ah, with twitter faces a barrage of accusations that is doing the u. s. government splitting have to the social media. john collaborated with a washington funded think tank suspending more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries for alleged state. in fact, propaganda, you case world college of midwives apologizes for cooling mothers, post natal people in new guidance around h s. nurse told us the general public nurses and transgender people don't support the idea if you could. yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset their thinking of that members and an alignment ruling a woman bore with

a spinal defects witness her case against the doctor who 20 years ago fell into advisor mother properly about conception our guests debated the case because what i do now is medicine now in 20 years time, we may judge my actions adopt as completely wrong, but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, and i mean this is a sensitive like i wish you would never been born ah, neither very good morning. thanks for joining me here. anata international concerns are being raced over social network, twitters possible ties to the u. s. government. that's after the tech john suspended more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries, including china and russia, over ledge to state sponsored information operations. twitter net decisions on

which accounts to suspend were made with the guidance of the australian strategic policy institute. as a think tank that sponsored by u. s. government agencies, which include the department of defense artes, daniel hawkins, delves deeper into the institute activities. it's 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 my news 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. world, anyone would have a few questions. it's not like the australian strategic policy institute hide the fact they're 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 espy receives core funding a $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 think tank 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 post in china's authoritarian control

in on kong, threatening taiwan 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 it really serve or to distress is that his goal is to ensure the integrity of public conversation. alessandra bruno an independent political analyst though, says there's more to it than just that there's a climate of tension of geopolitical pension 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 united kingdom. the royal college of midwives has said, sorry for removing the words, woman and mother from his latest guidance. instead, using the term postnatal people, they called it an oversize on the part for many chestnuts that we spoke to says is not the union's role to tell midwives what to think. people don't want to replace the word. sarah is a very, very vocal minority. and

a very effective act, this group in stone wall 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 matter for them to answer. but my point here is that the general public does not support base midwives do not support kate. and actually neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard and is 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. of the midwives union withdrew the gender neutral guidance following an online backlash, and the instructions furniture staff on hand to put newborns to beds safely. i did not mention women at all referring only to parents, cares. the goddess was supposed to be l. g bt inclusive, but it didn't go down well with everyone. how can you possibly rise about pregnancy and birth without mentioning women? that's deliberate, not an oversight. apparently the royal college, a midwife sized midwives need to call mothers postnatal people, not mothers, all women. so to all 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 for managers. nurse, rebecca butler says that neither the general public nor transgender people support

the idea. people don't want to replace the words. there is a very, very vocal minority and a very effective act. this group in stone wall 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 matter for them to answer. but my point here is that the general public does not support base midwives do not support tate and actually neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard and is getting it very, very badly. a mother is a mother and 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. a young woman with a spinal defect to successfully sued her mother's doctor for giving her bad advice 20 years ago before her pregnancy and alarm on ruling the case. i court agreed a failure to give advice about vital supplements did amount to negligence. evie tombs is a parachute jumping star due to her condition. she has to spend some days connected to choose. the judge found that her mother was not advise in accordance with the guidance to take folic acid prior to conception. and for the 1st 12 weeks of pregnancy, the amount awarded in compensation will be decided at a later hearing and could be significant as 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 doctor in question denies allegations saying he provided all the necessary instructions 20 years ago. we discussed what precedent the ruling sets with our guests, john gaunt. radio host and columnist and with 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 of well, if your diet is rich and go to cast it, keep that up, keep doing it. 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 hot, but can you bring the case 20 years after so many poor afford? i mean, this isn't the leader mind where somebody was given, you know, a tablet isn't that kind of situation in this scenario shows that you're going to have to take a long time in the future to very clearly document. the advice we give,

and more importantly, actually the advice that we don't gave. so it's kind of a significant plan to put on time. one of the, the big challenges that often documentation. it's about how you are judged because of course, what i do now is medicine. now in 20 years time. we made george my actions as the doctor has completely wrong because as time progresses and we learn more, our practice is progress. one of my worries will be for doctors that they would on the side of caution now and perhaps start recommending for other birth difficulties . may be 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 matter because of course we recognize that and patients name, same details of medicine. it's our job to and teach them to bring them on that journey to get them on board so that we can make decisions to get that to treat the problem. but if we're saying and all that common sense stuff to falls into the lap

of the doctor to have to deal with and say, well, come on, the doctor's responsibility to tell you how to live your life. what to do. not only 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 by 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. 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 ask you to or you didn't do the things that i asked you to. nonetheless, i will have to go through the process of calls. i just think this is a really tragic case. and i wish you had never come to cold a 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 is a sensitive like i wish i had never been born. so i had 3 this out of england is facing, but one top surgeon described as the country's biggest ever cancer. catastrophe. more on that in a few moments. ah . ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport. business. i'm sure

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woke back than you own, we con strain of cove. it has been detected now in 38 different countries since according to the world health organization, no desks have yet been reported due to this particular mutation. but recent data suggests the virus is spreading twice as fast as the previous delta variant. meanwhile, south africa where the new strain 1st emerged is sing record daily cove. it infections the low vaccination rate in the country started to pick up in recent days, jobs a widely available, but less than half the us population still been inoculated or correspond policy list. but we vaccine experts in the south african capital. 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 consent at the vaccines on to working. but i always say to them, remember, last year, how many patients we had in hospital in icu use, how hospitals almost that's a convert every ward. and so many i see you include in the e r's compared to now people are still getting contracted with cove. it, 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 unlocked, 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 the somebody who has contracted cove. it. we 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 tried to, i've said the needs also try to match with taught to him that we won't find children solutions immediately. i just kind of funny here what's going 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 was 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 do you feel that they'll do more of your videos? you know, still gonna, i'm still going to be the last one 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 is also the main holiday season, which is why in 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 a loved ones. policy or r t, johannesburg, south africa. more than 700000 potential cancer cases have been missed in england during the panoramic. that's according to a government watchdog report. a leading search to says that the funding reflects the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe. the report also found that one in for cancer patients have been a waiting list for months. and up to $60000.00 missed the 1st treatment to to lock downs and the threat of cove it, the report recognizes the government is releasing extra funds to fight the problem . but medic sworn, it's nowhere near enough. the national audit office report shows where in the

middle of the biggest cancer catastrophe ever hit the chess. there is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board, a regional lottery of cancer inequality and to cro in cancer backlog. and it feels like the government and in a chest leaders have their heads in the sand. we've contacted and a testing of a comment, a spokesperson released the statement earlier, admitting the extra demands of treating corona virus. victims have affected the ability to provide routine and non urgent care. simon, clark microbiologist says that it all points to some difficult months ahead for the hospitals. i yeah, look, the number is a fall too high. it is surprising, but it's not surprising. we should have a back backlog all throughout the caveat saga, which is lasted well for, for well over a year and a chest was unable to deal with its normal caseload. arguably could have been even

worse without the lock gowns. so those cases are just going to mount off. i'd say it's still going to be a critical issue. the winter is always the high side, the chastity. i can i do you see us having, if not a disastrous time this week, so probably won't be disastrous. it will be tight because he usually is and we've got this cat, this craving backlog. some cancer centers did manage, it was difficult. it was not easy. and of course said there are questions answered about infrastructure. so regional kansas center, for example, may have better infrastructure and better ability to cope than a more local center. so it's not always straightforward, but it can be done. the white house is blaming a surge in lawlessness in america. on the pandemic press, 60 gen sanky when questioned about recent mass looting highlighted kelly. that is a key factor when

a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go lou, a store, a cbs, nordstrom, a home depot until the shelter clean. you think that because of the pan down? i think a root cause and a lot of community is, is the pandemic? yes. which in sac, his remarks come in to spike in looting in a number of states over the last month. something the some blemish on the rise of the d from the police movement. isn't it back at some of that recent looting? ah, it on a police officer dominic his oh says that the search has nothing to do with pandemic and is said is related to bail reform. neil's hotel, just that the di, from the police movement is an emotional response by people who don't understand

the reality of policing. just embarrassing that they're not admitting what it is. it has nothing to do with co, but it hasn't been to do a bell reform. and then releasing criminals right back on the street, not prosecuting properly has nothing to do. cover the fun, the police movement is an emotional response for any time 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 d funding a 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 negative. so already the 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 waves, america's also suffering from soaring inflation. many americans are blaming the, by the ministration for that 20 percent. if i say paul leadership is the country's top problem. democrats among them with some quitting the party and others even switching sides, breaking it down for his, his artist, candy mop it. 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 default, but i'm going against their narrative. and i feel like right now,

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 the oil and gas industry, and the chaos. our border 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. 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 her office and the biden team, and the backdrop to all of this is the joe 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. the democrats are not

delivery and clean 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 are given as president. and is 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. good things, i turn around and i've been very, very quickly where people can start to see the trajectory of it going upwards in their favor. they're going to respond with their boats and the democrats could be wiped out. okay, appreciate company. this is r c international. i returned with updates on the top, so as in 30 minutes. mm hm.

look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings. accept. where's that short or is it conflict with the 1st law? show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously, is to create trust rather than fear. i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence. with awe in

with the i'm action return senior wasn't going underground. amid global fears over a new coven variant on the car. and coming up with a job, an advisor to the 1st government that reported all mach onto the world health organization, and whether the next variance will not be reported for fear of nato nation sanction . and the end of day's coming, we investigated why today 35000 people on average will have converted to a form of christianity that has turned the globe into a spiritual battle field and empowered the rise of world leaders from trump to boston. ara, all the small coming up in today's going underground with 1st is he's a government issued, he says, a fresh wave of covert measures just had a christmas after a new, very into concern on chrome detective in south africa. let's go straight to jana's,

work to speak to professor berry shoot the chair of south africa's ministerial advisory committee on covey. 19 vaccines. thank you so much. a professor issue for coming on. we're hearing here. if scottish cases that preceded the announcement from south africa let alone cases without any known travel in london, we don't want to be speculating on where the code is going to follow the usual virus path of the more transmission the less less illness. but what is the situation there is that basically it high transmission or less more mild disease, yardly i have to process everything real gonna say that it's early days. you know, you're busy studying this. first of all, this is a brand new bars. and i said, brand new, it's unrelated to any of the previous, serv, variances are completely different evolutionary tree. it's not a, an offshoot to one of the previous periods. that's one thing though, thing has got a large number of mutants regions active. and so then we.