a team of russian artist meter on the sidelines of all this of ways to get involved as well they created these mosaic portraits of football stars lionel messi and mohamed salah where that may seem it took them two months and sixty kilos a stone to create those rather nice artworks we asked them where they got their inspiration from. and get out of there for these are i can see a world one of them a still of raising starry this is messy and this is a law which is now because they are the most popular at the moment of course they will not resent us but many fans come here who know them and will be pleased to see them and be photographed next to them and have played it so with the players and fans ready for kickoff it's also another group playing a crucial role in the upcoming event the referees taking on this free for world cup

including video assistant technology designed to help them make the right decisions . so we want we want to use technology and we have to use technology only in the moment that is really needed if the human aspect was completed succes that means that every know exactly what you have to do to take the port in the future but then it was so difficult to to i to understand once intimidators welkom technology so technology of to be really good tools of prevention of good tools. but not changing the approach of referee to take as a first in there's a final decision how would you assess russia's readiness to host the world cup. i was really impressed i didn't have any doubt also remember the confederation cup but now they can feel i'm also or before starting this world cup with that they already saw especially on the refereeing point of view on the preparation their

facilities everything so we are really tense russia for what they've prepared and what they are giving us to prepare at this incredible event so just nail it down to the big business the opening match the world cup where russia faces saudi arabia kicks off on thursday moscow's luzhniki stadium for the whole event we've got you covered. more stories now from around the world making headlines an upcoming concert by a controversial muslim rapper at the battle theater stunned people in paris you may recall eighty nine died in a terror attack at the venue in twenty fifteen shiela do bensky has the story but please be warned you may find some of the images coming up here in this report upsetting.

this theater in paris has become synonymous with tragedy. plans by a controversial museum rock but to perform here have struck d. chord why well just take a listen to some of the lyrics. just. define what. this song was released early in two thousand and fifteen before this horrific attack and it's not only the provocative lyrics about france's secular tradition in medina's career he even has an album called jihad all of the rapper himself says he's against violence and the woodruff and internal struggle

nevertheless thousands have now signed a petition calling for his gigs in october to be canceled and some politicians have joined in on the protests. no french person can accept that this guy's going to spew his though at the very sight of the bad a clown massacre we have had enough of complacency and worse of this incitement to islamist fundamentalism. the ruffin the dean of the particular an unacceptable provocation the families of the victims are not being respected. the hosting of the rapper medini the batter clan is a number below insults the memory of the victims of the thirteenth of november twenty fifth dean there are symbols that cannot be desecrated i ask emmanuel mccrone to ban this concert lawyers representing. some of the relatives of those who were killed and injured in the massacre and now calling for the call sit to be

counseled and we are the worst of the victims and the victims themselves we cannot understand or support the fact that at the battle and where people were killed in islam is worse occurred someone can sing things like that we've been gauging opinion only issue with people in the french capital. and i think he can perform at a better clan i don't consider it and she would not go at all i wouldn't even consider for a second. but like i said he's proud really. it's not a problem for him to. denounce the things that happened in brokaw so we have to let artists express themselves but i don't understand the feelings of the rhythms families and those who are affected by the attack it seems one of france's darkest hours continues to tell people apart. r.t. paris as a footnote to this i can tell you we did contact reprimanding direct also the

theater for their respective comments nothing but yeah when you do get back to us we'll let you know what they had to say. but more to come this choose the lunchtime it's not exactly sixty minutes past one moscow time after the break we'll take a look at how the newly elected italian government is keeping one of its controversial election promises. true. child's seemed wrong wrong but old rules just don't hold. the ball to get to shape out just to come out to it and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the.

in july twenty seventh team holiday a freelance journalist working with. militant shelling in syria. to honor his sacrifice quality has established a holiday memorial they will recognize more reporters who often risk their lives for the sake of the truth and through the peace you can submit to your published works in a video or written form until june the twelfth go to t.v. dot com. has drawn from russia eleven passengers on a river cruise in the russian city of volgograd are confirmed dead after the boat collided with a barge on monday has pictures of that vessel being removed from the fall river earlier on sixteen it seemed the wrong board at the time of the incidents the

search operation is now over parent lee and russia's investigative committee is launched an investigation into what went so badly wrong it seems that passenger vessel was reportedly overloaded by initial estimates and its market lights were switched off when the collision happened. after less than two weeks in power italy's new government is already making good on its campaign promises controversially the interior minister has closed the port now to vessel carry migrants he says the country's new goal is to protect its borders. boy your poor if you know it was dr i want to put an end to this human trafficking which puts thousands of lives at the queen's you called me in the same way. with a queer is so who would raise it other vices that followed but other countries got from being well off when instead of accepting that they were part of the migrants have objects of the same what is in austria to protect the external border security

is one of them. that humanitarian vessel that was turned away was carrying more than six hundred migrants including children and pregnant women eventually it was offered a dock in a spanish port initially the people on board had been rescued off the coast of libya over the weekend and were hoping to disembark in sicily didn't happen meantime side to this the mayors of two other major italian port cities strongly oppose they say the interior minister's move now. but all the gold which doesn't find the harbor can come to the point of me. really has a great capacity for killer and humanity and will open its arms this by its economic problems when i went to the wrong of a computer that this is a moment of shame for our government which is undermining the culture of acceptance characterizes the italian people with their interest drawn in the worst kinds of european nationalism which are a prelude to nazis and jordan fascism. at least being one of the countries hardest hit by the migrant crisis more than half a million people reach that country by boat from north africa in the past five

years this year alone italy's take it in over thirteen thousand migrants more than either spain or greece one of the newcomers arrive in sicily and it's something that's really dividing opinion on that island. the chin by a little bit is just not right that they're invading us they're illegal if a person arrives here legally they are welcomed among these people they're also illegal immigrants and that can be tolerated but they need to be checked we need to know who's arriving these six hundred people as you say we don't know who they are not all of the wrong us people most of the song is closing the ports no i don't think that is right are only telling migrants have gone everywhere and they're welcomed in a splendid way. alters also refused to accept the ship as well saying in fact it was the italian coast guard who are responsible for operations in waters off libya but also hold some keys best from the european council of refugees and exiles who believes e.u. policies in the bigger picture here may be contributing to the problem. i think

there has been a serious failure among many of the countries of the european union to address this issue and particularly the itself in not being a. burden sharing i rather hope that the stance of the new very new spanish prime minister will begin to shame other countries in europe and say well we should also play a part as well but i do understand the attitude of the italian government in saying that we've already born an enormous influx of people the real answer to migration flows from the migration crisis as its term is to try to enable people to live in their countries of origin you you have to actually try to ensure through diplomatic and international efforts the peace at home for people so they don't feel the need

to flee for their lives. controversial whoa boosting voter turnout has been given the green light in the u.s. state of ohio the supreme court there is but the state's policy of removing an active citizens from the register and with many no saying therefore the initiative may result in voter suppression sirrah car next looks at how the move could potentially affect u.s. democracy. u.s. politicians always stress how vital every vote is when it comes to elections go to the polls and vote your conscience vote free are for sorry there's no such thing as a vote because i'm out. you know better stand and speak and your conscience really really really can't so with somewhat hard to believe your right to vote can be taken away so easily but that's exactly what's happened in the state of ohio the decision up held by the supreme court means you use it or lose it when it comes to casting your ballot so imagine you don't like any of the candidates and

you decide to skip out on any election after two years a letter drops through your door checking up on you if you don't respond and don't vote within the next two years you're expelled from the voter roll entirely if you miss the mail that's it no more votes the state claims that the policy is necessary to keep its voter rolls up to date but civil rights organizations are raising the alarm the supreme court got this one wrong the right to vote does not use it or lose it the public trust in the fairness of our elections is badly shaken this decision rule few of the foreign food suppressors across the country who want to make sure they choose and candidates win reelection no matter what the voters say votes is should not be purged from the rules simply because they have exercised their right not to vote at least a dozen conservative states have pledged to adopt the same law but according to the american civil liberties union the policy could purge seventy five hundred voters in the last presidential election alone had it not been repealed and it's believed

almost one hundred fifty thousand people have lost their votes of the past two years when a legible voters are thrown off states voting rolls simply for not voting within the two year time frame that effectively takes away once right to vote it's voter suppression this is a win for voter suppression and loss for voting rights how do you want to take away people's right to vote just because they aren't impressed with the candidates the last eight years and don't want to vote in a country that praises its elections as free and open how's that for democracy voters suppression has become a common heart many political campaign. it's becoming obvious to more and more people the united states is more of a mirage. then has a real to martyr's mirage democracy in that people are going to vote sometimes they're allowed to sometimes they're not they're forced to select from two parties designed to cover up for what has really become an oligarch a government that does the work for the wealthiest puts in place laws for the

wealthiest and we're seeing that under trump as we saw under obama as we saw under bush and clinton this is a two part of the problem us has become an oligarch that uses voting as a way to try to hide the fact that's not really a democracy. and that's where the need to look in so far this chews day my name is kevin o. intensive watching us keep in touch with everything to go to dotty dull calm or any of us social media from a finale mosco good day. that's

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they are my issues by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more into the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because we. greetings and salutation. from putting ad dollars and ratings ahead of the story to being an all access echo chamber for political partisanship and power and don't even get me started on their obsession with all things donald trump look let's be honest talk watchers are luster of course the state the news media especially here in the united states is not exactly been living up to the high standards of journalism as of late and while there is an awful lot to complain about. that

doesn't change the by the importance of freedom of the press and the news media's job as the for the state the check and balance to restrain government power tyranny spending yes. in a report to make all libertarians and want to be libertarian republican salivate. a professor at notre dame's mendoza college of business has discovered that one local newspapers die so does government efficiency as bloomberg summarises the economist behind the report show that after a local newspaper closes local governments experiencing high experience higher borrowing costs the authors show that without local newspapers local governments tend to engage in more inefficient or dubious financing arrangements and other words it truly is the local reporters columnists and editors who when doing their job correctly and keeping the populace informed are the ones keeping government in

check just like the founding fathers of the united states and vision when they enshrined freedom of the press in our constitution shocking i know but with local papers folding quicker than the cavaliers in the finals and corporate monopolies eating up all the rest are we in the last days of fresh ink and hard news is find out if you start watching the hawks. that's. the part of. you that i got. this. is the. welcome we're going to watch the hawks i am tyrrel the

target and on top of the. and local papers to me though pero need so nearly city governments to keep city governments and state governments from running the wild with all of our money i mean this is not something surprising i think most people would understand that having that balance there always keep politicians and government and government employees speak to the fire i'd like to say that most people understand that but i think a lot of people don't i mean over the last ten fifteen years we've watched local papers get eaten up by big conglomerates one going to have you know and there are some great ideas of this of having like a cd pages type thing where each city has those you know place that gives nudes and international news but what happened was all of that local on the ground reporting that was done city council all of that nobody is there and nobody reads it the. report that we're talking about today is called financing ties and darkness a play on the washington post among recent dies and it's called financing dies in

darkness the impact a newspaper closures on public finances interesting taking a look at it from medicare. the researchers looked at some sixteen hundred the english language newspapers serving over two hundred counties in the us between one thousand nine hundred six and twenty fifteen they discovered that miscible borrowing costs it's like when the city's going to get more money to pay for a bunch of things that they passed increased by five to eleven. in places where the you know there was no local paper to report on it there were no local paper to say do we really need this extra spending do we need really need this extra bill for ideal government running and chopped and wow five to eleven and if you don't the home cross the world municipal bonds are this brilliant way that we came up with in the united states to pay for things that said you know minute municipal or city governments mean so the idea is you can you can buy these bonds and

essentially what you're doing is lending money. to the city you have a certain interest rate but the amount of when you have a city that has lots and lots of these municipal bonds and there are interest rates and all of that are sort of one all over the place this is what happens if you're out of control spending because those miscible bonds are going to be worth a whole lot because the city is probably going to go bankrupt and one of the things you see is in denver one of their small papers so you had the denver's rocky mountain news so researchers your time on this study researchers discovered that without that one local paper and done for the spread of the year old of newly issued local municipal bonds as your top one of thirty seven basis points so it's this huge amount of spending no check in normally you have people like at city council meetings going hey do we need to spend this can we afford this or do we need to issue more bonds that's one of the things and they found a similar situation when you're looking at it at the cincinnati post when after

that close you had newly issued local municipal bonds increased by sixty six point one basis points so what we're saying is that they're spending more and more and these small these municipalities are putting themselves in debt putting their citizens in debt to pay for things because what happens when they are going bankrupt and they need more money to pay for things they raise your taxes are the next step then we're going to raise taxes on the public which about actually hurts all of us all because of what people were buying up newspapers to stay informed about what their government's doing circular and newspapers are probably reporting what their government is doing let's not forget that as well circulation numbers are fall and of course we twenty seven percent from two thousand and three to two thousand and fourteen of loose local newspapers around the country that's according to pew research there's been a thirty five percent decline in state house reporters that means reporters going to capital cities and reporting on what the government is doing i guess what in the scramble to cut costs and newsrooms well we don't really know. need

a reporter to cover what the government is doing that's the logic going on but we need one to cover the sports too that want to never get cut no you would never cut out one but there's you know it goes on and on and that's the thing they don't they don't think they're having someone covering city councils they don't think that their stories are interesting because in their mind it's much easier to just you know it's what radio stations have done in talk radio stations and then they turn into just play whatever pop music and whatever ads and purana limos international news whatever here's the weather here's the traffic here five. and i knew a lot of people were talking about to the local will you will come and save us more people for life when researchers in this report found that that doesn't hold weight either because states with high usage you know when you see this percentage of states or cities with higher degrees which local paper shuts down same thing happens didn't matter if the news was suddenly online or not you know they didn't matter if they're high you know it's really great it's really crazy but ultimately

comes out we've got to get people informed about what's right and that was one of the things that god told the guardian about that he said quote we hope this paper raises awareness of the importance of a local newspaper it's like a public good earn environmental protection and i think that's what's really important whether it's a town of twelve hundred or a town of fifteen fifteen hundred or fifteen thousand or a million you need to have local news and you need to know what's going on in your own backyard most of. this week marks a dark time in the battle over net neutrality watchers on monday june eleventh the federal communications commission led by former verizon lawyer and chairman by effectively ended net neutrality rules rolling back requirements that intercepts internet service providers like fries and comcast offer equal access to all web content here in the u.s. so while we know that the draco malfoy of the f.c.c. will more than likely be spending this weekend dancing on the grave of internet

freedom while sipping warm champagne the rest of us. now left wondering what comes next joining us today to help us see into the future is r t correspondent that welcome natasha. thanks so much to have a you know it's a great question because as you can imagine both sides are pretty heated about this i mean you even have opposing views within the f.c.c. itself with both the commissioner and chairman fighting for different sides and the net neutrality rollback went into effect today you have nancy pelosi and senators like dan feinstein speaking out against it and feinstein she voted to she voted against the repeal rather last month and now she's urging her colleagues to do the very same but what's interesting is that three different governors in different states they took a proactive measures they are were also against the repeal they'd use executive powers to ensure that measures were still being enacted for an trolleys so it's

interesting to see them do that and we'll just have to wait and see if other states follow their lead. and that stance was so interesting is if these states are going to jump on this if we're going to see you know it's like now that it's too late people are protesting this for a long time and now suddenly it's like oh wait oh my gosh they did change this at the end of the day that's absolutely no analysis of labels like wakin up about but it's pretty it's pretty remarkable to see this and certainly you know. one of the things the comes to my mind is where so the the activists and such are going to the states now is that is that the next step for them. i mean we'll just have to wait and see i don't know if congress is going to act on it or not i know that you know like i mentioned dianne feinstein is talking about you know having her colleagues vote the same way she did to you know against the repeal but what also is very interesting is that some experts are saying that it's really not going to have much of an impact they name companies like facebook. apple microsoft and they're saying

that these companies actually have a lot more power to keep things the way they are and what they're saying is that if if these service providers do you know slow down the internet speeds unless people end up paying more that these companies are the ones that buy the majority of the ads online that we see and so if it's so slow i mean people like us we're not going to go online and look at our facebook feed as much we're not going to go on amazon and you know looking to see what's on sale to to shop or anything like that and so if if these big companies pull their ads because many people are going online then the service providers will really feel it so i think it's an interesting point that you know things might not be changed we just have to wait and see most definitely will be because we've got. it just you know i don't think you're going to see the big ones slow down you know i think we're going to see is very selective you're

going to see come to the big companies like that start charging you know pay your corporation to afford it you know but it's a little it's a little businesses that are going to get it the most but yes and that's one of the hard parts of understanding this and i'm sure you know it's you know this is one of those things where people don't notice it till it starts happening and now that it's such a big deal we might see a real shift in people's behavior online just anticipating whether things phone down or not i think we definitely see a lot of. a lot of that you know you know most of all the reason more to to pay attention to what's happening yes this is one of those moments in those things and in news history where it was your son to let it go at ten years of activism and. i hope we don't see that we don't see that we're going to looking back i'm side twenty twenty but thank you for the good good reporting on this always a pleasure to have you on the talk listen up as we go to break talk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think at the top of the cupboard on facebook and

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