now how it's a live person. i don't see him dying. and . that's what he's saying. theory and portland at president donald trump's deployment of troops to the city to stamp out anti-racism of protests the president in turn has slammed the unrest in cities across the u.s. . what cities are doing is absolute insanity and many of the same politicians who want to slash resources for law enforcement have also declared that their cities

are saying sure it is for criminal illegal aliens. also in today's headlines the world health organization says it's worried about the coronavirus situation in europe just weeks after countries there started reopening their doors to tourists. and china's foreign ministry says its embassy in the united states received death threats because of the beijing hysteria up with by the trump administration that's after the u.s. gave the chinese consulate in houston 72 hours to shut down. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. anger over the deployment of armed federal forces to the u.s. to the of portland shows no signs of dying down president all in terms decision to send in the troops to stamp out nearly 2 months of anti-racism protests only

aggravated the situation. are right. or wrong. if you're here there are long term effects you're gonna get. the mayor of portland who you just saw there was tear gassed by federal agents as he stood with protesters white house claims he's lost control of the city however over him doesn't rares have already asked the trump administration to remove federal forces from or help plans to send them to other american cities protesters calls to defund the police have gotten only louder since the arrival of federal agents. meanwhile chicago's mayor has urged citizens to inform the police of any

unconstitutional actions committed by federal forces earlier trump announced that hundreds of troops would be deployed to the city. i think in their own way they want us to go and they'll be a time where they're going to want us to go in full blast but right now we're sending extra people to help i've been very clear not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops and i'm calling on all chicagoans that if you see something that doesn't look right please don't hesitate to report it and if we see any steps out of line particularly with v.h.s. or border patrol we're not going to hesitate to take the president to court and stop any unconstitutional actions. the city of chicago has experienced a spike in violence over the past few days a recent drive by shooting near

a funeral home left 15 people injured murders and shooting incidents in the city doubled in 2020 compared with 2019 but local say the president's decision to send in federal troops won't solve the crisis. i think that the time and the resources could be better spent in addressing the pandemic that affects all of us across the world so i just think it's just a deflection and it's unfortunate it's violence begets more violence it's just a chain that will just repeatedly continue it's not going to stop it is very dangerous to send federal agents the chicago i mean there's if you what happens if i just stay inside for the couple weeks there and then come back outside when they leave like the rules are very intelligent and you know this is not intelligent the most useful here would be the bureau of. tobacco. to deal with. the automatic weapons that are in the hands of criminals and

you know we're going to get those kind of weapons out of the hands of people who. you know the mass shootings. the world health organization is sounding the alarm over coronavirus trends in europe calling them worrying it's fear this could spiral into major outbreaks are all of our reports. the summer sun has encouraged a return to normal in europe when it comes to covert 19 but ask coronavirus restrictions of be lifted or loosened the world health organization is warning about a potential spike in the virus with eastern europe and the fall could and is deemed to be particularly at risk. we still have some worrying trends in southern europe in the balkans so we're not out of the woods just yet in the european environment it requires sustained vigilance just 2 months ago montenegro was declaring itself corona free not anymore it seems 2000 cases of the virus have seen social

distancing and lock down measures reintroduced but. you may be forgiven for thinking that western europe could force off the worst the pandemic count to offer but there's also been spikes there as well in spain for example the number of new infections has tripled recently. you know where measures have been relaxed is where outbreaks happen is not only family reunions or other types of gatherings where we've had a good number of new outbreaks but also in places where there's been evening entertainment they have also generated some new outbreaks some countries are already reimposing measures in austria masks will be mandatory again from friday in response to a rise in the number of covert cases while in belgium which was ravaged by the 1st wave of the virus more pressure is being placed upon the health care system local

mayors will be given powers to impose lock downs and curfews in the areas hardest hit we think that this is not really the time to have phase 5 of the restrictions there will be reinforcements taken to counter this part of the coronavirus instead . germany has been very successful at keeping case. it is low but this time of year is the peak time for holidays and unfortunately mingling with strangers when traveling is a very good way to spread this virus then that's the differences in the precautions taken from country to country here in berlin it's strictly for bolton to write public transport without a mask while in norway it's optional but there is nothing stopping me popping off the all slow for a few days taking in the sights of the taiga city by tram and bringing cove it back to germany europe like everywhere else is desperate to get back to normality not

least of all for economic reasons but steps taken to quickly can end up being steps taken backwards that comb with tragic consequences coronavirus today is no less infectious and no less deadly than it was a few months back it would a political but mostly only in europe is more concerned with the economy in the health of its citizens and people the relaxation of the self isolation regime happened too early we do not know much about this virus but it spreads extremely quickly now there have been repeated outbreaks of the virus in many places in spain in terms of the rate of infection the country's approaching the figure of a 1000 people a day due to summer vacations and there are not enough doctors and nurses we need to act quickly in order to find the source of infection and try to immediately isolate and quarantine the people who are nearby in europe borders have been practically opened some places are being visited by tourists i don't think that the

control over visitors is very strict if europe does not act together then frankly it will be difficult at the beginning of the epidemic the government made the wrong decisions by the end of february a quarantine should have been already declared but this is in the past today it is a. global problem i see that infections are not only occurring in spain the balkans will be a big source of increased coronavirus infections in europe. meanwhile after days of tense talks $27.00 e.u. countries managed to strike a deal on tuesday on a hefty post coronavirus stimulus package the french president hailed the recovery plan as historic for his optimism was not shared by his political opponents. this recovery plan based on european solidarity is a historic change for the european union and the eurozone says it's a common goal based on solidarity and responsibility because there's

a planned refund deadline the goal isn't soley to leave all of this on the backs of future generations so this is a common desire to invest which will enable us to properly face the social and economic but also it's a logical challenges of our european union. macron has just signed the worst deal for france in the history for you to protect his ego he sector feiss our future in our independence european taxes abandonment for agriculture colossal financial commitment of the country micron has given into everything contribution discounts to tight fisted countries spending controls the reduction in the amount of the recovery plan etc spare us the propaganda. the summit also saw leaders agree on a 7 year budget for the block worth $1.00 trillion u.s. dollars on top of that $857000000000.00 u.s. dollars was earmarked for the covert recovery plan and about it journalist lucre

bay and sunday telegraph columnist and elizabeth motet shared with us their views on the deal. for once they're up there on the same wavelength i mean the left militant more and more in the front on the right they both criticise with the same arguments the kind of michael michael wanted some food to be one of the european leaders to be the leader with mrs merkel wants to have an international stature and walk off for how francis dealt with the coronavirus crisis i would be proud and also from to come out of the speech same in deep trouble and voter which is just french politics they are mean they are not against europe in any way and most of the time they have different areas in which the or against europe whether the left or the right the left are saying that it kills the interest of workers and the right to saying that it makes it impossible to be

a free nation but the result is that the felt from complaining in 2017 that he was pro european that he thought that france was stronger within europe than not having a part to play in europe and he's just done a great deal of brinkmanship a little probably the toughest european summit since they created the european union and he and angela merkel had to compromise on some aspects but they more or less won the deal so he can work with a victory and it's making his enemies very angry. tensions between the united states and china are ratcheting up beijing's foreign ministry has slammed washington after it abruptly gave the republic 72 hours on tuesday to start its consulate in houston and its create a spokesperson for the ministry said the chinese embassy had received bomb and death threats because of hatred against the country whipped up by the trumpet ministration harsh words were also exchanged in public. as far as closing 'd

additional embassies it's always possible they were burning documents or burning papers georgia move on time china strongly condemns the decision and urges the us side to immediately rescind this wrong decision otherwise that china will take legitimate and necessary counter measures that there's been this long challenge of the chinese communist party stealing intellectual property we actually talked about this is not just american intellectual property but stalls when european intellectual property of the us has an order of the conflict close to quote protect american intellectual property and private information on tuesday police and fire officials responded to reports of smoke in the courtyard of the building of a alerts of what appears to be fires in conflict trash bins it's widely speculated in the media that consulate employees are burning documents relations between the u.s. and china have been steadily deteriorating president trump recently revoked hong kong's preferential trade status also move to further sanction chinese officials

and businesses over china's new security law which also affects hong kong on top of that trump has been pointing the finger at beijing over the coronavirus pandemic r.t. america host rick sanchez discussed the escalating tensions with his guests. this was unexpected and it was a complete slap in the face because they are essentially being forced to shut down the entire concept within 72 hours and in fact this is one of the most important consular one of the oldest ones ever established in the u.s. so china isn't to say that they're definitely going to retaliate if the u.s. does not reconsider and withdraw this and they said that they are most likely will be they could well be shutting down the u.s. consulate over and as well in retaliation this entire thing was done without any sort of communication at all so it just shows you how deteriorated this entire relationship is mike pompeo then goes on to are looking like he just walked off of the soprano's the public in the country is that it comes and goes to look at each of our noiselessly and shake their heads. ask themselves is this great america

it's roaming around the world like a bull in a china shop if you'll forgive the pun given the events and the owner of the all these china shops is finally going to say if we don't stop these people then all of our china shops are going to be trashed have we gone sanction crazy over the sanctions not worth or. are they going to get on the agenda. they're really. really independently at what will it work or not there's an exchange that you'll get kind of political theater mr trump the republicans aren't never called and thank you jim from breaking. news they're now going to beat up on china and make the big deal out of all of the french and which what the average

person is. really almost every year they're easy to get around. the rest of the world nervous very strange way of doing with your politics between leading countries in the world. with relations tense down here on earth china is turning its attention toward space and the red planet in particular i mean just launched its 1st probe mission to mars a chinese rocket successfully blasted off on its 7 month long journey early on thursday morning and it may encounter some traffic along the way as on monday the united arab emirates also launched their 1st mission to the red planet. thousands of people gathered for an anti-government protest in sofia on wednesday for the day and demonstrators threw rolls of toilet paper at the council of ministers there demanding he told them that it's just government stepped down

accusing it of corruption and abuse of power tensions have intensified since the government survived a vote of no confidence for mr boies announced today a series of changes to his comment as a response to the protests. and workers at clean maker air bus have taken to the streets of madrid to protest against hundreds of looming layoffs comes as the aviation giant announces its intention to cut thousands of jobs globally on $900.00 of them in spain so the officials have appealed directly to the president to protect the country's aerospace industry. you're watching r t international after this short break man in the ukrainian city of a lot of has released a hostage after previously threatening to blow up a grenade stay with us for the details on that.

japan and america. the top 3 economies of the world yes so now they are like the tonic plates from moving away so that would be seismically significant and that

doesn't sound like a friendly cooperative globalized world. welcome back we're now bring you more on a developing situation and the ukrainian city of poltava where a man has released a police officer taken hostage and is now at large or he threatened to detonate a grenade across live now to our g.'s maria from last night for the details tell us what's happened. behind me the host of has been released and we hear from the ukrainian police that he's safe and sound while the queen will drop the car and ease currently on the run actually started when police in ukraine's north eastern city of poltava tried to detain a man suspected of hijacking a car all of a sudden the suspect grabbed one of the officers and was holding him very tight

while threatening to set off a grenade we heard that from ukraine's deputy interior minister later they were negotiations and the suspect agreed to release the officer in exchange for a local police chief and and other car and he for some time was driving the wrong the city until he dropped the car and released the hostage according to local media the suspect is 32 year old man who was earlier convicted of drug offenses and reports say that he wanted all the charges against him to be dropped but the governor of that region in ukraine poltava region said that it is impossible it comes just 2 days after another dramatic hostage situation in another ukrainian city in western part of the country this is what happened.

all the hostages were freed after ukrainian president will admit his events keep personally negotiated with the terrorists and agreed to do what he wanted to record this video address. some of their duties. so both hostage situation. i know over a but anyway sparse concerns over security situation in ukraine. to use maria from the think you for bringing us that report. the coronavirus pandemic is set to change the way americans can vote in november presidential elections with states expanding access to mail and voting as a safer alternative to earn in person voting but

a recent poll shows that many citizens doubt the security of it 49 percent of u.s. citizens are apparently convinced mail in voting is susceptible to significant fraud ask mop and reports. the coronavirus is changing the way we live and the upcoming election in the united states this november is no different this year instead of taking the risk of standing in long lines outside of polling places millions of americans will be voting by casting their ballots through the mail embracing the post coded reality but this is setting off alarm bells for some especially with a new directive saying that postal workers are forbidden from taking overtime while this changes in a normal year would be drastic in a presidential election year when many states are in line have an absentee mail in ballots increases in mail delivery time and would impair the ability of ballots to be received and counted in a timely manner and an acceptable outcome for free and fair election the idea that

we can get everyone on the same page and perform the election operation gen doesn't precinct at a time as we always do with a totally new way of getting the ballots in is just beyond reach it way over the horizon it's something we need to plan for the next election 2 years from now it will be utter chaos trying to get the american election system to absorb a new way of doing it in the next 3 months and it seems like these fears are not groundless take a look at the recent primary vote that happened in new york it appears that a large percentage of the ballots were thrown away furthermore it takes days for all the mail in votes to arrive delaying election results in the recent new york primary vote many never even received the absentee mail in ballots that they applied for now all of this has many thinking that there are openings for fraud i think national mail in elections and ballads waiting in mailboxes and all that is

just an invitation to fraud and abuse on a colossal scale it becomes so divorced from reality that people don't even realize what the vibe is. and it separates them mentally and emotionally and in terms of their daily lives from that very sure process of standing in the voting booth and participating in their cars to to shuttle duty and right and i do not believe that is a good direction for america go u.s. president donald trump has not just been critical of the mail in voting process he's given a very clear analysis of how he feels about the upcoming vote mail in voting unless changed by the courts will lead to the most corrupt election in our nation's history facebook called this post misleading along with some of joe biden's posts and it provides a link to what it refers to as official voting information now the upcoming presidential election in november will be the 1st time in u.s. history that a national election has been conducted primarily with mail in ballots that's going

to generate not only a lot of postage but also potentially many surprises it with modern artsy new york . recovered 19 infection rate in russia appears to be slowing around $5800.00 new cases have been registered over the past 24 hours that's down from a daily average of 8000 last month meanwhile the health minister says a new vaccine looks promising and prime minister mccollum a shift in has shared his own experience of battling the virus. bill which it was. the virus does not differentiate between people based on the office they hold unfortunately it is a very dangerous virus it's still unclear how one gets infected with the coronavirus there are a lot of possibilities i don't know how i got the corona virus i'm being absolutely honest about it and as for the speed of the recovery well i have to say that it

wasn't that simple yes unfortunately i had a high fever but as for the quick recovery it wasn't really so it was quite a difficult process soon as i felt better of course i got back to work i want to say right away that doctors played a crucial part in what you called a quick recovery my mom is a nurse with many years of experience so i have revered doctors since i was a kid because i was always surrounded by people in white coats friends and acquaintances of hers there's more i have to say that i even plans to enter a medical school before i got a job at the tax service the thought had crossed my mind and i have great respect for doctors who have basically sacrifice their time time with their families their lives their health so that those who recovered from the corona virus infection could have it and using this opportunity or i'd like to thank doctors for the work they've done it's not an easy job they have to stay with their patients all the time they have to build

a mental report with them and i hope to god that doctors all around the world could do as good a job as our russian doctors. you can watch that interview n 4 here on r.t. international next hour but for now that's our round up of the day's top headlines and that's awfully as well today if you're not you know neal will be here with your live news update at the top the hour as always thanks for telling it. you cannot be both with the yeah you like. a and.

my no team no crowd. no shots. i actually just felt my. belly strap no 1st. points your thirst for action. now is the issue of china playing out in the american election cycle trump and biden betray themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality tells a very different story and it's bipartisan the commanding heights of industry and finance for the china for games they have their mission to show is this china.

welcome to the alex salmond show from strike him alba been shot in scotland but the day we asked the 2nd long. serving to shock our prime minister and irish history will island fare in the post pandemic age betty i haven't served the station for 11 years winning 3 successive general elections as length of tenure is 2nd only to him and w.r. the founder feel a fall back to having such events in office include the belfast peace agreement or the development of the irish target a colony today we ask beth to have how stars island and the possible endemic on the post bracks age fast over to glasgow view twitchell emails and your best ijaz

thank you alex last week sure covered the response to new zealand to coronavirus and interviews with top new zealand public health academic professor michael baker and dr mark konigsberg catalan comments sobering insights from both contributors it seems early and stringent measures have been key to tackling qubit 1000 more effectively notable scotland has made progress instead of bridging from the rest of u.k. strategy who put this puts us on a better footing for winter to annex things is what was in new zealand staver is that she's relatively isolated from the rest of the world she has a relatively small population who were and are mature enough to tear to the safety precautions and they also have good border control and says 1st watch a great show learnt a lot more regarding the pandemic will also be on track so now people keep sensible and strong not to go backwards for the sake of a year more access spot on alex australia is also an island.