it is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison the why and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with it because the people have less political power. 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 and peace challenges of avoiding a no deal breaks that. russian journalist killed over shinseki is released from pretrial detention piece spent a year in a ukrainian jail waiting to face charges of treason. as the global arkwright continues over the fires and go thing vast tracts of the amazon rain forest the brazilian government's business practices on ties to washington come under

increased scrutiny. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with mina karan. the british prime minister's risked their roster of m.p.'s by securing parliament since a suspension during arguably the u.k.'s most sensitive post-war political chapter sparking a large protest outside westminster in the process. god . first johnson earlier secured the queen's permission to parag parliament shortly after it reconvenes off the summer recess is being seen as an attempt to thwart pais attempts to avoid a no deal brags it will make as we have just 2 weeks parliamentary time before the latest deadline for britain to leave the e.u. on halloween. but i'm going to wait until october the 31st before getting on with

our plans to take this country forward we're going to have a queen's speech and we're going to do it all ok but the 14th and we've got to move ahead not with a new program. well the prime minister's move has been lambasted by lawmakers on that and undemocratic and on the streets a brags that wary public seem to at least want an end to the indecision. as a promise to size and so we're trying to say certain things down the country. tricksy of you know many fronts that breaks it looks like you know that for most when a country wants a solution. to a site based are often easier to get it done for instance he said it's place politics when he says everything's not related to fishing during a deal which is just getting so jaded it is intended to think he's probably the best person in addition to the money even though he slows a bit i think it's just that. he's pushing some people with no one else to student

money president also a small school it's all of these and so much has westminster parts of the constitution that's where old decisions for the will of the people should actually be analyzed discussed and sure to treat them as well all representatives that's people excited to be in house a politician and to actually make decisions on my deal he is doing the right thing for the country you know. we've had this for 3 years and not be such a state for the fight and say gee you know we won our you know we won this. he's a right man for the job we should have been in years ago to be honest well for 4 stones that he hasn't been the problem in the for very long it took over from tourism a having won the conservative leadership contest on his main theme throughout the contest with what he would do live on drugs that vioxx over the 41st come what may even if that meant no deal drugs and however well those who said that actually his

intention the whole time was actually on the regs that could have had any intention to go shake with you and that this latest move in order to spend part of it merely highlights that however. johnson and supporters will argue that actually it's been here for of trying to cut compromise of the dollars cut the u.k. nowhere and that he hopes maybe by signaling his intent to leave this year without a deal but maybe they too will come back to the gaucherie table and it's probably struck the last minute if not but it seems that by doing what he's done today to forestall civil servant for the u.k. to be the new even that means on the nodaway since he saw the party in london. let's get the thoughts of british talk radio host and columnist john go now welcome to the show mystical and now 40 o'day should just move on johnson's pot do you think suspending parliament really get his way on breaks it always did it is

playing with fire here. well in a way to playing with fire with the remaining acts of people who don't want to leave but the bottom line is there was a coup attempt to jest why people don't want democracy you do not want to respect what the public voted for that the public clearly voted to get out 3 years ago so i think you are left with no choice i think he sidestepped around the queen now has given him permission suspend bollman and they keep talking about for weeks exactly 4 days but i think he's right to do it and it's in your thoughts pop the show did and the british public solid. it breaks it was supposed to be about the u.k. parliament taking back control how does the spending it by a prime minister chosen by only 0.2 percent of the population square with that. well that's a bit of propaganda isn't it let's be straight there was a vote 17400000 indians voted to leave that's the absolute fact parliament then

went through every trick every devious plan even as philip hammond the former chancellor admitted today they had all the mainstream media on their side including the b.b.c. in scotland yes because they didn't like the decision that we the people came with i'm sorry parliament and politicians m.p.'s are meant to be our servants not ok we seem to have lost the connection with our guest that but that was john goren supporters talk radio host and columnist moving on to the next story now according kiev has released the head of the ukrainian branch of russia's ria news agency from pretrial detention coalition scale here's the deal 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 welcomed the judge's decision an exclusive interview with our video agency rep cleaver since he said he's still got

plenty to give in his 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's 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 that including sharing all of the emotions and knowledge i experienced during that year so 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 who originally was arrested in may 28th in stands accused of publishing out 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

somers believes corrosion ski's pretrial release could indicate a turning point in russia ukraine lation. wider implications may be that the new broom in kiev with 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 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 certainly gets 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 that collusion between the royals to construct the real loyalist paramilitaries some years ago and they're waiting awaiting trial their absolute prison but they're still awaiting trial for 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 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. as unprecedented fires tear through vast expanses of pristine amazonian rain forest and with the global outcry increasing where there was finally agreed to accept foreign aid to help with the crisis but only if it can determine how the funds are spent earlier president. said 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 that both in our headline about being committed to preventing climate change the display it comes as the brazilian government faces increased scrutiny over its aggressive

attempts to exploit the rain forests resources and also its ties to foreign lobbyist with more on that is caleb maupin. the amazon rain forest is on fire on an unprecedented scale and it's everybody's business you see this fire markets group about $200.00 yards to the fact that it's along 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 in flames the m. 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 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 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 golson r.-o. donald trump paved the way for a bowl 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 posted advance touting the vast american business opportunities presented by the forest and soil of the south american nation you know you are. there. 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 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. back to our top story now as the british prime minister has risk the wrath of m.p.'s by securing parliament suspension joining arguably the u.k.'s most sensitive post-war political chapter sparking a large protest outside westminster in the process we can return to our guest. don't go it's british talk radio host and columnist now we lost the connection earlier but let's consider this pick up where we left off john if m.p.'s want to derail boris johnson's moves they won't have long to do it has the prime minister just let the touch paper face his opponents and any wavering fellow conservative m.p.'s to turn on him do you think or whether factions going to church in any way they will only have 4 days now as you say some of their legal people are saying he's well within it. and they're the ones who are going to court the constitution crosses the bridge vote to julie who should live 3 years ago and morris is going to

. live by. the 31st which ever way either we leave and we'll try to ignore. zation terms all leave with a deal and i think most people pretty popular vox pop are supporting him the british people of behind boris johnson. hands me if i had seen the pound think westminster protest ignite it's under the official petition found peace to debate against perogue in parliament get well over 3 quarters of a 1000000 signatures in just a few hours does boris johnson realistically have a chance. to get pregnant or a snap election well known number one through the course of a 1000000 people marched on a petition 17400000 people democratically voted in the largest democratic exercise this country's ever known to leave so let's put the petition to one side yes i believe boris johnson will deliver breakfast whether over the full sit them

directors like me want. to terms i don't know but it certainly looks as if there are trees amazed dead in the water and boris johnson is for once as a politician trying to deliver what he promised i think we should be saluting that and i think the people and it's a ragtag bunch of people outside westminster westminster tonight boris johnson of the british people with a we want to approach them i think he's going to deliver and i don't think they can derail it now want to don't think i've got time and to what are they proposing yesterday they had a clue. but they can't even agree who should be the interim prime minister if they were to get rid of boris johnson these people haven't got a clue british people have spoken the british people want their servants which is the m.p.c. to deliver breaks it then got done cheek to talk about democracy in boris jumped through a lot in democracy when a lot of those politicians are playing the very people who are being denying the

masses of the people of britain their democratic rights their decision so yeah i think he will force it through and maybe you know it come with a deal but i think it will probably leave on cio terms on october 31st michael white. rice was talking to a stern going to talk radio host and columnist. now we tend to think of the tech industry as being at the forefront of tomorrow's world and also leading the way in equality and diversity among staff but it seems a european web developers conference in germany didn't get the memo despite promising a rich and diverse lineup it counseled october's event after a number of delegates objected that no women speakers were taking part in this year's conference seems to have gone with the white males only conference lineup shame is 2019 we can do better there were numerous speakers with 2 sessions myself

included workshop in the session but no women at all i'm not comfortable that it wasn't an easy decision to make because i do enjoy sharing my coding passion but having advocated for diversity at p.h.p. developer conferences for the last several years i have to follow my beliefs the diversity should be a cornerstone of the p.h.p. developer community diversity matters more to me than speaking. less to fill it with our guest feminist campaign i learned about loss and political commentator andre walker who's a columnist for the new york observer welcome both to the program now 1st a limb there please the conference organizers say only one woman's submitted a session proposal for proposal so should they really be taking the heat over this do you think. well the fact is that women all still half the population think we're just marginally over

there. and the people organizing it seem to be a group of main was their duty. requirement to ensure that they had a wide range of people to speak about the issues that they wanted the debate. or are they wrong to you andre. and don't professional industry gatherings like this have a duty to lead the way in encouraging more voices not just the predominantly white male ones. know well look what you have to do is get the best people for the job you have to find the speakers that are going to be most insightful of most interesting to the audience my understanding is that this conference in previous years has had plenty of women speakers and plenty of people from a diverse background as it happens this year only when applied to host a session but one of the reasons i think this event has been cancelled is because a group of speakers

a century decided that what they were going to do was cancel their own speeches and they'd give the speeches away to people who weren't necessarily qualified to speak but happen to be female now if i were to spend an awful lot of money flying all the way to this conference taking time out of work getting in to outsell i've been away from my family i wouldn't want the speaker lined up to be decided not on the basis of talent not on the basis of knowledge not on the basis of relevancy but just because somebody happens to be a woman that would be really quite insulting thing to do to the audience the point is that when you want to be diverse you know on some occasions will be more willing speakers on some occasions we don't more bad speakers but he's also the also the child age to say that you're going to have people in and effectively racially or sexually profile i just say we're not interested what your speeches get the baby would not interest in your. level of tolerance we're not interested in the relevancy all we're interested in is the color of your skin or your gender that is

a joke. for web development work is the last in a predominantly male community a. go ahead place. yes but why why no the men organize the power systems look at women in or don't let women in the main i don't mean all of the men don't have the same view but the fact is until a 100 years ago women didn't have the vote in britain you know this is lots of things the for which we were excluded with learned men say why we should be excluded because because of women we because we're women we didn't have the capacity to 3 think logically etc this is what men say and some of them seem to be acting as though they still think that. what rubbish will do you know this is not only raised considered response yes it is i think it's a crazed conspiracy theory look if you look now increasingly why are the 1st very

few women in science because we fail to encourage young girls to get involved in science at schools you see all the time women who are less qualified being promoted into jobs in tact if you open up a newspaper today into the job section you read phrases like applications particularly welcome from women candidates that means med need not apply you'll also say applications particular welcome for block of minority ethnic calendars that means white people need not apply and you also say applications particular welcome for disabled people not meaning that all the people need not apply it is simply a way of getting around the law because ultimately at the end the day people have quotas to fail because of idiots like you that is why not these why we hope we can achieve putting. your situation. you're an embarrassment dear. oh.

thank you dear how very kind of you. i don't know where you get your facts but actually the the law i suspect you you understand what the lore is the law passed by parliament does allow. organizations to encourage those who are under represented to apply for jobs the criteria that is applied has to be the same for all of them you may think that because women are encouraged to apply for jobs that somehow the standard is lowered you are wrong and if anybody is doing it they are breaking the law i don't approve their like also any woman getting it. would approve of. open secrets it is an open secret that standards are dropped in certain cases for so long as it will now look you can say all day you can say all day that if i open up a job and it says applications particularly welcome from women but that does not

mean need not apply but you don't have that in practice such precisely what it means nobody on this planet who has a mass and would apply for a job has not said andrea if a same man threw up there was only one woman out of 39 speakers at last year's conference that organizes a 512 months to address that so it's not a good look for supposedly a rich and diverse lineup is it. well here is the slight problem if you have nobody who is qualified in the subject if you have nobody who's willing to speak and nobody who would be relevant to that particular conference you can't magic these people out fair enough the problem here is that the suggestion with the diverse it industry because it is an industry the diversity industry what they would say is get holy don't qualify for a poll on the basis that they have pressed what a joke no we would not you are lie yes you were you are lie as you would say you are no longer an example act you want some qualified people i was never held this

is the hollywood values that we're having today nobody qualified apply so you will just a troll know it's not the only qualified to speak out. that is absolute nonsense i don't know what the qualifications are if one of the patients are that they haven't got x. y. and z. ed professional standing then if it's relevant to the to the to the speeches the be given then it is right not to have invited them but that isn't the point the point is not about qualifications the point is about a culture which i'm sorry to say you seem to represent which is which is about accusing women of daring to be in your workplaces and then to have no idea of her going to go how long the 2nd that would be a further comment if any women had applied no woman got pushed out while the woman applied there was basically no candidates now how will the earth is that the fault

of men all the organs our lives when it widely applied you come against me. because . so so listen this is not a job this is this is to speak if the book the wording if the whole process had been put in such a way that was an interesting to half the population then maybe those men should reconsider how they. going about their job it's a job always offices and so i 1st set of of speakers well no it's i was brain you i don't believe unless you were involved the purpose was to do you also. have another 2nd the purpose of the conference is not to have a diverse range of speakers the purpose of the conference is to have speeches that would be enjoyed the delegates that's the important difference lenny there are plenty of weapon tech in the lame stream dinosaur reins regardless of gender but

you know maybe it's the case there's just one of those industries there's not enough women's career radar. well i don't know about that i mean i'm in no position to make a comment but i do know that there are lots of women who are highly qualified who do get very well i'm trying to avoid swearing but who get very annoyed and spending their time with men who seem to be only concerned with speaking to other men in language that is not accessible to the public lots of them lots of lots of scientists sign i don't know huge number but the ones i do know to speak in plain english so that they're all to remember the public men and women can understand what they're talking about. the speaker that andrew seems to talk about qualified i don't know quite what he means by qualified being called a fight surely includes being able to be understood by the public silence after all

affects most of us in i would even say all of us and if somebody is speaking in a language that can be only understood by people who've got particular narrow degrees then i think that's a failure it's a failure on all of us and yourself included and. has higher supposedly modern industry is struggling with diversity inclusive a.t.m. plenty of harassment claims they're getting a bit of positive action could help here. well can i just correct something that's articulated or just said which is this you know this is a conference on p.h.p. and various types of computer coding of course they're not going to speak in a language that's the standard the public but their programming language is by definition complete double digits and most of us so look this is not about speaking to the public it's about having a technical briefing so those delegates that are interested now you know if you want to do that down the just drag everybody in off the street to speak be my guest but no delegates are going to pay to turn up so that you know fundamentally you

need delegates not who can talk to the public who can give technical briefings in the states to people who are interested in a very specific and specialized field of work. coming back to you lend. their rapid growth of tech industry at the tech injury seems to be the biggest struggle with diversity inclusive ety and harassment claims is it too late to turn the tide do you think what needs to be done. well it's never too late is not surely just about about claims of employment the 4 point is that most technology new technology has to be about these meant to be about the benefit of all people not just men so if you're producing some some coded you know material to to achieve an outcome then that surely cooled and should be accessible to everybody to talk to participate otherwise we're speaking in gobbledygook and you

might call it being you know scientific but if the public is meant to benefit from science then i see no reason why plain english should not be used by scientists male or female. andre and the organizers they posted this abrupt cancellation message on the conference website with terse links to the delegates who pulled. out so it sounds a bit more like they're blaming them for ruining their party rather than learning a lesson about being gender exclusive in t 2019 doesn't it. yes it does it certainly sounds like the the organizers blame the sorry the speakers that pulled out i don't you see the debate is simply this the speakers that pulled out had selected a group of women that they wanted to be speakers that replaced them the organizers did not feel that those women were appropriately qualified i don't you see there's been an argument between that now in terms of the principle of it without seeing

the c.v.s. over the of these people it would be very hard to know who is in the right but i will make one simple point it does strike me that it's highly unlikely in the real world forget linda's conspiracy theories but it's very unlikely in the real world that that somebody would just not want somebody to speak on the grounds of the agenda i don't think that's very realistic i don't think that's something that's really going to happen i don't just don't think it's it's factually accurate it does happen i'm sorry to say i'm sorry to say it does happen i'm glad to say it's not absolutely widespread but you may be in your little. haven in which everything is right and rosy but for lots of women the lots of ways in which women are excluded however competent they are i'm sorry that still happening i wish it wasn't but unless it's get spoken about i don't think much will change on that note i'd like to thank you both for a fascinating and lie.