today right now moscow in the headlines today as the global outcry continues over the fires engulfing vast tracts of the amazon rain forest brazilian government's business practices and ties to washington come under increased scrutiny. at least in the west germany says they'll now reveal the nationality of all crime suspects regardless of whether or not their identity is believed to be relevant to the investigation. and a u.s. federal court orders the state of idaho to pay for gender reassignment surgery for an inmate accused convicted rather of child sex abuse coming up we get reaction to

that controversial ruling. i absolutely don't think that taxpayers should be funding people's preferences while she is and prison the state is responsible for her that person's health and welfare. by their very good afternoon which is turn as i say midday right now moscow life my word usage he was covered with his 30 minute news update still a bit of breaking news is coming in fact a story this bit been in the news for bovary year now but it's the culmination of it breaking news a court in the ukrainian capital has just litter in the last few minutes ordered the release of the former head of russia's ria novosti news agency the international news agency office in ukraine previously he had made a commitment to attend future court hearings if. necessary curial virgin's key is

a russian ukrainian jewel national who was arrested last year on charges of treason you may recall the authorities in kiev accused him of publishing and to ukrainian articles that claim the deal was rejected they also accused him of receiving money as well and if found guilty could still face 15 years in prison but for now it looks like a clear on this most of the read being released but that's not saying he's been found not guilty i want to get you more on the correspondent is going to read in a little bit more about what today's events actually mean. totally clear on this one with an unprecedented number of fires tearing through vast expanses of pristine amazonian rain forest and the global growing brazil's president lashed out at his french counterpart jebel scenario as are these not willing to accept any aid money to help tackle the crisis until

a minor mccrone apologizes for insulting him the french leader's office said at the beginning of the week they're both center of lied about being committed to preventing climate change the dispute comes as the brazilian government faces increased scrutiny over its aggressive attempts to exploit the rain forest resources and its ties to foreign lobbyists with more caleb maupin in the amazon rain forest is on fire on an unprecedented scale and it's everybody's business to see this fire markets group about $200.00 yards wide with the long that thousands of miles of scorched forests hundreds of burnt trees and they broke all records this year they were twice as many as they were in 2018 the war to save the amazon rain forest births is one of the last battlefields celebrities are speaking out saying that the lungs of the earth are at stake. the lungs of the earth in flames the am is the needs more than a prove yours so what can you do the amazon rain forest produces more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen and it's been burning for the past 3 weeks it's our

responsibility to help to save our planet so who's to blame some say that it is those who eat meat others say that it is all of humanity or is it president balsa narrow after all he's not known as captain chainsaw for nothing is drive to promote deforestation and roll back environmental laws has angered environmentalist's and he's opened the door for american businesses to swoop in a member of both of our us government has made sure that washington lobbyists are in on amazon business opportunities governor wilson lima is very closely tied to all kinds of american business interests for example documents released under the foreign agents registration act reveal that wilson lima is tied to the inner america group a very powerful washington d.c. lobbying they've created a packet for u.s. companies showing the amazon's potential for mining agribusiness and the gas industry back in 28 teen the head of the lobby group even praised trump for

electing balsa naro. donald trump paved the way for both so narrow victory under president trump brazil's position as a world leader in industries such as agribusiness mining banking and aviation will be respected prior to the governorship of wilson the louima the previous administration of amazonas signed a contract with giuliani safety and security that's giuliani as in rudy giuliani former new york city mayor and a lawyer for donald trump as recently as april the brazilian american chamber of commerce has hosted events touting the vast american business opportunities presented by the forest and soil of the south american nation you know you're a loser. they're really all illusion the reality is the problem of money using. for it business there's a pretty clear opportunity here that's for the democrats to promote saving the

amazon rain forest and to rub it in the face of the g o p however the democrats recently canceled a proposed debate around climate change from their list of debates for 2020 presidential candidates so apparently saving the amazon is everybody's business until it's nobody's business and that who has more connections united state companies and he's now just fuck was own u.s. market and i think that these relation the new government of brazil with the u.s. government and companies are not very good for european companies that are interested also on this national natural resource so i think that the national corporations are disputing these natural resources the m.s.n. yet the forests the rain forest and dissident government is taking part in dispute . you are both been arguing that the attention being paid to the devastation of the

visit is a warranted was despite the fact that this year an estimated $950000.00 hectares of rain forest have been destroyed much of it for cattle ranching and soybean called evasion the explicit support of his administration and it's not just brazil is suffering either with fires raging in a number of neighboring countries now to our system spanish has been filled with the consequences of it all.

well if you put it this there could be a number of causes usually wind scatters sparks from the fires point of origin prompting the growth of the area on fire even a cigarette thrown out of a window could cause a fire which can spread for kilometers. and speak to. others and then to put a little bit of us remember we are going to suspend the election campaign for at least one week even present in the morality of his running mate will suspend all the extra work for the teachers and we will dictate ourselves to taking care of the entire region affected by the wildfire that is the entire believe in them and. in a push for greater transparency police in the west to germany we can report next who said they're going to begin disclosing the nationalities of criminal suspects take a look at the implications about why europe correspondent peter all of. police in

the west of germany will reveal the nationality of everyone suspected of a crime even if it's not relevant to the case the interior minister of the state of north rhine-westphalia which includes the major cities of cologne and docile tof has said they've taken the decision to improve transparency we will name the nationalities of all suspects that we know for sure i'm convinced that this transparency is the best cure against political deception it may seem like a small thing and the policy of naming the nationality of a suspect varies from state to state but this has become sensitive subject following the migrant influx into germany the idea behind not travailing the nationality of someone when it isn't pertinent to the crime is to avoid discrimination against minorities by linking nationality to. this new initiative to set some alarm bells ringing for the u.c.

feel it may have an impact upon suspects rights the default disclosure of nationalities in police press work is not consistent stating where someone is from even if it is irrelevant to the circumstances of the crime doesn't lead to greater transparency this measure is unconstitutional and it is certain that it's immoral i think that it can lead to wrong suspicions that your neighbor might be a trim and all or just based on his nationality and that could lead to further racism and it can lead to excuse enough people that we want to include in the society we don't think that sas specs nationality adds anything to the case they're all those that have accused the german media around authorities in the past of a meeting the nationality of those involved in the case so as to not draw attention to crimes that have involved the migrants.

so far we still don't have any suspects so we don't know who the culprits are. making this an issue by oversimplifications and connecting it to the refugee issue is nothing but a misuse of the discussion now it is about clearing the facts and drawing the necessary conclusions i would like to add that it is completely improper for us and for the people who judge objectively to link a group that appeared to come from north africa where the refugees this is improper and i want to prevent this massively there is no sign that it concerns people who came to cologne as refugee. sure i.

got a measure oriented toward the population so that they can have better information and better image of that reality on the ground in the city sees in the hot spots of the country and to allow them to better church the situation they are looking at and also to better judge the overall immigration and migration policies the german media guidelines for publishing the nationality of a suspect say to do so it must be grounded in public interest involving serious crimes like murder or terrorism but that ultimately the decision to publish the

nationality of a suspect lies with the editorial staff of an outlet so ultimately whatever decision is made someone is going to end up being paid for all of our say bill in. the u.s. state of idaho is being told by federal court that it must pay for gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate and no less there's a successful appeal in the supreme court in the next $90.00 days it will be the 1st time then the state has been instructed to pay for such a procedure. since the medically necessary treatment for prisoners gender dysphoria is gender confirmation surgery and responsible prison officials deny such treatment with full awareness of the prisoner's suffering those officials. violate the 8th amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. this inmate who identifies as a woman who has nearly gone the surgeries most he's serving a 10 year prison sentence for sexually abusing

a 15 year old at moishe jeweled for release in 2021 who is knowledgeable for parole but if the gender reassignment surgery is successfully paid for by the state and more will be transferred to a women's prison he has to commentators in the u.s. for their thoughts on this controversial case. i absolutely don't think that taxpayers should be funding people's preferences there is absolutely 0 evidence in the medical community that gender dysphoria is in any way solved or even helped for people you know who are confused about their gender there's nothing that says that that changing their gender will actually help them psychologically physically or in any other way and when you think about the fact that that taxpayer money could be going toward helping other victims like the 15 year old that this perpetrator violated that's where i start to get really angry well she is in prison the

state is responsible for her that person's health and welfare so yes it should be covered just like cancer treatments are covered just as any other treatments so medical conditions are covered in american prison systems the constitution is quite clear. that and several cases have proven it in terms of. transgender inmates or to be taken care of failure to do so is a violation of the 8th the memo to the constitution and it's clear that that this is an incredibly sad testimony to the dangers and the damage of politically correct thinking and frankly indoctrination that is happening in media really globally not just in the united states so i really hope that people can get their sense about them and look at the data because as i said there is no medical consensus

whatsoever that this will even be any help to this prison or to this offender even if they go through with a sex change their suicide rates are higher their self harm rates are higher their depression rates are higher their need for medication is higher there are there are a. likelihood of or. committing crimes is higher there is only one cure for gender dysphoria that is surging the bottom line is ok let's get off of this narrative where you're trying to push you're trying to demonize trance folks here because there are non transgender folks who are also abusive to minors as well so let's let's get away from that period because far too often transgender people are demonized not only in discount tree but elsewhere around the planet this is more about it political opinion and any political preference that has become sort

of popular at this moment but it's doing a great deal of destruction to the l.g.b. community certainly to our prison systems certainly to our courts and certainly to our victims. it's midday 17 come out to hear mosco hi there thanks for watching today ahead in some of the stories ahead still bad publicity but is be a boon for business maybe just a spiteful check a pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson sees a surge in stock prices of the being found guilty of course of fueling oklahoma's opioid epidemic is one of the stories we're on after the break.

there's things. we didn't. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

are they good afternoon cameroon has witnessed a fresh burst of violence linked to its deep colonial era language divisions in the past thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in the central african nations english speaking regions after clashes erupted between secessionist fighters in the military over the weekend the latest flare up comes after a military tribunal in the french majority country sentenced 10 english speaking separatists to life in prison they were convicted of charges including terrorism and sedation in a trial that critics dismissed as a sham human rights groups have repeatedly expressed their concern over the instability. unlawful killing sin the use of excessive force by government forces during security operations have been rife since the crisis started security forces seem to have little fear of what will happen as they commit brazen crimes against civilians. they are very hurt there are no longer now. the

literally. that's right where it now. i don't even know. right. now. english speakers make up about a 5th the camerons population in a predominately concentrated in the west of the country the current visions can be traced back to its turbulent colonial past you can see it worked out of the map there was a german colony until the end of the 1st world war and then divided between british an english british and. mandate in the 1960 s.

the french and british gave the territories their independence them but linguistic divisions and associated to store a clique anomic disparities persist we spoke to one local english speaking journalist there who indeed was kidnapped by separatists back in february last year but was later released. 2 separate systems of education you realize that you started with teach us telling you how francophones were being brought to teach english lessons where as they couldn't. put all solutions all right spelling everything was getting bad that explains what and why we are where we are today we are people who are bent on. separation we have people hope that the reason. i called it things will get better and we have the last little people who think that everything is ok. not because no problem or that we can still believe hold tight to effectively settle a vision there is no sign of compromise this is only even good was. being.

as it did go by people are dying it's a pretty sad situation. very very very especially to some of us who are living before part of the country any point in time you get sounds of gunshots this also makes it difficult for us to also leave because when we get any sound. our heart beats faster than usual. ok if you join us for 22 minutes go to the top of the program know we bought some breaking news i would say i want to clarify it for you said a little confusing the way it came out so quick recap of the breaking news much clearer now a court it was ordered the release of journeys carol remember his name from pretrial detention he is the head of the ukrainian branch of russia's ria novosti the international news agency and a jewel russian ukrainian citizen which inskeep was arrested in may of last year

a lot of publicity about it on charges of treason for allegedly publishing and ukrainian articles a claim that he has always denied along the way the journalist was released on condition today now that he attends future court hearings in. if found guilty of course this is still hanging over him he could face up to 15 years in prison which is get attention has been condemned by a number of international organizations along the way including reporters without borders ukraine previously attempted to use him in a prisoner swap as well you may remember he refused that saying he wanted to clear his name simply he called this wednesday's decision fair and reasonable martin some of those on the line independent journalist a martin thanks for your time today yet pretty clear now then so he's not off the hook completely maybe one step towards it how do you read the decision today from from this ukrainian court the good news for him well it's obviously good news for him and he's obviously welcomed and of course the wider implications may be that the new broom in kiev with the zelinsky government bedding down maybe that they're

trying to find ways back from the kind of confrontational attitudes of the recent past of course is always very difficult for journalists reporting on conflicts like this ready because it's easily easy to be seen by one side or the other. taking sides in what's a very complex situation in the 1st place so i mean a god welcome for this and hopefully you know justice will be done do you think this was purely a political case that you're well it's it's pretty clearly a political case and we've got a case here in the u.k. of katherine binion mccaffrey in northern ireland who made a film about the killings collusion between the royals to constantly really loyalist paramilitaries some years ago and they're waiting awaiting trial their absolute prison that they're still awaiting trial for supposedly accessing official secrets and that's that's a concern here and that's of course is a conflict you know insolently not

a kingdom one but it just shows. what you think is happening here there now i mean is this is this stage you say they're trying to let this down gently is your failing yeah well i mean the fact that they released him from prison means that and he's welcome. it shows that some movement and of course as you say was potentially involved in a prisoner swap which he rejected because he's not a political prisoner in the sense or you know a military prisoner is journalist trying to do his job and he wants to be to be recognized as having done his job on the face of it what's going to be a positive outcome for the trial on the face of it let's talk about the legal grounds for his detention the case that ukraine brought against him what do you think about that well i mean it's protected i mean obviously it's accuse somebody of treason for writing anything i mean journalism can be very partisan if you look at the newspapers here in the u.k. is often tremendously partisan is not treason or it could be construed as treason

by some bloody natural fact reporting in any conflict like this is going to be complicated and governments have to accept that people are going to say what they're going to say and hopefully that this case will will create a precedent for it but if it's it if it's if it comes to a successful conclusion for those who sent how long do you think this is going to drag out now identified know much about the legal system there is it is it likely to be prolonged quickly i don't know i don't i don't really understand what's going on here with mccaffrey and been you know that they shouldn't really being been chosen it's not quite clear when they're going to be that when they're going to be dealt with but of course in a situation like this it's extremely hard to predict i imagine it's it can be very very you know very extended and it very much depends upon the politics of who's prosecuting and who's in charge but it's a welcome sign i mean we the new government in kiev has done everything that to try and mend fences but at least the more extreme rhetoric of the recent past has been

toned down and this kind of you know release from prison is a positive step or at martin summer sir thanks carol live very short notice there's a breaking story in the last half hour or so we're going to our correspondent on the people to come down as well to see where it might go but for now. thanks to a lot of an arts international. thank you for watching as well it's now exactly 27 minutes past midnight a pos the hope you have a good day we thank you for watching ati international. we are in a depression and america populations all over america there's poverty and more than

half the population lives at or below the poverty line so they're already has a bit of a ghost depression going on which has developed into a full blown depression because of neither policies work from the central bank so maybe the problem is the subtle. 0 officer. told him to get up off the ground after begin to. hurt them freeze on the sounds of. a grown man with misleading essentially. trying. to push the away from the office through. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one smith's and then when it happened on 3 swung as i didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the deal any kind went back to where they were so the answers back here they're try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and even

turned 3. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the bear and the dragon over the last few years the russia china relationship has grown in depth and in magnitude it is not hard to understand why with russia constantly demonized and sanction and china targeted it's a serious western security threat there's no wonder moscow and beijing gravitate

towards each other this is much more than a marriage of convenience. cross talking russia and china i'm joined by my guest joel rubin a and paris he is the president of the bridge tank in washington we have earl he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center and in singapore we cross to jim rogers he's an international investor and author of street smarts adventures on the road and in the markets all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you in singapore as i said in my introduction this is no longer a marriage of convenience if it ever was the reason why we're doing this program as a member is reflecting upon a bed in the new york times and they were basically reacting is like wow the everybody notice this happening which all of us have and remarkably.