i. experiment with national health. first of its kind legal. drugs for children. refugees the wrong. decision creates fear in europe of mass immigration. debate. it's just another way. to open borders and you know even at the most. i can't believe anyone one of the people. and we have to start talking about how we deal with.

the request of the us has been extradited from greece to france. removal from legal unthreatened. taken by police forces pool ordered to release him even though she was exhausted. 5 days she has been barred from. being violated. thanks for joining us in. the u.k.'s national health service is facing a 1st of its kind legal battle overprescribing children as young as 9. 23 year old bell who was previously treated by other gender identity development

service she regrets making a reversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture she added. has the story. 23 year old care about went through gender reassignment as a teenager but years later she decided to reverse the transition while she lived to regret her treatment she also stopped the clinic putting others through what she did she's leading a landmark case against the tavistock and portman n.h.s. trusts the u.k.'s only gender identity service that deals with patients under 18 years old often without parental consent care of herself as a teenager and says youngsters aren't given proper information on the process and the drugs to take them through the transition i do not believe the children and young people can consent to the use of powerful and experimental hormone drugs like i did i believe that the current affirmative system put in place by the tavistock is inadequate as it doesn't allow for exploration of the gender dysphoria feelings nor does it seeks to find the underlying cause of this condition and care it joins

a mother of a 15 year old autistic girl who is on the waiting list for the treatment at the service much of the concern of her mother i have deep concerns that the current clinical approach a gender identity development service means that my daughter will be subjected to an experimental treatment path that is not adequately regulated when no one understands the risks and therefore canada ensure informed consent is obtained almost half of children treated at the clinic are prescribed hormone blockers that help people this gives children the time to consider whether they truly want to make a transition to the opposite sex but the drug interferes with natural hormone production it's this step that this legal battle is all about a claim it's a calling for an urgent reassessment of the procedure what is challenged is the current and continuing practice of the defendant to prescribe puberty suppressing hormone blockers and then subsequently crossed sex hormones to children under the age of 18 and it's not just former patients and relatives have to worry that

medical professionals have also voiced concerns even accusing the specialist clinic for charles gentle children of suppressing negative results while undertaking experimental treatment on adolescent. it's what i found using some unpublished data as i discovered from the tavistock clinic is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers are there were some quite pronounced negative effects it's believed the girls so girls became head of their gender dysphoria increase and some of their psychological problems increased and indeed there is even a slightly increased but statistically significant increase in their thoughts about suicide so these are all quite negative findings but these are not being published by the tavistock clinics here in london say 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago among girls is that more than 5000 percent were ferals that's a record high it suggests cases of the transitional rise to that there is no data

to affect the number for who may opt to return to their biological sex we reached out to the tavistock and portman n.h.s. trust for comment our clinical interventions are laid out internationally set service specifications and h s england money says our service very closely the series has a high level of reporting satisfaction and was rated good by they can quality commission but while there's no doubt that the service helps young people who feel the stress in their own bodies the full impact of making decisions about their gender at such a young ages may not truly be clear to much later in their lives i think what the government is giving or that the n.h.s. is giving children a false sense of security they really should be open and honest and say look we've got no idea this is an experimental treatment we've got no idea if it's safe we've got no idea of your subjective so essentially you're just taking a loss. but instead there's a lot of false information about being reversible about. being

you know sort of safe and i think you know we should just admit how ignorance and we need to do much more search on are the actual high quality research on the effects of people at this. that's not the only identity scandal to hit the u.k. this week but later in the program an oxford college has backtracked on its rules for our transgender event it removed a code of conduct after some professors called it out for closing down free speech or that in the 2nd part of the program. climate refugees or people that move due to environmental disaster can no longer be sent home to their country of origin if they're seeking asylum and their lives are in danger that's according to a new landmark ruling by the u.n. which could set a new precedent for migration the committees of give you die we die or abbas national and international efforts the effects of climate change are you receiving state boys individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara for my obligations of sending

steitz the ruling is based on a complaint brought by an islander from kiribati in the pacific ocean who said he was in danger due to rising sea levels employed for asylum in new zealand but it was rejected you also failed when you took it to the united nations the case though has now set the way for others to apply germany's interior ministry has spoken out against the un ruling. most studies suggest that environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions political commentator david vance former leader of the wales green party purple bottle of tea gave us their views on the case. i think the u.n. ruling is a good one we're going to see millions and millions of people maybe 300000000 people. fleeing climate change where the through starvation or drought storm flood to certification and we have to be ready for it we have to start

talking about this we actually must start preparing ourselves for this it's just another way till essential exploit the u.n. support but to advance open borders and you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe anyone swallows this kind of gulf that actually contradicts much of what the u.n. talks about i mean the u.n. constantly whines avoid the desperate need to reduce our carbon footprint well hey if you bring hundreds of millions of climate refugees from low carbon societies to our advanced higher carbon societies you're going to increase the carbon footprint so the u.n. really need to start to get it right this is not restricted to the developing broke world we have most of our cities i think there are something like 32 of the world's greatest cities largest cities are likely to be under water london new york delhi there are just so many of them. it doesn't make any sense to me

to look at this in any way other than the fact that people will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this and the un has opened this conversation pepper. pepper you've missed something you've just said so many of leading cities are going to be under water so you see all these people coming from the less developed world i mean we can surely import them and submerge cities and therefore cities submerged or i don't know any right is suggesting that all these people. but you just you know you don't suggest doing and said. well you just said you said that many of these world beyond are water which by the way is absolutely disconnected from reality but even if i take you point on the war on your actual words what you're saying is that spring 3rd world people to submerge surveys that

doesn't make a lot of sense does that every sensible country even germany is going to reject it so people like pepper can continue to dream on but what we need to do as a country is to protect our borders protect our people and look after our own simple as our. russians suspected of cryptocurrency fraud using bitcoins being interrogated by french police in hospital that's according to alexander vinick lawyer who says he was extradited to france from greece in secret when it was arrested 2 years ago at washington's request is a lawyer told r.t. he was on more fully taken from hospital in greece where he was being treated after a month long hunger strike. alexander disappeared today he was taken by police forces who ordered the doctors to release him even though he was exhausted and on the 35 day hunger strike as his lawyer i assure you that they had no right to take him because today's decision by the supreme

court was not executable i have been in contact with all competent greek authorities today and until 930 nobody knew where alexander was it was confirmed to me by my french call that alexander vinick is already in france in a hospital at this state where he has been barred from communicating with me since yesterday night his rights are being violated i'm sure his very afraid and terrorized by this procedure because he had absolutely no information on what happened there has been a court decision which was available after 4 o'clock but this is not a decision which allows extradition however it is proven that he was moved to france before even this decision was issued this is

a non lawful procedure again the human being who is entitle to his rights and dignity when it comes to enforcing against extradition to the us on the fronts the united states accused him of laundering at least $4000000000.00 worth of bitcoin i mean about a digital currency exchange which facilitated cyber crime and drug dealing he's been or those charges saying he's a technical consultant that he's been set up. vinick has also said he wants to stand trial in his native russia where he's also sought for alleged fraud claiming he's willing to cooperate with russian investigators who previously moscow has criticized greece's handling of the case for ignoring evidence support forward earlier this month of a nick also claimed he'd faced torture in greece they're trying to use torture and psychological pressure to break me they do not allow me to breathe fresh air the last time they let me out for a walk for a few minutes was on new year's eve i am a man without rights illegally imprisoned in greece for 30 months without charges

they want to destroy me from my knowledge they want my head on the block just because of what i know and my technological abilities alexander an explorer again talked us through the next stages in defending her client. i am now in contact with my french coralie quiz already at the hospital where alexander has been transferred all year in paris i have already filed a letter with the judges of investigation in order not to examine him in these conditions during the night while he's exhausted and he doesn't know what's happening because i had no time to even inform him of the court decision my asking therefore with my letter the judges to respect human rights law and respect procedure give postponement of his hearing and not did not hear him in this frail condition and of course we have already made an appeal to the united nations

working group against arbitrary this detention we are still waiting for them to take action it's very important that alexander be protected and we will exhaust and the legal procedure and anything that we can do to protect this individual because when alexander's rights are violated everybody's rights are violated. russia became a hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday at the house dems out of shift mentioned the apparently all important word in his opening speech dozens of times. russian intelligence services russian expansionism russian forces and their proxies russia kremlin russia's president vladimir putin the russian military agency. we can fight russia over there in the russians through russian efforts thanks to vladimir putin when the president said he russia if you're listening. they were listening to the russian story.

all the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to a buyout of filming sketch artist and said capture the atmosphere in the chamber and some of the pictures showed members having trouble just involved in the process stretching their legs doodling even falling asleep said it. has also faced the 12 hour no phone policy while sat at a desk. and we spoke to john list and political commentator chadwick moore he says even the strongest supporters of thompson ph went aboard with the anti russian narrative. the democratic party has 100 percent of their energy and their time into trying to remove a duly elected president from office their biggest hoax russia so completely flat and even their strongest support everything they've heard of the president is a plot even their strongest supporters the people who most want to believe that the president will be removed from office which he absolutely will not. even they've grown bored with this narrative and when they start reviewing russia again. it's

just so sad you can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh and then see below see 7 times at last count referred to russia or putin is the impeachment proceedings i don't know they trying to tie up the loose ends of this narrative are they just trying to connect all of these threads that they've everything they've sort of thrown at the wall to the exist to the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money everything that didn't stick waste of everyone's time. that had the sour nuclear scientists issue an apocalypse warning saying with just 100 seconds to live find out why the day was like clocks ticking away after this short break. and we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from a gene we call these longevity genes and there's

a set of genes that we work on in my lab at harvard called the search and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an aide to. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as a deal feudalism is clear as day. one else chose seemed wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out just being active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the program a whistleblower who exposed extensive u.s. surveillance programs around the globe edward snowden has given an interview to the former president of ecuador ruffo career the u.s. is seeking to charge siding with espionage and theft of government property while the former government contractor has said he would leak the information again and that he'd be willing to face trial if you could tell the truth. i mean these in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of us on yourself nowadays we can say that the mainstream media has changed its tune but they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans but for everyone else why are they now against you both while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a massive scale they have in a few exceptional circumstances. they have thought well.

how can we get the media to support our narrative how can we get them to support our perspectives and i think this is what people miss against the distinction between the more reality and the legality of a thing sometimes the only moral decision that individual happens is to break the law and the question is not what is this disclosure of legal or illegal the question was and the question is is the information that they provide and true or false is the information they're providing useful society to society harmful to society the question is would you rather not know what's really going on there already i mean how do you feel about the fact that back home you can be charged under a law that could land you the death penalty this is why i said there is no fair trial that's provided on the espionage act and despite the craziness of this law i have argued to the united states government i have said i will return and volunteer

myself for trial on a single condition which is that i get to tell the jury why i did what i did and the government has refused instead they sent me back a letter signed by the attorney general that says well we promise not to torture you when we see the failures in the system it is incumbent on us to do something about even in small small ways you know people make this big question for me because of course i have so many critics i have so many supporters who are hero or traitor or hero or traitor which one are you and i say i'm neither i'm a citizen there are no heroes i'm just an ordinary person who did something unusual because i think you're a hero if you did something really brave but no no this isn't family album we were you and i think this is better when we say things like you know i'm not a hero. i'm saying that in the context of there are no heroes there are only horowitz choices in many sattar just

a fish i'd like to ask you would you do it all over again. i would definitely do it again. i have to say it's unexpected because i have paid a real price i can't return home when i'm in a country that's not one not of my choosing. but i'm actually. more satisfied and more connected in the work that i do today in the work that i did before the thing that i'm most proud of. and the thing that gives me the. confidence to say that i would do it again is that when somebody asked me what are you can do about it i have my answer. and this is the thing that i think all young people need to hear when we're living in a truly historic time where everything is changing. when someone asks you what are you going to do about it the answer is everything that i can. a nuclear watchdog

group is out through just 100 seconds to live and while the reference to the symbolic doomsday clock is talking but the focal top of course the warning made it a media event in washington comes off the increased pressure from u.s. sanctions against the run of the breakdown of the nuclear deal that of course reason the escalation in the middle east which saw the u.s. assassinate a top iranian general. is the time keeper for this what. so the news is there's another apocalypse alert but the doomsday clock is being set at 100 seconds to midnight we are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds or even minutes it's the closest to doomsday you have ever been in the history of the doomsday clock so how do the people who reset the hands explain why is pushing us to armageddon while they're saying it could be just around the corner because of the following lack of climate action rise of cyber enabled

disinformation campaigns oh right that's the new black and the threat greater fashion industry and most importantly the nuclear threat indeed what did the new year bring along hash tag iran has tagged world 'd war 3. let's hear from someone else who was there to crank up the panic meter former un secretary general from the u.s. withdrawal from the paris agreement and the iran nuclear deal to deadlock nuclear disarmament talks and division of the un security council on mechanisms for collaboration being undermined when we need the most so for those of you scratching your heads about who's causing the mess that was in some iranian diplomat putting

the blame on trump for ripping up the nuclear agreement it was bunky moon but probably everyone should have wondered want to go could take care of wes in d.c. europe tried to butt in but it didn't work because iran is evil anyway some well known faces couldn't help reminding us about it even the holocaust commemorations the world must stand strong against the islamic. public of iran. israel salutes president trump and vice president pence for confronting the tyrants of to iran that subjugate their own people i call on all governments to join the vital effort of confronting iran so if bombing the hell out of one top iranian commander this month wasn't enough watch out for more if general as male gani follows a similar path of killing americans he will make the same fate it's not like the

folks in tehran would keep after hearing that these words are an official announcement on a clear unveiling of america's targeted and governmental terrorism whether you can actually hear the doomsday clock ticking for the whole of mankind or not what thing's for sure the western man relationship is deaf 100 seconds from apocalypse. oxford university has backed down on college rules to allow a transgender discussion a vent to go ahead the move followed outrage over guests having to sign a code of conduct that prevented anti diverse identity comments or some professors had accused the college of shutting down free speech and event on transgender issues ironically named equality convention is hosted by one of the oldest merton college shows all for february but i'm sure participants had to agree to the terms before signing up for the perspectives on trends intersectionality event among the original rules was a ban on deliberately mis gendering an individual as well as

a language that undermines the value of the validity of transgender identities or the college has replaced a revote a new code with a statement of opinion and debate is encouraged. or history professor at the university of oxford or todd just emerging colleges code of conduct was used by transgender advocates to fend off opposing views. i was stunned because i appreciate that the university of oxford it has tried very hard to uphold free speech and that the code of the university in shrines our right to free speech and freedom of debate this event at most 2 college struck me as very serious because it seems to be implying that for the 1st time an academic institution was going to take the same line as student activists i.e. that feminists and debate by feminists was unwelcome what i suspect has happened is

that the speakers in that event insisted that that was a condition of them appearing in their big who's trans activists refused to debate face to face with their critics they refused to debate with feminists and so it's not unusual for them to insist that if i. it's like they are not confronted with any opposing or challenging. i said with a cross still coming your way next go back in 30 minutes with the latest. in a world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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. one on one with alan does should some member of donald tom's impeachment defense team on this edition of paula. politicking i'm larry king my special guests is an old friend alan dershowitz a member of president donald trump is impeachment defense team he's also a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus he joins us via

skype there's so many areas to cover allan what do you say to friends who say is this this is not the alan dershowitz i know well they didn't know me i mean they forget that when richard nixon was impeached and i say that isn't 'd pietschmann i was on the national board of the a.c.l.u. when i was no wait a minute you shouldn't be supporting isn't detroit as. the a.c.l.u. should be in there defending his constitutional rights his procedural rights i took that position in the 1970 s. and then when clinton was impeached i took the same position against his impeachment and i started reading my book the case against impeaching trump when hillary clinton looked like she was going to be elected president and the original title for the book was the case against b.j. hillary clinton as i put it like that and that the republicans would have feature in day one so i'm the same alan dershowitz case you're larry king we haven't changed one bit in the many many years i know you since we grew up. why do you

think people perceived the 2 halves because i'm now not on their side 7 this is yankees versus red sox and it's as if i were you know a yankee supporter and a yankee fan and the red sox are accused of cheating and as a lawyer i said well maybe let me look at the scene with the red sox really cheating with a chorus should really be fired they would regard me as a cheater but this is not sports this is the constitution i'm always on the side of const how do you how did you become part of the times team well it was lawyers call me and then he called me my wife was not happy about it she didn't want to do it and. we were at a dinner together. i was with other friends and he went over to my wife and started talking to her and try to persuade her that i should join the defense team he didn't persuade her but in the end we decided that what i.