quite for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely for watchers. described as torture and experimental the u.k.'s national health service is under attack in a bust of its kind of legal challenge over prescribing life changing drugs for children to change. a landmark united nations with incomes rocky's the right side and if they're threatened by environmental changes the decision is creating and europe a mass immigration we've put the issue up for debate. it's just another way to listen to exploit the un but to even border and you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe anyone swallows this kind of go people but we'll be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this.

russian cryptocurrency arrested for pick point for top request us be extradited from greece to fraud alexandra van next lawyer says his removal from hospital was illegal and threats that it. was taken by police forces who ordered the doctors to release him even though she was exhausted the no on the 35 day hunger strike she has been barred from communicating with me see his rights are being violated. 247 live from the russian capital this is our team's national from everyone here in the newsroom a very warm welcome to the program and let's start with a story that's got lots of people talking the u.k.'s national health service is facing a fust of its kind equal battle overprescribing children as young as 9 puberty

blockers uncross sex drugs one claimant is 23 year old care about who was previously treated by the gender identity development service she regrets making irreversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture as she did. she 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 to this get 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 cross-checks 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 adult. since what i found using some unpublished data i discovered from the tavistock today is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers they were sent quite pronounced negative but it's believed the girls so girls are became head of 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 tavistock clinics here in london say 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago

among girls it's up more than 5000 percent with referrals at a record high it suggests cases of the transition will rise to that there is no data to reflect 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 monitors 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 distressed 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 form a psychiatric nurse sees another touching what at the developments of a son was the original lead claimant in the case told r.t. the drugs being used aren't licensed in the u.k. for gender identity medicine. the reason this is a sort of unique case is because it's never been taken in law so with sort of

looking at whether asking young children. to consent to an experimental treatment can be and in full consent if we also don't know the outcomes the full side effects of what's going to happen to them you know it's not installed in terms of the medical outcomes you know even the experts don't know the full picture yet we need more research but drugs as a prescribed here in the u.k. are an experimental drug because they're what we call off license so they were developed for very young children who had a single trip kosha to beauty which is when they develop too fast into puberty is children but in your area gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. and that's not the only identity to stand up to

hit the u.k. this week later in the program i'll tell you about how an oxford college has backtracked on its rules to allow a transgender event ever moved a code of conduct after some professor pointed out the closing down free speech more are not in effect part of the program. and other news climate refugees or people that move to to environmental disaster can no longer be sent home to their country of origin if 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. national and international efforts the effects of climate change are receiving states may expose individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara full my obligations of sending states the ruling is based on a complaint brought by an island. in the pacific ocean he said he was in danger due

to rising sea levels here part for asylum in new zealand but was ultimately rejected he also failed when he took it to the un but the case has now set the way for others to apply jamey's interior ministry has spoken out against the united nations decision most studies suggest the environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions political commentator david fonts and 4 men need to of the wales green party pepper 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 the gulf that actually contradicts much of what the u.n. talks about in 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 living 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 that and said you just said you said that many of these will be on the water which by the way is absolutely disconnected from reality but even if i take you on the wall on your actual words what you're saying is let's bring 3rd world people to submerge service doesn't make a lot of sense doesn't 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. well to this was mountains now in the world economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary steve minutiae has found self-involved in a spot with a teenager none other than eco activists to turn the u.s. finance chief responded to her comments about spending to offset carbon emissions doubting the 17 year old finance credentials. she the chief economist who is she i'm confused after she goes and studies economics in college she can explain that to us it doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that the remaining $1.00 degree carbon budget and on going fossil fuel subsidies and investments done it up steve mission is not the 1st u.s. official that gratitude has clashed with recently back in december donald trump suggested the activists should walk on her anger management problem and that differences on disputes have continued with climate change dominating much of the

discussion at the world economic forum the latest episode of in case you missed it took a ringside seat. it's that magical time of the year when our wealthy overlords gather for the economic forum a glitzy gathering looms for bringing together the world's business elite yet the one percent meat for champagne and skiing in the mountains leaving the 99 percent to pray for nonviolent. because hundreds of thousands just to go to davos for that the filthy rich demand to be entertained and this year they got rock row tickets for the heavyweight championship of the world though trump. school for gratitude. in a ski resort this week with an i think gets away with their release sending us and my work becomes a. pay for full price ticket. to

a slow start the worry she warms up quicker than the atmosphere. already one year ago i came to divorce and told you that our house is on fire. i said i wanted you to panic you could forget i've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do thank god for that because i've got to say with the way she's been talking i thought perhaps no one had told her we must forget about net 0 we need real c. of what i need is some good news let's see what's happening in the orange corner fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism in action. knows what he's doing and knew there was nothing to worry about carbon emissions we must reject the

perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse like dani calm down. i mean and ice is not the life of the party but just a kid it seems in the area where trump and gretta can see. today i'm pleased to announce the united states will join one trillion trees initiative being launched here at the world economic forum one trillion trees oh yeah growth is going to love that one we're not telling you to offset your emissions by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like africa while at the same time forests like the amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate ok so this is going to be a bit harder. isn't nothing can be done sitting here right now you wouldn't believe it's possible that we have found the answers you'll be

hearing about it but we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible with say well i'm convinced on you. moving on russia became the hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday head of the house dems adam schiff mentioned the party all want to import 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 hey russia if you're listening. they were listening that's the russian story. while the cameras were focused on the senate floor. filming sketch artists instead captured the atmosphere and the chain some of the pictures showed

members having trouble staying involved in the process stretching their legs stooping and even dozing off senators also faced a 12 hour notifying policy while sat at the desks we spoke to john is down political commentator chadwick mall he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment are just a bit bored with the whole anti washing narrative the democrats already 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 thought of the president is 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

that the 7 times at last count referred to russia or putin is the impeachment proceedings i don't know are 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. i had in the program a russian suspected of bitcoin going trying is extradited by a greek court to france has no as has the money it was an eagle we have from how awful shall pray. but 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 to ns and for

those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 80. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as a deal feudalism it's clear as day.

a russian suspected of crypto currency forward using bitcoin is being interrogated by french police and hospital that's according to an exhaustive in next noyo says he was extradited to france from greece in secret off the supreme court in athens ruled in favor of removing him from nick was arrested 2 years ago at washington's request and has been fighting against extradition to the u.s. and france the united states accuses him of launching at least 4000000000 dollars worth of bitcoin claiming he ran the digital currency exchange which facilitated cyber crime and drug dealer and he hasn't denied those charges states and he's a technical consultant and that he's been set up. i was lawyer told r.t. he was unlawfully taken from hospital in greece while he was being treated off a month long hunger strike. alexander disappear 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 he is 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 against a human being who is inside told to his rights and dignity while vinnick has stated that he wants to stand trial but in his native russia where he is also sought for allegedly forward claiming he is willing to cooperate with russian investigators previously moscow had criticized greece's handling of the case for ignoring evidence it before it was monday also claimed he'd face torture increase. 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 a block just because of what i know and my technological abilities i was under vinick so again talk to 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 the investigation in order not to examine him in these conditions during the night while he's exhausted and he does know what's happening because i had no time to even inform him of the court decision masking therefore with my letter the judges to respect human rights law and respect procedure give postponement of his hearing and not do not hear him in this frail condition and of course we have already made an appeal to the united nations working group against

arbitrary 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. and now we are in the middle east thousands of demonstrators in iraq are filling the streets of baghdad calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the protests called the 1000000 man march was set up by an iraqi shia cleric the situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of an iranian top general and senior iraqi militia needa in a drone strike near baghdad international airport at the start of january following the incident iraq pasta resolution calling to expel foreign troops from the country of to nearly 17 years the us president has rejected the withdrawal and warned

functions would be imposed if dad goes ahead with the military expulsion. and finally for this hour oxford university has backed down on college rules to allow. transgender discussion of to go ahead the move followed outrage after guess having to sign a code of conduct that prevented. identity comments some professors hadzic use the college of shutting down free speech and event on transgender issues ironically named equality convention it's hosted by one of the oldest colleges that's martin scheduled for february potential participants have to agree to the terms before signing up for the perspectives on trans intersectionality event among the original rules was a ban on deliberately mis gendering an individual in language that undermines the validity of transgender identities the college has replaced and now revoked code with the statement that opinion and debate is encouraged history professor at the

university of oxford salina todd suggests much in colleges code of conduct was used by transgender activists 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 that 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 views well that's how things are looking for now i'll be back at the top the hour of course with the latest global news update. many call the impeachment trial of donald trump in the u.s. senate a political show well if it is it's not buried entertaining in fact it's quite boring repetitive and tedious clearly this entire process is a blood vessel to play for keeps but what about the institutional damage left in the wake of this low energy process.

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