you. know. which your thirst for. in the headlines this wednesday china vows retaliation after president trump provokes hong kong's preferential trade treatment and moves to further sanction chinese officials and businesses. also this hour 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. and just the amount of control that the military has to keep it kind of quiet is what is surprising. plus 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 black lives matter campaigners call on london's financial powerhouses to pay reparations from fortunes built on the back of slavery. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. another day another wave of confrontations between the u.s. 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 militia's least lander's hong kong's national security legislation and grossly interferes in hong kong or theories in china's internal affairs the chinese government strongly opposes this and strongly condemns it the u.s. side's attempts to obstruct the implementation of han const 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 p. is concerned worried and angry 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 for secession from china for hong kong as well as outlawing publishing by by life in prison you know mingling with

the wrong crowd to 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 on car and will now be treated the same as male in journey no special privileges or special it could print no export of sensitive technologies 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 canceled student exchange programs 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 while 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 with 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 to sue and of course i would say the most painful for an interim site the current virus pandemic big 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 to try them on to sell something to europe to america this all sorts of restrictions and all sorts of tariffs all kong was a little liberal window that belonged to china through which the chinese government or the chinese companies could sell things to the west all by things like sensitive

technologies relatively simply with minimal tariffs now that's god there are more than a 1000 western companies that are based have offices in hong kong what about while way that he's been back on that lately and yeah 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 so how do you make people stop buying something that's cheap effective and make them turn to expensive western analogs you do this by saying that chinese take is somehow tainted 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 the united states is going to do

a lot of effort lot of effort in coercing and convincing its allies to dumb who our way which is a reputational glue for china you know this is this is it's brown this is a chinese brown and an economic blow 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. never rush the never recklessly always waited out these like characteristics so we can expect the 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 john and now it's going to be a response in 2 fronts 1st what's happening in hong kong and what is happening to our way which is being the said she removed from western markets by the united states we discussed the spiraling situation with professor wenger when the executive dean at the chung institute for financial studies and beijing the us intervention you hong kong it's not only with your money but also your strategic pretending to be tough and if you got in china imagine. so trama hopes to be more so if you just before china to take necessary measures to defend its sovereignty and we need a heart of 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's greater scrutiny now since the recent tragic killing of soldier

vanessa again the 20 year old vanished in late april her body was found 2 weeks ago in 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 but also with a hammer committed suicide as law enforcement tried to arrest him prosecutors also charge another woman believed to be as an accomplice and as heartbroken sister wants to know why commanders didn't do more. i don't. think you have the joke. 1st military chiefs dismissed the sexual harassment allegations as unsubstantiated but last week as nationwide outrage grew the u.s. army secretary ordered a review of the command climate and culture at the base of the texas representative in 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've been taking to social media to call out what they describe as ingrained harassment in the u.s. military if former soldier who was also stationed in texas talked us through her experience. 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 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 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 trust again says plenty of cases are simply 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 if it is happening and it's happening a lot. in 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 a massive anti-government rallies with police using crowd control measures on protesters who defied orders to fall social distancing regulations demonstrators 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. well

thousands of protesters tried to break into the prime minister's residence in belfast street in jerusalem they were carrying torches and they say trash cans of life and also to objects the police and journalists it was an event that was made to coincide with the storming of the best still in france 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 them a goal is to see the overthrow of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu they are against his continued governance many of those who were out in the streets are

people who have been suffering the effects of public 19 many of lost their jobs many are out of work but they say it's not only the pandemic itself that the prime minister has not got a grip on essentially they want to see him gone from power they offered up with his corruption this is what some of them had to say yes because 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. for 3 years i was in the street a good partnership. educate we had a labor a minister look like you i tell you that i practice it or take. at one point the police were having to physically move people from the gate of the prime

minister's residence in the end they wasted some 50 people for disturbing the public order and also throwing objects at the police and journalists the protesters issued a statement in which they said that the prime minister should responsibly and they called for him to do so 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. london's 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 as the edwards daschle explains. since the death of george floyd back in may the backlog of movement has swept across the us 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 lloyds and even barclays and even the bank of england fortunes from the traits. of london as we know it would. treat london firms played a crucial role in financing trade with probably taishan 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 from the mirror up to those

institutions forcing them to confront the past ties to imperialism while many have apologized. apologies are not enough apologies a stage one of an effort that says we knowledge the harm we have caused and we 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 knowledge 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 and so

does this is some excuse that we will. have to give back this money for them to contribute back to what they took. off in the past. or be a good idea for. people but if it's still continue to benefit 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 while the black guys much of movement has shown is that britain is out to choose to its imperial pasta is out best conflict shot at woodstock. still had with coronavirus soaring and latin america armed vigilantes are appearing on the streets of guatemala and forced public health restrictions and more than

a few moments. remember that breeds true honest people can disagree this concept has essentially been the bedrock of western civilization since the end like it's also before agents of the america 1st the men and so culture is putting all this question we now know any. one else seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back as new york gradually re-emerges from lock down the city is experiencing a dramatic increase in gun violence just this week alone according to its police department 4 people were fatally shot and another 46 wounded the trying is also being witness in other cities across the country reports. almost every day lately new footage emerges showing violence and shootings in american cities. do you.

think. ringback they would just sit most upsetting killers straight and waiting for us to come under the bridge. on us when she's got shot. the next morning going to the door. thing tell me a bit. david it's too late to open. the. floor in the study comes out yet for you know that but i think the whole neighborhood know it and. the data speaks for itself bile and crime is spiking in chicago milwaukee los angeles and new york city recently here in new york a one year old infant was struck by a stray bullet during

a family barbecue they just broke me down and then when the doctors came out and told me to do this. but i. was also. now the rise in crime comes amid a debate all across us society about the role of the police now police unions are blaming the spike in crime on unemployment the lockdown as well as the fallout of george floyd's killing and the recent police brutality protests this was a perfect storm we had a series of events that many of us probably never experienced in our time other voices are saying that it's economic hard times and lack of opportunity and hunger that is driving this recent spike in violent crime maybe this has to. do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rats and so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don't have money so you maybe have to put in

a position where they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night with violent crime on the rise of the worries are scrambling to try and find a solution meanwhile an end to the recent killings and violence on the streets doesn't seem to be anywhere near in sight martin r.g.c. new york. the group 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 strapped government struggling to keep the public informed and tested in guatemala groups of armed civilians have been patrolling the streets to enforce curfews and sanitation rushers.

some people use adultery with this disease even exists so when the curfew law many don't go home going to go up north. to. blow it up or you are thought of part of the report that we have focused or if it's some help and people feel safe to go outside and stay protected from the disease i don't want to we're here to lend every one of them with. some of the money.

germany's chancellor angela merkel has urged europe to reconsider its defense policy arguing that washington is no longer a reliable partner the warning comes just weeks after the trumpet ministration indicated it plans to withdraw almost $10000.00 troops from bases in germany. this is the other direction city yourself to german history and if occasions 30 years after the end of the cold war the world disposition 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 a dent it is changing we must find the right answer to this issue. merkel's remarks appear to be in keeping with public opinion in germany a survey published on tuesday found that 42 percent of the population think that the 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 u.s. as world leader spoke to former austrian foreign minister karen can

a soul she is also the author of the book diplomacy makes history it also about the difficulties that new faces in reaching consensus on foreign policy and navigating its relationship with washington. it's nothing new but on the other hand we do have the the might have to pull approaches inside the european union how to handle it we also should bear in mind that not all e.u. members the members of nato will such as is the case with austria and since else we don't plan to sever the round table it's very difficult to shape a common that is really implemented in the way that it was and visit the fact that germany is not heading the e.u. will share is definitely a different situation than when the medium sized country like austria you chair by the german you knew that arose stance that a lot of the going on are former. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're

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you cannot be both with yet you like. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil.

take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for. concern so that's why we're going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with her chandra where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. because boom bust the one business show you can't afford them on the field but in washington coming up to you it will be and while we hear from an infrastructure by 1.7 a move that could strain the country really. and the. high levels of life the state

needs her and a healthy snack we'll tell you what that is with legal contributor to american lawyer molly barrows show today so let's go and dive right in. u.s. pressure mounts in europe as the u.k. announced it will reverse its decision to work with while away on monday the country announced it will move to ban the tech giant from its 5 g. network by 2020 summit market rachel blevins joins me to break this all down rachel what do you k. officials saying about the move where you the u.k. is culture secretary was the one who made the announcement and he said that not only will the country not be working with wall way to establish its 5 g. network but it also plans to ban companies from purchasing equipment from wall way by the end of this year take a listen to what else he said earlier the government agrees with the national cybersecurity sense advice.