one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. u.k. government orders an investigation offered embarrassingly diplomatic cables which describe donald trump's administration and that clumsy and dysfunctional. that has gathered for a 2nd consecutive day in the georgian capital tbilisi to vent their anger over the local t.v. hosts explosive filled denunciation of the russian president. the u.s. launches a new strategy to counter what it calls the kremlin's of malign influence a shop response from moscow which has branded the initiative russian propaganda also ahead. beautiful now. a 70 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. i consider this to be child abuse and 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. other than monday evening. in the russian capital with the world news this hour we're going to start off with a red faces and reaction in white all 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 trump's white house as inept clumsy and uniquely dysfunctional reports. 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 ribbon less diplomatically clumsy and inept well so came also called into question donald trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an airstrike on terror on or following the downing of a us drone by iran trump said that he was is but secant says it was actually a question of policy and trump 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 emails and the revelations trump was clearly unimpressed but restrained in his

comments i would say that. the ambassador i'm not sure you hear well i can tell you that without without the. ideas that there were no i cannot say that i could 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 emails 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 u.s. 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 the globalist an outlook totally opposed to the tom doctrine the sooner his gone the better well the leak comes at a key time for the u.k. is it looks to boost its trade with the us following gregg say it remains to be seen if this blush in diplomacy will have an effect on the special relationship and the post breaks it economy. well mr frum may have been restrained a few hours ago he's had time to think about it since then he tweeted just over half an hour ago that he's no longer prepared to deal with the u.k. ambassador who he claimed was not well liked in the u.s. and also took a swipe at outgoing prime minister the reason may well former british diplomat all of a miles give us his thoughts on what the leak might now mean for bilateral relations between london and washington. the leak is very embarrassing because it's going to make the i must of this lot for all the difficult parts of his job only part of his job but part of his job is dealing with the president and the media with the white

house team and so on and clearly there's going to be a degree of embarrassment but it's a risk but there will be a degree of embarrassment and so of bad news from that point of view. in most cases not been involved in leak investigations myself the leak tends to come from the top and i would guess that if this is a political role the post will. just incompetence 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. what we call political point of substance 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 have taken place for a 2nd consecutive night in the georgian capital tbilisi over

a t.v. hosts caustic insult felt tirade against the russian president the presenter who works for a popular opposition station but the new position and his deceased mother live on and on sunday the deal is in both countries correspondent only a trying to join the union and nail earlier with more of 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 live on there as well it should. why should i yes what 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. it's one of the most popular t.v. channels and georgia we even heard that some of the staff resigned almost immediately after that in 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 be 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 up or of occasion aimed at 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 groups 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 is 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 an idea why they 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 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. there was one 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 do or they were fearing that this could lead

to possibly violence against russian citizens because we heard a new wave 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 the owners of georgian hotels or businessmen in the tourist industry so definitely the tensions are there and this is probably another example of this hate speech by an anchor of georgian t.v. . we've since learned that the georgian journalist who went rogue on live television on sunday night has now been suspended from his position for 2 months. a 7 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas has been caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced father his parents can't agree on which gender that child should be identified as. but your boy right now.

when with his mother the boy james lives as a bill named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as and says it was the child who expressed an interest in wearing gold clothes she also enrolled james in school under the female name the have sophie shevardnadze spoke to his father jeff younger and you can watch the full interview on t don't come 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 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 it 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 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 and the father has for some time now been fighting for his son to be treated as a boy the gender he was born at jeff young has been accused by his ex-wife of abusing that child for not affirming his transgender and for cutting his hair short. the father has an emotionally abusive behavior towards the child as example only haircuts 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 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 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 court's 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 abuse my son in any way of this comes and specialist debate whether children should be allowed to change that gender at such a young age so she'll be just a friend for id believe 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 our parents get confused. countering a malign kremlin influence that's how the u.s. agency for international development called a new strategy to help european countries avoid outside meddling and reduce the dependence on russian energy moscow's branded and i'm t. russian propaganda senior correspondent i guess do you have 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 veg 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 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 death checa 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 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 u.s. aid 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. british barrister blad the wife of former u.k. prime minister tony blair has been talking to ati's going underground about her role in a frantic legal battle after she helped release a russian business woman facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait. last array of her moved her business operations to the middle east to 15 years ago and 2017 though she was accused of embezzling nearly. one 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 the case garnered wide media coverage especially

on our sister channel r.t. arabic and got the attention to of high profile politicians and lawyers in the united states and russia. played a key role in her release and you can watch her interview in full on r.t. dot com. somebody convicted and absconded marcia 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 because fiction 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 there was a big conference here about our british investments and there was a general 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 buy every between local firms for lucrative gulf contracts. it's been a staple of american satire for nearly 67 years but mad magazine will no longer be a permanent fixture on newsstands it will cease publishing new content the iconic

publications monthly issues will now be replaced with end of year specials next takes a closer look at whether the media's become a bit too sensitive these days to a joke. that once suggested this surreal concept it was shopped vicious. times and wholly irreverent it was called satire and it's dad rather it's been killed off to 67 years of ruthlessly mocking the wild a bedrock of american comedy the cult satirical magazine mad is shutting up shop from august it's just going to recycle old content and put a new cover on it this is a publication ingrained in western culture with its child human comics like spy versus spy and even its own board games are doing so. because they're playing. it's a game it's truly. not took no prisoners its creator said it was that to toughen up the younger generation show life's ugly side it was also

indiscriminate parroting politicians on both sides of the spectrum we pride ourselves on the fact that we have no philosophy we are all philosophy we are all politics we don't take sides we have no more scruples we have no say in the world. and i know that we have no bananas and i'm about to set up in 1052 mad was a publication for a different generation it's lost its place in an era where offense taken victimhood have become new norms cartoonists now are gagged by hyper sensitive readers and profit driven media moguls cracking jokes is a risky business nowadays as the new york times found out after a jewish themed illustration well went a little wrong and it scrapped all political cartoons and just in case anyone missed its 1st apology it did not the one you know to be on the safe side we are deeply sorry for the publication of an anti semitic political cartoon last thursday

in the print edition of the new york times that circulates outside of the united states and we are committed to making sure nothing like this ever happens again such imagery is always dangerous and at a time when and. syma tism is on the rise worldwide it's all the more unacceptable and sometimes you just need a helping hand in pacing offense i've been targeted for my cartoons on instagram and on facebook they kept getting censored on instagram and facebook and some of the more provocative pieces that i made they were just getting deleted and so i said to myself well what's the original way to do this so people even suggested in my feed maybe you should make a book being too political can make you a virgin doll for social justice warriors but can also cross the line when it comes to your manager just as veteran cartoonist rob rogers who had walked for 25 years for one outlet he found dozens of his country rejected the severance package

waiting on his desk editors give you reasons no they didn't give me any reason at all so you'd have to ask them but but the common theme and all the ones that have been rejected is that like 90 percent of them have something to do with trump so so there's a clear pattern that they were trying to sort of tamp down the voice that i was having about you know being critical of trump but it's a very realistic spin on trump's catchphrase. because making fun of reality has become a minefield now shortly after matt was set up in the fifty's it's created to have to testify in congress on the negative affects comics were having on the youth of america consultant dr spoke at the hair and worried about whether this innocent generation was prepared for the horrors of it opinion. without any reasonable doubt. anyway. but i mean.

and in. fact there are many of the now if you think perhaps they knew what was coming but for the magazine it seems society has had the last laugh we're in a an era of political correctness and from a private perspective you have the right to censor anything you want if you don't want pornography or you know fatal videos on your on your platform that's totally fine when the government starts censoring i find that a bit alarming the idea that some authority is going to determine what's safe for us to hear and what's not safe is ridiculous expressing different political opinions is the best thing you can do it's important that people say what they believe and that's why no matter what the opinion is i'd rather the person say it and believe what they're saying and be able to say it so everyone can look at that and hear grit and and judge it for themselves. ukrainian television channel has

canceled a planned t.v. to link up with the broadcaster russia 24 saying that a number of its employees had been receiving threats as a result of the initiative the program was intended to offer a platform for dialogue between ordinary russians and ukrainians but also calls protest outside news ones h.q. in kiev this monday around $200.00 people gathered to voice their opposition to the teleconference which was also condemned by the ukrainian authorities of russia 24 was one of a number of channels banned in the country following the 2014 my down uprising in which the government at the time was ousted the prosecutor's office in kiev says it's now launched criminal proceedings against news one over attempted treason ukrainian channel said that the rally and threats amount to direct intimidation and the restriction on journalistic freedom. to ending the war in the east of the countries of paramount importance needs to be discussed in the. world news for now will be back to you again off across to iraq so whether the. prospect

of a full between europe and russia. there's . not a moon but in your circles one of. the books for that was a little bit more of what they're. fighting for your order seems to. trace. that back.

below and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle as u.s. russia relations remain in the deep freeze europe is taking a different path when it comes to russia some are calling it the new thaw also china calls out the u.k. regarding hong kong indeed old colonial habits die hard. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow and he is a professor of the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of

western civilization and the resurgence of russia and we're also joined by marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics 1st magazine gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to markets in london. an interesting phenomenon that's been going on now for a number of months or maybe since the election of donald trump but we have we just recently had blood amir putin in italy meeting the pope in italian leaders of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe not that i'm a big fan of the organization has finally given the russian delegation. voting rights back and other. elements that have to do with their membership germany is determined that the north stream too will be finished the gas pipeline we have president mccrone speaking very bluntly that he.