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up china is engaged in a home state effort to become the world's only superpower by any means necessary the head of the f.b.i. has issued some scathing statements about china as the united states continues to ramp up tensions with the asian superpower straight ahead we dig into the details and the growing tech battles between the 2 and there has been a new move in the north stream through the pipeline saga unfolding in europe we take you on the ground in berlin to break down the new developments and why the u.s. is pulling out all the stops to halt the project. amid rising social pressures some professional sports teams are looking to change their mascot but what's the economic consequences look like we take a look at the issue and the sponsors putting pressure on the team to change with a packed show today so let's dive right in. and china is the greatest long term

threat to the united states those words are from the f.b.i. director christopher ray who blast the chinese government in a speech made at the hudson institute raise comments about beijing are wide reaching include everything from accusing china of attempting to become the world's only superpower to claiming that china has engaged in a campaign of theft and malign influence now reached the point where the f.b.i. is opening a new china related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours of the nearly $5000.00 active f.b.i. counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country almost half are all related to china. and at this very moment china is working to compromise american health care organizations pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions conducting essential covert 1000 research. the f.b.i. director wept on to say that china manipulates politicians on

a local level as well as businesses and journalists china often pushes academics and journalists to self censor if they want to travel into china. and we've seen the chinese communist party pressure american media and sporting giants to ignore or suppress criticism of china's ambitions regarding hong kong or taiwan this kind of thing is happening over and over across the united states. in response the chinese foreign ministry says that these comments are part of a new cold war with china. after the action of the han the in the. raising remarks ignore basic facts and are full of political lies lead and fully exposed is deep rooted cold war thinking if an ideological prejudice china firmly opposes this they know you will. i would like to stress that some u.s. politicians have recently made unwarranted smears on china playing up the so-called

china threat and attempting to divert public attention and conceal their own problems with their plots are clearly seen by the world and will by no means succeed. there's a lot to unpack here so joining us now to do so is boom bust cosen investigative journalist ben swan and host of economic update professor richard wolfe thank you both for being here now professor wolf i wanted to start with you here but we heard f.b.i. director ray say that half of the bureau's 5000 counterintelligence cases deal with china is this such a broad brush that makes these statements kind of appear as if china has its hands in quote attacking every part of american life i mean what do you make of all of this. well i think this is absolutely kind of over that it must have been a decision to rat ratchet up the cold war language that then there will be not now for 2 or 3 years it's sort of ironic to you is the chinese along

the the world's superpower if you are in fact the world's only superpower as you say so it suggests what most of the world believes that one is going on here is that the united states has heard that another country is able to grow its economy stache the united states that's been. true for 20 years it's changed a lot and now the united states is going to have to work out some way to live in a world where it's not anymore alone that the economic now you should do that in a balanced way but what we're seeing instead is lots of overheated little rhetoric that's only going to make working it out harder for all of us and a war in this age with nuclear weapons is so crazy that i'd like to believe that's not part of what's lurking you. know ben one of the statements made by the f.b.i.

director claim that china has engaged in where is my quote here economic espionage what's a significantly is he claiming when he talks about economic espionage. yes so essentially what the f.b.i. director said i want to read you what he said here he said that as you said economic espionage was a term that he used but he said that that link to china has increased by 1300 percent saying this quote the stakes could not be higher and the potential economic harm to american businesses and the economy as a whole almost defies calculation he went on to describe what china's doing as the largest wealth transfer in modern history here's what's really amazing about that is that china is accused of attempting to conduct economic espionage and shift american money to itself meanwhile not a word was said about the fact that massive numbers of american corporations have outsourced jobs to china in order to boost the bottom line for shareholders and to

make a lot of goods here in the united states very cheap by not paying american workers to do that work where was the criticism of that i mean you can't act as if china is alone in this wealth transfer a lot of the wealth transfer that has occurred in terms of american jobs going overseas what's initiated by china it was initiated by american corporations and it's followed up today by american corporations and. professor wolff well i mean obviously we talk about how a trade war and the battle with weiwei could create this trade or this cold war that obviously we're discussing and that may be where we're heading but i mean how much of christopher ray's comments are really just to to back up this push on trade to back up this push against tack and when it comes to why way is that we're seeing what we're seeing right now. i think that's part of it i think then it's very a married person that did in what he said decision to move production to china was

made by american corporations no one held a gun to their head they understood if they go to china they have to give the chinese something and what they gave them was a share in that said knowledge and what they got in return were much lower wage workers and access to the chinese market which is one of the biggest and fastest growing in the world a good deal for china but equally other very good deal for american corporations that's the honest truth the reality is that technology is an area where the chinese are strong very strong while lay has technologies that american companies will need to access sooner or later so going after them is a kind of a problem patient if you like but it only makes the tensions worse when what you really need is to work out a way to blended to accommodate what an 8 am so we don't get in each other's

way and that requires some accommodation from the united states which hardliners like this f.b.i. person seem not to want to think about or see and some colors it all in very extreme ends which i think makes the situation worse and quickly before we wrap up you know if we've heard all the conversation about why weigh ins e.t.a. now we're talking about tick tock and banning other chinese apps i mean where do we see this technology war going. well i think we're going to see a ratcheted up and i think professor wolf is correct when he says that the chinese are way ahead in terms of a lot of this technology certainly while way in their 5 g. technology so the u.s. does need that but i do want to say you know one of the big criticisms that's been love leveled against the chinese over this national security law we did see you know as we talked about previously the 5 the tiktaalik is no longer going to be active in hong kong as the english version the chinese version. danceable essentially take over there but while there is criticism here of that the u.s.

is doing the exact same thing with ratcheting up talk and passing laws to ban the chinese from operating here to stop foreign influence what the chinese are doing the same thing there it's literally the same game is being played by both countries while pointing fingers at the other plenty more to cover but at last we're out of town ben swan and professor richard roth thanks so much for your time. and the trump administration has officially started the process of leaving the world health organization following criticism of the institutions handling of the coronavirus pandemic now according to reports the white house has submitted a notice of withdrawal to the united nations secretary general and the u.s. congress which will be effective july 6th of 2021 leaving the w.h.o. does require a one year notice before becoming final now the news comes amid spikes in cases of the coronavirus within the united states so on that note let's take a global look at the spread of the virus with r.t. correspondent sorry to have it or so where are we on wednesday so brenda where we

are right now global cases there's now more than $12000000.00 cases worldwide global deaths there's over $549000.00 taking a look at the u.s. there's over $3000000.00 confirmed cases right now which is over 25 percent of the full global case says u.s. deaths there are $134000.00 so just so you're seeing the numbers right here that's nowhere from being over or under control the virus which is why it's so daunting that the trumpet ministration has announced that the u.s. is officially was drawing from the world health organization you know where the u.s. is w.h.y. the largest donor and provides it was more than 400 $50000000.00 per year and this move is being criticized by lawmakers here in the u.s. and by other world leaders since the w.h.o. is the main organization that cordon its efforts to get personal safety and medical equipment like ventilators and other critical supplies to hospitals around the

world but president has consistently accused the organization of aiding china and allegedly covering up the origins of the virus and allowing its spread and brand is a very dangerous move by the u.s. during a once in a century global pandemic which could also interfere with global clinical trials essential for developing vaccine as well as. efforts to trace the spread of the virus globally lastly i just want to mention that the pullout one take effect until next year like you said which means it could also be reversed by a new administration and that's exactly what joe biden the democratic presidential nominee has said that if elected he would reverse the decision on the 1st day in office brant. how does the u.s. compared to other hot spots around the world so a no other place in the world has more confirmed cases growing as quickly as there are in arizona florida and texas the u.s. states and this charge now it ranks the countries with the most come from new cases

over the past week now just that for population size and treats each u.s. state as if there were a country because number many u.s. states have a larger population than some countries now the only 3 countries with outbreaks as severe as across as somebody states are a bad man qatar and oman not 3000000 stern countries with large numbers of very low wage migrant workers and these workers often women very cramped housing brand without any kind of medical care now while we keep hearing from the from president trump that the high numbers that we're seeing in the u.s. is due to testing but that's not completely true since the u.s. does not have a high testing rate for a developing country archie correspondents are terrible thank you so much for keeping us up to date. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return as some sports teams are facing heat for their mascots pressure is mounting for them to change their names could

such a move mean for foreigners well we'll bring you the details and as we go to break here are the numbers at the close. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge

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nation and for more on the development of the controversial infrastructure project which are things over to our correspondent peter albert in berlin. it may be loathed by politicians across the us but denmark has given the green light to the north stream to gas pipeline project to come to new with all important undersea pipe playing vessels being put to work the danish energy agency has decided that north stream to a.g.d. also may use pipe laying vessels with anchors in connection with the construction of the north stream to pipelines the pipeline is a joint project between russia's gazprom and 5 other european companies when it's finished it will bring an extra 55000000000 cubic meters of gas directly from russia into germany and these particular danish ships are crucial to getting the job completed as we expected the da satisfied our request we will implement the project in accordance with the building permit and environmental impact assessment

we continued to consider various options for its completion and in due time we will inform about our plans. the reason this specialized equipment is so important is that the pipeline is being laid in some particularly choppy waters nothing to do with nautical conditions more to do with the 50000 tons of chemical weapons that would die. on the sea floor in the area during post world war 2 decommissioning the response from washington to the project is being equally toxic the united states says this pipeline will make europe overly reliant on russia for energy it lol so would lessen demand for u.s. liquefied natural gas last month a bipartisan bill was introduced into congress which could see u.s. sanctions imposed on european companies and individuals involved in north st 2 totally unacceptable says the german gas lobby you don't have such

a tightened and ritu active sanctions law would be an unacceptable encroachment on the e.u. sovereignty and energy security of western europe the problem for the united states is that their product liquefied natural gas is more expensive for the european markets and washington wielding sanctions like a club with which to be those that don't do as they're told is hardly going to win friends and influence people in european capitals these are all of a foot boom bust in berlin. and now to a little bit of news out of the world of sports last weekend the n.f.l. is washington redskins announce the team would undergo a quote thorough review of the team's name a big criticism that the name is racist toward native americans now the latest upward over the name comes amid social unrest within the united states but the mascot has been at the center of controversy for decades the team's owner dan

snyder who bought the team in 1990 previously said he would never change the team's day so why now are we seeing this review well maybe due to the major n.f.l. sponsors like nike and pepsi getting pressure from investors to cut ties with the team unless they change the name fedex which actually owns the naming rights to the team stadium also received pressure and issued a once. statement saying we have communicated to the team in washington our request that they change the team name while target and walmart have stopped selling the team's gear in their stores and nike has also removed branded merchandise for the redskins from their store as well meanwhile and will be franchise the cleveland indians has also started a review of their name so let's go ahead and talk about the dollars and cents of the situation with victor matheson professor of economics at the college of the holy cross with an expertise in sports economics thank you so much for joining us today mr matheson or professor matheson as it were and now these calls to for the

washington redskins and cleveland in the indians to change their name go back years in fact the indians don't even use chief wahoo that logo generally anymore and ownership and has been very reluctant while these sponsors threatening to take away revenue especially the stadium sponsor in the redskins situation actually move teams to change and really how much money is at stake here. so that's the real question right. it's expensive to change a mascot so people are obviously concerned about that it might cost a team maybe $10000000.00 in terms of changing signage paying for developing a new mascot that's something but remember that's that small amounts of money when talking about a team like the like the washington n.f.l. team that generates about $500000000.00 a year in revenue so what the teams are really worried about here is whether long time fans will will leave the team if the name is changed those worries are

unfounded if we look at the history of for example college teens who changed their names over the last 20 years again mainly means using indigenous native american language but that's still the worry of the owners like. and now it is a good point to make that the washington f.l. team is actually i believe the 5th or 6th most valuable in the n.f.l. despite what has been a good couple of years on the football field that's for sure now do you think that we'll see or if we were to see more importantly a full boycott from some of these sponsors because that's where the n.f.l. really is making the money if we see a full boycott from from some major sponsors like pepsi say we're not going to is spend any money is that going to move the needle a little bit more because it is really going to hit that bottom line. so if any major national sponsors pull the plug that puts pressure on the washington owner from the rest of the teams there because that's money that shared by the league as

a whole i think however the biggest issue here was when fed ex said that they were going to request the name to change because remember fed ex is the stadium sponsor of the mini right sponsor of where the washington d.c. always. that's money that goes directly into dan snyder's pockets and doesn't get shared. throughout the rest of the league so if they were to hold out that that's a naming rights deal oh well over $10000000.00 a year that's the sort of thing that really hurts and no matter how much and snyder wants to hold on to that that name. you know. 10000000 dollars 20000000 dollars a year of local funding there that's where of for sure that's the sort of thing that moves. and now we also should know i mean as you said they always say like will people come along well frankly in washington d.c. there is a basketball team in the washington wizards well they actually had to change their name from the washington bullets if you're not familiar so this isn't an unfounded

situation like you said there are a lot of situations they give americans a college sports as well but but shouldn't this actually be heavily embraced by this ownership investors in the team and really the leagues because of the a massive amounts of money that merchandise sales will make with renewed interest in these teams. right this is what never made sense to me at all is that if you look throughout europe for example in now on soccer teams they will change the style of their jersey every year or every other year at the very least because again that's an entirely new generation of people who have to buy up the merchandise so you know again you do worry about some people who say i will never go back but that's really a minority of all slams what you do get is a huge number of people who 1st of all will clamor to buy the last of the remaining will do experience when they're there and of course will buy the new product may come in really that should be

a bonanza not something to work and of course don't forget 3 to 4 years down the road then we have throwback jerseys that we're going to have the washington redskins may come back and frankly it doesn't sound like anybody going to stop you from going into the stadium if you still have a redskins jacket because that may be all you can afford or something like that now i want to hit on one more point before we we do go here july is going to mark the return of 3 of the 4 major leagues here in the u.s. the n.f.l. doesn't obviously start until the fall but this is about the bottom line is getting started but what happens if these leagues are forced to shut down again every single league that we're seeing in the in baseball in the m l b the n.b.a. and the n.h.l. they're all actually seeing you know positive tests of covert so it's hard to say that this is going to continue is this going to be a real problem moving forward as they try to finish out their seasons. i was going to be huge problem now mind you i'm not that kind of doctor writing to but we've already seen major league soccer right moving back in as well as the national

women's soccer league they were the 1st movers here in the u.s. already they had game cancelled last night between the chicago fire and their opponent because again the positive. virus bells burn moved out of it's moved out of. its participation for major league soccer in the orlando team dropped out of the. the national women's soccer league tournament so the fact is every league that's trying to do this in the united states has had to start has had problems going forward and it's hard to believe based on the virus numbers we're sitting especially throughout the south that this is not going to you know it's going to be very very hard for these i mean and that's exactly what we're thinking is i mean if you if you look at it if you're testing all of these people whether they're in a bubble or not and frankly i mean sadly not everybody is going to take it as serious as they need to and this could really cost these leagues a lot of money in the end of victor mattson professor of economics at the college of the holy cross thank you so much for joining us today. well thank you for having

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well coming up us from around the world live from central london this is also u.k. . in the race to clear hospital beds birmingham city council for 10 homes cash to take elderly patients quickly but some of the discharged may have had coded 19 homeownership from the area told us the incentive exploited a sector that is strapped for cash. you know how mean enough money into social chaos it's amazing to me it's people anywhere i opposed to being i do use that as a way. to make sense people what we've learned through the financial guy. britain's chills richie sumac wald difficult times lie ahead despite a massive spending package to get the country of the economic crisis at the center

of economics and business research warns the economy may not recover until 2020 full i'll be talking to an economist from people when i say should. the opposition call for a breakdown of the government's test and trace budget office or treasury documents reveal a 10000000000 pound of acacia. redevelopment and expansion plans for the trials on the basis of the challenge of the british parliament i mean fears with increased u.s. surveillance here in the u.k. we'll be hearing from a campaigner a little later. as part of preparations for a wave of coded admissions birmingham city council offered cash payments to care homes to take elderly patients but that wave never came and those discharge were in many cases never tested for the virus cams were given for windows to tender for the scheme receiving a fells and pounds cash. as an incentive but winning bids needed to accept the

patient within 24 hours even if they were diagnosed with covert 19 while many care homes didn't take up the offer the council confirmed that 16 payments have been made since the scheme launched birmingham city council says the payments were for covert preparedness and was in line with government guidelines the $1000.00 pounds funding was provided to allow the care providers to purchase additional p.p.a. pay additional staff and conduct additional cleansing to allow covert positive residents to be isolated and discharged the council has worked closely with our health partners to ensure testing upon discharged from hospital as we very much recognise the importance of this in reducing the spread of covert 19 almost 500 patients were discharged from birmingham hospitals into care homes during march and april at a time when the virus grips the city but nearly half were released without tests for the virus before government advice changed in mid april the rush to empty

hospital beds was later deemed unnecessary with the city's 7000 bed nightingale hospital repurpose for cancer care after receiving no covert patients only i spoke to a local care home manager who refused incentive jane far she told me the scheme took unfair advantage of a sector increasingly strapped for cash no man's money's worth a lot. and that's why i didn't and i had 3 and. i had 3 and i stayed every day until it was safe to have an admission where i could physically be text not south. and then people could maybe inside. the streets to the families and to the residents change huge pressure of course on the n.h.s. at the time the council needed to free up hospital beds surely that was the right move particularly with the scenes coming out of italy at the start of the crisis i mean the government really wanted to avoid that and in effect it did. you know they never use they got hospitals that was just the wasted resource the lot of money

went into the hospitals you know everybody was around and a lot of money was rice to build they build these hospitals in you and why not you use them so that raises. the coby patients and but they didn't do that and that put them in care homes and great national walid and we've found the rest of that will tell me what you feel about those care homes where of course they were affected because they did accept patients under the scheme and consequently hit by the virus were they at fault do you think despite following the government's guidelines. i think every home is individual to south and. the homes know their type abilities and competencies to be idle to dale with an infection regardless of what infection he sees. and it is just to make strains to be idle to be lecturing molly daws a little knowledge and calm angel of the people who don't want to do the social care

very. tall uniquely cheese meat with not having enough money into social care nights and maybe me anywhere i. think i use that as a wage. to make sets people we don't hear of the financial guy in. the chancellor has warned that difficult times lie ahead despite a massive spending package to get the country l.t. of the economic crisis as is the institute for fiscal studies warns of higher taxes to pay off the debt or he has he's only joins me now with more so we saw the chancellor saying then that tough times indeed lie ahead absolutely rich. really stressing that despite the really and tens hundreds of billions if you will of interventions coming in total from the government to try to prop up the economy there will still be long term problems that this latest round of support includes 30000000000 pounds of support to the economy things like paying companies

a posin pounds to take stuff back off. and also the eat out to help out scheme which is essentially set up to give people discounts if they visit restaurants from monday to wednesday's and those restaurants can then claim them back discounts back off the government but mr so that say that in any case he still can't guarantee that every job in the economy will be saved. i thought that the. very very significant it is that you know that it. did get its prices to protect its business it just did it. and the president did. business we did so we have the other side right. and he said all that money and yet the government has faced a lot of criticism absolutely there are a number of institutions researchers who are questioning just how effective this

will be to stave off any long term damage to the economy we've been hearing from the center for economics and business research now we can have a look at some of the numbers that c.e.b. are are trying to portray really and to try to push up they're saying the economy won't recover until 2024 and that even without a 2nd wave they say g.d.p. will fall by 11 percent this year again without a 2nd wave if there was to be another peak g.d.p. would fall by almost a 5th amass of amount when compared to past economic crises and also saying that in those instances exports would fall by 23 percent it's not just the c.e.b. are it's 2 to fiscal studies the 1st they too have been taking a look at some of the government's measures criticizing for example the measure are mentioned before about paying companies a 1000 pounds to bring back followed stuff but as far as the concerned this

impact on the economy will be long term. a lot probably a majority of the job or attention bonus money will go to respective jobs that would have be indeed already have been returned from furlough anyway much of the vaca on the stand you speak up will be that weight the missing 15000000000 for p.p. may be necessary but i think we can expect to pay quite a lot for the equipment that buys the time to pay for all this will come but not this year not next and mark a passage to do so will depend above all how we economy recovers let's hold in the back of our minds that our reckoning in the form of higher taxes will come eventually well we've also been hearing from the leader of the labor party kiss who's been taking quite the similar position to that of the i.f.'s i'm wondering what the long term impact will be on the economy. how can. you take

it the right place. for ted i suppose that. many of those many of the people like you have paid some are really at risk so we say. there is. a big chunk of it that way. it will be the money go away. that those jobs will fade become. so long term fears about the economy but also in the current many who are for example on 0 hours contracts really wondering whether any if any support is going to be forthcoming from the government is or thank you very much for all of that so for more on this i'm now joined by senior economist at the center for economics and business research publish our public good to see you so untold economic damage in just 2 months of lockdown and it really is extremely worrying if we actually face

another wave leading to another not on lockdown. yeah absolutely i mean what we saw so far ago previously in the 2nd courts was an unprecedented rate economic contraction so the economy shrank by 20 percent in april which is many times and was abandoned at any point during the press of a global financial crisis and that reflects the armrests senses that. 1000000 millions of businesses and also st get assets and control the outbreak so as you said a 2nd wave of the outbreak a secular. crippling economy but if there isn't a 2nd wave then 2024 is when it looks as if we'll have some form of recovery. yes so what we have seen is slightly encouraging signals in terms of retail sow's in macon consumer confidence has also been taking up that dynamic at play areas

that governments are also very effective in and providing this crucial battle between households and economic balance and that's happening around them and. who went drawn 'd towards the end of the year i think that's where the true test will come that's when we may outsource. more widespread layoffs and then consumer spending against us nearly 4 years us a long time isn't it because we got to bear in mind those local economies who have to a lot down again for example bless them in how will they be affected. absolutely i mean any time economy has to. get out of the data then reimpose into lockdown conditions and exacts consider going down it's not only in terms of the demand side but also the supply side equation so they're out this crisis 'd we are going to grow that and you know we've been monitoring our businesses expect our status in the long term damage so that. we really finding that through each week of lock down

long term damage is imposed this is a. good use out there. that we saw before the crisis so people hold on to the jobs people get their jobs back they're still going to really be facing very heavy taxation over the next few years. and i think that in a down the road tax increases do and likely the government how to commence it so it's a new course of action and it does seem that at least and the short term they will continue providing. us however despite the large size of the stimulus that was announced yesterday by this historical times it's still represents a very significant scaling back i'm so again at least training wheels and removed from the economy i think that's when the real damage could. cause problems if the current virus hadn't emerged would be talking about an economic impact on horizon as a result of breck's it what impact will last have mounted this into what we're seeing

. absolutely so perhaps it continues to be a risk on a rise in especially for those that rely on exports and these businesses have been very badly and it's already by the widespread lockdowns international trade is an area that's combinable credit card and i mean to its impact on supply chains and just the riches flow of people across all this. would be a really severe double whammy if a if i'm upon exiting the transition area and some form of trade your angel is a great the it will double whammy of manufacture to know there was no will be huge impetus to make sure we do get a very good compatible trade agreement between the u.k. and the e.u. in order to soften the blow that we're getting now from corona virus perhaps an

incentive to get a good result from all of this i mean there will be the hope that the on extreme circumstances will have focused minds in the negotiations although no progress so far as ben limits it so there isn't a huge amount of that and so far that suggests that that will get i think as we approach the deadline at least some concessions agreements are likely to be made but it's very difficult it's. a bit of a road that the negotiations are followed so far pablo thank you very much indeed for being with us live here on r.t. u.k. very interesting to get your perspective on where we are at the moment thank you shall. treasury documents reveal that 10000000000 pounds has been allocated to the government's test and traced system much of it to private companies but scientists from the independent sage group separate to the one advise in the government have called the decision shocking saying the money would be better spent in established public health bodies the government scheme has had several problems since it

launched a maze such as technical difficulties for contact traces and the scrapping of the much diluted government while driving testing centers minute by private firms have been criticized for the handling of samples with labs receiving them mislabeled or in poor condition they come and says that the full amount might not be spent but the opposition has called for a full breakdown of the contracts to assess the value for money so do stay with us in the u.k. well discuss this test and trace budget allocation with an accounting expert. to the south. already have crossed in the face read about implants are said to be challenge in the house of commons i'll be joined by our campaign a little later. we

go to work some straight home for. the past 3 presidential election cycles demonstrate voters are against foreign wars and foreign nation building nonetheless both remain high priorities for the release why is this arvo. rizvi say foreign policy and exactly why should the u.s. and i want to force a stay if. you

care to be involved with yeah you know what. kind of. plans to expand the u.s. air base are if crossing the northamptonshire have been revealed u.s. spy chiefs i mean to expand the secretive base with some 1500 extra agents the full details of who works there are kept secret but cia agents are among those stationed at the base however the mover said the challenge in the house of commons in a debate prompted by the local m.p. form a cabinet minister andrea led some of the fears that it could lead to more accidents

like the incident that killed 8 british teenager last year the fatal crash involved 19 year old harry dunn and a former intelligence agent and securitas who drove into harry's motorcycle while driving on the wrong side of the road outside the airbase in august 2960 s. lazar claimed diplomatic immunity and fled to the us in an open letter the teenager's family claimed the read about in the news has upset them and shows how little the u.s. government thinks of harry's life however the british government says the development plans will not lead to any increase in agents. this is not an expansion of our f. crouton and will not increase the number of personnel based at the unit. i'm now joined by a campaign against u.s. surveillance activity at the air base none with hill that's in yorkshire martin schweigen martin good of you to be with us now of course we do need us about it's that we in this country i mean there's no harm in that because they are indeed our

allies and very important ones or i'd be delighted if somebody could tell me and maybe many other people who work with the menwith hill accountability campaign what do we actually gain from the military and industrial surveillance carried out by. men within all it's called r.a.f. menwith hill on the main gates we know that is part of the american military surveillance organization. so it's adding to the tension it's stealing industrial secrets it's got a lot of downsides to it if you're meaning it's it's a threat to us as stealing our in dust your secrets well if you look at the reports to the euro the european parliament i know we're no longer part of the e.u.

. once it has been raised to her and has been raised to other places about the military industrial surveillance of the use the earth. the collection of information and military leaders does a lot of sifting anything electronic digital signals are picked up and interpreted and they're picked up from all sorts of different mains a lot from some clients a lot from land based cables. but the fact nowhere where we're no longer going to be in the e.u. doing not have a special relationship there we're get even more special with the usa i think it be nice to think the special relationship was about building bridges building friendships but i think we have to accept that having using the surveillance

men with phil and all was a purely from crampton allows us to conduct things like drone strikes in faraway country is killing people that's called extrajudicial executions but we also have some collateral damage how does that actually help the reputation of you know the united kingdom i think we can be seen as aiding and facilitating murders well what then what accidental damage and what steps he then taken to raise public awareness and do you find that the public is as concerned as you about this . i think most people if it's a long way away it's not a problem they may not be concerned about it we have a website we have newsletters we truly very happy to make a bodybuilder anyone who wants to read them. we have leaflets and it most tuesdays

when we don't talk covert 19 to worry about there's this small demonstration outside the main gates and we have members who are always happy to talk to you whether it's yourselves we'll be happy to talk to the americans we certainly try and talk to the americans will be very happy to talk to the russians the chinese will be talking from dr john to people from many other countries we're not the only . group concerned about right presence the surveillance on may in their area ok a little interest that brings a lot in thank you for talking to us and thank you indeed for your time not in china very welcome. in france as anger in the streets of the capital of some newly appointed ministers who have rather questionable postes a protest staged by a women's rights group took place on tuesday and is expected to continue on friday was god god god

god god god god god god. are to shy to do better he explains why change of the heart of the french government have provoked such anger. president macron had hoped to to reshuffle of the french government would give him a much needed boost languishing in the opinion polls and with less than 2 years before the next presidential election he needs to turn things around but as some of the names for some of the top jobs in french politics were announced mouths dropped in shock the new interior minister the man in charge of law and order she has done i know i'm dumbfounded many when we talk about the careers of men chanters by

regulations are we talking about those appointed as ministers how can you imagine for a moment that the fight against sexist and sexual violence moves forward with a rapist at the interior ministry. and a masculinist of the justice ministry to. this government is a disgrace it's a tremendous slept that emanuel macron has launched in the face of all those who have mobilized against sexual and gender based violence dominance character has been acquired since rape allegations were made against him now a woman alleges that he forced himself on her during a meeting in 2009 domain and has always denied the accusations while the original proving to the claims was dropped just weeks before he was annoying to it into one of the most powerful jobs in france a court decided to reopen the probe many are now questioning my judgment saying it's an insult to victims of sexual assault. concerning he

currently has a rape accusation against him and recently the justice system relaunched the investigation into his case was posing a problem is that he's been nominated to become france's top cop meaning he'll have under his orders people who are supposed to be investigating his case. but we think the 1000 sound one has been abused. rape as the head of the police when the older 2 don't take complaints seriously is generally speaking. to women who are victims of rape sexual assault who police refuse to listen to. for us and for all people who are victims of rape assault there is spitting in our face really because for months for years even we've been denouncing violence that we're breaking the silence when it comes to rape cells domestic violence and we have the feeling that we're hurt but they don't care at all about what we have to say outraged over this decision protests erupted.

000-0000 despite the intensity of emotions boiling over it leaves a powerless little to offer after legal analysis the relevant services asserts that there was no obstacle to dominoes nomination domino nero wasn't the only issue protesters took to it the newly appointed justice minister also riled the crowds he's the lawyer to pull a retie he's previously defended high profile men who faced charges of rape he's also known to be a critic of the me too movement suggesting that some actresses sleep with men in power to get a leg up so to say calling it a promotion the leader of one french feminist organization had this to say ladies

and gentlemen our new justice minister i have to vomit out on the streets of paris protesters were equally appalled to. see someone who has defended for a post office a from a site who must be defended in a court of law indeed but it came with a way of defending them by attacking the me too movement talking about the history . of the debate in reference to women if you do poll moretti as interior minister and justice minister is for us the fatal blow to this so-called great cause of the presidential term it doesn't seem that this is about to grow were protests of being called across france on friday with many fear is that by making these appointments cohen has in mind. gender equality an issue he had once described as an grand cause a big cause of his presidency so it seems. paris.

the u.s. now has more than $3000000.00 coronavirus cases making the worst affected country in the world that's according to johns hopkins university which collates worldwide data the u.s. also takes place globally for the highest number of covert 19 deaths with a toll of more than 131000 and with the presidential election just under 4 months away some say the pandemic could jeopardize trump's chance of reelection recent polls suggest that trump is currently lagging behind democratic rival joe biden. and examined has been speaking to keep republican strategist ed martin about trump's campaign. america we have this situation where the president who was you know taunted about being a strongman didn't move to sort of take over the whole nation he let different states handle it differently i think that's been a little bit mixed right in places where there's there's an easier time handling some of our more sparsely populated states it's worked out but in new york and

texas and florida it's a challenge so i don't know you know once in a 100 year pandemic it's not easy to see how to handle it and i think he's struggled with that so i think that's a fair criticism the question is whether the american people recognize a once in a 100 year pandemic and say well we're all doing the best we can or whether they say let's try somebody else i think that's what's going to happen in the fall at the city. and that's it for the moment more news at the top of the. some rumors assume the search is going to be named christmas. you may.

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