it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything paul you know she said is just. minutes a little mind victims of to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. it's only hosts a peace conference ended putting an end to the years long conflict in libya and the country's vast oil reserves acting as a magnet to those in vying for a share of the results of. a u.s. judge orders a state prison service to consider a transgender woman's work quest to be held in an all female facility we put the issue of the debates. prison is a tough place it's awful everyone should be safe but that doesn't mean that's fair should privileges should be granted to people who claim that they're transgender

it's not appropriate or treatment it's about keeping these people alive and that is actually in the best interest of these our prison systems. and students and teachers poor onto the streets of paris to show they did taste for president a monument prongs proposed to education which could endanger thousands of jobs these are live pictures we're bringing you right now. a very well welcome you're watching r.t. international with me great to have you with us this hour now the top story heads of states leaders of local tribes on militias from libya are expected to attend an international conference in italy in a bid to solve the libyan conflict civil war broke out after the ousting of colonel gadhafi in two thousand and eleven france has also been trying to establish itself as a regional peacemaker. though as more and galatea explains there and now terry

a motive behind 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 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 wants 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. after may be too busy to attend

what with storming the capital and all tripoli 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 can't 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 it's a national forest this needs to be taken into account and this should be

a consolidation of the international position towards libya and the direction of libya so that we can overcome this crisis. libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa and france one does 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 has also be buying up drilling rights to get the pumps going this is a competition with. stake b.p. is the largest producer was the largest producer of oil in africa. but it's boiled is highly prized because of its. technical qualities its so-called sweet. so its highly prized in its refining is easier than some of the other stuff for other person at least server what he wants problem is mr. area control.

that's the real question not to be too cynical that's what the europeans are most concerned about originally they were back in tripoli just on the order of stability as it was recognized by the united nations. but increasingly the europeans are getting very frightened. strife in libya will further cut off their oil supplies especially the prospect of more sanctions. what's remarkable is that amidst all this endless war. slavery crime will production is only 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

people we talked to in libya's capital tripoli express that skepticism that a positive outcome from the meeting would. 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 bliss 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. us federal judge has urged prison officials in illinois to reconsider transgender woman's denied request

to be moved to a women's prison comes after the inmates took legal action against the state's correctional department claiming that she was treated like a sex slave in men's facilities twenty six year old day on strawberry hunts it is currently serving a ten year sentence for burglary she says she's faced sexual abuse in all four of the men's prisons she's been held it hunton 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 but in general for transgender women imprisoned across the nation the department of corrections which is responsible for the supervision of inmate says it makes every possible effort to safeguard vulnerable prisoners. the illinois department of corrections maintains a strict 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 american prison policy towards transgender people with rights activist anthony russians rights and political commentator steve malzberg trumpet ministration 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 the 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 three hunting about personality 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 there are there were 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 haven't seen a lot of the letter that he's talking about what our earth you're 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 present men and men and male prisoners are 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. following yesterday's protests against u.s. president trump today's witnessing another rally in the french campus at this time students and professors are marching against the new education reform they cripple exulting thousands of low skill jobs lost his son a defense has more from paris as some let's say you're a bad monkey crowd once again today what's the mood of the people like today. the people had defiant they say that this suggestion which has been proposed in the budget for two thousand and ninety. discussed more at the national assembly here in

france could result in the loss of two thousand six hundred and fifty jobs being cut these are jobs from the higher education from colleges here in france and the teachers here say they're unhappy about this they say it doesn't make any sense given that the ministry of education is only figures show that in the next few years there's going to be an increase of foodie thousand additional students every year so they say how does that work if we cut the jobs how do we then have enough staff to be able to teach the students here in france and they're angry i was speaking to one woman earlier who said we've been out protesting against macro now for the last eighteen months or so and sometimes we feel despondent but we remember every time that there's a protest that we have to come out we have to make all voices heard because she said this is the only way that she feels that they will ever be able to change some of the reforms that mark owen has been implementing roll the rapid speed since he

became president back in two thousand and seventeen so people hit calling for a change the cooling from going to listen to people in the streets they saying that yes he had suggested what his reforms would be when he became president when he was elected but what they saying is that the pace of the reforms is chief fast and there is not enough discussion and they are angry about that and as such hundreds of come out to the streets yet again to protest against the changes by the government here in france and in recent weeks we have seen of the protests protests by pension is unions have been out describing the government policy as breaking the social fabric and we also source traffic poor to normal standstill in paris when paramedics went out in strike just a week ago. such

can cut. deep deep deep deep. deep deep deep. ever porting from paris spends most of the common clothing phase growing in the democratic republic of congo over the country's was the outbreak of ebola we have the details for you after the break. when normally gets manufactured consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime.

be that one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. during the past thirty years lebanon has been subject to six invasions from israel . six invasions. practically every every every five years we are having. one that's this is definitely cannot see the help that would.

welcome back now a blast has rocked the afghan capital kabul killing at least ten people and injuring eight others it's a get a demonstration near a high school which was against the taliban's targeting of the has are ethnic group however islamic state has claimed it was behind the bombing last friday mosco hosted lang's walk multilateral talks on afghanistan china iran and pakistan were among the countries that and for the first time the taliban were also represented as russia's presidential envoy for afghanistan told us why it's crucial to have the taliban and gauged in the peace process. we don't like the idea that taliban control the unilateral afghanistan and the so late region of taleban whom we started to contact some four or five years ago a base. underlined that they are not of them on the police power in afghanistan

yes so they don't want to talk to these as they put a puppet government but they are ready to talk to burrowed spectrum of political and social forces and in this congress is going to govern the government can be part of such negotiations so it was a very big progress for obama who before said no war until we remain taliban movement is not homogeneous when it was announced as a terrorist organization it was a time when it was led by a later some of it a lot. of that time the bulk and majority of whom want the world indeed to restart relation with. global idea i will just let you got both of the defeat they review their policy. part of the whole obama who don't mean the ranks and structures of dollars they are in favor of. a

political solution but since we're not sure. that it will come so easily they prefer to use two more similar dangerously military pressure owned political negotiations well it's not nothing new for the rural of the best way to make your i will. or at least flexible by pushing force americans who are worth ready to do same number breuer unknown so that by force we probably do negotiate are there for you. the un is warning of the rising death toll from an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the disease which causes internal bleeding and spread through rapidly has already taken two hundred lives in a matter of months and with bailey rates of new cases in the central african

country more than doubled in early october officials say it's the worst outbreak in the country's history according to the country's health ministry a vaccination program has so far an ocular did about twenty five thousand people since the outbreak started in august doc says say more lives could be saved if medical teams didn't face direct threats to their lives from the armed groups active in the region it looks at how the minimal rich country is coping with disease and major violent instability. or a 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 mean little 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 car now 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 harmed but as we've heard from the u.n. 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 use. i reports that are 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.r. 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 big name brands and the manufacturers and the companies that i would buy a cell phone or a computer or a car from i do have influence by 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 any death or destruction or violence against people you know or the planet. but if you have something you'd like to say on any of our stories we'd love to harriet so do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving your comments that join us again of the top of the hour for the latest headlines see them.

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it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't it was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies kryten tell had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company going until it develops and the demise of drugs it was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said she's just got choked up many so they don't mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that i did not. i want the revenge.

welcome. political divisions risk shaking their fragile six hour imbalance in lebanon can the country stand firm with this syrian war still raging right across the border today i talked to the former prime minister of lebanon. war hatred deep in a months long political stalemate and while trying to balance a bigger game of middle eastern rivalries will it lead to further conflicts or example for its neighbors that compromise is achievable and will the neutral country try to help put out the flames of war raging beyond its borders. what's in your a former prime minister of lebanon welcome to the show it is great to have you with

us today sir so mr siniora after five months of political deadlock lebanon is close to forming a new government has bought less allies have made significant gains in the last parliamentary elections prime minister hariri has said many times that has is not the main player and they do not control things in lebanon but they are backed by the christians by the president so is the prime minister just putting on a brave face here trying to play down has well this role. well actually. the nothing that actually to be to be hidden about the role that hizbullah's playing and the interference that they are really having in all of us and making sure that they are the ones who are calling the shots. effectively they have created. a new problem that was not there actually in which

they were insisting and they are still insisting that some of the sunlight sext who are really very much abiding by their instructions hizbullah instructions and by the syrian regime instructions that they want to be represented in the new cabinet although actually on the one hand they did not really appear after being elected as being one block to the concert they are part of other blocs so in fact what they are doing they are being considered twice one as being members of their own blocs party mental blocks and the other time as combining themselves to be as you one unit which is not the

case at this point at this point you can we cannot wake ignore their presence right there in the government the united states has rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and organizations doing business with has so what's going to happen to lebanon now that has ball law is kind of present in the government. well definitely lebanon is facing quite a number of issues nowadays not only. in this because there are plenty of many things but one of them is the tsunami coming from the sanctions that are being let's say imposed by the united states and this in fact will affect iran will affect hezbollah and all the agencies of iran all over the world and besides that in lebanon so that's why it requires a great deal of of. really thinking and trying to.