there's a report. of a poem called anti government activists around the territory's justice minister in london pushing to raise the chung to the ground and leaving her badly shaken. to go polled and devastated the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifies the 2nd public impeachment inquiry into donald trump say she's become a target for the president and his allies. on child abuse in the u.k. links to beliefs including witchcraft is on the price with many saying political correctness is becoming a barrier to protecting vulnerable children. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me here airing our top story this hour following months of protests for locks on the unrest in hong kong is now being felt much further afield for the 1st time since some to government demonstrations began in the chinese territory activists have attacked a hong kong official who was visiting london. was . was very well the video that we just saw shows hong kong's justice secretary to resign chang who was actually at the time in the u.k. giving a speech about successful dispute resolution how she was targeted by dozens of protesters who pretty much mobbed her as she left the car now the activists were yelling murderer and they also chased her down the street to put it show of the incidents the one that we just saw shows

a chain being swamped and screamed ad and at some point she was even pushed to the ground and she injured her arm and she was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment now an interesting detail is that hong kong's justice secretary theresa chain is actually quite a key figure in the drafting of now withdrawn acts tradition bill that sparked all the protests and the 1st place now china has of course already commented on this incident with hong kong justice secretary the ball into most perpetrators who organized on one communication committed the fragrance assault on the senior official of the poem called special administrative region it has once again proved that the rule intention is to destabilize hong kong now they're taking such violence abroad and into the u.k. the action deserves to be condemned not always by been tied chinese people including the hong kong compatriots but also by the british public and the

international community unanimously there was a very formal response to this violent incidents from the u.k. police and woman was taken to hospital by london ambulance service suffering an injury to her arm inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances that has been orest at this stage one of the constant. you know we've seen since the protests broke out in the hong kong the protesters themselves the clearing strenuously bout their protests are peaceful but yet we've been seeing them. lots of blockades can we bring in the kind of difference what's happening there well they do not seem to be asked species will as they claim to be called has been crippled by protests and smart but practically all over the place the media continues to call them peaceful however they have been seen to be quite familiar with medieval style weaponry they're even building watchtowers and even using

catapults to found off police for instance the daily mail put anas had lined the story of how protesters are using swimming pools to tast patra bombs so it does seem that the mainstream media in general is not criticizing the methods that they're using but more somehow sort of romantic their struggle while the protesters transform hong kong university is into a weapons factories and arm themselves with the patch rolled bombs and the media is still impressed but what they call novel methods of taking on ride police so it does seem that the coverage is focusing so far very little on the danger posed to those caught in the crossfire.

the. other time. we heard from shanghai bass pro. benjamin chahiye believes there's clear bias in the calculate of the process. i was trying to call i don't worry too much about long as the nation. and the violence there matches the local violence of some from the protests of the police as to clinching the question because the protesters ask me to violence to this position of power because more i was such a point the hunger for this along is really hard to come think about it no doubt the general public is hugely unscented we have to put it right now there is no effective way to unite the polish to fight against the protesters yet you see what

. some of this boston media covering the story i think is yes and the post and also some boston media not only china needs what we call the whole world i think will come because. the microphone called will be one example of how the civil rights and peace process. opened. our type forces. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine has claimed she feels threatened by donald trump and his allies the allegations were made public during a 2nd tearing into the president's impeachment inquiry contusion with ukraine's anita the ex diplomats marie you often up your van of h. has been accused of hampering a corruption investigation into a ukrainian energy company where democratic presidential hopeful joe biden's son how the top position caleb maupin has the details. been hearing the testimony of marie other now of it now is she is the former u.s.

ambassador to ukraine she was dismissed from her post in may of 2019 now she did come up in the conversation the phone call between donald trump and the linsky and the trump was certainly not thrilled about her testimony referring to her as the woman and furthermore saying that she is the bad news this is what donald trump tweeted out as the hearings continued everywhere marie over no bitch when turned bad she started off in somalia how did that go then fast forward to ukraine with a new ukrainian president spoke on favorably about her in my 2nd phone call with him it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassadors now from the former ambassadors testimony we heard her say that donald trump was intimidating or we also heard her alleged and maintain that she is not part of the joe biden family scandal involving hunter biden the son of the former vice president she also says that she was not part of any effort to leak data from ukraine in 2016 to use against donald trump

during the elections she wasn't part of any ukrainian effort to meddle against u.s. president donald trump now what's also important to note is she seems to be blaming everything on u.s. president donald trump but not just him how would this theory of ukraine interference in the 2016 election in light of your putin's interest. well i mean president putin must have been aware that there were concerns in the u.s. about. russian meddling in the 2016 elections and what the potential was for russian meddling in the future. you know classic for intelligence officers to try to throw off the scent and create an alternative narrative that maybe might get picked up and get some credence the name of russian president vladimir putin seems to come up quite a lot in these hearings despite the fact that there regarding u.s.

president trump and his dealings with ukraine the name of the russian president seems to slip in it's also important to note that the u.s. public is seeming to be a little bit less interested in these ongoing impeachment hearings the 1st round of hearings had 13000000 viewers roughly 5 percent of the u.s. population but if you look just a couple of years ago there were 19000000 people who watched fired f.b.i. director james komi give his testimony now there are 20000000 people who watched brett kavanaugh congressional testimony when he was being confirmed as a supreme court nominee and accused of an attempted sexual assault it would seem that the u.s. public is just becoming less and less interested in these ongoing anti trump congressional hearings and testimonies however the impeachment hearings will continue to proceed on capitol hill with more witnesses being called against the current president. a number of children in the u.k. known to have suffered abuse linked to which croft is rising according to local

government figures but since most of those who practice they come from approach the british government has been accused of turning a blind eye of a face that could face accusations of racism that saudi takes up the story. hidden under the guise of religion faith and belief witchcraft is an ever increasing threat in child abuse cases in britain the number of such incidents has risen by more than a 3rd in just 2 years or. local council say they are housing the equivalent of 38 cases every single week the shocking research released by the u.k.'s local government association also highlights s.g.m. all female genital mutilation it puts numbers at a record high with $1000.00 children having already been abused or at risk of it in the last year while it's small comment incessant african communities the u.k. did have its fast conviction for s.g.m. back in february.

despite that life threatening and dangerous practices like f g m put as many as $60000.00 pounds at risk every year there's a misconception that the ancient custom of s.g.m. is a religious one even though it originated some 2500 years ago meaning it predates both islam and christianity and is not mentioned in any holy scriptures nor endorsed by religious leaders but the cultural often described as a barbaric tradition mainly occurring in africa isn't being fought as it perhaps should be as i say there's a fear of being called racist. i'm so angered by these figures for so long the political power that black people have has been dismissed people are scared to tackle s.g.m. and witchcraft is this scared of being accused of racism but it's racist to ignore

it it's more races to look away it really hurts that we still have to tell people the black kids need protecting following the 1st f g m conviction earlier this year more measures have been put in place to help put an end to the epidemic of abuse including extra guidance for prosecutors and police is down to cultural practices it's down to only all ages and he's damned political correctness i want to know when a feminist song on this issue there is not enough we mean speech about this and it's because when women like me speak up we are told we are racist and he has to stop that's where you have the political correctness has got to go where we each is like a cancer and he stops people from breaking the silence we need more words we need strong words we need government and politicians and prime ministers to stand up and say that any way anybody who is involved in this practice if there

was even a remotely suspicion children need to be looked at medically but much doesn't happen either for so long abuses like f.e.m. have been hidden doused in sticker or into but it seems like calling a tower for what it is maybe the only way to protect vulnerable children. is ever what the future might hold and how to safeguard against any eventuality has seen the survivalist industry flourish in the us so they are see we have a feature length report armageddon ready which looks at the growing demand for so-called doomsday shelters in america you can watch it any time online at our website r.t. dot com here's a preview. of what it was supposed to do when you were the flash. was. we are sitting in front of a blast proof bunker i have 575 bunkers we are now building this into the world's largest survival community i purchased this in 2008

with the idea of converting it into a nuclear hardened bunker your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to happen and when it's going to. but they haven't told you and they haven't told me they haven't announced it it's a war of words on the news and media i've never seen a country so divided as america is right now so divided that people are buying bunkers in record numbers to protect their family from the unknown because they don't know where the country is going. hundreds of people have turned out in gaza for the funeral of 8 people all from the same family who were killed in israeli asked right 5 children were among the victims this time targeted an apartment building in the early hours of thursday burying residents under the rubble and israeli military spokesman confirms the

strike noting though that the head of the family was a senior islamic jihad commander reportedly a member of the so-called a p i j o the palestinian islamic jihad group local media say 34 palestinians have been killed in israeli asked for the past 2 days claiming hoff of them were civilians here's how a local health official described the aftermath of the strike overnight some of the bodies were disfigured as a result of heavy bombardment from israeli f. 16. thing the roads to people under the rubble as adroit deliberately targeted civilians were killed this latest escalation flared up at the beginning of the week when an israeli strike is believed to have killed another high ranking terrorist islamic militants then respond. date with the way the fertile it's when we walk it's over the next 48 hours the hostilities were put on hold on thursday after a ceasefire was agreed to preach the militants have broken and israel has responded

to earlier we heard from human rights and political commentators based in the region. if israel responds defending israeli citizens and anybody got hurt in gaza who is to be blamed the terrorists who attack is 0 not so when you hit the target with the terrorists who hide behind women and children who wish to be blame the terrorists are to be blamed who actually have their families then they they have them as hostages they target our civilians and they know they are of course mosque to be got must be neutralized god down here's the real needs to protect protect our peaceful and civil cities. our settlements in the south we want to leave there if we had attacked by they slide majed by the hamas army duty

to protect a legitimate target does not give the israeli authorities that are civilian a problem that these civilian houses they can distinguish and they are supposed to according to to match the model to discriminate between civilian and month civilian targets between combatants and noncombatants and in this case even claiming that a target if it proves to be a legitimate target must be an excuse to just sit by and on a number of presidents over places or to areas where. civilians are there even according to the martial law in case of doubt their prayer at the. and the opinion with the goal going forward a civilian rather than military so in all cases that it has been more excused building. on the protests in germany show no signs of relenting the latest

event seeing thousands descend on hamburg to vent their anger at the government's new agricultural policies traffic was brought to a halt as the city played host to a conference of the country's federal and regional and vironment ministers who were discussing among other things imposing restrictions on the use of pesticides and many farmers say the new stricter regulations would stifle the sector among the mentions that it provokes outcry a ban on some pesticides and regulations to protect groundwater from nitrates auntie's evangelos tips us was with the farmers convoy as assess out the hand. it is early and the morning that they should be working on their lands but instead of these german farmers have hopped on their tractors and will be rolling into amber to make a big point. as

the country's regional and environmental ministers are meeting here in hamburg the farmers want to make it clear that the shifting balance between ecology and argue culture is putting them out of business as the ever tightening e.u. and national regulations on the use of chemicals from wheat killers and fertilizers the roots know we've become from the german government is so hard for us that we cannot drag on our farms we cannot have good crops cannot have followed or for that for the berries at the root of the rigorous restrictions is the protection of wildlife and habitat the farmers agree. the looking after nature is the core to the job but what infuriates them more is how they were shut out of the conversation of how to go about implementing fundamental changes in their life

would offer them this today we are staying here and expand your shoulder. minister for environment here in germany and we invited here to come here she is staying in bali and she don't speak to us and we needs a communication lemus the biggest problem is that the politicians don't talk to us and we'd like to have a dialogue with them and participate in the decision making processes but that's what we're here who would hurt. the government and says that germany's farmers are not a bad no i expect something from farmers yes they do and that is change but i don't do some of them supports in them financially or does it is that we together with our european partners have a direct payments as an instrument to support small and medium sized farms and this is a very important signal for many farmers that they have certain insurance against fluctuations but the german government is under pressure itself by the european commission over

its sluggish and environmental protection record there is even the prospect of huge fines and legal actions if they do not do more having tried time and again to quietly highlight their problems germany's farmers are now having to be more tough with ever public protests while they might be outflanked by the increasingly influential green lobby and the e.u. pushing the government for more reforms they're determined not to lead generations of farming families what in the process eventually success for archie. taking from mexico bolivia's ousted president even the rolla says he wants to return to his homeland as soon as possible as soon as possible and pacify the nation that's all the country reels in political. hales with morales supporters protesting what they call a a coup the spanish correspondent francisco is covering events in the nation's capital elizabeth on our sister thousands of people are protesting against what

they believe is a coup they gathered here in the center of the past but they came here from one of the best chance of ever more alice brought histories do not recognize the self-proclaimed acting president and yes 2nd they want to restore constitutional order and finally they want to gain respect for indigenous symbols on tuesday the jean and yes announcer self interim president that on wednesday appointed her ministers and military commanders the interim government said that the country's problems in the region of election results on october 23rd and then ever resign you thereby creating a very difficult situation which they took advantage of that even the rawest fled to mexico along with many of his party members he was forced to step down on monday after weeks of violence triggered by claims that last month's election victory was rigged violence looting and vandalism followed and some of his supporters now say they fear for their lives whereas himself says bolivia needs help from abroad to restore page at peace. with people who still have

plenty of confidence in the united nations we have had extensive talks with u.n. secretary general antonio good turners and there's a lot of social conscience plenty of commitment to the poor who should be the mediator not just the facilitator in the institution perhaps accompanied by the catholic church when the pope francis is needed we should add to. it will leave the law itself or the bolivian assembly hasn't approved or rejected my resignation they haven't approved or rejected it and i can say that i'm still the president the moment they approve my resignation then i am no longer president of us with here. we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights ago we must classified material and then if i'm useful in anything but kind of bring with us to believe we will do less. bullets. in philosophy lecture and the united states has stood on girls according

americans who live in rural areas bad people who deserve uncomfortable lives. and ironically embrace the bashing of rural americans they as a group are bad people who have made bad life decisions some i assume are good people but this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren't pro city hate jackson kernahan stereotyping is a weak way to make a point you're substance about rural people elitism cruel you know everything people think is wrong with higher education but you do not speak for all professors . try feeding yourself without a farmer body jackson county and later apologized for the tone of what he wrote but not for the ideas his twitter account has now been deleted and turned but clean of a city where he's given lectures stressed that it doesn't have an elitist approach towards any social good while he have rivera of reactionary time saw it come sais

that the gap between coastal and heartland america is widening. it's one of those things where you know you don't want to obstruct people's freedom of speech but at the same time you have to be careful who saying what because these are actually the people who are in charge of shaping the minds of the elite sectors of academia and of politics you know the so-called ruling class these people think they're so much better than just regular old heartland americans and they think their heartland americans are less intelligent academically inferior and just you know negative in a lot of different ways and i think it's really un-american there's a lot of social changes that are you know being enacted right now in american than they were progressivism but it's not really progressing the country is actually causing a really great action and a lot of people are having problems you're having all sorts of new mental health diagnosis is and you know graduation rates are still horrible in the inner cities

you know all these places that continually elect these liberals are actually performing the worst. well over on the east coast of the united states a former new york university professor has launched a campaign off his own he started an online crusade against what he calls collective hysteria surrounding russia related stories after airing his thoughts and claims that he's faced the accusations of being a russian spy on the nazi michael rickson walls initially created in an anonymous twitter page which used to criticize president correctness last oscillates numerous liberal ideas and movements but after his identity was discovered the professor claims his life on campus was made unbearable and forced him to quit we spoke to him earlier. the university has turned into this is broadly speaking an indoctrination center for so called social justice which is anything but just i got back to campus after being put on

a paid leave of absence immediately being denounced by a committee calling themselves the diversity equity and inclusion group which i call the conformity inequity an exclusion group they were attempting to make the university into a kind of. surveillance system where everyone was basically surveilling on each other and pretty poor to each other the secret biased reporting hotline where these biased teams would adjudicate cases behind closed doors with no transparency and nobody told you what bias was what what a biased infraction was and yet this was announced all over the university they were promoting it widely they tried to get me to put it on my syllabus i refused they did not like the fact that i was criticizing the dominant ideology and that was not tolerated they basically tried to isolate me to exclude me to basically say

that anybody had a view that differed with the dominant ideology which is social justice as they call it. must be silence that effectively. marginalized basically treated like a pariah and utterly completely. shut out that's what they try to do so we have a university system where he supposedly different views different perspectives alternative ways of thinking are supposedly engaged then instead of the universe's becoming a single stream social justice indoctrination center. disney's brand new streaming service has had a rocky start to live since going ching this week a technical glitch caused it to briefly crash meaning it was unavailable to some customers and it's also run into trouble from view is after it pinned warnings to classic cartoons such as dumbo the jungle book and fantaisie or because they contain allegedly racially charged elements.

leave. the room. full of. what i want you to. little correctness is on top stupidity disney plus not squinted warning for dated cultural depictions and classic animated movies. how did we get by all these decades without warnings. these news making disclaimers about all of the depictions in them but do people really get heard that easy.

why are we exploiting jim crow laws. cause to a child the child sees a car true it doesn't understand that but when you tell somebody you see what this is this is racism what racism this is racism why are they racist because people hate people because of color why you actually can do more harm so is this a good idea which is you know it's the wrong message so what have you done have you made me smarter or have you shown me the diversity and the perhaps even the splendor of of racial symbolism sometimes we just explain too much sometimes it's best just to shut up play the movie and let kids watch it after all just a movie schist a cartoon that says. russia has been named the her.