and can have serious health consequences including in extreme cases 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 considers a violation of human rights we put the issue for debate and got opinions on both sides of the argument. it is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about all three forms is intended to actually suppress female sexuality well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights so i want to make it clear that i am not pro mutilation i would never support the mutilation there are a set of practices that supporters like myself refer to as female circumcision and there are many different forms usually what happens with this terminology female genital mutilation or s.t.m. is that the most extreme form which is very actually quite rare is what gets gets conflated with all the other practices my counterpart here is is comparing apples and oranges she's talking about the difference between women who make a conscious decision as an adult to have to undergo some so

infertility infection and in some cases even death an estimated two hundred million women around the world her thoughts have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization describe as barbaric and a violation of human rights. we put the issue up for debate with anthropologist and women's rights activist for one be my due and media commentator jean allowed in. 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 female part which is very important to us because for this for us this is about gender complementarity concision for little boys is a completely different thing it actually is a much cleaner thing can prevent infections and that the medical risks to the little boy once he's been circumcised are many practices for instance female genital cosmetic surgeries layby a plus he's absolutely fit the definition of female genital mutilation that has been laid out w.h.o. most of the women and adolesce

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 attention and criticism. we've lost jenas so apologies are technically ok we'll go on to you form by. actually why do you think that this case in particular has drawn so much attention chris's criticism and you were the witness expert on it. well clearly the topic female genital mutilation it's a topic that's very emotive everybody has something to say about it and it's usually outrage so certainly with a ruling like this many in the in the united states and obviously all over the world many a

and the middle east it can have serious health consequences in some cases even death and estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought to have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and the world health organization consider a violation of human rights we put the issue up for debate with anthropologist and a women's rights activist for mumbai do a media commentator gina luton is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about off three forms is intended to actually just suppress female sexuality well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights 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 my counterpart here is is comparing apples and oranges she's talking about the difference between women who make a conscious decision as an adult to have to undergo some sort of cosmetic or other sort of procedure no one has a problem with that here and that's not what our conversation is about we're talking about

over a million, and that has s been covered up by the b blasted u.n, by the international atomic energy agency--how dare they-- and the world health organization. this is the biggest c covr-up in ththe histy of medicine. i have e never read anything like this in my life, and i i've been a doctor since i was 23. >> the nuclclear regulatory commission has asked the national academy of sciences to do some research on incidents of cancer in the vicinity of nuclelear plantnts all over the ununited states. is that going to be a a helpful study, , do yu think? >> yes and no. the national academy of sciences has conducucted for 7 consecutive occasions a thing called the biological effects of ionizing radiation, and they put out a report recently, number vii, and it was a good report and it said no radiation is safe, radiation is cumulative, and, yes, i trust them. there's a huge push by the industry to prevent really decent research being done, but in a way, it's unnecessary because the german government-- and the gerermans are very precise with their data-- examined, i think, 16 old reactors and looked at children under the age of 5 who lived within

activists and yack yack it's always very much in that category babies in the democratic republic of congo are now being infected with the bone a virus according to the world health organization the u.n. health agency says that out of thirty six new cases seven of them are new borns all infants experts suspect they may have caught it from infected patterns break in the d.r. c. is the worst in its history with three hundred forty six confirmed cases including one hundred seventy five deaths. ensure lanka m.p. supporting the disputed prime minister minder rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they accuse the speak of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s pass a no confidence motion against rajapaksa both he and running a victim a singer who was silenced by the president last month say they are the lawful prime minister minal fernandez has more from colombo. another day and another board here in sri lanka's parliament this time for a committee a sort of an umbrella committee which oversees and does all the appointments for all the committees a select committee is kid in july because parliament both sides doctorow prime minister minded rajap