abolished slavery long ago. ah ah, twitter face is a barrage of accusations that it's doing. the u. s. government's bidding after the social media. john collaborated with a washington funded think tank into spending more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries for state back to propaganda. for the u. k. will college of midwives apologizes for calling mothers postnatal people in new guidance a form and a chest nurse told us a vocal minority has again been imposing its way of thinking. yet another example of stonewall and going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of that man based. and in a landmark ruling,

a woman born with a spinal defect, witness her case against the doctor who 20 years ago failed to advise mother, properly about conception. our guests debate the case because what i do now with medicine now in 20 years time, we made george my actions and the doctor has completely wrong. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, and i mean, this is a sensitive like, i wish i had never been born. ah, i the great have you company, thanks for joining me here on our t internet. social network, twitter is facing accusations of being in cahoots with the u. s. government that's after the tech. john suspended more than 3000 accounts of 6 countries, including china and russia, over alleged state sponsored information operations. twitter was acting in

partnership with the u. s. sponsored thinktank, the goal is to serve the public conversation and advance shared understanding of these critical issues. we have partnered with australian strategic policies to choose that providing independent analysis today is common knowledge that trusts in conventional media is falling. you know, when you ask someone where they get their news on late reply, i don't watch tv. i'll do my own research or get money's off social media. that's fair enough. that least with normal news, you tend to know who's sponsoring it, be it's a government or corporation. and you can make your own conclusions. but when you see who's behind an organization claiming to be independent and non partisan draft are in to help provide independent analysis to stop social media manipulation. well, anyone would have a few questions. it's not like the australian strategic policy institute hide the fact there, sponsored by the u. s. government or some of the biggest names in the military.

industrial complex. the long list is there for all to see is just when so much funding comes from the sources. one does wonder just how independent and balanced they can be. even former australian officials have concerns about the things thanks . output echoed by some current lawmakers. surely it's fair to subject aspect funding arrangements to scrutiny. sb receives core funding of $4000000000.00 from the department of defense. again, the thing thank makes no secret of its anti china stance and the list of works on their website. in fact, china is a key target of the organizations works from human rights in shin gan to chinese tech systems influence projects or this information in social media. many funded by the u. s. department of state and defense. their definition of independence may be malleable to say the least. an a s p, i are good at what they do,

at least for their defense, industry, sponsors. the numbers say it all since the thank was founded 20 years ago. weapons manufacturers have collected tens of billions of dollars in government contracts prior to the cobit pandemic. the organization hosted dozens of events, some bringing together key players in defense and politics. providing the opportunity for closed door discussions with government departments and agencies. the s p i is so heavily involved with foreign governments and political organizations. it's even registered with the australian governments. forward inputs transparency register. many were so pleased with the think tanks work. their funding to the organization has grown significantly year on year as have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director peter jennings. who is himself clear where the blame for increasing tensions lies. militarize himself, shawnasee g, posing china's authoritarian control in hong kong,

threatening far one and japan on a daily basis. china is the strategic problem in the region and back to the point. the thing thank is now partnered with the social media joint, helping to decide and coordinate what information users have access to. and what is sentences so much for an opponent, analysis and serving the public conversation, is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve? well twitter stress is that its goal is to ensure the integrity of public conversation. alessandra bruno an independent political unless says that there's more to it though, than that there is a climate of tension of geopolitical tension already surrounding that. so it's not surprising that twitter is very happy to comply to the you the, let's put at the u. s. mainstream or the deep state view. i'm not surprised at all

that they cooperating with an institute such as the australian, and that's not the only one there cooperating with the perhaps they chose those to appear independent, but they don't expect independent advice. they're looking for the kind of view that reflects ultimately the american view. how different is the trillion view from the american right now, considering that they have just joined our course. that institute is much more closely aligned to langley in virginia, where i'm located, that it is to twitter users wanting independent information in the u. k. the royal college of midwives. this said, sorry for removing the woods, woman and mother from his latest guidance instead using the term post natal people . they call that an oversight on the part former and he just knows who he spoke to . he says it's not the union's role. tell midwives what to think. people don't want to replace the words fairies, a very, very vocal minority, and

a very effective act to this group in stonewall who want to rewrite the rules by which we live. i don't know who they think they're appealing to because the person in front of the midwife is a biological woman. why the world college of midwives has chosen to adopt policies, advocated by stonewall, is a market for them to answer. but my point is that the general public does not support base midwife. students who take actually neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard. i mean, getting it very, very badly. a mother is a mother and the role of the midwife is to ensure the mother's safety and the baby safety, and that is the end of their role. they should not be involving themselves in this

sort of ridiculous political posturing. the midwives union withdrew the gender neutral guidance following an online backlash in the instructions. furniture stuff on how to put newborns to bed safely. they did not mention women to tool referring only to parents and cares. the gardens was supposed to be l g b t inclusive. that didn't go down well with everyone. how can you possibly rice about pregnancy and birth without mentioning women? that's deliberate, not an oversight. apparently the royal college, a midwife said midwives. nicole mothers, postnatal people, not mothers, all women, so tall. you ladies out there. you are a postnatal person, not a mother. i. right. how did the royal college of midwives forget about women? they are the sole reason you even exist. former any justness? rebecca butler said that's neither the general public nor transgender people

support the idea. people don't want to replace the word fairies, very, very vocal minority, and a very effective act. this group in stonewall who want to rewrite the rules by which we live. i don't know who they think they're appealing to because the person in front of the midwife is a biological woman. why the world college, a midwife has chosen to adopt policies, advocated by stonewall, is a matter for them to answer. but my point is that the general public does not support base midwives do not support it. actually, neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard, and it's getting it very, very badly. a mother is a mother on the role of the midwife,

is to ensure the mothers safety and the baby safety. and that is the end of their role. they should not be involving themselves in this sort of ridiculous political posturing. elsewhere that you can high course have said a legal precedence by ruling that doctor can be found liable for negligent preconception advice. this is after a 20 year old boy with a spine defect, successfully sued her mother's doctor for failing to recommend vital supplements. the judge found that evie tombs mother was not advised in accordance with the guns to take folic acid pride to conception. and for the 1st 12 weeks of pregnancy, amount awarded in compensation will be decided to delay to hearing and could be significant. his teams will require extensive care for the rest of her life, provided with the correct recommended advice she would have delayed attempts to conceive in the circumstances there would have been

a later conception which would have resulted in a normal healthy child. the doctrine question denies delegation, saying that he provided all the necessary instructions 20 years ago. we discuss what precedent the ruling says with our guests john gaunt. radio host and columnist and doctor dean agate, a general practitioner. this taste we're talking about was 20 years ago in year 2001 i think it was and around that sort of time we too would probably have been giving advice off. well, if your diet is rich and go to kathy, keep that up, keep doing it. you don't necessarily mean to supplement. so again, it's really hard to judge what happened back in 2001, based on the standard that we have today. can you really bring fun? you can, because it's up, but can you bring the case 20 years after so many port afford? i mean, this isn't for linda mind where somebody was given, you know, a tablet. it isn't that kind of situation in this scenario shows that you're going to have a much longer time in the future to very clearly document your advice we give. and

more importantly, actually the advice that we don't give. so it's kind of a significant plan to put our time one of the other big challenges and documentation. it's about how you are judged because of course, what i do now is medicine. now in 20 years time, we may judge my actions as a doctor as completely wrong because as time progresses and we learn more, our practice is progress. one of my worries would be for doctors that they would on the side of caution now and perhaps start recommending for other birth difficulties . maybe abortion i'm thinking particularly of down's syndrome babies when we do know that they these people can go on to lead. very successful lives as well, so have to be aligned somewhere, doesn't that because of course we recognize that and patients name certain details of medicine. it's our job to teach them. busy to bring them on that journey to get them on board so that we can make decisions to get to treat the problem. but if we're saying and all are common sense stuff to falls into the lap of the doctor to

have to deal with and say, well, come on, the doctors responsibility to tell you how to live your life. what to do. not only and they're responsible for prescribing, but also responsible for telling you how to live healthily and if you don't have healthy, that's the doctor's thoughts. and that's an impossible situation to doctors to work it. we do need perhaps now in the light this case, we need to put some safety guidelines in there goes to the patient and for the doctor. i mean, i do find it incredible that 20 years after this, the doctor is in this position with his whole life ruined. and i still of immense sympathy, obviously, for a lady involved as well. you know what, we're already in that position of jeopardy because that's exactly the situation we, dr. nevin at moment. for example, if i was to get the patients and advice today and the patient doesn't necessarily follow that advice, doesn't necessarily come back to see me again like i asked him to do. and then suddenly they developed a severe illness and they come back and see me and say, well, the doctor found it. my argument back would be, well,

you didn't come back to me like asked you to or you didn't do the things that i asked you to. nonetheless, i will have to go through the process. of course, i just think this is a really tragic case and i wish you had never come to court. i wish the evie had got the help and the assistance she needs. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, and i mean this in a sensitive way. i wish i had never been born the new omicron strain of cove. it has now been detected in $38.00 countries since, according to the world health organization, a recent report suggest the mutation is spreading twice as fast compared to the previous delta variant. meanwhile, south africa with new variant 1st emerged as sing wreck or daily cove infections. the low vaccination rate in the country started to pick up in recent days, jobs are widely available, but less than half the other population has yet been inoculated. people don't

know what this on the crown is, especially because sciences haven't confirmed conclusively. what the side effects are. so we are getting a lot of people coming through out of fear, especially in our older population. you know, people who are regent, 7 seas and 8 sees we see been quite anxious to get the booster. and so the, as i would say, traffic, jude, sophia, of the unknown, the, is a concern that the vaccines aren't working, but i always say to them, remember, last year, how many patients we had in hospital in icu use, how hospitals almost sets of converts every ward and so many i see you including the e r's compared to now people are still getting contracted with covered but it's manageable . so we are seeing numbers going up. but in terms of how severe the reaction is to the virus, it's a lot listened. this is a private explanation santa, which means it is well we thought and full of information, a far cry from many of the destination santa's in the poor locations here in south africa, where there's

a lack of resources and people don't have the kind of information that they have here, hadn't been here 6 months ago. it would have been a very different story. but in the last 6 months, you've had in july and race across the country. and in november you had municipal elections. following those 2 mass events, you now have a situation in south africa where almost everybody knows somebody who has contracted coverage. you need to realize that everything that we do will be a precautionary measure, so that we can control and help save a good, a good number of them. i try to, i said the meets also taken actual parts and that we won't find chewing solutions immediately. i just kind of when you hear, let's go on in the world. you realize that if you don't put on the effort, someone else might have to die for you. so i just decided i'm going to protect people and come and get my vaccination. then we need to get that immunity going and, and, yeah, the boosters and the vaccines work sales as shall, unless,

and with in south africa, specifically with known that vaccinated people are not in hospitals, on ventilators. it's mostly undocumented. of the feel that they'll do more of your videos, your spoken, i am still going to be the last one. ninty coming so. so if i'm vaccinated, i'm also, you know, positively to physically. i'm jimmy little so i'll be no strong in my body. this is south africa, 2nd christmas and a lockdown december. it's also the main holiday season, which has like many here, are concerned that with the ongoing international travel band, just what the impact on the economy will be. and whether or not they'll ever get to spend a christmas with their loved ones. policy or r t, johannesburg, south africa. walden, 700000 potential cancer cases have been missed in england during the pandemic. that's according to a government watchdog report. a leading surgeon says that they find it reflects the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe. the report also found that wanting for

cancer patients have been a waiting list for months and up to 60000, missed their 1st treatment due to lock downs. and the threat of covert the report recognizes that the government's releasing extra funds to fight the problem to, but medic, swan, it's nowhere near enough. the national audit office report shows who are in the middle of the biggest cancer catastrophe ever hit the n h s. there is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board. a breach in a lottery of cancer inequality and growing cancer backlog. and it feels like the government and in a chest leaders have their heads in the sand. we've contacted the, an h. s. england for comment spokesperson really sustainment early though admitting the extra demands of treating corona virus victims of affected their ability to provide routine and non urgent care. sa, mcclark microbiologist says that all points to some difficult months ahead. foss bottles, i yeah, the number is far too high

a. the surprising, but it's not surprising. we, we should have a box backlog all throughout the cave it saga, which is lasted well for, for, well, every year. and i was unable to deal with his normal case loads. and arguably could have been even worse without a lot downs. so those cases are just going to mount top it's, it's still going to be critical issue. the winter is always pi times dna testing lives. and i can see us having, if not a disastrous time this week probably won't be austria's day, will be tied to the season is and we've got this cap. this came back to some cancer centers did manage. it was difficult. it was not easy. and of course, there are questions about infrastructure. so regional cancer center, for example, may have better infrastructure and better ability to type a more local center. so it's not always straightforward,

but it can be done. the white house is plenty surgeon lawlessness in the u. s. on the panoramic press x t gen saki sites, gun violence is a root cause a crime. but when questioned about recent mass looting policy cove, it is a major factor when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go, lou, they store a tv, nordstrom, a home depot, and tell the shelves are clean. you think that because the pan down? i think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic. yes. well suck his remarks. gomez, almost 70 percent of retailers see crime rising in america with mass looting devastating stores. the major states over the last month, prompting some politicians to blame defun, the police policies. less of a recap of some of those incidence. ah,

it's on police officer dominic his i says that the search has nothing to do with the pandemic and is related to bail reform. he added that he sees the de fun, the police movement is the public's emotional response. and they don't understand the use of full spy offices. just embarrassing that they're not admitting what it is. it has nothing to do with co, but it hasn't been do a bell reform. and them releasing criminals right back on the street, not prosecuting properly has nothing to do. a coven defined the police movement is an emotional response for any time that, that the public doesn't understand when use of force is needed, right? you have unarmed either black americans or whatever the case is shot by police and before an investigation is done, the civil rights activists come in and claim police misconduct. so we already have a situation where emotions are high. the voter thinks the emotional voter thinks is

that who this is defining the police, which means we're going to get rid of the cops on our streets. and then let's replace them with the social workers or other people who are better trained and equipped to deal with emotional issues on the street. when you start to have that mindset, well then you're, you're looking at police negatively. so already be immoral. the criminal who are out there, feel that they've got the backing of the public. well, i don't have to obey the law. i can break the law because there's already this massive movement to define the police, which means they're going to side with me. it's a mindset of it's okay for us to do this and we're going to act like criminals because nothing's gonna happen to us. as well as facing a crime wave, the united states is also suffering from soaring inflation. many americans are blaming the, by the ministration for that with 20 percent saying poorly. the ship is the country's biggest problem. democrats are among them with some cooking, the party and others, even switching sides, breaking it down for us is our teams. kelly morgan. apparently it's not only

working families throughout america who are disappointed by the biden administration's handling of several crises. it's also members of biden's own democratic party, some like the former spokesperson for the washington d. c. mayor, have decided to switch over to the republicans in hispanic and also black eyes. i should be democrat by fault, but i'm going against their narrative. and i feel like right now i'm, everything is crumbling for the democrats biden is completely destroying the economy right now. and people can feel it. so that's what's happening in washington dc. now washington, d. c, is a city that is pretty solidly in the democratic camp. democrats sometimes even get 90 percent of the vote in elections. no wonder democrats as far away as texas are switching sides friends, something it's happening in south texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in washington d. c. on not our values, not the values of most texans,

the ideology of to funding the police of destroying oil and gas industry, and the chaos our buddha is disastrous for those of us who live here in south texas . in addition to the recent shifts, 19 democrats are set to leave the house of representatives in 2022. that includes 3 committee chair. some are retiring or seeking another office. republicans only need to gain 5 more seeds in the upcoming mid term vote in order to re take control of the house of representatives. and many observers say their chances of doing so are pretty good. some are comparing it to the republican sweep 10 years ago. how's democrats have more retirements than they did in 2010 when the last 63 seats? it's not only the party that's losing people. kamala harris, the vice president of joe biden, is watching her team implode as well. 2 her spokesperson and her communications director have both decided to quit with reports indicating that there are 2 more

aids who have one foot out. the door reports are leaking out about strife between a, her office and the biden team, and the backdrop to all of this is jo biden's approval ratings. keep going down. the mid terms are less than a year away and the democratic party seems to be crashing and burning. it appears that some in light of the circumstances have decided to jump out of a sinking ship, which might be causing the democrats even more trouble. caleb martin, r t new york. we supposed to enter the religious right? political activists thesis. dissatisfaction with the democratic party is mounting as the changes people voted for don't happen. the democrats are not delivery and plain and simple, and they're specifically not delivering to the people who are responsible for putting them in power, namely indigenous black, brown, asian, and poor white people. they have given the president and his congress a chance to govern, and the results so far have just not been adequate enough. we have not seen

a protection of voting rights. we have not seen police reform. we have not seen action on climate change. i think that people are rightfully letting this administration know based on the approval ratings that are more needs to be done and very, very quickly. or there will be electoral consequences if things don't turn around. and i mean very, very quickly where people can start to see a trajectory of it going upwards in their favor. they're going to respond with their boats and the democrats could be wiped out. okay, that wraps up for this news. our thanks so much for your company. helped me set well and i hope you'll look continue to wake up with me with use updates in 30 minutes. ah ah, what happened? i make no, certainly no borders to tease and

you guys as a merge, we don't have authority. we don't live, maxine who worried needs to be ready. people are gonna come in crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive, so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together in this, in their interest for some financial pundents to see the value of the currency lose value. because they can gain tracks about social media saying it's somehow

a good thing, but not everybody is an undertaker. not every one is a grave robber. you know, some people are actually out there trying to be productive, only productive lives. and of course, that philosophy of, oh, the currency has gone to 0 less than 0 and that's a good thing is a is a, is the, is a mat lunacy ah

ah me ah ah, i me the me

ah, i my grandfather came to this country in the early 19 hundreds, he ended up buying this piece of land in the early twenties and the homestead in this area. mm winters can be very brutal. summers can be very hard. it's hard work. ah, we live right on the lake here so we did a lot of fish.