it's time to fight. for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. thousands filled the streets of paris in protest against controversial pension changes and fronts president in my new all my presents his plan for reforming the system to this. described as torture an experiment told you cave national health service is under attack and a bus stop its kind evil challenge overprescribing life changing drugs for children changed and we have a ritual claimant in the case. the reason this is as it. is because it's never been taken in so we're looking at when asking young

children. to consent to an experiment that truly can be i mean you said it and this is a landmark united nations ruling hands of refugees the right to asylum if they all threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe obnoxious immigration we put the issue up for debate. it's just another way to listen to exploit the u.n. but to. border on you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe and he wants one of the people who will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. 3 pm here in moscow where if you are watching from in the wild thanks for keeping

me company at this hall. and before we move into our main stories let's start with a developing one from the u.s. state of texas where police say a huge explosion has rattled the downtown area of houston. believe the blast happened at a manufacturing plant areas have been cordoned off with witnesses saying it was falling from the sky it's reported that 8 people have been injured at this point but of course we'll be bringing you the very latest on that as more information becomes available. now to europe and right to the french capitol where you can see thousands of people are rallying against a controversial pension reform at the same time president emanuel micro is putting his plan to his cabinet the proposed changes have led to major strike small kamila largest shut down of major infrastructure in the country and decades. let's cross live now far from to charlotte to penske who's there right among the demonstrators charlotte crucial day obviously for this retirement age bill how's

the atmosphere feeling that tell us all about. well there was fear here is one of unhappiness unease at these pension reforms thousands of people have once again turned out to the streets of paris for what is now the 7th day of inter professional strikes this is a national day of strike action out with strike protests taking place not just here in paris but in other cities across france including must say. as you mentioned the pension reform bill has been presented to the council of ministers on friday which means it will get their approval for ma'am and then it will go through to the national assembly where it's due to be day debated in early february now the government of the prime minister it would felipe has talked about this pension reform being necessary saying it would be fair it would bring a system in that small just and more equal for all those who are to receive

pensions in the future in france but many people in the street don't feel that that's the case and that's why we're now in the 51st day of strike action in france although i'd say in the last week the strike action has kind of every time quite a bit that was after that and say union which is the union that the largest representative of the true workers here in paris decided that they wouldn't continue with the rolling strike things have gotten back to normal here in the city but occur. yes the country we have seen smaller strike actions on the sense of trying to keep the momentum going we've seen ports being blocked we've seen electricity being shut off at some of the largest generators in france which is caused massive outages for people in the south of paris and also elsewhere in the country so although we see traffic going normal here in paris the strike action he's continued that's because many people state they feel that the new reform by the government will be unfair they feel it will mean that they'll have to woo to

contribute to this system a system the government wants to use to make it universal so join up 42 different pension systems into one where people points for every year that they work and then those points will translate into the amount of money that they receive in the pension now the government says if you work a full working life that's one food 2 years you will receive a pension a minimum of a 1000 euros a month but many people say you know this isn't good enough they don't like the idea of this they say they've worked hard from young ages maybe 16 going into work 6 years being a driver for trains and they say that you know they should have the right and continue to have the right to the retire early now perhaps the most controversial element of the pension reform which was the idea that they were going to raise the pension to age of when you could take a full pension 64 has been taken out from the document but the government reserves the right to put it back in excess union to come up with some other ideas if they

don't come up with ideas is a way to sort of get rid of that pension deficit in school cost then they say that they will have the right to put that age back in of 64 but as you can see around me these huge crowds here in paris people have come out once again they want the government to know that while the strike may not be as ferocious as it was at the very beginning when it started on december 5th last year they still are angry and. all showed that the majority of french people are still supporting these strikes and while they believe that there needs to be reform in the pension system in france the majority do not trust the current administration to carry that reform so here on the streets in paris for the moment all come as we see the protests moving towards concord this afternoon but there is still a lot of anger people just want to make sure that they voice is. for certain quite

the crowd but as expected the french never shy when it comes to protests got shot it depends for reporting from the heart of paris many thanks. in other news the u.k.'s national health service is facing a fast of its kind legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers on cross sex hormone drugs one claimant is 23 year old care about who was previously treated by the gender identity development service she regrets making a reversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture she did shoddy and with from london 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 or joins a mother of a 15 year old autistic girl who is out 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 can't 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 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. it's what i found using some unpublished data i discovered from the tavistock clinic is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers they were saying quite pronounced negative but 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 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 that's a record high it suggests cases of the transition will rise too though 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 for most. season

evans who worked at the development service and was the original need claimant in the case told r.t. the drugs have been used on license to newquay 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 important 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 the areas gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. that's not the only identities dandle to hit the u.k. this week later in the program we'll talk about how an oxford college has backtracked on its rules to allow the transgender event ever moved a code of conduct after some professors called out for closing down free speech more on not in the 2nd part of the program. another headline story climate refugees or people that moved you 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 un which could set a new precedent for migration. the committees of dubuque boss national and international efforts the effects of climate change are you 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 from karen in the pacific ocean who said he was in danger due to the rising sea levels he applied for asylum in new zealand but was ultimately rejected you also failed when he took it to the un but the case has now set the way for others to apply jeremy is a job in his interior minister 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 fox and former leader of the wales green party. gave us that hughes on this whole 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. to 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 4 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. well you just did you know very insecure stephen and said you just said you said that many of these will be underwater which by the way is absolutely disconnected from reality but even if i take you on the war on your

actual words what you're saying is that spring 3rd world people to submerge surveys and 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. the swiss mountains now in the world economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary steve minutiae has found himself involved in a spot with a teenager none other than the eco activist gratitude and the u.s. finance chief responded to our comments about spending to offset carbon emissions don't ing the 17 year olds finance credentials. she the chief economist who is she i'm confused after she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us it doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that the remaining 1.5 degree carbon budget and on going fossil fuel subsidies and vestments done it up now stephen

nation is not actually the 1st u.s. official that gratitude bug has clashed with recently back in december donald trump suggested dr vest should walk on her anger management problem and the 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 in the swiss mountains leaving the 99 percent to pray for nonviolent. because hundreds of thousands just to go to davos for the filthy rich demand to be entertained this year drug row tickets for the heavyweight championship of the world though trump versus grad.

school for gratitude. this is in a ski resort this week but america gets away with their release sending us a high work. place name pay for full course ticket. to a slow start the worry she warms up quicker than the atmosphere. story 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. go 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 z. 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 an optimism in action there e z knows what he's doing and knew there was nothing to worry about carbon emissions my we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse like dani calm down i mean and i says not the life of the party but he's just a kid it seems in no area where trump and grettir can see. today i'm pleased to announce the united states will join one trillion trees initiative being large here at the world economic forum one trillion truths oh yeah great 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. as we are all doomed is there nothing can be done sitting here right now you wouldn't believe it's possible that we have found the inches 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 our new. still ahead in the program the impeachment trial against donald trump is back in full swag and it seems as one while the u.s. hasn't caught escaped being linked to i'll tell you what it is the short break.

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 fest to play for keeps but what about the institutional damage left in the wake of this low energy process. in a world of big partisan 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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.

welcome back russia became the hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday head of the house dems adam schiff mentioned their party want to import a wad in his opening speech just a few times. russian intelligence services russian expansionism and russian forces and their proxies russia kremlin russia's president vladimir putin the russian military agency it's we can fight russia over there are 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 due to a bout of filming sketch artist and that captured the atmosphere in the chamber some of the pictures showed members having trouble staying involved in the process

starts now legs i mean even sleeping such as also faced a 12 hour no phone. desks we spoke to john the sound political commentator chadwick moore he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment a bored with the russian 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 rushing 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 reviewing russia again. it's just so sad you can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh and then see below see 57 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 to waste everyone's time. thousands of demonstrators in iraq filling the streets of baghdad calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the protests to cool the 1000000 man march was originally set up by an iraqi shiite cleric the situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of in a raid and a top general and senior iraqi militia need and a train 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 27 told me that the us president has rejected the withdrawal of warning signs would be imposed if it goes ahead with

a military expulsion. and to wrap up a rundown for this hour oxford university has backed down on the college rules to allow a transgender discussion event to go ahead the move followed outrage over gas having to sign a code of conduct that prevented until diverse identity comments. professors hadzic use the college of shutting down free speech and event on transgender issues ironically named equality convention is hosted by one of the oldest colleges martin scheduled for february but participants have to agree to the terms before signing up for the perspectives on trans intersectionality event among the original rules was a deliberately mis gendering an individual on language that undermines the validity of transgender identities the college has replaced and now revoked code with a statement that opinion to fate is encouraged history professor at the university of oxford city now told so just muscle just 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 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 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. that's all from me for now but you can always check out our website r.t. dot com for details and many more stories of the day. thanks guys or financial survival. but customers go buy your stuff. then now well we do somehow or. that's undercutting that what's good for hierarchic back here to the global economy.

is your media refer. sure enough reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being. what is true. is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a make of the shallowness. one on one with alan should some member of donald tom's impeachment defense team on this edition of paula.

politicking i'm larry king my special guest is an old friend alan dershowitz a member of president donald trump's impeachment defense team he's also a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus he joins us via skype that's has so many areas to cover alan what is 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 in when when richard nixon was impeached and i say that isn't pietschmann i was on the national board of the a.c.l.u. and i said no wait a minute you shouldn't be supporting us and feature it as the a.c.l.u. you should be in there defending is constitutional right this procedural rights i take 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 case against impeaching trump when hillary clinton looked like she was gay. to be elected president in the original title for the book was the case against beating 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 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 know how did you become part of the times team.