i think. part protest against culture of pension changes it follows president presenting his plentiful reforming the system to his cabinet earlier on friday. the program described. the u.k.'s national health service as 1st of its kind legal challenge for prescribing life changing drugs to youngsters to alter their gender a leading claimant explains why the latest case. being young. sent to an experimental treatment can be and

he said if we know the outcomes the full side effects what's going to happen to the . united nations ruling comes refugees the right to continue. if environmental dangers in their own country means their lives and the decision is creating fears in europe immigration issues. it's just another way. the. border and you know even at the most. and he wants. people to move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this.

wherever you're tuning in from right across the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to our to international my name's unanimity. right now across france thousands are rallying against controversial pension reform plans earlier on friday president among but the proposed changes to his cabinet major strikes happening across the country as well today marking the largest shutdown of infrastructure in the nation in decades r.t. charlotte dubin ski reports now from paris. 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 onto 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 protestors 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 this 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 a mood targeted on the reality is what people know who 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 parts. edward phillipe the prime minister has been talking about why this pension reform. the aim of this reform is to overhaul the system so it becomes much fairer. 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 then the 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 any. defiance against this new law. while across the channel from there the u.k.'s national health service is facing a 1st of its kind legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers and cross sex hormone drugs one claimant is 23 year old cura bell who was previously treated by the gender identity development service now she regrets making irreversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture she did her words should be at risk 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 wants to stop the clinic putting others through what she did it she's leaving a landmark case against the tavistock and portman and they trust 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. 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 l who is out on the waiting list for the treatment at the service much 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 i 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 talk interferes with natural hormone production it's this step that this legal battle is all about claimants according for an urgent reassessment of the procedure what is challenged is the current in continuing practice of the defendant to prescribe puberty suppressing hormone blockers and then subsequently crossed sex hormones to children under the age of 18 and it's not just former patients and relatives have to worry that medical professionals have also voiced concerns even accusing the specialist clinic for child centered children of suppressing negative results while undertaking

experimental treatment on adolescents what i found using some unpublished data that i discovered from the tavistock today is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers there were some quite pronounced negatives. it's believed the girls so. they had their gender dysphoria increase and some of their psychological problems increased and indeed there was even less slightly increased but statistically significant increase in their. there are thoughts about our suicide so these are all quite negative findings but these are not being published by the tavistock clinic here in london say 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 transitional rise to that there is no data to affect the number for who may opt to return to their biological sex we reached out to the tavistock and portman n.h.s. trust for comment our clinical interventions are laid out internationally set

service specifications and h.s. england 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 the service helps young people have failed to stratton their own bodies the thought impact of making decisions about their gender at such a young ages may not truly be clear to much later in their lives or former psychiatric nurse susan evans who worked after the development service and was the original lead claimant in the case told r.t. the drugs being used on license 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 the looking at whether asking young children. to consent to an experimental treatment can be an informed consent if we also don't know the outcomes the full side

effects of what's going to happen to you know it's not informed 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 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 thing called true kosher to beauty which is when they develop too fast into puberty is children. but in the area of gender identity medicine. these drugs are not license that. climate refugees people who move to to environmental disaster can no longer be sent home to their country of origin if their lives would be endangered there that's according to a new landmark ruling by the un the committees of the view that with arab boss national and international efforts the effects of climate change are receiving

state may expose individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara full my obligations of sending states well the ruling is based on a complaint brought by an islander from cared about 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 or political commentator david vance a former leader of the wales green party pepper bar to law to share their views with us. 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. 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 pepper. pepper you've missed something you've just said so many of leading cities are going to be under water so you see all these people coming from the less developed world i mean we can surely import them and submerge cities and therefore cities submerged or i don't know any right is suggesting that all these people. but you just you know you don't suggest doing and said. well you just said you said that many of these will be underwater 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 that's bring 3rd world people to submerge the base populace and make a lot of sense does that every sensible country even germany is going to reject it so people like peppa can continue to dream on but what we need to do as a country and to protect our borders protect our people and look after our own simple as our. right let's bring you know to the swiss mountains on the world economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary stephen the notion of finding self-involved in a spot with a teenager eco activists gratitude and burke the u.s. finance chief said the 17 year old should study economics in college before lecturing world leaders about climate change 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 $1.00 degree carbon budget and on going fossil fuel subsidies and vestments done it up with steve is not the 1st u.s. official that gratitude and berghaus clashed with of late back in december donald trump suggested the activists should work in iran government problem there are differences on this continued with climate change dominating much of the scotian of 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 swiss 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 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. story one year ago i came to divorce and told you that our house is on fire. i said i wanted you to panic who 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 sea of well all i need is some good news to 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. calm down. i'm in and out is not the life of the party but he's just a kid it seems in the area where trump and grettir can see. today i'm pleased to announce the united states will join one trillion trees that initiative being large here at the world economic forum one trillion truths 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 answers we'll be hearing about it but we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible with say. on you. be in case you missed a team trying to make sense of it all ok still to come on the program a 1000000 mom march in. the u.s. military presence in iraq. and plenty more.

the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval the deal feudalism is clear as day.

20 minutes into the program let's start again in the mideast where thousands protested on friday in the iraqi capital calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the demonstration called the 1000000 mom march was set off by an iraqi shia cleric or for washington is playing don the release highlighting its friendship with the country. they like what we're doing here we like them and we've had a very good relationship the mission is much wanted by the iraqi military in both 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 and iraq we believe should in must cover the entire gamut of our relationship well the tense situation in region really has escalated since the u.s. killing of iran's top general and a senior iraqi militia leader in a drone strike near baghdad international airport at the beginning of january following the assassinations iraq passed a resolution to expel foreign troops from the country but that still needs to be ratified by the prime minister the u.s. president has rejected the move on war and sanctions would be imposed if goes ahead with the military expulsion. of. russia became the hot topic of the continuing democrats' impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday heise all head of the house stands excuse me adam schiff mentioned the partly all important world in his opening speech more than once take a look russian intelligence services russian expansionism 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. there you go while the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to a bomb filming a sketch artist inside captured the atmosphere in the chamber some of the pictures showed members having trouble staying involved in the process stretching their legs doodling even sleeping senators also faced a 12 hour no phone policy while their desks. we spoke to journalist and political commentator chadwick he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment are bored with the russian or it. the democratic party has 100 percent of their energy and their time into trying to remove

a duly elected president from office their biggest hoax russia so completely flat and even their strongest that were everything they thought of the president a 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 had people oh see the 7 times at last count referred to russia or putin is the impeachment proceedings i don't know they trying to tie up the loose ends of this narrative are they just trying to connect all of these threads that they've everything they've sort of thrown at the wall to the exist to the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money every day that didn't stick waste of everyone's time. the whistleblower who exposed the extensive u.s. surveillance programs around the globe edward snowden has given an interview to the

former president of ecuador rafael correa washington is seeking to charge snowden with espionage and theft of government property while the former government contractor himself has said he would leak the information again and not he'd be willing to face trial if he could tell the truth and he needs in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of astonishing yourself nowadays we can say that the mainstream media has changed its tune 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 because while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a massive scale they have in a few exceptional circumstances. they have thought well. how can we get the media to support our narrative how can we get them to support

our perspectives and i think this is what people miss against the distinction between the more reality and the legality of 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 charged under a law that could land you the death penalty this is why i say there is no fair trial that's provided under the espionage act and despite the craziness of this law i have argued to the united states government i have said i will return and volunteer myself for trial on a single condition which is that i get to tell the jury why i did what i did and the government has refused instead they sent me back

a letter signed by the attorney general that says well we promise not to torture you when we see the failures in the system it is incumbent on us to do something about even in small small ways you know people make this big question for me because of course i have so many critics i have so many supporters who are hero or traitor or hero or traitor which one are you and i say i'm neither i'm a citizen there are no heroes i'm just an ordinary person who did something unusual or do i think you're a hero if you did something really brave but no no this isn't really i don't we really and i think this is better when we say things like you know i'm not a hero. i'm saying that in the context of there are no heroes there are only horowitz choices in many sattar just a fish i'd like to ask you would you do it all over again. i would definitely do it again. i have to say it's unexpected because i have

paid a real price i can't return home when i'm in a country that's not one not of my choosing. and what i'm actually. more satisfied and more connected in the work that i did 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 said that i would do it again is that when somebody asked me what are you going to do about it i have my answer. and this is the thing that i think all young people need to hear when we're living in a truly historic time where everything is changing. when someone asks you what are you going to do about of the answer is everything that can. be coronavirus explained and explored next with regards as to what it will mean for the economy of

the world's most populous nation stay close to him bust it right ahead. trade and investment to become magic spells to come to you cannot make development . most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the investment chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but what when investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all ruins the environment. that means that 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 now multinationals are taking on the whole nation philip morris is trying to use i.d.s.

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