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. thousands filled the streets of paris in protest against controversial pension changes in france president presenting his plan for reforming the system to his cabinet on friday. described to experimental the u.k.'s national health service is under attack in a fast of its kind legal challenge for prescribing life changing drugs to youngsters to change that lead to claimants explain why this latest case is unique . and looking up when. young. been sent to an experimental treatment can be and he said if we

also don't know the outcome of the flu side effects of what's going to happen to. a landmark united nations word hounds refugees the right side and if they are threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe of mass migration we put the issue up for debate it's just another way to listen to exploiting the. borders and you know even of the most obvious levels i come from leave and they want one of the go people will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. keeping you up to date with the very latest news from all around the world this is our national welcomes. and let's start in france. as right now thousands are

rallying against controversial pension reform plans. a president. put the proposed changes to his cabinet that have also been a major strikes across the country marking the largest shutdown of infrastructure in the country in decades. reports no. hard cool section of the society are continuing to come out to the streets to take part in these protests let's just take a look at the procession here in paris and you'll get a sense of how full the streets are with those who wanted to come out again today the 51st day of the strike the 7th day of nationwide action to show how unhappy they are about those controversial pension reforms being put through by the french government that pension reform law has been presented to the council of ministers it now because towards the national assembly where it's due to be debated in february and we know that the strikers while they have received some concessions

they haven't been able to achieve what they set out to which was the government to abandon that reform altogether so what have they achieved well so far the government has decided to take out all references to raising the pension age to the age of $64.00 they would do to add 2 years on to the pension age before you could receive pool pension and the government is also relinquished and said that certain sectors certain professions will continue to have a special conditions special conditions reality is the. law hasn't changed dramatically from what the government sent out to do so in some respects you could say the protesters haven't really got their way the other thing to say about this is of course that this started as a rolling strike action carried out by public transport workers in the 1st few weeks particularly here in paris public transport was paralyzed across the city with issues nationwide as well so what we're seeing now is continuing smaller

strike action that looks like it's being more directed at a more targeted and the reality is while people know that this pension reform is likely to sail through the national assembly go to the senate and also be approved they want to make sure the government is aware how unhappy they are now the government for its part. edward phillipe the prime minister has been talking about why this pension reform is so important the aim of this reform is to overhaul the system so it becomes much fairer more solid and more adapted to the transformations of the working world of tomorrow the construction of the universal pension system corresponds to the will of the vast majority of french people workers on the street disagree with that they say no it won't it means we'll work for longer i will have to work harder and perhaps we'll end up with less money in our pockets at the end the government says anybody who works a full career which is some 40 odd years will receive a minimum pension of a 1000 euros a month many people say that is not

a lot to live on and while people know that that pension reform has been passed and presented to the council of ministers on friday they want to make sure that the government is aware that they are not happy and they will continue to show their unease and their defiance against this new law. meanwhile in the u.k. the 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 irreversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental. shot he had with ashley 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 lives to regret her treatment she also stopped the clinic putting others through what she

did it 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 claimant'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 that are worried medical professionals have also voiced concerns even accusing the specialist clinic for transgender 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 today is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers they were saying quite pronounced negative. 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 see 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago among girls is up more than 5000 percent with referrals at a record high it suggests cases of the transition will rise to those 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's 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 an evans who actually worked up the development service and was the original need claimant in this 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 an informed consent if we also don't know the outcome of the full side effects of what's going to happen to 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 aco drugs as it 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 that which is when they develop too fast into putin's children but in the areas gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. climate refugees or people that move queue to environmental disaster can no longer be sent home to their country of origin if seeking asylum in their lives are in danger that's according to a new landmark ruling by the un which could set a new president for migration the committees of dubuque down with arab us national and international efforts the facts of climate change are receiving state may expose 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 kara barty in the pacific ocean who said he was in danger due to rising sea levels he applied for asylum in new zealand but was rejected he also failed when he took it to the un but the case has now set the way for others to apply germany's interior ministry has spoken out against the united nations decision most studies suggest that environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions political commentator david van zandt a former leader of the wales green party pepper barton ati gave us that take 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 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 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 out there not. 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 in 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 city submerged or i don't know any right is suggesting that all these people. but you just you know variance enjoys doing and so 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 or on the wall 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 swiss mountains now on the world economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary steve minutia has from self involved in a spat with a teenager none other than eco activists to turn bug the u.s. finance chief responded to her comments about spending to offset carbon emissions don't in 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 1.5 degree carbon budget and i'm going to fossil fuel subsidies and vestments done it up steve is not the 1st u.s. official that gratitude has clashed with recently back in december donald trump suggested the activists should walk on

a management problem and their differences and disputes have continued with climate change dominating much of the discussion about world economic forum and 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 swiss mountains leaving the 99 percent to pray for an hour long. because hundreds of thousands just to go to davos for that the filthy rich demand to be entertained and this year they got rug row tickets for the heavyweight championship of the world so trump is grad. school for gratitude. in a ski resort this week with an actually gets away with their release sending us

a high work. 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 well all 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 don't it calm down. i mean and i she's not the life of the party but she's 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 troops 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. as we all do. is that nothing can be done sitting here right

now you wouldn't believe it's possible. that we have found the we'll be hearing about it but we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible with. or i'm convinced on you. still ahead on the program a 1000000 man march in baghdad against the u.s. presence in iraq we have all the details on not in just 90 seconds. 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 aid to. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as a male feudalism it's clear as day. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days become educated and in gain treatment because betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart if we choose to look for common ground. are.

welcome back thousands are protesting in the iraqi capital of baghdad calling for the u.s. to and its military presence in the country the protest called the 1000000 man march was set up by an iraqi shia cleric however washington is playing down the rallies highlighting instead the friendship with the country. they like what we're doing we like them and we've had a very good relationship the mission is much wanted by the iraqi military in by we believe most iraqis we have said that we're not interested in talking about withdrawal because we don't think we should withdraw our any conversations that the iraqis want to have with us about the united states in iraq we believe should in must cover the entire gamut of our relationship the situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of iran's top general and a senior iraqi militia meta in a joint strike near baghdad international airport at the beginning of january following is the fascinations iraq passed

a resolution to expel foreign troops from the country but that does still need to be ratified by the prime minister the u.s. president has rejected the move that would have warned that functions would be imposed if baghdad goes ahead without metrics paulson. but assume for this hour russia became the hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday head of the house the dems that's adam schiff mentioned the apartment all important was in his opening speech just 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 the russian efforts thanks to vladimir putin when the president said he russia if you're listening. they were listening that's the russian story. while the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to filming

a sketch artist instead captured the atmosphere in the chain bob some of the pictures showed members having trouble staying involved in the process stretching the legs diddling unevenness sleeping senators also faced a 12 hour no fame policy while out there is death we spoke to john the stem political commentator chad what more he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment are getting a bit bored with this whole anti 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 russia gave so completely flat and even their strongest support everything they thought of the president as 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 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 extent the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money everything that didn't stick a waste of everyone's time. that's how things are shaping up for now stick around though because up next it's all exclusive interview with the president of the philippines and he doesn't mince his words. most people think to 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 race in truth to stand out on the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand

the right answer. questions. 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 no mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in healing messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed 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 b b b i am shocked shocked as far society we feel. we don't know she'll share this fruit on. the end of this trial

unfortunately you 2 will still not know what childress. trade and investment have become magic spells to come economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the investor a chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but won't when investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all ruins the environment. that means if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can be sued no

multi-nationals of taking on the whole nation's philip morris is trying to use i.s.t.'s to stop tour of the way from implementing new tobacco regulations. aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a french company sued egypt because egypt resists minimum wage democratic choice of a trump called rich. joy and says we try to fund. operations understand that a cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes stuffing 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. is the president thank you very much for speaking to at this difficult time for your country difficult period which is what my 1st question is about your recent absence during that will cain eruption and people have been worried this has been widespread concern about that absence and about your health are you still feet to be president. you know. we stood up believe media specially did up there. and the us i you us before they made the announcement they did they did not go i was 2 days earlier

then i went. when it came back last night i went directly again to the evacuation areas so i do not believe that. kind of got to be being. dished. up which is an american see a fund the. news agency and we've just been. where they have not paid their taxes and. we have questioning them because media must be 100 percent owned by the country philippines. for on its own by american and so it doesn't violate because it sees the media oh depress should be owned by 100 percent of the people. while you were there when you went back to the volcano you

promised to repeal in the volcano and take edith's ashes is that part of a new government policy perhaps a war in volcanoes. but this one but this one aspect of life which we're going to really fight. in this says that we might need to close it. just of the big. be necessary steps to counter it to meet the challenges of the art. and the devastation that. would be with the people's would lose their livelihood and home well as you see you know this is it's never easy every new day brings brings a new challenges one of you lead the challenges is that you got a taste of u.s. sanctions for the alleged mistreatment of an opposition politicians my question is have you learned the lesson the trump was trying to teach you it should be do you

is who should learn the lesson from us because do you think that the buckboard country in the video games that are incapable of dispensing justice would have survived. in maine been for the 6 would be cleared republic but before that before the americans and their occupation. you see. the. and the communists that the god who invented. the dilema the receiving money. being contributions from the drug. lords in this country. and the americans simply do not believe that justice is incapable of being money to feel no one's.