a woman born with a spinal defect wins her case against the doctor who 20 years ago failed to advise her mother properly about having children august debate the case because what i do now is medicine. now, in 20 years time, we made george my actions. the doctor has called the wrong. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, and i mean this in a sensitive why. i wish i would never been born ah hi, that very good afternoon to great to have you with me here on anti international concerns are being raised over social networks, which is possible ties to the u. s. government after the tech john suspended more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries that included china and russia over lead state sponsored information operations. now twitter mess decisions on which accounts to suspend were made with the guidance of the australian strategic policy institute. this is a think tank that sponsored by u. s. government agencies and they include the department of defense and he stung hawkins styles deeper into the institutes, activities. it's common knowledge that trusts in conventional media is falling. you know, when you ask someone where they get their news on, they reply, i don't watch tv, i'll do my own research or get my news off social media. that's fair enough. that least with normal news, you tend to know who's sponsoring it, be it's a government or corporation. and you can make your own conclusions. but when you see who's behind an organization claiming to be independent and non partisan, drafted to help provide independent analysis to stop social media manipulation, world, anyone would have a few questions. it's not like the australian strategic policy institute hide the fact they're sponsored by the u. s. government or some of the biggest names in the military. industrial complex. the long list is there for all to see is just when so much funding comes from the sources. one does wonder just how independent and balanced they can be. even former australian officials have concerns about the things acts output echoed by some current lawmakers. surely it's fair to subject aspect funding arrangements to scrutiny. se receives corps funding a $4000000000.00 from the department of defense. again, the thing thank makes no secret of its anti china stance and the list of works on their website. in fact, china is a key target of the organizations works from human rights in shin gan to chinese tech systems influence projects or this information in social media. many funded by the u. s. department of state and defense. their definition of independence may be malleable to say the least. an a s p, i are good at what they do, at least for their defense, industry, sponsors. the numbers say it all since the think tank was founded 20 years ago. weapons manufacturers of collected tens of billions of dollars in government contracts prior to the cobit pandemic. the organization hosted dozens of events, some of bringing it together. key players in defense and politics. providing the opportunity for closed door discussions with government departments and agencies. the s p i is so heavily involved with foreign governments and political organizations. it's even registered with the australian governments. forward inputs transparency register. many were so pleased with the think tanks work. their funding to the organization has grown significantly year on year as have their funds from sponsorship and commercial revenue under the direction of executive director peter jennings. who is himself clear where the blame for increasing tensions lies. most rising south shawnasee you posing china's authoritarian control in hong kong, threatening taiwan and japan on a daily basis. china is the strategic problem in the region and back to the point. the thing thank is now partnered with the social media joint, helping to decide and coordinate what information users have access to and what is sensitive so much for an opponent, analysis and serving the public conversation is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve well to a distress is its goal is to ensure the integrity of public conversation and sandra, bruno and independent political analysts says that there's more to it though than just that there is a climate of tension of geopolitical tension already surrounding that. so it's not surprising that twitter is very happy to comply to the you the, let's put at the u. s. mainstream or the deep state view. i'm not surprised at all that they cooperating with an institute such as the australian, and that's not the only one there. cooperating with the perhaps they chose australia to appear independent, but they don't expect independent advice. they're looking for the kind of view that reflects ultimately be american view. how different is the trillion view from the american right now? considering that they have just joined our course, that institute is much more closely aligned to langley in virginia, where i'm located, that it is to twitter users wanting independent information over in the u. k. the royal college of midwives has said, sorry for it's late is supposedly inclusive guidelines, which made no reference to women or mothers, but only to post natal people responding to complaints the college called that an oversight a form or an interest in this we spoke, he says it's not the role to tell midwives what to think is perfectly obvious why they apologize because of the instantaneous backlash. health services set her to be a safe environment for this normal process is natural process to happen. it is not the royal college of midwives role to tell them, make wives how to think and, and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of their members. the doors union withdrew the gender neutral guidance following an online backlash in the instructions for an h. s staff on how to put newborns to bed safely. they didn't mention women at all referring rather to parents and cares. the guns were supposed to be l g b, t inclusive. but it didn't go down well with every one. how can you possibly rise about pregnancy and birth without mentioning women? that's deliberate, not an oversight. apparently the royal college, a midwife says midwives need to call mothers postnatal people, not mothers or women. so to all you ladies out there, you are a postnatal person, not a mother. i. right. how did the royal college of midwives forget about women? they are the sole reason you even exist. former and anxiousness, rebecca butler says that neither the general public nor transgender people support the idea. people don't want to replace the word series, a very, very vocal minority, and a very effective act. this group in stone wall who want to rewrite the rules by which we live. i don't know who they think they're appealing to because the person in front of the midwife is a biological woman. why the world college of midwives has chosen to adopt policies, advocated by stonewall, is a matter for them to answer. but my point here is that the general public does not support ace midwives do not support kate and i actually, neither does the transgender community. it is one organization that is pushing it to gender so hard and is getting it very, very badly. a mother is a mother and the role of the midwife is to ensure the mother's safety and the baby safety, and that is the end of their role. they should not be involving themselves in this sort of ridiculous political posturing. a young woman with a spinal defect as successfully sued her mother's doctor for giving a bad advice 20 years ago before her pregnancy and alon mock ruling the case, i court agreed that his failure to tell her to take supplements amounted to negligence. ab toombs overcame her condition to become a para show jumping star, though she has to spend days at a time connected to tubes. the judge said that this could have been avoided, though if her mother had been told to take folic acid both before and during her pregnancy. in accordance with official guidance provided with the correct recommended advice she would have delayed attempts to conceive in the circumstances there would have been a later consumption which would have resulted in a normal healthy child. the doctor in question denies the allegation, saying he provided all the necessary instructions 20 years ago. we discuss what precedent the ruling sets with august john gaunt, radio host and columnist and dr. dean exit a general practitioner. this taste we're talking about was 20 years ago in year 2001 i think it was. and around that sort of time we too would probably have been giving advice off. well, if your diet is rich and go to cast it, keep that up, keep doing it. don't necessarily mean to supplement. so again, it's really hard to judge what happened back in 2001, based on the standards we have today. can you really bring fun? you can, because it's up. but can you bring the case 20 years after so many poor afford? i mean, this isn't for linda mind where somebody was given, you know, a tablet. it isn't that kind of situation. this scenario shows that you're going to have to take a much longer time in the future to very clearly document the advice we give. and more importantly, actually the advice that we don't give. so it's kind of a significant plan to put our time one of the, the big challenges that often documentation. it's about how you are judged because of course, what i do now is medicine. now in 20 years time, we may judge my actions as a doctor as completely wrong because as time progresses and we learn more, our practices progress. one of my words would be for doctors that they would on the side of caution now and perhaps start recommending for other both difficulties. may be abortion. i'm thinking particularly of down's syndrome babies when we do know that they, these people can go on to lead. very successful lives as well as the have to be aligned somewhere, doesn't matter because of course we recognize that and patients there are no certain details of medicine. it's our job to teach them. busy to bring them on that journey to get them on board and we can make decisions to get that to treat the problem. but if we're saying and all that common sense stuff to fall into the lap of the doctor to have to deal with and say, well, come on, doctors responsibility to tell you how to live your life. what to do. not only they are responsible for prescribing, but also responsible for telling you how to live healthily and if you don't have healthy, that's doctors all. and that's an impossible situation to doctors to work it. we do need perhaps now in the light of this we need to put some safety guidelines in there goes to the patient and for the doctor. i mean, i do find it incredible that 20 years after this, the doctor is in this position with his whole life ruined by still of immense sympathy, obviously for a lady involved as well. you know what, we're already in that position of jeopardy because that's exactly the situation we dr. moment. for example, if i was to get a patients and advice today and the patient doesn't necessarily follow that advice, doesn't necessarily come back to see me again, like i asked them to do. and then suddenly they develop a severe illness and they come back and see me and say, well, the doctor found it. my argument back would be, well, you didn't come back to me like ask you to or you didn't do the things that i asked you to. nonetheless, i will have to go through the process of call. i just think this is a really tragic case. and i wish you had never come to court a wish the evie had got the help and the assistance she needs. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, i mean this is a sensitive why. i wish i had never been born. does it come up for you this hour england's facing what one top surgeon described is the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe. i've more on that for you in just a few moments. news . join me every 1st on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking the guess of the world politics. sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. i have to say that the stand, the criteria are in germany for many years has been compatibility with public opinion. those politicians paused as competent. we act in line with what people expect from them, but the public opinion is produced or shaped by mass media. those are shipped by journalists, most german journalists are sympathizes of the social democrats and of the green. therefore, as long as it goes green and social democratic policy projects, you pass is a competent leader. with oh, good back, then you owe me crowns. strain of co vids is now being detected in $38.00 countries, not according to the world health organization. no deaths have yet been reported due to this particular mutation, but the latest data suggests that the virus is spreading twice as quickly as the previous delta variant. meanwhile, south africa, which was among the 1st to report the new strain, the same record daily cove infections. the low vaccination rate in the country has started to pick up in recent days. jobs are widely available, but less than half the other population on the less has been inoculated. of course, want to pull a list, but we vaccine experts in the south african capital. people don't know what this army crown is, especially because sciences haven't confirmed conclusively what the side effects are. so we are getting a lot of people coming through out of fear, especially in our older population. you know, people who are regent, 7 seas and 8 sees we see them quite anxious to get they booster. and so they, as i would say, traffic to, to fear of the unknown the is a concern at the vaccines aren't working, but i always say to them, remember, last year, how many patients we had in hospital in i see use how hospitals almost had to convert every ward in so many i see you include in the e r's compared to now people are still getting contracted with covered but it's manageable. so we are seeing numbers going up. but in terms of how severe the reaction is to the virus, it's a lot listened. and this is a private explanation fainter, which means it is well we thought and full of information, a far cry from many of the vaccination centers in the poor locations here in south africa where there's a lack of resources. and people don't have the kind of information that they have here hadn't been here 6 months ago. it would have been a very different story. but in the last 6 months, you've had in july unwrap the country and in november you had municipal elections. following those 2 mass events, you now have a situation in south africa where almost everybody knows somebody who has contracted cove. it. we need to realize that everything that we do will be a precautionary measure, so that we can control and help save a good, a good number of them. my job to i was telling me it's also take an act of parts and that we won't find turing solutions immediately. i just kind of inherit goal allen the world. you realize that if you don't put on the effort someone else might have to buy for you. so i decided i'm gonna protect people and you come and get my vaccinations and i need to get that immunity going and, and yeah, the boosters and the vaccines worth of science as shown less and with in south africa specifically we've known that vaccinated people are not in hospitals, on ventilators, it's mostly undocumented. of the feel that they'll do more of your videos. you know, it's still gonna, i'm still going to be the last one becoming so. so if i'm vaccinated, i'm also, you know, positive preaching physically. i'm jimmy little. so i'll be no strong in my body. this is south africa 2nd christmas and a lockdown. december is also the main holiday season, which is why many here are concerned that with the ongoing international travel band, just what the impact on the economy will be. and whether or not they'll ever get to spend a christmas with a loved ones policy or r t, johannesburg, south africa, or the 700000 potential cancer cases of be missed in england during the pandemic. that's according to a government watchdog report. leading surgeon says that the finding reflects the country's biggest ever cancer catastrophe. the report also found that one and 4 cancer patients have been on waiting lists for months and up to 60000 missed their 1st treatment due to log downs and the threat of cove it. the report recognizes that the government is releasing extra funds to fight the problem, but medics a warning. it's nowhere near enough. the national audit office report shows who are in the middle of the biggest cancer catastrophe ever hit the chess. there is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board, a breach in a lottery of cancer inequality and to growing cancer backlog. and it feels like the government and an h. s. leaders have their heads in the sand. we've contacted an a chest england comment spokesperson, really sustainment ron admitting the extra demands of treating current of respect and tablet affected the ability to provide routine and non urgent care. the sama clock. a microbiologist says that it all points to some difficult months ahead. for hospitals now yeah, the number is far too high. eighties, surprising. but it's not surprising. we, we should have a box backlog all throughout the cave in saga, which is lasted well for, for well every year. and a chest was unable to deal with his normal case loads. and arguably could have been even worse without a lot downs. so those cases are just going to mount top. it's still going to be critical issue. the winter is always a high time to dna testing, and i can see us having, if not a disastrous time this week, probably won't be austria's day, will be tight because he usually is and we've got this crap, this kind of the backlog. some cancer centers did manage, it was difficult, it was not easy. and of course there are questions about infrastructure. so regional cancer center, for example, may have better infrastructure and better ability to type a more local center. so it's not always straightforward, but it can be done. the white house is blaming a surgeon lawlessness in the united states on the pandemic, or 60 gen saki when questioned about recent math looting named cove. it is a key factor when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loop a store, a cbs, nordstrom, a home depot until the shelves are clean. you think that because of the hand i, i think a root cause and a lot of communities is the pandemic. yes. jackie's remarks come amid is spike in looting in a number of states over the last month. something some blaming on the rise of the defun, the police movement is look back at some all thought recently. think a return police officer dominic is o explained to is why the crime search has nothing to do with the pandemic. stressing also that dean fund the police, he says it's just an emotional response. just embarrassing that they're not admitting what it is. it has nothing to recall, but it has nothing to do with bell reform. and them releasing criminals right back on the street, not prosecuting properly has nothing to do. a coven defined the police movement is an emotional response for any time that that the public doesn't understand when use of force is needed, right? you have unarmed either black americans or whatever the case is shot by police and before an investigation is done. the civil rights activists come in and claim police misconduct. so we already have a situation where emotions are high to the voter, thinks the emotional voter thinks is that who this is defining the police, which means we're going to get rid of the cops on our streets. and then let's replace them with the social workers or other people who are better trained and equipped to deal with emotional issues on the street. when you start to have that mindset, well then you're, you're looking at police negatively. so already the immoral, the criminal who are out there, feel that they've got the backing of the public. well, i don't have to obey the law. i can break the law because there's already this massive movement to define the police, which means they're going to side with me. it's a mindset of it's okay for us to do this. and we're going to act like criminals because nothing's gonna happen to us. so as facing a crime wave, the united states is also suffering from soaring inflation. and many americans have lemming the biden administration for that with 20 percent saying pool leadership is the country's top problem. democrats are among them with some quitting the party. others even switching sides, breaking it down for us is artist kelly moping. apparently it's not only working families throughout america who are disappointed by the biden administration's handling of several crises. it's also members of biden's own democratic party, some like the former spokesperson for the washington d. c, mayor, have decided to switch over to the republicans in hispanic and also black eyes. i should be democrat by fault, but i'm going against their narrative. and i feel like right now i'm, everything is crumbling for the democrats biden is completely destroying the economy right now. and people can feel it. so that's what's happening in washington dc. now washington, d. c, is a city that is pretty solidly in the democratic camp. democrats sometimes even get 90 percent of the vote in elections. no wonder democrats as far away as texas are switching sides friends, something it's happening in south texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in washington d. c. on not our values, not the values of most texans, the ideology of to funding the police of destroying oil and gas industry, and the chaos. our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in south texas. in addition to the recent shift, 19 democrats are set to leave the house of representatives in 2022. that includes 3 committee chair, some are retiring or seeking another office. republicans only need to gain 5 more seeds in the upcoming mid term vote in order to re take control of the house of representatives. and many observers say their chances of doing so are pretty good. some are comparing it to the republican sweep 10 years ago. how's democrats have more retirements than they did in 2010 when the last 63 seats? it's not only the party that's losing people. kamala harris, the vice president of joe biden, is watching her team implode as well. her spokesperson and her communications director have both decided to quit with reports indicating that there are 2 more aids who have one foot out. the door reports are leaking out about strife between her office and the biden team, and the backdrop to all of this is the joe biden's approval ratings. keep going down. the mid terms are less than a year away and the democratic party seems to be crashing and burning. it appears that some in light of the circumstances have decided to jump out of a sinking ship, which might be causing the democrats even more trouble. the democrats are not delivery and plain and simple, and they're specifically not delivering to the people who are responsible for putting them in power, namely indigenous black, brown, asian, and poor white people. they have given this president and his congress a chance to govern, and the results so far have just not been adequate enough. we have not seen a protection of voting rights. we have not seen police reform. we have not seen action on climate change. i think that people are rightfully letting this administration know based on the approval ratings that are more needs to be done and very, very quickly. or there will be electoral consequences if things don't turn around. and i'd be very, very quickly where people can start to see a trajectory of it going upwards in their favor. they're going to respond with their boats and the democrats could be wiped out. and finally they saw the festive season going up to a band started london, the capitals showcase christmas tree. and to found gus square isn't quite up to she shall standard this year, living some to wonder what no way was traditionally provides. it might be trolling . the brits ah ah ah, the trafalgar square christmas tree got a trim from forest johnson's ball but call me at all with no we now a fog, a square christmas tree has arrived. ah, the following media includes potentially sensitive content. sometimes i wonder if no way is truly nasty a bit. when they choose which tree to give us 40 fell go square. i would like everyone to know that half of my branches are not missing their social distancing. remember to stay safe this christmas and where a face covering on public transport and while inside shops and i wraps it 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