the headlines with the u.s. has increased 1000000 coronavirus cases in the counting for a quarter of all the world's deaths since labor seem convinced by the president from his country is leading the fight against the virus. a report by un investigator concludes the killing of iran's top general by the u.s. at the start of the year was unlawful and to the new park put forward plans to fill half of all posts within the party with women within the next.

day here in moscow you're watching international now the u.s. has hit 3000000 coronavirus cases and now i can't for about a quarter of the deaths globally of the less strong from this still trying to convince everybody that washington is leading the fight against the virus however canada mexico and even the you don't seem to be convinced as. explains. 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 well things have taken an interesting turn sense now local residents on the arizona u.s. border have been blocking the roads to keep americans out of mexico and mexico actually installed just infection tunnels for travelers from the united states none of this has not been any wind out of america's sails the u.s. government is convinced that their allies across the atlantic will accept america with open arms. this 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 it the deep important relation trans-atlantic relationship matters 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 and fighting code in the world is keeping its

distance america is isolated a pariah like never before. art see new york. now former transportation safety board official has been looking at what i travel is currently like for americans touring this pandemic he made his report for ati merik. ok well the borders are there are like the airport now able to see how to change what changes have been made. and the airports find checking in and what every action trial is going to be like now and how they're going through. the 60. 6 thinks. they think you. are taking the goober to the airport and i have to say we got here very quickly because there's not a lot of traffic right now not as many people are traveling as they were prior to

the pandemic and so you can see that there's a lot of people here and so it's pretty easy to practice social distancing right now the 1st thing you do before you go into the airport but sure that you're wearing your mask and when you're inside the airport and throughout your travels make sure that you wash your hands frequently for 20 seconds and sign away and or using hand sanitizers. we're in the southwest check in area at national airport in washington d.c. you can see that there's a limited number of kiosks here usually i would say that there's probably about 3 times as many kiosks here if you look at the airport it's empty. i can tell you right now we've been here for what 3045 minutes and this is the most people i've seen in the airport all morning to go check our bags and it's natural. for the t.s.a. security point here at washington national you can see there's a limited number of travelers here going through security so the chances of your

being delayed for security are pretty slim right now during these times would be people are traveling like they were prior to the pandemic the c.s.a. is also trying to maintain social distance and you'll notice on the floors they put some marks to remind people to maintain 6 through the port so. existence. t.s.a. has no institution new rules and regulations on how their interaction happens between the passenger and the agent it's no longer will the passengers hands or their boarding pass or their electronic device to the agent the agent will observe it from them or that or the passer holds it up for them. as well as showing them to their id. if you're thinking about food you might want to think about something before you get to the airport that you can bring with us from this more affordable

restaurant for very limited and the ones that are open. in the ones that are open they're kind of because there's not many options for people for go. people are just waiting in the waiting areas like they normally do i don't know if there are in kind of rules require regulations or certain airports are putting in restrictions placed far as observed here and in nashville and also at national airport in washington d.c. it didn't seem like it was there any kind of rules or stipulations or regulations on being enforced on people be sitting sitting separately or or or maintain social distance you. were going to place else it really was kind of an unremarkable. other than that everybody had on masks and. since we're flying self-less they're maintained to the middle seat and to the flight was pretty full of the airline good as now what kind of training that they were doing with the plane in between every flight and also the plane that they're doing every night with different planes and

not use now we're here in nashville so let's go get our baggage. more than 6 months since the rands top general course into the money was killed in the u.s. drone strike near baghdad a u.n. expert has concluded the assassination was in fact in violation of international law. my report doesn't annex presenting a case study of the targeted killing of iranian janiero as some sort of money 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 our military or phish

shows outside the context of a non war and seek to justify the killings on the ground of necessity not imminent however there are also described iran's retaliatory missile strike is illegal so you on the 3rd of january this year president trump ordered a drone strike on generals of the money near baghdad international airport washington justified the killing saying there's still a man he was planning an imminent attack on u.s. interests in the region however it's never put forward any evidence to back up that claim and then you tack triggered protests in iran and further afield. am.

i. presented a report to the un human rights council from which washington we drew back in 2018 however that didn't stop the u.s. state department from hitting back the accusation. this to dan says and tedious report undermines human rights by giving past to terrorists and proves once again why america was right to leave the council it's what an international crime of grave nature threatening international peace and security to the us and this post that the u.s. drones operations the responsibility and must be held to account for this lawless behavior and criminal act we asked professor of political science at the university of tehran about whether the report will have any influence on the us

it's not going to have any actual influence on their behavior nevertheless we have to remember that under the trumpet ministration a u.s. 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 strikes achieves the killing of us and solving money or even the trade wars that they started so under the trumpet ministration us influence in the world has been declining you know i think in the long run this will have an impact on american and other world news now and serbia has been rocked by a 3rd day of violent protests against lockdown measures being reimposed. the

it. was so. i thousands protested outside the parliament building in the capital condemning another restriction by the government which does ban gatherings of more than 10 people from the demonstration that began as a peaceful sit down protest under the slogan sit down don't be set up singing turn violent although we're going to assist playing who commits to the armrests the. show as. i. mean while 6 officers were left injured after police clashed with protesters outside the greek parliamentary parliament on thursday as thousands raged in rules designed to curb public demonstrations the law put forward by the center right government and recently approved by the parliament aims to restrict demonstrations deemed to be dangerous

for public safety problems were thrown at the police during the protest he responded with tear gas and flash grenades. and the mayor of so on soon who was one of the most powerful people in south career has been found dead after a 7 hour operation is daughter reported him missing and police later found his body on a mountain close to the mezz official residence police haven't disclosed the call that would have ruled out suicide. prosecutors in paris have revealed that there will be a full criminal investigation into claims human caucus donated for signs were left to rot and needed by rats the leading university the story which broke last year has caused huge uproar in france let's go there now for more details. she said there 1st in paris good afternoon charlotte just run through then some of the background to this. well this was

a very gruesome tale one that certainly not for the faint hearted it emerged last year that there were allegations that thousands of bodies that had been dissed donated to a research center here in paris had been found in the most appalling conditions you mentioned one of them there that parts of the bodies had been by rats there were other allegations that bodies were just strewn around naked they were piled up on top of each other there was even apparently a year ahead that it being severed from a body just sitting on the floor and the bodies were even said to be decomposing so the smell was said to be like a putrid now families were completely garst when they found out that this is how their loved ones bodies had been treated after death after they had donated them and a report that sort of highlighted this scandal in the 1st place had even more details

to highlight. the upper limb of one is placed on the belly of the other rubbish bags overflew with pieces of flesh the proliferation of mice flies and infestations many of the bodies and body parts have maggots in them. the head lice on the ground you have the feeling of being in the 19th century or in their nations with the putrefied bodies on which the doctors work. well distressed families have brought. complaints against the university which is one of the reasons why this investigation has now been launched but at the time when this 1st emerged one medical union blame this on the fact that the center had just been overwhelmed. and tonight when we read the article we got chills because we couldn't imagine that such things could happen in the faculty and that the corpses could have been treated like this with no respect to the wishes of those who donated their bodies

things that break our ethical code so this shocked us deeply and this made us address the medical union to see if they want to react. well if you think that this story couldn't be any more gruesome it actually took an even more disturbing turn with allegations that the university was even making a profit from these bodies that had been donated selling them on to other companies the allegations are that one whole body was being sold for nearly a $1000.00 while single body parts were being sold at around $440.00 so really some pretty disturbing allegations against this university which at one point was the largest center of its kind for this type of research opening all the way back in 1953 it was shut down though by the french authorities last year after these allegations are merged people just completely

horrified and shocked as to what they were reading about at the time an inspection panel recently released a short term interim report into what happened it perry desk our university saying that it was guilty of some serious ethical breaches the family lawyer of some of the families that had complaints against the institution have welcomed this investigation saying they hope that finally justice will now be served. ok thank you charlotte charlotte pinsky there reporting from paris. watching r.t. still ahead this hour more than 100 authors and academics sign an open letter highlighting the dangers of so-called council culture however that move just by the backlash from both sides of the political debate but have the details in a cup and. join

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i'm back now with almost half of angle of merkel's cabinets headed by women germany is already one of the most progressive european countries when it comes to women in politics but the chance the c.d.u. party now wants to go a step further to say and introduce quotes that women do make up hof of the entire party within the next few years peter all of his more. 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 sectors 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 it will be unfair while others say this will lead to the achievements of women who reach senior positions being belittled i myself would have opposed 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. the cd you 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 polls will have to wait until december

of this year to find out what c.d.u. party faithful. see early. modern marine is a professor of eastern european politics at the university of genoa she believes there's still much to do though 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 leader. so they are more used to just to see ok we have female in our parliaments we have the meal and 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 trees that had a choice if you neal who. are in all defense policy so it's not enough and it's not so easy. famous. and celebrities to have written an open letter calling for more tolerance in society they claim that the current climate of so-called cancel culture where people instantly shun or boycott those they don't like is unhealthy and say there should be more debate on the letter was signed by prominent authors and academics including thing with noam chomsky poet and novelist margaret atwood and harry potter author j.k. rowling who's recently faced a wave of outrage after expressing her views on the issues 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 letter instantly to a backlash to from both sides of the political divide left is quickly denounced it is a display of elitism and fear of accountability while those on the right pointed to the hypocrisy of some of the signatories who have themselves boycotted opposing views.

or following the backlash there are a couple of the signatories have apparently been disavowed the letter we spoke to political studies professor roger berkovitz who is one of those who signed the letter he believes that the online reaction that we saw only demonstrates further the importance of the message they are 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 and the fact that's 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 sign 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 election will and i thought. nothing's looking site that i hear not say thanks to the company we're back again at the top of the. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability. more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's. because. companies want us to feel good about products while the damage is being done far

away this is something else this is deep into any minute i need look. this is the movie you listen we didn't do. any of that on disc. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons

capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news or direction chaz where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on puter labelle the past 3 presidential election cycles demonstrate voters are against foreign wars and for a nation building nonetheless both remain high priority for the ruling elite why is this our voters being denied a say in foreign policy and exactly why should u.s.

and allied forces day in afghanistan. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest ray mcgovern in raleigh user former cia analyst and presidential reverse are joining us now cause and effect that means you can jump and you can you want and i was ok let me go to you 1st here are mike's discussed a lot in my book and pose a lot of questions of mind reduction but let's start without a list and it speaks only so i can understand in our viewers going to spend why does the united states remain in afghanistan after the president of the united states running on a campaign a campaign trying to get.