oxfam warns that covert 19 could cause mass hunger across the globe and killed 12000 people a day. developing in an otherwise middle income and country the money is flowing to the big companies and it's really not getting down to the people that need it. the poll finds of mixed feelings in the e.u. on welcoming u.k. tourists. as brits get the green light to travel to 59 countries. by i think they will be regarded so would be suspicion 1st of all we need to make sure that they do not have the virus that they have had to test and then then they have . music which was

originally founded as a cathedral is converted back into a mosque however turkey's move triggers anger especially from abroad. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right aside from the impact on health and leaving millions jobless the coronavirus is also threatening to leave people hungry as well a new report by oxfam warns that covert 19 is triggering a food crisis that could potentially double the number who die from hunger each year matthew truscott is the head of humanitarian policy of oxfam international he says it has been affecting developed countries as well. what's really worrying in this report is we're seeing new centers on developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at the reports and i think

that india south africa brazil these countries where there recently developed economies and yet 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 this this put 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 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 now looking back to what we were speaking about humanitarian aid the global humanitarian appeal is just over $7000000000.00 so clearly there's something wrong and the money is flowing to the big companies and it's really not getting down to the people that need it the world food program estimates of the number suffering from a crisis level hunger will double by the end of the year reaching that 270000000

people and oxfam says that 12000 a day could die from starvation if nothing is done the worst hit are countries already deemed unstable before the pandemic nations such as yemen or afghanistan where many citizens had already been suffering from hunger for years they will see the numbers at risk rise and some middle income and developed countries such as brazil and india are also on the danger list matthew truscott again insists there are measures to minimize covens 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 and i'm at the moment the united nations has put out an appeal for about 7000000000 dollars and that's only been 24 percent funded so we're not getting nearly enough money for the humanitarian aid that we need at the 2nd thing that we can do is looking into issues like canceling debts if we cancel the debt 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 it can pay for things like health so sharing up 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 our food system works we need to build a more fair 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 those able to be sustainable and to support the small scale farmville who are going to be the most radical to 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 it 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 artists musicians and dancers can stop performing life outside so out. we also have the resumption of recreational sport followed later by the reopening about gyms swimming pools and lettuce and however despite this a positive attitude towards easing coronavirus measures and reopening borders the u.k. has one of the highest kovac death rates in the world followed by spain italy and 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 self isolating process the people we spoke to had

mixed feelings. on your. in our nature to welcome people came and they would also give us a big have economic. in my opinion to tell tourists to come to italy will be lovely to see. so i think it will be regarded as. first of all we need to make sure they do not have the virus that they have had tests until ok and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves. i think it's better if that body stays at home not just the british right now everybody should stay at home i think that's the most was that. they need to be checked but i don't see any reason to stop them from coming they're still part of europe is now. long as they respect social distancing the wearing of mosques it favors the development of tourism coupled with coronavirus restrain the u.k. there is concern a lack of personal protective equipment could be an issue all over again artie's

edwards dusty has more on the story for us. 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 stuff on the frontline 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 learned 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 were 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.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 prayer. virus perhaps the government should try before you. do you know what the shortage is by revising the accounting 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 arras suddenly were 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 the moment. a full scale national party is a good use of official talk earlier this week the chancellor announced a 15000000000 pounds. but would it be a case of too little too late especially as some of those in government say where any health way through this pandemic. turkey is a landmark sophia museum which through its long history has also been

a cathedral and a mosque has been converted back into a place for muslim prayers to enjoy i mean like all of other mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals or foreigners muslims and muslims. 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 the 24th 2020 with friday prayers since worshipers have to wait another 2 weeks for the sophia to reopen for prayers this friday saw them gathering outside the newly reconverted mosque the president's announcement comes shortly after turkey's high court an old a 934 decision to turn it into a museum local journalist use of has more. reach. no one or ministers. ok. it was in the

museum so this decision being an old so p.b.s. has now been reverted back to a mosque now what will change with the i guess so yeah looking forward well the main thing that's going to change is now sophia will be open for islamic worship now there are many very important christian icons in mosaic so pressed 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 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 culture you know school deeply regrets the decision of the turkish will so it tastes made without priorities caution and calls for the universal thing more world heritage to be preserved the ruling by the tax council of states to overturn what a modern take decisions and present to us 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 preston and the one in open publication. is the unique value and ecumenical nature of the monument search presidential spokesman cones giving assurances that turkey 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 and mosques they are open to both visitors and worshippers opening our pious 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 emperor justinian. help construct this very important current it's certain that the church for the record has docked. in the empire and it's actually a very important symbol to the greek orthodox religion. consider what the vatican is the roman catholics so it is the greek orthodox.

wedding we're looking at the reactions coming domestic week regarding the decision to revert by sophia back into a mosque we see members of the ruling party very very happy receiving 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 presuming worship. and former breaking bason are told us he believes turkey's move will reignite tensions between religions here and spain the long gallery in issued new.

civilization it was an initiative that was started to moan. 15 years ago which had as objective to stop the 1000 excuse we used can it be. i don't think it has been successful but it is a shame that turkey and see who found it new should it be taking said a mission we're going to have pensions between. me and the world and this is something that. i think we're going to get paid but little males mention in his 1st reaction. was a baby feet oh. yes oh yeah becoming a monster. meanwhile in berlin a push to change the supposedly racist name of a metro station ends up raising eyebrows as the new suggestion by transport authorities proves controversial as well much more after

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welcome back this is our t. international now donald trump is facing a backlash after granting clemency to his former aide roger stone it comes hours after the appeals court refused to delay the start of stone's 40 month sentence which he was given for lying to congress during the russian collusion probe parties killam up and comments. 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 to question the partiality of the decision and sentence which roger stone faced mr stone was challenged 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 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 does. donald trump is going to pardon himself he is going to pardon

the volga trump he is going to pardon jared questionnaire 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 emails of the e-mails that were provided to wiki leaks from clinton campaign manager john podesta however he 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 the new side 21st century wire patrick headings and believes the claims against zone are questionable. 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 abduction 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 gave the total collapse of the mother of korea even then the narratives still linger they linger on they're 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 hopper to it but that wasn't seen by the judge is grounds for a mistrial so this is being portrayed as the some miscarriage or transgression of justice by the trump administration but in fact roger stone did nothing wrong at the end of the day. almost 2 months after the resurgence of the black lives matter

movement sparked by the killing of george floyd in the u.s. the impact is still being felt around the world in 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 artie's put all of our reports from berlin. the killing of george floyd by us police and the rise of the black light amounts of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to racism colonialism and slavery. lynn is also wrangling with the names of it strasser plots an alleyway 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 understanding and respect to the occasionally controversial debate about the street name the deviancy has now decided not to use it any longer as the name of the underground station the problem is that the name that they going to replace it with is going to stress 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 modernize the opera prince comiskey employees deeply anti semitic things the group is anti 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 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 interest in the attic 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 names are an issue in the vetting

district there is enough for a kid quarter where pizza. and plots are named after the germans who for the colonialism the city did say that some streets would be renamed in $28.00 but they still here in. off days in didn't. 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. 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 welcome that the b.g. has taken their own 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. 2 it will be the full thing colonization of this particular stop until racism campaign is want to see the streets on the station named after. the 1st black man to be enrolled in a procession university peter all of the lead. political observers stephen meissner fears the courage trend could have dangerous consequences for future generations. it could go very far because that's one of the more harmless nates really there's there's lots of names of generals that were like you know were even like involved

in the colonial war africa there is the whole area of religion called off because if it goes that means like the african quarter its. street names are named after polices in its former alaskan colney so you could say that's not right you could look at bismarck saying also we 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 agree to that i don't think anybody would like if you rename and you race everything you basically destroy people's sense of history and their roots it's to rob them of their roots and their basis of where they stand in the world i'll be back with more news you're watching r t international stay with us.

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