headlining this hour the u.k. government told an investigation after an embarrassing leak of diplomatic cables which described the ministrations as clumsy and dysfunctional. testers gather for a 2nd consecutive day in the georgian capital tbilisi to vent their anger over a local t.v. hosts a vicious expletive filled the none of the russian president. the u.s. launches a new strategy to counter what it calls the kremlin's malign influence drawing a sharp response from moscow which branded the initiative anti russian propaganda also ahead. for now. a

6 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas is caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced parents who can't agree on which gender the child should be identified as we hear from the father. so 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 to her son. global news and analysis 247 from moscow this is our. names call the all right welcome to the program 1st off the red faces in whitehall the u.k. foreign office has launched an inquiry into the leaking of a trove of sensitive diplomatic cables written by britain's ambassador to the united states in a series of unflattering remarks the diplomat describes president from white house as inept clumsy and uniquely dysfunctional. 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 factional ribbon less diplomatically clumsy and inept also came also called into question donald trump's publicly stated reason for calling a finance 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 trunk 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 do well i can tell you that without without big. ideas that you're very well so i can understand it and i could say that about him but i want 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 globalist an outlook. totally opposed to the tom dick 3 the sooner he is gone the berta will the leak comes at a key time for the u.k. is it looks to boost its trade with the u.s. following breaks it remains to be seen if this blush in diplomacy will have an effect on the special relationship and the post breaks it economy. or former british ambassador all of a miles give us his thoughts on what the comments might mean for bilateral relations now between london and washington. the leak is very embarrassing because it's going to make the ambassador's lot for all the difficult parts of his job only part of his job but part of his job is dealing with the president from the media

with the white house team and so on it clearly was going to be a degree of embarrassment perhaps not very serious but there will be a degree of embarrassment and so of the bad news from that point of view on the whole in most cases involved in leak investigations law itself the leak tends to come from the top and i would guess that if this is political role of the possible or i'm just incompetent many times in the post in fact probably more often than not . very senior jobs like washington like paris like new york the united nations sometimes like moscow these very senior jobs have in the past been given. the what we call political appointments such as to say putting in somebody who is in some other way qualified for the job not from the professional diplomatic service that wouldn't be unusual that wouldn't be surprising. protests continuing for a 2nd day in the georgian capital tbilisi over a t.v. hosts call steak an insult filled tirade against the russian president the

presenter who works for a popular opposition station multimillionaire putin and his deceased mother live on our own sunday choking audiences in both countries and yet the trying to join you know nail it with the story. 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 it everyone was shocked because what they were hearing is there's life on there as well as you pointed out i mean. yes but 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 in the georgian capital tbilisi started gathering in front of

the channel's h.q. gets one of the most popular t.v. channels and georgia we even heard that some of the staff resigned almost immediately after that an outrage and it had 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 words from the georgian leader dividing the country into 2 camps and inside an external confrontation in town should in the region is unacceptable for us is it to provoke a shoe named as a new war or revenge for the failed coup this was an action taken against our country and you what about the reaction from moscow what's their reaction the russian government officials are obviously disappointed there saying that this is

nothing but another display of verse of fold so let's listen to bits of the statements from the russian president's spokesperson and also from the russian foreign ministry took us 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 and. give us an idea why in the 1st place a georgian t.v. host as you say a very popular program 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 and. what georgians see as a very serious incident in the republic's parliament 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 slogans and russian rhetoric from georgian politicians so the russian government was expecting that these kind of measures could really hit the wall it's probably of the owners of georgian hotels or businessmen in the tourist industry so definitely the tensions are there and this is probably another example this hate speech by an anchor of georgian t.v. . track of an update for you the georgian journalist who went rogue on live t.v. on sunday night has now been suspended from his position for 2 months. next 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 his parents can't agree on which gender that child should be identified as your boy right now.

when his when he's with his mother the boy james lives as ago named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as her and says it was the child who expressed an interest in wearing girls play she even wrote james in school and his female name was sophie shevardnadze spoke to his father jeff younger and you can watch the full version throughout the day here on r.t. i took it very seriously because i had to some information what i was still living with with and george wallace my my ex-wife had been putting him into 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 it and i sent her a text and said 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 that 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 or a father has for some time now been fighting for his son to be treated as a boy the gender that he was born as jeff young guys being accused by his ex-wife of abusing that child for not affirming him as transgender and for cutting is actual. the father hasn't been emotionally abusive behavior towards the child as example only hair cut to and other non affirming actions all the wrong clee of this behavior rises to the level of family violence at this time the father said russian is becoming more common and more intense the temporary orders that i am under before you 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 them away from any friends he might have at school that know him as

a girl at 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 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 abuse of my son anyway and this comes as specialists debate whether children should be allowed to change that gender at such a young age social or just a front for believes that 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 coming up this monday evening from moscow the u.s. agency for international development is setting out its latest strategy to tackle a threat hanging over europe apparently we'll tell you all about that after the break.

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countering kremlin influence that's how the u.s. agency for international development has called a new strategy to help european countries avoid outside meddling and reduce their dependence on russian energy has branded it anti russian propaganda all senior correspondent next takes us through the plan. usaid has unveiled a new plan a strategy officially aimed at boosting the resilience of part the nation's unofficial 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 my line 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 the us apparently wants to cut out russia's voice i mean the aims aren't exactly vague what could they mean preventing russia others from meddling in elections ok preventing 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 ya 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 at 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 join 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 so 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. british barrister cherie blair the wife of former u.k. prime minister tony blair has been talking to and he's going underground about her role in a frantic legal battle after she helped release a russian businesswoman facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait. never 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 days until her release in may this year after the evidence against it was found to be fake ok it's gone out of wide media coverage especially after our sister channel r.t. arabic and the attention of the of high profile politicians and lawyers in the united states and russia 3 blair played a key role in her release newcomb waterfall interview later on r.t. and on r.t. dot com. somebody convicted and absconded marsha who's been

under investigation this is been hanging overhead 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 because 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 e-s. 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 contract. by going underground streaming right now on r.t. dot com but she will debate for us for our thanks for watching more from the r.t. global news teams in just over half an hour.

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popularity at a cost make speed all over the world are. justified especially at such a tender age or are we putting our young in danger well we'll talk about that with jeff. fighting for his son to remain a boy. who told your girl molly gender identity is something children as young as 3 are unlikely to have. it seems have a clear understanding of who they want to be. in the crossfire of debate about whether a sex change their abuse should be available to the young and vulnerable while celebrities offer support in the forefront calling it necessary treatment. whether such progress really will improve thousands of people's lives or represents a dangerous trend for humanity. geoff younger father of the 70 year old james jeff

welcome to the show it's great to have you with us thanks for agreeing to talk to us thank you for you're welcome thank you for having me on so your story has sparked a huge debate all around walt at the very beginning when your son james 1st told you that he was a girl what was your reaction i mean where you taken aback did you take it seriously i took it very seriously because i had to some information what i was still living with with and george wallace my my ex-wife had been putting him into timeouts and saying things like the monsters only eat boys ready and some odd things like that so when i heard this i took it very seriously 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 you know he's never presented himself as a girl to me ever that he factor with me he violently rejects any female identity

he won't wear female clothes he won't even wear boys' brief underwear because he says it's too much like girls underwear so he's basically leaving the bipolar life right now he's a boy when he's with you and he's what forced to dress like a girl or does he dress like a girl but my his own will when he's with a mom 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 but he dresses as a boy in her house as well does she somehow tell him not to dress as a boy if you want to dress a boy. i've only been in public with him as a girl on twice and on both cases when i brought boy's clothes his mother was extremely disapproving and in one case. hole to mount of my arms and i had to let him go so that he wouldn't get her so that he wouldn't be allowed to put on boys'

clothes. so james told you he knows that she disapproves of it strongly james told you that his mother dresses him and girl's closing uses hair clips puts a nail polish on him that was my immediate reaction would be to get in touch with his mom and ask why you do that why was what was an explanation did you have to talk about it. well 1st of all 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. then the next time that it became an issue was when when he had his sort of coming out party she took him to his 5th birthday party in a dress she just essentially wouldn't speak to me about it but is it normal that because you were just as much a parent as she is is it normal that yes as an answer and off for for your son to

be heading towards a gender change.