civil war in africa's newest country close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report prompting the question where has the initial support of the south sudan gone also ahead. america's nato ambassador scrambles to clarify itself the washington would take out russia's missile stockpile. violating a major cold war era treaty. struggle between empathy and law unfolds in italy is a program placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. the people's republic of job a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making that insensitive quip about libya.

from moscow this is r.t. international your hourly news with me calling for a welcome to the program. the number of deaths from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand 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 in twenty eleven the united states was quick to support africa's newest nation then but how long did that help continue and 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 have the republic of south sudan and to think you have sovereign nations but the euphoria did not last long it breaks my heart to see what south sudan has become today country fell into a civil war between rival clans the president turned 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 spaceman's 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 for all intensive purposes the the west and the international community seems to of when the blind eye. the u.s. ambassador to nato is denying that he should jested carrying out a preemptive strike against russia she'd only a total news conference in brussels about taking our missiles in development by russia claiming they're in breach of a cold war era treaty. the key under 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 eventually. all commenting on the ambassador's statement the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said the public official should be more careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric or details now from nicky aaron. 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 of a banned 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 he had to say getting them to withdraw would be. a 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 if they're performing

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 again 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 missile in breach of the historic accord. a prominent m.p. for britain's ruling conservative party is under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob riis more called the african state the people's republic of german durrell something that is parties on your conference. per.

group over thirty. years. 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 in a bit of casual racism did you and boris johnson have the same geography teacher at

eton college maybe now is the time to learn some respect for other countries little england jacob riis malk shows his disdain for the rest of the world this tawdry tory government has had its time bush it deserves better than this inward looking bunch of unworldly has been and never was this sort of remark is becoming too common from the bracks it is coming as it does in the wake of boris's recent. insulting other people is not the way i want my country represented and the public see it for what it is petty politics the reason those boris johnson burka jibes and boris johnson in general get mentioned in a few of those reactions is because a former u.k. foreign secretary has himself come under fire on many occasions for quite controversial comments with the burkas he had just recently compared women wearing them to letterbox is causing quite a bit of controversy here in the u.k. but with these latest comments on libya they do seem quiet strange indeed

especially given the role that britain had played and the destiny of libya as a nation arab affairs writer abdel bari atwan believes this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politician to be ashamed of themselves as she did not know something because actually they are being bought by military means to destroy our country is under a false accusation the. lies on one of my strengths and with truths government you will live and then leave the city and that leaves change anything there. could be called an arche this is the problem of people besides. the british this should be a shameful and so we should actually have been there were the africans are aware of what is happening in the world and they don't believe all the talk so i'll be

looking to see all the human rights. russia has completed the delivery of its s. three hundred air defense systems to syria with the intent of protecting russian service personnel stationed there i got more details earlier from correspondent in hipaa trying to. 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 for the video we have consider reach strengthened electronic warfare capability so we dispatched additional equipment as a result we control a short range zones within a fifty kilometer radius and a long range in the main direction from wearing cousins were conducted within a two hundred kilometer radius a total of fourteen nine elements of hardware have been handed over to the syrians

and most importantly for launchers the ass 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 i l 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 airspace activity 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. while some of the other initial reaction the u.s. state department says that russia's deployment to syria could escalate the situation in the region. hundreds of people gathered earlier in rome in support of the man of a small italian town after he was arrested for allegedly helping immigrants remain

in the country illegally the demonstrators said that the man had the wide support of the population despite the government's charges against him protesters also claimed his arrest in danger the freedom and future of it. all over again the scandal surrounding donald trump's supreme court nominee is far from cooling down with the president receiving an avalanche of questions about his nominee a coven or 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 from says he agrees that nobody should give false testimony to congress. i don't think he 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 be except the. judge cabinet 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 kavanaugh is doing very well right accounting i was nominated by trump to a seat 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 those allegations from those agreed to demands by the senate democrats and the republican or jeff flake for an f.b.i. investigation all this the dispute over the credibility of the witnesses is dividing the country had and now it seems hold in the wrong view can cost you your job dana a catholic university in washington has been suspended over a tweet that was deemed to have degraded one of the women who accuses kavanah and a professor at georgetown university said kavanagh deserved to die because an outcry monger some students but the university stated that it was the professors personal view and doesn't represent the school's opinion i spoke earlier with

republican official john griffin who thinks political discourse is some to a new low. i don't support a society that wants to a women a people's right to express opinions and eliminate due process saying that we should kill each other over political disagreements accusing someone of horrific acts just to get the political process from happening i'm sorry that's just sad 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 it's shocking to me that the same people on the left that say they care about women and their her in their pain are the same people judging whether or not someone's emotions are real or authentic give me a break. an unprecedented court case in britain could see historic changes to the

rights of transgender parents if successful it would mean a biological mother may no longer need to be stipulated on british birth certificates of the center of the legal battle is a single parent who became pregnant but 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 and family life i think it's low right now states that he must appear as the biological mother on the birth certificate and all this is preventing him from receiving welfare and state benefits among other things as well 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 call the views of political commentator david violence and campaign appear to tackle. 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 on a bi 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 some transit. 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 our heads up about us and we should just make the accommodation but i. get your 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 . that's the way looks from here so far this hour showing thomas has the next world news from out say after we've learned about the palestinians documenting that tough lives not through protests throughout. creditors financial survival guide i don't fly i've caused on

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

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a phobia. of almost all the fake love in the field of coffee. for many years this is the battle of the bought. for all school. ideas that don't let me name so israel has launched its biggest offensive against gaza in years the united nations is urging israel to hold success to force the students or 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 as their stance hasn't changed over the years but here's what their spokesperson told me in twenty fourteen. is the alternative to just let us terrorists continue their parents of aggression every two years they're carrying out to barrel and 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 an acceptable.