a. rage being levelled out the u.k. prime minister. queues of attempting to force through. the queen to shut down parliament until mid october. also ahead in the program a possible step towards freedom the head of the. news agency is released from pretrial detention by the courts while he waits to fight charges of treason. as the global continues over the fires engulfing vast tracts of the amazon rain

forest the brazilian government's business practices on the ties to washington come under increased scrutiny. on police in the west of germany say they will now reveal the nationality of all suspects in the push for greater transparency regardless of whether or not their identity is believed to be relevant to the investigation. in the world this is r.t. international mining as you know neal hello and welcome. the u.k. looks to be lurching towards a major constitutional crisis britain's new prime minister boris johnson has asked the queen to shut down parliament until mid october which means lawmakers will reconvene just 2 weeks before the brakes it deadline. we're joined live not by

policy or from london to tell us more on this paula pm johnson is already feeling the heat over this request what does it mean for the u.k. and break to talk us through it well as you correctly say the british prime minister biased johnson has put in a formal request to the queen to suspend parliament until october the 14th what this means is that there will be just 2 weeks ahead of the deadline for the u.k. to leave the european union is a 2nd not a lot of time there were in may johnsen himself says that this one the allow him to move the u.k. forward with general legislative agenda is that his new government has been tasked to do take a listen. we're not going to wait until october the 1st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward we are going to a queen's speech and we're going to do it on october 14th and we've got to move it out with a new program. now johnson denies that the move is undemocratic his charge his

critics are charging that not only is it is it undemocratic but that is also behaving cowardly as and an elected and an autocratic prime minister they also say that he is really trying to prevent by time that you would see members of parliament not agreeing and possibly preventing a no deal bricks had been pushed through johnson however insists that he does support a deal with the european union but that if none is reached then he is still going to go ahead with breaks that on the 31st of october now the speaker of the house has said that this is a constitutional outrage. this move represents a constitutional i would reach it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of burglary so now would be to stop parliament debating brags that. it was you remember the constant opposition in parliament over the whole bricks that issue and the issue of reaching

a deal or not that saw the former prime minister to resign may having to give up her post so we'll continue to bring you updates throughout the day and no doubt a lot of questions being asked how this particular chapter more and yet u.k. parliament still on their summer holding as well of course of the month party's policy from london bring us right up to date on. moving on a court in kiev has released the head of the ukrainian branch of russia's real news agency from trial detention correll efficiency a jew all russian ukrainian national was arrested last year and charged with treason while the case against him still stands as he could be facing up to 15 years in prison he has welcomed a judge's decision. i am now planning to leave the building with some fresh air i think about everything else all of the other problems tomorrow it feels really bad being in prison believe me i'm not the only one who thinks that i don't know a single person who feel comfortable here i was certainly following the news while

in prison but for now i'm not ready to make any political assessments a view the cause of some ukrainian politicians for a prisoner swap as an attempt to raise the previous presidents profile their temperament to be unsuccessful for mr bush saying as he has lost his position and i have spent a year in prison. he was arrested last may understands accuse the publishing and to ukrainian articles that claim he's always denied is the tension has been condemned by a number of international organizations including reporters without borders ukraine previously attempted to use him in a prisoner swap but he refused saying he wanted to clear his name journalist martin somers gave us his thoughts on the development. the wider implications may be that the new broom in kiev with zelinsky government bedding down may be 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 in conflicts like

this 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 guarded welcome for this and hopefully you know justice will be done but it's certainly it's pretty clearly a political case and we've got a case here in the u.k. of catherine 1000000000 mccaffery in northern ireland who made a film about killings collusion between the royals to constantin religious paramilitaries some years ago and they're waiting awaiting trial their absolute prison that they're still awaiting trial. supposedly accessing official secrets and that's that's a concern here i mean the fact that they released him from prison means that and he's welcomed 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 a military prisoner he's a journalist trying to do his job and he wants to be good to be recognized as

having done is. moving the program on now with precedented number of fires tearing through vast expanses of pristine amazonian rainforest and global i cried growing brazil's president has lashed out at his french counterpart joey or bolton r.-o. has said that he's not willing to accept any aid money to help tackle the crisis on till a money apologizes for insulting him the french leader's office said at the beginning of the week that paul snow had lied about being committed to preventing climate change that the spirit comes as the brazilian government faces increased scrutiny over its aggressive attempts to exploit the rainforest resources and its ties to foreign lobby us with more than here philip martin. 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 5 minutes alone for the thousands of miles of

scorched forests hundreds of burned trees and they broke all records this year they were twice as many as they were in 2080 the war to save the amazon rain forest this is one of the last battlefields celebrities are speaking up saying that the lungs of the earth are at stake the lungs of the earth and 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 naro 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 in 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 a bold 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 alluding to. there are. those who see the problem of money used. for get 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 states companies and he's now just fuck was own u.s. market and i think that these relations that the new government of with the

u.s. government and companies are not very good for european companies that are interested also on this next natural resource so i think that the national corporations are disputing this natural resources the m.s.n. yet the forests the rain forest and dissident government is taking part in dispute . joe you're. being or giving them the attention being paid to the dentist. in the amazon is own warranted by the fact that this year an estimated $950000.00 hectares of rain forest have been destroyed much of it for a couple ranching and soybean cultivation with the explicit support of his administration and it's not just brazil suffering either fires and are raging in a number of neighboring countries r.t. spanish has been filming the consequences.

but i think 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. rather

than little bit but it was a moment we are going to suspend the election campaign for at least one we believe in president the morality of his running mate will suspend all extra work to teach us we will dictate ourselves to taking care of the entire region affected by the wildfires of the entire believe in them and. in a push for greater transparency police in the west of germany have said they will begin closing the nationalities of criminal suspects taking a look at the implications of birds are europe correspondent peter. 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 doff 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 defaults 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 need to excuse enough people that we want to include in the society we don't think that a 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 a 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. 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 go to church is 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 all the suspect lies with the editorial staff of an outlet so ultimately whatever decision is made someone is going to be. we're staying in germany after the break as police there are investigating the brutal daylight execution of a chechen exile in berlin. what

politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want to. have to go to the press this is what the local variable people are. interested always in the water as it. should.

be. 90 minutes into the program welcome german police are investigating the murder of an ethnic chechen in central berlin on friday they have arrested a russian citizen in connection with the killing in a case german media are already comparing to the death of surrogate script well joining me in this should be you know for more than this r t senior correspondent roughs. good to see a quite a few elements to this 11 with different names to bring us the story well there's there's a lot of talk about the suspected killer but not

a lot of talk about the victim portrayed as you know almost innocent if you go. what you see in the headlines but. han anguish really has quite the checkered past quite the history came to prominence 1st fighting against the russian government in chechnya during the 2nd chechen war where with islamists he rose to prominence then came to command dozens and dozens of jihad lists. also. aligned with the food with the meal but that is one of the most notorious infamous names in modern russian history untold acts of terror to this man i mean he sees the attack the hospital once took hundreds of people ill sick calling kill people the elderly woman children hostage eventually. there was

a firefight more than $100.00 people dead just just to give you an idea of the caliber of the man that he fought with also a supporter of the caucasus emirate because it's isis lite these guys you know there's nothing they wouldn't do the. airports civilian trains metro subway stations they were actually designated as a terrorist organization by the u.n. by the u.s. by the u.k. russia many other countries and these these are the people that fought with the venture the they declared legions to al-qaeda nusra front in syria many of them went to fight in syria journey joining me early years of the war the this is just to give you an idea of what kind of fella this was eventually he was he left georgie's ethnic chechen but with georgian citizenship mentioned he left georgia

went to ukraine then germany. and he. on the watch list terror watch list and i quote he was watched by german security services as an individual who potentially presented a public safety threat 2018 for a new reasons apparently law being group or german georgian lobbying group lobbied for him to be removed from that list and eventually he was. now don't get me wrong don't misinterpret me his past doesn't justify his murder execution in the public in a public park in the perpetrators must be brought to account but just to give you an idea of who this guy was because there's very little very little discussion in in the media be it online print t.v. radio about who he was and we've just heard comment from the kremlin has called the

president's spokesperson saying that the russian government category categorically denies any relation any link between this killing this murder and russian authorities the russian government so very firm statement from them. ok we have to see what comes of our investigation or to the senior correspondent because the of thinking. ok moving on now the u.s. state of iowa has been told by a federal court that it must pay for gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate on less there is a successful appeal in the supreme court in the next 90 days it will be the 1st time a 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 prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. well the inmates who identifies as a woman but hasn't yet undergone the surgery is called. edmodo he's serving a 10 year prison sentence for sexually abusing a 15 year old and noah scheduled for release in 2021 that's not eligible for parole but if the gender reassignment surgery is successfully paid for by the state edna will be transferred to a women's prison. where we ask 2 commentators in the u.s. for their thoughts on the 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 or 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 debt 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 they're 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 trans 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 a 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. t.q. community certainly to our prison systems certainly to our courts and certainly to our victims. we're back watching the hawks in but let's stay close. to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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back to where they were. grading and salutations by august 13th of this year the fires many manmade still burning in the amazon rain forest have covered the skies of over 1000000 square miles with a layer smoke blocking out the sun and moon alike the fires have done more to make people realize how tenuous our relationship with this planet truly is than any climate accord or earth day celebration could the fires partly due to the normal

dry season in the amazon basin were exacerbated by agricultural developers illegally burning forest land so it can be used for livestock developers that some say have been emboldened by the rhetoric of brazilian president wilson r.-o. of the fires were just a normal brazilian tradition he said i used to be called. captain chainsaw now i am nero setting the amazon aflame but it is the season of the burn however as the fires blazed on in the world community took notice bulsara changed its tune making this statement on friday august 23rd after finally committing to use the brazilian military to fight the fires appreciate what is necessary to be called when dealing with that matter the fires on them is on to spread that intended message that. brazil do doesn't help to solve the problem and it is usually political events to me. now as world leaders and movie.