two seven year old girls the defendants are members of a small islamic sect from india called the burra. female genital mutilation isn't widely and practice found in africa asia and the middle east it involves the removal of external genitalia on mainly young girls usually for religious reasons regarding sexuality there are no health benefits instead it can have serious consequences including leading infertility infection and in some cases even death an estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought to have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization describe as barbaric and a violation of human rights well we're joined live by media commentator and dr form by. an anthropologist and family rights activist who was a witness expert in the detroit case thank you both very much for coming on to the program controversial subject i know i'm going to start with you jeanne i think it's important to note that the judge is not condoning or permitting the practice of s.g.m. states can bring their own case forward so so why has this judge's ruling drawn at

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two seven year old girls the defendants some members of a small islamic sect from india called the burra. female genital mutilation is a widely bound practice found in africa asia and the middle east it's involved the removal of external genitalia on mainly young girls usually for religious reasons regarding sexuality there are no health benefits instead it can have serious consequences including bleeding infertility infection and in some cases even death an estimated two hundred million women around the world to thoughts have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization described as barbaric and the violation of human rights we put the issue up for debates with empathy for apologist and women's rights activist for do and media commentator gina loudon. what we are contesting is that we have these separate policies for girls and for boys and that has to do with the cultural acceptance of male circumcision and religious acceptance of male circumcision in the united states and then. the obviously the lack of understanding in this understanding of the value of the fem

we've told you about between president trump and chinese president xi jinping and the g twenty in burra when a song.

we've told you about between president trump and chinese president xi jinping and the g twenty in burra when a sari's instead they expressed hope that the meeting does not yield an overall setback to u.s. chinese trade relations. in other china news the american express company has become the first u.s. based credit card company to be granted permission to operate in china china central bank took ten years to approve the proposal from american express and only did so with a fifty fifty joint venture partnership split with a chinese firm the ling-ling group the partnership will operate as express technology services company the green light gives amex a head start over comp.

we've told you about between president trump and chinese president xi jinping and the g twenty in burra when a sari's instead they expressed hope that the meeting does not yield an overall setback to u.s. chinese trade relations. in other china news the american express company has become the first u.s. based credit card company to be granted permission to operate in china china central bank took ten years to approve the proposal from american express and only did so with a fifty fifty joint venture partnership split with a chinese firm the ling-ling group the partnership will operate as express technology services company the green light gives amex a head start over competitors a master card and visa of course who are still seeking approval of similar proposals meanwhile authorities have given amex fifteen months to set up a network to clear payments with chinese financial and technical partners amex will need a second nod from officials to begin full operation. jumping back across the pacific back to amex his home country the us producer price index indicated october inflation at the

we've told you about between president trump and chinese president xi jinping and the g twenty in burra when a sari's instead they expressed hope that the meeting does not yield an overall setback to u.s. chinese trade relations. in other china news the american express company has become the first u.s. based credit card company to be granted permission to operate in china china central bank took ten years to approve the proposal from american express and only did so with a fifty fifty joint venture partnership split with a chinese firm the ling-ling group the partnership will operate as express technology services company the green light gives amex a head start over competitors a master card and visa of course who are. still seeking approval of similar proposals meanwhile authorities have given amex fifteen months to set up a network to clear payments with chinese financial and technical partners m.x. will need a second nod from officials to begin full operation. jumping back across the pacific back to m.x. his home country.

the revelation follows the burra tree analysis of samples taken by turkish investigators more than a fortnight after jamal khashoggi is murder a source of the turkish prosecutor's office has told our jazeera it was here at the consul general's residence that traces of hydrofluoric acid and unknown domestic chemical were found the source says the dismembered body parts were dissolved in a chemical process and the source speaks of samples also taken from a well in the garden of the residence and in nearby sewage systems this information follows on from an early arrival ation by the newspaper accusing two saudi men said to be a chemical expert at a toxicologist being involved in the cover up operation even though they've been sent out in an official saudi investigation team. turkish president brigette tell you heard of one appeared in public on thursday but made no comment about the new leak all remarks made by the us president officials in turkey's ruling party say it's stronger action not opinion that's needed from the u.s. soldier was going to was an underneath about turkey's positio