leading hong kong activists appeals to congress and washington to possible act on launching the territories autonomy from china in return for continued economic privileges in the usa. because of so-called liberal racism lands us democratic presidential candidate joe biden in hot water after he lectures on african americans on their parenting skills. and is the final few hours of voting as israel holds an unprecedented repeat of the parliamentary election to decide prime minister benjamin netanyahu we look at how donald trump has been lending his weight to the campaign.

it's 8 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from a studio with me welcome to the program a leading name in the hong kong protest movement has appealed to u.s. lawmakers at a hearing on future ties between washington and the chinese autonomy territory has been pushing them to pass the hong kong human rights and democracy act which would monitor the region status with beijing in return for ongoing special economic. hong kong's special status under american law that bans on the city being treated as a separate customs area beijing should not have it both ways reading all the economy benefits of hong kong standing in the world while erosion of our freedom this is the most important reason why the hong kong human rights and democracy act and just the process of hong kong civil society joshua wang is

a prominent student activist who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of the pro democratic party demo system he's already served several jail terms for his activities mr visit to new york over the weekend to huge attention from the media the reuters news agency the new york times and bloomberg are among those who asked for an interview or invited him to their offices he also gave a speech to students at the prestigious columbia university one has long supported the hong kong human rights and democracy act and recently said he expects it to be passed easily the bill proposes support for hong kong from the u.s. so long as it remains governed at arm's length from beijing if not that could trigger washington to revoke the city's special status ego shit ton of reports. they are many they've won the fight with the authorities by early submission but

they are anything but done the american flag waving taskforce among the hong kong protesters are sending their poster boy to convince us legislators to do something big on autonomy. well for those of you having difficulty making out the absence of this boilerplate script it's that human rights and democracy act and it's meant to show beijing that the u.s. is serious about fighting for hong kong's rights the united states must make clear to china that its interference in hong kong's affairs will have consequences this month we must pass a bike cameron bipartisan on consumer rights and democracy act the bill was devised in response to what the u.s. has been calling a chinese infringement on the region's autonomy and requires for america to review

own homes special status annually and if that status is ever revoked the region's autonomy would not so much be infringed but rather new to dust since the early ninety's hong kong has been enjoying huge advantages for wearing washington's special status badge. and some believe that a small yet vocal group of protesters is laying an explosive tripwire for the whole region which will not enjoy the konami chain reaction if it's ever triggered in a way that is they've just. to get a hold of the ready biggest economy in the world without a state and see that all call is just orders. but was is going to hold a great deal but it's not just the whole poorly there are thousands of united

states don't believe in all of it would likewise be affected of course it's full of a cold war because well because only or see the scent of policy he was so scared of the deal years ago in me a call to all moral as far as equality is also. but no it isn't but on the other hand of course we would wish the one country this is the sea so as to help with the internationalization the religion with. all american legislators see the bill is designed to punish mainland china specifically as protesters would not but while the end goal may very well be punishing beijing in pursuit of a geo political supremacy washington my just overlooked the collateral damage.

fighting racism is a touchstone topic for us democrat joe biden's push for the white house on sunday he gave an impassioned speech at a black church but a few days earlier during a presidential debate when pressed on segregation and the legacy of slavery he switched to lecture african americans on how they should bring up their children can have more pain explains how biden's been caught before in crossing the line from empathy to conversation. joe biden formally the vice president is now running in the democratic primary enjoys a huge amount of support from the african-american voters and he wants them to know he really cares about them what responsibility do you think that americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country make sure that we bring into the help to this to the teachers deal with the problems that come from home we bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children it's not they don't want to help they don't want they don't know

quite what to do play the radio make sure the television the scrutiny make sure you have the record player on the phone make sure the kids hear words a kid coming from a very poor school or a very poor background who hear 4000000 words fewer spoken by the time they get there the record player now he seems a couple decades behind on modern technology but it's also a tad bit condescending don't you think now some are calling it parent shaming biden is the liberal racist why dems better start calling this out because black women are watching if joe biden isn't forced out of the running now i give up 1st he looks into the camera and laughs at the mention of racial inequality in us schools and we could trace is that he describes black home life and parenting in a way that is stunningly ignorant and insulting to biden's own how to address the literacy of slavery was appalling and to scorn now this isn't the 1st time that joe

is flubbed an answer when it comes to a racial issue he made some remarks when barack obama was selected as the democratic party candidate in 2008 that he probably meant to sound like a compliment i mean you get the 1st mainstream african-american who's are to cool it and bright and clean and a nice looking guy joe biden's comments point to an increasing phenomenon in us society being referred to as liberal racism. joe biden is not burning a cross or arguing that non-whites are inferior but he does seem to have a touch of a white savior complex he comes across as condescending to those he thinks he's helping a study refers to it as a competence downshift and joe biden is not the only one what liberals may unwittingly draw negative stereotypes demean themselves down in a largely well meaning folksy but ultimately patronize ing attempt to connect with the democratic party is pretty put on a list economy you can look you see all their policies from the welfare state it is

put into place to live think legs generally aren't a smart way really would point to the democrats projecting a lot of their own insecurity is a point everyone knows do say everyone is received everyone is it seems everyone is all those days and if they are when it's really them they feel that way in a chance to see that is the other side they actually feels that way for decades the democratic party has been promising to help minorities in the united states but do party leaders actually see them as it will members of society well joe biden's recent comments have got plenty of people asking that question. archie new york. there are now 2 hours left to voting as israel decides the fate of incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu in an unprecedented repeat of april's parliamentary election he's locked in a tight contest with centrist rival benny gantz. from jerusalem

well known political parties are expected to be part of the next israeli parliament all the israeli knesset and the competition here really boils down to 2 men the incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his right wing likud party and his former defense chief benny guns and his more seem to lift blue and white party in opposite same somalia 6 months ago when we had the previous elections which netanyahu won but despite winning them he was unable to form a majority 61 mandates. out of $120.00 parliament seats many suspect that the same scenario could unfold and so regardless of whether it's guns or whether it's the time we are who we might have a somalia and it's increasingly likely that ny was able to form a majority government or so give me some more ideas that have. been doing to boost his support base of well like any politician that's fighting for his political survival netanyahu has been making a lot of promises the most recent of which is that he said should he be reelected he will and makes west bank settlements and adored in valley and for anyone who

thought that the peace process between israelis and palestinians wasn't already did this certainly was the last nail in the coffin he has also started negotiating a u. s. israel defense treaty i had a call with prime minister netanyahu to discuss the possibility of moving forward with a mutual defense treaty between the united states and israel that would further the tremendous alliance between our 2 countries thank you my dear friend president trump the jewish state has never had a greater friend in the white house the american president donald trump has been playing an enormous role in the israeli elections back in april just before the previous elections he made the bold statement that the americans recognize the israeli hold over the golan heights and this is despite the fact that a contravenes international law and has remained a contentious issue ever since the heights were taken over by israel from syria back in 1967 in a moment i will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereign right over the golan

heights netanyahu has been using trump in his election campaign you just need to drive down any street in this country and you see both leaders beaming from election posters on any of the main streets in israel a political analyst earns on average around 100 $80000.00 salary a year and yet the support that netanyahu gets from trump which is so much bigger is essentially priceless should this country headed to a 30 lection which is what many here suspect and fear the question is just what else is trump going to promise in the term yahoo. israel's parliament the knesset dissolved itself in may after netanyahu failure to form a coalition and a dispute on the growing influence of the ultra orthodox jewish minority the military draft privileges handed out to the minority has become a stumbling block turning into a ball for netanyahu his chances of forming a coalition with a nation's former defense and foreign minister while the incumbent pm has quite

heavily relied on the endorsement of the ultra orthodox community i think joe lieberman has been an outspoken opponent of the advantages they've been receiving. the ultra orthodox establishment have a very strong hold of the israeli politics in israeli government and i think it affects our lives. that the orthodox make their own rules. they want to make themselves different from the other people i don't

think here they're affected so much steps from probably things like. from public transportation in israel in a saturday i don't have buses inside on saturday for i want to go to the beach the laws that they're trying to pass have not. according to my opinions but we should accept them as well as much as we accept other laws from other communities i truly believe in diversity but still i think they should live their lives and wishes we supposed to live our lives. as pain reveal that the website for british muslim teens is actually paying off and that private government will look at how is it into accusations of suspicious social engineering after the break.

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all over the world under the country's billions of people. welcome back to the program taliban militants say they're behind 2 deadly bombings in afghanistan which killed dozens this choose day when explosion was near the u.s. embassy in the capital kabul which the interior ministry now says has killed 22 shortly before a suicide bomber struck a campaign right for the afghan president in the northern part one province reportedly killing 24 and injuring dozens of others the taliban had threatened to increase attacks on afghan forces and the western backed off to peace talks with the u.s. afghan based journalists full time fighting reports. so i spoke to the one of the spokesperson officer 5 he said he's well and he's unhurt but the expectations were high because the stronghold of the biggest u.s.

bases in but for all that sounds very close a couple of problems and the expectations were like the security must be very tight but still there was a guy that's the suicide bomber used to. kill so many people the. 3 governor all. this spokesperson who side bomber was riding a motorbike and detonated his explosives at the for the 1st checkpoint to where the rally was taking place on the other hand there was another explosion in the capital kabul ministry of interior confirmed the explosion that took place nearby the u.s. embassy also there is. a ministry of defense actually the explosion took. please write out the be emotive facility or registry of defense facilities we do know the taliban warned people not to participate in the elections or not to recognize this government as a legitimate government both the taliban and also good government they have

increased their operations against each other. allies tell their side the british muslim teens has become an unlikely flashpoint it's been revealed that the home office has been a covertly funding it as part of a counter extremism strategy the move has infuriated employees readers and the wider muslim community that. if you're a young muslim woman living in the u.k. and this is the website you at least that's what the creators want you to believe. this is a global media platform for young muslim ours in the east london and beyond to share and create inspiring and empowering content with positivity at its core inspiring but now it's been exposed after it was revealed that the site is being funded covertly by the u.k. home office in an attempt to tackle radicalization and now 2 employees have resigned over the controversial funding one of them says working that betrayed her beliefs. in my neighbors here so that through this opportunity. i really could help

to make real change pushing forward a different narrative from muslim women themselves when they're we are empowered and multifaceted our realize now they're with the home office funding the project at the root there was no way i could do this regardless of the content i was pushing out all the project was set up in 2015 in direct response to 3 approaches schoolgirls including bacon running away to syria and whether they flee from london the very same place super sisters is targeting now it's made up of 9 staff members from jayco media and they secured their funding from something called build a stronger britain together which is an arm of the controversial terrorism. which has been accused of targeting and spying on listen communities in the u.k. now while many see that as a fundamental infringement of rights the home office has always defended its efficiency while super says has like knowledge and apologize for their wrongdoing they insist that they have full control over their content we want to emphasize that even though be s.b.c.

may funders they do not have any creative control over super systems content where we acknowledge we were wrong and we apologize for it is not more clearly stating the source of funding on the super sisters instagram blog not just our website we have always been clear and transparent to the interview stage on how we are funded including at subs interview at least that's what they say but so biased male a former employee says that there were no female muslims on the creative or editorial team plus she was only recently made aware of the controversial funding well some people very angry and hurt by the revelations. these revelations are shocking former contributors have claimed that in one point there were no muslim women employed by gigo working though they did tauriel for super sisters if i was a teenage muslim in today's environment i would be utterly confused and feel like i was constantly being spied upon by my own government. not setup by muslims not run by muslims you're trying to define young muslim women's identity thank you but

muslim women can speak for themselves well super says this is just the latest platform to be embroiled in a transparency just a few weeks ago a social media network team called this is woke a page claiming to engage in critical thinking emerson traditions was found to be receiving funding from you guessed it the home office or the problem is 1st of all the home office seems to the only thing is seized in the muslim community is extremism millie ways this is really. engine hearing of trying to say that there is something fundamentally wrong with muslims in the mainstream and we need to social engineer to sort of changed so that will not be problematic living in our society it really is sort of extension of seeing the whole muslims as possible terrorist and so therefore we should have these projects to change them into

something more acceptable so perhaps young muslim women in the u.k. right now be slightly more hopeful the new home secretary pretty patel who herself is from minority background might now be slightly more sisterly shouted stash to r.t. u.k. london. the us ambassador to serbia is calling on people there to look at the quote broader perspective and put the nato bombings in 1009 behind them occurring similar comments he made a week ago. we don't ask serbs to forget the recent history but we are asking you to look at the bigger picture 2 decades ago nato launched a ferocious bombing operation against the federal republic of yugoslavia during the kosovo conflict the alliance leadership claimed it was carried out to prevent the genocide of the albanian population constable. the operation lasted a devastating 78 days we asked people what they thought about the un passing just

comments. in future of the bombing campaign was not justified in any way it was a terrible crime our government should sue for compensation not the un security council never approved the nato bombing can only be considered an act of aggression it is impossible for several in america to be on good terms because the us government will always view serbia as a little version of russia america and israel for the americans everything they do is justified vietnam hiroshima and nagasaki the native american genocide and so on and they did not just bone loss they took parts of our territory then maybe you cannot justify what they did how can you defend the animation whatever you did or didn't do. so i've been canadian a filmmaker. says the onslaught of bombings back then still affects to this day don't use depleted uranium in bombing serbia and we are feeling the effects to date

there is a parliamentary commission that. released its findings in serbia claiming that the uranium that was used in the bombing is still affecting the cancer rate in serbia that is iraqi since 1994 it did in $1009.00 is attacking us to date and i was searching for get that special because u.s. policy towards serbia has not changed from 1908 yes they're not dropping bombs but the whole reason for the leader bombing was to illegally take over our serbia that is the province of course to vote so this is the united states recognizes the independence of course when they are pushing serbia to recognize its independence so if the united states really wanted to get over the past and everything troubles us then then they will be the ones to change its policy. that's funny is now i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates to stay with us.

the tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been played only implement inside venezuela things look different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela so as you. have a son of the moment to. get out of some sort of battle to stay on the phone to keep . the moment. the whose story isn't new nixon called in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america. an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to

make the chilean economy scream so wants and making the economy of venezuela screed. just manufactured and sentenced to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime. listen we don't want. to ignore middle of the room signals. to leave the room for the real news room. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally i'm going

to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision lotos sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped and. you know told to shut up kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he write me with his birth thinking if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely

to get the victim punished don't be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put a. the industry says simply an issue of violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. and . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering covering all the angles of our 21st century global economy and daniel britto in washington christine

i is on assignment we've got a lot to get to today but 1st we start in the united states. produce pharma has filed for bankruptcy but it's certainly not the end of the journey a bankruptcy can take months or even years even without serious objections. varos contributors to america's lawyer is on hand to break down purdue pharma declarations and what it could mean going forward for the fight over who will pay for the opioid prices and how much grieving families will get. a little price that shot up on the news of a drone attack on saudi oil facilities podhoretz above a trading is standing by to begin to oil prices and whether the incident is a $1.00 off or the start of a trend was. a mobile happened with in facebook getting regulators around the world to set up a little straighter in their chair and actually pay attention to the space. as current currencies continue to disrupt the payments space governments are waking up

to the risks christiane managed to catch up with matthew walker to get his view on the future of regulation in the thin tech space so much content if it in just 27 minutes can we do it just watch let's go. the 1st strike in more than 10 years by the united auto workers union leads our global report today as 46000 workers a general motors bring production to a halt at 55 plants across the united states the current contract between workers represented by the u.a.w. and bosses at g.m. expired saturday night and the decision to extend not to extend the previous agreement and extend instead strike was made by a unanimous vote of the u.a.w. regional leaders u.a.w. workers are determined to draw the line on wages health insurance cost increases and management exploitation of temp positions the action by u.a.w. workers does not affect their status under existing collective bargaining agreements with the other 2 of the famed big 3 u.s. automakers.