a leading hong kong activist appeals to congress in washington to possum knocked on the monitor in the territories were taught to be from china in return for continued economic problems as from the us. israeli exit polls suggest prime minister netanyahu could again fail to secure a majority in the country's 2nd election just this year. and because of so-called liberal racism u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden and paul after he lectured african-americans on the parenting skills.

live from the russian capital a list of international with me just attain a welcome to the program. and to start us off and need to name in the hong kong protest movement has appealed to us who will make a congressional hearing on future ties between washington and the chinese autonomous territory joshua long has been pushing them to pass the hong kong human rights on democracy act which would monitor the region's status with beijing in return for ongoing special economic favors. one cause 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 to show one is

a prominent student activists who organize protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of the pro tem a critic party to my sister oh he's already several jail terms for his activities mr woman's visit to new york over the weekend drew 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. 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 affairs will have consequences this month we must possibly 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 the villages. signal of the biggest economy in the world. and see that it will always just all. oh it was going to hold

a great deal but it's not just the whole poly there are thousands of you notice they ready stumble ready and it would likewise be affected of course it's a political war because. it calls only or percent of china's economy previously stated goal of the deal years ago in me a call to all more as charles equality is also. all but now is always present on the other hand of course we lot i would wish the one country to see so as to help china with the internationalization the religion with the souls of all american legislators say 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 overlook the collateral damage.

exit polls from israel suggest prime minister benjamin netanyahu could not really fail to secure a majority in parliament voting ended a few hours ago in the country's 2nd parliamentary election just this year has the latest. netanyahu is 2 parliamentary seats behind his main rival for my i.d.f. chief pentagon says same to lift blue and white party whether that in the end transpires to be correct or not certainly not on yahoo does not have enough seats to form a comfortable coalition majority he needs 61 out of 120 seats so he's going to have to form a coalition potentially not only with his right wing support base in the big question mark as well who can he actually approach to form a coalition government with if he current and if been against content that seems to be the prognosis certainly at this stage the country could see itself heading for a 3rd election don't forget the previous election was back in april and that was an

election that because netanyahu was unable to win he forced a nother election this time around and that's why we've seen critics say that the era of netanyahu is over he hasn't yet addressed his supporters he hasn't yet addressed reporters we hear that he's on the phone trying to put together some kind of coalition there is a 3rd some areas that have a door lieberman who is the leader of the israel our homeland party put forward in his speech he said that the only option now was for a government with netanyahu with the blue and white party whose leader is benny gantz and with lieberman because lieberman did not join in it on yahoo 6 months ago we have in the elections this time around and it's questionable whether lieberman will again join an attorney who need them and certainly has presented himself in a very powerful position he's doubled the amount of support it came in with if the exit polls are correct some tame knesset seats now earlier we managed to speak to

one of his members of parliament her to obey her we should close to go to her. for the hour according to which we just saw work the suv that looks a little to earth so her. it worked perfectly for work for the for the us now that is one scenario that could see a 3rd round of elections been prevented but the likelihood of that happening has a huge question mark over it because you have these political leaders that really are at odds with each other for weeks now they've been throwing mud at each other and so more questions and answers in terms of how a coalition in terms of what this m.p. suggests could really function and work there is a sense of voter apathy here simply talking to israelis a lot off the straighted if we even head to elections in 6 months and there's not going to be a lot of support in the country for another round of elections a further 5 or 6 months from here it's costing the country

a lot of money and at the same time it's yielding no new results we heard from dmitri devyani of the palestinian fatah revolutionary council he believes that is no longer a center ground in israeli politics. well mr netanyahu in my eyes in my assessment according to the exit polls he is most definitely defeated he's out because while he is counting on according to these polls 56 seats in his coalition and awaiting israel became the. party of 10 seaters to join him or not and in fact depending on him to form the government the natural thing for israel betaine to lieberman's party to join against and pull it further to the right as a matter of fact actually there are no centrist party running there's lots of now with his extreme far ideological right parties coalition and there is

there right israeli right joined by very weak. unimpressionable left wing parties but at the end of it there it would be. a good change for the region because nothing has proved to be an idealogue that is really ruling israel today based on 4000 year old text which is something totally taking the take in the. political process into full frozen mode. the 1st face to the system from online campaign aimed at the muslim teens that story and more after this short break.

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welcome back fighting racism as a touchstone topic for us democrat joe biden's push for the white house on sunday he gave an impassioned speech at a black tchotchke but a few days earlier during a presidential debate one pressed on segregation and the legacy of slavery he switched to lecture african americans of how we should bring up children can have more pain explains how biden's been caught up before and crossing the line between empathy and condescension. joe by 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 that 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 is the excuse me 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 a parent shaming biden is a 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 racists that he describes black homelite and parenting in a way that is stunningly ignorant and insulting to biden's son on 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 a 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 patronizing attempt to connect with the outgroup democratic party is pretty put on a list economy you can look you see order policies from the welfare state it is put into place to live thinks their legs generally aren't as smart. and really would point to is the democrats projecting a lot of their own insecurity is a point everyone knows day say everyone is races everyone is it seems everyone is all those days and if they're when it's really them they feel that way and it's trying to say that it's the other side 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. r.t. new york. now it's ok when the need of britain's opposition labor party is in the

cross has off to washington think tank suggests that if he becomes prime minister he might possibly classified u.s. intelligence to russia were aghast and perhaps at the sinister suspicions. it could all of escaped your notice the world seems to have been tipped upside down and recent years what made sense a few years ago is now considered crazy what was thought of as downright insane a few years ago now considered sensible like a potential british prime minister being called a russian agent by britain's best friend reports mr trump to consider withholding since different from ation and even pushing for the country's nato membership to be downgraded if the labor leader and his downing street the analysis treats that if labor takes office there would be a serious risk that information passed to corbin or his allies could be compromised

especially if it was russia were iran the up somehow everyone with security clearance in the u.k. one of the most heavily surveilled nations on earth everyone missed that journey corben might be compromised but america and i'll figure it out that is if you trust us intelligence agencies whose report was apparently seen by a think tank analyst the british opposition leaders you know sympathetic to putin are you really mean we were duty to speak out against the abuse of human rights by the putin government and its supporters both at home and abroad and i join many others in this house in paying tribute to the many campaigners in russia for human rights and justice and democracy in that country is critical of russia he supported

stringent sanctions against russia all very anti russian stuff but he made a mistake you see when the souls we spied trail of staging the world's most botched and barassi in poisoning with putin himself firing the starting pistol who'd been dead ask. the evidence proof that it was the russian government who did it. who does that either this was a crime or fluted by the russian state or that state has allowed these deadly toxins to slip out of the control it has an obligation to exercise if the latter connection to russian mafia like groups that have been allowed to gain a tool hold in britain cannot be excluded. that's what he said nothing about false flags or conspiracies so the question is really the kremlin or whether russian criminals got their hands on it in the past when sense meant being sensible

that may have been a legitimate question but in this new reality you don't do sensible things you do like borish johnson was then foreign secretary who lived and said that the poison could only have come from russia he claimed categorically and i think he used the words 109 percent come from russia porton down have not said the eyes of the foreign secretary has information that he's not sharing with porton down or it was a bit of exaggeration if you're an adult for the police the school level education you have heard illegitimate query being floated if you're a paid pundit with an agenda and flexible said the morals you'll have heard blah blah blah my name is jeremy corbyn and i love the u.s.s.r. now if that got their mouths frothing maginot catatonia those hacks went into when who'd been spokes person compared the souls report isn't ings the hooks about

iraq's weapons of mass destruction. i think obviously the government has access to information and intelligence in this matter which others don't however also there is a history in relation to w m d and intelligence which is problematic to put it mildly now some of the reactions are a bit too full on to show you here but come on you know what happens there anyone who gets in the way of the russia bashing express their mood down and maybe got over a few times for good measure who wins problem is he just doesn't learn from pain less it is if russia is blamed for anything you have to believe it time magazine pretty much says so although the washington post took a more scientific approach listing corbin's faults one by one the opposition labor party leader and his spokesman a refused to accept that the kremlin was responsible be konstanz from british

intelligence she complained that moscow had not been accorded due process and d. so the right response was robust dialogue he doubted the faceless intelligence agencies with horrific track records wanted jew process and justice foundation of human rights dialogue rather than health you know i've done there's no more to say here i'll leave you with this the day american intelligence agencies learn to keep classified reports classified rather than leak them weekly is the day we can perhaps trust them to tie their own shoelaces. and finally on a lifestyle website for british muslim teens has become an unlikely flashpoint it's been revealed that the home office has been covertly funding it as part of a counter terrorism extremism strategy a move that infuriated employees readers and the wider muslim community. if you're

a young muslim woman living in the u.k. then this is the website for 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 our super assistance i really could help to make real change pushing forward a different narrative from muslim women themselves showing their we are empowered and multifaceted our realize now there 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 well the project was set up in 2015 in direct response to 3 approaches

schoolgirls including ashima baker running away to syria and whether they flee from 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 strategy . which has been accused of targeting and spying on within 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 this 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 b. s.b.c. may funders they do not have any creative control over super says 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 often did

including it 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 for my contributors have claimed that at one point there were no muslim women employed by gigo working only to toral 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 but supers this is just the latest platform to be embroiled in a transparency route just a few weeks ago a social media network team called this is work a page claiming to engage in critical thinking amisom traditions was found to be

receiving funding from you guessed it the home office or the problem is to 1st of all the home office seems to the only thing you sees within the muslim community is extremism in many ways this is really. engineering of trying to say that there is something fundamentally wrong with muslims in the main street and we need to socially engineer to sort of change them so they will not be problematic living in our society it really is sort of extension of seeing the whole muslims as possible terrorist so therefore we should have these projects to change them into something more acceptable so perhaps the 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 doubt be slightly more sisterly shot at

woodstock's they are to u.k. london that's how our news roundup looks for now i'll be back with more in 30 minutes time i hope you'll join me come your way there now it's been a bust. were you are 3rd. 2009. that's a question they'll be asking kids grandkids for years to come out was the 1st episode of the casa report yes 10 years ago because the report began broadcasting all over the world under the country's billions of people.

seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any belief yet to shape out these days to come to educate and indeed from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our 21st century global economy. in washington christiane is on assignment here's

a look at what we have in store for you today the federal reserve is edging back into the spotlight as the u.s. central bank is expected to cut interest rates again as president has loudly demanded leadership of euro pacific capital is with us to give us his take on this moment monetary moment and what could be in store for precious metals plus. new artificial artificial thanks to profits up for a while but. we return to singapore for more perspective on u.s. interest rates from our own christiane i spoke to international and us or german rogers to get his take on our topsy turvy global interest rates and aereo and why i put christie fans. thursday we've got all this news involving the show's all this and news involving the show's official favorite musical guest on deck let's go. transcend tax fight leads our global report today as apple files for an appeal of

a $14000000000.00 bill for back taxes from the european union on monday the u.s. based tech giant plug for the 2016 judgment by the european commission that apple effectively benefited from illegal state aid from the government of ireland by means of 2 markable rule court rulings that have granted apple a drastically reduced tax burden over 20 years the creation of tax havens has been an ira strategy for luring foreign firms to officially set up business in ireland and park at least some of their. assets their apple flatly rejected the order to square up on their tax bill saying it defies reality and common sense and petitioning for an appeal to be heard in the 2nd highest court the case against apple is perhaps the point of the spear in the e.u. competition commissioner margaret a vest of years notable effort to apply some basic forms of regulation to some giants of the contemporary global economy particularly in tech the results of the apple's appeal could determine the success of his vest of yours initiative and the

fate of her power struggle with the trumpet ministration which has sided strongly with u.s. tech firms against european policymakers. and there is good news and bad news for 2 prominent companies contemplating an initial public offerings or i.p.o. as we work has postponed their i.p.o. after investors began to raise serious questions about the shared workspace company's standing for such a move the company now says they will delay their i.p.o. which was initially planned for next week until october at the very earliest according to reports we co we works parent company was valued at 47000000000 dollars earlier this year but just last week the valuation was more than halved to somewhere between $15.00 and $20000000000.00 on the other side of the ledger and heizer bush in bed is going to make a 2nd go at an i.p.o. in hong kong the company's asian arm budweiser brewing company.