Should be identified as we hear from the father. I consider this to be child abuse and the sexual mutilation of children on a on an industrial. Use this our 1st of the red faces in whitehall where the u. K. Foreign office is trying to track down whos leaked a trove of sense to diplomatic cables written by britains ambassador to the United States in a series of unflattering remarks the diplomat describes president white house as inept clumsy and uniquely dysfunctional lets go live now. In new york president was never going to let this one slide whats been the reaction where you are. Well sir kim derek a long time british diplomat has been serving as the British Ambassador to the United States since 2016 and now we have some rather unflattering comments about the trumpet ministration that he said in confidential diplomatic cables he gave an assessment of the Trump White House that was rather damning lets review some of what was said i do not know the embassador but hes not like or will follow within the us we will no longer deal with him the good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. Now these diplomatic cables have been leaked to the British Press and they reveal some rather interesting statements now we have game kim derek saying that the trouble white house radiates in security we also have it referring to the Trump Presidency as one that would crash and burn and we also have him referring to trump as inept and dysfunctional the comments go on from there this is another selection. We dont really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less and predictable less fiction ribbon less diplomatically clumsy and. Now in addition we also have kim derek refuting a referring to the policy of the white house toward iran he refers to it as unlikely to become more coherent any time soon and he also refers to all hawkish hardliners within the Trump White House and its relations with iran this is this is some of what was also in the cables its more likely that he was never on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 Campaign Promises would look come 2020 at the next president ial election. Now weve had a strong reaction from the United Kingdom theresa may is come forward and said she had full faith in derek and that she did not agree with his characterization however it was pointed out by the United Kingdom and by u. K. Officials that their ambassadors are expected to give an honest and unvarnished assessment of politics in the country they are doing diplomatic relations with in these confidential cables now the u. K. International trade secretary liam fox he said that he found these remarks in the cables to be unethical and unpatriotic and that when he meets with yvonne could trump the president s daughter he will give her an apology in person so in addition to that some of the brags that backing u. K. Politicians have criticized dereks statements which essentially seem to be representing the nation of britain now that they are in the public eye this is what has been said. This was a personal view its not the view of the British Government its not my view we continue to think under president the Us Administration is not just highly effective but the best possible friend of the United Kingdom on the International Stage i think it is very important that ambassadors give honest unvarnished advice to their country and it is disgraceful that it has been leaked from the moment trump was elected this man was their own person to be the British Ambassador or globalist in outlook totally opposed to the term took 3 the sooner who is gone the better now as these comments are now circulating the press after being made public it seems that u. K. Officials are looking to determine who leaked to them and how they became available to the press at the moment it seems pretty clear however that donald trump will not be working with kim derrick any time soon. Ok for now kind of open in new york thanks for that. A former british diplomat all of a miles give us his thoughts on what the link might now mean for bilateral relations between london and washington. The leak is very embarrassing because its going to make the i must of this lot for all the difficult part of his job only part of his job but part of his job is dealing with the president from the media with the White House Team and so on that clearly has got to be a degree of embarrassment perhaps not very serious but there will be a degree of embarrassment and so of the bad news from that point of view on the whole in most cases ive been involved in leak investigations law itself the leak tends to mostly come from the top and i would guess that if this is political role of the possible or im just incompetent many times in the past in fact probably more often than not. Very senior jobs Like Washington like paris like new york the United Nations sometimes like moscow these very senior jobs have in the past been given. What we call political appointments such as to say putting in somebody who is in some other way qualified for the job not from the professional Diplomatic Service that wouldnt be unusual that wouldnt be surprising. Protests have taken place for a 2nd consecutive night in the georgian capital tbilisi over a t. V. Hosts caustic insult filled tirade against the russian president the presenter who works for a popular opposition station mocked but he may putin and his deceased mother live on air on sunday shocking viewers in both countries a correspondent joining. With more on the story. The kind of language that this anchor used you dont hear it on t. V. At all because that was swear words after a swear word you know some of the most nasty words that there are in the russian language i have to point out that this rant was in russian against Vladimir Putin himself and also against his parents who are no longer alive and i can tell you that this video was all over the internet. Immediately i was having a quiet day with my friends when someone said to me and when then when i played everyone was shocked because what they were hearing is life out there as well as having a point that i mean yes with the video was obviously a recording of that yeah it was on you tube but it was just so bad so very quickly georgian protesters and the georgian capital tbilisi started gathering in front of the channels h. Q. Its one of the most popular t. V. Channels in georgia we even heard that some of the staff resigned almost immediately after that an outrage and it had to go off air for a few hours the bosses said it was because of some security concerns but now its back on what about the government itself what has to police he said about this the most senior officials in georgia spoke out very quickly we heard from the president from the Prime Minister from the Foreign Ministry as well they are saying that these kind of insults have nothing to do with patriotism so lets listen to the exact words from the georgian leader dividing the country into 2 camps and inside an external confrontation intention in the region is unacceptable for us is it up or of occasion aimed at the new war or revenge for the failed coup this was an action taken against our country and you what about the reaction from moscow whats their reaction the russian government officials are obviously disappointed there saying that this is nothing but another display of verse of fold so lets listen to bits of the statements from the russian president s spokesperson and also from the russian Foreign Ministry took us its a country its not as for the insults against both our country and our president we of course consider them to be totally unacceptable and we strongly condemned them and we know that the entire leadership of georgia the president Prime Minister parliamentarians and the speaker of parliament have strongly condemned this we see this as another clear provocation by radical forces enjoy. And undermining of russia georgia relations the current laden incident is a vivid example of where frantic brosseau fabia can lead it give us 91 way in the 1st place a georgian t. V. Host as you say a very Popular Program on a popular channel would insult in such a way the president of another country was it a one off incident this for instance we have to understand that at this point the relations between russia and former soviet republic toward you know which is russias southern neighbor are in turmoil and it has been like that for a few weeks right now and. What georgians see as a very serious incident in the republics parliament there was an event for m. P. s of Orthodox Christian countries was an International Event where a russian member of parliament was giving a speech and he sat somewhere where usually the speaker of the Georgian Parliament is sad and that sparked outrage in that country it led to ultra violent riots in front of the parliament would lead to arrests there was one in the streets and in response to that moscow had to suspend direct flights between the 2 countries we know that there are a lot of russian tourists that had to georgia they were fearing that this could lead to possibly violence against russian citizens because we heard a new wave of slogans and russian rhetoric from georgian politicians all the russian government was expecting that these kind of measures could really hit the wall its probably of the owners of Georgian Hotels or businessmen in the tourist industry so definitely the tensions are there and this is probably another example hate speech by an anchor of georgian t. V. Of every sense to the georgian journalists here when. In live on sunday night has now been suspended from his position for 2 months for. A 7 year old boy in the u. S. State of texas has been caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced mother and father his parents cant agree on which gender the child should be identified as your boy right now. Or when with his mother the boy called james lives as ago named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as and says it was the child who expressed an interest in wearing girls clothes she even enrolled the youngster in school with the female name otty Sophie Shevardnadze spoke to the childs father jeff young and you can watch the full interview later this hour on r. T. I took it very seriously because i had to some information what i was still living with with and George Wallace my my exwife had been putting him into timeouts and saying things like the monsters only eat boys ready and some odd things like that he said mommy tells me im a girl. And i would ask him you know do you look like a girl and hed say no but mommy tells me im a girl i just wanted to verify it and i sent her a text and you know are you actually telling james that hes a girl and shes just replied simply yes and then refused to talk to me about it you know hes never presented himself as a girl to me ever and he factor with me he violently rejects any female identity he wont wear female clothes he wont even wear boys brief underwear because he says its too much like girls underwear i believe he dresses by his own will when hes with his mother i just dont think he believes that shell love him if hes a boy of the father has for some time now been fighting for his son to be treated as a boy the gender he was born as jeff younger those being accused by his exwife of abusing that child for not affirming him as transgender of the cutting is actual. The father has an emotionally abusive behavior towards the child as example only hair cut to and other non affirming actions all gone clii of this behavior rises to the level of Family Violence at this time the father said russian is becoming more common and more intense the temporary orders that i am under before we go to final trial actually do allow me to address them as james and his male pronouns but i cannot do that in front of 3rd parties who know him as a girl so basically i cant go to school i keep them away from any friends he might have at school that know him as a girl and at my home hes known as james and i use male pronouns what im prohibited from doing right now is trying to convince him that hes actually a boy one of the big problems that that im going to face eventually is in the state of taxes right now the courts position is that all of this is medical Child Support so i have to pay for him to go to you know a therapist whos teaching him that hes a girl i have to pay for the hormone suppression of puberty which actually chemically castrate boys and prevents the growth of their sexual organs and if he goes to a surgical transition would be medical Child Support as well id have to pay for that i consider this to be child abuse and the sexual mutilation of children on a on an industrial scale so im not paying for any of this im not going to participate in abuse my son anyway all this comes as specialists debate whether children should be allowed to change that gender at such a young age and also later in sophie and co socialista social midges to frank for eddie it says he believes parents shouldnt impose his agenda choices on their offspring. I think its wrong for parents to become preoccupied by gender identity its not something that the vast majority of children ever think about very much its not something that they experiment with to begin with i think that the danger today is is that we have a very Strong Political and cultural pressure on the part of parents to be much more relaxed about the boundaries that used to exist between boys and girls and as the boundaries are questioned so a lot of parents get confused. Next countering malign kremlin influence thats how the u. S. Agency for International Development has called a new strategy to help European Countries avoid outside meddling and reduce their dependence on Russian Energy moscows branded as anti russian propaganda Senior Correspondent greg as they have takes us through the plan next. Usaid has unveiled a new plan a strategy officially aimed at boosting the resilience of part the nations unofficial it appears to mean giving lots and lots of money to anyone that vocally and demonstrably doesnt like russia politicians businessmen media i mean its in the name countering my line kremlin influence plan. These efforts will include creating tools for reform minded leaders in Civil Society voices to tackle corrupt government practices that kremlin agents often selectively exploit for moscow strategic benefit 1st off the us apparently wants to cut out russias voice i mean the aims arent exactly veg what could they mean preventing russia others from meddling in elections ok preventing russia from lobbying for. Interests negotiating not ok it works both ways i mean we know what some of the reform minded leaders and Civil Society voices in the us are like. Us eats funding will build the capacity of indigenous media to provide trusted independent news and Information Sources should be fine and all of americas own independent news and media werent viewed as biased by its own people yeah trust in the media is still a business americans believe its biased its even worse for online media by the way remember when facebook hired death checa linked to the Us GovernmentPoynter Institute for media studies to filter out unreliable sources and they ended up filtering out opposing political views before they were caught at my point why dont they spend that cash on making americas own media but leave a ball. To reduce your opinion regis dependency on russia you will seize assistance will include working with individual states to create Effective Program flea goal and Regulatory Frameworks and assisting them to do and will function in local and Regional Energy markets. There it is the crux of it hiding in plain sight american shale over russian gas more expensive more cumbersome more political yet its full of Freedom Freedom gas they said that i have no idea how they do it with a straight face. Increasing export capacity from the freeport l. N. G. Project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving americas allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy its a whole package money to the media which cries russian wolf money to politicians who get the american way money to lobbyists they get a nice little kick back from selling american gas and moscow course isnt happy the term countering is a clumsy attempt to conceal the aggressive offensive approach this conception is blatantly aimed at propagating risa phobia in the world especially in neighboring countries to russia by the way saving best the last you know why u. S. Aid was expelled from russia 7 years ago why for an election meddling fiasco that for that became a big thing now isnt that ironic unfortunately a mentality took took hold of the establishment in washington early after the demise of the soviet union that there could only be one global superpower in the united the United States had to have had germany over the entire world and sense russia is the foremost military power that is not under the control of the United States and thats why weve seen things like the expansion of nato and Something Like this which is kind of a i and information analogue to nato expansion which is to try to ensure domination of europe and to isolate russia as much as possible. It is paris to cherie blair the wife of former u. K. Prime minister tony blair has been talking to aunties going underground about her role in a frantic legal battle after she helped release a russian business woman facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait. That i have moved her Business Operations to the middle east 15 years ago 2017 she was accused of embezzling nearly half a 1000000000. 00. By kuwait where she worked for an Investment Company she was jailed for 470. 00 days until her release in may this year after the evidence against her was found to be fake the case garnered wide Media Coverage especially on our sister channel r. T. Arabic and got the attention of high profile politicians and lawyers in the United States and russia blair played a key role in our relation you can watch her full interview on r. T. Dont go home. Somebody convicted and absconded marsha whos been under investigation this is been hanging over her head and since 2012 shes been actively pursued by the authorities since 2015 so much so that shes been on bail when she was on bail and her American Green card expired she wasnt able to go and go to the states because fiction was actually overturned in may and why was it overturned because it was based on flawed and indeed forged evidence and she had not been given the opportunity to put her side of the case so the trial actually was a travesty did not comply with fair trial procedures and finally the court of appeal in kuwait did overturn that decision so she isnt currently on bail awaiting trial there was a big conference here about our british investments and there was a general ease about what was happening to Foreign Investors in the gulf in relation to the criminalize ation of what is essentially commercial disputes and essentially fights between commercial companies for lucrative gulf contracts and we believe that this is that marsh if you like is Collateral Damage in a wider buy every between local firms for lucrative gulf contract. Exits but a staple of american satire for nearly 67 years but mad magazine will no longer be a permanent fixture on news stands and will cease publishing new content in the iconic publications monthly issues will now be replaced with end of year specials saskia to the next takes a closer look at whether the medias become a bit too sensitive these days to a joke. That once suggested this surreal concept it was shopped vicious at times and wholly erap for. And it was called satire and its dad rather its been killed off to 67 years of ruthlessly mocking the wild a bedrock of American Comedy the cult satirical magazine mad is shutting up shop from august its just going to recycle old content and put a new cover on it this is a publication ingrained in western culture with its child mascot alfred e. Newman comics like spy versus spy and even its own board games are doing. Ok. Its a game its truly. Not took no prisoners its creator said it was that to toughen up the Younger Generation show lifes ugly side it was also indiscriminate parroting politicians on both sides of the spectrum we pride ourselves on the fact that we have no force. We are all philosophy we are all politics we dont pick sides we have no more scruples we have no say in the. Ideas we have no bananas and im about to set up in 1952 mad was a publication for a different generation its lost its place in an era where offense taken victimhood have become new norms cartoonists now are gagged by hyper sensitive readers and profit driven media moguls cracking jokes is a Risky Business nowadays as the New York Times found out after a jewish themed illustration well went a little wrong and it scrapped all political cartoons and just in case anyone missed its 1st apology it did not the one you know to be on the safe side we are deeply sorry for the publication of an anti semitic political cartoon last thursday in the print edition of the New York Times that circulates outside of the United States and we are committed to making sure nothing like this ever happens again such imagery is always dangerous and at a time when antisemitism is on the rise world. Why its all the more unacceptable and sometimes you just need a helping hand in pacing offense ive been targeted for my cartoons on instagram and on facebook they kept getting censored on instagram and facebook and some of the more provocative pieces that i made they were just getting deleted and so i said to myself well whats the original way to do this so people even suggested in my feed maybe you should make a book being too political can make you a virgin doll for social justice war is but can also cross the line when it comes to your manager just as veteran cartoonist rob rogers could walk for 25 years for one outlet he found dozens of his. Rejected the severance package way too on his desk did your editors give you reasons no they didnt give me any reason at all so youd have to ask them but but the common theme in all the ones that have been rejected is that like 90 percent of them have something to do with trump so so theres a clear pattern that they were trying to sort of tamp down the voice that i was having about you know being critical of trump but its a very realistic spend on trumps catchphrase. Because making fun of reality has become a minefield now shortly after matt was set up in the fiftys its created to have to testify in congress on the negative affects comics were having on the youth of america consultant dr spoke at the hair and worried about whether this innocent generation was prepared for the horrors of sock it that opinion. Without any reasonable doubt. And it out anywhere. But i mean. And in. Fact there are many of the now if you think perhaps they knew what was coming but for the magazine it seems society has had the last laugh were in a an era of Political Correctness and from a private perspective you have the right to censor anything you want if you dont want pornography or you know feed all videos on your on your platform thats totally fine when the government starts censoring i find that a bit alarming the idea that some authority is going to determine whats safe for us to hear and whats not safe is ridiculous expressing different political opinions is the best thing you can do its important that people say what they believe and thats why no matter what the opinion is id rather the person say it and believe what theyre saying in be able to say it so everyone can look at that and hear grit and and judge it for themselves. Ukrainian Television Channel has canceled a planned t. V. Link up with the broadcast russia 24 saying a number of its employees have been receiving threats as a result of the initiative the program which was intended to offer a platform for dialogue between ordinary russians and ukrainians also called protests outside news ones h. Q. In kiev this monday around 200 people gathered to voice their opposition to the teleconference which was also condemned by the ukrainian authorities russia 24 was one of a number of channels on the the country following the 2014 might an uprising in which the government was i was did the Prosecutors Office in kiev now says its launched a criminal proceedings against news one for attempted treason ukrainian channel said the rally and threats amount to direct intimidation and a restriction on journalistic freedom it says that ending the war in the east of the country is of paramount importance and needs to be discussed in the media. News for now next more on the emotionally charged and deeply complex custody case as a texan couple battle over whether their 7 year old child is transgender. Despite that will survival. When customers go by yourself. Well reduce and lower. Thats undercutting but whats good for markets its not good for the global economy. Welcome to sophie and called Sophie Shevardnadze transgenders therapy for children of all ages is gaining popularity at a cost make speed all over the world are 1st to fix what nature apparently got wrong justified especially at such a tender age or are we putting our young in danger of what well talk about that was just an earth to a man who is fighting for his son to remain a boy and sociologist frank furedi. Your boy. Girl who told you your girl molly gender identity is something children as young as 3 are unlikely