what should develop into a full blown depression because i'm not either aussies work from the central bank so maybe the problem is the sense of. the british prime minister secures the queen's approval to suspend parliament until mid october and what's being seen as a risky move to block m.p.'s chances of avoiding a no deal breaks is. russian journalist career over since he is released from pretrial detention he spent a year in the ukrainian jail waiting to face charges of treason. and in a 1st of its kind ruling the us federal court orders the state of idaho to pay for gender reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of child abuse we get reaction

to the ruling. i absolutely don't think that taxpayers should be funding people's preferences there is only one cure for gender dysphoria that is surgery. very well welcome you watching r t international with me good to have you with us protesters are gathering in london after a day of huge political upheaval in the u.k. we're showing you live pictures from central london right now british prime minister boris johnson has succeeded in getting the queen's approval to suspend parliament surely off to the summer recess. demonstrators have been voicing their anger over britain's exit from the you were peon union currently. set for the end of october they've launched through the city

the city center people however some people in the capital think that the prime minister is just sticking to his guns. promise to try since we're trying to run things down in the country. i you know i want to fix that breaks it looks like you know that much but when a country wants a solution. to a state states are often used to get it done i think he's probably the best person to ship the money even though he knows about everything which is that. he's pushing some people with no one else is to get money as evan else is talking sweet talking peace and so much he's doing the right thing for the country and you know everything we've heard this for 3 years and not be judged for the right and she you know we won our you know we won those. he's a right man for the job he should have been in years ago to be honest prime minister boris johnson's move is being seen as an attempt to thwart m.p.'s attempts

to avoid a no deal briggs's no make his will have just 2 weeks parliamentary time before the latest deadline for britain to leave the e.u. on halloween reporting from westminster his paulus. well the british prime minister burgess johnson as for me asked the queen to suspend parliament from the 9th of september to the 14th of october the parliament is currently on recess but essentially what it means is that when it we convience there will be little more than 2 weeks for the sitting parliamentarians to discuss this whole issue and be able to prevent in essence a no deal breaks it of course the deadline for the u.k. to leave the european union is on the 31st of october now and johnson has said that his intention in doing this is to allow the u.k. to move forward with its national legislative agenda we're not going to wait until october the 31st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward 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 there's a lot of criticism from opposition members of parliament to accuse johnson are behaving cowardly and being in undemocratic and autocratic leader called then the leader of the labor party has said that this is a smash and grab on democracy the speaker of the house is also critical of johnson's move this move represents a constitutional outrage it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of provocation now would be to stop parliament debating briggs's recent telegraph poll found that 88 percent of brits feel that the parliament is out of touch with its people and certainly the parliament on this issue seems to have failed during the leadership of the former prime minister to resign may there were 3 votes on this issue and ultimately may resigned over the whole topic now what we see johnson doing is

really delivering on his promises he said he was going to deal with the issue and criticism or not he certainly is moving in that direction i think critics have been right to note that. it's been quite a chain for all the government trying to drag the queen. to this political mess for the government like this in the government does not have the jordan that the government into this is as one would also it's election time tory members is not gone part of the populace is they are. majority support for what the prime minister wants to do and it's a queen to some of the people who think that all of this is prosecuted a little bit but just to possible to try to win at least enough time to get his new deal through. a course in kiev has released the head of the ukrainian branch of russia's rian news agency from pretrial detention coalition if

he has a dual russian ukrainian national was arrested last year and charged with treason or the case against him still stands and he could face up to 15 years in prison he's welcomes the judge's decision in an exclusive interview with our video agency where plea he said he's still got plenty to give the news media role. i don't think about making a political career i've been practicing journalism for over 20 years and i believe i can still bring a lot into the profession it helped me to overcome the events of the last year and therefore i owe it to the job and i should do a lot to benefit including sharing all of the emotions and knowledge i experienced during that year for now i can't say whether it will be political journalism or not but it's going to be journalism anyway the profession has supported me a lot it saved me a lot so i'll continue supplying it with as much experience as i can to of agency was arrested him a 2018 in stands accused of publishing on to ukrainian articles that claim he's

always denied his detention had 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 summers believes career over it believes he's pretty child release could indicate a turning point in russia ukraine relations. wider implications may be that the new broom in kiev with this alinsky government getting down maybe that they're trying to find ways back from the kind of confrontational attitudes of the recent past. because this was very difficult for journalists reporting on conflicts like this because it's easily easy to be seen by one side or the other. that's taking sides in what's a very complex situation in the 1st place so i mean a guardian welcome for this and hopefully you know justice will be done but it's it's pretty clearly a political case and we've got a case here in the u.k.

of katherine 1000000000 mccaffrey in northern ireland who made a film about killings that collusion between the royals to constantly really loyalist paramilitaries some years ago and they're waiting awaiting trial there i'm still in prison but they're still awaiting trial. supposedly accessing official secrets and that's that's a concern here the fact that they released him from prison means that and he's welcomed it shows that there's some movement and of course as you say was and 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 is york. as unprecedented fires tear through vast expanses of pristine amazonian rain forest and with the global outcry increasing brazil has finally agreed to accept foreign aid to help with the crisis but only if they can determine how the funds are spent earlier president. is that he was unwilling to accept any money unless his french counterpart apologized for

insulting him the french leader's office said at the beginning of the week they are both in our headline being committed to preventing climate change the dispute comes at the brazilian government faces increased scrutiny over its aggressive attempts to exploit the rain forests resources and also its ties to foreign lobbyists with more on that. 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 in the 1st 5 minutes alone for the 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 2080 the war to save the amazon rain forest this is one of the last battlefields and celebrities are speaking up saying that the lungs of the earth are at stake belongs of the earth and inflames the am is the needs more than 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 present 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 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 2818 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 the. 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 do you. say that these are there you have evolved in relation to see the problem of money used. for good 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 cancelled 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. let's cross live to you and your rest can now the director of the earth institute which promotes sustainable sustainability worldwide mr breckon wonderful to have you on the program with us i might to ask you does the current political situation in brazil have something to do with the international reaction to the rain forest fires do you think. it's a it's a really complex situation the global pressure pressure from the north has always been resisted in brazil for decades i wrote a book about the amazon the burning season in 1089 came out in 1900. and the issues were the same but the burning was actually much more extensive in $88.89 than it is

now there's some lack of memory. and one of the things that's still true is that cattle particularly beef is a keystone driver of deforestation it's about 80 percent still of the deforestation in the amazon this from cattle grazing which sometimes is just the way to get control of land you burn it you arrange your cattle and your. pushed away any nearby residents who might have had another friend to it that was the issue in the eighty's and so it when when the microphone or somebody that like him you know chards brazil it's just a reflection of a longstanding pattern in the seventy's that the brazilian military government in the eighty's had this whole plan to occupy the amazon was occupy so as not to lose occupied a part of the intra ghar and this is a just a new reflection of that same pattern and in terms of climate change just how much damage is being done by these unprecedented 5. well

a lot of the burning it's you know again it would be in a way easier to think of it as a simple story of forest burning and warming the climate but a lot of what the burning that's been measured in recent weeks is burning that's an annual process on land that was already cut down so it's not just that this is trees that are being turned into carbon dioxide that are adding to climate change the bigger issue of climate change is absolutely still emissions of greenhouse gases from industry and smokestacks tailpipes of cars and until that gets reduced the amazon burning can come and go and it's really not it's almost like a sideshow compared to the bigger issue. and now you question an obstacle that explains that immediately think that generating a situation in the amazon why so why would anyone look to downplay such a thing. well again it's just numbers the burning in the when i was there in 1909 the reason my book was called the burning season was that

it was a huge conflagration 77000 square miles and rainforest were cut and burned in the space of a few years that time so what's happened now happen after brazil had had a really substantial reduction and it's the forestation rate and in fact they gained credit in the climate talks the climate treaty talks for this large reduction with the rise now is real but it's from a base of destruction that's much lower than it was back then so as a journalist you just you know the the the responsibility is to be true to the data and also to be true to you know what someone like president also noro is doing he's kind of put up a big sign saying open season and that has led to this a lot of farmers and others to to to accelerate their their land grabs that is a real concern but the question for the world is how do you realistically work with brazil or with agriculture to slow that that pattern and

a lot of this will have to do not so much with tweets going back and forth with most of our own but with steady pressure on working with brazilians of brazil's big agriculture industry to say hey you know from the eighty's i mean from 2004 until now you did a great job of growing more and more soybeans on less land meeting with less cutting lets what can we do to help you do that more and that i wrote a piece for national geographic that came out. some months back that really got into this the real opportunity and responsibility of those of us outside the amazon is to work constructively to see. what we can do to influence change on the ground and to you know some of the bo's'n are when he's his rhetoric is in danger aine. the peoples of the amazon that's another issue you know with the he's challenged indigenous tribes rights to their land and that that can from in violence not just

burning and that has to be challenged because if you look at maps of the amazon and you look carefully at where the fires are and you look at where the fires aren't the big places in the amazon that aren't burning are mostly indigenous reserves so the more that we can do to foster their capacity for what you call guardianship their capacity to live productively on their lands without cutting for us the better off with all the now what we often refer to the amazon is the younger the the us i mean is this region as important to is a vital organ in that sense. well unit lungs that probably isn't an ideal metaphor it's always been there you know you inhale you exhale the amazon doesn't produce a huge amount of the world's oxygen that that number has been out there for a week 2 weeks 20 percent it's not true but that's not a reason to say we don't need the amazon the amazon has this unbelievable reza reserve of biodiversity biological diversity having spent time in the forests there

are 3 months running around in the 1989 reading my book you talk to a botanist i was going down to a trail with a botanist who had been working in the western amazon for 20 years and i saw a tree a really interesting tree i said you know what's this species of that he said i don't know. if you've been there for 20 years he said i would have to climb way up into the canopy climb the tree. look at the flowers and then maybe i could tell you you know what genus it is or what family and that's the kind of bounty it's kind of like it's not even like burning a library it's like burning a library before we've even catalogued in britain and identified the worms that's a much more powerful reason to to that's the global value. even as we work on stemming global warming it's not like if you just think of the amazon as carbon you're missing what to me personally is the great the great richness there under rev can director of the earth aids the change thank you so much for your time

. great to be with you. jim and police are investigating the murder of an ethnic chechen man in central baghdad on friday they've arrested a russian citizen in connection with the killing in a case that german media already comparing to the suspected assassination attempt against think a script power in the u.k. the of takes a closer look at how the media is playing a little fast with the facts what we know so far sakte solid facts can see it all nice post it note a man was murdered in ethnic chechen but a jihad this past is suspected killer reportedly the russian citizen. at sea it fits on the posted note naturally what's known was enough for pundits to flesh out an international conspiracy theory that would put the freemasons in the shade.

kremlin assassination putin's hit script fall $2.00 so while the end imaginative did the media get that officials had to step in and curb pundit's imaginations. we don't know the exact motive all we know is there are strong indications that the act was premeditated and that is why we have to go further there has been a lot of speculation already which is also been published for this reason alone we are obliged to refrain from discussing the investigation all the authorities have said is it could be a politically motivated hit didn't say russia did it didn't say putin ordered it

what he said is they don't yet know that's why as an investigation you know to establish facts are fashionable these days in the media nor do they want to talk about the victim no angel himself with a bit of a shady past border along side jihadism chechnya together with men who took entire hospitals hostage bombed subways airports trains committed untold acts of terror supported caliphates and emirates groups that pledged allegiance to al qaida and no that doesn't justify a murder the perpetrators should be punished feel the full. force of the law but spinning speculative fairy tales filled with crackpot conspiracy theories in the tar gold rush rush rush the troops. and isn't helping anyone.

u.s. state of idaho is being told by a federal court that it must pay for gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate unless there is a successful appeal in the supreme court in the next $90.00 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 this inmate who identifies as a woman but hasn't yet undergone the surgery is called a tree at mo she serving a 10 year prison sentence for sexually abusing a 15 year old said to look for release in 2021 and is not eligible for parole but if the gender reassignment surgery is successfully paid for by the state at meaux

will be transferred to a women's prison where we are some commentators in the us for their falls 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 today this is an incredibly sad testimony to the dangers of 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 prisoner 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 bit. 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 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. t.q. community certainly to our prison systems certainly to our courts and certainly to

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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 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 fact that means he 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 said that trump was right to improve relations with russia as i actually to do and reverse nixon when it came to china what are these people talking about where have they been it seems.