ah ah, twitter faces a barrage of accusations that is doing the u. s. government bidding after the social media john collaborated with the washington funded thinktank spending more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries for alleged state bank to propaganda. another use the case or college of midwives apologizes for new inclusive guidelines describing mothers as a post natal. people like former and a chest nurse tells as a vocal minority is hijacked the conversation yet to now the example stonewall. going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking with their members. and in a land long ruling,

a woman born with a spinal defect wins a case against the doctor who 20 years ago failed to advise her mother properly about having children or guest debated the case. because what i do now is medicine now in 20 years time, you may judge my actions, the doctor has completely wrong. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody, shane, and i mean this in the sense that like, i wish you would never been born either wherever you are. i hope you having a great day, mid day here in the russian capital. this is anti versus our concerns are being raised over social network, twitter as possible ties to the american government after the tech john suspended more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries that included china and russia. this

overlaid state sponsored inflammation operations. now twitter miss decisions on which accounts to suspend were made with the guidance of the australian strategic policy institute. this is a think tank that is sponsored by us government agencies, including the department of defense on these daniel hawkins dells. deeper into the institutes, activities. it's common knowledge that trusts in conventional media is falling. you know, when you ask someone where they get their news on, they 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 acts 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 it 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,

posing china's authoritarian control in hong 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 sensitive so much for an opponent, analysis and serving the public conversation is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve now twitter stresses its goal is to ensure the integrity of public conversation. and sandra, bruno or political analysts says though that there is more to it than just 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 over to the united kingdom. now where the royal college of midwives is said, sorry for the latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which made no reference to women or mothers only to postnatal people responding to complaints the college called that an oversight

a former. and they just nurse that we spoke to says not the role to tell ms wise what to think. it's perfect guilty. it's why they apologize because of the instantaneous backlash. health services set up to be a safe environment for this normal process is not to present to happen. it is not the college of midwives role to tell that make wise how to think. and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of their members. that why senior withdrew the gender neutral guidance following an online backlash in the instructions. furniture staff on how to put newborns to bed safely. they didn't mention women at all or referring instead to parents and cares. the guidance was supposed to be l g bt inclusive, but it didn't go down well with every one. how can you possibly rise about

pregnancy and birth without mentioning women? that's deliberate, not an oversight. apparently the royal college, a midwife says midwives need to call mothers postnatal people, not mothers or women. so to all you ladies out there, you're 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. a former, an h us nurse, rebecca butler says that neither the general public nor transgender people support the idea. people don't want to replace the word series, 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 ace, midwives do not support tate or actually neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard, and he's 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's safety. and that is the end of that role. they should not be involving themselves in this sort of ridiculous political posturing. a young woman with a spinal defect task successfully sued her mother's doctor for giving a bad advice. 20 years ago before her pregnancy and the le mars ruling the case, i called agreed his failure to tell her to take supplements amounted to negligence

. evie tombs overcame her condition to become a parachute jumping star, though she has to spend days at a time connected to tubes. joe said that this could have been avoided if her mother been told to take folic acid book before and during her pregnancy. in accordance with official guidance 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 the allegation saying he provided all the necessary instructions 20 years ago who discuss what precedent the ruling says with august on going to radio host and columnist and dr. dean, i get a gp 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 cast it, keep, 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 standards we have today. can you really bring fun? you can because it's what 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 it's, it isn't that kind of situation. this scenario shows that you're going to have take a much longer time in the future to very clearly document your device we give. and more importantly, actually the advice that we don't give. so it's kind of a significant amount of time. one of the, of the 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 both 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. the 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 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 doctor's 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 not his fault. and that's an impossible situation to doctors to work it. we do need perhaps now in the light of this 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 lady involved as well. you know what, we're already in that position of jeopardy because that's exactly the situation we, dr. david at the 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 ask him to do. and then suddenly they develop a severe illness and they come back and see me and say, well, the doctor found it. my argument back would be well in 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 coal. i just thing this is a really tragic case and i wish you had never come to court a wish the evie had got the help and the assistance she needs. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, i mean this is a sensitive like, i wish i would never been born. so i had for you the sour england's facing, the one top surgeon described as the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe more and that's in

a few moments. ah, ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon. i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. oh i'm said. linda have to say there just in the criteria in germany for many users mean compatibility with public opinion. those politicians pass has come to 10th. we act in line with what people expect from them, but and public opinion is produced or shaped by mass media. those are shaped by journalists. most german journalists are sympathizers of the social democrats of

the green. therefore, as long as of course, you green and social democratic policy projects, you parents as a competent leader with ah, all you all macaroons train of cove. it is now been detected in 38 different countries, according to the world health organization. no deaths have yet been reported due to this particular mutation, but the latest date is just the viruses spreading and twice as fast as the previous delta variant. in the meantime, south africa, which was among the 1st to report the u strain, the c rec, or daily covey infections. the low vaccination rate in the country started to pick

up in recent days. but despite jobs being widely available, less than half the adult population has still been inoculated on correspond policy clear, spoke with vaccine experts in the capitol of south africa. 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 them quite anxious to get they booster. and so they, 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, that's a converts every ward and so many i see you in food and that ye, ours 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 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 vaccination 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 massive in 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 tried to, i said he meets also take an actual part 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 you come and get my vaccination, then we need to get that immunity going and, and yeah, the boosters and the vaccines worth science 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. you know, it's still gonna, i'm still gonna be the last one, ninty comments or so if i'm vaccinated, i'm also, you know, positively to physically. i'm jimmy little. so i'll be strong in my body. this is south africa, 2nd christmas and a lockdown. december is 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, or the 700000 potential cancer cases have been missed in england during the

pandemic. according to a government watchdog report, the leading surgeon says the finding reflects the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe. the report also found that wall in for cancer patients have been on waiting lists for months and up to 60000, missed their 1st treatment due to log downs and the threat of covert the report recognizes though, the government's releasing extra funds to fight the problem. but medic still worn, 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. a chess. there is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board. a regional lottery of cancer inequality and to growing cancer backlog. and it feels like the government and in a chest leaders have their heads in the sand. we have contacted and h a single and for comment, the spokesperson released a statement earlier on admitting that the extra demands of treating corona virus

victims have affected their ability to provide routine and non urgent care. simon, clark microbiologist says it all points to some difficult months or had foss petals . yeah, the number is far too high. it is surprising, but it's not surprising where we should have a backlog. all throughout. the caveat saga, which is lasted well for, for, well, every year. and i was unable to deal with his normal caseload. and arguably could have been even worse without the lot downs. so those cases are just going to mountain top it's, it's still going to be a critical issue. the winter is always high times dna testing lives. and i can see us having, if not disastrous time this week, probably when the process will be tied to the season is and we've got these, these kind of 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 blaming a surgeon lawlessness in the united states. on the pandemic for 60 gen saki when questioned about race and mass looting named cove. it as a key factor when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go, lou, they store a cdn, nordstrom, a home depot, until the shelves are clean. you think that because i think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic. yes, jen sac. his remarks came amid a spike in looting in the number of states over the last month. something some are blaming on the rise of the d from the police movement is a back at some of the recent looting.

ah, we saw a police officer dominic, his o. explain to us why the crime search has nothing to do with the pandemic. stressing also that the fun, the place is just an emotional response. just embarrassing that they're not admitting what it is, it has nothing. i do recall that it hasn't been doing bell reform and then releasing criminals right back on the street. now prosecuting properly has nothing to do, call the d fun. 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 all 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 defend the police, which means they're gonna side with me. it's a mindset of it's okay for us to do this and we're gonna act like criminals because nothing's gonna happen to us. was facing a crime wave. the u. s. is also suffering from soaring inflation. many americans are blaming the, by the ministration for that with 20 percent, saying poor leadership is the country's top problem. democrats among them who some quitting the party and others even switching sides,

breaking it down for us is artist kelly mob. 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 retake 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 a 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. they had given his 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. things i'll turn around and i did 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. and finally, the festive season seems of good of to about started london, the capitals showcase christmas tree. and to fog a square isn't quite up to his usual standard the ship some to wonder whether no way which traditionally provides it might be trolling. the brits ah ah, the trafalgar square, christmas tree trimming from boris johnson's baba. all we had to go with no,

we know that your fog a square christmas tree has arrived. ah, the following media includes potentially sensitive content. sometimes i wonder if no way is trolling us a bit when they choose which tree to give us full trafalgar square. i would like everyone to know that half of my branches are not missing their social distancing. remember to stay safe this christmas and wear a face covering on public transport, and while inside shops are registered for this news our i'll be back with updates in 30 minutes. hope to see them. ah

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you guys as a merge, we don't have a therapy. we don't have a vaccine. the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. every one 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 are in it together. ah.