remember it was one business show for two minutes one can only. leak. it was easy to. please. the. headline stories this hour police in brussels shoots a. police station. also a. british university tells lecturers to avoid writing fully capitalized

words in case it makes students. fired rehired a manager at a major change in the center of a viral video store using to serve a group of black men unless they paid all fronts for their food. flying high for twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research. behind the scenes and its achievements both in orbit. around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team myself you know me a welcome to the program our top story. police in brussels have shot

a man i'd signed up police station in this city center after an officer was stabbed with a knife correspondent charlotte. tell us more and charlotte what indeed are police saying about what happened what more do we know in general. well not a huge amount of detail coming out so far from this attack which took place in the last few hours in the center of brussels what we do know is that a man wielding a machete attacked a police officer right outside a police station just a few hundred meters away from the grand place which is a main tourist attraction in belgium we understand that the police officer was wounded in that attack and eyewitnesses have suggested that the man shouted out the words bug god is great as he was carrying out that attack now we understand the police officers wounded but is being treated for those injuries and is not in

a serious condition we also understand that attack out was shocked at the scene he was also wounded and he is also now been taken to hospital where he is being treated for his injuries of course suspect the police are wanting to question that man to find out exactly what prompted this attack on the belgium capital the smalling and belgium of course is no stranger to attacks it's been the scene of many terror attacks over the last few years this of course though is the first type of attack like this in two thousand and eighteen but if we go back to two thousand and seventeen there were two confirmed terror attacks in that year one attack which was a failed explosive earlier in two thousand and seventeen and a second one in august just about a year in two months ago with two soldiers who actually did it again by a man wielding a machete at the time now back in two thousand and sixteen so going back just over

two years ago a belgian was subjected to a huge terror attack when there was an explosion at the main train station in the city center there with thirty eight two civilians being killed in that attack the three men who carried that that explosion was. also killed in that attack and more than three hundred people were injured for the moment the police the authorities are not claiming that the incident today is a terror attack but they will be looking to find out exactly what happened for the moment we know that one man who i witnesses say was shot in the words while he attacked a police officer directly outside a police station in the center of brussels the police officers injured is being treated and the man who carried out that attack was also shot but is still alive and is being treated in hospital and as i say you can be sure that the police are wanting to speak to that individual very soon to find out exactly what happened but

belgium for the moment remains on high alert as it has now for many years as that country and many others in europe have suffered at the hands of many terror attacks here going through what we know about today's development in the belgium capital charlotte dubinsky thank you. studying at college can be a tuck seeing time but one british university thinks it knows what's really stressing out students lecturers writing to them in capital letters on a satirical explains. journalism department at a university in leeds has been considering avoiding using capital letters when giving assignments to students the reason it might make the students a bit too frightened or upset the memo says any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment of. generally avoid using capital letters for emphasis and the over use of do and especially don't they also reportedly suggested warm and helpful terms am to avoiding negative

instructions the university told us it was guidance from a course leader to academic staff and said it was proud of the personal and inclusive experience it offers on campus however some staff members have dubbed this nonsense saying students are being treated like kids so let's find out what students think about all this do capital letters make you anxious. i think i'd feel a bit tight. here do capital letters make you anxious. i am a student and cups of letters don't make me anxious but i got an email the other day that didn't have any caps or lessons in it at all at all did that make you anxious it made me feel like the person who wrote it didn't really put the effort into writing it like it doesn't take much effort to pressure the beginning of a sentence is fine balance when there are none you're also kind of one we've seen

cases to avoid offending students before most recently in manchester a student union voted to replace clopping with what's known as jazz hands in order to not disturb students with anxiety or sensory issues yes. and at the university of kent a student union issued guidelines against outfits that threaten others rights to a safe space that included dressing up as a mexican a priest a native american a cowboy and even a tory students need to be. resilient they need to be treated like adults when they're over the age of eighteen they should be able to deal with small letters capital letters instructions and anything that comes out them if they can't deal with something like this then they're really not going to be prepared for normal life when i was a teacher there was a couple of years where i was told we shouldn't use red pen because red pen is an angry color and if i make students feel frightened and this was completely

ridiculous it's really taking things to an extreme and it's really undermining just the normal everyday interactions that people have and that's a very very bad thing. it's an important date this day twenty years ago russia launched the first module of the international space station into orbit now the i s s is the third brightest object in the night sky and the largest man object in space here's an anniversary message from the crew on board right now. we are proud to serve in such a ship. the international space station is a unique scientific platform. mirror heathenish a conspiracy of the looked silly as if course mr. z.

would over a smidgen of odin a. stern see. it's both a green hosts and an aquarium and witnesses more than a dozen sunsets every day the international space station is one of my greatest achievements in our modern world but how much do we really know about it let's take a closer look in three day the station is to fight it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american wherever there's also japanese and european scientific modules you can see here let's move to the russian segment which currently has four docking ports marked in red that's twice as many as the americans each segment consists of several smaller modules which is how the whole

station was initially put together a lot like building a giant lego model the russian segment for example has five of them however only four modules can host the cargo space ships coming on board the i assess efficiently allowing them to dock at any available port at any time currently three of those four docking ports are occupied one by this soyuz m.s.o. nine which recently docked at the module the ship experienced an early which was fixed by the crew another docking port is occupied by the cargo ship progress only nine which is stationed at the piers module and on sunday another ship the progress m s ten docked in the heart of the russian segment the module carrying two and a half tons of cargo ranging from science equipment to air and fuel will this area is probably the most important for those onboard it contains the life support and

flight control systems also we can find the living quarters for three crewmembers a conditioner to maintain the correct humility and even a kitchen table in short it's the russian living room. other modules of course are equally important but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also alive for space walks. and there it is a short glimpse into the russian segment however the this isn't really about the russian or american sectors or even the space station itself the name of the game is global cooperation platform for countries to night as one which so far hasn't been possible to do back here on earth in space we are all allies. said busy base more than two hundred people from eighteen countries have visited the space station over the years it's become an example of close inter-national

cooperation not least the beacon of warming relations between two bitter cold war rivals your salute the russia u.s. friendship developed to the moon and back. so you did ski american ski is enough to get the experience that you let it be. stuck to your book yet. you moved out of the making that. the mission or if you need it was supported of i think the population rather better

or for the feel. good for in slippers last bird girl all these years a lot of them so there are lots and lots really are all for a brother but. they were cutting new ground they said well gosh let's see if we can build a bigger space station and what can we do what are the problems that might come up and what you learn. some of the money interesting and doesn't just give them more in them some listeners for falsely media if she were me. looking at you suddenly choose to need to see me in the booth and sixty two people on the scene stealing your lipstick from the similar.

we have built this nation that have not always been from a. couple of problems left for them to come. together here we actually just let them figure other leaders of the possible for the future and forget the. yes fascinating stuff and that while living in close quarters in zero gravity as well of course means some pretty clever designs for the modules that make all the i

assess. offspring given unique access to the simulators where future astronauts get to grips with their home in space take a look. for two decades the international space station has been the most visible physical testament to man's dream of space exploration and like all things space it began as a smooth step which eventually turned to become a giant leap. in a way the international space station is the largest lego puzzle in the world because see it wasn't moved into orbit in one piece at first it was just one cargo

module this is the exact replica over its name in russian means sunrise and indeed it did become the dawn of the i assess as we know it's. this small jewel a star is more of a living space there's a cubicle here a dining space also there's a docking simulation area as well where cosmonauts practice they're so used to walking skills but some things i didn't plain sight because this is an actual space exercise bike. the first person to enter the u.s. says is part of expedition one was this man sergei krikalev jr bush when you got the moment when we talked the first few modules was one of the most memorable in my career because our it was just floating around in space while we had the u.s.p.o. unity attached to our shuttle a picture of the two modules together became

a symbol of a new era as nobody could tell where it would lead. during that flight the crew watched on from orbit our earth and to the next millennium since then the isis has grown into a sixteen more jewel station roughly the size of a football pitch imagine old trafford circling. but first both russia and the united states sent crews into orbit but since the demise of the shuttle program culminating in its and in two thousand and eleven it's just be in russia. we got as close as we could to russia's workhorse rocket this saw use during the journey to and from the international space station this is the module where crews spend hours of that time and i mean it's not very spacious it's actually looks small even for one person while it is designed to fit three inside it's

a real work station there are no random things here to mourn it is just to showcase all sorts of technical information about how the rocket is doing indicators buttons but the most crucial the buttons that attend the most crucial commands they're actually hidden behind small covers like this so they have to be lifted so that they are not touched or pressed by accident or in the book that's just the newest among these problems there's one that might seem strange a command to depressurize the cabin to let all of the air out even while the ships in orbit it so that the crew can put out a fire. because this button is extremely important it has additional protection this small screw when the rocket detects a malfunction and messes lights up on this board among them this one particular ball which we pretend to ignore it says rocket failure is this top left one it turns red and the alarm goes off for twenty years this station has been home away

from home for adventure as visionaries overachievers risk takers people of action it's instilled a passion for discovering the unknown in our generation so that when it's life cycle and mankind's business is way beyond that first step into earth's orbit biggers dawn of r.t. . incredible stuff on the way a major u.s. restaurant chain feels the burn in a race as a right we've got the details coming up in like a second plus much more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development that only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and talk. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. twenty minutes into the program welcome back it is day two of the world chemical

weapons watchdogs on your conference yesterday seoul russia and china square up to britain and the u.s. to try and reverse plans to grant the o.p.c. w. powers to apportion blame in any investigation. position on the proposal made in june is that in downing the o.p.c. dubey with the functions is not meant to have would constitute an infringement on the un security council's powers. the decision in front of us today let's be very clear. what was agreed by suggesting it was not compliant with convention that is simply not true coming from the russian federation frankly it is pungent. the delegations present at the conference are told to vote for everything proposed by the western group and a number of times those delegations of come under psychological pressure from the same country. to behave on our europe correspondent peter all of our peter bring us

up to speed on tell us indeed what we might expect from today's session. well it was all certainly fairly heated at times on monday we can probably expect a little bit more of that same atmosphere heading in to choose day the root of the problem of the impasse really is russia china amongst others have real issues with the proposal that was voted through in june from the united kingdom that this would give the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons more powers that would give them the power to be able to. identify perpetrators of a chemical attack now that vote passed voice just eighty three in favor out of one hundred ninety three at the very bare minimum needed abstentions weren't taken into consideration then what russia and others are saying is these powers that were voted for in june they tread on the toes of already existing powers of the un

security and security council so what we're going to see on tuesday is a vote on whether that ballot back in june was valid it's not going to be another vote on the u.k. proposal it's going to be a vote on the ballot that allowed the propose. well to come through in june now what we're hearing at the moment is that it's likely that that decision in june would be upheld what happens then is we go on to another big vote here on tuesday which is on the the budget for the o.p.c. w. for the next year now in not budget of course is extra financing to set up this new body and help them go about these new powers that they're they're looking for now russia china iran and syria amongst others have expressed that they wouldn't be voting for a budget that held those type of x. the type of extra funding now alex on that show. the russian permanent representative here to the o.p.c. w in the russian ambassador to the netherlands has said this is western partners as

he puts it at being trying to interfere and undermine russia's proposals. considering all the tricks of so-called apartment use we understand they are really afraid but they do all this if they weren't afraid unfortunately we see that our american colleagues are continuing their conflict in line and we used to it they already left the paris climate accord the iran nuclear do and now they're attempting to de rail the whole p.c. w. . plenty setsuko up here from the hague on tuesday i'll be keeping an eye on it as it develops throughout the day bringing you all the latest here on r.t. yeah appreciate third peter all are live from the hague this our thinking. on american restaurant chain has found itself being drunk true a viral video maelstrom refused to serve a crypt of black men lest they pre-paid for their food bosses off the mexican grill

swept in with disciplinary action until new information emerged came up and talk us through it all. well you had to do things you never i mean you. know my. reason lawsuit alevi one of the customers said it was a racist he said she's asking me for a pro who income is if i'm getting a loan all of them need to get fired the person running the ridges to the person making the food need to be fired immediately this is blatant discrimination this send to blackness is disgusting what do you do to do ball days to populate the apparently racist manager was fired this is to pull a statement regarding what happened to the simple restaurant the manager for these gentlemen with the same customers from choose day night who weren't able to pay for their meal regardless this is not how we treat our customers and as a result the manager has been terminated and the restaurant is being retrained to

ensure that something like this doesn't happen again but it turned out that the manager was not being racist lawsuit only indeed had a history of ordering food that he could not pay for in fact even bragged on social media about dining and social media users were up in arms the manager apparently did nothing wrong now supposedly seems to be hiring her back but the outrage did not as many see this as an example of how corporations are so afraid of bad publicity they don't seem to care about the truth this is not a fluke and i emailed your media relations department and she claims you were aware of the tweets at the time of the firing they need to gather more information more facts before the axelrod i wouldn't go back to work for the plot that we go back to somewhere else that's crazy it does i mean honestly i don't have much of a column because it's kind of like everything else that's going on people are just assuming based on how you look and not really taking the time to ask a question now with all the twists and turns in this story we actually reached out

to your post lay for a final statement here is what they got back to us with firing back. the college is included with spend the last few days reviewing the evidence available to us regarding the incident based on our review we have a fatah manager who job back while our normal protocol was not followed serving these customers were publicly apologized to our manager through being put in this position well it turns out that shockingly a short video clip isn't always enough information to know what's actually going on however there are lots of americans who want to scream racist instead of getting the whole story they will blow up and r.t. new york yeah lots of reaction on this one we spoke to political and social commentator on funny brian logan he's of the view that cases like this really willing to minish real fights against racism. is like this story of the little boy cry wolf you know you always cry wolf and do never be a wolf in one time he didn't cry wolf and the wolf was day or nobody came and then

you got you know the same thing is going on here people left allegations of racism out there oughta time and that a certain point it becomes not effective people say oh ok another episode of racism so where i don't care but when you keep having episodes like this to come up people don't really know if it's a real a case of racism an allegation an overreaction nobody really knows so racism is so becomes less important therefore things can happen and nobody really cares and i hope this is way should happen naturally will be a lesson to people that want to engage in just three allegations out there there is no always sure to and sometimes you should just think for a moment before you say something about it so when they may or may not be to give evidence first. on their on line on a run the world this is our to international some more great programs right ahead and do join me in just over half an hour it's time for all the news updates this.

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i am asked as are this is the kaiser report the show that always gives you the happy ending. stacey max i want to show you something google says this is the good the bad and ugly he says in simplified chinese i'm sorry if they were wrong in the says something rude or something instead but we're going to talk about the good the bad and ugly in china when i talk about the u.s. stock markets and all the chaos going on there we're going to talk about china because we have to look to the future first i want to start with the good and that is china's trade expo logs nearly fifty eight billion dollars of deals so state media the china international import expo c i e brought thousands of foreign companies together with chinese buyers in a.