happen to them also has a landmark united nations ruling hands refugees the right to decide if they are threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe of mass immigration we put the issue up for debate it's just another way to listen to exploit the poll but to open borders you know even at the most obvious level i come to leave and they want squabbles the kind of people who will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. bring you your news this is international happy to have you with us as we talk through the biggest stories of the day. and let's start in france because right now for our sins are rallying against calm. pension reform plans on friday president but the proposed changes to his cabinet that have also been a major strikes across the country marking the largest shutdown of infrastructure in the country in decades. due penske reports from paris. 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 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 february and we know that the strikers why 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 were due to add 2 years on to the pension age before you could receive pull a pension and the government is also relinquished and said that certain sectors certain professions will continue to have a special conditions special conditions reality is the. law hasn't changed dramatically from what the government sent out to do so in some respects you could say the protesters who haven't really got 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 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 the aim of this reform is to overhaul the system so it becomes much fairer. and more adapted to the transformations of the working world of tomorrow the construction of the universal pension system corresponds to the will of the vast majority of french people work is on the street disagree with that they say no it won't it means we'll work for longer and we'll have to work harder and perhaps we'll end up with less money in our pockets at the end the government says anybody who works a full career which is some 40 odd years will receive a minimum pension of a 1000 euros a month then he people say that is not a lot to live on and 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 their defiance against this new law. across the channel in the u.k. the national health service is facing a fast of its kind legal battle over prescribing children as young as 9 puberty blockers uncrossed sex hormone 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 that no child should go through the experimental. shot and with dashing prince the story. 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 it 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 prescribe 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 and claimants are 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. it's what i found using some unpublished data that i discovered from the tavistock clinic is that after 12 months on t.v. blockers they were saying quite pronounced negative. 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 say 3000 percent more patients than they did 10 years ago among girls is 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 for 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 distressed 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 well former psychiatric nurse susan evans who actually worked up the development service and was the original lead claimant in this case told r.t. the drugs being used on license 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 and in full consent if we also don't know the outcomes the full side effects of what's going to happen to them you know it's not informed in terms of the medical outcomes you know even the experts don't know the full picture yet we need more research but her drugs are 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 kosha to beauty which is when they develop too far into puberty is children but in the area of gender identity medicine. these drugs are not licensed for that. climate refugees all 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 and that's according to a new in the landmark ruling by the u.n. which could potentially set a new precedent for migration. committees of divya. national and international efforts the effects of climate change are receiving states may expose individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara full my obligations of sending states the ruling is based on a complaint brought by an island from care of 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 to germany's interior ministry has spoken out against the united nations decision. most studies suggest an environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions. political commentator david farts and former leader of the wales green party that's peter bart and lottie gave us their take on the whole case i think the un 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 un talks about in the un 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 or 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 pepa you've missed something you've just said so many of living 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 cities submerged or i don't know you can you write this suggesting that all these people. what you just did you know you answered your stealing and said you just said you said that many of these will be underwater which by the way is absolutely disconnected from reality but even if i take you on the war on your actual words what you're saying is that spring 3rd world people to submerge surveys doesn't make a lot of sense does it 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 symbolism. and continuing the topic of the climate to the swiss mountains and the wild economic forum in davos where america's treasury secretary steve minutia has found himself involved in a bit of a spat with a teenager none other than the eco activists and bug the u.s. finance chief responded to her comments about spending to offset carbon emissions somewhat costing a doubt over that 17 year olds 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 vestments done it up now steve initially is not the 1st u.s. official that got a term but has clashed with recently back in december for example donald trump suggested the activists shouldn't walk on her anger management problem and their differences on disputes have continued with climate change dominating much of the discussion about world economic forum the late sept is owed 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 champagne and skiing in the swiss mountains leaving the 99 percent to pray for nonviolent. because hundreds of thousands just to go to davos for that the filthy rich demand to be entertained and this year they got rock row tickets for the heavyweight championship of the world so trump is grad. school for gratitude. in a ski resort this week with an i think it's a way with their release sending a supply work becomes an. pay for full price ticket. for a slow start the worry she warms up quicker than the atmosphere. or one year ago i came to divorce and told you that our house is on fire. i said i wanted you to panic you 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 thing as 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 donny calm down. i'm in and out 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 launched here at the world economic forum one trillion troops 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 for what. 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 answers you'll be hearing about it but we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible with say or i'm convinced on you. still ahead in the program a 1000000 man march in baghdad against the us presidents in iraq we have more details not story in just 90 seconds. we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from a gene we call these longevity genes and there's a set of genes that we work on in my lab at harvard called the search and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 80. 1 else truths seem wrong when old rules just don't call. them the old beliefs yet to shape out just they become educated and indeed equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as a deal feudalism it's clear as day. welcome back thousands are protesting in the iraqi capital baghdad horning for the u.s. to and its military presence in the country the protest called the 1000000 man march was set up by in awhile to share cleric however washington is playing down the rallies highlighting instead that friendship with the country. we like what we're doing we like them and we've got 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 about the united states in iraq we believe should in must cover the entire gamut of our relationship the situation in the region has escalated since the u.s. killing of iran's top general on a senior iraqi militia in a drone strike near baghdad international airport at the beginning of january following these assassinations iraq passed a resolution to expel foreign troops from the country but that does still need to be ratified by the prime minister the u.s. president has rejected the move that i would want sanctions would be imposed if baghdad does go ahead without military expulsion. well russia has become the hot topic of the continuing democrat impeachment trial against donald trump and one stay ahead of the house dems that's adam schiff mentioned their party all important was 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 hey russia if you're listening they were listening that's the russian story. while the cameras were focused on the senate floor due to a bout of filming sketch artist and said captured the atmosphere in the chamber some of the pictures showed some members having trouble staying involved in the process stretch their legs doodling and even taking a nap such as also faced a 12 hour no phone policy while thought at the desks we spoke to john the sound political commentator chad but more he says that even the strongest supporters of trump's impeachment aborts with the whole anti russian narrative. the democratic 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've heard of the president is a blot 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 ripping up russia again. it's just so sad you can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh and then see below see if the 7 times at last count referred to russia or putin is the impeachment proceedings i don't know they trying to tie up the loose ends of this narrative are they just trying to connect all these threads that they've you know everything that sort of thrown at the wall to the extent of the expense of millions upon millions of taxpayer money everything that didn't stick to waste everyone's time. to round off all but a simple the whistle blow up who exposed extensive u.s. they in its programs all around the globe that's edward snowden has given him and teach the form of president of. the us a seeking to charge snowden with espionage and theft of government property while the form of government contract has said he would like the information again and that he'd be willing to face trial if he could tell the truth and he needs in the beginning from many media outlets were supportive of astonishing yourself nowadays we can say that the mainstream media has changes to talk and they should be defending access to information that might the freedom of the press not just for americans and of everyone else why they know why can't you vote on that because he thought while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a massive scale they have in a few exceptional circumstances. they have thought well. how can we get the media to support our narrative how can we get them to support our perspectives and i think this is what people miss against the distinction between the more reality and the legality of the thing sometimes the only moral decision that individual happens is to break the law and the question is not what is this disclosure of legal or illegal the question was and the question is is the information that they provide and true or false is the information they provided useful society to society harmful to society the question is would you rather not know what's really going on there already i mean how do you feel about the fact that back home you could be tried under a law that could line you the death penalty this is why i said there is no fair trial that's provided under the espionage act and despite the craziness of this law i have argued to the united states government i have said i will return and volunteer myself for trial on a single condition which is that i get to tell the jury why i did what i did and the government has refused instead they sent me back a letter signed by the attorney general that says well we promise not to torture you when we see the failures in the system it is incumbent on us to do something about even in small small ways you know people make this big question for me because of course i have so many critics i have so many supporters who are hero or traitor or hero or traitor which one are you and i say i'm neither i'm a citizen there are no heroes i'm just an ordinary person who did something unusual or do i think you're a hero if you do something really brave but no no this isn't really i don't we really and i think this is better when we say things like you know i'm not a hero. i'm saying that in the context of there are no heroes there are only horrible choices to be there if you make me sad on the just the fish i'd like to ask you would you do it all over again i would definitely do it again. i have to say it's unexpected because i have paid a real price i can't return home when i'm in a country that's not one not of my choosing. about i'm actually. more satisfied and more connected in the work that i do today than the work that i did before the thing that i'm most proud of. and the thing that gives me the. confidence to say that i would do it again. is that when somebody asks me what are you going to do about it i have my answer. and this is the thing that i think all young people need to hear when we're living in a truly historic time where everything is changing. when someone asks you what are you going to do about of the answer is every film that i can well that's 5 all from me up next it's crosstalk whether diving had fost into the whole impeachment saga stay tuned. you know world of big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is healing this is your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in course the big. shot after shot as far as a side deal that we don't know shields justice from. the end of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know what childress. hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle many call the impeachment trial of donald trump in the u.s. senate a political show well if it is it's not very intervening in fact it's quite boring repetitive and tedious clearly this entire process is a blood fest to play for keeps but what about the institutional damage left in the wake of this low energy process. ross talking impeachment trial i'm joined by my guess men in orlando he's a socialist activist and political commentator in greenwich we have tom perelli he is a america's voice news contributor as well as executive advisor to cloud hub and in personal we cross the ned ryan he is founder and c.e.o. of american majority as well as author of the new book restoring our republic right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate tom let me go to you 1st in greenwich here i mean one of the things watching this entire saga which is unwatchable i have to tell you and my guess and our viewers.