civil war in africa's newest country claims that close to four hundred thousand lives according to a u.s. funded report. the initial support for gone also. america's nato ambassadors to clarify. she threatened washington that would take out russia's stockpile accusing moscow of violating a major cold war era treaty. between empathy and. placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. and the people's republic of. a prominent conservative party in the u.k.

. making insensitive quip about. our broadcast. internationally. to. the number of deaths from the civil war in the central african nation of south sudan has reached almost four hundred thousand and that was revealed in a damning new report it says the figure is almost eight times higher than previously thought is also a long way away from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence in two thousand and eleven u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation then but how long did that help continue our. comments. 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 have to 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 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 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 so forgotten about displacement of people women and children under spokesman 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 when the blind eye. the u.s. ambassador to nato is denying she suggested carrying out a preemptive strike against russia she had earlier told a news conference in brussels about taking out missiles in development by russia claiming they are in a breach of a cold war era treaty. the kunar me as yours would be to take out the missiles that are in development my russia in violation of the treaty so that would be the counter measure and eventually. already commenting on the ambassador's

statement of the russian foreign ministries a spokeswoman said that public officials should be more careful when it comes to aggressive rhetoric more details now from. 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 and 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 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 un stoltenberg has also weighed in he's spoken of concerns for what he calls russia's last respects 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 joke in reference to libya jacob reese mongan called the african states the people's republic of germ jar or something his party's annual conference. per. share. growth 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 riis 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 mogue 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 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 so. strange indeed especially given the role that britain had played and the destiny of libya as a nation. arab affairs writer. one believes that this kind of language can be heard all through british politics and society. politicians to be ashamed of themselves. because actually. the military is destroying the kind. of false accusation. you will. be.

called i know this is the problem. with this you vision. actually have an. open what is when we. believe all the. 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 despite the government's charges against him protesters also claimed his arrest endangered the freedom and future of italy and say anti-fascist songs here is our europe correspondent put up. no is the mayor of the small town of 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 the dressed in peace prize and twenty seventeen it 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 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 in 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 on to mature renzi and the new coalition government certainly has picked up a populist and more well auntie migrant view this coalition between the five star movement and the league headed up by the prime minister she said picante 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. russia has completed the delivery of three hundred air defense systems to syria with the intent of protecting russian service personnel stationed there earlier my colleague colum

bray got the details from a 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 for the ones we have consider reach strengthened electronic warfare capability so we dispatched additional equipment in there as a result we control a short range zone within a fifty kilometer radius and a long range on the main direction from where incursions were conducted within a two hundred kilometer radius. a total of fourteen elements of hardware have been handed over to the syrians and most importantly for launchers the ass three hundred is designed to protect the airspace 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 l 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. the u.s. state department has also reacted it says russia's the air defense deployment to syria could escalate the situation in the region. palestinian university students have clashed with israeli forces in the west bank city of ramallah soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.

demonstrators. tires on fire and the rally was staged in protest against the demolition of a village in the west bank which is home to one hundred eighty palestinians protesters there are also continuing to make a stand against the israeli nation state law after a general strike on monday it is claimed the law makes israeli arabs second. the scandal surrounding the supreme court nominee is not cooling down with the president receiving an avalanche of questions about his nominee brett kavanaugh is facing the 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. 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 not be acceptable. 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 cavanagh was nominated by trungpa 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 the allegations trump though agreed to the request of

republican senator jeff flake recalled a key vote on the judiciary committee for an f.b.i. investigation. the dispute over the credibility of the witnesses is dividing the country and now it seems is holding the wrong view well it can cost you your job a dean at the catholic university of america in washington d.c. has been suspended over a tweet that was deemed to have degraded one of the women who accused cavanagh. and a professor at georgetown university said kavanagh 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 griffin 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 prevent the political process from happening i'm sorry that's just sad the fact that someone has been able to govern 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. french authorities say that they have frozen the assets of iran's intelligence agency that's after alleging tehran plans to bomb an iranian opposition groups rally near paris was to department has back to that move. we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's stop top

sponsor of terrorism or that comes after iran's ambassador to the u.n. accused saudi arabia of sponsoring terrorism during his address at the recent u.n. general assembly meeting held in a new york. everybody knew it was very well that saudi arabia supports terrorism and a very blatant and widespread manner in the framework of we key in two thousand and nine hillary clinton is said to have stated that saudi arabia is the greatest you know to terrorist groups around the world so according to those documents obtained by wiki leaks events secretary of state hillary clinton called saudi arabia the most significant source of funding to sunni terrorist groups worldwide she also allegedly names saudi arabia a critical financial support base for al qaeda the taliban and other terrorist groups political scientist says the u.s. applies double standards in how it treats iran and saudi arabia. why are the saudis

not targeted and all the focus is on is on iran well the answer is very obvious so dear be aisy us client state that purchases meetings and dinos of dollars of arms and you know furnishes oil to the western governments when we tend put take to it and immunize it from criticism we saw in the recent going to report lambasted so. where do i trusted easing yemen and the money getting catastrophe there we don't have anyone including the french diplomats raising and i brought. an unprecedented court 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 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 wants to be identified as the 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. and while this is a unique case in england since two thousand and sixteen of the us 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 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 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 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 transmit some. 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 cater to. your peter peter the law is not based 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 will be back in about thirty three and a half minutes you are watching our two international you're going to read this. one else seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to see. this day become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground

. greetings and salutation. welcome to another edition of the united states of disarray watchers of this week's new adventures sees the normally anti big government pro states' rights republicans a pop electic over california's recent decision to take on the federal communications commission in the federal government by passing a law enforcing net neutrality within the golden state's borders you see net neutrality essentially bars internet service providers from blocking or throttling

traffic or offering paid past lanes also known as paid prioritize ation and gutting these regulations has been the feather in the cap of f.c.c. chairman and former of rising lawyer. since being appointed by us president donald trump and he would have he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling californians as well as twenty two other states in the union and a coalition of big tech companies all fighting to reinstate the neutrality rules the pied neutered and the three to two party line vote back in december of two thousand and seventeen but just as things were were looking bleak for i with california's new net neutrality regulations set to take effect in january first and our good old buddy jeff sessions in the us the justice department to this week brought a lawsuit against the state of california seeking a preliminary injunction to block california's state net neutrality law from taking effect and while all this partisan bickering and lawsuits clog our airwaves another

news story quietly blew under the cable news radar that i think should be raising a few alarm bells you see the new york times reporting that according. to the federal government accountability office just three years after discovering that a military laboratory had shipped live anthrax to pursue oldies around the world the department of defense still has not developed a plan to evaluate its biological security practices lovely because you know nothing like a little net neutrality with a dash of anthrax as we kick off today's edition of watching the whole x. . forty. three it looks like. it's. as if. you. like you know that i got. this.

because. of the watch the hawks i am tyrone for in times have the law listen joining us from new york to discuss net neutrality anthrax and maurice conservative commentator steve malzberg welcome see you hi guys pleasure to be here is always steve always fun i got to throw this out to steve and i got to ask you not taking anything away from the fight of for net neutrality it's been a long time fight but why has our government wasting time suing california when they have yet to reevaluating our biological security procedures you know which clearly failed back to twenty fifteen when the government sent i think over five hundred over the course of a decade by hundred samples of live at drax priorities and no well. yeah i mean good as soon as they're going to mean i think we know that priority is ultimately shift about every six months on capitol hill in the pentagon about what's.