blueberry thinks. we dare to ask. the stumbles world famous hagia sophia museum which was originally founded as a cathedral is converted back into a loft however turkey's move triggers the anger especially from abroad. oxfam warns that covert 19 could cause mass hunger across the globe and kill 12000 people a day or. 2 in the u.s. . developing in the otherwise middle income of the fellow country men money is flowing to the big companies and it's really not getting down to the people that lead to the poll finds mixed feelings in the e.u. on welcoming u.k. tourists without self isolation as brits get the green light to travel to $59.00 countries voicing that it will be regarded so what with suspicion 1st of all we

need to make sure that they do not have the virus that they have heard the term essential ok and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves. very well welcome you watching r.t. international with me. now search is landmark houghi is the fear museum which through its long history has also been a cathedral and a mosque has been converted back into a place for muslim press. to joe i mean like all of of the mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals all foreigners muslims and non muslims hagia sophia humanity's common legacy will continue to embrace everyone with its new status in a more sincere and more unique way by finalizing preparations quickly we plan to open hagia sophia for worship on friday july 24th 2020 with friday prayers since washington's have to wait another 2 weeks for the hiking as

a fancy for press this friday so the gathering outside the new t.v. converted mosque the president's announcement comes slowly off the turkey's high court i know the 930 sole decision to turn it into a museum local journalist yousef iran has small. turkey's councils they reach the decision to a no 1930 or ministers council decision that. i so pure must museum so this decision being an old so p.b.s. has now been reverted back to a mosque now what will change with. looking forward well the main thing that's going to change is now to be a will be open for islamic worship now there are many very important christian i take some rest goes inside islamic laws that worship 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 be open during prayer hours for worshipers that want to come here as well many turkish officials see the decision to turn. back into a mosque is it a mistake issue but there has been a lot of international criticism of the united states views a change in the stages of the hagia sophia as diminishing the leg. this remarkable building and it's on supposed to been a t. so rare in the modern world to serve humanity as a much needed bridge between those of differing faith traditions and cultures you know sco deeply regrets the decision of the turkish so it tastes made without prior discussion and calls for the universal thing world heritage to be preserved the ruling by the turkish council of states to overturn what a 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 other one in open public a civil lawsuit is the unique value and ecumenical nature of the monument there is presidential spokesman owns 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 our paga 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 a very old structure dating back to the 6th century when the the emperor justinian . help construct this very important service the church for the record the

docks. in the empire and it's actually a very important symbol to degree orthodox religion. consider what the vatican is the roman catholics the i.s.o. the greek orthodox. wedding we're looking at the reactions coming domestic we regarding the decision to revert by sophia back into a mosque we see members of the ruling party very very happy we see weeds 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 and they are celebrating this decision that. is once again open prison or a ship. a filmmaker a canvas just told us he believes talkies made will reignite tensions between when the chickens. and screen belong to the initiative what we're learning so. it was an initiative that was started about 10 or 15 years ago which aired as object you. are the one clicks we can it be is i don't think it has been so what did is a shame that. a founder of this it knew should you be doing search a mission we were going to have pensions between. me and. the world and this is something that. we're going to create europe but the rebels had

mentioned in his 1st reaction about the possibility of. a yes or becoming a more. i mean while in berlin the push to change the supposedly racist name of a metro station ends up raising eyebrows as the new suggestion by transportable party's presidential the actual to have more on the story later in the program. aside from the impact on health and leaving millions jobless the coronavirus is also affecting to leave people hungry too and he reports by oxfam 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 us reports is we're seeing new essentials of hunger developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at the reports

include india south africa brazil these countries where there recently developed economies and the impact that we're seeing from corona virus is going to have dire consequences on the most vulnerable people in those societies and say it's going to happen i mean there's this poor people in every country and the same. mihm backs are going to slow down so what we're seeing from corona virus is that both it makes it's 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 over $18000000000.00 to their shareholders assia now looking back to what we was speaking about humanitarian aid the global humanitarian appeal is just over $7000000000.00 so clearly there's something wrong in all 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 which in 270000000 people and oxfam say is 12000

a day could die from starvation if nothing's done the worst hit a country is already deemed unstable before the pandemic nations such as yemen or afghanistan where many citizens have already been suffering from hunger for years will see the numbers that rise and some middle income undeveloped countries such as brazil and india are also on the danger list matthew trust god to get 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 counseling that if we cancel 'd the debt of of some 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

they can pay for things like health so sharing up the debt 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 our food system works we need to build a more fair more robust a more equal food system food system that's a bill that able to deal with climate change that's able to respond to shocks that's able to be sustainable 'd and to support the small scale farmers and small producers rather than just putting money into big companies if a 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 that to address that 2nd wave those restrictions have to be asked 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. u.k. government is allowing british citizens to travel to 59 tantrums 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. as the u.k. has one of the highest kovi death rates in the world followed by spain italy the us and france and more the government's announcement will allow british tourists to visit many european countries is seems they may not get the warmest of welcomes and recent poll reveals that many europeans are not thrilled at the prospect of taking in british travelers without the self isolating the people we spoke to had mixed

feelings. it is in our nature to welcome people and they would also give us a big hand the economic lee in my opinion all tourists who come to italy will be well received so i think they will be regarded. first of all we need to make sure that they do not have a virus that they have had to test until ok and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves. i think it's better if that border stays at home not just the british right now everybody should stay home i think that's the most reasonable course. they need to be checked but i don't see any reason to stop them from coming they're still part of europe now just. long as they respect social distancing the whirring of mosques it favors the development of tourism. with coronavirus restrictions lifting around the world face a growing about a potential 2nd wave and in the u.k.

there's concern the lack of personal protective equipment could be an issue all over again shoddy at woodstock. 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 p p 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 the lockdown lessons haven't been over the department says it is committed to building the stocks to meet longer term demand we are not convinced that it is treating the market with sufficient urgency or that. the government is adamant that the stock of p.p. has never run out on a national level but with demand increased by 20000 percent those 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 day to run 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 p.p. to the right place at the right time initially masks were issued and then the statement was made that actually we have. 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 spiralling the u.k. had 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. accounts 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 front. against the virus perhaps the government should try before you buy how they've been dealing with the shortages by revising their counting tactics why not double the numbers instead of counting each pair of gloves as one why not count each club individually and hey 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 didn't consider at the moment. a full scale party is a good use of official talk earlier this week the charts are announced a 15000000000 pounds boost to p.p.s. but will it be a case of too little too late especially as some of those in government say we're only hall for through this pandemic charge every day artsy london still ahead

donald trump commutes the prison sentence for his former adviser role just who was convicted of lying to congress during the russian collusion for a story and more after the break. i know to no crowd. no shots. actually use the belt. well it's true no restore. points your thirst for actual. young people for a while you know it's up to them to make it in their own image and on the money els

and jan see i'm a believer you know i already had the plan for your 15 year experience in the united states post world war 2 coast land a. stock markets never had a work day in my life because of that and you know so it's up to them to decide what's great to make a trade and good luck with. welcome back donald trump is facing a backlash after granting clemency to his former age were just starting to comes hours off the appeals court refused to delay the start of stone's 14 month sentence which he was given for lying to congress during the russia collusion probe more can expect. the decision from the white house comes just 4 days before roger stone was

expected to present himself at a 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 describing roger stone as essentially a political operative who briefly worked with the trump campaign in 2016 and became a victim of the russian collusion hoax the white house in question the partiality of the decision and sentence which roger stone faced mr stone was judged by the same prosecutors from the miller investigation toast with finding evidence of collusion with russia because no such evidence exists however they could not charge him for any conclusion related crime instead they charged him for his conduct during their investigation this improvement 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 mahler'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 a public and shameful spectacle of his arrest they tipped off c.n.n. allowing 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 for 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 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 does. donald trump is going to pardon himself he is going to pardon

the volga trump he is going to pardon jared cautionary the charges on which roger stone was convicted flowed from the special counsel robert muller investigation into allegations that trump 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 were 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 and 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 we do it was going to publish and he certainly was not involved in any hacking or data dumping or anything to that effect the founder of new site 21st century while patrick henningsen told us the claims against stone 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 disapproving like russia gave it to mr total collapse of the mother of korea or maybe even that the narratives still linger they linger on their adopted as his kind of belief set and that's the whole basis for the stone prosecution so you know and the jury was tainted 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 an illustration but in fact roger stone did nothing wrong at the end of the day. almost 2 months off the resurgence of the

black lives. by the killing of george floyd in the us 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 an alternative suggested by transport authorities is proving to be no less controversial piece all of our reports from. the killing of george floyd by us police the rise of the black lights lots of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to great cism colonialism and slavery.

is also wrangling with. names of it strasser plots and here in the very heart of the german capital is more in strasser more or more in english is seen as a derogatory 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 and respect for the occasional 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 employees deeply anti semitic things the brute and semitic 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 those who oppose the view of lincoln as an anti semite and say his work and beliefs are 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 in it he had jewish friends and kept in touch with many famous artists of jewish origins for him it's nice that it was not important this isn't the only part of the names are an issue. in the vetting

district there is enough for a kid quarter where peter. and now plots are named after the germans who for the colonialism the city did say that some streets would be renamed in 2018 but they are 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 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 things the current trends could have dangerous consequences for future generations. very far because that's one of them or her most meets really only 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

whole area of religion called a flea kalish if it were the means like the african quarter its name street names are named after places in its former african colonies so you could say that's not right you could look at bismarck saying he also will did this in this and said is there anybody that would like to be judged today by the standards that are going to exist in 100 years from now but we will tell you what the standards 100 years from now are going to be but we're going to judge you quite like you agree to that i don't think anybody would like you rename and you race everything you've basically destroy people's sense of history and their roots it's the rubble of their roots and their basis of where they stand in the world and joining us here are not a international plenty most aren't to be found on our website we're back in 30 minutes.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. thinks . we dare to ask. welcome welcome to redacted tonight this is the show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents so i heard this latest scandal about russia paying taliban fighters to kill american soldiers and then something didn't quite hit right with me it felt like when yeah like undercoat fish on

a transatlantic flight you're not exactly sure what's going on but you're pretty sure it's going to end with someone picking bomb it out of their hair this is quite a scandal i mean this is quite a scandal i know and the reigning queen of mccarthyism was ready to jump on it i mean if this times report is correct this means that u.s. intelligence has concluded that lott amir putin. is offering bounties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan i thought is true it would mean the taliban were trying to kill american soldiers. oh wait that but expand their hobby for the past 20 years while russia need to pay them to do something they always just do it's like paying barry bonds in the early 2000 to inject steroids into his scrotum you probably couldn't even find

a moment when he wasn't injecting into his crow dome in which to offer him the money. here's the money but i want to give i want to kill the new york times and rachel mad cow the benefit of the doubt so i did a little research and it is true the taliban were indeed paid by another country to wage war against americans if they did during a meeting they were paid by america that's right the us has been funding the taliban for years here from the nation in 2009 out of the us funds the taliban in fact there was even a lawsuit when $400.00 americans sued us military contractors for funding taliban attacks against american troops we fund them what we sometimes arm them and then we fight them it's a it's a beautiful sim.