can be and can sense if we also don't know the outcomes the full side effects of what's going to happen to the. united nations where it counts refugees the right to asylum if they are threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe of mass immigration and we put the issue of the debate. that's just another way till a century exploited the un to advance borders and you know even of the most obvious level i come from leave and he was one of the kind of go people will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. bringing you all the very latest 27 from the russian capital you're watching international that's how you with us this hour. now right now across france thousands are rallying against controversial pension reform plans on friday president emmanuel mock called put the propose. changes to have capital at that how cool so he may just strikes across the country marking the knowledge of the shutdown of infrastructure in the country in attack. now let's cross live to paris and to charlotte to penske is right back among the demonstrators shot at this is the longest strike in front of 51 days and a fine of this dying down. well in some respects there are lots of signs of this protest dying down it's not the mass protests we saw when it started back on december 5th but the reality is a hard cool section of the society are continuing to come out to the streets to take part in these protests let's just take a look at the procession here in paris and you'll get a sense of how full the streets are with those who wanted to come out again today the 51st day of the strike the 7th day of nationwide action to show how unhappy they are about those controversial pension reforms being put through by the french government as you mentioned that pension reform law has been presented to the council of ministers it now because towards the national assembly where it's due to be debated in early february and we know that the strikers while they have received some concessions they haven't been able to achieve what they set out to which was the government to abandon that reform altogether so what have they achieved well so far the government has decided to take out all references to raising the pension age to the age of $64.00 they would do to add 2 years on to the pension age before you could receive pool pension and the government is also relinquished and said that certain sectors certain professions will continue to have special conditions special conditions when what the government originally wanted to do is to have a universal scheme that would mean everybody had the same pension entitle in the same access to that pension that's not exactly going through now but the. ality is the. law hasn't changed dramatically from what the government sent out to do so in some respects you could say the protesters haven't really gone their way the other thing to say about this is of course that this started as a rolling strike action carried out by public transport workers in this 1st few weeks particularly here in paris public transport was paralyzed across the city with issues nationwide as well now because of that what we have seen though is one of the major unions this is the union that represents the metro work is they decided to stop taking part in that rolling strike action but other unions are continuing their action and so while we might be see public transport coming back to normal in the country we are seeing protests elsewhere for example a c.t. you would have been blocking the ports on and off the last few days causing massive issues particularly down in the 2nd city you must say where we've been told that hundreds of millions of euros of money has been lost as a result of this book which is in paris this week some parts of the city saw their electricity cut off for short periods as a result of the protests that so what we're seeing now is continuing smaller strike action that looks like it's being more directed a mood targeted and the reality is while people know that this pension reform is likely to sail through the national assembly go to the senate and also be approved they want to make sure the government is aware how unhappy they are now the government for its part edward phillipe the prime minister has been talking about why this pension reform is so important apart from tackling will the government says will be the full cost pension deficit of some billions and billions of euros the government also says that the new pension regime will be fairer and more just workers on the street disagree with that they say no it won't it means we'll work for longer i will have to work harder and perhaps will end up with less money and i . pockets at the end the government says anybody who works a full career which is some food your ideas will receive a minimum pension of a 1000 euros a month then if you do say that is not a lot to live on while people know that that pension reform has been passed and presented to the council of ministers on friday they want to make sure that the government is aware that they are not happy and they will continue to show their unease and defiance against this new law. while certainly lots of people out in force this friday afternoon aren't keen to have the say many thanks that shot it to penske reporting from paris. the headline story for the u.k.'s national health service is facing a fast of its kind legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers and cross sex drugs one claimant is 23 year old care about who was previously treated by the gender identity development service she regrets making a reversible changes and said no child should go through the experimental torture shaadi had with brings us the details. 23 year old care about went through gender reassignment as a teenager but years later she decided to reverse the transition while she lived to regret her treatment she also stopped the clinic putting others through what she did she's leading a landmark case against the tavistock and portman n.h.s. trusts the u.k.'s only gender identity service that deals with patients under 18 years old often without parental consent care of herself as a teenager and says youngsters aren't given proper information on the process and the drugs to take them through the transition i do not believe the children and young people can consent to the use of powerful and experimental hormone drugs like i did i believe that the current affirmative system put in place by the tavistock is inadequate as it doesn't allow for exploration of the gender dysphoria feelings nor does it seeks to find the underlying cause of this condition and care it joins a mother of a 15 year old autistic girl who is on the waiting list for the treatment at the service much of the concern of her mother i have deep concerns that the current clinical approach a gender identity development service means that my daughter will be subjected to an experimental treatment path that is not adequately regulated when no one understands the risks and therefore canada ensure informed consent is obtained almost half of children treated at the clinic are prescribed hormone blockers that help people this gives children the time to consider whether they truly want to make a transition to the opposite sex but the drug interferes with natural hormone production it's this step that this legal battle is all about a claimant's a calling for an urgent reassessment of the procedure what is challenged is the current and continuing practice of the defendant to prescribe puberty suppressing hormone blockers and then subsequently crossed sex hormones to children under the age of 18 and it's not just former patients and relatives that are worried medical professionals have also voiced concerns even accusing the specialist clinic for charles gentle children of suppressing negative results while undertaking experimental treatment on adolescent. that's what i found using some unpublished data that i discovered from the tavistock clinic is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers there were some quite pronounced negatives. it's believed the girls so girls became had their gender dysphoria increase and some of their psychological problems increased and indeed there is even less slightly increased but statistically significant increase in their thoughts about suicide so these are all quite negative findings but these are not being published by the tavistock clinics here in london see 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago among girls it's up more than 5000 percent with referrals at a record high it suggests cases of the transition will rise to that there is no data to reflect the number 4 who may opt to return to their biological sex we reached out to the tavistock and portman n.h.s. trust for comment our clinical interventions are laid out internationally set service specifications and h s england monitors our service very closely the series has a high level of reporting satisfaction and was rated good by the care quality commission but while there is no doubt that this service helps young people who feel the stress in their own bodies the full impact of making decisions about their gender at such young ages may not truly be clear to much later in their lives form a psychiatric nurse susan evans who walked out the developments of the sound was the original indeed claimant in the case told us that the drugs being used are licensed in the u.k. for gender identity medicine. the reason this is a sort of unique case is because it's never been taken in law so with sort of looking at whether asking young children. to consent to an experimental treatment can be an informed consent if we also don't know the outcome of the full side effects of what's going to happen to you know it's not installed in terms of the medical outcomes you know even the experts don't know the full picture yet we need more research wilko drugs as it prescribed here in the u.k. are an experimental drug because they're what we call off license so they were developed for very young children who had a single trip cowshed puberty which is when they develop too fast into putin's children but in the areas gender identity medicine. these drugs were not licensed for that. climate refugees or people that moved you to environmental disasters can no longer be sent home to their country of origin if seeking asylum and their lives are in danger that's according to a new landmark ruling by the un which could set a new precedent for migration the committees of divya down with arab us national and international efforts to fads of climate change are receiving state may expose individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara for my obligations of sending steitz the ruling is based on a complainant brought by an islander from a party in the pacific ocean who said he was in danger due to rising sea levels he applied for asylum in new zealand but was ultimately rejected he also failed when he took it to the un but the case has now set the way for others to apply termes interior ministry has spoken out against the united nations decision. most studies suggest that environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions political commentator david vance and former leader of the wales green party pepper bottle ati gave us their views on this case. i think the u.n. ruling is a good one we're going to see millions and millions of people maybe 300000000 people. fleeing climate change where the through starvation or drought storm flood to certification and we have to be ready for it we have to start talking about this we actually must start preparing ourselves for this it's just another way till essential exploit the u.n. support but to advance open borders and you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe anyone swallows the gulf that actually contradicts much of what the u.n. talks about i mean the u.n. constantly whines avoid the desperate need to reduce our carbon footprint well hey if you bring hundreds of millions of climate refugees from low carbon societies to our advanced higher carbon societies you're going to increase the carbon footprint so the un really need to start to get it right this is not restricted to the developing broke world we have most of our cities i think there are something like 32 of the world's greatest cities largest cities are likely to be under water london new york delhi there are just so many of them. it doesn't make any sense to. to look at this in any way other than the fact that people will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this and the un has opened this conversation. but pepper you've missed something you've just said so many of 4 leading cities are going to be under water so you see all these people coming from the less developed world i mean we can surely import them and submerge cities and therefore city submerged or i don't know any road is suggesting that all these people. but you just you know variance enjoys doing and so you just said you said that many of these will be on the water which by the way is absolutely disconnected from reality but even if i take you or on the wall on your actual words what you're saying is that spring 3rd world people to submerge surveys that doesn't make a lot of sense does that every sensible country even germany is going to reject it so people like pepper can continue to dream on but what we need to do as a country is to protect our borders protect our people and look after our own simple as. the swiss mountains now in the world economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary that's the new sharon has found himself involved in a spot with a teenager none other than the eco activists gratitude and the u.s. finance chief responded to her comments about spending to offset carbon emissions down to the 17 year old finance credentials she the chief economist who is she i'm confused after she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us it doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that the remaining 1.5 degree carbon budget and i'm going to fossil fuel subsidies and investments done it up steve is not actually the 1st u.s. official that got to turn back has clashed with recently back in december donald trump suggested the activists should walk on her anger management problem and that differences on disputes have continued with climate change dominating much of the discussion up that while to economic forum the latest episode of in case you missed it took a ringside seat. it's that magical time of the year when our wealthy overlords gather for the economic forum a glitzy gathering looms for bringing together the world's business elite yet the one percent meat for a champagne in the swiss mountains leaving the 99 percent to pray for nonviolent. because hundreds of thousands just to go to davos for the filthy rich to be entertained in this. rug row tickets for the heavyweight championship of the world go trump. gratitude. in a ski resort this week with an ashley gets away with their release sending us a high work. pay for full price ticket. worry she warms up quicker than the atmosphere. already one year ago i came to divorce and told you that our house is on fire. i said i wanted you to panic who could forget i've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do thank god for that because i've got to say with the way she's been talking i thought perhaps no one had told her we must forget about net 0 we need real sea of well i needed some good news let's see what's happening in the orange corner fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism in action. knows what he's doing and knew there was nothing to worry about carbon emissions we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse don't it calm down i mean not is not the life of the party but he's just a kid it seems in the area where trump and grettir can see. today i'm pleased to announce the united states will join one trillion trees initiative being large here at the world economic forum one trillion truths oh yeah growth is going to love that one we're not telling you to offset your emissions by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like africa while at the same time forests like the amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate ok so this is going to be a bit harder. as we all do. is that nothing can be done sitting here right now you wouldn't believe it's possible. that we have found the we'll be hearing about it but we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible with a well i'm convinced our new. russia became the hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump on wednesday head of the house dems adam schiff mentioned the apparent all important word in his opening speech while just a few times russian intelligence services russian expansionism russian forces and their proxies russia kremlin russia's president vladimir putin the russian military agency it's we can fight russia over there are the russians through russian efforts thanks to vladimir putin when the president said he russia if you're listening. they were listening in to the russian story while the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to a ban on filming a sketch artist and said captured the atmosphere in the chamber some of the pictures showed members having a bit of trouble staying involved in the process stretching their legs diddling around even dozing off senators also faced a 12 hour no phone policy while the death we spoke to john the sound political commentator chadwick moore he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment are bored with this whole onto russian narrative. the democrat party has 100 percent of their energy and their time into trying to remove a duly elected president from office their biggest hoax russia go completely flat and even their strongest support everything they thought of the president as a plot even their strongest supporters the people who most want to believe that the president will be removed from office which he absolutely will not even they've grown bored with this narrative and when they start reading up rush again. it's just so sad you can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh and then see below see 7 times at last count referred to russia or putin the impeachment proceedings i don't know are they trying to tie up the loose ends of this narrative are they just trying to connect all these threads that they've everything that sort of thrown at the wall to the next to the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money everything that didn't stick a waste of everyone's time. still to come on the program and macho and backed out against the us presence in iraq to help all the details and not in just 90 seconds. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with crazy money and the result will be medieval as a real feudalism it's clear as day. welcome back thousands are protesting in the iraqi capital baghdad calling for the u.s. to end its military presence in the country the protest called the 1000000 man march was set up by an iraqi share cleric however washington is playing down the road is highlighting the friendship with the country. we like what we're doing we like them and we've had a very good relationship the mission is much wanted by the iraqi military we believe most iraqis we have said that we're not interested in talking about withdrawal because we don't think we should withdraw our any conversations that the iraqis want to have with us both the united states and iraq we believe should 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