i was. a report by un investigative concludes the killing of iran's top general by the us at the start of the year was unlawful. also to come on r.c. angela merkel c.d.u. party puts forward plans to fill half of all posts within the party of the women in the next 5 years and more than 100 officers and academics sign an open letter highlighting the dangers of so-called council culture however the move just sparked a backlash from both sides of the political debate. that are there good morning it's friday the 10th of july you're watching r t international 9 o'clock here in moscow now more than 6 months since surrounds top

general he was killed in a u.s. drone strike near baghdad a u.n. expert has now concluded that the assassination was in violation of international law. my report doesn't the next presenting a case study of the targeted killing of iranian janeiro has some soleimani concluding that ease was a violation of the un charter governing the use of force and an arbitrary killing the international community must now confront the very real prospect that state may all opt to strategy clearly eliminate i rang king military or few shows outside the context of a known war and seek to justify the killings on the ground of necessity not imminent. however also described iran's retaliatory missile strike as illegal to

you on the 3rd of january this year president from the order of a drone strike on general somali near baghdad international airport 9 others were also killed them washington justified the killing saying that he was planning an imminent attack on u.s. interests in the region however its never put forward any evidence to back up that plane last month around issued an arrest warrant for the us president and 35 others in connection with the killing. presents a report by the to the u.n. human rights council from which washington with drew back in 2018 however that didn't stop the u.s. state department from hitting back at the accusation this to dentures and tedious report undermines human rights by giving past to terrorists and proves once again why america was right to leave the council it for them international crime of grave nature of threatening international peace and security to the u.s. and this they posted the u.s. drones operations the responsibility and must be held to account for this lawless

behavior and criminal act we did ask a professor of political science at the university of toronto about whether the report will actually have any influence on the u.s. . it's not going to have any actual influence on their behavior nevertheless we have to remember that under the trumpet ministration a us soft power in the world has been declining and by soft power we mean how popular the american way of life the american political and economic system is and the reason for that is because during the trumpet ministration the americans have conducted a very controversial policies whether we dream from international organizations carrying out illegal strike such as the killing of us and solving money or even the trade wars that they started under the trumpet ministration us influence in the world has been declining and i think in the long run this will have an effect on

american power and standing in international relations. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has strongly criticized for russia and china for their use of vetoes at the u.n. and is calling for them to be punished as follow choose days u.n. security council meeting where both countries coffee taste to block the approval of aid to deliveries to syria from to k. through 2 border crossings. over the last several months russia and the people's republic of china have repeatedly abused their veto powers in the council to support the assad regime strategy of starving its own people they believe there's no price to pay for their actions to secure a job so they are currently there are 2 crossing points on the turkish border one to the aleppo region and another to the italy bridge where aid is where aid is authorized to cross but this permission expires on friday 13 countries vetoed in favor of keeping both open for another year but russia and china favor an

alternative proposal to keep only one border crossing open for another 6 months with moscow and beijing claiming president there's no need for cross border a deliveries because of access from within syria itself however that initiative failed in the meeting with only 4 members of the council supporting the move the 2014 cross border mechanism was established as an exceptional and temporary measure to support the humanitarian relief in the war torn country for the past 6 years the situation on the ground has changed the territory outside the government of syria control has reduced drastically but we spoke to the former director general for the u.n. office actually neither he believes that the u.s. is pursuing its own goals over the situation. united states is always a problem created by introducing. sanctions against syria and that is that all issues start now

they want to open up the 2 checkpoints for you when you are so all. goods which is a typical course since in the area opposition forces guns and others issue to the president of sudan and that that is their lives really isn't going to do. with it as they wanted to but it is who knows what. would this a lot of good is good of you when you didn't move the. a lot of cheating with. the u.s. . 'd groups the fact that there were sort of arms weapons and. everything is it more to do

or was diligent to see that there's there's a risk. now with my staff of anger merkel's cabinet headed by women who are ready one of the most progressive european countries when it comes to women in politics but the now the chancellor party also wants to go a step further and introduce quotas say that women make up half of the entire party in the next few years but more detail say is peace. german conservatives the c.d.u. looking to dramatically shake up the demographics of their party top brass this week approved quotas for women in senior positions with quotas for those standing in elections under consideration this decision was long overdue the quote is a crutch it doesn't solve all problems but it is the 1st important step to better involve women if women continue to be represented in offices and mandate as little

as before they can have no influence in shaping the future so how will this work the plan is that in the coming bundestag election 30 percent of the positions in the christian democratic union will be held by women rising to 50 percent by 2025 in order to proceed the equality proposal has to be approved by party membership in december that may not be so easy with critics saying that position should be based on ability not gender shouldn't quality counts instead of a quota or there was a would be for a quota based on various professional qualifications economic 60 years and years of work outside of politics criticism of the movie isn't just coming from men with some c.d.u. women saying this attempt at equality is simply or just it could end up back firing a quota or 40 and 50 percent does not correspond to the proportion of women in the

membership if in the future it is easier for women to get a position in c.g. than men will be i'm fat while others say this will lead to the achievements of women who reach senior positions being belittled i myself would have opposed to it if i had been told that you came into this office because you were quite a woman many women find undervaluing to assume that they only came to office because of their gender more than women don't want to be stand the c.d.u. already has a woman in the country's top job of course angle a miracle. is stepping down at next year's election though and there have been allegations of her potential replacement being pale male and stale opposition in the green party have described the equality move and told will have to wait until december of this year to find out what c.d.u. party faithful. r.t. . america maurine is a professor of eastern european politics at the university of genoa she believes

there's still much to be done to integrate women into politics. it's not enough for as i said it's a starting point of but then we realize the debt to these women have many difficulties to go on with their or political career to improve their. positions political positions and maybe to become also party leaders. so they are more used to just to see ok we have female in our parliaments we have the meal that among our ministries and sometimes they do not have important let's see the meanest . usually there are and they get position for shame unease for 2 gender opportunities of policies which are not considered very interesting and very important for the national government and if you look down to. tattle stories

if you meal who i mean is 3 or 4 in all defense policy so it's not enough and it's not so easy. more than 100 liberal office and academics to have signed an open letter calling for an end to so-called cancel culture and the climate of intolerance it has created the letter was signed by a prominent authors and academics including linguist noam chomsky poet and novelist margaret atwood and harry potter author j.k. rowling has recently faced a wave of outrage after expressing her views on the issue of transgenders and feminism. resistance must not be allowed to harden into his own brand of dogma or coersion the democratic conclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides well we have come to expect this on the radical right since sorious ness is also spreading more widely in our culture and intolerance of opposing views of vogue for public shaming

and ostracism and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty well that after instantly to a backlash from both sides of the political divide leftists quickly denounced it as a display of elitism and fear of accountability while those on the right pointed to the poll corsi of some of the signatories who have themselves called for the consolation of others.

following the backlash a couple of the signatories that have a parent even disavowed the letter we spoke to political studies professor roger berkovitz who is one of those who signed the letter he believes the online reaction really demonstrates further the importance of the message that they were trying to spread. in our society for a long time there's been a general ideal or idea. that. whatever the the orthodoxy. we at least hear and are open to dissent and experimentation and new ideas within within reason there are always certain limits and i think that the response to the letter on the fact that so many people have are talking about the letter shows that this is all

a live issue hasn't been decided in our in our culture you know most of the critiques of the letter that i've seen again don't critique the content of the letter by the way the content of the letter is quite simple you know we should have vigorous and open debate i mean to me that's not a very controversial point of view but most of the critiques of it don't actually address that what they address is the people who signed the letter and say oh j.k. rowling signed it or you know david brooks signed it or someone and we don't like these people and therefore it's a bad letter that's not argument that's character assassination that's assassination by affiliation and to me that's. deeply and science electional and i thought. it was not a still to come peta donald trump claims that the u.s. leads the global fight against the corona virus at the moment despite i think

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in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. again donald trump has doubled down on his claims that other countries haven't done nearly as well as the u.s. in the fight against the coronavirus however he's yet to convince his country's neighbors or the e.u. who do remain skeptical the us currently accounts for almost a quarter of all known deaths worldwide except the story. over 130000 americans have died from coded 19 and the number of those infected across

america has surpassed the 3000000 mark but that hasn't stopped us leaders from bragging claiming that the usa is the leader globally in fighting the virus i think the world is looking at us as a leader and 19 we showcases. 99 percent of which are totally harmless. results that no other country can show because no other country is testing that we have now the rest of the world isn't buying that one bit the us is neighbor to the north canada says they are doing a better job fighting the virus than the united states is we were able to control the virus better than many of our allies particularly including our neighbor nonessential travel between the usa and canada has been shut down since march now some people want to open up again on july 21st but most canadians say they want to keep the americans out canadian prime minister to skip his meeting with donald

trump and the mexican president earlier this week the reason he gave the safety concerns of course but it looks like prime minister wasn't missed at least by trump gushed over his southern counterpart spin a profound privilege to have you with us today and it's a pro found privilege to have you as my friend we've had a great relationship right from the beginning the mexican people are incredible. they upheld our highest values god family and country now you might remember that a big beautiful wall was the central plank of donald trump's campaign when things have taken an interesting turn since the local residents on the arizona u.s. border have been blocking the roads to keep americans out of mexico and mexico actually installed just an action tunnels for travelers from the united states none of this has not been any wind out of america sales the u.s. government is convinced that their allies across the atlantic will accept america

with open arms. these technical progress and now we need to draw that to a conclusion and then they'll be a system a system to monitor and measure to make sure that we get the timing right and we get the toggle switches right both sides of the atlantic want to get this back up and both sides understand that our economies depend on the deep important relation trans-atlantic relationship matters and harsh facts still remain the european union has banned all non-essential travel from the united states for all of its swagger and self-proclaimed status in fighting the world is keeping its distance america is isolated a pariah like never before. r.t. new york. health care workers have been the ones on the front line throughout the global pandemic but they've also been putting their lives on the line in order to help the use inmate a new documentary has been hearing from the relatives of medical workers who succumbed to the virus you can watch the full documentary here today and it's also

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