i. hear moscow headlining oil prices spike following attacks on saudi oil refineries where the u.s. . is india kashmir a prominent separatist leader awaits trial in a decades old case we hear from his wife. now being locked up in a cage fight by 7. universities in california might have to supply students with abortion pills if a controversial new bill is signed off.

what are we going to say to a woman you know what you had a chance to get an education to create a better life for yourself but you're completely ruined. good afternoon the international life my world use h.q. moscow is kevin only with you for the next 30 minutes for the round thanks for staying if you can 1st donald trump new in this says the u.s. is locked and loaded as he put it and ready to respond to the latest attacks on saudi arabia's oil infrastructure or prices have skyrocketed by amounts not seen since the invasion of kuwait back in 1990 following what happened at the weekend the united states claims around is directly responsible for saturday's attacks on the state run refineries to run denies the allegations and has ruled out the possibility of talks to between trump and president rouhani but one on the table

trying to reports. it's not even been a week since the famous most stosh was shaved off the face of america's foreign policy if you know what i mean but even without mr bolton someone else who is actually in charge of diplomacy has tweeted the u.s. will join efforts with allies to ensure iran is held accountable for its aggression and there's plenty of other hawks to explain how not supposed to be done it is now time for the united states to put on the table an attack on iranian oil refineries if they continue their provocations were increased nuclear enrichment so this sound of the drums of war is back because oil refineries in saudi arabia went up in flames now after a hit see this island right here that is the kingdom of bahrain as seen from space the fire was so huge that the black of the smoke was almost just as big as you can see right there but who said it was to iran the u.s.

state department even though boss might compare didn't explain how they knew the rain ians did it i'll tell you what the who the rebels who are fighting a civil war in yemen even said it was us but for washington that's just a smokescreen. amid all the cools for deescalation iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply the damage is indeed a men's if you look at it from one side the world's biggest black gold producer says the strike cut its crude old supply by around a half donald trump quickly called the saudi crown prince to offer him full support but we know just how much oil and how much cash saudi arabia has riyadh has already called its buyers telling them the disaster is still not enough to disturb its black gold exports plus they've been known as a western darling in the middle east for years and the saudis have been bombing the who theory rebels in yemen with the solid approval of the us and allies.

but back to iran the number one troublemaker in the area through washington's lenses i mean lately even donald trump has hinted he's ready to engage in diplomacy with their leadership could happen it could have. no problem with the black plumes of smoke from the burning saudi oil have probably clouded those intentions with or without john bolton what to do with iran remains the u.s. administration's toughest puzzle. if the u.s. is able to convince its allies like the europeans that. iran was indeed. the country that carried out these attacks

then. that could be quite serious but there's no evidence so far that that that is the case we're only hearing from the u.s. that. that iran was responsible obviously the u.s. is is trying to put maximum pressure on iran. but it remains to be seen whether that will be effective this is the 1st major incident. the us has faced since bolton either resigned or was fired and so we will have to watch closely and see who is driving this this this very isolated but aggressive response to these attacks in saudi arabia. very prominent separatist leader of disputed kashmir is

said to face trial in an indian court for alleged murder almost 30 years ago his name is yasin malik he's the head of a group that wants the muslim majority region to belong neither to india nor pakistan nuclear neighbors that both want to claim kashmir in full his separatist group has been banned in india under a new anti terror law in the years of former militants seems 25 years ago is group adopted so-called nonviolent methods malik faces trial now though for allegedly leading a group of militants who killed 4 indian air force personnel and smith in 1990 he's been in indian prison since march children law that allows for suspects to be held for up to 2 years without charge his wife told us about the inhumane prison conditions she says he's being kept in. imagine any human being locked up in a cage 5 by 7 feet with an open lap and to sleep there on the really

hard cemented floor without any blanket and with this hypertensive lights on his head all the time he's got blood clots in his eyes because the light doesn't go off and he's not allowed to open the cage even for a minute and in the entire 24 hours just for 10 to 15 minutes they open the cage and like you know you with a leash you pull out a dog from. the dog house and you force them to walk even an animal won't do that because naturally your legs your arms your bourne's they become stagnant and he requires definite physiotherapy which has been recommended by the doctors from that year. to increase to only a strip kirshner of its special autonomy status in the early august this year india sent thousands of additional troops arrested $4000.00 and imposed a communications blockade on the region that it wants to integrate wife again told us that india is silencing coach mary voices. it's basically it's that last for you

know just an easy terms like a land grab i mean we're sitting in this house and just imagine if some gangsters it come and they attack us and you know they snatch away our properties and you know they force us to write their name in the you know give them the property rights and cut off all the electricity on food supplies and we have no waste no connection to the outside world so we're left defenseless and the same man oh that's what they're doing with us right now they're starving us today at. 1.4000000 and and i white says are not being heard because naturally we have a voice but order is a clamp down on communications on internet on there's a blanket ban on all the political voices and there's no social media there's no mobile networks no radios don't television so we are totally living on another planet right now because we dispute remains one of the longest unresolved conflicts since british india petitioned india and pakistan back in 1947 an indian security

expert we spoke to justify new delhi's actions and said that a referendum on kashmir independence is not a viable option. pakistan has changed the demography in the areas that it occupies what we call as pakistan occupied kashmir and they have also brought in a large amount of the regular presence that is the militants and the terrorists since india had taken the decision on august 5 the more the government had big these decisions stall and short of that there would be nor. while it's from the people and also that there would be noise damage by pakistan and the support of the terror groups how india when possible that at the moment it's not really clear but the political claim to pakistan occupied kashmir as the unfinished part of partition is still there on the indian political

spreadsheet if you will. this next story is good lot of people talk and let me tell you about a california passes a controversial bill that if made law would force universities in the state to provide students seeking to terminate a pregnancy with abortion pills proposals rage. by ensuring that abortion care is available on campus college students will not have to choose between delaying important medical care i have been to travel long distances on these classes the work not on my dime not on my dime taxed me to help the homeless tax me to help social services the don't tax me to pay for the disposal of human life they should be ashamed to risk women's lives not schools. if it gets the approval of california's governor in 2023 campus health services at $34.00 universities in the state will be required to provide students with abortion pills according to the bill there are more than 400000 eligible female students at

california state university campuses while private donations of about $10000000.00 will be used to train star from buy ultrasound machines initially it's fair that eventually the state would have to cover the cost all universities of have to race to student health these to compensate $1.00 study of adolescent health found that more than $500.00 women at public universities in california seek medication for an abortion every month resurface an attorney an author and current radio and t.v. host took up the debate. we have to allow women to decide if they want to pursue their education with the complications of bearing children that would be an economic harm to them they have to be able to be able to make a choice and providing them the tools with the abortion pill is simply just doing and doing just that we have to give women a choice but we should also be pushing adoption as an option why do we just want to hand them a pill and say it's ok here take care of your problems you know what the problem is

we need to address this before these women get pregnant we need to educate these college students handing them over a pill is not the answer here what are we going to say to a woman you know what you had a chance to get an education to create a better life for yourself but you completely ruined that and now that you're pregnant with you're not going to be able to complete your studies or there's a risk that you won't be able to do that and so you just have to drop out and don't have an education don't have the ability going to go after high level jobs now on and on now you're at a because most women and not interested in being on government and in order to go sailing and most women to shoulder on and off for even having already and more fit only for you know we can get we can allow these women to go through with a full term pregnancy and allow them to choose adoption but can we actually be honest and discuss the impact of carrying a child for 9 months on a college campus when you absolutely had no desire to be pregnant not only was i an

18 year old mother and did i finish my career and am i here talking to you today but i'm also the product of adoption and adoption is an option and it's an option that seems to be totally off the table in america today why did we stop talking about the fact that you can give a bill and saying get it off if it is born in america every baby is born there are $37.00 families that want to adopt that baby something is very wrong when we're handing out abortion pills on campus we're allowing women to decide for the. themselves based on what they know about their life experiences and their socio economic status or are they in a position to move forward and currently take one the role of being a mother that is something that's not taken lightly by these women and i believe that when we allow them the tools to make the choices they're going to say you know i have to make this choice for me very simply morally wrong it's morally wrong to

promote abortion in a way that it becomes the chosen choice where it becomes the number one choice over a life i'm pro-choice i believe in a woman's right to choose i believe there are circumstances where she should have that choice but i also believe that we need to advocate for a life and the reality is that going to school full time and having a newborn baby is very difficult and it's a burden that some women have decided that they don't want to take on and frankly who are we to say that they should be forced to go to term with a pregnancy if they're feeling that they're not ready. for their control joy it has pros launched an updated version of its classic ball game monopoly to try to address the gender pay gap it's called miss monopoly it's got female players getting more money the male players for the same actions as bruce says the game embodies a positive image than the female empowerment because he was not all women are impressed. only look at there at the. center in

the. world. the only. think. of it as a woman i find ms monopoly sexist equality doesn't mean women make more than men

adequate way to go out has for. your amusement hopefully i do dogs need a financial head start i would like to start equal and then kick some butt thanks. hasbro actually wanted to celebrate goodness and pam and put their name as a monopoly why not finally acknowledge that a woman invented monopoly in the 1st place. in the 5 years i spent reporting my book of the monotonous published in 2015 which chronicled the discovery of the board games invention hasbro declined to comment or smallish maggie's role in originating the game it trivializes the the plight of women in the workforce. i don't understand what they're trying to do it fact they also pay lip service if best to the originator of of

monopoly who was a woman and what it does is it basically takes a cause which many people take very seriously and should the notion of eat quality and equivalent treatment in the light and reduces it to that of a board game and you start off where women make more money and somehow i guess this is supposed to inspire conversation or some type of insight into what women go through i think it's tawdry it's pathetic and again stupid. like all of those words that sum to help is possible in moscow time this monday coming up among the stories ahead like them all love them some people love them the wind has been taken out of the sails of germany's renewable energy drive in the public who say we don't want windmills that are. after this break.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. 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 is often spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time to sit down and talk. again it's elisa migrants to disembark from a rescue vessel onto its territory for the 1st time this year signaling a break from the hardline immigration policies imposed on the mounted sylvie the country's former interior minister this move comes as the italian prime minister promises to overhaul italy's immigration policies more generally our europe correspondent sheila dube and ski picks up the story a radical shift in policy is how many people of viewing the 82 migrants were allowed to disempower in italy also the island told lampedusa where the country's

new foreign minister the region timaya is justified this by saying it's not to return to open ports you all could be there's a big mess. understanding about the safe port given to ocean viking it was assigned a port because the e.u. would head to our request to take the major share of the migrants it must be my clear good just like with the previous government all right mr ensure that those who arrive in italy redistributed to other european countries for the keep well that's perhaps understandable given that the un team like what policies on the closure of its of its ports to charity rescue vessels and to my kids was one of the most popular policies instigated by the country's interior minister much to yourself the need to sort his popularity and the popularity of his party search in the time that he was in government now he's being critical of this recent development and he says it comes as a result of pressure from uni just. the army battalion population

a slave anybody. with micro and macro to the traces of the italian people so what about the people who live on the italian island of lampedusa what do they think if they have the right to move and it's right to be tolerant it's only fair to rescue these migrants the decisions must be made because we can't accept everyone if they had all their faith in the new government and i hope they will do it since and frankly i hope that with some sense they will be able to govern all together for the good with sally. i was once attacked by an american he looked at me 3 or 4 times he saw that i was old and i had to go. closer and just took the you might become racist when these things happen to you. well this is all you get to a. policy with how they will deal with the continuing to michael crisis. that will

once again be raised with a great they say. that again that's something that smell. same but the reality is while the new italian government say this isn't the way to the courts many charity rescue ships and will not be seeing what's happened over the weekend as the green light that italy's ports are again once a. germany's approach to renewable energy has had some of the wind taken out of its sales with strong resistance from people who live near power generating turbines don't call to one to meet some of them to see what the problem was germany's 2030 renewable energy goals are on a collision course with reality the country's energy sector needs a hero something to save the green agenda before it's too late and to fill those larger than life issues the government has put its faith in wind power we are convinced that the expansion towards 65 percent of renewable power on the grid by

2030 can only be reached if the expansion of onshore wind is revived for years wind power was a main driving force of germany's fast expanding green energy industry making up almost a quarter of total production so far this year its proponents praise wind as one of germany's most important energy sources creating thousands of jobs and many megawatts of energy while also cutting c o 2 emissions but wind farm expansion has slowed to a snail's pace and these towering males have cost hundreds of anti wind citizens initiatives to spring up across the country so i drove down to brandenburg task residence how they felt about these wind mills being built in their backyards and enough but i know their craft warning lights are flashing so that you feel like you're in the middle of an industrial park on an oil refinery and in this in the but here in winter months the shadows from the rotating mills create a disk to your living room and there are a lot of complaints about it. i'm going talk we're going to even sit outside on

sundays you know open our windows at night because of the noise and the landscape licas those are serious problems but noises and shadows aren't the only issues here in fact residents are complaining about other ways in which when males are hurting the environment i know you are buying an argument is renewable energy is a great idea but then needs to be a reasonable approach windmills in the forest we are generally against that. they hadn't muss enough crude bats and insects are being killed on mass murder damages bio diversity by technology they're supposed to be environmentally friendly and there are more negative outcomes than positive ones and to top it all off they feel that the government doesn't care who bears the burden. because when they are when generating zone was built at a distance prescribed for smaller meals and that was ok but then they built an additional one that is 50 meters high regard to the local community we haven't been

asked but just presented with the facts since it's been to the 1st 6 mills were installed and we urgently considered positive now they're getting bigger taller louder people are getting annoyed and now there is notion that our contribution to renewables has been fulfilled and the expansion should stop and if the government doesn't explore other alternatives in response to this grassroots opposition germany's environmental goals could be gone with the wind donald corridor r.t. brendan burke tough decisions to be made in the coming years that will press to do isn't it that's a 30 minute world news update for now from moscow follow us on facebook on twitter check it out see dot com for the latest you notice here often known i'm kevin now in selling off and the rest of the team have a great day. it

was the elissa any list. was. the ellen. show seemed wrong but all roads just don't hold. any beliefs just to shape our disdain because the educated and in danger of it because betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. first.

you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that make the stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to

a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed here you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me this berthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished them the offender and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. hello

and welcome to cross now where all things considered i'm peter lavelle 80 years ago this month the 2nd world war in europe began 60 years later the scourge of german fascism was defeated however the meaning of the start of the war remains hotly contested this history is intensely political. process being revisionism i'm joined by my guest geoffrey robertson he is america's professor of history at university college cork as well as member of the royal irish academy and his latest book is churchill and stalin we also have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor interest me internet media project and in london we

crossed al going to be curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jeffrey let me go to you 1st your center visiting moscow and you are in the steam historian of the 2nd world war and of the soviet union why is it contested the beginnings of the 2nd world war because most the time it's about the outcome of the 2nd world war but we had to stay. in warsaw the russians were not invited the germans were why is that still controversial well the idea around of us for the. boys of course a massive amount of us were you know 2nd world war 5060000000 people died. reshaped completely the 20th century well we're still living with the consequences of shadow so it is one of the most important of all historical.