the moon the, the terrors playing behind bars r t investigates the growing cases of transgender identify convex, working the system to get placed in female jails on the subsequent rise. and that's x and women. prisoners, in the 1st part of our in depth series, we hear from an activist group striving to make silent voices credit or will do anything to get access to their victim. the o longer boils on the streets of from so renew the cobra measures making it mandatory to show a health path to access restaurants, hotels, and even to see doctors on the relentless march of wildfire

continue to rick the destruction in eastern russia and cloak cities, and dense smoke or corresponding joined a fire fighting unit in the region to see the scale of the devastation close in order to totally think you will need to because we're not running on the surface. there turning on the ground. ah, wherever you're counting the program from today. welcome to moscow into the news our on our team. today, our t launch is a special project. we're looking at the issue of transgender come fix, abusing women prisoners, or correspondence. southgate taylor has been investigating a rising number of such cases, which has been done by women's rights activists as a partial. oh,

in, in fans over where to house sex change, prisoners are particularly high in california with are being numerous complaints from inmates there being a number of recent cases that might explain that worries me ah, they get in a full erection to lock them. this room 247 with the man. and there is nothing you can do about it. the nobody cares about us. we ain't danger here. we're never love males with full mail

and that to me, sharon showers with us in a group shower room. yet now men can share our showers. me the proven sexual, tried to, to haven't committed multiple crimes against women yet. the state of washington had no problem moving him into women's facility. ah, we asked us prison authorities to comment on the allegations on what exactly the policies are when it comes to trans. john to inmates what call to let you know when they get back to us earlier, i had the chance to speak to penny nuns, who is the ceo and president of the concerned women for america activist group. now she's worried to some male inmates might change the gender identity, sympathy, so as to take advantage of incarcerated women. issue before us right now is whether

or not women who are incarcerated women who have no choice for being in prison and how long they're there. have no rights are being protected against biological men. we can see the biological disparities, the size, the strength of men versus women. this is changing in our country and which now men who simply identifies women. they don't have to take any surgical measures in the state of california and other states when someone simply identifies as a woman in that predators are willing to say anything to get access to women and to hurt them further. i recently read a statistic that said in the united states, about 80 percent of women who incarcerated se at some point in their life they've already been sexually assaulted. these are women who are already very troubles. there's no excuse in which a person who is the biological male or about logically female,

should be victimized in prison. if the prison system would take the issue of safety more seriously than that, then that concern would be mess i. again, there's no excuse for allowing someone to be victimized in prison. there must be common sense met and used in dealing with people who are. they're locked away. they cannot leave and we must take measures to keep them say cases of the legit abuse of women by tons to the people in jail have left some incense in light of a controversial bill passed in california at the start of the year. the law that's trans inmates request to transfer to facilities, but align with that gender identity effectively allowing male prisoners to move to female jails. since the laws passed around $300.00 such requests have already been submitted. and as of june this year, none have been rejected by your forty's. california is the latest us state of

adopted. such legislation, similar in may housing policies also exist in connecticut, new york city, massachusetts, and new jersey and women's rights groups are alarmed that all the parts of the country might follow suit. the definition of transgender is dangerously inclusive and california department of corrections and rehabilitation. these are basically heterosexual man, ruining the superintendency for the trans community to be safe, and now they have a bigger pool of potential victims. males cannot self declaring themselves out of maleness, the yes, shouldn't fall, kelly for you here into this horror. in the meantime though, i want to bring in now legal unless jennifer jamal found women's right advocate and political unless rece. addison always could top very few on the program. i'm trying to follow up with you. how do you view california? so $13.00 to many claim that it sets a heretic precedent for the country. do you agree?

i agree in the sense that the person in the law is. busy so actually broad and generic, you're not looking for any sort of justification or behind. you can really put other people in danger, while also insult the people who really do struggle with it by using something that they truly do have something that they truly do identify and have identified with the young age in order to fulfill something that's going to bring harm to others, we're putting these women at risk and it's unsafe if you're responsible in california. certainly old. the women that state better and they are failing miserably right now. do you think that there is a concern with ec stories like the ones that are merging, that they can do pretty irreparable damage to an entire transgender community. junior ripley began, and not only to the transgender community, to people who have have been going through their transgender, their, their changes, your di, legitimize them. you're actually going to start to demonize them by using them, and they are using them is going to commit violence against women are not only

harming the real transgender community. people are kicking, you're the, you're harming women, you're harmony, everybody else provide long time women, all this. he felt on hud. they felt forgotten about. they felt use they felt vulnerable, then they became empowered. and now suddenly it feels like a trend is going in the opposite direction. is that how it looks to you? there has been a drive to be the most possible inclusive in california, specifically. and here's where we're running into issues. we're not protecting women, we're not protecting those who were born women. and we have to understand that there is a distinction between those who identify as women and those who are genetically women. and that, that the harm can exist between those who are just attempting to present themselves as women, so that they can escape being housed with other men and been being a rooster in the henhouse. and basically whether they want to escape other harm

from other men or just come into the female presence and be a predator. we open the door to that and that's problematic. and, and because we're so, you know, in the effort of being so inclusive, we're not realizing the harm on the backend that is being caused. this is katie, such a complicated issue. so what's the solution here? is it single sex prisons because you know, when you read a lot, a lot of trans inmate say i didn't feel safe anyway. so how do we make sure that everyone does feel safe? yes, we have male prisons, we have female person. that's how it's good because we know that that works better, but maybe having other facilities for individuals that i identify it's trans, making sure there is better security for some of these people. i don't know, maybe even looking into their medical records, not just taking somebody from california. i'm going to said basically you can get a piece of paper and check a box and then be has a bunch of women that you can victim i. that's not ok. but there are ways that you can look into somebody's medical history and psychological record. that's what the

prison system is supposed to do, to verify what they think about their, their identity or their gender. guess what we need to do. i mean, we're doing that with everything else just to look into what somebody says, not just taking them at their word and make sure that there is some kind of verification for the r t as keeping close tabs on developments in this fair. and you can be sure that will be returning to this topic in future broadcasts. ah, anti corona virus measures are again being tightened in france with a set of new rules coming into force. this monday. i do are terraces and restaurants, hotels, long distance transport and even medical facilities will not require a cobit help pass for access. the plums had already sparked a wave of nationwide hunger several weeks ago, which has been simmering. ever since. the

law for moral misled cross live to paula slee, are not in paris polar. clearly, a lot of fury and frustration among citizens with these measures tickers threw out the new restrictions they will be dealing with well, from monday, people here in france need a health path. if they want to eat a restaurant or drink in a cafe and that's regardless of whether it's indoors or outdoors and health passes

also needed for intensity travel. so that will include, for example, domestic flights. and at the same time, high speed trains. it does not include using the metro or suburban transport, waiting now for some time you have needed the health path to access a cultural venue. so for example, if you want to go to the theater or museum or to the cinema, this latest extension of the use of the health path was decided and approved by the constitutional counsel last thursday. so what exactly constitutes a health path? well, it is either a jap certificate, a negative test that is valid for 48 hours, or a covert recovery certificate that is valid for 6 months. now as quickly said, there's growing anger here in france and estimate a quarter of a 1000000 people have taken to the streets over 4 consecutive weekends to protest against the covert health certificates. the protesters really have to complain. the

1st is that these health passes restrict their freedom, and secondly that the government is forcing them to be vaccinated. however, the constitutional court found that the french president emanuel macross, restrictions were proved last month by the parliament and by the government represent what a cause. a balanced trade off between public health concerns and personal freedoms . take listen to mac crohn can get into the question of citizenship because our freedom is indeed to be able to live an exercise choices. but it's worthless if in exercising our freedom we in fact our brother, our neighbor or friend, our parents, also when we meet at an event, does no longer about being free. it's about being irresponsible. i mean the whole now more than $20000.00 concerned, new covered cases are being recorded each day here, which are certainly a steep climb from what the figures were about

a month ago. policy or taken us through that from the french capital wildfires are continuing to ravage the far east of russia leaving a trail of ash and devastation in their wake. more than one and a half 1000000 hectares have been consumed by the flames over the past 3 months. and the fires left nearby cities blanketed in choking smoke, or correspondent dmitri polk reports from the very front line where some, 3000 people are bustling nature's fury. just arrived at the camp site where we're supposed to be saying, but apparently we might actually have to evacuate right now because the fire is already near the camp. the firefighters are trying to battle with right now, but as you can see behind it spreading really fast, like that tree just caught on fire and like less than a minute,

the fires spreading really quickly. there's the wind and still really dry. there's still been no rain and the the reason for a while for over a month me the thing if you really need people here now the fires cover a very large area. it's hard to keep the track. it's almost impossible. i don't know how we can manage that. that was the whole water with a hand pump like this. but this just, i being very primitive is one of the most effective things they have. right now we're going through a fire that we are still battling. it's taking a while, it's been way present hours since we got here. we're still battling the fire

me so basically go round around around the fire. soon as we see some flame hit him with some water. but some of these are actually routes on fire. and in order to fully extinguish them, you would need to go up because they're not burning on the surface. they're burning underground. me just finish battling one fire. and then literally like 2 minutes later there was another one just 20 meters to the left. and there's just not enough people right now in this camp to be dealing with all this effectively. thankfully this is

a bottom fire. so they call it, it's basically when the ground is burning, as opposed to a top fire, where the top of the trees is burning, which is the most dangerous thing there is. because if we pick that up, it's pretty much unstoppable difficulties. these guys are having is basically, there is not enough people and the equipment they have. well, i mean there's not that many ways to fight fire. basically with the use of the backpacks with 20 leaders in it. and they use that texting and a pump that backpack, and they use it to spray water on the fire. the other one is these shuttle where they got a trench, so the ground fire will stop. basically they get rid of all them off the grass, the branches, the leaves, everything that could be set on fire instantly. that's pretty much how these people have been battling all these fires for the past 4 months. the

the matri poke on the front line with those blazes, and indeed wildfires are plaguing a whole host of countries. right. not, i'm sure you've seen that one of the worst hit being greece. let's go through that example. locals joining the efforts of firefighters and attempting to be back the inferno. there are thousands of people including tourists, something evacuated from affected areas, homes, power lines have been destroyed. with more than $56000.00 hector said to have gone up in flames. in the past 10 days, smoke is also swept across nearby cities, including the capitol, athens, firefighters from the u. k. france, romania and switzerland have been sent to help taco the disaster. the olympic flame has been dosed in tokyo and passed on to paris. at the end of the pandemic, defying games for the past 3 weeks, the world's best stamping bottling. it ought to prove their sporting prowess. but some incidents taken the shine off those efforts for gold. daniel hawkins,

takes us through the tokyo olympics, were always going to be different. i mean, protest scandals in a raging pandemic that will leave or will only take place until the very last minute kept every one on their toes. new sports kept fans across the world, the riveted even the stance remained empty. but a lot of sides, it wasn't been you disciplines, stunning victories and world records that made headlines. politics and sport shouldn't mix goes the all the dash that was forgotten before the limbic flame even got to tokyo, deprived of flag and anthem, russian athletes will probably the most tested competitive, but became fair game for jobs bashing when stand offish. questions about doping, other russian olympic team athletes carrying a stigma, cheated in these games after the scandal. and how do you feel about it the 1st time in my life? i'm not going to answer a question. you should be embarrassed if itself,

i think you should. why are him from the olympics? i don't want to see him again for some indicating to boots even be seen in a po, so together with a russian athlete with ukraine's get us love him or who you set for an official dressing down for her appearance. athletes were present in ukraine. international competitions must understand that the russian ukrainian war is ongoing and ukraine . this imposes sudden restrictions and responsibilities immediately after her return. have an appointment scheduled with her. being a good sport, swiftly went out the fashion in favor of being a sore loser. dues. the i received some type plan, completely backfired. it certainly didn't keep the russians out, and it certainly didn't shame russia were putting, has used the band to pump up nationalistic pride as yes, you could say russian athletes had their own bones to pick with olympic judges. but

at least in swimming or rowing, when is undisputed when, but what goals goes to your rival who made an evident glaring error? well, questions are going to be honest with you, you sure. a blatant mistake and deliberate and justice that had been premeditated. a serious error committed by it is rarely assa, in no way prevented from winning go against politics. but this was just hopeful, and it's hard to explain it in any other way had these can be explained by the fact that russia has been winning for 20 years. and that it was important for someone to remove russia from the witness list. it was done in the most disgusting way. rob can. yes, of course it hurts. i'm glad they came 2nd, but it heard that it was unfair. it's not my 1st year in sports, and that's why you wouldn't get 1st, please. i hoped, and they believed until the very last, but the miracle didn't happen is not just the russian athletes who made headlines, but a russian sprinter, christina, to manascale, didn't when metal is in the women's 100 meters. but one global media attention amid

to stand off with coaches from a country the limpid committee, who powerfully tried to force her to return home. the coaches were swiftly removed from the village when all square offered a sign him in poland. and while admiration and praise are usually reserved for the win, is those who fight on against all odds. u. s. domestic star simone biles received accolades for the opposite. like tennis champion, mooney, or soccer did this summer boils again, made clear. sometimes it's okay. lot to be ok. yeah, i say put mental health 1st because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay. sometimes the even set out the big competition to focus on yourself whenever miles pulls on her leotard. it's as though she's tighten in a cape around her neck. she's the hero tasked with save in a solid sport embodying some tried believe in american dominance,

and also carry an agenda and an entire race. that's a heavy cape and it chokes. but it's one that exceptional black women and women of color are tall to wear because simply being great isn't good enough. aside from mental health also, and the agenda was athletes, clothes, while german gymnast we're allowed to wear units ours in a statement against sexualization and received widespread support. swimming caps for natural black hair with a band as unsuitable. and the appearance of laurel hubbards, the 1st openly transgender woman at the lympics, caused the bait again, lot because of performance. she came lost in her group, but simply because of her presence olympic history has had its conic bold political statements from berlin. 1936 to mexico city, 968th. and monterey owl, $976.00, just to name a few. the bad to those poco 2020 was pretty tame. what still? wouldn't it be nice if just for once the games embodied that true values just on

this story? sports columnist alan, we're a believes the real meaning of the ellipse has all but disappeared from the modern gate. these games will go down in history. lympics best killed of sports to quite large degree from involving politics from people basically being allowed to do whatever they wanted in abilities olympics were any testing of any sort. it just as a complete mass walker in peace is a nice way to pull this. i would also say that is the 1st phase calling because we have so much bad feelings about the boy. so news olympic swimmer is bad. charging weather is people breaking records on a year or 2 years ago. they were 10 seconds away from so i think that yeah, what will it be stupid, so a mess the see really dropped the ball the us

recently hit its self imposed debt ceiling. but that's not stopping democrats from pushing ahead with an infrastructure package costing a trillion dollars. the senate has even silenced the base on the legislation. on top of that, democrats are feeling bullish enough to ask for more of another spending package, totaling 3 and a half trillion. it will ultimately require helping to increase the debt ceiling. but republicans are having none of it. so unless they get more of a say in how the money spent if they don't need on our input, we are help with the deadline that increase that wrecked actually. as he's reckless planned, you will require, well, the debt ceiling limits the a month, the u. s. government can actually, oh, it was reinstated last week after a 2 year suspension. the figure was automatically recalc,

calibrate to equal the current debt at level, forcing the treasury at the end of at all to call up the government bill is now let's make sense of that because financial group, max kaiser, he's been watching events a little bit closer than i have, he sees the u. s. has no choice, it just has to keep on borrowing. b, u. s. economy, in conjunction with most of the west, is one enormous ponzi scheme, need fresh money to keep the ponzi scheme going. if you take the contact from, you understand that 0 percent interest rate and global that the g d p is over 300 percent and the ability to pay back any of these loans is berkeley darrow. you can understand why now the debt in the u. s. is going to start to become hyperbolic, and this is having an interesting corollary. and that is causing a real inflation because all that money printing attempting to tamp them is dead, which is causing people at the shops of the gas station. and notice that the price

of living is going up, precipitate this way, and this is causing a real, causing a real damage in america right now. i think they're going to get to the point where they've got to eliminate the idea of a stealing. and they're just simply going to say that we're going to engage and unlimited on encumbered money, printing, and debt creation. you can stop upon the game. there's only one way to this ends, and that is through a massive default. and because the us doesn't want to experience that there are simply going to print to infinity. so the us, the us dollar becomes like that as well and all of our or other hyper inflationary currencies. and that's what we're looking at right now in the u. s. and other countries, we just have to look at the usage of the dollar global. and you notice that in the last 20 years has come down every year. every 2 years has come down. russia has completely out of the us dollar. and this, that's them up to be in an interesting situation as you see more of cooperation

with china, russia, iraq, they don't want to be involved in the dollar because the us weaponized the dollar by sanctioning by interfering and swift, the global money transfer mechanism. and by playing politics and by getting in the way, so these countries that you know what we need our own system. so they're creating or on system like skies or know a deeper dive into that, or indeed any of this our stories as always, just a click away and r t dot com. hope you can join me again up the top after some more great program starting in moment. me ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics, sport, business and show business. i'll see you then. me the

who's i'm action because we're getting undergrad, exposing the corruption of the rich and powerful coming up in the show. who is the aggressor after israel allegedly attack syria, iraq and lebanon, britain and the u. s. accused run of terrorism. we speak to ca, whistlebury. geoffrey sterling, convicted, revealing time to time plot against iran, and the head of a t u in somebody's own food and it's so cool. decades of action. we are losing one of our 5 a day to corporate interest. when it comes to global food security, we speak to the woman who has both president of a bill gates, finance, food program, and envoy for you and secretary general. and when you get some more coming up and

today's going underground. but 1st, while israel arguably continues to define international law, accused of war crimes, major nation meet your birth. johnson's government is filing a response to iran for crimes. the islamic republic denies all this as x and they say drone whistleblower, daniel hale is sentenced 2 years in jail. the 1st major espionage act conviction in the us on the president joe biden. joining me now from st. louis in missouri is a ca, whistleblower convicted. the revealing u. s. dirty tricks against iran, jeffrey sterling, author of unwanted spy. jeffrey, thanks so much for coming back. oh, and i should just say before we get to daniel hale, we bar johnson. it's his word against the president raising runs the word about what happened in the gulf of mine in the, in the persian gulf. i mean, how, how much should we trust the authorities when they talk about iran, given your experience to see a jesse tricks against the country.