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from a studio with me welcome to the program first today more on saturday's deadly shooting in a synagogue near the californian city of san diego it appears the person who died in the attack a woman jumped in front of the rabbi to shield him from gunfire and police have detained a nineteen year old man in connection with the incident which took place during a service to mark the jewish holiday of passover the suspect reportedly posted an anti semitic message online before the attack president trump said that the shooting looks like a hate crime the city's authorities say the community should stay united. don't want filled with hate. when. the congregants. an attack against our jewish brothers and sisters. fortunately that person.

apprehended there now this community comes together a horrible loss of why the suspect who's in detention in california is said to have been motivated by last month's mosque shootings in new zealand and he's not the only killer inspired by that mosque attack the easter sunday massacre of christian church goers in sri lanka has been called retaliation for the new zealand atrocity to with terrorism and retaliation hitting communities our senior correspondent lord looks into the escalating trend of religious violence. it's not about your color it's your creed and it's as old as time faith was the alleged gunman made anti jewish comments the blasts charges during the holiest day on the christian calendar the shooting incident at a synagogue mass shootings at two mosques police tonight are stepping up patrols around mosques nationwide we can almost pinpoint the moment it went big again.

with the news reports that. al qaida opened the floodgates is the missed radicals at first but the idea spread. now anyone can grab a gun rant and rave in a manifesto optionally go live in facebook and kill and kill three major attacks in the last two months worst of all is that they're connected they're feeding each other.

a new zealand white supremacist slaughters dozens of muslims during friday prayers men women children and like their customs see religion. we new zealand. we were not a target because we are a safe harbor for those who hate. we were not true isn't for this act of violence because we can turn racism because we are an enclave for extremism we were chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things. sri lanka islam is zealots who it's a stretch to call the muslims slaughter hundreds of christians again men women and children prayer time as they celebrate easter revenge they claim for new

zealand is there are this will be completely suppressed oakridge an environment of peace and freedom for the people of this country you know. san diego california a madman attacks jews in a synagogue on the last day of passover has a problem with judaism and its ways claims he was moved to beat it by the massacre in new zealand have no illusions if it can happen in new zealand no where it's really safe. a lot of fear mongering and a lot of like. media soundbites sort of created an atmosphere of despise for the other like that particular group out of out there want to take our lives they want to kill us and as a result we have to stand up and defend ourselves there is an environment that literally was already breedings kind of mindset however now they've incorporated

the studied bottom types that they reached out to i say and been inspired by the very same people that they hate the violent acts those so that's the way that i would personally explain the situation it's having a knock on effect and they're there inspiring each other which is absolutely crazy but this is why we are where we are hatred breeds hatred it's self sustaining the thing with killing and excusing it is being in the name of god is that it never ends it only gets worse following the atrocity in sri lanka and the muslim community there says islamophobia sentiment is spreading fast adding their lives have dramatically changed since that bloody easter sunday there's a lot of fear amongst the sunnis community and feel unsettled and they look at the

most teams as all the machines are at emotion in the end psychological levy have been effective to be honest as a muslim country be never. be any shoes for us oh see you don't. you. have considered this representing the so-called muslim community but you do not represent. ideologies this has nothing to do with islam and muslims have to freeze many consequences because of. extremists at least. are not part of. the. german politician who is after the top job at the european commission says that if elected it is his power to block the major north stream to gas a project designed to deliver russian fuel directly to europe it puts him at odds

with germany's official stance on the pipeline. i'm against this project it's not in the interests of the european union because it will increase dependence on russian energy resources as the head of the european commission i will use all available laws to block north stream to. manifest whereby one has been at the helm of the center right european peoples party since twenty fourteen it's a collective of other parties which hold seats in the european parliament under his tenure he's called for mechanisms to control quote way would states go against official european union positions he's also a known critic of the perceived dependency on russian energy latest remarks against north stream two has come under fire at home in germany. i find it rather strange that manfred weber let us germans know that he is against this project through polish newspaper and we're talking about our country's interests named to reliable engines like i think we shouldn't play with the future of our country. man fred

webber does have some support over north stream to germany the green party has called the project dubious from a geo political point of view north seem to is currently under construction and is designed to deliver gas from northwestern russia to northeastern germany their pipeline supporters say they are blocking the project would lead to gas shortages and higher prices earlier we talked to a political analyst at the berlin center for caspian region studies who says it's a bit of a stretch to claim europe is hoped on russian gas. he's now out of electoral campaign to attract voters and you know there are a lot of countries in eastern europe essence of europe who are not in favor of not stream in to gain the votes of those waters he is you know competing against we are not depending on russian gas this is completely disowned formation in my opinion because russia has only

a small share of slightly sort of sort of five per cent of the euro gas supply so you have so many other suppliers i mean we have a lot of other g tribunals and europe which are you know only used by thirty percent we have navi as a key supplier from the dos we have still the netherlands we have also africa from the south so we are not as much dependent as russia is dependent on the european market. going back to our lead story now where the sri lankan government has banned face coverings in public following the easter sunday suicide attacks which killed more than two hundred fifty people the emergency law is now in effect and has drawn criticism from the country's sizable muslim community with us to discuss. it's a further is. to discuss the security measures for the we've got david vance political commentator and a melinda minister whose south asian politics and security expert at britain's at lancaster university thanks for coming on to the program to discuss this both of

you now david if we start with you. you know if you look at what's happening in sri lanka only a very few sri lankan women actually wear veils how in your opinion can targeting them make a difference to sri lankan security. well first of all your premises actually wrong in the first instance the bomb is on all have coverings let's get it right it's on all head coverings so it's not just on muslim women it would have played with anyone else who were something that covers you know their entire their entire face and in the second instance let's get real you know over two hundred fifty people have been massacred. in sri lanka and the i fully support the sri lankan president for this temporary security measure and if it helps save lives my question would be why would anybody oppose that and might i

the other fundamental point to make it's been supported by the largest muslim group in sri lanka so where is the argument most of them supported sure like and supported i supported who wouldn't support it well i'm alone do i mean david said let's get real get it right face coverings but actually there aren't any other religions are there that use the face covering apart from islamic women and again i stress as a small percentage in sri lanka that where those face coverings in veils they don't know the exact statistics there. i would then do it's not the only country who has six a curate concerns with this full face covering it is we've got other countries like france belgium and denmark who've prohibited them surely the reason why this is happening surely it's logical to ban those face coverings

particularly after an incident like this. well there is a positive as well as a negative into it you know the speaker is perfectly right the state house to think about the security of its citizens and it creates a not most should have crossed now it also allows for the muslims a free movement across the society i imagine a scenario where the security forces or people who are covered up and they could say that would you know who they where their identities were not clear to us so that kind of allows for the muslims to move freely across the society but then also you have to look at the other side of the story it is very much of an emotional issue for many muslims yes it is right muslims in much more liberal compared to their counterparts but absence of the reality in pakistan and one of those for that matter but then we're also talking about the individual rights the rights of women to follow their specific religious obligations and what does it stop is it not

going to move into the direction. the law afterwards when it goes down the parts of france belgium or denmark that you've already highlighted and also this gives a kind of lip service to the extremist goodness in the society who might target the muslims and their rights in the long run in the sort run it is profit all right we'll just see how all of the government is going to continue to it. yeah i mean david. in leicester that was an extremist buddhists that carried out the massacres in sri lanka it was extremists islamicists let's get a couple of things clear here so isn't it absolutely reasonable that sri lankan government takes what ever measures it seems appropriate to secure the lives of sri lankan citizens i mean you know it wasn't. it's

a very sensible precaution that they're taking it's also. can you hear me david have you just lost connection. sorry i just lost something yeah. i'm getting another sign coming into my earpiece but listen let me just talk on regardless the point is that this is the sea of lives so mike what you know who's going to be who is going to be. compromised by the very act of trying to make sure that security services can check the visibility of those people who could potentially be employed to carry out a terrorist incident that's a reason for doing this you know and i think it's very sensible and i think it's really peculiar that anybody would oppose a yeah i mean david i'd add quickly just want to point this out the government didn't specifically mention the book called the niqab by muslim women they're not necessarily the threat they are they are only

look at if we look at the perpetrators all of a lot of these attacks and in this case the sunday terrorist that connected with men who were not covering their faces as shown by c.c.t.v. isn't this a bit of an afterthought to actually ban face coverings i mean what's going to achieve. yeah that's and that's a very good question i can give you the answer but the answer is that obviously and we have seen on social media and elsewhere c.c.t.v. footage of some of the meal the alleged meal of terrorists what the government is sort of saying is the if if there were women involved in the planning and execution of this atrocity so if those women had their faces shaded by a head covering then clearly a c.c.t.v. image would show nothing so there is a logic to this if you follow me you know it's just it's just be explicitly

enabling security services to dent of fi individuals in the act of or planning to carry out massacres in this instance of hundreds of christian people christian people so i think it's reasonable why not support of amma lendu. you know david also why not supported why do you think it's such a problem for those very few sri lankan women who might be affected to adhere to this new law considering what's going on and the possibility of more public danger is it such a problem for them do you think. that is precisely the point as the head of human rights watch has already argued it is a needless waste creeks and what to do was this sort of creates a sense of helplessness among the muslims they might feel that one by one our rights that being taken away fundamental rights if i have

a right to wear whatever i believe in the mom's if i'm banned from it from the public place if america is going to be against my own religious callings that could be the islamic hard line conservative argument but having said that the state has the responsibility of looking after the interests of the masses on the basis of that it can take these marriages but this should not become a long term because if it does extend beyond a specific period this emergency laws will become a becomes a part of the state's protest and that creates a division between sri lanka's multireligious religious fabric and let's not forget the muslims have been at the receiving end of the conflict in the civil war years most from the tamil in the side as well as the buddhist majority side so they might feel that they are being pushed out in this new twist and they are being regarded as the new enemies in the society but it wasn't and there is a certain degree of islamophobia that we see across. so this article is not

an international system so it might lead to conceive a turn of the. might not knowing this was an attack by a rather unwilling to learn the lessons the christians it slaughtered them in their hundreds and you're talking about islamophobia c'mon this is nothing to do with islam phobia this was christian for we're the government is rightly seeking to ensure that no further massacres occur and you're telling me this is we have to look out for islamophobia listen if some of them women in sri lanka feel you know at a disadvantage because of this particular temporary legislation then the people the blame or their coreligionists who carried out it's the atrocity not all muslims are terrorists i absolutely agree with this one but on this occasion all the terrorists were muslims you deal with it ok gentlemen we're going to end it there political

commentator david van zanten i'm a lendu minister a south asian politics and security expert at lancaster university thank you gentlemen for coming on to the program to discuss this thank you thank you. now the new york times has been forced to apologize for printing and anti semitic cartoon it appeared in papers international edition and depicts the israeli prime minister as a guide dog a leading president charm he's wearing dark glasses and a skull cap in new york times says publishing it was an error of judgment and a sense deleted it here's what some people in tel aviv have been saying about the image. i don't think we have to be so sensitive and keep on bringing up anti-semitic things every single time we see them that it's for sure and i'm to share my photo i don't think it's the same me taste. political. cartoonist anti-semitic because it goes back to the old days in the forty's when the dish termer used to used to have germans and americans were germans and jews.

portrayed as dogs or. dog for american policy and it's unbelievable and unacceptable in the united states the reaction we heard centered on finding the line between satire and sensitivity. i think the real problem here is the fact that they've kind of misrepresented the jewish identity around israel and around politics and i think it's much deeper than that although i think is important i understand it's a cartoon kind of thing in a time where things are kind of sensitive and we have to use caution in how we express ourselves and i don't think it's anti semitic i think it's interesting and i think that it shows that china has a lot of influence in israel. wants particularly embarrassing for the new york times is that it's been trying to lead the way in tackling anti semitism it's accuse the left wing politicians such as us representative. and british opposition

leader jeremy corbin of anti semitism over their criticism of israel and critics of billionaire philanthropist george soros we discussed the paper's approach with attorney jennifer braden and legal and media analyst leinil. this is the new york times. the old gray lady the standard of journalistic excellence the newspaper that doesn't hesitate to point and excusing. you whoever you are your anti semitic or your homophobic you're your islamophobia your your messiah didn't stick there very quickly that they said in a review this is anti semitic why didn't they think this before the worst reason would be negligence that they don't review card tuesday you dolt. basically know their own work product so what is interesting is that in this particular case the new york times is finding itself perhaps hoist by their own put

tard forced to apologize and you notice nobody even argues today if you look at it we have six major companies that own most of the mainstream media outlets in the united states that includes the new york times and so you're talking about a very small pool of a narrative that's fallen into here and most of that is political anti donald trump anti conservative politics anti-republican you have just a couple people framing a certain narrative that's a certain political lean and you also have a blind hatred of tunnel trump so much so that you overlook how this might offend many many people. american food and beverage giant pepsi co is facing a backlash after suing for small time potatoes supplies in india and with the local governor. now vowing to support the farmers it seems the multinational might face a battle the case marks a low point in a relationship that dates back to the late one nine hundred eighty s. when the first pepsi co potato plant in india was opened

a partnership the company has been keen to advertise. feels proud to partner with farmers all across india through various agricultural initiatives as the shared their experience of working alongside. pepsico claims the four farmers grew a variety of potato which the company has exclusive rights over their biggest selling kris brand lays it says that potatoes will grow without the company's knowledge or permission and was reportedly seeking damages of around six hundred thousand dollars the company however now says it's willing to drop the claim but there are conditions to the offer the u.s. corporation has suggested the farmers become part of a collaborative potato farming program this would mean they buy seeds and then sell the potatoes back to pre-agreed price if they don't agree the farmers would have to grow potatoes varieties but the pharma say pepsi co is violating their freedoms and fabricating laws you don't know why pepsi co claims that it's in the right

according to indian law nowhere in india or in the world for that matter do you find a law that prohibits farmers from growing potatoes ready to go get this law from sego has violated our basic freedoms with this lawsuit these see that we have broken their power rates how can they dictate what we can or cannot grow. and let's say every year we buy seeds from within the farming community we never buy them from any specific company and have no agreement with any company came and told us they wanted to do business with us they promised as a higher price and then filmed off. they came as traders and were inquiring about the varieties we grow i told them we weren't sure of the variety but it's just white collar potatoes it's only when we receive the court notice that we realize who those people really were. some breaking news now from haiti in the caribbean the u.s. state department says there's been gunfire near the entrance to the u.s.

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you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. welcome to. change of leadership in ukraine has spurred hope for dialogue between moscow and kiev. this crisis be stopped from becoming a frozen conflict or is it too late to talk about this here today with me is thomas graham heard the secretary general of. the new multi-polar world is fraught with danger and potential conflict creoles looks even in we'll see i'm stable europe will be diverging interests of twenty first century trigger wars in regions where it never seems possible before what makes international organizations like the

influence existing conflicts and just deal with the result. more in the future. secretary general of it's really great to have on our show it's the first time you're on my show so i'm very happy to have you as a guest and have lots to discuss let's start of with ukraine i know that you have been saying they are going to say she could serve as an honest broker between russia and ukraine but the two countries have been at odds for like five years now why do you think that your organization has enough clout to actually push moscow and kids to a great through. pretty good in managing the crisis in iraq over the last five years i think we managed to prevent further escalation of the conflict and banks especially monitoring mission to ukraine i think we also made a major difference for the people on the ground in terms of facile updating.