you know the little. carnival. around accuses the u.s. of supporting sparked by a hike in fuel prices. that year ago the united states. people will not be taken advantage of outside the economic pressure of the nation. alleged russian interference is said to be quote unquote. classified intelligence report as russian media outlets including r.t. get a mention. as a new face with a vicious standoff at the university of hong kong protesters use homemade weapons

including bows and arrows to injure police. by the very good evening to you this is. the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices and he said on sunday the government will compensate those worst hit that there has been trouble in at least a dozen cities whose buildings vandalized them pictures of their own supremum leader burned. well we've heard something coming out of europe finally and germany was the 1st european country to react and essentially berlin has said has called on the rainy

and government to recognize what it called a legitimate plight of the people it is legitimate and deserving of our respect when people courageously aired their economic and political grievances as this card li happening in iran the iranian government should respond to the current protests was a willingness to negation dialogue while this statement is bound to ruff quite some more feathers i should say into iran because from the beginning of the up he of all the reigning in government has been saying that this hike in fuel prices is a lesser evil that its economy has been backed into a corner and the other option is approaching for the country's economy to crumble under the weight of the u.s. sanctions indeed the american penalties is something that iran has been citing as the key reason for all the economic trouble and hardship and these really unpopular measures month the general public that to lawn has had to go for. it but

a bilin is not the only one siding with the protesters washington itself was in fact the 1st for a nation to come out forward and side with the protesters which despite all the violence and rioting and looting and even deaths washington has called a peaceful protest. as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you the united states supports the iranian people in the peaceful protests against the regime that is suppose. to lead them we condemn the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators we certainly stand by the people of iran what you're seeing today is them standing up. to their government saying that you know we demand accountability such comments have been met with outrage and iran for instance the leader of the country has said that he won't allow any outside force to hold his country hostage

by sanctions alone not our people will not be taken advantage of by outsiders who put economic pressure of our nation. well it really is the country's economy runs economy of course has been in somewhat of a freefall of a nosedive since these sanctions were imposed against it its currency its national currency has lost some 60 percent of its value the inflation hiked over 41 percent by this tobar and it's not only the energy sector or or the nuclear sector that has been targeted by sanctions no the country's health care system has been targeted and has suffered badly from all the penalties for instance iran has been suffering from a severe shortage of life saving medications and just to give you a reminder as to what the where these sanctions came from vast last year donald trump decided to unilaterally withdraw from the rons nuclear deal that move was met

with criticism by all other sides who signed the agreement back in 2015 those sides include the european union and russia and iran too but when it comes to the european union an american they while criticizing washington's decision they have failed to take any action they have failed to pressure to make washington come back to the negotiating board and to sign the deal again and so this is what really didn't stand well with the to iran and iran has. drawn accuse the european. union of not being as committed to the nuclear deal as they claim they are and this recent reaction that has been that has started to come out of europe with this recent burst statement from berlin this is not going to give iran any more hope or any more trust in europe as its partner. the international atomic energy agency is saying iran has informed the body it succeeded it stocks of heavy water above the

level permitted by the nuclear deal ran earlier condemned european signatories to the treaty for failing to deliver on their promises to boost trade with iran after the u.s. withdrew from the treaty and reapplied sanctions says that iran has been taking steps away from the accord for a sort of political science at the university of tehran believes that europe didn't want to maintain the deal in the 1st place. the europeans wanted to keep the deal in place but they were unable to stand you know american pressure their companies weren't able to really invest in iran because of the us hegemony in the global economic order perhaps the europeans didn't want to keep the deal in place from the beginning rather the europeans were playing a good cop bad cop strategy against iran in which the americans were the bad cop and the europeans were the good cop when the us decided to leave the nuclear deal and it was the europeans that convinced you want to stay in the deal and they

promised that you know they would shield yvonne from the sanctions and as a result of that iran actually stayed in the deal for a whole year without backing away from any of its of the geishas because of those european promises in reality none of those promises materialized so i think there is actual the actual possibility that the europeans weren't sincere in any of the promises they made from the beginning. russian media analysts r.t. and sputnik. allegedly named in a still classified u.k. parliamentary report on moscow's suspected interference $26.00 the brig's it referendum claim is made in an article in the british newspaper the sunday times report apparently also states that the impact of the supposed russian meddling is unquantifiable use our expense. well over the weekend the murdoch owned sunday times published an article with

a headline saying revealed the russia report although this so-called report itself hasn't been released but this times claims to have got access to it and seen what's within it and as far as they're concerned met much of the focused is on sputnik the news agency and also r.t. and goes on to describe some of the numbers behind artie's online activity in the lead up to the 2016 breck's it referendum social media analysis revealed that articles published by the russian sites had 4 times more social media impact before the breaks of vote than the official leave campaigns more than 260 articles posted by r.t. in sputnik in the 6 months prior to the referendum was shared so widely on twitter that they could have been seen up to 134000000 times so would appear journalism equals interference now the cross party intelligence and security committee that

the ones who have been investigating the so-called alleged russian interference and they're the ones who of drawn up this report but the government led by boris johnson they've been accused of sitting on this report and not releasing it this month and that's led to heavy criticism from members of the opposition by secretary tell me that it is unprecedented but we should have had no response o'toole explaining why any further delay is required in this case this is nothing less than an attempt to suppress the truth from the public and from the parliament and it is an affront to our democracy if the report is being called for and written and should be in the public domain then what has it got to hide people will be justified in drawing the conclusion that the reporters findings are compromising or worse for the governments and the 2. now the opposition say that there could be information in that report which is damaging to the conservative party and that's

why they haven't released it but number 10 deny any wrongdoing saying that they are following all normal procedures now those of us who have been following u.k. politics are used to open interference from u.s. politicians going back to barack obama telling u.k. voters to vote to remain in the referendum to donald trump just recently telling niger frauds and boris johnson to come to some kind of leave alliance which it appears could have actually taken place now yet another u.s. politician has decided to wade into this latest role and dumbfounded that this government won't release the report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens reporter like you and others should be absolutely relentless in trying to get to the bottom of it now that report hasn't been released in full yet and it's likely that it will be and so after those that actions are held on the top of the zumba.

the violence in hong kong has entered a new phase there's been a fierce standoff at the university of hong kong with police there trying to reject demonstrators from the campus but being met with bombs and there was a rather unusual change in the choice of weaponry from the protesters some of them being equipped with homemade police officers leg was pierced with a narrow during the confrontation around a barricaded university there are also reports of the rioters how bring the emergency services john who is wounded a continuation of protesting could lead to a dreadful future for hong kong. oh. oh. this oh. thank you. very. since june anti-government rallies against plans to allow extradition to mainland china have escalated the bill was withdrawn 3 months later but the

violence has continued and people demanding full democracy and an inquiry into offices actions which they described as police brutality since the protests started some 4 and a half 1000 people have been arrested from norful assembly taking part in the riot and carrying a weapon in the u.k. police officer peter kirk and believe the vast majority of the actions by the hong kong police were lawful because the city was being threatened. the bottom line is that there is any use of force it can be complained about in the news complained about as police brutality do you see occasional instances of high use of force which maybe are excessive not sure of the ins and outs of phone calling law but i suspect it's fairly similar to u.k. law in terms of a reasonable amount of force being used to quell riots and disperse protesters who are causing damage or threatening injury and so the vast majority of force be used

by the police would be lawful would be reasonable in most circumstances. officials in denmark have temporarily imposed checks of border crossings into sweden the move was prompted by a spate of bombings and shootings around the capital copenhagen among them was the bombing of the tax agency in august the danish justice ministry claims thing perpetrators of travel there from sweden 106 us reports from the border. denmark has drawn a line in the bridge behind me they have put checks to stop and search anyone coming from sweden after copenhagen has seen more than at the. an explosion in the city this year alone the danes blame it on rival gangs mostly from sweden and hoping that these checks will put an end to it the explosion at the tax agency and the double killing in her leave are examples of the serious crimes that can flow across the border from sweden we will not accept that to counter the threat of serious crimes by the crime we are now strengthen in production of the border with

sweden by introducing temporary controls and strengthened police efforts in the area denmark and sweden are both. members of the or is on bridge used to be a free passport bridge for nearly 60 years but not anymore for at least 6 months it is this bridge that the danish authorities believe perpetrators crossed into denmark causing all the explosions. but as bombings become a worrying trend in the usually safe country here in sweden criminal gangs are on the rise according to official statistics there have been $38.00 more explosions this year then 2018 but it's only the explosions gun related crimes are fast

becoming a concern to during the ninety's the average were 4 per year now nearly 40 and the public puts these incidents down to immigrants but a teligent chief says it is not correct to link newcomers to criminal organizations in sweden they do not. make a official accounts of who uses sweetest and who is actually an immigrant so in sweden they do not know this but we make these counts in denmark and we can see that a lot of those who are that they are 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants of people who are or. arrested well from sweden it does these attacks in copenhagen are also 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and of course it would be normal to show that if there's a problem with the 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and that is also why we do this in denmark because we have to know. what the problem is before we can do

anything about it from the famously soft approach that once worked well 'd in sweden the government has gone a 180 degrees by announcing a plan allowing police to have greater stop and search powers but also making it easier for them to search suspects houses and access their devices and all this with the backing of sweetest officials we welcome that denmark is taking action to fight crime in the orissa and region i have respect for the danish government strengthening border control you know that to keep criminals on a short leash the country of little mermaid bicycles and label had its fair share of violence in the past in the ninety's this quiet country saw bombings and shootings by rival biker gangs but no checkpoints were introduced well whether you blame it on the migrant crisis or law and order's in europe are becoming real again eventual of steps us for r.t. . you might have noticed a new feature that we study using today said stories have

a q.r. code alongside them which you can use to get more information about a particular story so if you would like to find out more of the big give it a try. the u.s. president has intervened in the cases of american service personnel convicted or accused of war crimes in afghanistan and iraq long term pardoned 2 u.s. army offices and restored a navy seal's rank democratic party presidential candidate sov attacked his decision. there's nothing pro military about overruling military justice system to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes the president has again dishonored our armed services trumps intervention in the american military justice system to pardon service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law the values that make our country exceptional and the men and women who wear the uniform honorably he is not fit to command our troops. despite the criticism from democrats it's not just the republican president who has pardoned

atrocities taylor brings us more to just let you know her report does include our new feature q.r. code you can use to get more background info. a victorious election campaign on a platform of non intervention but don't tell me is still juggling wars at home against fake news and the democrats and far away against tara so it's hardly surprising he has a soft spot for the dogs of war no not this one these ones. these latest pardons can be added to the already bulging saw

a labeled military activity with this use of his powers trump has sent a clear message of disrespectful or morality of the military justice system and those in the military who are barred by the laws of war i would include the victims of these crimes but have no illusion he cares for them ato a shameful trump might have been an outsider when he took the reins in 2016 but his policy of whitewashing questionable u.s. military activity as a favorite white house past time previous administrations were also busy posturing up cia crimes and ducking accountability barack obama for example the very president who found the cia's tool to techniques went around doing some pardoning of his own giving to soldiers who talked to detainees to death a freepost best not to dwell on the past he said on woods and upwards for

those who carried out some of these operations within the 4 corners of. legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the white house. i do not think it's appropriate for them to be prosecuted as a general deal i think that we should be looking forward and not backwards and apparently it doesn't matter whether you read or blue take george bush he was also pretty relaxed when it came to those secret cia silos and some believe our military and intelligence personnel involved and capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk per prosecution under the war crimes act simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional way this is unacceptable and while these soldiers might have been given a get out of jail free card despite having been tried and convicted by

a court condemned by international watchdog and housing the blood of civilians on their hands i wonder if 2nd chance cards will be given so easily to those quoting out the crimes julian assange is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant with you we should be closed down promoting indecisively but i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this gone beyond anything i am aware a wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service u.s. cyber warfare people should use wiki leaks for target practice it seems for u.s. officials there's still plenty up for interpretation and that it's safer to be trigger happy than dare to expose someone with just the click of your mouse. and your lombardo from the united national antiwar coalition believe is wrong the

u.s. prosecutes those who expose war crimes rather than those who could but them. it shows that tells the world that the united states can be lawless with impunity in countries all over the world that the position was held by clinton it was held by bush it was held by obama and is now held by trump its position that can't be justified under any sense of justice and these people who deserve to be in jail these war criminals are kept out however people that expose the crimes such as julian a son george will sing manning those are the people we go after and prosecute they're trying to kill the messenger but they don't say anything about the message because they didn't say that one word that he said put out through wiki leaks was was untrue it's not a very good policy. a british university staff union has declared

white people are able to be black if they so wish you see you has a long history of enabling members to self identify whether that is being black disabled l b g t or women. our new congress and further and high education conference's policy on gender identity has been developed over many years. and this isn't the 1st time the idea of so-called trans racial isn't all racial fluidity has surfaced . again you change your race if you ask rachel dollars are the white woman who spent the past 7 years claiming she's a black woman she'd probably say yes. as a construct again as a fluid understanding ansley lennon has a reputation as a leading figure in british rock fare to the director was even a want to get a grant reserved for people of color i just want to play with just a little white and i asked him specifically i said you know are you we. are you we

go white or are you biracial are you black or white he says i am biracial i said is that what is on your birth certificate he did not answer your gender start to turn by your chromosomes race is a social construct not a matter of genetics judge 4 do is simply taking that wisdom to its logical conclusion born a white male named adam we lurch i do now adenoviruses a filipino one of. the lidar by commentator and transgender activist stephanie hated very good evening to stephanie now these comments as i understand they were made as part of a statement about transgender awareness day 1st of how do you feel about the issues being conflated. i think it's very important to lived experiences are treated distinctly and i am a transgender woman and i am not qualified to comment on reefs how somebody identifies is primarily a matter for them and whether or not that is recognized by the legal system is an

entirely different question do you sympathies do you see the similarities i mean is it as simple as an issue of somebody identifying the way they feel. i believe it's about lived experiences and it's important in my future trial and distinction between your live to experience and what the law and the state recognizes it's not for any of the pass to pass judgment on the lived experience of another if however one wishes to access for example services provided for a specific group of people that could them become an object or matter where the state steps in the last few years i've seen a rise in awareness of trans issues some would say in place of gay issues is race fluidity the next battle to be fought. i don't believe you can describe it as a battle and at the risk of repeating myself it is about lived experience and it's

important that society recognizes the lived experience is of the individual respects the individual choices that that person may make and most importantly of all does not discriminate does not harass and does not intimidate it's not for those to passed judgment i'm sure an awful lot of people would agree with you about not discriminating against people i'm sure that these issues are very confusing also for a lot of people are used to things being a certain way and change can be difficult how do you see these issues playing out in the future do you envisage would you like a world where people have no fixed race or have no fixed gender everybody can choose or nobody has any of them. i can only comment on the world as it is today and in particular i can only really comment on my own experience as a transgender woman and. society is organized rightly or

wrongly at the moment on agenda binary and it is where you fit in that system and i feel more comfortable the woman but i don't self identify as a woman i'm legally recognized by the state as a woman and although most of my transgender p. is not legally recognized as such by the state nevertheless we have strong quality arc laws in the u.k. which provide a high degree of protection and rights to access services which are designed in my particular case for women and this is important that those rights all recognised acknowledged and not confused with an entirely different debate which is about who you in your case of transgender people is recognised legally as male or female yeah and it is a huge debate and we'll have to arrange something other than to discuss it because a significant one and one that we need to have many thanks stephanie hayden my

guest commentator transgender activists thanks with a thank you. appreciate your time as always thanks for staying with us the saving of about can often are. spoiler alert this edition of the program is not about the trump impeachment drama instead we focus on ukraine and why are the corporate media is so misleading about the military. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject.

so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is like the full 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. time after time if you were going underground is pictures continue to emerge of alleged atrocities committed in gaza before the signing of a temporary cease fire agreement coming up in the show we go to ramallah to hear from the former palestinian prime minister nabil shaath now senior advisor to president abbas plus what is netflix is the crown season 3 telling you about the

british monarchy for my home office minister and privy council to the queen norman bacon reveals old if you won't hear from the mouths of the livia coleman. it's got all this of all going up in today's going underground the 1st this month marks 45 years since yasser arafat's became the 1st so-called on state leader to address the united nations general assembly in a speech he claimed up to. based on the attitude human rights of the un charter. this attitude heightens the hopes of all the world attached to the un contribution in defending the issues of peace and justice and independence to create a new world free from colonialism imperialism neo colonialism and racism in all its forms including zionism he went on to offer israel in all of branch but 15 years ago last monday he would be dead israel still continuing to violate un security council resolutions and in the past few days fighting has intensified between the

so-called largest prison camp in the world gaza.