experimental national health service is 1st. drugs for children change. refugees the right. decision. for the baby. it's just another way. but. the borders you know even at the most. i can't believe anyone. and we have to start talking about how we deal with. the russian

cryptocurrency arrested for fraud at the request of the us has been extradited to france alexander says his removal from legal. life. taken by police forces. border. on the 3rd. day. violate. welcomes the progress. of the u.k.'s national health service is facing a 1st of its kind legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9.

drugs. 23 year old bell who was previously treated by the gender identity development service she regrets making reversable changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture she did. 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 up to almost half of children treated at the clinic prescribe 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 and came into 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 that are worried 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. that'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 negatives. it's believed the girls so girls became had their gender dysphoria increase and some of their psychological problems increased and indeed there is even less 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 test our clinics here in london see 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago among girls it's up more than 5000 percent whether or ferals that's

a record high it suggests cases of the transition will 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 the care quality commission but while there is no doubt that this 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 age just 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 they're subjective so essentially you're just taking a loss. but instead there's a lot of false information about it being reversible about. it 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 our the actual high quality research on the effects of people at this. the only identity to scandal to hit the u.k. this week later in the program oxford college has backtracked on its rules to allow a transgender event it removed a code of conduct after some professors called it out for closing down free speech with more than a bit later in 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 united nations which could set a new precedent for migration the committees of give you down with dara boss national and international efforts the a fact of climate change you receiving state may expose individuals to

a violation of their rights thereby triggering did not reform our obligations of sending states the ruling is based on a complaint brought by an islander from crew party in the pacific ocean who said he was in danger due to rising sea levels you applied for asylum in new zealand he was rejected you also failed when you took it to the un the case their house now set the way for others to apply germany's interior ministry has spoken out against the united nations this is a. most studies suggest that environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions but as a whole commentator david vance and former leader of the wales green party peer butty 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 the 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 un 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 just 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. but 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 mean any road is suggesting that all these people. would you just you know you answered you know stephen 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 are. the russians suspected of crypto currency fraud using big cornice being interrogated by a french police and hospital as according to alexander when 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 the 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 he 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 against a human being who is entitle to his rights and dignity. vinick has been fighting against extradition to the united states and france the us accused him of laundering at least $4000000000.00 worth of big quote claiming he ran a digital currency exchange was facilitated drug cyber crime and drug dealing he's denied all those charges they think he's a technical consultant and that he's been set up. when it has stated he wants to stand trial in his native russia where he's also sought for alleged fraud to claim he's willing to cooperate with russian investigators previously moscow has criticized his handling of the case for ignoring evidence it brought forward earlier this month vinick also claimed he'd faced torture in germany. 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'm a man without rights illegally imprisoned in greece for 30 months without charges they want to destroy me for my knowledge they want my head on the block just because of what i know and my technological abilities and exoneration explore again talked us through the next stages in defending our 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 the whole topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday head of the house them saddam schiff 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 are the russians through russian efforts thanks to vladimir putin when the president said he russia if you're listening. they were listening that's

the russian story. all the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to a bottom filming sketch artists instead capture the atmosphere in the chamber some of the pictures showed members having trouble staying involved in the process stretching their legs even sleeping said it was also a face the 12 hour no phone policy while sat at their desks. we spoke to john less than political commentator chad whitmore he says that even the strongest supporters of trumps impatient so bored with the anti russia now. the democrat already has 100 percent of their energy and their time into trying to remove a duly elected president from office their biggest hoax russia go completely flat and even their strongest support everything a lot of the presidents of lot 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 ripping

up 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 extra the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money everything that didn't stick to waste everyone's time. still ahead this hour nuclear scientists issue an apocalypse warning saying of just the 100 seconds to live find out what the doomsday clock is ticking away after this short break. many call the impeachment trial of donald trump in the u.s.

senate a political show well it is it's not buried entertaining in fact it's quite boring repetitive and tedious clearly this entire process is a blood fest to play for keeps but what about the institutional damage left in the wake of this energy. in a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

the progress the corruption and inefficient public services continue to drive protests in iraq and what's the largest movement against the government in more than a decade thousands of again gathered in the capital baghdad this friday the current wave of demonstrations began 3 months ago and that time at least 12 people have been killed in the violence as protesters forced the closure of roads and government buildings the situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of a radian top general and senior iraqi militia leader in a drone strike near baghdad international airport. in one southern city call for a general strike in an attempt to force through the appointment of a new prime minister. whistleblower who exposed extensive u.s. surveillance programs around the globe edward snowden has given an interview to the former president of ecuador awful career the u.s.

is seeking to charge the road with espionage and theft of government property while former government contractor has said he would leak the information again and that he'd be willing to stand trial if you could tell the truth and he needs in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of assigning yourself nowadays we can see that the mainstream media has changes to talk and they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans and of 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 them or reality and the legality of the 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 provided 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 tried 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 somebody's 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 or do i think you're a hero if you did something really brave but no no this isn't scary i don't we were 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 to be their family 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 asked you what are you going to do about it the answer is everything that i care. a nuclear watchdog group was about to have just 100 seconds to live while the reference to the symbolic doomsday clock is talking but the time of course the warning made of the media event in washington comes after increased pressure from u.s. sanctions against the run as over the breakdown of the 2050 nuclear deal as well as

a recent escalation in the middle east which saw the u.s. assassinated top the rain in general. trying to go is the time keeper for this one . 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 it 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 war 3.

i. 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 iran you create due to deadlock nuclear disarmament talks and division 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 wasn't a rainy and diplomat putting the blame on trump for ripping up the nuclear agreement it was a moon but probably everyone should have wondered want to go because they care less 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 islam it. of around. israel salutes president trump and vice president 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 for those who similar path of killing americans he will meet the same fate it's not like the folks in iran would keep. 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

things for sure the western ram relationship is deaf or 100 seconds from apocalypse . folksy diversity as a back down on college rules to allow a transgender discussion of an to go ahead the move followed outrage over guests having to sign a code of conduct that prevented and diversity comments the some professors had accused the college of shutting down for the speech that would eventually transgender issues ironically named equality convention is hosted by one of the oldest merton college favorite potential participants had to agree to the terms before signing up for the perspectives on trans intersectionality event among original rules was a ban on the liberty mr gendering on individual and language on the minds the validity of transgender identities a college has replaced the now revoked code with a statement that opinion and debate is encouraged a history professor at the university of oxford salina told suggests murder in

college is code of conduct was used by transgender advocates to fend off opposing views. i was stunned because i appreciate that the university of oxford 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 merton 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 that big because 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 at events like this they are not confronted with any opposing or challenging view these. that support team i myself for this hour up next suffered go and visionaries were back in the virgin is with the latest headlines. this is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is very innocent and terry is meaningless is your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose

a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court. shot after shot as far. as we feel. we don't know she'll just from. the end of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know who killed just. operations understand that a cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes staffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or a committee. member get their chief of staff put them on your payroll as a lobbyist this is what washington does on a bipartisan basis in fact i think it's the only point of true bipartisanship in

d.c. is corporate influence over government. well welcome to sophie visionaries well they say. wisdom. but can we grow personally and mature while staying young and healthy and aging make you or just like any other disease well david side claire professor of genetics at harvard medical school.