iran's fars news agency says its international website has been blocked on orders of the us treasury also had this out. hundreds of thousands of people rally in paris against pension reforms the measures passed another stage on friday after president obama presented them to his cabinet . a national health service is being sued for prescribing life changing drugs to youngsters to alter their gender a leading claimant explains why this case is unique. looking at whether young children. to consent to an experimental treatment can be i

mean full 3 seconds if we didn't so don't know the outcomes the full side effects of what was going to happen to the. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm trying times certainly but it's. an iranian news outlet has apparently fallen foul of u.s. sanctions fars news agency says its international website has been taken down amid an increasingly hostile relationship between the 2 countries such as killer mom and has. it appears that the most popular news outlet in the islamic republic of iran has been removed from the internet by the u.s. treasury as we hear fars news has put this on their twitter take a listen. 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 has argued the agency to the sdn specially designated nationals list if you visit the website fars news dot com it is unavailable the web page does not load now it's important to note there is a website fars news dot i r that i are standing for islamic republic that has just been created but that is only in farsi the language of iran not other languages even though far as news generally publishes in different languages those are not available fars news calls itself an independent news source generally it has been labelled by western media outlets as being a mouthpiece for the iranian government it's one of the primary sources for breaking news within the borders of the islamic republic the fact that it has been taken down and does not appear to have its website up and is blaming this on the us treasury seems to fit it on standing a long standing pattern for example earlier this month press t.v.

the english language t.v. network based in the islamic republic of iran was removed from you tube however google backed down from that decision but regardless that was a moment where we saw a news outlet from iran have its access to the internet and social media cut off or tampered with now we can recall in recent months the escalation between the 2 countries qassam solomonic the top iranian general was killed in a u.s. airstrike near baghdad the iraqi capital and then we saw iran respond with a barrage of missiles directed at u.s. bases in iraq this feud between the leaders of the usa and the islamic republic of iran wasn't even put on hold during the whole accost commemorations 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 to do. as the holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe israel off the map against the islam

of republic of iran. now sanctions have been imposed on the islamic republic by the united states and there has been constant threats of military action and it seems that this effort to silence news agencies and remove them from social media and from the internet itself fits into a longstanding pattern of efforts by leaders of the united states to covertly undermine the islamic republic of iran a strategic analyst a gregory com plea told us information warfare is becoming a major part of the iran u.s. standoff. the reality is that the great proportion of the war between iran and the united states and iran and other countries is informational information dominance is the key to success and the us has immense powers in this regard because it does and can control a lot of the internet sourcing and therefore the ability of. agencies around it to use the internet we're seeing news being increasingly manipulated

a either willingly or unwillingly look at the domestic us situation right now where the majority of the news outlets being manipulated by one political side of the spectrum so you don't have a free press anywhere in reality having the freedom to distort begs the question as to how valid the free press is and it also raises the issue of how the internet itself through blogs through twitter and so on is used to counterbalance what should be a free and fair press. mass protests are again gripping france over sweeping changes to the pension system on friday president micron presented the reforms to his cabinet archies devinsky has the latest. 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 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 poor to the end 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 then he 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. the u.k. national health service is facing legal action for prescribing puberty blocking hormones to children as young as $91.00 claimant is 23 year old cura bell who was

previously treated by gender identity development service she now regrets making irreversible changes and says no child should be subjected to such procedures artie's edwards daschle report. 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 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 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. the essence what i found using some unpublished data as i discovered from the tavistock clinic is that after 12 months blockers they were sent quite pronounced negative but 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 slightly increased but statistically significant increase in their thoughts about our suicide so these are all quite negative findings but these are not being published by the. 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 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 young ages may not truly be clear to much later in their lives. former psychiatric nurse susan evans who worked at the development service and was the original lead claimant in the case of told r.t. that the drugs being administered are not licensed in the u.k. for use as gender identity medicine. the reason this is a sort of unique case is because it's never been taken in law so with 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 kosha shiva to which is when they develop too fast into cuties children but in the areas gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. investment bank goldman sachs has said that it will stop helping start up companies who lack of 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 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 counter 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. this follows a recent global media storm over the lack of diversity at film awards ceremonies including the asker's and the bafta as the debate has also hit tech giant google with its hiring practices under scrutiny spiked magazines look good toes believe goldman sachs diversity drive could actually backfire on them. well it's a mad announcement 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 of those 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 ing to 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 merely because the way the company wants to go public i think it's wrong. the so-called 1000000 man march has been held in iraq against the us military presence the story much much of government. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be. the 2 going to be close this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. friendship. and we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from aging we call these longevity genes and there's a set of genes that we work on in my lab at harvard called the sort to and and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 18. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as

a deal feudalism it's clear as day. the diplomatic route is brewing between the u.s. and britain and washington has refused an extradition request for an american intelligence officers wife charged over the death of teenager harry done harry was hit by a car 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 drive in this case had to munity from criminal jurisdiction if the united states were to grant the u.k. 6 additional crust it would set an extraordinary troubling precedent. i called the u.s. ambassador pressed the government's disappointments 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 reminder of the case in august 1000

year old harry dunn riding a motorcycle died head on crash outside a u.s. military base in north hampton sure in england the driver was and cyclists the wife of an american intelligence officer working there she has admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road she was officially charged with his death in december but had already claimed diplomatic immunity and fled from the u.k. to the u.s. . after answer kulis was charged her lawyers said that she would not return to the u.k. and describe harry dunn's death as a terrible but unintentional accident we heard from a lawyer for the don family. we are in precedented 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 return or 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 said they truly 'd person framework was brought in in the 1960 s. to protect diplomats who were 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 the vienna 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 'd we know that president trump and michael klare will not be around forever and if necessary this family who i represent little happily. wait patiently until the next administration comes along who perhaps believes in the whole of the 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 the place just as the new terror. thousands protested on friday in the iraqi capital calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country demonstration labeled of the 1000000 man march was set up by an iraqi shia cleric however washington is playing it down and 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 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 any conversations that the iraqis want to have with us about the united states and iraq we believe should and must cover the entire gamut of our relationship. the tense situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of a one star 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 president has rejected the move and warned sanctions would be imposed if baghdad goes ahead with the military expulsion based journalist mohammed create thinks the u.s. will try to find any loophole to stay in iraq until the resolution is finally ratified. 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 explosion of the u.s. forces the u.s.

delegate to syria james jeffrey has also today. this decision is not an official one as well why the parliament since the u.s. administration only deals with the with the iraqi government does 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. and as a whistleblower edward snowden sat down for an interview with the former president of ecuador of your career snowden claimed asylum in russia back in 2013 and is still wanted by the u.s. on espionage charges he told korea that he would return it to the u.s. if he believed he would get a fair trial. i mean in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of astonishing yourself nowadays we can say that the mainstream media has changed its

tune but they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans but for 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 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 somebody 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

because i think you're a hero you did something really brave but no no this isn't family 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 to be there for him and he sat or 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. but i'm actually. more satisfied and more connected in the work that i do 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 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. and when someone asks you what are you going to do about it the answer is everything that i can what is at the top the hour this is our international. you know world of big partisan movies and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. operations understand that a cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes staffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or 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. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken by a bit with free money and the result will be medieval as a deal feudalism is clear as day.

in the us lead. keep the slime to you or some new the focus on the few stories. you want. to see in the prison for the most good movie the. ruble. you only know. more. about it at once shame on them. you know what. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida

you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in healing this is 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. i am shocked shocked as far off society we feel. we don't know just from. the end of this trial unfortunately you too will still not know all children.