i'm sure i'll see you there. in the stories that shaped the week here in r.t. russia denies britain's accusations of meddling in last year's election or hacking its covert vaccine reach a. damning study in germany sheds light on high bun ruble children were fostered by sex abuse is a decades apparently aware of what was happening some of the victims told us what they went through. every day was mental and physical mistreatment we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened by our lives are being destroyed we are unable to work and we have become aware that we are just a pile of misery and china vows to retaliate after president trump revokes hong kong's preferential trade status and then by all sanctions on officials and institutions he believes are undermining the territories autonomy.

oh they're the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now britain accused russia this week of interfering in last year's general election and also of hacking medical research for a coronavirus vaccine security services from the u.s. and canada also joined the cyber attack accusations however russia's ambassador to britain does say that there is no sense in the claims taylor takes a closer look. 2020 the year just keeps on giving a pandemic but social awakening and now russian interference the government has concluded that it is almost certain that russian actors start to interfere in the $21000.00 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired

in league government documents whilst there is no evidence of a broad spectrum russian complain against a general election and any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable and allotted to parliament the u.k. foreign secretary said to his party's historic triumph at the polls in 2019 and i will of course want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest conservative majority since i did eighties. wasn't just people fed up with political deadlock infighting and endless bricks it delays no it was a russian actors theater actors film actors the kremlin russian nationals russian companies anyone who's ever been to russia it's unclear and yet at the same time it's apparently almost certain ring about the government has concluded that it is highly likely the likely finding likely almost certainly will show this responsible for the to. do the script down the cliff if she didn't wish to looks like another

use of highly likely tactics but it seems like dougie has given up on this term based on previous years experiences so now the british government gives us the new slogan almost certain. and these mysterious russian actors bombarded the public online with details of the nique to pose set u.k. u.s. trade deal the one that would have brits beating chlorinated chicken and making visits to a privatized n.h.s. hospital is something i can reveal to you 461 pages of evidence on the forests of the n.h.s. is of the table and will. up for sale now timing wise but it's an interesting allegation did the british government just watch and do very little as the virus to hold here under fire for a severe lack of personal protective equipment for health care workers and the failure to ramp up testing the government is under increasing pressure to ease the

nationwide lockdown measures this and it's close to having europe's worst death toll so what did it do wrong what differently the government's not only buried under criticism over its covert mistakes but also in debt with a nation afraid to step outside again the accusation also comes ahead of a much anticipated report on russian interference in u.k. politics as a whole a report that's been in the watts 18 months on which the prime minister himself said didn't point to any nefarious forces there is. absolutely no evidence that i've ever seen of any russian in the difference in u.k. democratic process i mean i think that this is there sure is not russian authorities in u.k. politics there is no evidence for that a bit mixed messages but it will still do the trick russian meddling might be an oldie but it's still a goodie but if you really wanted to shift attention away from many crises and and

buy a pack line space you could go free double whammy we know that the russian intelligence agencies have been targeting in terms of cyber attacks against efforts across the those 3 countries and here in the u.k. our attempts to find events in through the research and development occurring of ours we do not have information about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies and research centers in great britain we can say one thing russia has nothing at all to do with these attempts apparently a hacking group terrifyingly called cozy back is trying to steal everything from research labs hospitals big pharma is all of the good guys who are walking towards . a covert vaccine now some might say selfish interests would include oh i don't know buying up the wild supply of the crowd of wives treatment drug not completing the fast preclinical trial of a vaccine on humans or by its nefarious self as russia has done but that's just minor details good old russian into ferentz an old friend you can always turn to if

the going gets tough and you need a bit of a break from being bashed. tale of evel meanwhile the un does say it has quote no information about the alleged cyber theft of vaccine research the head of the russian government fund that is investing in research here in russia did explain to us why he finds the kinds of little perplexing political we're surprised by the timing of those comments because it just happens that following day after we announced it will probably be as a 1st country to a cruel critic seem to accept it we expected in august of this year a move really that will be one of the most efficient of axioms in the world so we are now working with 5 other countries who will start manufacturing of russian vaccine this year we will share with them to college you will basically share with them i'll know how to be able to produce those that seems in other countries and we believe that international effort is really needed only together we can address

current virus challenge and frankly those cold war rhetoric and old war barriers are precluded many countries from being efficient in build an international partnerships that's russia's doing. for years in germany vulnerable her boys have been placed in the foster care of paedophile men the damning revelations is from a study by the hill design university which also says the authorities either ignored evidence of abuse or work complicit in lessing continued peter all of has been speaking with some of the victims who came forward. decades of abuse carried out by those put in a position to protect the most vulnerable in society for 30 years starting in the 1970 s. berlin authorities placed children in the care of a convicted paedophile named for its age i spoke to 2 of his victims to

protect their right to anonymity they'll be named only. and marco. our daily lives are dominated by instructions we were shielded from the outside world like a sect most of the time we faced violence if we wanted to go out or meet someone else we were intimidated and told these people were bad should have nothing to do with them if we wanted to go anyway we were forbidden to every day it was mental and physical mistreatment and were only realizing this now we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened that was our life the worse the treatment the more you felt this person was important to you every day with this man was a fight for survival and the fight to preserve yourself what makes this more troubling is that the lives of these men as well as essentially being. as part of an experiment. rated psychologist helmet and even after his death in 2010 was regarded as they found. he was in effect little

more than a matchmaker putting neglected children into the care of predators. we learned about this experiment called in 2017 my thought was this can't be true i was not a mere product of chance i was deliberately selected by the berlin branch of the s.p.d. party the ruling party at the time that hired a mercenary to destroy our lives in an experiment when we heard about it we felt. that the names of those responsible are missing but there must be a further. the investigation in my opinion this is one of the greatest crimes of the post-war era the fact that it was really an experiment is shameful and very humiliating it was tolerated for decades no one ever came along and asked how we were doing how life with our foster father was going nobody ever came over to check . those responsible are still sitting in offices or enjoying their pensions they're

trying to hide behind a statute of limitations to torpedo another investigation is shameful that the perpetrator the organization is hiding behind legal quibbles to avoid shedding light on it this criminal organization should not be behind the investigation the care system in germany has changed dramatically since scandalous time when it comes to who can act as a foster parent authors of a study into the can flourish experiment of told r.t. that there is no way his crimes were carried out without the welfare office being directly involved in germany of course to care is the responsibility of the youth welfare offices still children and adolescents who leave and forced to homes always grow up on just 8 observation the things that occur in foster homes we examined could not have happened without the knowledge of officials in the us welfare authorities there has never been this state investigation into the actions of

kempler and his experiment in senators told us they are pushing for a nationwide examination to look at the real scale of the abuse since we have nationwide connections further research going to the bill in the dead only to berlin the center for education youth and family has said that she wants to submit an application to the conference of ministers to deal with sexual violence and foster homes the victims of abuse say the knowledge of the government it makes them accomplices in the crimes and in moscow of pushing for me to go action today after having been. failed by the authorities then. the berlin senate is 100 percent involved the bird in senate initiated it and then tolerated it it's already been admitted verbal leap but not legally from the very beginning the only thing that mattered to them was how to keep the problem small criminal charges were put forward we file charges in the senate kept in touch with those since then there's

been no contact with the senate it's impossible to build up such an organization on this scale without state help. we expect justice our lives have been destroyed we are on able to work and we have become aware that we are just a pile of misery we were put in this situation by the government deliberately it was not an accident as we thought until now it is a matter of course that the senate will make amends the senate has offered as $10000.00 euros in return for us taking no further action against it the names of those responsible and the consequences for these people are still missing as long as it stays like that things are not over this is a particularly horrible wing story of exploitation and failure to protect the states was expressly directed to protect. it all over there and i mean while there are growing claims from current and former american service personnel

of systemic sexual violence in the military scrutiny has been ramping up since the murder of young soldier vanessa. the 20 year old famished in late april her body was found 2 weeks ago g.m. had apparently complained to her family that she had been sexually harassed while saying she was stationed at fort hood in texas a fellow soldier who was suspected of killing vanessa with a hammer committed suicide as norm force tried to arrest him prosecutors also charged another woman believed to be an accomplice the necessary broken sister wants to know why commanders didn't do more. i don't. joke. well the 1st military chiefs dismissed the sexual harassment allegations is unsubstantiated and is nationwide anger grew the u.s. army secretary ordered a review of the command climate and culture at the base 10 days ago the texas

representative in congress confirmed that the allegations of sexual abuse would also be scrutinized iness killing has led to other service women to come forward with similar harrowing stories of sexual assault they've been using social media to call out what they describe as ingrained harassment in the u.s. military from a soldier's tryst who was also stationed in texas talk to us through what she says happened to her. 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 that same time we had not yet started class i made myself a drink 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 the case actually has not developed i went in talk to legal help and they told me after about 4 months of investigating that there was no evidence and that the case would be dropped well the pentagon did issue a report in april mounting a number of claims of sexual assault in the u.s. military trista though does say that plenty of cases are actually go and he's crucial that independent investigator is get involved. i saw a lot of females that i actually worked with that experience 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 is happening and it's happening a lot 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 and i believe that there shouldn't be any type of punishment for coming forward and speaking. now. so to come this hour the precious seems to be affecting police in minneapolis schools of offices have apparently filed disability claims after weeks of protests i'm flagging public support in the wake of george floyd's killing and his one of all stories one that we can return just off to the right. the world is driven by shaped by one person those with.

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again that china's relations with washington went from bad to worse this week with by using threatening to retaliate against washington after president trump signed off on canceling hong kong's preferential trade status from ports to approve the hong kong of ptolemy act which was passed by congress earlier this month which imposes sanctions on officials involved in china's new security level again drawing a strong response from beijing. the your side's attempts to obstruct implementation of harm constitutional 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. while there is

a growing list of troubles between the 2 at the moment from distrust over the technology from huawei to territorial disputes in the south china sea and then of course. our senior correspondent lines now the major speech that are driving the us in china further and further apart 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 the criticism of the chinese government in hong kong for example it outlaws any calls for independence a session from china for hong kong as well as outlawing that tradition 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 is no reason to give it special privileges one card 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 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. it is turning into a military conflict 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 is 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. it would have been very easy to do it the source would have put try them on to sell something to europe to america this all sorts of restrictions and all sorts of tariffs all gone was a little liberal window that belonged to china through which the chinese government to chinese companies could sell things to the west all buy 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 he's willing to through even his room under the bus to make china hurt for all the talk of free markets and globalism they really seem to dislike competition because what you are way does is it makes 5 gtech 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 expensive western analogs you do this by saying that chinese take is somehow tainted from the end of this year telecoms critics must not buy any 5 to equipment from huawei and once the telecoms critical 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 brad this is a chinese brown and an economic blow 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 his achievement we convinced many countries many countries

and i did this myself for the most part 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. there never a rush the never recklessly always waited out of these like characteristics 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 and what is happening to our way which is being the century removed from western markets by the united states. now at least 150 police offices in the us city of minneapolis have reportedly filed disability claims for injuries suffered during recent riots a police spokesperson has questioned the numbers but has acknowledged that

a growing number of officers are at a fraction of the city was the flashpoint for the nationwide arrest which erupted after the death of george floyd back in may. well last month minneapolis city council did approve a planned this mantle of the local police department and replace it with community safety body all the while the city though has been experiencing a surge in violent crime including a spike in gun violence an attorney representing the minneapolis police officers who filed work related disability claims told us about the dangers they'd been facing. the environment following the george for the 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're literally handcuffed and prevented from performing the normal pleas functions that one would expect from our police department to me appears to be a direct causation between the finding 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 criminal elements in my opinion recognize limitations that is why our visitors and they simply take advantage of it. now the upcoming us presidential election will effectively be

a 2 horse race but then the 2 men standing a realistic chance of winning but there are also plenty of so-called 3rd party candidates and independents in the running and the green party has chosen its nominee but it's how he hawkins from new york he's a former lorry driver and grassroots campaign and he's previously run for office at every level of government in new york from city council to governor organs wants to redirect federal funds to boost education and extend health care provision to all americans he's also known for his antiwar and nuclear efforts the green party has been putting up candidates in u.s. presidential elections since $996.00 is things stand hawkins' will appear on ballots and half the country states but the party is working on securing more it is a complicated process with each state requiring different signature thresholds to get on the ballot but perhaps the biggest challenge is getting national air time because the dominant party. system one to that of 3rd party candidates on seeing

televised debates hawkins told r.t. this week tell you that there is a growing appetite for that throw or turn it in. the polls show that about 2 thirds of the american people would like to see another major party an alternative to the 2 major parties that we have now and a lot of those people have come to the green party 3rd parties in this country going back to the 18th thirty's as set the agenda it was a liberty party that put the question of slavery on about it was the populist ari's that question of monopolies on the public agenda it was the socialist party that put social insurance programs like social security the most popular program out into the public debate so we made our way in the white house we're definitely going to move the debate the green party represents a very different policies where not you know just democrats who are disgruntled or something we do want a universal medical system medicare for all we do want serious climate action we

stand against the u.s. going into countries and tell them who their leader should be we're for peace initiative deep cuts in military spending and getting serious about this new nuclear arms race. i mean whole concern that will last time the green party's presidential nominee back in 2016 did prove to be a polarizing figure and many in the media keys jule styne of splitting the liberal votes in harming hillary clinton's campaign. and i the dangers of a 3rd party candidate democratic year in frustration is growing some seen here is that the votes belong to hillary clinton and that that my votes were stolen from someone else and i think that's an insult to american voters what do you say to those voters who are would worry that by voting for you their progress is their liberals or democrats that by voting for you they would actually help elect donald trump his politics of fear actually delivered everything that we were afraid of so

the 2 parties form what sounds like a government commission is called ambition or presidential debates in fact it's a private corporation they jointly control taken and it's designed to keep their betters offstage and you know our appeal to the news organizations or the civic organizations is all if the 2 parties set the agenda do your job open up the debate american people deserve to know what all their options are. watching our national thanks for company this often i will have more stories from the weekly at the top the.

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