civil war in africa's newest country claims that close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report prompting the question where. for south sudan gone also ahead. nato ambassadors to clarify herself after she threatened washington would take out russia's missile stockpile accusing moscow of violating a major cold war era treaty. between. law unfolds in italy. placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. and of the people's republic of.

prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. he's under fire after making. direct from our studios in moscow this is an international and john thomas from england to have. 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 it is also a long way away from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence in two thousand and eleven the u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation but how long did that help continue our comments. south sudan is the youngest country in the world and according to a new word. port 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 administration now in the white house the u.s. role in south sudan is being. sassed 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 have meant that for now at least the world seems to have

forgotten about the sudan crisis some stuff 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 is denying she suggested carrying out a preemptive strike against russia the she had earlier told a news conference in brussels about taking out missiles in development by russia claiming they're 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 counter measure of eventually. commenting on the ambassador's statement of the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said that public

officials should be more careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric more details now from our news nichiren. 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 macao gorbachev in one nine hundred eighty seven a 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 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 our 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. has already developing its own ground based cruise missile in breach of the

historic accord. a prominent for britain's ruling conservative party is under fire after he made a joking reference to libya jacob riis mog called the african state the people's republic of germany jar or something his parties and 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 in tory m.p. jacob green small 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 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 which 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 that this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politicians should be ashamed of themselves. because. the military is destroying. false accusation. was going to. be.

called the i know this is the problem. with issue this is the issue. we should actually have on the. way out is when we. believe all the cost of. human lives. hundreds of people gathered earlier in rome in support of the mayor of a small italian town after he was arrested for allegedly helping immigrants remain in the country illegally demonstrators said the mayor had broad support among the population and despite the government's charges against him protesters also claimed his arrest endangered the freedom and future of italy and saying anti-fascist songs here's our europe correspondent. no is the mayor of the small town of 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 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. products of the unfair world well he's now found himself the targets 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 procedures 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 mettie or 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 that we've seen in the past. russia has completed the delivery of its assets three hundred air defense systems to syria with the intent of a protector and russian service personnel stationed there earlier my colleague can

break the details from our 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 it for the ones we have consider reach strengthened electronic warfare capability we dispatched additional equipment there as a result we control a short range zone within a fifty kilometer radius and. long range in the main direction from wearing cousins were conducted within a two hundred kilometer rate use a total of forty nine elements of hardware have been handed over to the syrians and most importantly for launchers the s 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 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 washing 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 weapon systems to air responsible actors will magnify dangers in the region. all right some of the other initial reactions of the u.s. state department says that russia's air defense deployment to syria could escalate the situation in the region. at all prices are on the verge of a four year high as worries amount over global supplies due to washington sanctions on iran the us dollar unexpectedly went to the other way dropping about twenty percent against iran's ryall in

a one day washington plans to renew sanctions against tehran in early november following its withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal a move strongly opposed by european leaders we heard exclusively from the iraqi foreign minister on how the crisis between iraq's neighbor iran and the us cannot be resolved and we call it on speaking of iraq's relations with washington and iran bear in mind the iranians are 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

or 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 parts of that we weren't supports any state striving to spark a war in our region sexual assault allegations against us supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh are polarizing public opinion like never before more on that coming up after a short break you are watching our international. zombie banks plague has spilled over to zombie corporations what is a zombie bank the zombie bank it's a bank that's technically insolvent it's kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling bailouts from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the

commercial banks the lawyers the ages p.c. b.n.p. citibank they're technically insolvent they're going to live even though i'm a zombie to the actual rolling of bailout they call quantitative easing or some other name that they come up with every few months. seemed wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out just being active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and.

international scandal surrounding donald trump says supreme court nominee is not cooling down with the president receiving an avalanche of questions about his nominee brett kavanaugh is facing sexual assault allegations from several women with some people suggesting he may not have told the truth when he denied the claims at a senate committee hearing trump says he agrees that nobody should give false testimony to congress. lying to congress. i don't think you should lie to congress and there's been a lot of people over the last year that have lied to congress and to me that would not be acceptable. to judge cabot 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. well cavanagh was nominated by trump to sit 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 allegations trump though agreed to the request of republican senator jeff flake who holds a key vote on the judiciary committee for an f.b.i. investigation right now. the dispute over the credibility of the witnesses is dividing the country and now it seems holding the wrong view can cost you your job dean at the catholic university of america in washington d.c. has been suspended over a tweet or that was deemed to have degraded one of the women who accused kavanaugh and a professor at georgetown university said cavanagh deserved to die which caused an outcry among some students however the university has stated that it was the

professor's personal view and doesn't represent the school's opinion we spoke earlier with republican official john a good thing who thinks political discourse has sunk to a new low. 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 acts just to. 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. and unprecedented court case in britain could see historic changes to the

rights of trans get gender parents and if successful it would mean a biological mother may no longer need to be named 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 a father or parent and says that not being allowed to do so violates his human right to privacy and 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 and state benefits among other things while this is a unique case in england as since two thousand and sixteen the us state of california has given parents the choice to pick between mother father or simply parent according to personal preference we've got the views of political commentator david vance 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 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 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. in

a similar situation you have given birth and they have accepted 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 exceptions the law must apply to all you just can't operate it 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 reality. that doesn't back with more news of the top they are watching our children stay with us .

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alive by bailouts continuing. rolling balance from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lloyds the h.s.b.c. the m.p. the citibank they're technically insolvent they're to live even the zombies are rolling them bail out they call quantitative easing or some other name they come up with every two months. lou and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle america is a house deeply divided and that division only continues the entire brett kavanaugh saga has turned into blood sport demanding each and every one of us pick a side we're in new territory and that place is called winner takes all.

cultural wars i'm joined by my guest christopher me when i'm in washington he's a republican strategist in los angeles we have robert barnes he is a trial lawyer in criminal and constitutional law and in chad going to go we cross to brian joyce he's the host of the brian joyce show all right jim cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it who gets the go first of all the guy that got up early is for this program that means it's robert. ok it's talk about the brett kavanaugh thing in a much broader cultural and political sense here what does it represent to you because i can i i am even willing to admit my introduction is a bit over the top but i'm trying to make a point here because it does seem like we're in a in an era an epoch where one wins one loses.