bans face covering in public as a security measure in response to the easter sunday bombings which claimed more than two hundred fifty lines. under fire for taking a battle with dollars over potatoes that go into the company's best selling price. was a german contender for the european commission's top jobs says if elected he will block the north stream to a project designed to pump russian gas. official backing. and russian i sold bride talks to r.t. about being tormented by her past and have been a close to the future after being freed on parole. i want to

show my son not as a regional issue but as a relief that my story was a peculiar not. just simple relationships with my family people. it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all the international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program and a move designed to boost public protection the sri lankan government has banned face coverings in public it's in response to the easter sunday suicide attacks which killed more than two hundred fifty people but it's angered the country's sizable muslim community here on r.t. we discussed whether it's a prudent security measure or likely to inflame religious acrimony in sri lanka. it is very much a person in most of the lives who put many muslims yes it is right muslim center

and much more liberal compared to their counterparts but i've since. august and one but this poll that matter but the males are talking about the individual rights the rights of women to follow their specific religious obligations and where does it stop. is it not going to move into the next and. afterwards when it cools down the problems marriage and what denmark i'm also this gives a kind of lip service to the extremists with this in the society who might target the muslims and arabs in the long run in the south atlantic despotic leon right we'll have to see how long the government is going to continue to get elected it 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 deems appropriate to secure the lives of sri

lankan citizens 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 about to carry out a terrorist incident that's the reason for doing this you know and i think it's very sensible and i think it's really peculiar that anybody would oppose the state house the responsibility of looking after the interests of the masses on the basis of that it can take these mages but this should not become a long term because if it does extend beyond a specific period of this emergency laws then you become becomes a part of the states or part it and that clear 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 was from that time

a little side of 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 they decided to give us normal for this was an attack by a radical i did not see this because the christians it slaughtered them in their hundreds and you're talking about islamophobia come on 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. to sunday massacre of christian has been described as retaliation for last month's most shootings in new zealand separately the suspect in saturday's synagogue shooting in california is thought to be inspired by that same mosque attack the terrorism and retaliation hitting religious communities

our senior correspondent mark gasnier looks into what's developing into a worrying trend. 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 took charges during the holiest day on the christian calendar a 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. but 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 chosen 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 the it's the 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 going our 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 as 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 that have 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 certainly modern times that they reached out to i say and been inspired by the very same people that they hate the violent acts those people 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 excusing it is being in the name of god is that it never ends it only gets worse allowing me a chance to take. the muslim community there says islamophobia sentiment is spreading fast and in the light dramatically changed since that bloody easter sunday. look at the. psychological levy have been effective to be honest. to come to the never even. see. you. have considered this. but. the present. ideologies this has nothing to do with.

me have to freeze many consequences because of. extremist terrorist behavior. are not part of. the muslims. american food and beverage giant pepsi co is facing a backlash after suing for small time potato supplies in india and with the local government vying 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 size. feels proud to partner with farmers all across india through various agricultural initiatives as they shared their experience of working alongside pepsi co. 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 the 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 at a agreed price if they don't agree the farmers would have to grow other potato varieties but the farmers say pepsico is violating their freedoms and fabricating rules 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 really pepsico get this law from sego has violated our basic freedoms with this lawsuit they see that we have broken

their patent rights how can they dictate what we can or cannot grow. 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 we wanted to do business because they promised us a higher price and then filmed off far 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. euro skeptic and right wing parties are on course for significant gains in next month's european parliament election if the polls prove right but research suggests that only a third of europeans are even aware there's a ballot at all let alone how they plan to vote.

i you know correspond the pay to all of the reports on the election from the perspective of the blocks and biggest power germany. there's less than a month to go for the citizens will elect the next european parliament and while there's expectations of a slight increase in turnout the views of pollsters have published that less than five percent of citizens so they knew when they're supposed to vote if you win during it's between may twenty third for the twenty sixth if you break down the euro per day syrian to how those surveyed in member states answer the question do you know when your country will vote in e.u. parliamentary elections well top of the class is multi with seventy three percent of those surveyed got it exactly right staying behind for extra lessons though

while it's the netherlands where a paltry twelve percent of those polled knew which date they should be voting on almost forty percent of germans nailed the e.u. pollsters question however a separate poll taken domestically by hugo found that almost half of people didn't know who any of the nine leading candidates for seats in the european parliament were which isn't great when you think about the important job they do in the impact they could potentially have on everybody in the use life i'm a one out of four people could pick a month for adventure out of the line up the c.s.u. month is only standing to be the european commission president one of the most powerful and important jobs in the whole of the european union in similar territory on twenty six percent we have nicolas of the free democrats doing a little better though we have alternative for germany's your miten on thirty five

percent of those who were polled being able to pick him out of a lineup and then on thirty nine percent we have the social democratic party's catarina we can only presume that ms bali the current justice minister against them . extra recognition due to the fact that she showed willingness to appear on different media outlets to put across their argument europe as external and internal enemies these include all who seek to weaken at the cross the new a good of those polled said that they would definitely going to vote i asked people here on the streets of what they made of the surveys and whether they intended to cast a ballot. will you take part in the european election. yes yes i have no clue when it comes to politics do you know when the parliamentary elections will be held but i don't know when exactly on the twenty sixth of may i think sometime in the spring or summer zeevi you know who this is no.

and the next one. is that they're not really in the spotlight for the most part these are counted it's no one's ever heard of three weeks ago until the european citizens will elect the next e.u. parliament or at least they will fall if they remember which date they're supposed to turn up to vote on peace for all of us. one of the contenders for the top job peter just talked about is causing a stir in political circles at home in germany man a friend of about has said that if elected as european commission president had you the power to block the major north stream to gas 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

a new dream to man fred bever has been at the helm of the center right european peoples party since twenty fourteen is 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 ease states you go against official and european union positions he's also a known critic of the perceived dependency on russian energy that his latest remarks against north stream too has come under fire at home in germany. i find it rather strange that manfred weber let us germans know that he's against this project polish newspaper and we're talking about our country's interests name to reliable and i think we shouldn't play with the future of our country. when fred bever does have some support over north stream to germany's green party has called the project dubious from a geo political point of view north stream two is currently under construction and is designed to deliver gas from northwestern russia to northeastern germany the

pipeline supporters say that blocking the project would lead to gas shortages and higher prices earlier we talked to a political analyst at the berland center for caspian region studies he says it's a bit of a stretch to claim europe is hooked on russian gas. he's now an electoral campaign to attract the voters and you know there are a lot of countries in eastern europe as ansel's europe who are not in favor of not streaming it to gain the votes of those waters he is you know campaigning against we have not depending on russian gas this is completely this information in my opinion because russia has only a small share of slightly so it's thirty five percent of the europe gas supply so we have so many other suppliers i mean we have a lot of other g. tribunals in europe which are you know only used by thirty percent we have navi as a key supplier from the north we have still the netherlands we have thoughts africa

from the south so we are not as much dependent as russia is dependent on the european market. and russian student who attempted to join islamic state under at own peril has shed light on the details of a time trying to join territories and then her imprisonment in russia our correspondent making a caution about that with all of us for her first one to one into evidence. it's been only three days since about about a car will of a former moscow student was released on parole from a russian penal colony she was convicted for attempting to join icily terrorist in syria she was sentenced to four and a half years but she spent two years in a colony and i spoke to her i asked her about her trying in a penal colony about her thoughts and her future and about what she thinks now for

all the decisions that she made that glad to life behind bars but what i told me that it is difficult for her to talk to the press but she wants to be open about what happened. because. i want to show myself not as i was probably originally showed but as i really am that my story was a peculiar listen not even all about isis but about just simple relationships with my family with people this is my deeply personal story the story of my family i want to tell and show people myself and not be afraid of me. she also gave some advice to those who are struggling and even those who are thinking about joining the ranks of terrorists or special. i just think that what happened to me was also related to my low self esteem uncertainty in myself and it turns out that women hold on to their husbands and their they hold on to them so much that they may not

even understand their ideology they do not understand why to go there there has been say so no discussion and is very important to believe in yourself you mean something if he says you have to go so what who cares what she says. but also told me about how she coped with time that she spent in a penal colony. and i felt a lot of that moment. about what was happening and why it was happening actually very difficult thoughts they go round and round and round sometimes it takes you to the point of depression because you can't get out of this change and you don't want to think about it you want to turn away and run but it is still there and i understand that i can't leave this story behind me it will always be part of me. but i was released on parole and she can't leave the city with. she seemed rather confused says she has no wood plans for her future now she said that her

freedom hasn't yet sunk in and that still it's a lot to grasp for her she said that she wants to get back to normal life. in new york times has been forced to apologize a printing and cartoon dependent papers international edition and depicts the israeli prime minister as a guide dog leading president trying who's wearing glasses and a skull cap the new york times says publishing it was an error of judgment on a sense deleted it has what some people on television 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 seeing that it's for sure photo i don't think the semi taste. political. cartoonist anti-semitic because it

goes back to the old days of the forty's where the dish termer used to used to have germans and americans were germans and jews. portrayed as dogs or or a lapdog for american policy and it's unbelievable and unacceptable in the united states the reaction we had 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. what's particularly embarrassing for the new york times is that it's been trying to lead the way in tackling anti semitism it's

accused left wing politicians such as us represented. on british opposition leader jeremy corbyn of anti semitism over their criticism of israel and it had talented critics of billionaire philanthropist george soros we discussed the paper's approach with attorney jennifer braden and legal analyst lionel. 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. the u.s. is ready to ramp up the recent warnings to the u.k. over allowing chinese tech giant while way to help build its five g. network. cybersecurity officials in washington are saying they could be forced to withhold intelligence from the tent. while we and the chinese government have

repeatedly denied us how we gave sions away equipment poses a security risk claiming that the u.s. has not offered any concrete evidence what is your strategy in countering those claims the way we look at it is there is a combination of intent capabilities an opportunity i think there's a statement might someone say well we're going to the intent of the capability might happen more easily with in china or authoritarian regime and so that's much easier to hide underneath the this security aspect and the six and ten chill security threats even though nothing has been found in a while with equipment we've got separate testing facilities set up in the u.k. and in europe and there's been no instances of whatsoever. despite concern in washington while a has already conducted trials in a number of european countries including france and germany the u.s. has accused the chinese of money laundering fraud and soft of intellectual property

while also coming beijing uses it telecom that went to spy while they had tonight all those allegations. we had from the you raise your son to say consecutive vice president who tells us the security issues being flagged by the u.s. a positive the granting trying to pool with china. i think the main reason is. is technology and competitiveness i mean basically the u.s. is behind on five d. technology while he's leaving the area it's growing could trying to potentially fiery for us yes just like it's been shown that the u.s. spies on not just the adversary but allies its own citizens and as we've discovered recently even opposition political candidates i do not believe that security reason i think we're using these things to increase the trade negotiations potentially with china it's basically. component of hybrid warfare. american faith and diplomacy secretary of state mike pumpin has claimed that tonight's russian into

ferentz a fact and the twenty sixteen us presidential election and will continue to be a threat to come. the russians interfered it happened in the run up to the election in two thousand and sixteen that we have the we have the mission now to make sure this doesn't happen in two thousand and twenty there were threats or elections ninety seven for trade and they interfered or elections in the eighty's and we should expect in two thousand and fifteen twenty fifty the russians will be added still i must say i was stunned at his reference to nine hundred seventy four in the one nine hundred eighty s. what is he talking about i mean we're talking about the era of the gus hall the communist party when he ran for president was zero support and this was the time of the of the old soviet union what relevance does that have today the idea of putting more sanctions round by round is simply this that russia is our eternal enemy they were our enemy under the soviet time their enemy and now they will be our enemy in

the future this is kind of a manic keon binary mindset that simply has no place in a rational political discourse. rochelle wasn't the only target from mike pompei as he spoke with janice iran that was on the list to terror on has been fighting us strong arm tactics and extended sanctions since washington with two twenty fifteen you can't deal last week the trumpet ministration also ended all the temporary waivers for anyone important including china and turkey and pompei a promised unbearable conditions for anyone looking in to continue to trade with the middle eastern nation. trust ministration recently announced sanctions and no more waivers ok and turkey and china have said there are going to be undeterred so what now sovereign nations make their own choices individual businesses inside of that will make their own choices what we can do is prepare a sanctions regime that makes it incredibly costly it's

a case of bullying run amok the us is opposing it on the rest of the world trumps isolationism means that used to a great extent at war with the world he is hostile to go into all countries on earth he wants to use them he wants to put u.s. interests. first and foremost in the narrowest sense of the term the u.s. into a few years massive. in other countries elections mean venezuela being the the latest example but there's there's hardly a time when the u.s. has not been intervening in other country's elections. and now i'll be back in around half an hour with the next won't you stay with us. we need a political evolves and that needs to come.