but by the same token the way this is being handled from many in the republican side would almost put some women off coming forward when they have a genuine grievance i know you i don't think they have is the governor is an old man and i don't believe that mr cavanaugh is innocent but these women believe they

have a genuine complaint against this man. well look that's what i'm saying i don't i think the process has been served here he's having his seventh a seventh f.b.i. investigation done this is a man who's been on the bench and gone through ethics ethics checks for years for his entire career you don't think that one of his other important jobs before now and maybe serving in the bush white house that would have been a time for injured women to come forward this just smells as they used to say there's something rotten in denmark it stinks and it's blowing from d.c. what about mr cavanaugh is performance there because a lot of people watching that would say it was extremely emotionally charged and partisan and that perhaps is not the kind of character that the united states should have sitting at its highest cold she. if i had two little girls and a wife and we've been married that many years and someone had just accused me of

being a fan of gang rape i think i would be a little teary eyed to do it's humiliating and shameful and yes it is something that would make a normal man a normal upstanding individual feel emotion it's certainly a valid response it's shocking to me the same people on the left that say they care about women and they're her in their pain are the same people judging whether or not someone's emotions are real or authentic give me a break. to just have fun of the times and it will live online these days and there's no escape from anything anyway or until we've got to leave it there but don't griffin republican official media contributor thanks for your time. thank you . and i'm president a cold case in britain could see historic changes to the rights of transgender parents and if successful it would mean a biological mother may no longer need to be stipulated on british birth certificate and 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 they're not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy and family life but only floor right now states that he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all that preventing him from receiving welfare state benefits among other things as well. and 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 and we got the views of political commentator david van't and 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 mother or father or could it just be a parent i would think that it's not really important for legal reasons or any other practical reason why has to be a mother peter's just said this let's remove mother from the birth certificate and

replace it with something more more nonspecific such as parent but mother's give birth the kids sorry spoiler alert that's how it's been that's how it's always going to be and no minds of debate are going to change that biological 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 but i believe anywhere else who on the birth certificate the word mother is missing. 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. get your peter peter the law is not based

on on on exceptions the law must apply to all you just can't operate at the way that you'd like to so the fact of the matter is that this child was born to a woman and there for the birth certificate should reasonably reflect that reality that she needs right for this our next although how we might still be a month away max and stacey have got zombies on their mind you know latest kinds of reports only. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing just as they would a simple they want to take on most wanted us to some just about us but if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities best person asked

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