in today's headlines china balance retaliation after president trump revokes hong kong's preferential trade treatment and moves to further sanction chinese officials and businesses. also this hour at the sex crime culture in the u.s. military the brutal murder of a young soldier in texas sees other service women bravely come forward as commanders are called out for not doing more to crack down on victim claims their stories are being silenced it's happening a lot. in just the amount of control that the military has to keep it kind of quiet is what is surprising. massive protests overnight in jerusalem as angry crowds call for israel's embattled prime minister to quit over corruption allegations.

and banking on having a conscience like lives matter computers call on london's financial powerhouses to pay to reparations from fortunes built on the back of slavery. to watching our 2 international bring your live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. another day another wave of confrontations between the united states and china beijing's weighing up its response to donald trump stripping hong kong of its preferential trade and economic status. me from. the us act militias lease landers hong kong's national security legislation and

grossly interferes in hong kong a ferry in china's internal affairs the chinese government strongly opposes this and strongly condemns it the us sides attempts to obstruct the implementation of hong kong's national security law will never succeed in order to save guard its own interests china will make the necessary sponsor and impose sanctions on relevant u.s. personnel and panties. our senior correspondent mark willacy have now joins us in the city a with more on this trump had promised a tough response over china's new security law affecting hong kong is that what we're seeing here well it's one of i would venture to say there's more to come there's more for china from trompe is concerned worried and angry try that but in this particular. in this particular episode yes it is it is what trump threatened to do should beijing introduce these new security laws in hong kong and what they

are is basically a restriction on with the criticism of the chinese government in hong kong for example it outlaws any calls for independence the session from china for hong kong as well as outlawing publishing by by life in prison you know mingling with the wrong crowds or being on the payroll of foreign entities who want to see chinese authority in hong kong diminish and in this case trump trump has said that since the freedom in hong kong has been extinguished there's no reason to give it special privileges. will now be treated the same as mainland jonah no special privileges no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technology. plus there's a whole host of sanctions that are going to be introduced against hong kong and chinese officials deemed responsible for introducing this new security bill i mean

they've even counseled student exchange programs just just rip them up poor kids there and there are now going to be forced you know good go who seems needlessly petty but there you go there's there's a whole list of grievances that trump has towards china towards hong kong and it just keeps growing steadily but quickly there is for example the whole mess in the south china sea all the territorial claims that china has made there that the united states has condemned that is turning into a military conflict build sides saber rattling there you know the said being nuclear nuclear power nuclear armed jets to patrol their ships aircraft carriers there's also the issue of china refusing to join any arms control treaties that the united states wants them to be a part of this the huge trade surplus something that trump has hated from the get go to billions and billions of dollars every year being taken out of the u.s.

economy and british ribbit redistributed in china something that trump has been trying to you know sort of equalized but hasn't managed to sue for and of course i would say the move painful for an interim site the crew in a virus pandemic you know on the eve of an election in the united states the trump administration has been made to look incompetent no mistake we hold china fully responsible for concealing the virus and unleashing it upon the world could have stopped it they should have stopped it would have been very easy to do at the source when it happened. you know it's it's very important to understand what hong kong was. with regard to the charge of the child and wants to sell something to to europe to america there's all sorts of restrictions and all sorts of tariffs hold kong was a little liberal window that belonged to china through which the chinese government to chinese companies could sell things to the west or buy things like sensitive

technologies relatively simply with minimal tariffs now that's gone and just to show you how how angry how much frustration there is in trouble there are more than a 1000 western companies that are based have offices in hong kong and life for them is going to become much more difficult he's willing to through even his room under the bus to make china heard what about weiwei that he's been back on that lately and yet we're you know for all the talk of free markets and globalism they really seem to dislike competition because what who our way does is it makes 5 g. tech for example amongst other things and it makes it cheap on the cheap so it's comparable in color in quality to western equivalents but it's much cheaper so how do you make people stop buying something that's cheap and effective make them turn to expensive

western analogs you do this by saying that chinese take is somehow tainted unsafe unsecure in chinese. from the end of this year telecoms operators must not buy any 5 to equipment from huawei and once the telecom security bill is passed it will be illegal for them to do so so the united states is going to do a lot of effort to plod lot of effort in coercing and convincing its allies to dump who our way which is a reputational blow for china you know this is this is it's brown this is a chinese brown and an economic blow we're talking about 5 g. networks there they're worth billions and billions setting them up maintaining them over the next decade it is going to rake in a lot of money. and you know just just to add insult to injury trump has come out and said that what is happening who are being kicked out of the united states out

of europe is he's achievement we convinced many countries many countries and i did this myself for the most work not to use while way. because we think it's an unsafe security risk it's a big security risk. one thing you can say about the chinese is they never rush the never reckless they always wait it out it's like a characteristic so we can expect a response you have chinese press coming out and saying that you know action needs to be taken we need to assure them that we can't be bullied this easily so we can expect the response from china and now it's going to be a response on 2 fronts 1st what's happening in hong kong the the authorities there losing their special privileges and what is happening to our way which is being essentially removed from western markets by the united states and will be across

that thank you for breaking that all down for us monica staff. we discussed the spiraling situation with professor when the executive dean at the institute for financial studies in beijing. us what you base your hong kong it's not only with the germany but also your strategy joint pretending to be it's going to be guarding china this imagine. so trama hopes to be more so it is just for china to take necessary measures to give its sovereignty and we the people so the tension between china and the us has become the norm. the us military is facing damning allegations of systemic sexual violence in its ranks there is greater scrutiny now since the recent tragic killing of children us again the 20 year old vanished and late april her body was found 2 weeks ago dan had apparently complained to her family that she had been sexually harassed while

serving at fort hood in texas a fellow soldier suspected of killing vanessa with a hammer committed suicide after a law enforcement attempted to arrest him prosecutors also charged another woman believed to be his accomplice but also his heartbroken sister wants to know why it commanders didn't do more. to get the joke. at 1st military chiefs dismissed the sexual harassment allegations as unsubstantiated last week as nationwide outrage grew the u.s. army secretary ordered a review of the command climate and culture at the base all the texas representative and congress confirmed that the allegations of sexual abuse would also be scrutinized. but as this killing has led other service women to come forward with similar harrowing stories of sexual assault they were taking to social

media to call out what they describe as ingrained harassment at the u.s. military former soldier trista who was also station and texas talk us through her experience i got invited to a party off base and was told that it was a birthday party for one of the other girls that was going to start class with us at the same time we had not yet started class i made myself a journey and the other guys wanted to see what i needed and so i passed it around and when i got it back it didn't seem as though anyone had drink anything but i just kind of thought that was different but didn't really think much of it and kind of felt as though i could feel myself kind of blacking out and then the next morning when i got up to use the restroom and take a shower i realized how much pain i was actually in and i was still bleeding and i just you know i kind of was wondering well what happened and i tried really hard to remember and i couldn't actually has not developed i went to actually go help and

they told me after about 4 months of investigating that there was no evidence and that the case would be dropped the pentagon issued a report in april on the rising number of claims of sexual assault in the u.s. military again says plenty of cases are glossed over and that independent investigators are crucial. i saw a lot of females that i actually worked with that experienced harassment and assault and even rape so i just thought it was crazy that this is actually the culture of it and no one is talking to each other about it so it it is happening and it's happening a lot. and just the amount of control that the military has to keep it kind of quiet is is what is surprising there needs to be an alternative to reporting there needs to be a civilian organization that's not affiliated with with the military whatsoever i believe that there's they do claim that there's resources off base that you can go

to but they're still affiliated with the military they're still able to kind of so we've been under the rug to them so i believe just a completely separate organization where women can go and i believe that there shouldn't be any type of punishment for coming forward and speaking out. i just believe that it needs to bring more awareness to the civilian part of you know the community. tuesday night in jerusalem saw massive anti-government rallies with police using crowd control measures on protesters who defied orders to fault social distancing regulations that mr has called on the israeli prime minister to resign as he faces trial on corruption charges here's a quick look at how it all unfolded. liz. please.

while thousands of protesters tried to break into the prime minister's residence in belfast street in jerusalem they were carrying torches and they saw trash cans and life in the city objects the police and journalists it was an event that was made to coincide with the storming of the best still in forms and it took the police several hours to bring the situation under control now the protesters consider themselves part of what is called the black flag protest movement and they goal is to see the overthrow of the fine minister benjamin netanyahu they are against his continued government many of those who were on the streets are people who have been suffering the effects of public 9 for many a bluff they jobs many are out of work but they say it's not only the pandemic

itself that the prime minister is not got a grip on the same speed they want to see him gone from power they offered up with his corruption look at what some of them had to say here's a bit later there's a good chance that the people will realize that there is a leader dragging us to a dangerous place this is why i'm here and i hope that in the coming demonstrations all others will join the protests. all groups must unite every day not just once a week to protest and in the end she will go home. part 3 here is a house in the street to get a partnership. and that i'm a little bit we have a labor a minister look. i don't have the type that mr jackson thank you. at one point the police were having to physically move people from the gates of the prime minister's residence in the end of the basis and 50 people for disturbing the public order and also throwing objects at the police and at journalists the

protesters issued a statement in which they said that the prime ministership at the sponsibility and they called for him to do so by and by resigning they also say that the current coalition is doing nothing to improve the lives of ordinary israelis least of all during the time of coverage 19. still had with coronavirus dust soaring and latin america armed vigilante as are appearing on the streets of what a mall up to enforce a public health restrictions story and more after the short break.

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lucrative financial powerhouses are facing pressure from the black lives matter movement urging them to pay reparations for past ties to the slave trade campaigners say the firm's fortunes come from colonial oppression and it's time for payback. reports. since the death of george floyd back in may the black was much of a movement has swept across the rust and while it's not just rallying against police brutality or institutional racism but challenging symbols of racism to. here in britain the campaign has expanded from toppling statues of slave traders to exposing old banks accused of profiteering from the slave trade in fact some even argue that london's entire financial district was built on the back of slavery and colonial oppression pos directors of high street banking giants including noids and even barclays and even the bank of england and fortunes from the trades. the city

of london as we know it would not have been without the slave trade london firms played a crucial role in financing trade with politician colonies that includes funding the transatlantic passage of african captives in appalling conditions to be sold to slaves and it's not just companies under the microscope that comes as 10 to 20 percent of britain's wealthiest people could be identified as having significant historical links to slavery the backlog is months away that's called a mirror up to those institutions forcing them to confront the past ties to imperialism while many have apologized is it enough. apologies are not enough apologies a stage one of an eye for that says we knowledge the harm we have caused and we are prepared to enter phase 2 which is a discussion and negotiations about how to repair the home and the suffering that continues to be the legacy of slavery in the caribbean today the amount the british government power to pay off slave owners who were deemed to have property was so

large only repaid in full in 2015 in fact it's the most in equivalent of $17000000000.00 pounds i mean this wasn't a tax is contributed to the abolition of slavery but is that something to be trumpeted is this really something to be regarded with a collective pride and surely it's now the time for countries aren't descendants of slaves to see the same kind of compensation with banks coughing up the money they have to pay back the money is because the money is not going in the right hand so this is some excuse. to give back this money for them to contribute back to what they took. from the far. more be a good idea for. people but if it's still considered to benefit off those mistakes it was quite up into 2015 so that means all won't work unless i've been paying them

for what they did to my insistence so i was brought in finally coming to terms with crimes of colonialism or is this just a way for corporations to brush that past under the carpet or the black eyes massive movement has shown is that britain is out to choose to its imperial posse is out best conflict shot at woodstock. at least 150 police officers in the us city of minneapolis have reportedly filed disability claims for injuries suffered during recent riots a police spokesperson has questioned the figures but acknowledged that a growing number of officers are out of action the city was the flashpoint for the nationwide unrest which right. that after the death of joint floyd and may.

off month minneapolis city council approved a plan to dismantle the local police department and replace it with a new community safety body although while the city is experiencing a surge and violent crime including a spike in gun violence and attorney representing the minneapolis police officers who filed work related disability claims told us about the dangers they've been facing. the environment following the george floyd incident has resulted in the public essentially turning against our city's officers they are being threatened they literally have been instructed in many respects to stand down in not performing certain types of activities for fear of aggravating or agitated in the crowds so they are literally handcuffed and prevented from performing the normal place functions that one would expect from our police department to me

appears to be a direct causation between the it's on the end of the police and the increase in violence when you do not have adequate resources and the officers are not able to do their job and the unfortunately the criminal elements in my opinion recognize the limitations that these lobsters have and they simply take advantage of. the grip of corona virus and latin america has seen deaths in the region outpace the united states and canada combined the reasons are varied a mix of poverty top level denials and cash. government struggling to keep the public informed and tested and what amala groups of armed civilians have been patrolling the streets to enforce curfews and sanitation measures.

people whose adults with this disease even exists so when the curfew law many don't go home i'm going to cure more of. the pull up or your thought of the report that we have focused or if it's some help from people who feel safe to go outside and stay protected from the disease well i want to we're here to lend everyone a little bit. some of the money. germany's

chancellor angela merkel has urged europe to reconsider its defense policy arguing that washington d.c. is no longer a reliable partner the morning comes just weeks after the trumpet ministration indicated it plans to withdraw almost 10000 troops from bases in germany. this is the other direction city unicef to germany screen if occasion 30 years after the end of the cold war the world is position in the south in a new way what we took for granted for example that the united states would defend the european union is no longer south of the dent it is change and we must find the right answer to this issue. appeared to be in keeping with public opinion in germany a survey published on to say that 42 percent of the population think that united states will lose its position as the dominant global power in the next few decades

a majority also said they believe china is set to supplant the us as a world leader. we spoke to former austrian foreign minister karen nice all she's also the author of the book diplomacy it makes history she told us about the difficulties that you faces and reaching consensus on foreign policy and navigating its relationship with washington it's nothing new but. we do have. the mind to pull approaches inside the european union how to handle it we all should bear in mind that not all e.u. members the members of nato will such as is the case with austria and since all sweden planned to sever the round table it's very difficult to shape a common that really implemented in the way that it was and lose it the fact that germany is not having the e.u. share is definitely a different situation then when the medium sized country like austria you chair by

the german. there's a lot of debate going on our former. there have been days of angry protests in bulgaria and south east europe as a top level power struggle plays out i made growing claims of corruption thousands have been turning out demanding the resignation of the prime minister government and the chief prosecutor. my . public anger 1st erupted last tuesday after an opposition lawmaker was denied access to a public beach by state security forces officers were guarding the nearby mansion

of a former politician and one of the bold area's most powerful men the apparent misuse of public money led to a barrage of criticism including from president roman rather of the opposition bulgarian socialist party the dispute worsened on friday when prosecutors raided the president's offices and arrested 2 of his aides rather have then appeared on t.v. calling on the prime minister to quit and accusing him of leading a mafia like government meanwhile washington hasn't had to take it to go ahead and throwing its weight behind the anti-corruption demonstrators the u.s. embassy in bulgaria has issued a statement expressing its support for peaceful protests and the rule of law investigative reporter dave lindorff told us however that he believes the united states is guilty of double standards and has failed to respect the rights of its own citizens to demonstrate. you know we've had in the middle east by countries in other countries affairs over the decades that we should be considering all of

that like dad. thing that really strikes me about the u.s. position that was the factor so you have it because as the u.s. is praising the protests in bulgaria it's crushing or trying to crush the protests in the united states which are against the some very legitimate concern about police brutality and police militarization in this country on the one hand you see flash bang grenades and rubber bullets on people and tear gas and then telling another government that it should not be opposing protests. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more ahead on our tar website our team dot com are countless articles and interviews.

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