the. u.s. president says he'll no longer deal with the british ambassador in washington. and which the diplomat described as dysfunctional. protesters gather for a 2nd day in the georgian capital tbilisi to vent their anger over a local t.v. host. of the russian president. the u.s.

launches a new strategy to counter what it calls the kremlin's malign influence to draw a sharp response from moscow. and to russian propaganda. for europe for a. 7 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas is caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced parents. should be identified as we hear from the father. 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 a son. live from moscow you're watching international. tonight thanks for tuning in. president trump has said he will no longer work with the british ambassador to the united

states kim could now become the 1st u.k. envoy to be expelled from washington you know over a century. in which she described as inept and dysfunctional. as the story. washington will be cutting its ties with british ambassador kim derek now this comes on the heels of a damning assessment of the trumpet ministration in leaked diplomatic cables which have just recently been made public here's what donald trump had to say in response to these leaks regarding critical statements about the white house. i do not know the embassador but he's not like or will thought of within the us we will no longer deal with him the good news for the wonderful united kingdom is that they will soon have a new prime minister now these diplomats white house radiates in security we also have it referring to the trump presidency as one that would crash and burn and we also have him referring to trump as inept and dysfunctional the comments go on from

there this is another selection we don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less and predictable less fiction ribbon less diplomatically clumsy and now in addition we also have kim derek referring to the policy of the white house toward iran he refers to it as unlikely to become more coherent any time soon and he also refers to all hawkish hardliners within the trump white house and its relations with iran this is this is some of what was also in the cables it's more likely that he was never a loon boards and that he was worried about how this apparent some of his 2016 campaign promises would come 2020 and the next presidential election now we've had a strong reaction from the united kingdom theresa may is come forward and said she had full faith in derek and that she did not agree with his characterization

however it was pointed out by the united kingdom and by u.k. officials that their ambassadors are expected to give an honest and unvarnished assessment of politics in the country they are doing diplomatic relations with in these confidential cables now the u.k. international trade secretary liam fox he said that he found these remarks in the cables to be an ethical and unpatriotic and that when he meets with yvonne could try up the president's daughter he will give her an apology in person so in addition to that some of the brags that backing u.k. politicians have criticized barracks. statements which essentially seem to be representing the nation of britain now that they are in the public eye this is what has been said 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 of 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 their own person to be the british ambassador to globalist an outlook totally opposed to the time to train the sooner his gone the better now as these comments are now circulating in the press after being made public it seems that u.k. officials are looking to determine who leaked to them and how they became available to the press at the moment it seems pretty clear however that donald trump will not be working with kim derrick any time soon former british diplomat all of a mile and gave us his thoughts on what the nor the leak now might mean while that relations between london and washington. the leak is very embarrassing because it's going to make the ambassador's life for all the difficult part of his job only part of his job but part of his job is dealing with the president on days is immediate

with the white house team and so on and clearly there's 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 and i've been involved in leak investigations myself the leak tends to mostly come from the top and i would guess that if this is political role of the post war or i'm just incompetent many times in the past 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. though what we call political appointments and 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 if. 2 days of protests have gripped the georgian capital tbilisi over t.v. hosts course that insult phil to raid against the russian president present he

works for a popular opposition station mocked anatomy of putin and his diseased mother live on air on sunday shocking he was in both countries in a prank or joining with more on 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 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 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 police 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're 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 intention in the region is unacceptable for a 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 what's their reaction russian government officials are obviously disappointed there saying that this is nothing

but another display of so let's listen to bits of the statements from the russian president's spokesperson and also from the russian for. ministry has to close its country it's not just 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 aimed at undermining of russia georgia relations the current laden incident is a vivid example of where frantic brosseau phobia can lead and it give us an idea why 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 the russian citizens because we heard a new wave of anti russian slogans and russian rhetoric from georgian politicians so the russian government was expecting that these kind of men. really hit the wall it's probably the owners of georgian 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. or the georgian journalist who went rogue on television has now moved suspended from his position for 2 months. a 7 year old boy in the united states has been caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced mother and father the parents can't agree on which gender their child should be identified as your boy right now. carol when with his mother the boy called james lives as

a girl named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as she says it was a child who expressed interest in wearing girls' clothes she even rolled the youngster in school with a female name if you shot it as a spoke to the child's father jeff young you can watch the full interview on r.t. dot com. 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 ready and some 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 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 the father has for some time now but battling for his son to be treated as a boy the gender he was born a young guy has been accused by his ex-wife of abusing that child not affirming him as transgender and for causing his short the father hasn't been emotionally abusive behavior towards the checkout as example only hair cut to and other non affirmative actions although one can be 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 on or 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 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 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 on to a surgical transition would be medical child support as well that 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 anyway when all this comes of course a specialist debate whether children should be allowed to change their gender at such a young age we spoke to social just frank furedi he believes parents should not 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. united states has launched a new strategy to help european countries counter the so-called malign influence of the kremlin moskos brand of it and he russian propaganda senior correspondent what i guess if takes us through the plan. usaid has unveiled

a new plan a strategy officially aimed at boosting the resilience of 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 yeah our trust in the media is still a business americans believe it's biased it's even worse for online media by the way women do in facebook hired at fact checker links 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 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 germany 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 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 on the ground about a role in a frantic legal battle that's off the shelf the release of russian business woman facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait. moved her business operations to the middle east 15 years ago and 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

her was found to be fake. ok scott of wide media coverage especially on our sister channel r.t. arabic you got the attention of high profile politicians in the u.s. and russia. played a key role in her release you can watch her full interview on r.t. dot com. somebody's convicted and absconded marcia who's been under investigation this is been hanging over their 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 contract. staple of americans for nearly 5067 years my magazine will no longer be

a permanent fixture on newsstands it will cease publishing new content on the iconic publications monthly issues will not be replaced with end of year specials so i ask you taylor takes a closer look at whether the media has become a bit too sensitive these days to a joke. that once existed this surreal concept it was shopped vicious at times and wholly irreverent it was called satire and it's dead or 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.

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 force. we are all philosophy we are all politics we don't. have no more scruples we have no say. 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 in. in such imagery is always dangerous and at a time when anti-semitism 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 war is but can also cross the line when it comes

to your manager just as veteran cartoonist rob rogers could walk the 25 years for one outlet he found dozens of his. rejected the severance package way too on his desk did your 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 in 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. an important. factor let me. get out of it 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 feed all 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. or ukrainian t.v. channels cancel the planned t.v. link up with the war cost the russia 24 saying a number of its employees have been receiving threats as a result of the initiative program which was intended to offer a platform for dialogue between ordinary russians and ukrainians also cause protests outside new news ones i q in this monday around 200 people were gathering to voice their opposition to the topic of teleconferences which was also condemned by the ukrainian authorities russia 24 was one of a number of channels by and in the country following the 2014 y. down uprising in which the government was ousted prosecutor's office in kiev says it launched a criminal proceedings against news one for attempted treason ukrainian channel said the rally and threats amount to direct intimidation and restriction on

journalistic freedom it says about ending the war in the east of the country is of paramount importance and needs to be discussed in the media. soul for the.

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