fars news agency international website has been blocked to all the orders of the us treasury also ahead this hour. hundreds of thousands of people in part against pension reforms the measures other stage on friday after president presented to his cabinet. the u.k.'s national health service is being sued for prescribing life changing drugs to youngsters to alter their gender a leading claimant explained why this case is unique. young

children. consent to an experimental treatment can be and he can say if we know the outcome of the full side effects of what's going to happen to them. live from our international new center this is art seen from the team and myself you know. an iranian news outlet has a partly fall and fall of the us sanctions the fars news agency international website has been taken down amid on the increasingly hostile relationship between the 2 countries. bricked on what we know so far about this if you will. well the most

popular news agency in iran fars news seems to have been kicked off the internet by the u.s. department of treasury now the website seems to be down and we don't have an official statement from the u.s. department of treasury however this is what fars news said on twitter the photos news dot com websites is being blocked on u.s. treasuries orders and emails sent to followers newsagency by the provider clearly stated that the treasury's office of foreign assets control as i did the agency to the sdn specially designated nationals list. now if you go on to the internet and type in fars news dot com nothing will come up the website appears to have been removed and now it is important to note that there is now a web site that has been launched with fars news dot i r for islamic republic and that can be freely accessed but that website is only available in farsi in the iranian language and the agency's twitter feed is still

active we do see that now fars news is a news agency in iran describes itself as an independent news agency it is frequently accused by western countries and western media of being a government mouthpiece and it is one of the most up to date sources for breaking news taking place within the islamic republic of iran now the trend of you know removing outlets from iran from the internet and from social media is longstanding we recently saw press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in the islamic republic of iran kicked off of you tube they were blocked from you tube however google back tracked their decision and they were restored and this seems to be part of the efforts by the united states to launch maximum pressure against the iranian government now you know we can all remember how the u.s. they assassinated iran's top general qassam solomonic in a drone strike near the iraqi capital of baghdad furthermore we can recall iran

hitting back with their bombardment of u.s. bases in iraq with missiles and the feud between the united states and its leadership and the islamic republic didn't even go on halt as whole acoss commemorations took place in jerusalem take a listen. we must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of anti-semitism. against the one government in the world that denies the holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe israel off the map against the islam ik. republic of iran. so it seems that the internet social media in the silencing of news outlets is yet another front in u.s. led efforts to covertly undermine the islamic republic of iran however it seems that many iranian news outlets are still online and questions are being

raised will be waiting to hear exactly from the u.s. department of treasury about how much they had to do with this but at the moment fars news says this came from the white house very much a developing story and bring us right up to date on thank you investigative reporter dave lindorff gave us his reaction to the blocking of the cars and side i noticed that they didn't i played around and they did not keep in the floors. for snoozed. inside iran and so i mean that would be i think closer to an act of war because it would be dealing with the country's internal. news organization you know i'm surprised it happened just because i wasn't hearing people talking about it ahead of time. but fact that it happened it's not surprising the u.s. has you know is confronting iran in a lot of ways and you know they're talking about cyber war and this is a this is

a cyber war action really. protests are once again gripping fronts over a controversial pension reform plans marking the largest shutdown of infrastructure in decades in the country on friday president on monday will mccrum up the proposed changes to his cabinet are to charlotte dubinsky has been following developments. 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

because towards the national assembly where it's due to be debated in february and we know that the strikers why 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 shoe 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 protesters who 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 knocks like it's being more directed a mood targeted on 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 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 any and their defiance against this new law. the u.k.'s national health service is facing a 1st of its kind legal bar for overprescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers and cross sex hormone drugs one claimant has 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 a she sees it the experimental torture she did the edwards daschle house more.

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 had 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 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 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 claim it's a calling for an urgent reassessment of the procedure what is challenged is the current and continuing practice of the defendant to prescribe puberty suppressing hormone blockers and then subsequently 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 at. essence what i found using some unpublished data as i discovered

from the tavistock clinic 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 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 to that there is no data to reflect the number 4 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 young ages may not truly be clear to much later in their lives shadier edwards dusty with the reports well former psychiatric nurse susan evans who worked down the development service on and it 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 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 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 full did 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 track potions chiva t. which is when they develop to fast into cuties children but in your area gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. all right let's bring you know a story stirring up the business world investment bank goldman sachs ses it's going to stop helping start up companies who lack diversity in their boardrooms to go public in europe and 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 we think it's the right advice and we're in a position also because of our network to help our clients if they need help placing women on boards and so this is an example our 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 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 quotas 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 merits. i'm sure you're aware diversity is the buzz word across a wide range of social spheres at the moment with particular criticism aimed at the oscars in the buff as in the u.k. for lacking representation at awards ceremonies the debate has also hit tech giant google and his hiring practices have been slammed for failing to better accommodate minorities spiked magazines look at 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 close 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 that actually instantly patronize into the women who do make their way up through these companies and on to these boards independently inevitably goldman sachs is 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 nell from these companies any woman who receives a place on that board based on merit will be forced to believe that it's me because the way the company wants to go public i think it's wrong. still to come on the field rather than march in baghdad against a u.s. military presence in iraq we don't why it's happening after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the

world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. let's go to the financial survival today with money laundering 1st to visit this cash in the 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something over the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in their kleptocracy you just have to call and say to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacey old beautiful jewelry and how about. again for a match you know what money laundering is highly. much keyser. 1000

minutes into the program welcome back a diplomatic route was brewing between the u.s. and britain after washington refused an extradition request for the wife of an american intelligence officer has been charged in the death of teenager hari party 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 foods duration of his stay in the u.k. the u.s. citizen driver in this case how demean 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 in august 19 year old hari riding a motorcycle died in a head on crash outside a us military base in england the driver it was a cool list the wife of an american intelligence officer working there she was officially charged with his death in the same bar but have already claimed diplomatic immunity inflate the u.k. months earlier well after all this was charged her lawyers said she would not return to the u.k. and the scribe hari dunn's death was a terrible but all intentional acts and we heard from a lawyer for the dunn family. we are in presidential waters as far as we're aware this is never happened before this is the 1st time the united states that refused an extradition request from the u.k. in the long history of the extradition treaty to say that it would set a truckler 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 'd person framework was brought in 1960 is to protect diplomats who are opposed to hotspot countries and to keep them safe for instance if they were killed by a lawless regime it is not intended and that that would be a convention makes it absolutely clear that if you commit a crime in a country that you stay in your host country and face the consequences this is actually just a request and will hang around for ever whereas we know the president trump and michael kay will not be around forever and if necessary despondently who i represent will happily. wait patiently until the next administration comes along who perhaps believes in up will 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 have or that answer to this will be coming back to the place just as the u.k. . phone isn't as protested on friday and they are rocking count on calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the demonstration and 1000000 man march will settle find a rocky shift eric or for washington is playing down the rallies highlighting its friendship with the country. 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 and by you 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 conversation 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 let tense situation in the region has escalated since the us killing of iran's top general on

a senior iraqi militia leader in a drone strike near baghdad international airport at the beginning of the year 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 us president has rejected the move and warned sanctions would be imposed if baghdad goes ahead with the military expulsion beirut based journalist mohamed plight thinks the u.s. will try to find any loophole to stay in iraq until the resolution is finally ratify it. the u.s. is trying to avoid. the. this political official political and this 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

an official one as well by the parliament 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 there are trying to avoid this mass anger against what they have done. the whistleblower who expose 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 unfair ft of government property well the former government contractor has said he would leak the information again and that eads being willing to face trial if he could tell the truth and we need in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of

a standard yourself nowadays we can see that the mainstream media has changes to what they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans but for everyone else why they know it gets you both while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a mass scale they have in a few exceptions circumstance and. 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 tried 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 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 your hero you did something really brave but no no this isn't silly i don't we were 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. about 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 are you can 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. what someone she was going to do about it the answer is everything that i can. you know very interesting set on not that is your loss for this new star but our programs are just around the corner they start in a minute or 2 live from moscow this is our national so you soon. you

could look. 7 7 7 how they. were going to fulfill the repeated promises possible to the people come on you know we've all but it was. really really. pretty good. if you want to. know.

for. the cut. i can link up my ya. feel lila we'll leave we'll. feel . we'll.

feel. we'll.