subscribe to read people also get enough he counted for just twelve euros fifty per month. italy hosts a peace conference aimed at putting an end to the years long conflict in libya but the country's advanced oil reserves one thing as a magnet to those vying for a share of the result. a u.s. judge orders the state's prison service to consider if a transgender woman can be held in an all female facility but for the issue of the debate. place it's all well everyone should be safe but that doesn't mean that spare should privileges should be granted to people who claim that they're transgender it's not a perk for a treatment it's about keeping these people alive and that is actually in the best interest of these are prison systems. and poland's president marches alongside

right wing groups in warsaw to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of beck countries and reestablishment as an independent state. a very well welcome you watching on t.v. international with me nicky aaron great to have you with us this hour our top story italy is hosting an international conference on libya this monday the aim to end the conflict in the country that's been dragging on since the ousting of colonel gadhafi in two thousand and eleven francaise also been trying to establish itself as a regional peacemaker there was more on galaxy of explains there could be an ulterior motive behind all the apparent good intentions. seven years it's been seven long chaotic years

a country torn apart two governments countless warlords tribes gangs duking it out for power and all will. of course everyone's trying to help stop this italy which has been flirting with general half star who leads one of the two rival libyan government and controls almost half the country fronts with its regular peace summit swear macrorie plays the matchmaker paris wants elections as soon as possible one of the crucial elements is the organization of presidential and parliamentary elections on december tenth twenty eight thus it's a commitment on the basis of this process to fully and safely give their sovereignty back to the libyan people and allow them to express it on this date but

it's only for one doesn't want elections premature and they think conditions aren't right they say and france france once something else they fear my fear is that someone for economic motives and selfish national interest is putting the security of north africa at risk and result of europe as a whole i'm thinking of someone who waged a war that should have been waged someone who said election days without discussing it with allies with the united nations were indeed with the libyan people move over mad cause you tried to end your summit failed room is hosting its own get together for peace but rumors say general haftar may be too busy to attend what with storming the capital and all trip. police must be liberated and will not remain in the wrong hands the armed forces will act after making proper assessments

we will move on tripoli at the proper time why is tripoli so important you might ask legitimacy it's the capital the government that currently controls it is the un recognized one general have tub controls half the country much of the oil but he by international law sell it only the recognized government can he needs the capital and make no mistake the libyans understand well what the europeans are up to and why they're backing different sides. of course there is negative intervention from some countries which we've mentioned during several meetings and international forums this needs to be taken into account and this should be enslaved nation of the international position towards libya and the direction of libya so that we can overcome this crisis. in libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa and italy france want as much as they can get

italian or oil giant any recently purchased a large part of b.p. oil and gas license with the aim of increasing exploration friend trival totalis also be buying up drilling rights eager to get the pumps going this is a competition with billions at stake it is the largest producer was the largest producer of oil in africa and not only that but it's highly prized because of its its technical quality is its so-called sweet low sulfur so it's highly prized and it's refining is easier than some of the other stuff or other person at least so everybody once a problem is mr hafter area controls all the oil. that's the real question and not to be too cynical that's what the europeans are most concerned about originally

they were back in a group in tripoli just on the order of stability because it was recognized by the united nations but increasingly the europeans were getting very frightened. more strife in libya will further cut off their oil supplies mistrusting now with the prospect of more sanctions on iranian oil what's remarkable is that and the stool this endless war the enormous slavery crime will production is on the up by the end of next year they plan on increasing production to. levels one point six million barrels a day you can question their priorities but you can only admire the dedication. well people we talked to in libya's capital tripoli expressed skepticism that a poll that about come from the meeting went bad shape. official owens i believe in with we want something useful we want

a productive meeting we want them to agree on something and then return to the libyan people and tell them that they're found a solution no one has found a solution. with regard to the conference there is nothing new happening the right solution is not wishful thinking but real concrete work a lot more than one who puts all the parties at the bloom of conference to reach a solution because the people has suffered enough as you can see may god guide them and blissett gumtree the height of the. mist and i think there is an undeniable conflict between the italian and french states over economic interests as well as over control and the image of the two countries. the us federal judge has ordered prison officials in illinois to reconsider a transgender woman was denied request to be moved to a women's prison that comes after the inmates took legal action against the state's correctional department claiming that she's treated like a sex slave in men's facilities twenty six her all day on strawberry hampton is

currently serving a ten year sentence for burglary she says she has faced sexual abuse in all four of the men's prisons she has been held in hunter and has had her previous requests for transfer denied and argues that she would be safer in a women's prison her lawyer has praised the federal judge's intervention this is an important step not only for school free but in general for transgender women imprisoned across the nation while the department of corrections which is responsible for the supervision of inmates says it makes every possible effort to safeguard long of all present us the illinois department of corrections maintains a strict a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of sexual abuse and sexual harassment the department carefully considers housing assignments and the unique needs of offenders who identify as transgender. we discussed the prison policy in america towards transgender paper with like the activist on to me which is right and the

political commentator. trump administration recently loosened and change regulations that came down under the obama administration they say that if you're if you're judged on what you are based on your biological sex ok so this person that we're talking about in chicago in illinois though i would be judged a male under the trumpet ministration and the reason it was changed is because female prisoners in texas had a similar situation and they sued they didn't want a transgender male who said he was a woman coming to their prison they said it was an invasion of their property that you keep everybody safe but you don't start making accommodations special accommodations to gender dysphoria is accepted by the american medical association in american psychological association as distress from gender assignment at birth so this isn't just something that people are doing for fun this is a recognized medical condition based on science based on research and decent study

so it's very very important that we train these prison facilities better just like the entire society needs to be trained and more informed about the very specific issues that are affecting transgender people nationwide free marketing of our seventy people twenty people how much money do you want to spend how many special provisions you want to make in a system that probably doesn't have enough money in the first place for twenty people you need to keep everybody say if but you can start making special provisions to anybody who says that they feel like their own women when they were met born a man could be classified as trans gender whether they mean it or don't mean it i mean you have to consider the masses as opposed to the twenty people involved. well that's a very very dangerous. mode of speaking i happen to be from what is referred to as a minority class and just because white people are in the majority does not mean

that as an african-american or a light next person that we should be subjected to white supremacy secondly it's hard for he said i have seen a lot of the letter that he's talking about what our earth are you talking about white supremacy if i could if i could just finish it's hard for me to have sympathy for the prison system not having enough money when they were able to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to the donald trump campaign all the time prisoners regular president men and men and male prisoners all raped or attacked or pekin that's terrible so anyone that wants a transfer out they're going to get the same treatment as this transgender no they're not i mean prison is a tough place it's awful everyone should be safe but that doesn't mean that spec actual privileges should be granted to people who claim that they're transgender it's just not fair instances of violence is not a a function of preferential treatment is a function of safety we also have special provisions for younger inmates we have

special provisions for inmates who are proven to be suffering from mental health illness it's not a preferential treatment it's about keeping these people alive and that is actually in the best interest of these prison systems who are using these people for cheap or free labor. they have right in warsaw as the pony's competent mocked independence day with a national if not two hundred fifty thousand people down there on sunday with some child saying a white and catholic poland and the crying americans and evil the country's president on the government officials and government official with what that to alongside right quick. the old. the old. the old. polish flanks and banners were drapes down streets and across squares it's also been reported that

a number of neo nazi symbols were spotted under an e.u. fly and burned there was a large police presence watching over the march which took place at the same time as a states military parade the government's decision to march alongside far rights nationalists has been widely criticized the march is more evidence of a rise in neo nazi sentiment in poland. but in october three polish teens first a graph themselves making a nazi salute at the auschwitz concentration camp island our home the jewish philosophy professor from the hebrew university in jerusalem told us the my current issue is leading to a rise of nationalist sentiment in europe. the polish government decided to actually embrace the. tendencies and. ideologies of the past because. the fear from the immigration creates a bias a political bias and a political agenda that brings into

a defensive approach towards the entire matter of the immigrants threats from the past are becoming the true reality of the present and rising again but we must pay attention to the fact that today we have more reasons not only anti simitis them but also what is going on with the european approach to the to the border questions and to the immigration question. a blast has rocked the afghan capital kabul killing at least ten people and injuring eight others it's a get a demonstration at a high school which was against the taliban's targeting of the hazaar ethnic group however islamic state has claimed it was behind the bombing last friday moscow hosted a landmark multilateral talks on afghanistan china iran and pakistan were among the countries that for the first time the taliban were also represented russia's

presidential envoy to afghanistan told r.t. is maria for notion why the taliban is so crucial to the peace process we don't like. control the. start of the conflict some four five years ago. on the learning. of the monopoly power in afghanistan you know so they don't want to talk to these puppet government but they are ready to talk to brule spectrum of political and social forces. this congress given the governing government can be part of such negotiations so it was a very big progress but one who before said no war until we wean taliban movement is not homogeneous when it was announced as

a terrorist organization it was a time when it was led by a late or some a bit a lot of that time the bulk and majority of taliban want to vote in the terrorist organization with a holiday. global idea global jihad like that but after defeat they review their policy those part of the taliban who dominate was in their ranks and structures of taliban they are in favor of. political solution but since they're not sure. that it will come so easily they prefer to use by to simultaneously military pressure and political negotiations well it's not nothing new for the world it's of the best way to make your rival while notable or at least flexible by pushing force

americans to a website of the same. announcer that by force we make taleban to negotiate but they failed the common face growing the democratic republic of congo over the country's worst outbreak of ebola we have a date house for you after this short break.

during the past thirty years lebanon has been subject to six invasions from israel . six invasions at practically every engineer every five years we are having. one let's say and this is definitely the kind of the health of. when is warning of the rising death toll from an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the disease which causes internal bleeding and spreads rapidly has already taken two hundred lives in a matter of months officials say it's the worst outbreak in the country's history

according to the health ministry a vaccination program has so far an ocular to over twenty five thousand people since the outbreak started in august doctors say more lives could be saved if medical teams didn't face direct threats to their lives from armed groups active in the region r.t. easier to train code now looks at how the mineral rich country is coping with the disease amid lile and instability. their new cell phone a necklace you just bought and a bowl of you might have forgotten the name of that deadly disease but there could be a connection between the three i'll explain in a sec this is the democratic republic of congo in the heart of africa that's where you find a lot of the pricey resources that the high tech and jewelry industries are after but who's in control of all that the legal it's the action of me little's shot of cool and landlines is school violence in a number of regions in the democratic republic of congo it is that i did almost

a billion dollars in revenue for rebels and criminal groups the country's politics has been a violent mess for over twenty years now adays a new a bowl outbreak is making things worse for locals in only a few months it took the lives of almost two hundred people the health ministry says they've never had to deal with outbreaks of that scale and with armed thugs running the show in parts of the republic doctors are losing confidence in their own efforts i do think this is one of the challenges we'll have to see whether we're able to contain control and the colonel break within the current security situation after all even the brave us doctors don't want to risk their lives when they're under a constant threat of being taken out at times it's just physically impossible to reach the affected areas on a harmed if we just look at the figures this is belgian research center in distant

on the tremendous effort to map mining sites as well as our presence in their most recent report day i didn't find more than two townsend's mine in sites in eastern alone. goal being the most important ones and if i wanted to over eighty percent of my mix were going in gold and some gold is more difficult to control and about sixteen percent of the miners were in three thousand marines and about hollow. these miners. regulate the treaty in mind so it's three eighteen months covered by the it's good program so that it could survive an idea about the magnitude of the sector and some of the proportionally very small markets covered by international regulatory initiatives but as we've heard from the un top man business means money does find its way into the fighters hands well back in two thousand and ten in america this law came into being and businesses were obliged to tell us if their

products contained so-called conflict minerals from the democratic republic of congo reputation risks aren't a joke it comes out in a number of reports that are highlighted with the press on the companies that are doing little or no activity at all there is some companies that used to report that i no longer reporting and so there is also reputational risk for them to be seen as laggards and not doing enough to ensure that they are not fueling any of the conflict in the d.n.c. if we put bureaucracy nuts and bolts of side in april last year the legislation was basically suspended while some companies have kept playing by the old rules others could have found a handy loophole for themselves regardless of the big name brands in the manufacturers and the companies that i would buy a cell phone or a computer or

a car for i do have influence. some of the richest companies in the world and they have the ability to work with their suppliers and work through their supply chain and have that assurance that they're not causing them to any death or destruction or violence against people you know or the planet. that my peers and donald trump were among the heads of. state attending world war one the commemorations in paris on sunday well the two didn't have an actual meeting they still managed to grab headlines for what was described as over friendly body language donna hawkins discussed the reaction with r.t. america host scotty no hughes. this time there actually being a very tightlipped in fact this weekend that was something very uncharacteristic of a trumpet mr eisner top of it is that we didn't have a lot of details we didn't have that bad behind the scenes being leaked out to the two new york times the washington post which it makes me think that possibly the

leaks might have been locked down or more importantly we're talking about such serious issues that even those who might if they could have passed realize that is the not in the best interest of either country or any of the parties involved and it's of some interest of course there was a lot of media speculation on both sides from from the american the russian side i mean the believe the presidential aide you do she called said the reason why it didn't go ahead was pretty much out of respect for the french saw what i mean they didn't want this to happen. probably probably a good idea as we discussed i think it's a good idea but i think it's not only just out of respect for the french who are your host i think more important out of respect for the reason why they were here to honor the veterans across the world internationally gave their lives up for world war one in all the conflicts going on i think it actually had been very inappropriate for president putin president trying to meet together and i think they actually showed very good respect for each other more probably the soldiers that were being honored this weekend by choosing not to take the take attention away from them. they were there to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one so it does make sense that they were going to postpone that

meeting since they'll have another opportunity very shortly but the world is in a serious situation now and we need to be speaking to each other country after country conducting the largest military exercises largest war games in decades and how this should not be forgotten the broader context is that the world is wrap at least sliding into war again so the lessons of the commemoration of world war one day ghastly war that horrific war which tens of millions of people died which upset the international order which cave the way to an even more terrible. things are going to come we have to learn the lessons the problem is that our leaders don't learn the lessons of history. well ahead on this estate donald trump criticized president micron of his proposal to create a european army calling it insulting however in paris they glossed over any

differences agreeing that more defense spending is needed in europe r.t. france asked a lot of putin for his view on the. alternative military forces or not a new idea president micron has simply revived it europe is a large powerful economic unit and obviously it seeks independence and sovereignty in terms of defense and security i see it as a positive process in terms of strengthening the multipolar world. while president putin also spoke to us about the pressure various media are facing these days because. we have always heard from our western partners that one of the main principles of democracy is freedom of information creating lists and special counsel's which decide which media is bad and which is good this is unacceptable this has nothing to do with democracy. back to his american counterpart now and

it's not right if i don't shun visits abroad occurs without protest and paris was no exception. despite the many a cylinder in his hair a giant balloon depicting trunk as a baby with seen flying over the french castle protesters slammed his immigration and foreign policies and said they're growing weary of the us president. it's a disgrace to america and that we think that time does not represent american people is not professional he's not somebody that i would look at you in any shape or form and you ship afloat i just think you know he's putting america down and he's not a french issue is a global issue and that's why we're here protesting he's not welcome here and he's not welcome anywhere obviously there are lots of other problems in the world and

one of the things that's upsetting me about trump is that he's distracting us from these other issues head on so he would love to hear your thoughts on our story so to get in touch by following us on social media and join us again at the top of the hour. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is like the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the house. during the civil war. you know world of big partisan new things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that

mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. with the distance of the space will. i feel for some period this is their. roles going to say of course the business with them must be so it will be. this is an english folk. not a fellow up on a slow motion i am. ok

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