in today's headlines the british government's accuse of selling spy ware to more than a dozen countries with questionable human rights records and has apparently been doing so for years. plus the mixed messages that have got the english public scratching their heads over wearing masks will be mandatory in shops starting next week despite contradictory comments from the government we discuss whether it's time to force people to cover up. i don't think that it should be compulsory especially when the evidence is. particularly strong the united kingdom has gotten a lot of this we need to bring this down we don't want a single extra that we need to do everything we can. also this hour german

police hunt a suspect to disarm 4 officers and fled into the forest armed with a crossbow. and the sunshine state becomes america's coated hot spot after florida's record breaking daily infection rate outstripped all of europe over the weekend anger is increasingly aimed at the governor. there what are you going to do you are going to get. every day your job. you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. it's been claimed that for the past 5 years the british government has been selling security goods like wiretap spyware and other interception equipment to more than a dozen countries that are considered as repressive regimes reporting from

westminster here saudia edwards. the british government has a reputation for prioritizing profits over human rights this time it's been revealed that the united kingdom has sold millions of pounds worth of interception equipment to dozens of countries worldwide the present itself even if users are oppressive now there are calls for the government to explain itself yet again the government needs to show how those risks were assessed in this case and how this equipment was ultimately used the exports include why a top spy why and other telecommunication interception equipment that could be used to spy on so-called dissidents and it doesn't come cheap in fact the u.k. has signed off more than 75000000 pounds worth of good to have to list of countries the u.k. even appears to be breaching its own rules here as the u.k. has banned the sell off security codes to countries that might use them for internal repression and among the list of countries even the u.k. itself has accused of human rights violations including saudi arabia the u.a.e.

and china. make good on my pledge bringing to force the united kingdom's 1st thomas human rights sanctions regime which gives us the power to impose sanctions on the on those involved in the very worst human rights abuses right around the world. one of the days try to again tell the truth to the interrogators their reaction. today what. do you feel that you would be.

psychologically. people that do support. speak up to the. every inch like. even though many countries on the list are officially rated not free the government claims that any export licenses and issues are in accordance with the highest and strict criteria but many human rights groups are simply not buying it it's not clear what the issues are making any effort to track the equipment is used in 12 or 3 years' time these figures yet another reminder of why we need to complete. the whole case and security equipment export control system comes as the united kingdom prepares to resume the sale of arms to saudi arabia that could be used in the yemen conflict manmade humanitarian

crisis in the world according to the united nations and a breakthrough moment though just over a year ago the court of appeal ruled that the arms trade was on no fault because the government had not adequately addressed the risk of civilian casualties in these bombing missions but the government simply says if they were just isolated incidents and are now acting out the government will now begin the process of clearing the backlog of license implications for saudi arabia and its coalition partners that has built up since 20 as of june last year considering the u.k.'s sold 15000000000 pounds worth of bombs to the gulf kingdom in the past 5 years it seems that the profits britain for a kid over weapons and now intercepts of equipment are too great to give up even at the cost of human lives shot to. london. wearing masks in shops and supermarkets in england will become compulsory from july the 24th people don't cover up risk

a 100 pounds fine but not everyone is clear on what. they should be doing that's because prime minister boris johnson's government is accused of lacking clarity cabinet minister michael gove previously described henri masks in shops as showing good manners and just a few days ago said he didn't think it would become mandatory public opinion on whether it's the right thing to do is proving divisive as we discussed with the infections infectious disease expert by any and journalist fraser meyer and the line. of people have got the message somehow that they are. against the disease or they protect other people the evidence is actually quite weak around this certainly what the government has published whilst the masks may not be 100 percent protective we have to take this from 1st principles so that in fact i think those comes from drug related releases from somebodies miles if they are infectious and when you cannot avoid your social distancing from them you have to have an additional mitigating measure now i'd have no problem with people wearing masks i

wear a mask myself sometimes but i don't think that it should be compulsory especially when the evidence is not particularly strong we need to have a strong messages and the united kingdom has got a lot of debts we need to bring this down we don't want a single extra debt we need to do everything we can encouraging this good compulsion is. i think that you know it may not seem like much to have to wear masks that we have to remember that this comes in addition to all of the other infringements on our civil liberties that people have experienced over the past few months there's never been so much you know reduction in freedoms ever in any democrats you either measure it on the scales with your civil liberties or do you wish to continue to have a number of cases and number of deaths which one would you like to have the case

numbers have come down like the. cause the virus has gone on holiday but because of the lockdown measures we took so come on think about it you are an appropriate drain cheek by jowl close proximity within 6 inches sometimes 18 just a foot of each other you need to wear a mask yes let's have mask wearing in confined spaces but not in general not for all shots not for every time you leave the house or every time you want to go into a building. florida is taking on the mantle of the united states coronavirus redzone infections broke national daily records over the weekend outstripping the whole of europe's combined single day rate they dipped a little on monday but still top 12000 it's in the state governor heckled at a news conference in miami over his handling of the outbreak. but you know if you are very serious you are going to get a break every day guppy like because maybe you can begin

to tolerate florida's covert numbers continue to surge demand for kovan 1000 tests has been so high there's been numerous reports of people waiting for hours in line stretching at least a mile long and test results in some cases taking several weeks in miami dade county where the number of cases is now close to 68000 the highest in florida one in 3 people who reportedly took over 1000 last week tested positive the census has argued that local municipalities and not the state should decide for themselves if stricter levels of protection are needed adding to the debate and consternation about florida's kovan surge disney world reopened some of its parks in orlando over the weekend raising concerns of the place where dreams come true who quickly descended to a nightmare and stand as guests don their mickey mouse ears and face masks despite the trump administration insisting that the show will go on and there are now serious concerns being raised among g.o.p. officials about whether the republican national convention will go on to ask edge

will it in august in jacksonville or whether or not it will shift to an entirely virtual event instead for our t.v. john hardy. the pandemic is proving to be no obstacle for electioneering there's not a day to be wasted for america's presidential candidates 20 over the hearts and minds of voters and all donald trump is up against it with his handling of the health crisis his democratic rival joe biden is mobilizing his family to tell explains. you'll remember joe biden's wife don't you should marry. her. while jill's back this time not as a husband's sister but as cool thought over a children's book about joe's life which also means 78 years fills a full 27 pages well i gave it a read obviously the reviews in joey that's what they all cool to have ready sounds

like a little round good guy a wizardly ability to catch a ball just words not mine standing up to bullies president of his freshman cost really his only weakness and he himself admits it is talking was sometimes really difficult but you know what i think we can all agree he grew out of that let's not even bring it up to our own source. recovered. from the beginning it's clear that joe was really close with his parents and his siblings he often said quote the absolute most important thing is your family but didn't he also fought for the defense of marriage act back in the ninety's you know the one that said that a marriage is only between a man and a woman and that really became the reason that many same sex married couples never got the same rights all the same privileges as petras sexual couples where is that but actually you know what never mind because it's since been brought up by john

ellis and joe gave a really convincing defense in 1906 you voted for the defense of marriage act. and a lovely person i am then there are a couple of pages about his colleges where they are quote he spent one summer as the only white lifeguard at a pool and in all black neighborhood the reward thing to point out isn't it well but partly it was then that joe learned foster about the struggles of. black america you know i wonder if it was so in those years that he had he decided he wasn't big on the whole integration of races in schools saying that if on controlled they could cause real problems unless we do something about this my children are going to grow up in a jungle the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions bills are high that is going to explode at some point but when he does that mocks up he did it off to roll defender of black pos mate

when he was refused service in a joint hit they off you think this this is what really counts not using your power as a u.s. senate such trial and segregation possibly the biggest racial injustice in modern history anyway moving on hold up here's a a cute picture of him with the little guy commuting to washington while some things never change. as a politician joe wanted to quote make people's lives better you know i think that's what the real motivation was behind his backing of the iraq invasion saddam is dangerous the world would be a better place without him and of course the welfare of nippy and was at the forefront of his mind when he said a ok to bombing a homeland can give the people of libya for

a 1st chance in 4 decades to actually put together their own government have a little bit of freedom up to them but hung on not chop dismissiveness whoa how strange over this is my favorite my favorite part of the entire book and it's this treasure trove of uncle joe's most famous catchphrases so called fighting as i say you can be inspired to go around saying things like your kids are just as birdy just as challenge week use hot ones nor hear well how about. we choose truth over facts well these are not included ok well but definitely you cannot go through a very gentle loving. thing you don't know much about what you do next know they possible not want to swallow ok final chance this what you're lying dog for his pony shows you know well maybe that keeping it for the sequel which fingers crossed will face off in the new york times bestseller list of fiction with

a book written by men on your trump telling a story of a young tony who in need of a drug to reaching out and tearing down walls. this is our team from moscow still has armed and on the loose and german police hunted man to disarm the 4 officers before fleeing into the black forest it's our next news after this break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back german police are on the hunt for an armed man who held up 4 officers before running off into the forest with their weapons here's our europe

correspondent peter oliver with the details. he's been dubbed the black forest rambo but in reality it is a major police operation involving special forces and thermal imaging cameras that's being deployed across that vast region right now. the man at the center of this manhunt has been named as eve a 31 year old man is being described as being in an unstable mental state by a former landlord who had a victim after you hadn't paid his rent we also know that he has 4 weapons that he

took from the police with around $62.00 rounds of ammunition that were taken from those guns on top of whatever he had to start with so authorities are concerned that there could be some kind of major shootout should he be cornered. what we're seeing from local authorities though is them taking this incredibly seriously in fact a huge lockdown of the area the whole area around where he was last seen has been put in place this is what the local man have to say. this is working here at the sign. the red cross is here and also with forester's we've closed schools and kindergartens as well the swimming pool simply due to security reasons large gatherings of children are supervised now but local people are being very disciplined and are remaining at home this isn't going to be an easy catch for thora tees the area which they're looking makes this whole operation incredibly

difficult we're talking around $6000.00 hectors that's around $14000.00 acres of forest he's dressed in camouflage if he seems to have been living there for a while seems to know the area this may prove quite difficult to track him down it's ongoing at the moment. france is celebrating its national day this july the 14th day is usually marked with a showcase event at a military parade but it's having to scale back this year because of the risk of spreading coronavirus show difference he reports from paris. bastille day like no other that francis see normally we get this huge parade of military might down the seans ailey's a really is as you can see from previous is a feast for the eyes it is europe's normally oldest and largest military display with the soldiers the army the navy taking center stage.

the different national holiday this 2020 with the backdrop of the 19th pandemic this year's best day comes against a very difficult political backdrop we have seen protests for today. protests against president mccollum and also against his government and many of those who called by health workers who for months and months have been demanding higher wages been looking for more stuff to be recruited and a massive injection in cash into the health system itself and that follows weeks of demonstrations was.

it well there has been a review of the health system taking place and that's been fraught with tough negotiations between unions and the government but on monday a deal was finally green lit by the unions and signed it means that there will be some $8000000000.00 euros for increasing salaries of health workers to give you an example of what that's going to mean for a hospital nurse it will be around $218.00 yours a month net for hospital dr that will be about $256.00 euros in net so that means off that all tax off the all social contributions have been taken out they will see that money in their pocket my corn has hailed the deal. i was committed

to. salaries we have just done it the careers and salaries of our health workers who gave so much during the crisis have been reevaluated also what will be different this best day for president mack on his back he's going to give a presidential address something to do in years gone by many see that this is an attempt by him to gain some brownie points. difficult opinion polls that have shown him trailing away in those for many months and it also comes as france is facing a recession that many have likened to being the worst since the end of what will toward 2 we know thousands and thousands of jobs are expected to be culled now the government has pledged to try and minimize the impact of the 19 pandemic and as a result of that it has created stimulus packages of billions and billions of euros

but the reality is nobody knows just how wide and how deep this economic recession could be and many is saying that as maclin is pledging to plow ahead with quantrill herschel reforms such as the pension reform the next 2 years of his presidency could be even more explosive than the 1st 3 years and that would be saying something. spain's catalonia region is in legal trouble with madrid after imposing local lock downs on $160000.00 households because of a covert spike a judge says it wasn't handled properly but the calderon president is vowing to defy the ruling and go ahead anyway to run corona virus from spreading further with as many prisoners going to them as not what we do not agree with this decision we will not accept it i will freeze the consequences of this refusal because i cannot put the health of people in danger or anywhere else in catalonia. tough

restrictions were imposed there earlier this month the area has been largely sealed off with police checkpoints in place residents have also been ordered to stay at home unless they are essential workers or need to visit a doctor or buy groceries in spanish court ruled though that the home confinement order was disproportionate and did not go through the proper channels local residents are unsure about which decision is right. i think the council and government is right because there's a lack of control when it comes to seasonal work because street vendors bring fruit from barcelona without any medical unsanitary control without anything and in fact the region we need drastic decisions our shop is open but it's true that sounded 5 percent of stores are closed so we're waiting to be informed what's going on on the one hand do you think it is necessary decision for the government because the situation is severe on the other hand i don't know if the judge should be making this decision. catalonia accounts for

a quarter of spain's coronavirus cases and is the country's 2nd worst hit region but the catalan spokesperson for the european partnership for independence believes that just like everywhere else catalonia is trying to do its best to contain the virus. it's not the 1st time. he's happening i don't know when you're great he had. nice when they should know. just before he should he know. the president over man he's defying the spanish state because they said today they do have the power and the competence to do so he always the. speed for years seemed content only a kind of rule that you all know integrity to reach so it's a question of saving lives what are we talking about tea and. governments trying to to do to find a better way to stock values to. lastly some world

news in brief a decades long territorial dispute in the caucasus has erupted into a deadly border clash with armenia and azerbaijan blame each other for breaking a fragile truce or the break away and i'm going to corrupt a region i mean yes says a very forces trying to infiltrate a military border post as are by john's defense ministry accuse the armenians of trying to overrun a border position and as ery army general and an officer were killed in the encounter. you know all new york suffering a wave of gun violence 5 people were injured and 3 drive by shootings in brooklyn on monday police say all those shot were the intended targets and are expected to survive their injuries separately at the weekend gunmen opened fire on an outdoor party one year old boy who was hit later died in the hospital all in all around 23 people have been injured by gun crime in new york since the weekend. the taliban car bomb attack on an intelligence agency compound in northern afghanistan has

killed at least 11 and injured more than 60 others have begun fighting follow the blasts with security forces killing the insurgents allan's has ramped up recently amid a dispute over the release of taliban prisoners as part of a u.s. brokered peace deal. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more head on over to our website r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning it.

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my friends i'm not talking about the marvel universe character who is far as we know is still sitting on a bench handing out shields and bits of wisdom is an old man by a lake no i'm talking about master sergeant andrew marcus sano a 34 year old active duty 82nd airborne ranger and green beret who got the nickname of captain america for among many things surviving 6 tours of duty in afghanistan tragically tragically marcus committed suicide a monday the 6th of july reportedly while standing in front of his wife. just 48 hours of the united states celebrated its independence our heart goes out to his family another soldier's life lost to the longest running war in u.s. history a war with no end in sight because my friends just before the tragic suicide of master sergeant marcus sato the united states house armed service committee led by congressional democrats were patting themselves on the back after passing an amendment.