pension reform measures. to his comments. from the u.k. national health service is. life changing drugs to youngsters. leaving to explain why this case is unique. to consent to an experiment. and. if we. fix it with what's going to happen to the.

push for diversity investment. company the outcome of the fix is going to happen to. push for diversity and. help companies. around the clock across the world this is our t international from the team myself you know me a hello and a very warm welcome to the program. mass protests are once again gripping fronts over controversial pension reform plans marking the largest shutdown of infrastructure in decades in the country earlier in the day president. of the proposed changes to his cabinet or to charlotte given ski's been following

developments for us. 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 tone to 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 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 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 you 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 work is 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 oni's and their defiance against this new law.

the u.k.'s national health service is facing a 1st of its kind a legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers and cross sex hormone drugs one claimant is 23 year old curable who was previously treated by the gender identity development service she regrets making irreversible changes and said no child should go through as she sees it the experimental torture she did shoddy edwards dashti house 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 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 in this case 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 have to worry that medical professionals have also voiced concerns even accusing the specialist clinic for charles gentle children of suppressing negative results while undertaking experimental treatment on a. essence what i found using some unpublished data as i discovered from the tavistock today is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers are there were some quite pronounced negatives. 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 likely increased statistically significant increase in their thoughts about 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 it's up more than 5000 percent with referrals that's a record high it suggests cases of the transitional 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 the stress 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 the report by shadi edwards daschle will form a psychiatric nurse susan evans who worked out the development service and indeed

was the original lead claimant in the case told r.t. the drugs being administered aren't licensed in the u.k. for uses gender identity minister. the reason this is as if 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 and in full consent if we also don't know the outcome of the full side effects of what's going to happen to them you know it's not in fulton 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 thing called trip cowshed shiva to which is when they develop too fast into

cuties children but in your area gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. by 10 or for a story stirring up the business world investment bank goldman sachs a's it's going to stop helping startup companies who lack diversity in their boardrooms go public in europe on the united states we realize that this is a small step but it's a step in the direction of saying you know what we think this is right with it's the right advice and want to position also because of our network to help our clients if they need help placing women on boards and so this is an example of are saying how can we do something that we think you know is right now move the market that these political correctness culture may just kill me just have the best people possible on the board no matter what the race or gender i'm tired of people get in positions of power just so things can be diversified. this is

dangerous foolish and moronic goldman sachs' tokenism is unproductive for diversity no one should attain a position of power based on an arbitrary characteristic positions of power need to be based on performance having token women minorities on boards to meet quoters isn't diversity the better solution is to get more women minorities into college and graduate m.b.a. schools so they can filter into those positions on their merit. well diversity is the buzz word across a wide range of social spheres of the moment with particular criticism aimed at the oscars and the buff does in the u.k. for lucking representation arts award ceremonies the debate has also hit tech giant google whose hiring practices have been slammed for feeling to better accommodate my dorothy's spiked magazines look at get us believes the banks diversity drive

will actually backfire on them. well it's a matter now you know goldman sachs have made this announcement a time when you know they are part of a major bidding process to be part of the saudi arabian oil conglomerate arm co's i.p.o. i don't think that board is going to be particularly diverse and for their business reasons they've actually excluded this policy from all of asia because they know that most chinese japanese most companies across asia will not have diverse boards so i think it's completely hypocritical completely banal completely pointless and i think they're actually instantly patronize ing to the women who do make their way up through these companies and on to these boards independently inevitably goldman sachs's announcement will now mean the allegations of tokenism will simply go up you know the idea will be that you can't get you can't be taken public if you don't have a woman on your board so anyone now from these companies any woman who receives

a place on that board based on merit well be forced to believe that it's merely because the way the company wants to go public i think it's wrong. a 16 year old girl in front's has received death threats for criticising islam online miller from lille posted several videos on instagram expressing her views she says she was responding to homophobic and racist abuse from muslims police have since told her to go into hiding under investigating the case. the viral posting spread on social media networks of a video posted by a young girl expressing during a personal discussion viral and horsetail comments about the muslim religion has provoked a multiplication of reactions to in the form of death threats and threats to commit crimes on the list cases receive wide attention with some french politicians voicing their support. the speech of this young girl is the voice description of charlus caricatures no more no less who can find the volga but we cannot accept

that some people condemn her to death for that in france in the 21st century let us support me look a 16 year old high school student insulted and threatened with death by thousands of fanatics for having given her opinion on islam. well we got some reaction to the story from must sued sure giora chair of the islamic human rights commission in the u.k. under walker a columnist for the new york observer. my concern is that time and time again we're seeing blasphemy laws reinstituted across europe remember back in the middle ages europe was plagued by blustery laws inflicted by the christian community and i think that we've got a lot better as a society since a disappeared against blasphemy law blasphemy is something a very christian sort of centric. and it's got no room in between islam in the slum we actually in carriage any sort of criticism the idea that insulting

the prophet mohammed should be something you should die for is completely unacceptable and always remember you or it got better when we walked away from these blasphemy rules ourselves and i think it would be great if the islamic world was to follow that example although you know at least i don't know i don't know i don't know why you keep on. blasphemy laws no one is actually talking about bringing in blasphemy laws we are saying that you should not be able to abuse muslims under the pretense that this is. well look what you've just laid out it should be it should be patent to be abusive towards islam even if that stress to pursue congratulations you're describing a blasphemy law and that is something that we need to get away from let's sit down around the cup of tea let us criticize one another's belief but respect one another and i don't see why this should be a confusing for anyone but there is

a problem with fundamentalism in our society and most of the fundamentalists of muslims they're not all muslims but most of them are eastern attempt to say that in practice you can't criticize a sob you cults insult the prophet muhammad you can. be critical of the views that he expressed that is something that is dangerous for our society i'm not saying that you can criticize islam and say go ahead no problem let's get together or a cup of tea you can criticize the wonders you want and i will this cause of that you but also i mean the fact of the mother is that we need to recognize that freedom of speech is something that we all these are here to. a diplomatic row is brewing between the u.s. and britain after washington refused an extradition request for the wife of an american intelligence officer who's been charged in the death of teenager hari don't or he was killed in a road traffic accident near a u.s. base in the u.k.

last summer. at the time the accident occurred and for generation of his stay in the u.k. the u.s. citizen driver in this case had to mean is he from criminal jurisdiction if the united states were to grant the u.k.'s extradition request it would set an extraordinary troubling precedent i called the u.s. ambassador to express the government's disappointment about this decision we feel this amounts to a denial of justice and we believe i'm so cool as should return to the u.k. we are now urgently considering our options just to remind you of both the case in august the 19 year old hoary riding a motorcycle died in a head on crash outside a us military base in northampton sure in england the driver was on cyclists the wife of an american intelligence officer who worked there she was officially charged with his death in december but how to ready claim diplomatic immunity and fled the u.k. months earlier after all this was charged her lawyer said she would not return

to the you can describe hari dunn's death as a terrible but on intentional accident we heard from a lawyer for the down on the. we are in presidential waters as far as we're aware this is never happened before this is the 1st time the united states of refused an extradition request from the u.k. in the long history of the extradition treaty to say that it would set a trap troubling precedent if she were to retire the family would simply argue that to allow somebody who's accused of a very serious crime in a country so he bade justice that is what would be studying a troubled person framework was brought in 1960 is to protect diplomats who are opposed 'd to all its countries and to keep them safe for instance if they were killed by

a lawless regime it is not intended and that that the vienna convention makes it absolutely clear that if you commit a crime in any country that you stay in your host country and face the consequences this is actually just a request will for every where as 'd we know the president trump and michael kay will not be around forever and if necessary despondently who i represent little how please. wait patiently until the next administration comes along who perhaps believes in the whole be the rule of law a little more than this one and it's one step along the road but i can assure your viewers tonight that we are more competent than ever that answer to this will be coming back to place just as the new terror. missions protested on friday in the iraqi capital calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the demonstration label of 8000000 mom march was set up by an iraqi shia cleric over washington is playing down the

rallies highlighting its friendship. they like what we're doing in 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 economies are issues. with us both the united states and iraq we believe should cover. over our relationship all the tense situation in the region has escalated since the us killing of iran's top general and a senior iraqi militia leader in a drone strike near baghdad international airport at the beginning of this year following the assassinations iraq passed a resolution to expel foreign troops from the country but still needs to be ratified by prime minister the us president has rejected the move and warned sanctions would be imposed if it goes ahead with the military culture based

journalist mohamed flight thinks the u.s. tried to find any state in iraq until the resolution is finally out of. the u.s. is trying to avoid. the. this political official political. popular decision to expel us forces from iraq by saying such as my pompei of sector of sate has said that. this is not an official decision by the parliament considering that there are some members of the parliament who are refused the expulsion of the u.s. forces the u.s. delegate to syria james jeffrey has also today. this decision as not official one as well by department since the u.s. administration only deals with the with the iraqi government thus the u.s. is trying to avoid. to take responsibility.

of their actions and have the same time they are trying to avoid this mass anger against what they have done. very interesting part of the interview coming up the whistleblower who exposed extensive u.s. surveillance programs around the world edward snowden has given an interview to the former president of ecuador rafael correa washington is seeking to charge children with espionage and theft of government property while the former government contractor has said he would leak the information all over again and not he'd been 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 said there is no fair trial that's provided on the espionage act and despite the craziness of this law i have argued to the united states government i have said i will return and volunteer myself for trial on a single condition which is that i get to tell the jury why i did what i did and the government has refused instead they sent me back a letter signed by the attorney general that says well we promise not to torture you when we see the failures in the system it is incumbent on us to do something about even in small small ways you know people make this big question for me because of course i have somebody's critics i have so many supporters who are hero or traitor or hero or traitor which one are you and i say i'm neither i'm a citizen there are no heroes i'm just an ordinary person who did something unusual or do i think you're a hero if you did something really brave but no no this isn't here we have on 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 horrible 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 but i'm actually. more satisfied and more connected in the work that i do today than the work that i did before the thing that i'm most proud of. and the thing that gives me the. confidence to say that i would do it again is that when somebody asked me what do you 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 it the answer is everything that i can. ok a reminder for all of your very latest global news updates our twitter pages you more than covered you join me again in just over 30 minutes. that was. that last night i. took a little nobody but it's going to look good with a. guy 7 7 7 that was up.

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have 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 soar to ns and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called in a. glowing welcome to cross doctor all things considered i'm peter lavelle many call the impeachment trial of donald trump in the u.s.

senate a political show well if it is it's not very intervening 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. ross talking impeachment trial i'm joined by my guess men in orlando he's a socialist activist and political commentator in greenwich we have tom perelli he is a america's voice news contributor as well as executive advisor to cloud hub and in personal we cross the ned ryan he is founder and c.e.o. of american majority as well as author of the new book restoring our republic right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate tom let me go to you 1st in greenwich here i mean one of the things watching this entire saga which is unwatchable i have to tell you and my guess and our viewers that this is the 1st major political event i refused to watch

because it's on.