ah ah, twitter faces ever rows of accusations that it's doing the u. s. government bidding it's after the social media giant worked with a washington think tank in suspending. more than 3000 cons from 6 countries for a ledge, state back propaganda view case. royal college of midwives apologizes for new supposedly inclusive guidelines describing mothers as postnatal people. a former and h s. nurse believes an influential lobby group as during that conversation is he yet can. now, for example, at stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking and mandate. and also coming up this hour and a landmark ruling, a woman born with a spinal defect,

wins her case against the doctor who 20 years ago is said to have failed to advise her mother. properly about having children are at guest debate, the verdict because what i do now with medicine now in 20 years time, we may judge my actions and the doctor has completely wrong. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody, shane, and i mean this in a sensitive way. i wish you would never been born. ah, oh, wherever you're counting the program from today. welcome to moscow on to the news r and r t. my name's unit only, concerns are being raised over twitter is possible ties to the u. s. government, and it's after the social media behemoths suspended more than $3000.00 the cons from 6 countries, including china and russia. over

a ledge state sponsored information operations, twitter that its decisions on which accounts to suspend were made with the guidance of the australian strategic policy institute. that's a think tank sponsored by u. s. government agencies, including the department of defense ortiz, daniel hawkins, has been delving 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 and 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 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 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 pondering arrangements to scrutiny. sb receives corps 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, shina is a key target of the organizations works from human rights in she began to chinese tech systems influence projects or this information and 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 covered pandemic. the organization hosted dozens of events from bringing you to get the 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 was 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 themselves pharmacy, 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 independent analysis and serving the public conversation is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve britton's royal college of midwives have said, sorry for its latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which make no reference to women or mothers, but only to post natal people responding to complaints the college called it an oversight. the organization had taken advice from the controversial pro diversity group, stonewall a former and

h s. nurse. we spoke to says the lobby group or they are c, m itself has no right to tell midwives what they think is perfectly healthy is why they apologized because of the instantaneous backlash. how service is sac her to be a safe environment for this normal process is natural processes to happen? it is not the royal college of midwives role to tell them. make wives how to think and, and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stem wool going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of that members. the royal college of midwives withdrew the gender neutral guidance after an online backlash in the instructions for in nature stuff and how to put newborns to bed safely. women weren't mentioned at all, referring rather to parents and carers. the guidance was supposed to be l g b,

t inclusive, but the response was overwhelmingly negative. 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'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. nurse, rebecca butler again says that neither the general public or transgender people support the idea. people don't want to replace the word series, a very, very vocal minority, and a very effective act to this group in stone. whoa. 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 ease of biological woman why the world college of midwives has chosen to adopt policies advocated by stonewall, is a match for them to answer. but my point here is that the general public decimals based midwives do not hold kate are actually neither does the transgender community . it is one organization that is pushing as he can 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 safety, and that is the end of that role. they should not be involving themselves in this. so to ridiculous political posturing. the white house is blaming a surgeon lawlessness in the u. s. on the pandemic press circuitry,

jen searcy, when questioned about recent mass looting said cove, it was a key factor when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go. lou face, dora, cbs, nordstrom, a home depot until the shelves are way you think because of the hand i, i think a root cause and a lot of communities is the pandemic. yes, gen sanchez remarks come amid a spike in looting and a number of states over the past month. something that others are blaming on the rise of the defun the police movement. aah! retired police officer, donna k, so told us why he thinks the crime serge on the pandemic aren't linked just

embarrassing, that they're not admitting what it is. it has nothing to do with co, but it hasn't been doing bell reform, and then releasing criminals right back on the street map. prosecuting properly has nothing to do. a coven defined 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 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 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 defined 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 u. s. has also suffering from soaring inflation. many americans are blaming the biden administration for that with a 5th of respondents and the recent nationwide policy per leadership about the country's top problem. i'm going to include democrats with some quitting the party and even switching sides, breaking it all down for us are 2 kilowatt. 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 dc 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 in. 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 shift, 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 they lost 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 lab. 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 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. 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 an are 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 or things i 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 on investigation. has been launched by us central command into

a recent drone and tank and syria, which may have resulted in civilian casualties. the strike was said to have been targeting a senior al qaeda leader unplug her. we had pulled the loss of innocent life and take all possible measures to prevent them. the possibility of a civilian casualty was immediately self reported to us central command. we are initiating a full investigation of the allegations and will release the results when appropriate . in a separate development. busy the u. s. defense secretary also launched a new probe into a nurse strike in syria bank in 2019 which killed dozens of women and children. meanwhile, 21 humanitarian organizations have published an open letter calling for an urgent re think of pentagon policy. we add you to robustly a can for and reckon with the civilian hum of the last 20 years and commit to finally implementing structural changes to prioritize civil and protection and

accountability for civilian hom, back in september a decade, long costs of war. a project by brown university released its findings with parts of the study focusing on the death toll in serious since 2014. it claims the u. s. military was responsible for more than $95000.00 civilian debts. with $75.00 journalists on more than $200.00 humanitarian workers also killed. peace activists . kennestone believes the actual number of civilian lives lost, is even higher than that. the us does not care about civilian deaths. they are merely collateral damage in his foreign policy aims to achieve hedge mony, in the middle east. and in fact, the entire world death toll so far has been not 95000 but closer 260-0000. basically, us drone strikes and foreign countries are flagrantly illegal. they,

they are ex extra legal assassinations that take place in countries where the government does not approve of the us operating their us presidents, louder on strikes. it makes them appear in the words of the u. s. media as quote presidential. so in other words, when you as president are acting in a heavy handed manner against p, mainly people of color in foreign countries. they look good in the media. us attacks, countries that can fight back small in the countries still ahead in the program. nothing to see here. the u. k. government saves transparency, laws need not apply to a new, ultra high spending scientific research agency, leading people to question one is trying to hide or not to work with for

to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation. let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk this in their interest for some financial pundents to see the value of the currency lose value because they can gain traction on social media saying it's somehow a good thing, but not everybody is an undertaker. not everyone is a, 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 the, is the, is the man to lose ah

ah, 19 minutes into the program. welcome back. a young woman with a spinal defect has successfully sued her mother's doctor for giving the parent bought advice 20 years ago before her pregnancy. in a landmark ruling, the u. k. 's high court agreed that the medics failure to tell her to take supplements amounted to negligent evie tunes overcame her condition to become a par show jumping star. though she house to spend days of a time connected to choose. the judge said bout could have been avoided if her mother had been recommended to take folic acid both 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 doctor in question denies the allegation, saying he provided all necessary instructions. we discussed what press it then the ruling sets with our guest john counties, radio hosts and columns in the u. k. and also dr. dean agate, a g p. he starts off the conversation. this taste we're talking about was 20 years ago in the 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 need 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 hot, but can you bring the case 20 years after? so the poor afford, i mean, this isn't for linda 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 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 get is going to put a significant down to put our time. one of the, the big challenges that often documentation is 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 has completely wrong because as time progresses and we learn more, our practices 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 matter because of course we recognize that and patients there are no certain details of medicine. it's our job to teach them. busy to bring them on that

journey to get them on boats and we can make decisions to get 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 doctors 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 doctor soul. 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 and by still of immense sympathy, obviously, for the lady involved as well. you know, what were already in that position of jeopardy? because as exactly the situation we doctors living 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 sadly 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 i 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 call adjusting. 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 is a sensitive way. i wish you'd never been born. for months, the british government has been quick to hail at every opportunity. it's plumbed, advanced research agency, which were fund undeveloped science and technology projects for the countries. former information commissioner is raising the alarm both because the body will be exempt from requests under the freedom of information act, meaning journalists and the public could be left in the dark about how it spends

its budget of 800000000 pounds. the u. k. freedom of information that came into force in 2005 it entitled citizens access to data held by public authorities while hailed as a step towards open government. it has its critics, including among those behind the new exam research agency. from my point of view, as a truly malign piece of legislation, i am fully in favor of decisions and information about them being released. but i fail to see how the process ology, of government benefits at all from freedom of information disclosures. in september, open democracy reveal that over the past 5 years, the u. k. government reportedly spent at least half a 1000000 pounds on legal battles, trying to prevent disclosures of information, those mainly concert health, social cur, mark watts from the u. case. freedom of information act center, a private open access investigator believes the latest exemption is an attempt to

cut transparent. for the 1st time i st becomes decided that and it will, it will not have the freedom be subject to the free life. mation act will not be subject to the foil, and it's the 1st time that a u. k. government, department or agency. i got a u. k. government body and has had that exemption and it is an extraordinary development. and i think a lot of people are wondering why, unless it is, i think the lease is quite clear. this is a government that simply does not like the freedom of information act in dated. most governments don't like to be held accountable and tend not to like freedom information very much. and this government here in britain most certainly does not . and the minister, norwich martin and can made these comments about how terrible fitted with mation was in his queue in jen. and i think what he was giving away was the real

view of the government. and in defending the fact that the same, she would not be subject to it when the agency is formed. he was giving away the wider perception that is held by the government, which is that they do not mind fitting reformation. he thinks foyer is repelled months. the question is, what does he have to hide? what is his government at hide? and finally this news, our, the festive season hasn't gotten off to the greatest of starts in london doubts because the u. k. capital, a showcase christmas tree in trafalgar square, isn't quite up to its usual standard. every year. it's gifted to the city by norway, leaving some to ponder whether britons don't something to upset the nordic nation. ah

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