and pulled no punches mackinnon who says she received more than one hundred thousand hate messages on twitter after winning the world championship has presented herself and other transgender athletes. victims of prejudice there can be no excuse for such ignorance and nastiness but i also deplore what seems to be a growing tendency among transgender activists to denounce anyone who argues against them and to label them all as trans faults that ideal of a perhaps preempted the fresh wave of criticism aimed at her with mackinnon and several broad transgender activist groups immediately branding her as trans phobic the renewed spat comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the eye last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. and a report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggests the country is

neil mackinnon is going to stay with us. we need to talk about what is happening with the ecb and the federal reserve, as well. vonnie: let's get a check on the first word news. here's courtney donohoe. courtney: china is offering to drastically ramp up the amount of u.s. agricultural goods it buys. as part of a trade deal being negotiated, beijing would be willing to buy an extra $30 billion of farm products. the two sides are said to be discussing memos of understanding covering major points in an agreement. a u.s. coast guard officer will appear in court today after being accused in a terror plot aimed at high-profile democrats and journalists. authorities say he stockpiled weapons in a washington suburb and plotted to kill house speaker nancy pelosi and a handful of democrat senators such as elizabeth warren and cory booker. tv news anchors were also on that list. house democrats will file a resolution tomorrow to block president trump's emergency resolution to build a border wall. it is likely to pass the democratic con

i-man europe's mackinnon thank you so much for joining us it's the final day of the munich security conference and today's focus is the middle east a clash between the u.s. and its european allies over iran was already in evidence on saturday u.s. vice president mike pence called on the e.u. to follow washington's lead and pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal accusing europeans of undermining u.s. sanctions and then a growing divide between the u.s. and germany chancellor i know a man. of the fender iran agreement as a key channel to terror on and stressed the need for international diplomacy. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif took to the podium a short while ago and to live at best response right here in munich. mr pence repeated the spars when he are against the demand that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations. his hateful accusations against iran. including his ignorant allegation of anti semitism against years of a man described as messiah. in the holy prophet. it's most ridiculous but at the same time very v

a minute has mackinnon thank you so much for joining us is the final day of the munich security conference and today's focus is the middle east a clash between the u.s. and its european allies over iran was already in evidence on saturday u.s. vice president mike pence called on the e.u. to follow washington's lead and pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal accusing european. of undermining u.s. sanctions amid a growing divide between the u.s. and germany chancellor angela merkel defended the ever an agreement as a key channel to terror on and stressed the need for international diplomacy. let's cross now to munich to speak to bremen president and founder of the eurasia group one of the world's leading global political risk research and consulting firms misrata thanks so much for joining us now this year security conference saw a rift significantly widen between the u.s. and the e.u. on a variety of issues specifically iran and russia what could the full out from this pain. the fallout is that the europeans are increasingly acting in a transactional way that if the they want to w

i manuscripts mackinnon thank you so much for joining us. the munich security conference which draws to a close today has highlighted the growing divide between germany and the u.s. german chancellor angela merkel spoke at the conference and defended a multilateral approach to global affairs speaking soon afterwards the u.s. vice president mike pence doubled down on the trump administration's criticism of europe he called on the e.u. to stop undermining u.s. sanctions against what he called iran murderous revolutionary regime. pangle america was not going to mean so words relations between the u.s. and germany have been tense recently and energy policy is one of the points of contention the u.s. criticised north stream to america defended the planned gas pipeline linking russia to germany. the months no one wants to become unilaterally dependent on russia but during the cold war i was still living in east germany and we only got russian gas anyway but the former west germany also imported a lot of its gas from russia and i don't know why the

i'm on your campus mackinnon thanks so much for joining us is the final day of the munich security conference and today's focus is the middle east a clash between the u.s. and its european allies over iran was already in evidence on. saturday u.s. vice president mike pence cold on the e.u. to follow washington's lead and pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal accusing europeans of undermining u.s. sanctions amid a growing divide between the u.s. and germany charts i'm going to machall defended the iran agreement as a kid channel to terror on it and stressed the need for international diplomacy iran's foreign minister zarif took to the podium a short while ago and to live it this response right here in the. midst of. repeated scores. written here on the demand that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and bricking to talk with huge. his hate will accuse asians against it all. including his ignorant obligation of unto semitism against the years of the man described as messiah. in the holy took off for satan to do. is both ridiculous but at the same time v

as trans faults that ideal of a perhaps preempted the fresh wave of criticism aimed at her with mackinnon and several broad transgender activist groups immediately branding her strands phobic the renewed spat comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. and you report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggests the country is responsible for a significant number of civilian deaths in yemen as a result of its own self to saudi arabia documents says that britain should be prepared to suspend some of its weapons exports as they may be violating international humanitarian law the government to search that in its licensing of arms sales to saudi arabia it is narrowly on the right side of international humanitarian law we assess that it is narrowly on the w

as trans faults that ideal of a perfect preempted the fresh wave of criticism aimed at her with mackinnon and several pro transgender activist groups immediately branding her as trans phobic the renewed spat comes amid a legal battle between south african runner caster semenya and the international association of athletics federation the athletes challenging the acceptable to start their own limits for female athletes which were introduced by the i last year it's an increasingly complex and emotional subject and the battle which looks unlikely to subside anytime soon. r.t. reporting from moscow. and if you have something you'd like to say we would love to hear it so you do get in touch by following us on social media and if you call your comments that will back at the top of the hour with the latest see that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to set off on fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressin

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