is here. to be reached. in ukraine attacks vehicles carrying patients evacuated from the coronavirus epicenter in china as the country's president likens the violent reaction to an episode of the middle ages. a russian shock artist is under investigation in france after finding himself at the center of a political stand scandal with lawmakers demanding it be sent back to russia. the real cost of dumping devices will be electronic waste sent mostly from western nations the lighting the people are gonna put illness and toxic.

hello and welcome to the weekly hold out international with me kevin owen it's our roundup of the big stories as reported by us to you over the last 7 days things check in this weekend 1st the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from a friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out of a fear that the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protesters set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying the patients to a hospital that ms lewinsky said his nation of fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured. i did. actually 1st. you know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look

like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we are all human beings. so well but thought flights it was from the chinese he would hand over tens of thousands of people have been affected it landed in the ukrainian city of holocaust on thursday before the roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up on a quarter of the story. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it would be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. for the past several days ukraine has seen violent clashes across the country scores of policemen have been injured by locals throwing bricks riot police have been called in to disperse angry mobs and it's all because the ukrainian

authorities tried to do a good deed for the international community they accepted with open arms a number of their countrymen and foreigners trying to flee by plane assuring the public the passengers were 100 percent coronavirus clean an important detail when ukraine itself has yet to see a case of the disease a quarantine zone was even set up at a health center in poltava just to be sure but the protesters did all they could to stop that plane from landing and when that failed they started blocking roads until riot police removed them by force. the buses made it to their destination in the end but there on welcome reception

wasn't exactly what kiev expected with the movie just the going on see this is one of the greatest disappointments i'm disappointed because in the model we saw the this is a disgrace for the whole world you see i'm truly ashamed ukraine's protesters don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. looks like it headlines the last 7 days. a russian shock artist who was granted asylum in france is now under vista geisha lawmakers are demanding that purge of problems could be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of a political scandal but lensky was arrested for posting explicit video messages that brought down president across preferred pick to be the mayor of paris for a web challenged bensky reports. your 3rd pub lenski is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out he's

a political refugee he behaves like the 1st thing to do would be to put him on a plane straight to russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty ski this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin cleaver a key ally of the president back on his former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken by the police and they were questioned in regards to those videos questioned into invasion of privacy and broadcasting videos of a sexual nature without the permission of the person who is in those videos the interior minister here in france has said he should face the full weight of the law if you did you feel casting certain videos without the consent of the author is subject to criminal sanctions in our country resulting in a substantial fine and 2 years imprisonment and these offenses must obviously be

prosecuted it is a matter of respect for democratic rules and this is not the 1st time that pawlenty ski has been headline news here in france he was recently accused of brandishing a weapon a knife or to a new year's eve party and of injuring 2 of the party goers at that event further back he was also found guilty of setting light to the doors of the bank of france in the basti area in fact he is currently serving a suspended sentence for that criminal act in france and that comes after a series of stunts that he pulled in russia of a similar. criminal nature. russia

it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case of so that poverty and we already know and he's just you know arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear where the pov linsky will be sent back to russia chucked out of france or whether he will face the music a on those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities well the whole radical opposition activists told especially from sunnis agency that his case shines

a light on freedom of expression in the country. for months or months door to door it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was a country that upholds freedom of expression it's not freedom of expression you cannot say or do anything against big lies and hypocrisy. elsewhere tens of thousands have been taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack in hyde no in which 9 were killed from the town where the tragedy happened to hand over the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism that attack on to she has been described by police as racially motivated.

in the wake of the shootings the establishment in berlin was quick to point the finger down to my good rivals it saw the alternative of germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies the f.t. rejected those claims and said the shooter was mentally ill but that didn't stop the ruling christian democratic union from calling to cut all ties with their rival . a 1000000 theater if you look at their texas profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this strengthens me my belief therefore the c.d.u. should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with

a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade nazis among its ranks so we are resolved to have no cooperation with the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spirals we have a level in the public debate that is more of a child than a rational political debate and when i hear it yesterday and i heard about it shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money fester of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we are doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against it fake news. major health is a big raise the what's become one of the west biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste african country of ghana everything from old mobile phones to computers the same for incineration the releasing highly toxic chemicals know to

cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you follow old would. do anything. noble from these with such as he said today to be. marginal for 6 kids or 17 was with a small one and mike had not had to eat because i doubt he'd end up in debates.

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us house speaker has been turning a school in brussels in a way just go warning europe to ditch while i technologies. democrat nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecom giant is a major security threat and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in the e.u. the worry is it could be used for spying but she failed to mention what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative caleb maupin explains. now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down the river as i said before it's like having the state police write the chinese state police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures

that are overseeing surveillance in the united states this far and snowden he did and there on the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of releasing those documents we don't know i understand and i understand odd timing as well it's just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a swiss company that was offering people encrypt people's privacy was compromised because the cia had a backdoor what the u.s. government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e.u. might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still aren't buying nancy's song and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. while

he will be continuing on with the week's good fight she believes since so in the district of texas you see so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american progress or u.s. and i'm not so much worried about. sheiner i'm worried about anybody here having. access to our data. be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world probably us. continuing i guess just in the us given say the alignment of interest for the us sorry probably you know what the us as far as i'm concerned. can go to hell donald trump along with it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it projection nothing

drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves a little up and artsy new york. a footnote until we can talk to god its environment ministry as well as the president's office for comment as when they get we'll let you know what it is say about it now the big story that's going to go over into the next week as well with tensions running high in syria's war torn italy province the leaders of turkey russia france and germany are said to discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month you know when it comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. support so-called moderate groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment it was in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold of the region and considers the province to teach deeply important for its security and their reported fears that

syria's forces could advance further towards turkey held safe zones could be a clash there the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to try to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals meantime the un world all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. the flash point to the syrian conflict is also seeing lawmakers in the u.s. push for a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an estimated $900000.00 people displaced by the violence at the same time though american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the a situation a little admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions italy provinces to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the rev wright of groups there all of them are a nuisance and menace and a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter in the way he goes down of took a closer look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in libya is drawing in competing international powers along the way. post-race coming to shove and syria

turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring are fading into oblivion. time for assad to get out of the way. we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we beat them badly all that is

a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting in ad lib is a mere accessory to the geo political connotation is global and regional superpowers sparring with each other for dominance ideological and moral borders are blurred with turkey a nato country teaming up with terrorists to push syrians out of their own province if. the operation is imminent in particular we will not leave it to the regime which is not yet understood our country's determination on this issue and those who are encouraging it for a few minutes and making it live a safe place for boys and the people of the region at all costs as militants shamelessly boasting turkey provided a.p.c.'s coming on mosques covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with syrians

repairing the onslaught as. moscow officially asks ankara to hold its fire and so it does to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into su 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out strikes against the terror groups the salada syrian troops to successfully ripple all attacks but turkey is not alone in this fight while jihadi groups are doing the bloody bedding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or say ship with president her was the fact is that he's fighting on his lead he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands the united states will continue to coordinate with turkey on diplomatic approach is to restore a cease fire to the it lip deescalation zone and achieve a pullback of assad regime forces to the $2800.00 so she ceasefire lines the

us has its own stake in the syria war and it hasn't signed on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oiled we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil that's ok i like the oil yet a nother act in this conflict israeli jets routinely hit targets on syrian soil it's clear what israel wants to to weaken iran's influence yet another power playing its hand and this massive and messy political gamble unfortunately for the people of syria since 2011 their country has been used as a chessboard on which the syrians appear as pawns and it's somebody else's geo strategic chess board in particular the united states and its allies basically tore syria apart partly designed to topple the. secular by legitimate government in

syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to topple their government and partly to claim different parts of syria for themselves syria has an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in the resource rich region of the middle east it also has oriel so yes what we've seen the tragedy of syria the tragedy of the so-called civil war it's actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield with the focus of the conflict other parts of syria begin to get back on their feet a vital highway between the capital damascus and aleppo officially reopened on sunday for the 1st time in 8 years it follows a successful syrian operation to exert its dominance in the greater level country side as you can see cars and buses were seen back on the road this week which connects syria's north and south.

tug of war between the u.k. and greece of a classical sculptures a scene athens fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen however could be but to change all that with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elgood marbles brussels could try to push britain to return the nerve to breaks it the collection was originally part of the parthenon in the greek capital but they're currently on display in the british museum in london question is how do they get their grease claims that was stolen by lord elegant in the 19th century but the u.k. insists no they acquired them legally and they're not budging either. the you case position on the parthenon sculptures remains unchanged they are the legal responsibility of the british museum that is not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations. cultural story when the earl and political social commentator and certainly discussed the links them between democracy and the importance of history. you can't go around the world nicking stuff and then just saying we're

going to keep hold of it because it's really valuable and we want people to come and see it it just as awash now adays in a i hate saying it but in a relatively woke enlightened society people are asking for their stuff back and it's very hard to construct a case when we go around the world stealing stuff and don't go back i think history itself is a very complicated place to go history is complex we do very well in britain education system and so our western media missed telling and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that the item and this is the worst of it so stewardship of the titans in me we should be trying to we should be trying to have a discussion about this rather than you trying to interrupt me and the point i know it's a case not only do i know he believes there is a history what we can do with these mothers now is continue to learn about history continue to understand their histories and continue to develop our knowledge by returning them back willy nilly to places that demand them we're not caring for the

objects themselves we're not looking at these as. pieces of our heritage of global heritage every single argument you make for keeping them away can be used for returning them i'm sure the greek people you know the home of democracy some great thinkers you might consider will be able to figure out how to display this to the public we shouldn't be just using them as as kind of political footballs all taking the moral taking taking the moral high ground taking the moral high ground we live in a world that is constantly changing and we need to i think recognise that you know that these are bigger than the moment this moment in history my concern is that by not coming under the auspices of the european court of justice we're not going to be held accountable how on earth is the british government ever going to be held accountable for the sins that it commits as a state at home and overseas if we don't have a higher court to answer. so i think britain is is perfectly poised to be able to

do exactly what it wants and i think in terms of brecht's it that discussion about it is a discussion about democracy it's about sovereignty there's no point in kind of really hashing old historical arguments when we are when i think we're in a completely new place where people in britain are thinking about how do we have a future where we're free of a bureaucracy outside of britain that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tie on a far lighter and run and losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. we'll leave it there sure that's it for now from moscow more of our top stories of the last 7 days recap for you with me kevin though in weekly returns just over half an hour between now and then the next tell me programs for you and your part of the world a father can tell you examine the controversial activist and former head of the english defense league tommy robinson right after this break coming up this weekend .

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race and. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

the welcome to worlds apart of freedom of speech is one of the pillars of democracy and also the one that in the west is perceived as being in greatest peril with the left claiming that it has become a vehicle coopted by the right just great hate and the right deriving the last best sinister snowflake sensors just. what an odd the boundaries of free speech to discuss that i'm now joined by british activist. mr robinson it's good to see you thank you very much for coming over it's good to be saying now what brings you to russia. giving a presentation tomorrow to explain the history and the dangers of what's called grooming which is more of

a rape. now speaking about the topic of your talk correct me if i'm wrong it's titled the rape of britain i know that you are prone to generalisations but isn't that too broad and too threatening overstatement no it's not going to generalisations are. the more right in discussion we talk about islam muslims in general how can you talk about islam and not talk about muslims in general because islam is nor did it's a book it's annoying to criticize the practice by muslims but if i criticize christianity. taken for way every christian. does so when we see the rape levels that we've seen in our country and from a population muslim i would make up 2.2 percent of the british population they are responsible for 84 percent of the convictions of these talks this type of break and what you have to ask the question is why which were not allowed to well i think you pointed out very specifically that it's these type of rape and i suggest that we

talk in more detail about various kinds of rape but before we do that when i hear it when i heard the title of your talk of the rape of britain the immediate association that i got of was with the book the rape of nanking it's a very famous book describing 6 weeks in 937 during which the japanese forces killed at least 200000 i mean billions and braved 20000 at least 20000 chinese women even with those races even those. cases that you're trying to highlight the statistics the rapes the distance and in britain is nowhere near that if you look at the statistics britain is pretty much on par with out of the developed countries 19000 children in 2018 move creamed by these gangs in one year so when you talk about the right program if i give it to the statistics we have a town as of one point.