the u.k. government orders an investigation. which described ministration . dysfunctional. deeply insulting remarks made by a georgian t.v. show host of russia's president putin's. nation. calls the kremlin influence drawing a sharp response from the it's. also ahead. the boy now. a 6 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas is called bitter custody battle between his divorced parents who

counts agree on which gender their child should be identified from the. i consider this to be child abuse and the sexual mutilation of children on a on an industrial scale so it makes me feel terrible i can't believe that a mother would do this. from our international news center here in moscow this is our team from the team and myself hello and a warm welcome. the u.k. foreign office has ordered an inquiry into the leak of sensitive diplomatic cables penned by britain's ambassador to washington in a series of bombshell remarks president. dysfunctional among many other on flattering comments made by the diplomat artie's cape. chose the

story. this is the story of a foreign office inquiry into a series of leaks memos that came from the u.k.'s ambassador to the us so kim darrick well so kim has a 42 year career in diplomacy but some of these e-mails ended up in the mail on sunday the british newspaper and in those memos he gave a candid and damning assessment of the trumpet ministration. we don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less and predictable less faction riven less diplomatically clumsy and inept well so came also called into question donald trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an ass strike on terror on or following the downing of the us drone by iran trump said that he was 10 minutes away from making that command but called it off because there would be 150 casualties but secant says it was actually a question of policy and trying harking back to his campaign promise of not allowing more u.s. troops to go into foreign wars it's more likely that he was never fully onboard and

that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020 at the next presidential election well in response to these e-mails and the revelations trump was clearly unimpressed but restrained in his comments i would say that. the ambassador i'm not sure you well i can tell you that without without big. ideas that you're very well so i can understand it and i can say that about him but i was well the response from the u.k. has been rather mixed the trade secretary liam fox focused on the leak itself said it was unethical unpatriotic unprofessional and the person behind them was maliciously trying to undermine the relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. whereas other politicians concentrated on the content of the e-mails and the author itself this was a personal view it's not the view of the british government it's not my view we continue to think under president trump the us administration is not just highly

effective but the best possible friend of the united kingdom on the international stage i think it is very important that ambassadors give honest unvarnished advice to their country and it is disgraceful that it has been leaked from the moment trump was elected this man was the wrong person to be the british ambassador to globalist an outlook. totally opposed to the time to train the sooner he is gone the better well the leak comes at a key turning to the u.k. as it looks to boost its trade with the u.s. following frank says it remains to be seen if this blush in diplomacy will have an effect on the special relationship and the post-breakfast economy. i'm happy to say get some expert analysis now from peter ford peters a former u.k. ambassador to syria bahrain and it's very welcome to the program some not so diplomatic words flying around here peter as a former diplomat yourself what was your reaction to the content of the messages.

reaction was why all the fuss because what's in it surely no surprise anyone. if we call them a media will ready not be surprised to hear again we hear. about security we've got to retain common. actually strikes me that. we follow the law but the mind that of the short that. leaves me with this. is not to be. the. information of the new longer which longer ready light in there or the new theory which is. all going not why he had gone there ready but that audience there in mind that with the

audience included on the hearing. laurie johnson. to a ready parent a favor by trump. to become the next with the prime minister. i think we need to be a bit cautious about jumping to any judgment here because the best may yet be to come it has been rumored that there will be further revelation of the great in the mail on sunday this coming sunday and i will be there. if not reveal something. boris johnson as will we all indeed does this have the potential to damage the special relationship as it's called between the u.s. and u.k. or is it just too many factors at play. it all depends how it pans

out. as expected boris johnson be gone the next 5 minutes. in a very short period of time to barack or he wasn't even going to be anyway i think rule returned to the moot court. but it's think now differently more and more damaging revelation. then. being damaged but what really is the diner table so it's got a british mind that which is absolutely old. with ready. playing 2nd fiddle to america mind that which that that however poorly america lead we have to say yes to everything that they want we have to try to

guide and then. but at the end of the day our place at the table we tend on being close to. america don't mind. what we have been in buy into. revealing just finally you say boris johnson is rumored to be the favorite he's going to be taking over quite soon if he wins the tory leadership treason mays come out today in support of the us imposter if johnson becomes prime minister you think that's the damage limitation that's going to be taken getting rid of the impostor and will that be and nuff for donald trump do you think. most. impact go to be whatever the outcome of the. choice. there are. many more weeks in who. the. ground.

among here. you know on the tour get through are we are we. don't move to a shoo in or the top drawer are gone. ready on minor bush. more. on it and it may turn out that the boat into. the woodwork. while. peter ford former you can buster to syria always good to get you on the program thank you very much for. let's move on to more world news this hour protests erupted overnight in the georgian capital tbilisi after the host of an opposition t.v. channel there launched into an obscene insult phil tirade against vladimir putin

and his the ceased mother life on her and he told me more. the kind of language that this anchor used you don't hear it on t.v. at all because that was swear words after a swear word you know some of the most nasty words that there are in the russian language i have to point out that this rant was in russian against vladimir putin himself and also against his parents who are no longer alive and i can tell you that this video was all over the internet immediately i was having a quiet day with my friends when someone sent it to me and when then when i played everyone was shocked because what they were hearing is there's life on there as well as you can point at i mean yes but you know the video was obviously a recording of that yeah it was on you tube but it was just so bad so very quickly georgian protesters and the georgian capital tbilisi started gathering in front of the channel's h.q. it's one of the most popular t.v. channels and ga we even heard that some of the staff resigned almost immediately

after that an outrage and it have to go off air for a few hours the bosses said it was because of some security concerns but now it's back on what about the government itself what has to place he said about this the most senior officials in georgia spoke out very quickly we heard from the president from the prime minister from the foreign ministry as well they are saying that these kind of insults have nothing to do with patriotism so let's listen to the exact wards from the georgian leader georgia's president and the critically condemns hate speech verbal aggression insults and provoked her statements made today a new study to t.v. they go against old georgian traditions sort of only to divide and race tensions in the country with russia and in the region and you what about the reaction from what's their reaction the russian government officials are obviously disappointed there saying that this is nothing but another display of phobia so let's listen to

bits of the statements from the russian president's spokesperson and also from the russian for. ministry of course it's a country it's not as for the insults against both our country and our president we of course consider them to be totally unacceptable and we strongly condemn them and we know that the entire leadership of georgia the president prime minister parliamentarians and the speaker of parliament have strongly condemned this we see this as another clear provocation by radical forces in georgia and undermining of russia georgia relations the current laden incident is a vivid example of where frantic brosseau phobia can lead it give us 91 way in the 1st place a georgian t.v. host as you say a very popular program on a popular channel would insult in such a way the president of another country was it a one off incident this for instance we have to understand that at this point the relations between russia and former soviet republic toward you know which is

russia's southern neighbor are in turmoil and it has been like that for a few weeks right now after what georgians see as a very serious incident in the republic's parliament and there was an event for m p's of orthodox christian countries was an international event where a russian member of parliament was giving a speech and he sat somewhere where usually the speaker of the georgian parliament is sad and that sparked outrage in that country it led to ultra violent riots in front of the parliament would lead to arrests there was a line in the streets and in response to that moscow had to suspend direct flights between the 2 countries we know that there are a lot of russian tourists that had to georgia they were fearing that this could lead to possibly violence against russian citizens because we heard a new wave busy of anti russian slogans and russian rhetoric from politicians so

the russian government was expecting that these kind of men. could really hit the wall it's probably the owners of. hotels or businessmen in the tourist industry so definitely the tensions are out there and this is probably another example this hate speech by an anchor of georgian t.v. . to another headline stories now a 6 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas has been caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced mother and father and the fact that his parents can't agree on which gender their child should be identified as makes the case more complicated but your boy right now. when with his mother the boy known as james lives as a girl named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as her says' it was the

child who expressed an interest in wearing girls' clothes even enroll james in school and or the female name or t. hose sophie shevardnadze spoke to his father jeff younger you can watch the full version throughout the day here on r.t. . i took it very seriously because i had had to some information when i was still living with with and george wallace my my ex-wife had been putting him into ready timeouts and saying things like the monsters only eat boys ready and some odd things like that he said mommy tells me i'm a girl. and i would ask him you know do you look like a girl and say no but mommy tells me i'm a girl i just wanted to verify and i sent her a text and you know are you actually telling james that he's a girl and she's just replied simply yes and then refused to talk to me about it you know he's never presented himself as a girl to me ever and he factor with me he violently rejects any female identity he won't wear female clothes he won't even wear boy's brief underwear because he says it's too much like girls underwear i believe he dresses by his own will when he's

with his mother i just don't think he believes that she'll love him if he's a boy if this is being an ongoing case the father has long been fighting for his son to be treated as a boy they sent he was born and jeff younger has not been accused by his ex-wife of abusing their child for not affirming in transgender and also for cutting his hair assured. the father has an emotionally abusive behavior towards the child as example only hair cut to and other non affirming actions all the wrong clee of these behavior rises to the level of family violence at this time the father said ration is becoming more common and more intense the temporary orders that i'm under before go to final trial actually do allow me to address them as james and his male pronouns but i cannot do that in front of 3rd parties who know him as a girl so basically i can't go to school i keep him away from any friends he might have at school that know him as a girl and in my home he's known as james and i use male pronouns what i'm prohibited from doing right now is trying to convince him that he's actually

a boy one of the big problems that that i'm going to face eventually is in the state of taxes right now the courts position is that all of this is medical child support so i have to pay for him to go to you know a therapist who's teaching him that he's a girl i have to pay for the hormone suppression of puberty which actually chemically castrate boys and prevents the growth of their sexual organs and if he goes to a surgical transition i would be medical child support as well i'd have to pay for that i consider this to be child abuse and the sexual mutilation of children on a on an industrial scale so i'm not paying for any of this i'm not going to participate in the peace my son anyway this of course comes especially this debate whether children should be allowed to change their gender at such a young age sociologist frank for eddie believes parents shouldn't impose gender choices on their offspring. i think it's wrong for parents to become preoccupied by

gender identity it's not something that the vast majority of children ever think about very much it's not something that they experiment with to begin with i think that the danger today is is that we have a very strong political and cultural pressure on the part of parents to be much more relaxed about the boundaries that used to exist between boys and girls and as the boundaries are questioned so a lot of parents get confused. country malign kremlin influence that's how the u.s. agency for international development has called the new strategy to help european countries avoid side meddling and reduce their dependence on russian energy. russian propaganda our senior correspondent the of excess through the plan usaid has unveiled a new plan

a strategy officially aimed at boosting the resilience of the nations an officially it appears to mean giving lots and lots of money to anyone that vocally and demonstrably doesn't like russia politicians businessmen media i mean it's in the name countering malar in kremlin influence plan. these efforts will include creating tools for reform minded leaders and civil society voices to tackle corrupt government practices that kremlin agents often selectively exploit for moscow strategic benefit 1st off and the us apparently wants to cut out russia's voice i mean the aims aren't exactly veg what could they mean preventing russia others from meddling in elections ok venting russia from lobbying for its interests negotiating not ok it works both ways i mean

we know what some of the reform minded leaders and civil society voices in the us are like. us eats funding will build the capacity of indigenous media to provide trusted independent news and information sources should be fine and all of america's own independent news and media weren't viewed as biased by its own people yeah trust in the media is still a business americans believe it's biased it's even worse for online media by the way remember when facebook hired that fact checker linked to the us government poynter institute for media studies to filter out unreliable sources and they ended up filtering out opposing political views before they were caught at my point why don't they spend that cash on making america's own media but leave

a ball. to reduce your opinion regis dependency on russia u.s. sees assistance will include working with individual states to create effective legal and regulatory frameworks and assisting them to do and will function in local and regional energy markets. there it is the crux of it hiding in plain sight american shale over russian gas more expensive more cumbersome more political yet it's full of freedom freedom gas they said that i have no idea how they do it with a straight face. increasing export capacity from the freeport l.n.g. project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving america's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy it's a whole package money to the media which cries russian wolf money to politicians

who get the american way money to lobbyists and get a nice little kick back from selling american gas the moscow course isn't happy the term countering is a clumsy attempt to conceal the aggressive offensive approach this conception is blatantly aimed at propagating risa phobia in the world especially in neighboring countries to russia by the way saving best the last you know why usaid was expelled from russia 7 years ago why for an election meddling fiasco that for that became a big thing now isn't that ironic unfortunately a mentality took took hold of the establishment in washington early after the demise of the soviet union that there could only be one global superpower in the united the united states had to have had gemini over the entire world and sense

russia is the foremost military power that is not under the control of the united states and that's why we've seen things like the expansion of nato and something like this which is kind of a i and information analogue to nato expansion which is to try to ensure domination of europe and to isolate russia as much as possible. barrister sharing blair the wife of former u.k. prime minister tony blair has appeared on artie's going underground to discuss her role in a frantic legal battle after she helped release a russian business woman who was facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait marcia moved her business operations to the middle east 15 years ago. in 2017 she was accused of embezzling nearly half a $1000000000.00 by kuwait where she worked for an investment company she was jailed for $470.00 days until her release in may this year after the evidence against her was found to be fake her case garnered y.

media coverage especially on our sister channel r.t.r. back on the attention of high profile politicians and lawyers in the u.s. and russia cherie blair played a key role in her release and you can watch her interview unfold later on r.t.l. on our website. somebody convicted and absconded marsha who's been under investigation this is been hanging over her head and since 2012 she's been actively pursued by the authorities since 2015 so much so that she's been on bail when she was on bail and her american green card expired she wasn't able to go and go to the states become fiction was actually overturned in may and why was it overturned because it was based on fraud and indeed forged evidence and she had not been given the opportunity to put her side of the case so the trial actually was a travesty did not comply with fair trial procedures and finally the court of

appeal in kuwait did overturn that decision so she isn't currently on bail awaiting trial there was a big conference here about our british investments and there was a general on ease about what was happening to foreign investors in the gulf in relation to the criminalize ation of what is essentially commercial disputes and essentially fights between commercial companies for lucrative gulf contracts and we believe that this is that marsh if you like is collateral damage in a wider by every between local firms for lucrative gulf contracts. ok you can keep up to date with all the stories that matter today on a twitter page followed for up to the minute news and views live from moscow this is r.t. international. there's

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time after time see welcome to going on the ground where these strategies north and central london coming up on the show we also award winning human rights lawyer cherie blair q.c. about bringing together donald trump and sergey lavrov to free a russian citizen detained in. weight loss is the climate crisis is our 3rd world war we are renowned british environmentalist jonathan porridge why he was named jacked by one of britain's greatest actors mark rowlands when he cut ties with the royal shakespeare company of a privatized fossil fuel company b. all this was going up in today's show i'm going to busy law firm go on me a strategy with me is the q c cherie blair sheree thanks for inviting us in to the law firm let's begin with why you're defending a convicted alleged. russian embezzler martial law as a reverse as a 10 years hard labor in for and some to $2000000.00 well in the 1st place she's not convicted conviction was actually overturned in may and why was it overturned

because it was based on flawed and indeed forged evidence and she had not been given the opportunity to put her side of the case so the trial actually was a travesty did not comply with fair trial procedures and finally the court of appeal in kuwait did overturn that decision so she isn't currently on bail awaiting trial so she worked she's a russian national she works for a company called k g l understand and you're referring there to documents that are proving to be forgeries the accusation that there was this half a $1000000000.00 in dubai account that was enjoying now it was true in the sense that marsha headed an investment firm and she made some investments including from the the kuwaiti port authority as part of that fund and those investments were indeed successful particularly one that she did in the philippines as a result of which the money was to distribute investors was transferred into an

account and dubai when extraordinary the attorney general kuwait asked the dubai court to freeze that money so that's why the money wasn't paid out it was because the kuwait prosecution authorities froze it eventually thanks to the f. it's of our american colleagues it was unfrozen and the kuwaiti port authorities received at least 4 times their investment back from that fund so that was just a nonsense. in relation to the forged documents the extraordinary thing about that is this claim 1st started because a disgruntled employee who just sacked went to the authorities complaining about her subsequently an auditor audited the books of the kuwaiti port authority and produced 2 documents which he said showed that they had been claiming for services rendered to the port authority which.