stumbles world famous hagia sophia museum which was originally founder especially from abroad. warns a day to you at the center of our developing in the otherwise middle income and of other countries and the money is flowing to the big companies and it's really not getting down to the people but peter. paul finds mixed feelings in the e.u. one welcome in the u.k. tourists without self isolation as brits get the green light to travel to 59 countries i think they will be regarded somewhat with suspicion 1st and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves here. is. a very warm welcome you watching r.t.

international with me carrying also his landmark hagia sophia museum which through its long history has also been a cathedral and a mosque has been converted back into a place for muslim press. change i mean like a lot of other mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals all foreigners muslims and muslims hagia sophia humanity's common legacy will continue to embrace everyone with its new status and a more sincere. sense worshippers have to wait another 2 weeks for the hadiya safina to reopen for press this friday saw them gathering outside the new nie reconverted last the president's announcement comes shortly after taking his high court i know to a 934 decision to turn in to me and say i'm local journalists use if possible. turkey's counsel if they reach. no 1930 or ministers council decision that. i stop you must immediately so this decision being i know that my.

now be reverted back to moscow now what will change with. looking forward well the main thing that's going to change now is sofia will be open for islamic worship now there are many very important christian icons in mosaic so rest goes inside islamic laws that were did not take place in the presence of icons but turkish government is planning on using light mapping technology to provide an artificial barrier blocking these icons from the view of worshippers during prayer hours so the mosque will still be open for tourism but also during prayer hours for worshipers that want to come here as well many turkish officials see the decision to turn. back into a mosque messick issue but there has been a lot of international criticism the united states views a change in the stages of the hagia sophia as diminishing the legacy of this

remarkable building and its own supposed to been a decent rare in the modern world to serve humanity as a much needed bridge between those of differing faith traditions and. algis you know sco deeply regrets the decision of the turkish so it tastes made without prior discussion and calls for the universal sale to all world heritage to be preserved the ruling by the turkish council of states to overturn one of modern take decisions and present a wise decision to place the monument under the management of the religious affairs presidency is regrettable the decision which came as a result of the political will of president is no comparable cation to a civil lawsuit is the unique value and ecumenical nature of the monument search presidential spokesman it brian cones giving assurances that there is going to try to are to make sure that the religious identity and the historical significance of this beautiful minute it is preserved all of our major mosques such as the blue

mosque for t.v. and silly money in mosques they are open to both visitors and worshippers. opening arpaio sophia to worship doesn't keep local or foreign tourists from visiting the site so a loss from the world's heritage is not in question. is actually very old structured for the record dogs. is in the empire and it's actually a very important symbol to the greek orthodox religion. and sitter what the vatican is the roman catholics the i.s.o. degree orthodox.

wedding we're looking at the reactions coming domestically regarding the decision to revert by sophia back into a mosque we see members of the ruling party very very happy we've seen tweets from the turkish president we've seen tweets from the finance minister the president's communications director as well expressing pleasure we've seen the opposition take a very wide stance many positive reactions coming out of the muslim world they are celebrating this decision that. is once again open prison worship from a great canvas a told us he believes talkies maze will reignite tensions between wilton's. and screen belonged give the initiative what we're learning so. it was an initiative that was started about 10 or 15 years ago which aired as you. can it be. i don't think it has been what it is

a shame that. it new should be taking such a measure to have penchants between. the. world and this is something that. we're going to europe but romero's had mentioned in his 1st reaction. possibly be. a yes or becoming a monster. meanwhile in berlin that has to change the supposedly racist name of a metro station ends up raising eyebrows as the new suggestion by transport or thirty's proves controversial to you will have more on the story later in the program. aside from the impact on health and leaving millions jobless the coronavirus is also threatening to leave people hungry to a new report warns that covert 19 is triggering

a food crisis that could potentially double the number who die from hunger each year matthew trust scott is the head of humanitarian policy for oxfam international and says it's even affecting well developed countries. what's really worrying in this report is we are seeing new at the centers of hunger developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at and the reports include india south africa brazil these countries where there are recently developed economies and yet the impact of seeing from coronavirus is going to have dire consequences on the most vulnerable people in those societies and say going to happen i mean there's this poor people in every country and the same impacts are going to slow down so what we're seeing from coronavirus is that both it makes its more sort of vulnerable for poor people but it also makes them more vulnerable to the economic side as well and that's going to be across the world 8 of the biggest food and drink manufacturers have paid off by the elite or something wrong and i'll shoot system the money is flowing to the big companies and it's really not getting down to the people that need it. the world food programme

estimates the number suffering from crisis level hunger will double by the end of the year reaching 270000000 people and oxfam says 12000 a day could die from starvation if nothing's done the worst hit are countries already deemed un stable before the pandemic nations such as yemen or afghanistan where many citizens had already been suffering from hunger for years most of the numbers at risk rise and the middle income and develops can jan insists there are measures to minimize coverts effect on hunger but governments need to act fast for the time being there are 3 things we need to do so firstly we urgently need to increase humanitarian aid at the moment the united nations has put out an appeal for about $7000000000.00 and that's only been 24 percent funded so we're not getting nearly enough money for the humanitarian aid that we need the 2nd thing that we can do is looking into issues like canceling debt if we cancel 'd the debt of some of the developing countries we estimate that could free up up to

a trillion dollars for those countries to be using to help those people and that can pay for things like food they can pay for social security social protection it can pay for things like health so sharing of the deaths could make a huge difference and that's just a matter of wealthy nations really giving up some of the debt owed to them by other countries and the 3rd thing that we need to do and in and this is a long term change is we need to change how our food system works we need to build a more more robust a more equal food system food system that's a bit of that stable to deal with climate change that's able to respond to shocks that's able to be sustainable and to support the small scale farmers and small producers rather than just putting money into big companies if the 2nd wave does come we know the people who are going to be the most trouble for that and if there are restrictions put in place by governments to take to address that 2nd wave those restrictions have to be have to be able to cater to the needs of the poorest people so we need to make sure that the food systems are there to get food where it's needed to make sure that people have the resources to buy that actually. the u.k.

government is allowing british citizens to travel to 59 countries without having to quarantine upon return it comes as life has been slowly returning to normal in the u.k. in the past few weeks with many bars restaurants and public spaces gradually reopening as of this weekend our autists musicians and dancers can stop performing live outside to outdoor audiences will also have the resumption of recreational sport followed later by the reopening about gyms swimming pools and leisure centers however despite this positive attitude towards easing coronavirus measures and reopening borders the u.k. has one of the highest cofa death rates in the world followed by spain italy the us and france and while the government's announcement will allow british tourists to visit many european countries it seems they may not get the warmest of welcomes a recent poll reveals many europeans are not thrilled at the prospect of taking in british travellers without the south isolating the people we spoke to had mixed

feelings. to welcome people and they would also give us a big hand. in my opinion all tourists who come to italy will be well received. i think. first of all we need to make sure that they do not have the virus that they have and chill ok and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves. i think it's better if the border stays at home not just the british right now everybody should stay home i think that's the most was the. reason to stop them from coming they're still part of europe is now. as they respect social distancing. favors the development of tourism. with coronavirus restrictions lifting around the world physical learning about

a potential 2nd wave and in the u.k. there's concern or lack of personal protective equipment could be an issue all over again shoddy at woodstock he has more on the story as a u.k.r. knocks the lock down it seems many are bracing for a 2nd wave of the corona virus but also a 2nd wave of a shortage of people it's not new news the us throughout the entire pandemic and has stopped on the front line really struggle to get hold of protective gear to adequately safeguard against the virus for months on and it seems like they looked at our lessons haven't been learned over the department say he's committed to building up the stocks to meet longer term demand we are not convinced that it is treating the market with sufficient urgency ever run out on a national level but with demand increased by 20000 percent both on the front line would beg to differ in fact 50 percent of and it starts so there was not enough p.p. and although data on its usage is hard to get hold of a survey of nurses and carers found that nearly 90 percent worried about catching the virus at work while the government stresses that the main challenge it faced

was getting the right people to the right place. right time initially masks were issued and then the statement was made that actually we tested them. and these masks are ok having said that they now say we need to improve this mask so there's a lot of loss of freight and you need to answer this but rather than to say the market has now been resolved with demand spiraling to u.k. hard to look further afield and source p.p. on international markets but that came with its own set of problems a plane from turkey landed at the peak of the pandemic in april carrying a batch of 400000 much needed p.p. counts upon arrival it emerged at the equipment didn't meet british safety standards in a very embarrassing blunder for the government though the u.k. is able to produce a fair share of its own people there's no imminent guarantee that it won't need to source from abroad again with experts in the field saying that the quality is the

key component of effectiveness in protecting against the virus perhaps the government should try before you buy out there be a presto you've doubled your stock without even lifting a finger this catalogue of errors certainly warrants an inquiry surely to get it right the 2nd time around if there's a 2nd time around that is but in line with most of the government's coronavirus responses they say it's too soon i do not consider at the moment. a full scale national party is a good use of official talking earlier this week the charts are announced a 15000000000 pounds boost to p p but will it be a case of too little too late especially as some of those in government say we're only halfway through this pandemic charge added stache the artsy london still to come donald trump commutes the prison sentence for his former adviser roger stone who was convicted of lying to congress during the russian collusion story and more after the break.

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had a work day in my life because of that and you know so it's up to them to decide what's great make it great and good luck with. it. welcome back donald trump is facing a backlash off to granting clemency to his former age well it just comes hours off the appeals court refused to delay the start of stone's 40 month sentence which he was given for lying to congress and the russia collusion probe caleb maupin explains the decision from the white house comes just 4 days before roger stone was expected to present himself at federal prison and start serving his sentence of 40 months in prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice now the white

house presented a lengthy report just scribing roger stone as essential. lee a political operative who briefly worked with the trump campaign in 2016 and became a victim of the russian collusion hoax the white house questioned the partiality of the decision and sentence which rogers and toast with finding evidence of collusion with russia because no such evidence exists him for his conduct during their investigation the simple fact is that if the special counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation mr stone would not be facing time in prison now according to the white house report bob muller's prosecutors charged roger stone simply with process crimes that were quote soley from their own improper investigation and the white house went on to say that the prosecutors quote took pains to make his arrest to be filmed on live television now at this point we've got democrats speaking up and saying that donald trump is essentially abusing the

rule of law and legal processes in the united states essentially from the president saying if you lie for me you cover up for me i will reward you on the other hand if you are a rat as you cooperate then like a mafia boss i will come after you richard nixon at the height of watergate never pardoned or commuted the sentences of any of the people involved in watergate i have no doubt donald trump is going to pardon himself he is going to pardon evolved to trump he is going to pardon gerald questionnaire the charges on which roger stone was convicted flowed from the special counsel robert muller investigation into allegations that trumped colluded with russia during the 2016 elections now no evidence of trump russia collusion was ever discovered but a number of individuals associated with the trump campaign which charged with process crimes as well as unrelated charges now roger stone admitted that during

the 2016 elections he did indeed promote the. wiki leaks e-mails are the e-mails that were provided to wiki leaks from clinton campaign manager john podesta however you says he had no prior knowledge of any e-mails that would you know it was going to publish and he certainly was not involved in any hacking or data dumping or anything to that effect the found of new science 21st century wire patrick head and told us the claims against own are questionable to say the least. to say that roger stone. committed a crime is to say that it would be the same as saying covering up about about an alien abductee about being abducted by aliens basically how can you lie about something that didn't exist even after a lie has been completely disproven like russia gate total collapse of the mother of korea even that the narratives still linger they linger on their adopted as his

kind of belief set and that's the whole basis painted clearly tainted the foreman of the jury was a democratic party operative but that wasn't seen by the judge is grounds for a mistrial so this is being portrayed as the some miscarriage a transgression of justice by the trump administration but in fact roger stone did nothing wrong at the end of the day george floyd in the u.s. the impact is still being felt around the world and the german capital steps are being taken to rename a metro station which is now said to be racist but it's an alternative suggested by transport all authorities is proving to be no less controversial piece all of our reports from. the killing of george floyd by us police and the rise of the black lights lots of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to racism colonialism and slavery.

is also wrangling with the names of its strong plots and here in the very heart of the german capital is. a boy or. is seen as a door. rocketry term for people from north africa while berlin city authorities say it may take a while to change the street name the capitals probably transport provider want to change to the underground stations name quick sharp new transport maps are going to be issued by the end of this year out of the stands in respect to the occasionally controversial debate about the street name the d.v.d. has now decided not to use it and no longer has the name of the underground station

the problem is that the name that they going to replace it with is which runs nearby the station now this is where things start to get complicated the russian born 19th century composer. is regarded as one of the greats of classical music he spent his final days in berlin and as with a street named after him in the german capital the issues arise when you look at the motifs that appear in his work through. the opera prince comiskey employees deeply anti semitic things the group is and even if anti semitism was prevalent and widely accepted at the time i don't necessarily think we should get rid of the names of streets all station named after people like but renaming a station after him nowadays in berlin is quite a different matter there are all those who oppose the view of lincoln as an anti semite and say his work on beliefs being misrepresented blaming going for

anti-semitism is a bit of stretch really you have to understand the context you have to understand history whereas glencoe was not interested medic he had jewish friends and kept in touch with many famous artists of jewish origin for him it's nice that it was not important this isn't the only part of they already issue in the vetting district there is enough for a kid quarter where peter. and plots are named after. linseed for the colonialism the city did say that some streets would be renamed in $28.00 but they still here in stiglitz lindorff days in didn't down named after the victor in the battle of town and good world war one who later went on to be a figurehead for early nazis and appointed hitler as chancellor. of friedrich schenkel who also has a square named after him in the city was

a colossus of neo classical and neo gothic architecture he designed the brandenburg gate but also the eigen cross the award now so closely associated with germany's period of nazi rule politicians from the green party have welcomed the move to rename the station but have said that k n e to be taken over what it will be called in the future it is welcomed to be the g. has taken during the naming of the morningstar sounder ground station into consideration has to actions are not appropriate in such matters there's been an underground station here for 112 years and whatever the name changes to it will be the 4th incarnation of this particular stop until racism campaign is want to see the street on the station named after. the 1st black man to be enrolled in a pressure university peter all over r

t. political observer stephen meissner phase the current trends could have dangerous consequences for future generations. very far because that's one of the more harmless meets really there's there's lots of names of generals there were like you know we're evenly convulsive we call new york or. there is the all area of the future i wish if it were only it's like the african quarter it's. street new. aster polices for us can call nice to see that it's not right you can look at bismarck saying. this in this uncertain is there anybody that would like to be judged by the standards that are going to exist in 100 years from now but we won't tell you what the standards 100 years from now are going to be but we're going to judge you agree to that i don't think anybody would like you remember and. you've basically destroy people's sense of history and their roots

it's rubble of their roots and their basis of where they stand in the world. scientists are calling for an investigation into the presence of the corona virus in sewage that's not a trace of cove it were found in some point in barcelona dating back 9 months prior to the who had outbreak now the scientists at the university of barcelona found the virus in a sample of sewage water collected in march last year if confirmed it suggests the virus didn't originate in china but instead was dormant across the world and only flared up in december dr tom jefferson from oxford university believes we should be focusing on identifying all potential methods of transmission. if songs could be true it was so widespread at least to be that we know all possible now since march 2019 why has it all of a sudden appeared in the senate in january and you know literally in february

of this year this is a question that we're trying to. looking at it possible there it was which like temperature humidity and so on which have a possible bearing on this what we should be focusing on of things like how is this far is transmitted you know there are several ways it could transmit person to person so is it one way or is it 2 ways or is it 3 ways what's the main way transmits does the temperature. and we intend it should have anything to do with transmission. but these are important public health questions which will help us to understand it and to understand its transmission and to focus the missions. thanks for joining us here on our national web bat confessing minutes.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often this very dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. this is the kaiser report love on lockdown and i don't know what the heck's going on but lockdown is great you know for every dollar i spend amazon i get like 20 back. to my amazon stock goes up it's great this is

a magic money tree times 100 times 20 times 20000 wow it's fantastic. well certainly since the time before we went into a lockdown and this time now since we have a total change of mindset something has happened radically that changed up the entire psychology of the world in terms of money in terms of the.